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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
H~ARRISBURG'S MEMORIAL

GENERATION ago it would
n not have been possible to
~ secure the cooperation be-
tween the State and the city which
now characterizes every step In the
development of comprehensive and
artistic plans for the Improvement
of the Capitol grounds and h out
side environment for which the city
is responsible. For years there has
been intelligent coordination OF all
efforts having for their purpose the
DEVELOPMENT of q city worthy the
seat of government of a great com
m~onwealth.
AS a result of this neighborly CO.
operation there has been a steady
and consistent improvement along
constructive and artistic lines. One
after another the unsightly features
of the original Capitol Park treat
ment have disappeared and there
has come Il comprehensive plan
which is being followed in the max
ing of beautiful surroundings for the
imposing State House.
The recent Legislature provided
for the further treatment of the
park and its most impressive fea-
ture will be the great memorial
viaduct which will extend from the
eastern edge of the park across the
Paxton Creek Valley and the Penn
sylvania Railroad to a point neal
Thirteenth street. This will consti
tute the formal entrance to the city
from the east and is certain to prove
an enduring and practical memoria
of the Pennsylvania boys who rep.
resented the State in the great wal
for justice and humanity. At thu
park entrance to the viaduct will
be the artistic pylons which will
contain on bronze tablets the name,
of the soldiers of the State in tn,
recent world struggle. All of Penn
sylvania will be interested in thi
memorial and it is proper that i
should be a feature of the Capito
Park.
And nov comes the Chamber o
Commerce committee, which wa
charged with the study of a prope,
memorial for Harrisburg's soldier
and sailors, with a suggestion tina
must at once commend itself as al
admirable solution of the memoria
problem. On another page this eve
ming the Telegraph presents
sketch of the proposed Harrisbur
memorial which will be located a
the intersection of state and Thir
tccnth streets. Again HARRISBURG
CO. operates with the State. inasmucI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
Tried the TWO Extremes
[From Ed Howe,s Monthlvl

Iron Ed Howe's Monthly
The world dislikes those men and
women who talk a great deal about
their ills. This is wrong, of course;
a man with a bad stomach or a wo-
man with a weak heart should re-
ceive the tenderest consideration;
but the fact remains that they do
not. So ! say very briefly that the
monthly for June is as bum as
my stomach, with which I have
lately been having a siege. I have
received advice ranging from that of
an eminent professor at Johns Hop
kins University to that of a Niger
man who says he knows a weed
which, boiled in rain-water three
hours. and a spoonful of the juice
taken three times a day, will afford
complete relief. but so far neither
the Niger nor the professor has
done me any good. If / do not get
better soon I shall send back the
money of my subscribers. and de-
vote my time hereafter to grumblinR
at Adelaide,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
Prohibition and Wilson
philadelphia North American.

philadelphia North Americana
With President Wilson openly
hostile to the law and proclaiming
his purpose to cancel it at the first
opportunity, and with his Attorney
General adding to the confusion, it
could hardly be expected that the
rumsellers would take the law seri-
ously. The head Of the Anti Saloon
League in New York state has clear
ly shown where responsibility lies:
BY throwing a monkey wrench
into the enforcement machinery,
President Wilson is running true
to form on the liquor question.
In 1917 1t was the prohibition
forces and not the brewers that
he asked to quit. In 1918 he sug-
gested that the operation of war
prohibition be postponed a year.
Last month he tried to prevent
its going into effect at all, even
though he had signed it, and he
now gives the liquor traffic to
Understand that he will come to
its rescue If it can hold on in the
meantime His assurance that he
Will dc away with h law en-
tirely at the earliest possible mo-
ers as an implied invitation to
violate the law in the interim. His
suggestion will tend to paralyze
the enforcement machinery; no
OIlCldl can nave any neart in en-
forcing a law which he knows
may be wiped out at any minute.
Responsibility for any disorder or
confusion due to violation of war
prohibition is now. located with
the President.
Congress was Overwhelmingly for
having war prohibition begin with
the first of the present year. Presi-
dent Wilson pleaded for postpone
mont fn 1anIlnrU 1QOn Tell, 1
was named as a compromise, so that
the liquor interests actually gained
a six months respite; and it was
perfectly understood that that was
all they could expect
1t is quite possible, however, that
there will be a resumption of liquor
selling for a brief period, in states
which have not adopted state pro-
hibition. The war prohibition act
automatically ceases to operate upon
the conclusion of rehabilitation, the
date of which is to be determined
and proclaimed by President Will
son. The Presidents proclamation
will near that from that date until
January 16 next liquor will have the
same status throughout the country
as it had before July 1.-THE dry
states will remain dry and the few
wet states will enjoy the felicity OF
a month or 81 of rum selling.
Many persons are shocked and
incensed bv the mere fact that the
liquor traffic continues. But a fan
more serious aspect of the case is
that this involves widespread and
fragrant defiance Of law. The situa.
ton produced by the President and
those under his direction has i'm.
paired the authority of the Govern.
ment and brought the institution OF
the law itself into contempt. Moth.
ing could do more to the
lawless elements of society than this
demonstration Of official counte.
nance for Wholesale defiance of q
statute of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Representative James A. Walk
err, chairman of the banks
tee in the last House, was here for
a visit.
-Ex-Auditor General A. e.. Sis
son, of Erie, who is a member of
the State Historical Commission, is
much Interested in marking of his
toric sites.
John S. Wurtz, who is in charge
of the religious work at Philadel-
phia, has 12S vacation Bible schools
going.
"A. A. Cochran, the Chester city
solicitor who ruled hat near beer
cannot be sold, is well known here
as he had often attended meetings
of the Third Glass city league.
The Rev. DR.. John Wagner has
been pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church at Hazleton, for forty-fve
years.
The Rev. j. w. Klein, a Reading
minister, is a member of the city
planning commission in that city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
When w. w. Gets Back
tPhila. Pressl

Our Democratic contemporaries
are not likely to make as much
noise over the result of the special
Congressional election in the Fourth
Minnesota District the other day as
they made over a recent election in
the Butler-We stmoreland district of
this State. In the Minnesota district
the Democrats formerly had big
majorities, ranging up to more than
twenty thousand. Last Tuesday the
Democrats lost the district in a
three-cornered fight, in which the
Republican vote was divided, but
both the regular Republicans and
the Independent Republicans ran
ahead of the Democrats. 1t is quite
time that President Wilson got back
to look after the party of which he
is the self-proclaimed leader, but II
he doesn't hurry there may not be
much left for him, or anybody else,
to look after.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
NOT o US

IRON certain not di~sinteresteo
II quarters comes the advice tc
Americans to resume the pur-
chase of German-made goods. we
are told that the only way Germany
can pay her debts and make good
her treaty obligations is by a re-
sumption of trade with the world,
and that the United States should
set an example to the allies in this
respect by leading the way
Not for us! A bite of German
food would choke the man who, try
ing TO swallow it, CHANGED to think
what the hand that packed it or
grew it might have done during the
war. A German toy made by one
of the brutes who murdered the
children of Belgium and France
and ravished their mothers would
be an insult to the sacred precincts
of any American home.
No, we in America can get along
very well without German-made
goods. We did during the war n
nobody suffered. and now that we
are trying to find work for our re-
turning soldiers and endeavoring to
get business back on a peace basis,
let us spend our honey for Ameri-
can-made goods. American work
men were not guilty of what the
Germans did during the war. Their
hands are clean. Let us respect
them and ~patronize them and keep
our money at home.
Germany's debts must be Ger
many's worry. We have enough of
our own.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
Don't Blame GoIdenrod

[From the Scientific Americana
A protest has recently been raised
against the time-honored project of
adopting the goldenrod as the ma
tional flower of the United States,
on the ground that this plant is a
cause of hay fever and hence moth
ing ought to be done that would en-
courage its prevalence. A state
ment has now been issued by DIR.
w. Scheppegrell, on behalf of the
American Hay Fever Prevention AS
ISOLATION, in defense of the GOLDEN
rod. 1t Is asserted that while fhe
pollen of the goldenrod may cause
trouble when applied directly to the
nostrils or used in large quantities
for room decorations, as a cause OF
hay fever out OF doors 1t is abso-
lutely negligible. 1T is one of our
most beautiful flowers" says Doctor
Scheppegrell, "and we'll merits it's
selection as the national flower oe
the United States" :,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
mo Beer, No TipS?"
[The Pittsburgh Dispatch. !

A. G. Stephens, president of the
Ohio Hotel Association. discloses an
other angle to the prohibition prob
lem. With the going out of liquor.
he predicts, the country will likely
go on a tipless basis. Yes, you have
guessed part of it. People do give up
more easily, he says, and more GEN
erously when they have swallowed q
few drinks. But that is not all. With
the passing of tips the walters will
want more wages and ;he hotel men,
bordering the vanishing bar profits.
are figuring on waiterless as we'll as
tipless days to come. The war cut
off the European supply of walters
anyway, and those that were here
Jumped into more lucrative jobs, he
says, a statement that will astonish
those who have heard those stories
of walters. buying apartment houses
and stocks and bonds with tho
princely tips they received.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
TRADE BRIEFS

There is a great shortage of scales
of all kinds in South Africa. partic-
The 1919 rice crop is a failure in
Cochin-China, and will probably not
exceed so to 10 per cent. of a nor
NAL year on account of an excess
sively dry season.
During 1918 1921 ships with ton
mage Of 1903. 9s4 entered the harbor
of Christiania, Norway, against T.
76s ships of 1.669.194 tons in 1917
and 10,174 ships of ~2.7S2.596 tons in
1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

"Watchful waiting" has been dis
carded for "~watchful preparedness" in
the Administrations attitude toward
Mexico. Any attitude will suit the
Administration so long as it spells
inaction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

The nations public debt on the first
If June was SIS. 900, 900, 900, an in
crease of 81, O96, 64O,75O during May
resulting from new issues of certi-
hcates of Indebtedness and payments
on victory loan subscriptions. Next
on our program will come the "Inef-
fciency Loan"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

Twelve old American battleships
are to be junked at once, but Bos'n
10 Daniels and his obsolete ideas
will not go to the scrap heap until
March 5, 1921. Anyhow, there will
be no salvage on him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
HIsTORIC HARRIsBJrRc

Some of the supplies for Forbes
expedition which cut through por-
lions of the early highway through
the southern tier were assembled
here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
SWAT THE MOSQUITO

TOR years Harrisburg mas Deen
II 'swatting the fly" Now it is
turning it's attention to the
mosquito. The mosquito is a pest
that can be banished more easily
than the fly and al less expense. The
City Health Department can get rid
of the insects in Harrisburg in n
season, if the people r willing to
spend the money, and anybody who
has nursed a bite or two or who has
tried to shoe one of the little buzzlng
devils out of his bedroom between
ftful moments of slumber on a hot
summers night would be willing to
see the city treasury bankrupt itself
in anti-mosquito campaign.
We used to nave yellow fever in
many American ports, and once it
got as far north as Philadelphia.
The scourge was a mystery then,
but now we know it was due to
MOSQUITO bites. And it is the same
with malaria. Fortunately for us,
the dam in Wildwood, the Paxton
creek sewer system and the sani-
tary dam in the river which covers
most of the flats have relieved us
of the malaria mosquitoes, but we
still have the m with us, as
The Health Department points out.
end we ought to drain away or
| otherwise neutralize the swampy
zones that now furnish such excel
lent breeding places. A step in this
direction will be taken when the city
transforms the Italian Park swamp
into a fresh, flowing lake.
Familiarity with the mosquito has
led us to look upon it as a necessary
evil, which 1t is not. The malaria
mosquito is likewise, if not a friend,
at all events a companion of man.
1t cannot be called semi-domesti-
Gated, but it is not ordinarily found
far from human dwellings. Flying
only at night, it makes sleeping per-
sons it's special prey; whence the
importance, as a safeguard against
it's attack, of we'll screened doors and
windows, and ever of net bed a n
opies when there is much malaria
in the neighborhood.
Malaria causes thousands OF
deaths in this country every year,
and is the cause of a very great deal
of sickness. But it is being grad
ually eradicated by draining OF
mountaineering areas.
A reasonable expectation is thai
a century from now malaria / IN this
country will be a relatively rare dis.
ease. AS for yellow fever, it will
be surely stamped out in those trop.
ical places which to-day are "foci'
for the distribution of that dreao
plague over the world.
The Postoffice Department has re.
moved its restrictions on the shin
ment to Italy of foodstuffs by parce
post. The p. o.. ID. should now eoul,
this service with a sanitary corps. o,
the regulations should permit tn,
mailing only of such foods as improv.
with age. An American cheese woult
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
DO YOU KNOW

THAT automobile travel to Har-
risburg this summer seems to be
greater than ever?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

Some charges will also take place
in the Department of Labor and
Industry within a short time, author
ity to make them being now vested
in the acting commissioner under
q recent act.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

REORGANIZATION of the State
Agricultural Department will prob
ably be undertaken at an early day
as the outline has been prepared
for the Governor. Under recent
legislation the commissioner of for
estry also has to be reappointed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

e. j. STACKPoLE
President and Editor-in-Ch 1
F. r. OYSTER. Business Manager
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ, Mandoino Editor
A. r. MICHENER. Circulation Manager
Executive Board
J. p. MCCULLOUGH,
BOYD M. OGLESBY,
+. r. OYSTER,
GUS. M. STEINMETz.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.
telegraph Building, Federal Square
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

The Postoffice Department has re-
moved its restrictions on the ship
ment to Italy of foodstuffs by parcel
post. The p. o. ID. should now euulp
this service with a sanitary corps, or
the regulations should permit the
mailing only of such foods as improve
with age. An American cheese would
q%uadruple in value on the way over.
which should be a valuable sugges
ton 30 Congressman Bert Smell, of
Now York. He makes them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

1T is regarded here az probable
that Chief of Mines Seward e. But
ton will be retained under the Sproul
administration No one else has
been mentioned and no opposition
to the chief has appeared. The
salary of the office was recently
advanced.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

-Readlng IS going TO have one
of the most strenuous mayoralty
campaigns in the State no matter
whether the nonpartisan election
feature of the third class city act is
repealed or not. The candidates
include Samuel e. BertoIet, Ex-
Mayor w. F. shanaman. Ben Fl.
Zerr. George II. Boyer. William
Abbot Whitman. and Frank Miller.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09
THE KIPONA

y EwS that plans for the annuai
II Kipona are under way Will De
' good tidings to thousands who
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-09

Selection of Philadelphia coun-
cilmen is the subject of some earn
est editorials in Philadelphia news
papers. the Evening Bulletin saying
that 1t should be a matter for "spe-
cial exertion and vigilance on the
part of citizens.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-07
lEGLESS MAN DRIVES CAR
Travelled a Long Way 10 Show Graft
tude for Hospital Work.

Though ne has no legs. Maj l.. Mil
gram of Philadelphia motored 10 Al
toona, Pa. TO thank friends for what
they did for him when he was a pa
dent in a hospital there two years ago.
Milgram was a member of Col. George
kemp's Third regiment when il was
sent to this section for guard duty just
after the United States entered the
war. While sergeant OF the guard at
Fsrhope, Somerset county, he was run
down by a train and both legs were
crushed below the knee. He was
treated at Cumberland and later at
Altoona and then sent to his home in
Philadelphia.
Equipped with artificial limbs, he
walks very well. While driving to the
home of Rabbi Moses ]. \. Abels. not
being familiar with the streets. he at
tempted to descend a steep avenue not
used by autos and his ear was wrecked
but he escaped injury.
When Milgram returns to Philndel-
phia he will take up the study Of law.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-07
BUILT N FOR VICTIMS
Specially Constructed Apartments IN
England for War crippIes.

Specially constructed apartments
are being built for disabled soldiers In
London. Elevators are provided for
the wheeled chairs. and balconies and
rooms are SO constructed that chairs
can be run in and out without diff.
sulty.
In addition there are communal
washing and drying rooms. an enter
tainment room and a recreative work
shop where the men can amuse them
selves making models or following
any hobby. Many Of the men al
ready are installed with their wives
and families.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-07
Prays for United States.

At least one foreigner who has been
granted his first papers for citizen
ship commanded the respect OF Coun-
ty Clerk Williams ai Elyria. O. When
handed the document he got on his
knees, removed his hat and prayed for
his adopted country. Williams has Is
sued hundreds of papers, but this Is
the first time prayer ever accompanied
the transaction.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-07

propaganda against the patriotic Rus
sian government Il the capital Is anan-
doned. Meanwhile the position OF he
civil inhabitants Is desperate.
The Nicholas railway has been en-
fireiy taken oT.r for evacuation o
ether military purposes. Passenger
rsfTie ha< heen abolished therefore
sackrnen are enable Ia import the
Seanry hut essential contraband for
merry revived in Petrograd.
The following Mere the prices ruling
iast week: Butter. ~ ruhles tSi2Jo)
a pound bread l. IL ~ rubies tsss-1S-
Sl.75) potatoes. ~ ts12JO) meat.
10 to 1eD rubleS tSs62~S62 yb) sugar.
tea and COFFEE are understandable 100
cigarettes cost Ia rubles tS1Is1-
Many so-caIled seeisl living rooms 9th
erwise municipal Soup kitchens. hase
closed for want If provisions. Those
open give only Stops people IN N
almost ln rags
IT il estimated that 1al!os rubles
fnormal, s75!aoD monthly Is re-
nuired ia support life per head. Work
= unobiainabie and the intelligent
have burned their remaining furniture
for cooking. Probably not above 100
of the civil population ramain. Pecu-
lation and corruption 90 the part OF
the b~oisheyists are undated. Recent
v a great quantity of clothing and
boots which were collected together on
rhe preiext that they were for the cen
trail store. was destroyed b. fire.
II Is suspected 10 have been incen-
diariSIn covering Traces Of large defai-
cations.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-07
Situation Growing Worse

The follow inE shows how much
norse the situation has grown
A month ago tie gheateFs and cine
mas we're fnli despite the fact that
SEATS IL the latter cost l6 rnbles $50
Now tbs last fiction OF cultured life
has given out and the public in terror
If artists and peuquisitions have de-
serted the theater, preferring anxious
and undistnrt.ed solitude.
A. q result Of bolsheyisf tyranny IN
the country an entirely new banditti
have appeared. Ths bolsheyists mobi-
lized 81 the Young peasants. but a
large number deserving have formed
rowing bands inhabiting the woods.
living by robbery and falling on par
ties of soldiers. farmers knx villages.
Under an elected Robin H. these
bands are taking the place OF the for
mer peasant reyolts and are known as
the green army. They sre a veritable
thorn ia the side Of the boishevists and
are reminiscent of the activities of the
little Russian guidetnaki. with whom
they have a similarity in that they kill
all communists mercilessly.
The bolshevists still rely largely on
sailors 10 restore the weak places In
the front, bribing them with enormous
pay and privileges. The sailors are
covered with diamonds and pearls.
But. according 10 u secret telegram re-
ceived in Petroerad from the propa-
saBda section in Moscow. a consider
able force of German communists
shortly Is expected. also a party Of
Hungarian officers. with thu object OF
forming a battalion Of Let's and Chin
csc partly for the Finnish front.
There i reason u believe the Ger
mans are repeating the offer made to
Admiral Kolchak at the beginning Of
the year. which h. Loyalty rejected and
will again undoubtedly reject. but the
Russian peasants tortured under the
boisheyist heel may ice unable 10 on
troll their desperate impotence. Their
cry is Save US or let another save us"
Europe's future depends on our re-
Spouse To their su%pplications.