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p. m. Hall on Merchant st. Ralph
Courtney. clerk.

A. o. Y. W-Meets on the second ana
VIM. F Boyers; delegates to West
F. Nichols, Sec. Crusade Commanuery
No. 8. 4. 7. Meets IN Masonic Temple
every fourth Monday. Francis q
Nichols, Sec. Fsirmout Chapter No
"a, o. e. s. Meets In Masonic Temple
first and third Thursday. Helen Flem.
ing. Sec.
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3. p. o. E-Fairmont Lodge No. 90,
at 1890 o'clock. Charles D. Barry, Sec.
22S High street.
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BARRIERS Union, 675, meets in Cen.
trail Labor Hall on the last Monday
night of each month at $3.50 o'clock.
President, G. c. Judd; secretary, D.
T.. Lambard.
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Woman's Benefit Association OF the
accabee's-Marion Review, 80, meets
every Wednesday evening In Willard
Hall, Fairraont avenue. Mrs.0live e.
Harden, record keeper.
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4. az G. hall-Knlghts Of Columbus.
Fleming buildinS-Golden Links.
Red Mems hall-Camp 1887, Modern
Woodmea.
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Order Railway Conductors = Meets
every first and third Sunday IN Red
Mems Hall at $3.50 p. N. F. H. Brura'
are. secretary
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". c. Z. Irregular meeting third
Tuesday at 1880 p. m. Mothers
I hub meeting first Tuesday afternoon
al $3.50 O'Clock. President, Mrs. W. u.
Evans; treasurer, Mrs. A. l.. Menear:
secretary. Mrs. ]. q. Beckman.
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Printers Union-Fairmont Typo
graphical Union, S04, meets on the
first Sunday Of each month in the Of
flee Of The West Virginian, Adams
street
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Ladies' Of the Golden EaaIe-Meetings
men of America Monongahela Camp,
No. 1887. Meets every Monday. 1880
every Thursday evening in Mod.
ern Woodman hall in the Skinner
building. Mrs. Stella Kemple is the
secretary.
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Stationary Flremen-The Information.
al Brotherhood of Stationary Fire.
men and Oilers meets in the Jacobs
building, third floor. every Thursday
evening at 1880 o'clock. President,
Reno Fleming; secretary. John Coll.
we'll. Locust avenue. near Fourth.
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Oredr Of OWls-Fairmont Lodge,
1922, meets every first and third FRI
day evenings in Fleming building.
W. II. Randolph, Secretary.
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Marion Co. Medical soeIety-Meets
last Friday Of each month in the
Fleming Bldge President, DR.. L. q
Holland: vice president. DR.. L. d. Ho>
ward: tecretary, DR. H. R. Johnson I;
treasurer. DR.. W. H. Sands: board OF
Censors. Drs L. N Yost, q Ofner.
every Friday evening ut Red Mems
Hall First wasd.
Modern Woodmen Of America White
Camp No 5l73. Modern Woodmen
III America Meets every Friday even
ing at their hall IN the Skinne. Bldg
r Leigh Fleming. clerk Modern Wool
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Royal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Camp meets
first and third Tuesday evening in
the Skinner building. Miss Daisy
Adams, secretary
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Pythlan sIsters-Mountain CITY Tenn.
pie No. s, meets every second and
fourth Tuesday evening in X. Of p.
Hall in the Fleming Building. Villa
Barrett, M. OF r. and G.
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hnights Of the Golden Eagle Mus.
grave Hall. Meets every second ana
fourth Thursday of each month. ]. L.
shackeltord, Master Of Records
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aver, 1913 leet falling.
EvENTa roNIeHr.

odd Fellows hall-paughters of Re-
belIah.
skinner building-A. o, o. W.
Masonic hall-Royal Arch Chapter.
Ipleming building = Woodmen Of tho
TUrra6
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
o. Henry in Tune

There seems to be no end to the
anecdotes about 0. Henry which
add still more of color and interest
to his stories. Who will not recog-
nize the o. Henry of so many of his
genial stories in this picture of the
author himself junketing around
with violin as a part of a boyhood
serenading outfit? That is the view
which his friend and former towns
man John S. Michaux gave of the
short story writer at the recent o.
Henry exercises in Greensboro, N.
c. And apparently o. Henry took
this occupation quite as seriously as
he later did his story writing. For,
says Mr.. MichauX:
will Porter was one of the most
inveterate tuners l ever met. He
and his brother used to eXasperate
me very much tuning. l can see
Will now" C'Will' is what they al
ways called o. Henry in Greensboro)
"as, with tilted chin and twinkling
eye, he used to approach one of the
guitar players, put his foot upon a
stump or some other elevation, and
make a modest request for A; and
then would follow the trink, trunk,
trink of the guitar and the same of
the violin until he was in tune, or
thought he was; and then he would
saw against my brother, who had the
other second violin, to see if he was
in tune, and then there would be
a general saving all around to see
If everything was in readiness for
assault upon the unsuspecting vic
tim whom we intended to 'seren-
ade'"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27

the interests of the whole world de-
manded to be done"
To Senator Lodge, September 2:
Il am very much pleased to have
put the thing through. I am almost
ashamed to say that while physically
in fine trim the last three months
have left me feeling rather tired, be-
cause from a variety of causes
have not had at hand to advise with
the Cabinet Ministers who were
dealing with the subjects that were
at the moment the most important.
and so have had to run everything
myself without any Intern ediaries.'. >.
To his daughter Alice (Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth), on the same
date:
II have had all kinds of expert
ence with the ENJOYS and with the
Governm ents, and to the two latter
l finally had to write time after
time as a very polite but also very
insistent Dutch Uncle. l am amused
to see the way in which the Japanese
kept silent. Whenever 1 wrote a
letter to the Czar the Russians were
sure to divulge it, almost always in
twisted form, but the outside world
never had so much as a hint of any
letter l sent to the Japanese. -
From Theodore Roosevelt and His
Time - Shown in His Own Letters"
edited by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, in
the September Number of Scribner's.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
ROOSevelPS Estimate of Self

II OOSEVELT was quite calm
n, under it all, as he invariably
was when action of his won
strong approval. Writing to his
brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson,
on August 81, he said, with unjust
criticism in the past clearly in mind:
Don't be misled by the fact that
just at the moment men are speak
ing well of me. They will speak ill
soon enough. AS Mr.. Loeb remarked
to me to-day, some time soon
shall have to spank some little bri-
gand of South American Republic,
and then all the well-meaning idiots
will turn and shrek that this is in
consistent with what l did with the
Peace Conference, whereas it will
be exactly in line with it in reality.
OF course l am very much pleased
at the outcome. l tried as far as
it was humanity possible to get the
chances my way, and looked the
ground over very carefully before l
took action. Nevertheless, l was
taking big chances and l knew it,
and l am very glad things came out
as they did. l can honestly say
however, that my personal feelings
in the matter have seemed to be of
very, very small account compared
to the great need of trying to do
something which it seemed to me
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
Failing Cost of LiDing
New York TimesJ

The Annalist's curve of the food
cost of living shows a decline in
the week from 3O9S2O to 303.7O9.
Even the beginning of a fall is well
come as the reversal of, the longest
and greatest rise on record, but 1t
must go twice as far to reach the
level of even last year, and 1915
was more above 1917 than this year
is above last year. A stern chase
is long chase, but there are rea-
sons why the fall may be expected
to gain speed, now that it has be-
gun. 1t is true that the years crops
have been made, and we know what
to hope from abundance. But, If
nature forbids a greater increase of
supply than the harvest realizes, at
least there is a prospect of q re-
duced demand from abroad, with
the same effect on home prices as a
larger harvest. There is no doubt
that the enormous exports of food
have had much to do with the high
cost of living, and there is an as
tonishing contrast between, the ex-
ports of food in June and July.
In June our exports of various
foods were MANIFOLD last years. or
breadstuffs we exported S118,330,-
211 in June, against $54, ,472, All last
year, and of dairy products $174,-
344,99S, against $77.957,555. There
are even greater increases in Juno
in less important items, but in July
all was altered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
THE PEOPLES FORUM
o the Editor of the Tele1raph

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
When the American boys were
called into service to fight for our
country. our government provided
insurance protection for their de-
pendants and for them in case of
permanent and total disability,
through the issuance of life insur-
ance policies to be carried through
the war Risk Insurance Bureau.
These policies gave absolute protec-
tlon, not only to the beneficiary, but
to the insured, himself, and cannot
be duplicated by any corporate life
insurance company in this country.
AT the termination of the war,
when these boys were being dis
charged, the War Risk Insurance
Bureau endeavored to enlist every
life insurance man in the United
States in a campaign of conserva-
ton to endeavor to persuade as
many of our returned soldiers as
possible to continue this insurance
in force, and to assist the War Risk
Insurance Bureau in the conversion
of the term policies to one of the
six forms offered by the govern
ment
was convinced at the time the
literature was sent out from Wash
ington, that no corporate life insur-
ance company could give to our dis
charged soldiers a form of insurance
protection any better than that of
fered by the government, which is
from Is to 20 per cent. under the
rates of the corporate companies.
If these soldiers will consult any
good life insurance agent, or apply
to the Red Cross for information,
they will be properly advised, but
for their protection I will suggest
that they ask any insurance agent
advising them, to show his card of
men mbership in the Association of
Life Underwriters, as all members
of this association have pledged
themselves to give proper advice to
the soldiers to help convert this in
surance with the government and to
conserve as much of it as possible.
The Association of Life Under
writers is made up of men working
for the improvement of conditions
and the real uplift of the life in
surance business. l am very sorry
to say, however that quite a few
life insurance agents in Harrisburg,
and other localities, who have no
for the betterment of life insurance
conditions, are not members of this
association, and in four or five in
stances within the last month, cases
have come to my attention where
these men have been persuading
the soldiers to drop their govern
ment insurance and take out in
surance with their companies, hav-
ing in mind only the dollars they
would receive in commissions, and
no idea of service to the soldier. L
shall appreciate it very much If you
will publish at least part of this
letter so that our returned boys may
be- a bit more cautious and solicit
their information from sources
where they may be properly ad-
vised, and not permit any agent who
cannot show card of membership
{ in the Life Underwriters Associa-
I ton to advise them to drop their
! insurance. There are men in every
! profession whose ideal is the al
! mighty dollar. which they epdeavor
! to secure at anybody's expense, and
am very sorry to say that few
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
ErpenSiUe Government

That the Nonpartisan League
comes high as n governing institu-
ton is indicated in an article in 4
Bismarck, North Dakota, publica-
ton. The Nonpartisan league is in
full control of the government of
North Dakota and the statement is
made that the payroll at the State
Capitol has reached a sum three
times as large as before the Nom
partisan league took control and is
still on the boom.
The monthly payroll at the State
House, says the publication re-
ferred to. was $4,000 at the begin
ming of the present regime in 1917.
For the month of July just past it
had mounted to $4,000 and it Is
predicted that when officials, boards
and commissions created by the last
Legislature get into full swing the
monthly expenditure for salaries
alone will reach $4,000. In fact,
the States expenses are climbing
faster than are the means of meet
ing them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
GoDernor and National Guard

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer j
At the Conference of Governors,
Governor Sproul put in proper
plea for better legislation to re-
construct the National Guard. Just
now the law provides for a force
of only 200 men for each Congress
sionaI district, which gives this
State about half the military
strength it had before the war.
This is a small enough number of
men to be held for any emergency,
but unfortunately the situation is
made the worse because companies
are limited to 100 men each, which
calls for fewer officers that we
ought to have in training.
Nothing in this war has chang
ed the experience of ages that any
military organization depends for
it's value on it's officers. When the
full story of American fighting in
France is told, there will be many
glorious pages recorded and some
things which may make us blush
with shame. We must have more
and better officers than the law
now contemplates, and the voice of
the governors. delivered at Salt
Lake should be needed in Wash
ington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
What of the Cat?

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.
This sermonette is aimed at the
eye of some one, possibly some two
or three, who must be numbered
among our best friends 1t is neither
kind nor polite for a newspaper
to print things calculated to pain
those most loyal of its readers who
leave orders for their favorite pa
per to follow them upon vacation,
but humanity compels US to take
that risk. Therefore, we ask: What
did You do about the cat when you
locked up. the house and went off
for your own pleasuring?
1t isn't very likely that many who
arrange for the home paper to go
with them upon the summer junket
would be wholly neglectful of the
claims of the friendly feline; but
even the kindliest and most intelli-
gent people are sometimes thought
less. Sometimes, too, folks over
estimate the ability of cats to take
care of themselves. The offender
always says: "Oh, you can trust
that sly creature to shift for her
self, but with a dog it's different?
Why different? The chief difference
is that a dog so treated will for
get all previous covenants and alli-
ances and entangle himself in any
new one that may present. But cats
come back.
George Moore, describing an
evening devoted to prowling among
the ruins in Henry street, Dublin,
after the rebellion of 1916, tells of
meeting a beautiful black Persian
cat which would not be persuaded
ito leave what was left of the
hearth on which he had spent so
many pleasant hours" "PonderinS
on his faithfulness and his beauty"
Moore goes on, Il continued my
search among the ruins, meeting
cats everywhere, all seeking their
lost homes among the ashes and all
unable to comprehend the misfor-
tune that had befallen them. 1t is
true that cats suffer vaguely, but
suffering is not less because it is
vague, and it seemed to me that in
the early ages of the world-shall
we say twenty thousand years be-
fore Pompeii and Herculaneum p
men groped and suffered blindly
amid incomprehensible earthquakes
seeking their lost homes, just like
the cats in Henry street"
Cats do suffer vaguely and uncom-
plainingly, which. perhaps, is why
they are so often sinned against;
and they do come back. Few would
go so far as to say that the cat is a
more faithful creature than the
dog, but puss will take punishment
that would discourage and ALLEVIATE
most dogs.
What have you done, then, about
your cat? Will its famished figure,
on your front steps or porch, re-
proach you, returning from your
pleasure, and knock all the joy out
of your vacation?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
DIR. KARL MUCK
VT7HAT a fool DR.. Karl Muck
Wv has made of himself. Lead
Nf

VT7HAT a fool DR.. Karl Muck
wv has made of himself. Lead
er of great orchestra, hon
ored and feted wherever musicians
of note were gathered, recognized
for his talent and admired for his
ability, he was one of the outstand-
ing figures in the musical circles of
the United States.
Then one day he forgot that all
he had, all he could hope for in
the future he owed to the United
States and the opportunities for ad-
vancement and wealth its free in
stitutions had opened to him. He
insulted the hospitality of people
whose dollars had been freely con-
tributed in recognition of his gen.
ius, and he refused to play in public
the National anthem. The spell of
the Hun was upon him; he turned
traitor to the Nation of his adop-
ton, and that Nation spurned him
as a Benedict Arnold. He was cast
into prison and last week deportcd
as an undesirable alien ITO his be-
loved Germany.
And up to this time there is moth
ing in the news to indicate that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI

NNOUNCEMENT is made that
II the Harrisburg High School
4 n Alumni have revived their as
socIation and will get together to-
morrow at Hershey for an outing
that is intended TO be the first OF
series of meetings to arouse enthus-
iasm in the organization. There was
a time when the Alumni Association
was a powerful influence in the
school affairs of Harrisburg, but
few years ago it's members began
to lose interest and for some time
It has been little more than
memory.
Those back of the new movement,
who embrace such prominent men
as Lieutenant Governor E. E. Beidle-
man. himself an honor graduate of
the old Chestnut street school, pro-
pose not only to restore it to its
former place of prestige in the COM
munity. but to make it useful and
helpful in the development of school
spirit and the Improvement of the
public school system in Harrisburg.
The association makes a new start
with new platform and it will have
the good wishes of a host of men
and women who look back with
pleasure to their days in one or an
other of the city's high schools.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27

have stood quiet under his lash so
long. They have received nothing
at his hands but orders and re-
buffs. He has run the country with
high hand and has driven his
party with a whip.
What is happening in Washing
ton is only an example of the feel
ing of Democrats throughout the
Nation. Take Dauphin county for
example. With all the opportunity
available to create an efficient
party organization here, nothing
has been done in that direction.
Those whose duty it was to attend
to that work let the whole party
machine go to pot until now it is
almost impossible to find candi-
dates to fill the vacancies on the
primary ticket. The workers are
disgusted and are ready to follow
the leadership of almost any vigor-
Gus, progressive young man who
runs up his standard and promises
a return to the principles of the
old Democracy.
OF course, those nominally in
charge will not yield the reins
easily. They will strive to hold on,
if possible, but in the row that is
bound to ensue the Democratic
party will have to go through the
fire of regeneration if it wants ever
to get away from the autocratic
rule of one man administration of
its policies and its destinies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
WHAT HE FOUGHT FOR

~ ETURNING soldiers from over
X seas are giving their own in
depreciation of their service
and. soldier-like, they are not mine
ing words. For instance, in news
paper letter Sergeant Arthur D.
Muddell, of the 106th Infantry, 27th
Division, says:-
LAS to the assertion that our
soldiers fought for the Fourteen
Points and for humanity and all
that stuff there is but one an
swer. The American soldier
fought because America and
everything dear to American
hearts had been assailed, be-
cause he felt that his own Yam
kee land was in danger. True,
we were glad to help France
and England, but it does not
alter the fact that we fought
for the U. S. A. and nothing
else. This stuff that we fought
as in a dream is another pro-
duct of our dream talking
President. The only dreams l
can recall were of a good dish
of ham and eggs l hoped I'd
get some day. Outside of those
dreams of home and good things
the only dream l had was af-
ter l had inhaled a quantity of
ether so that the surgeon could
sneak a carload of shrapnel out
of my system without my know
ing it.
Your American doughboy is
ready to hop over the bags and
tackle anything when it comes
down to a case of some one
sticking daggers into the Stars
and Stripes, but you can bet
your last franc, shilling or dol
lar that We'll be damned fussy
whom We fight for. How many
of your gold stripe men will
volunteer for active or any
other kind of service "guaran-
teeing the territorial integrity" g.
of Turkey, Armenia or points
east or SOUTH"
That's precisely what some of III
have been thinking since the inven
ton of the pacifst theory that WE
had entered the war to make the
world safe for democracy" Ser,
geant Muddell has emphasized tn,
real soldier view and when tn,
homecoming fighters have a chanc,
to be heard amid the chatter o
high-sounding phrases they will
correct a lot of misapprehenslon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
BAKER, THE EXEMPTOR

T THE request of a number of
~ his constituents who had sons
- in the American Expeditionary
Forces, Representative Walter H.
Newton, of Minnesota, recently
made a personal investigation of
the responsibility for favoritism to
conscientious objectors" in the
Army.
Stating his conclusions to the
House. he showed that in the Sc
lective draft law Congress provided
for the exemption of only those who
have religious convictions" against
participation in war and who were
members of any well-recognized
religious sect or organization ex-
listing May is, 1917, and whose
then existing creed or principles
forbid it's members to participate in
war in any form"
Mr.. Newton then quoted an order
issued secretly by Secretary of War
Baker, extending the exemption to
any person having personal
scruples against war"
Here was a deliberate change
and enlargement of the exemption
proviso in palpable violation of
law" declared Mr.. Newton. "Un-
der the term personal scruples' the
1. w. w, pro-German political So
cialist and cowardly Stacker sought
and obtained exemption"
Mr.. Newton also submitted an
order of the Secretary of War,
granting exemption to soldiers upon
a mere written and unverified per-
sonal statement that they had per-
sonal scruples against military SER
vice. When the speaker fixed re-
sponsibility upon the Secretary of
War and the President he was
greeted with prolonged applause.