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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
MONETARY ONLY
TTANE you noticed that the only
n forces being brought to bear
against National prohibition

TTAVE you noticed that the only
forces being brought to bear
against National prohibition
are those of the distillers, the brew
ers and liquor sellers in general?
All the weeping and wailing over
"the invaded rights of American
citizenship" is being done by paid
agents of those who profit by the
sale of booze"
Every soit that has been brought
and every Question that has been
raised have been the work of men
who hope to make easy money from
the public by the sale of cheap
liquor at high prices.
The worst profiteer in the country
has been the dispenser of booze and
he is actuated in his anti-prohibition
views merely because he knows that
he will not make money so easily
in some legitimate line of trade
AS for the private citizen, with no
monetary interest in the perpetua-
ton of the liquor traffic, he is going
screnely on his way, by no means ex-
cited over the prospects of an ut
terly dry country after Janu-
airy IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
H. C.. L. Hits Poor Relation

In the threatened determination of
the middle class the poor relation
will be the first to go. He-em-
bracing she-will probably go this
winter, finally frozen out after hav-
ing survived the chill determination
of centuries to snow him under. The
old clothes clubs that are under con-
sideration by our best dressers will
prove the inspired weapon to deal
him the final blow.
These old clothes clubs always fol-
low, like plague and famine, in the
wake of war. 1t was really John
Hay who originated their vogue
when, during the Civil War, he start
ed a Shabby Club in Washington,
and if it had no influence on the high
cost of materials it at least affected
the ryhmasters and journalists of the
times. Poor relations seem to have
weathered it. Wars superinduce
boarding both in the pantry and in
the horsehair trunk, and it is only
the persistent presence of the poor
relation that induces the thrifty
hoarder to unlock it and dole out a
plush purdessus for Cousin Hattie
to come to tea in.
Giving your old clothes to your
impecunious cousins either is pure
ly American custom, or else it can
only survive a certain number of
wars. In England everybody sells
his old clothes because the second
hand men give such good prices for
them. 1t is part of their salvage sys-
tenn and here in America we are
learning how. Which means that
the poor relation must go without
clothes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
GOVERNOR POINTS WAY

X OVERNOR SPROUL, who has
IT been coming to Harrisburg al
intervals as State Senator and
executive for the past twenty-five
years, thinks so well of the city, he
told the newspapermen with whom
he dined the other evening. that he
proposes to leave here substantial
memorial.
Does not this suggest something to
Harrisburg men and women OF
means?
Does not this appreciation of
Governor Sproul offer a hint as to
their own duties?
Harrisburg is growing so fast. its
prospects are so bright, its com
munity needs are so many that those
who made their fortunes in Harris
burg or who inherited them from
forefathers who made their money
here must give serious thought to
their stewardship.
Riches are of small value to any
body If they are used merely for
qualification. foolish display or
as a means for increasing them. Only
industry, the Improvement of living
conditions or for the betterment of
the community as whole are they
really worth while.
This &c NOT CCcioIiy,,,. ic p1eri-
canism at its very best.
Nobody remembers for very long
the man who piles up his dollars
merely to leave them to his sons,
but the public benefactor writes his
name in large letters upon the COM
munity in which he lived or which
he remembered. Carnegie and Rus
sell Sage would have been only
bloated millionaires had they used
their fortunes as some men and
women less wise have. done. Stephen
Girard would have been put down
as hard-fisted old man and soon,
forgotten had he not put his money
into a college for orphans. So with
those of lesser fortunes, but with
equal opportunities for good.
The time is here for the establish
ment of a Harrisburg Foundation
for the receipt of public bequests,
sums large or small. to be devoted
to all manner of purposes for pub
lie use and benefit. The Governor
has set the example and pointed
the way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17

may be wise to change it here and
there, but all amendments should be
in the way of making it more vigor-
Gus in it's provisions and easier to
convict under 1t.
The time has come when party
politics must be laid aside and all
join hands in the fight the Govern
ment has started on the anarchists,
Too long have they been permitted
to go their ways unmolested. They
must be smashed as Germany's
lood-thirsty armies were smashed,
and by much the same means. They
are like mad dogs running wild in
the community. Theirs is the doc
trine of tear and rend. All they
can understand is force, so in rid
ding the country of them we must
fight fire with fire. We must seize
them and cast them forcibly out.
They must go back whence they
come, or to prison, or the gallows
when the crime of murder can be
traced to them.
To that end the Attorney General
must be given an instrument of the
kind he asks. Either that or we
must rest content with the present
supine attitude of the Federal agen-
cies toward the radicals. The pity
is that such q law was not enacted
years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
LET 1T HAVE TEETH

WE PROBABLY shall hear n
Wv great hue and cry go up
against Attorney General Pal
mer's snti-sedition bill. But Congress
must give him either that instrument
or one as strong If he is to rid the
country of the reds" and radicals
who are trying to upset the Govern
ment.
Pennsylvania. under the leadership
OF Governor SprouI. courageously set
the example for the entire United
States in legislation with teeth COW
ering this subject. The Maurers
and others of that stripe got very
much excited at the time and led
many good thinking labor leaders
TO the belief that the proposed law
was directed against free speech and
their guarantees of personal liberty
under the constitution. These have
since learned their mistake. The
anti-sedition law has teeth, sharp
teeth, but 1t will not bite those who
conduct themselves after the man
ner of true Americans.
Sol will be with the law which
Ir= Palmer proposes Possibly II
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
COUdritiS
IFrom Cartoons Magazinel

IFrom Cartoons Magazine1
The collar salesman leaned his
linen-like face over the counter at
me and whispered, I'm getting
col,aritis."
whats that?" 1 asked, twisting
a number Is choSer around my 1t
neck.
"A disease peculiar to collar sales
men only. After one has sold these
linen and flannel circles for any
length of time he begins to think,
walk and dream in circles and
spirals.
Mentally. L can never arrive at
any conclusion. / start to think
from thought which always seems
to me to be bone collar button
and I invariably arrive at the point
where l began.
when / take a walk ! catch my
self describing circles which seem
to be made of collars The streets
the houses, the stars seem, at times
to be merry-go-round made up OF
linen objects.
"At night I dream of mounting
vast circles up the sky made up OF
millions of collars, at the top OF
which is giant. collar-box."
i.Young man. said. ''your brain
needs laundering. N
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
MONDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1919
GET THE BASIC IDEA

A \ OPPORTUNITY of unusual
~ scope will be afforded by the
Educational Congress to be held
at the Capitol this week, under au-
spices of the State Department of
Public instruction, for the assembling
of IDEAS of the leaders of thought in
Pennsylvania on one of the greatest
problems that has confronted this
Commonwealth in q century. Ow-
ing to its industrial prominence,
Pennsylvania has a population that
represents almost every nationality
except some of the Asiatic terri
tories. Its guarantee of religious
and civil liberty has been abused by
some aliens, and the methods pur-
sued by some coal and other COM
panies in seeking the dollar have
drawn the people from other lands
closer together. Instead of colonies
there are many instances known
where aliens remain aliens in
thought, speech and custom, and dis
+urbers find them fertile for the
S1orking out of their ideas.
A couple of generations ago "agin
.he Government was a joke. Now
it is a grim reality. There are too
many foreigners who are "agin" the
governmental system of America
without knowing why. The jocular
decision of the immigrant in regard
to political party affiliations of the
fifties and sixties has given way to
a prejudice born of ignorance and
fostered by the Fosters and their ilk
until it has become a hatred.
The only way to Americanize is
70 get down among the foreigners.
Get the names and locati ons. get the
viewpoint. get the confidence of the
alien by sympathy for his loneliness
and by exemplification of the square
deal, lead him to see that he does
not have to carry a gun to protect
his savings. Get the basic idea
that's in his head and then work to
get 1t out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Obey LdW-Arbitrdte!
TFrom Kansas City Star]

FROM Kansas ClIy quar-
The appeal of the leaders of the
American Federation of LABOR
against the governments action In
the coal strike is, based on two prop
ositions. The leaders hold in the hrst
place that the government is op-
pressing the miners who seek rea-
sonable betterment of their condi-
ton, and in the second place that
the court has misinterpreted the law.
AS to the first contention the pub
lie can see no oppression in the gov
ernments offer of arbitration. The
miners are assured that If they go
back to work their grievances and
demands will be investigated by a
fair commission and the award &C
cepted by the operators. There is
no proposal to force the miners to
stay at work on the old terms to
which they objected.
There is nothing in the proposal
for increased wages and more ac-
ceptable working conditions that is
not susceptible to arbitration. Since
when has arbitration become OPP
preston?
AS to the second contention, the
public holds that no group of men
can be allowed to put its own inter-
pretation on the law. A recognition
of that doctrine would lead to
anarchy. The courts may be wrong.
Rut they are the best instrument we
have for justice. No minority can
be permitted to set up its own opin-
ion against the decision of the
courts.
If the operators had decided the
! price of coal was too low and had
closed the mines to force it up, the
government would have proceeded
against them in court and they
would have bowed to the decision.
The country expects the same re-
spect for the law from the miners
that it would exact from the opera
| tors.
There is no sense in getting off
on false issues. The country has
no intention of depressing the
miners. They are going to have a
square deal. The common sense OF
the proposition is to keep tempers
obey the law and arbitrate the
miners demands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
SPROUL AND PALMER
GPenn in Philadelphia Bulletin.

| Penn in Philadelphia Bulletin.l
few days ago / read an address
] OF Governor Cornwell of West Vir-
ginia which, as a piece of reason on
, the duty of defending our institu-
tons and living up to the American
ideas of simplicity, of opportunity
for all and of healthy advancement,
not only rang true but was master
ful in both its cogency and poise.
But no other State executive has
been more far-seeing and more vigil
liant since the peculiar troubles of
1919 began than tie Governor of
Pennsylvania. His thorough Amerl-
can policy in dealing with every sign
or symptom of dangerous sedition IN
the State has been accompanied by
abundant exposition, in his speeches.
of the principles which should hold
capital and labor tosether in han =
mony. AS far back as January last,
at the time of his Inauguration, he
led off his address with the first ad-
monition from any man of import
ance as to the dangers which were
coming and the way in which they
should be met, and at the time
much more courage, as well as fore
sight, was required than there is
now to act upon and see the ultimate
course of such events.
Another Pennsylvanian, A. Mitchell
Palmer, has been conspicuous in tt e
reaction. A few months ago he was
doomed by an assassion to meet, in
his own home, the horrible form of
death which accidentally tore the
assassin himself to bits and shreds.
But 1t has since been clear that this
extraordinary experience has had
none of that unsettling effect on tke
nerves which even the bravcst men
have sometimes acknowledged as an
inscapable fear long after they had
been attacked or threatened. Per-
haps no man that has ever occupied
the office of Attorney General has
been an object of more threats than
Palmer has been in the course of
the past few months. Nevertheless,
his course as the law officer and q
spokesman of the Administration
the illness of the President having
evidently obliged the Attorney-Gen-
eral to act much on his own initia-
tive-has been as fearless as it has
been vigorous. He pushed the case
of the Government against the coal
strike not only with all the forceful-
ness of one who was prepared to
take full advantage of statutary law,
but to fall back, If necessary, on that
law of self-preservation to which
nations, as we'll as individuals, must
have recourse in moments of eX-
treme peril, to save themselves from
enemies. The American public was
relieved of an uncommon danger,
and the supremacy of the Govern
ment as against a defiant combina-
tion was established.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

william Draper Lewis has been
making a study of Philadelphia
transit matters.
-Ex-Mayor Ira W. Stratton, of
Reading, aspires to be a national
delegate.
Mayor II. w. Heidenreich, of
Hazleton, wants to equip firemen of
his city with gas masks.
Charles j.. Salyards is in charge
of the Boy Scout movement at AL
toona.
Frank D'Olier, new head of
the American Legion, says the vet
Grams will take care of the Reds.
Marcus Aaron, who presides at
the educational congress here to-
night, is an authority on school
finances.
The Rev. Clarence II. Ress. n
chaplain in the Goth division, has
been, called to the rectorate of st.
Matthews Episcopal church in
Philadelphia.
Sheriff Harry C. Ransley, of
Philadelphia, who Is much discussed
for Office in Philadelphia, has long
been prominent in politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Stand Fast, Americans!

And who now dares to say that
peace has come
When, in this aftermath of war we
find
Nowhere peaceful spirit in our
land,
But, in it's stead, class hatred, racial
ed mobs,
Unnumbered violent crimes and
'' fevered hosts.
Busy aligning for industrial strife?
What matters peace abroad With
none at home!
There are too many voices boasting
here
OF iawless creeds and sinister de-
signs;
Too many hands that beckon us to
tread
Strange paths that lead nowither or,
more fike,
To dire catastrophe. And most of
these
hands,
Whose owners found full welcome
in the past
With safe asylum-yes, and such a
For betterment as they had never
dreamed.
These, like the nourished viper in
the tale,
Would now requite us with their
poisoned fang.
There was a man among us-such
q man!
Not oft has time, We deem, beheld
his like.
Would that his clarion voice might
now be heard
In rallying patriot call-the voice
That never summoned to unworthy
cause,
Nor ever called in vain.
No more, alas,
viii it be heard But by Long
Islands shore
There is grave that to our souls
will be
Forever eloquent-to which, hence
forth.
In times of public stress, as to a
shrine,
Mems thoughts will pilgrimage, to
seek and gain
Fresh inspiration and a new resolve.
Stand fast, Americans. upon the
rock
OF this mans sturdy faith and
loyalty,
Resolved against too easy bartering
OF that high place we fought two
wars to hold;
Against all patience with red
anarchy
Aye, and those subtle doctrines that
would seek
To change our purpose and to sap
our force;
Against the dominance of any
class,
Whether it be of labor, wealth or
creed;
Against all privilege to selfish
greed.
Frederick B. Bard in the New
York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Blind

The blind old man with crooked
staff
Saw everything with inner eye;
He tottered down the cobbled street,
And saw the sun and sky.
Ahead of me the sunset flared,
With livid and with lurid CLEANS,
AS burning treasure-argosies,
Sank in a sea of dreams.
Or then the West, a crimson Rose,
With crystal jar of air,
Was dropping all its petals down
And slowly whiting there.
But as I passed the blind old man,
Although the beauty famed for
me,
I hurried on with staring eyes,
And did not even see!
Louis Ginsberg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Let's Go

[From Chicago Herald and Examiner.l

upon the fruit and vegetable hunt
ers. These insist upon a larger
share of fish in return for their
larger efforts in gathering fruit and
vegetables. 1t is denied them and
soon twenty of the twenty-five quit
gathering fruit and vegetables.
But the entire one hundred men
continue to insist upon their right
to eat.
The daily food supply gradually
shrinks. The man with two fish de-
mands three bananas in exchange
for one of them. The man with two
bananas refuses to part with one for
fewer than three fish.
Finally the ten men remaining at
work quit in disgust. Everybody
continues to eat. The hidden fish
are brought to light and consumed.
Comes a day when there is no food
of any kind. Everybody on the
island b1ames everybody else.
What would seem to be the solu-
ton? Exactly! We thought you
would guess it.
For we repeat that you can't eat,
buy, sell. steal, give away, hoard,
wear, use, play with or gamble with
WHAT ISN'T
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
THE NORTHWEST AWAKE

TIME Northwest is at last aroused
to the perils OF I. w. W.ism. 1t
has felt the fangs of the serpent
it has so long nurtured in its bosom.
The reds" for a long time have
conducted themselves much as they
pleased in the West. Good. easy
going folks have permitted them a
latitude that was bound to bring dis
aster. But at last the West is
awake and it is fair guess that the
sons of the men who conquered that
vast domain from the wild beast and
the red man, who redeemed it from
the wilderness, will know how to deal
effectively with the criminals who
would undo their great work and
turn the country over to the wolves
and the jackals that are swapping
at its fianks.
Great work is being done out
there by members of the American
Legion, who are back of the arrests
of I. w. w. members on the charge
of fomenting reasonable plots. All
over the country the young men who
whipped the German are banding to-
gether to defend their homes and
their women folks against the muir
derous "reds" who fired into the
ranks of their comrades on Armistice
Day. The shots fired at Centralia
are echoing in every town and ham.
let in the land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Blessing in Disguise

The following report has been
made by an observer for the Iron
Age in a recent visit to the steel
strike areas:
'Jn my first-hand study at Pitts
burgh, McKeesport, Wheeling and
Weirton, l talked with many people
regarding the part prohibition is
playing in the recent steel strike
Steel mill officials, mayors. sheriffs,
State, city and town police. soldiers
recently returned from the other
side, Americans employed in and on
strike at the mills. railroad employees,
Chamber of Commerce members,
clothing, furniture, boot and shoe
and other tradesmep, restaurant
proprietors, as we'll as priests and
ministers, all agreed that prohibition
Is blessing. Not all of them believe
in prohibition. In fact, most of
them do not believe in it. But they
nevertheless feel that at this parti-
cular time IL is fortunate that pro-
hibition is in force"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
Our NaDy

tFrom the Washington Postl
us the United States Navy to be
maintained or is it to be allowed to
disintegrate? This question would
have been absurd a year ago when
the navy was adding fresh laurels
to a glorious record, but it is perti-
nent now when gallant officers are
resigning and the brand new ships
are unable to keep the sea. Fifty
officers, all graduates of the Naval
Academy, have just resigned. About
one thousand officers would like to
resign. The enlisted men are almost
invariably quitting the Navy as their
terms of enlistment expire. While
the Navy's personnel is thus disinte-
grating the ships are necessarily be-
coming ineffective. The back channel
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard is a
forest of masts of vessels laid up be-
cause there are no crews. The bat
tleships Virginia and New jersey,
now at Boston, are supposed to be
attached to the Pacific fleet, but
how can they go to the Pacific when
they have only 200 men each when
there should be 1000 men? In the
meantime other governments are in
creasng their naval strength and inn
proving their naval efficiency. Great
Britain does not permit her navy to
lag for lack of men. Japan is going
ahead rapidly in naval power and
efficiency. The vacillation 'of the
present Secretary of the Navy is a
notorious factor in our naval de-
generation. He began by demanding
! from Congress a grotesquely excess
sive construction plan and then,
without rhyme or reason, repudiated
those plans and refused to favor even
moderate and necessary increases
From the date of the signing of the
armistice he has interfered with and
nullified the efforts of the general
board and the flag officers, all of
them intent on keeping the Navy up
to a proper standard"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
A REVISED Blessing
[From the Boston Transcript

[From the Boston Transcript
Marjorie had been frequently rep
rimanded by her parents for her too
great eagerness to begin her dinner
before grace had been asked. On
one such occasion her brother, upon
whom devolved the duty of asking
blessing, thought he would add a
line to cover his little sisters Of
fense. So. closing his eyes, he said
solemnly, For what we are about
to receive, and for what Marjorie
has already eaten, o Lord, make us
truly thankful"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
The Presidents Veto

[From the Portland Oregonian.1
President Wilson assumed a
heavy responsibility in his veto of
the prohibition act. Clearly he un-
dertook to restore in the wet" states
a short wet" period before constitu-
tional prohibition could become eff
fective. The reopening of the sa-
loon, once wisely and effectively
closed, means an orgy of drunken
ness, dissipation, waste idleness
and crime in metropolitan centers
and n demoralizing and wretched
experience wherever the saloon is
tolerated. The President sought to
render service to the makers and
owners of stores of liquor. But in
doing it he served the country lily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE

" HE House has rejected the
clause in the railroad bill de-
claring strikes to be unlawful.
It has substituted a provision for
voluntary arbitration.
The effort to stop strikes by statute
was both futile and un-American. 1t
would be unconstitutional to COM
pei an individual to remain at his
work If he chose to quit. and it is
difficult to understand how a group
could be required to do what an
Individual could not be compelled to
do.
But beyond that is the moral
aspect of the thing and the danger
that lies in the direction of auto
cratic laws, no matter how benefi-
cent. the intent
Strikes are becoming mighty un-
popular in this country, but the way
ITO stop them is not by law.