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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
Health of The Nation
IErnm Hnrvev's WeeklY. 1

From Harvey's Weekly.l
Health Week" is, we are told,
really to be ten days. with an addi-
ton running on for a fortnight more.
1t is the period, from December l
TO 10, assigned for the sale of Red
Cross Christmas seals in behalf of
the campaign against tuberculosis,
The sale will be continued, doubt
less, until Christmas. by which time
it is hoped to realize receipts of $6,-
500, 900; every dollar of which can
doubtless be used to advantage for
the health OF the people:
Thanks to various agencies, among
which this work of the Red Cross is
by no means least. the great white
plague" is being deposed from its
old supremacy of destructiveness and
dread. That is, of course, no reason
for slackening the campaign against
it or for withholding purchase this
year of a single Christmas seal On
the contrary. it is one of the strong
est reasons for pushing the campaign
with increased yigor There is moth
ing more encouraging and inspiring
than success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
A COAL SUBSTITUTE

= 4 is becoming more and more APP
parent that we must have n sub
stitute for coal Here we are
with Il soft coal strike on our hands,
thousands of people out of work,
thousands more suffering for lack
of household supply and no surplus
at hand to meet the deficiency. If
we We're prepared to use fuel oil or
electricity generated by water power
as is possible in thousands of com
munities scattered over the land
where streams are now simply run
ming to waste, we should not be at
the mercy of the coal operators and
b the miners every time they get into
Il dispute and both sides would be
far more reasonable, knowing that
down at the mines, manufacturers
4. or householders would put in either
oil burner apparatus or electric heat
ers with the likelihood of never again
using coal, they would hesitate be-
fore cutting off their own noses.
We have been warned time and
time again that the coal supply is
limited in quantity and that sooner
or later we shall have to come to
some other form of heat generation,
but the period of famine has ap-
peared so remote that we have
thought little about it and have con-
tinued TO shovel in coal. Now comes
the announcement that great New
York office buildings, such as the
Woolworth and others of that type,
are to be heated by oil burners of
the kind used to drive big steam
ships, and there is increased talk
of water power development. The
general use of oil and electricity
cannot come too soon, no matter
how abundant the supply nor how
cheap coal may be in comparison
with other forms of heating. We
have arrived at the period when we
can no longer depend upon it as
our sole means of making power or
heating homes, and the time is ripe
for somebody to come along with
such device as will enable us to
burn the cheaper grades of oil eff
ciently and economically and for the
Government TO encourage in every
way possible the use of waterpower
for the generation of cheap cleo
tricity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
THE GRADE CROSSINGS

~>HE plan proposed for the Pub
lie Service Commission to
make a survey of all grade
crossings in the State and find out
what must be done to get rid of
them is one that should be put into
effect as soon as the Commission can
find the funds to make the study.
There have been discussions of
grade crossings and some high
sounding remarks on the subject OF
their abolition, but as matter Of
fact few people know much abous
them, their characteristics, their
economic value, their dangers and
their cost.
1t is estimated that there are 12,-
600 grade crossings in Pennsylvania
and more being added every week.
To abolish them, that is to make
everyone a crossing either overhead
or underneath, would take half d
billion dollars, ten times the revenue
of the State in the fiscal year just
closed. And maybe even that could
nOI CONtl elil l4lG IIldl NOulu
be demanded.
There are crossings which could
& be closed up because they are sur
vivals of old days when roads were
laid out and have no value except
to a couple of property owners who
could just as well ''go round" some
other way; there are crossings Sc
dangerous that they should be
boarded up and people made to sc
half a mile at least for the safety
of their own necks, and there arc
! crossings which are made menaces
: by billboards, houses and other OBJ.
jects, TO say nothing of trees ana
. brush that should always be KEEP
down. All these and others in The
class that could be remedied, sucf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
IdedHSm Run Wild
[From kansas Citv starl

From Kansas City Starl
During the war the War Depart
ment coddled the radicals who not
only refused to fight, but tried in
every way to obstruct military pre-
paration. Secretary Baker wrote the
President that he was doing all for
them that public opinion would
Stand" He installed as assistant Mr..
keppel, who made ther2 his special
charge and virtually destroyed dis
cipline in the prisons where they
were confined. Finally there were
wholesale discharges Of these pre-
cious slackers with back pay.
1t was a notorious fact that the
war labor board was the refuge of
the lunatic fringe during it's eX-
istence. Men who We're wholly out
of sympathy with American institu-
tions were certain of being taken
care of at Government expense as
Investigators.
\ Now it is disclosed that the COM
missioner OF Immigration of the port
of New York, +. G. Howe, was the
particular champion of foreign re-
Volut onists who, finding it too dan
gerous to continue their trade at
home, had taken advantage of the
freedom of. America to conduct pro-
paganda for the overthrow of this
Government.
The Watchman SET to guard the
gate not only threw it open to the
reds who sought to destroy the
Government He undertook to over
rule his superiors and prevent the
deportation of the trouble makers
after they had been found out.
For the continued policy of sub
ordinates the President cannot cs-
cape responsibility. The policy of
tolerance to the revolutionary foes
of all that America stands for can
be explained only as another example
of that impractical idealism that is
as dangerous to the national life as
the blindest bourbonism could pos
sibly be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
Winters Joy

Inside the house there's cheer and
mirth,
A log is glowing on the hearth, .
A great big lamp is burning bright,
Dispelling all the gloom of night.
There's nuts to crack and tales to
tell,
A dress to make for Rosabel.
"A song to sing, a book to read,
A dozen joys the night to speed.
To find the best we need not
roam
1t lies within the walls of home.
So, though the winds blow cold and
drear,
Winters the best time of the year.
katherine Edelman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
NOT SURPRISING

IIENTOWN'S celebrated city
N farm. conducted as So
L a cialist experiment, has gone
ont of existence. The socialist delF-
ing into agriculture resulted IN
ci+v deficit of S26, 900 in two years.
At a recent meeting Allentown 5
Citv Council accepted a bid to rent
the farm for five years at $4,000
the first year. $4,000 the second year
and $4,000 year thereafter The
property was bought for S122,OOo
and is encountered with mortgage
of $4,000 at per cent, so that
the rental derived is less than half
the annual interest of $4,000 on the
mortgage.
Public ownership in the United
States has not been Il success. 1t
is Just as well that we had to try
the experiment as a temporary ex-
pedient of the war, for it left us in
position to let go the nag's tail. be
fore the pace got so hot as to drag
us into the slough of national bank
ruptcy
Allentown's experience has been
on Il small scale, the experience Of
the Federal Government with the
railroads. the wire systems and the
building of ships, and Spending
money without the necessity of pro-
ducing a profit promotes eXtrava-
gance and inefficiency. The most
satisfactory business or industrial
enterprise for all concerned is that
which is earning a decent dividend
on capital invested. \ privately
conducted business will sell its
product at lower figures while earn
ing a profit than the same kind of
an industry operated under the Gov
ernment without profit, and often
with subsidy added. But worse
even than that is that Government
controlled business means Govern
ment controlled mon. Instead OF
increasing individual liberty Govern
ment ownership makes for depend
ence and robs men of enterprise,
initiative and independence.
There is nothing surprising in
Allentown's experience. The farm's
| failure was precisely what might
have been expected. 1t was
founded on a false theory. The Gov
ernment ownership dose has been
bitter medicine, but already we are
beginning to feel its beneficial eff
fects, even though the doctors fee
does seem rather high.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. John C. Groome, who is
inst home from Russia, declares tnat
Germany is plotting another war and
is using Russia and China as the
storehouses.
Charles W. Gilbert, Philadel-
phia newspaperman, is writing some
impressions of the peace conference
which are notable because of their
keen analysis of some things which
he terms bunk" although they loom
large in the public eye.
Attorney General William L
Schaffer has resumed his mile in the
morning walks after his recent Sc
we're illness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

as those which by change of grade
could be made reasonably safe,
should be listed and the job figured
out.
And. meanwhile, as automobile
travel increases and railroad business
keeps on growing, men who run
motor cars and who handle freight
trains and the general public. could
be instructed in a few simple pre-
cautions known as safety first, in
cluding not trying to beat the train,
keeping control and avoiding that
pleasant pastime so productive OF
inquests and known as crawling un-
der the gates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
Rights of The Public

Philadelphia North Americana
No matter how strongly some la
Dor leaders may contend to the con-
trary, under our form of govern
ment the public is a thing apart
from and superior to either cap
ital or dabor. In u democracy the
public is the government, it's rights
are paramount TO those of any class
or classes, and must remain so if this
is to remain democracy. The
same force Of public sentiment
which has decreed that the country
shall not be run by capital or the
propertied interests will stand
against any attempt to set up auto
cratic rule by organized labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
SileRced Her No
[ [From the Boston Transcript

tFrom the Boston Transcript
Mabel" said her mother, "it
seems to me that you had the gas
turned rather low while young Hug
gins was here last evening""
1T was purely for economy sake,
me-"
There is no use trying to beat
the gas company, my daughter.
I'VE noticed the shutting off of the
gas is followed by a corresponding
increase of pressure"
well, that lessons the waist,
doesn't 1t. mother. dear 20 replied
the artless girl. And her fond par
ent could not find an answer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
Crafty FeUoIDS

[From the Birmingham Age
Herald.1
This wrestler styles himself a
bear"
And his opponent?"
is called, believe, lion"
"Umph! That implies great fe-
rocity in their coming struggle"
Perhaps. Their respective man
ayers look so much like pair of
foxes, I'm afraid the match won't
be on the level"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
very Noticeable

[From the Columbus Dispatch
Uncle Sam is getting ready to
count our noses again, and we won
der if he'll notice that there .are
not nearly so many red ones as there
used to be?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
MONDAY DECEMBER I, 1919

And, hdUiHg thus chosen our course,
let as rCneic oar trust in God and 90
JoricGrd lcithoW fear and 1CiH manly
heGrts.-ABRAMuAM LINCOLN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

Do YOU remember those good old
DAYS when an egg sandwich sold Tor
a nickel and if you asked for 1t the
restaurant man put slice of onion
on TOP?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
UNCLE SAM RAN RAILROAD
IN STRIKE AFTER CIVIL WAR

With Washington Disspaton'
Just
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

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Associated Press is exclusively en-
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All rights of republication of special
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
DO YOU KNOW
THAT Harrisburg contains
more battle flags than any other
town in the Middle States?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first armory seems to have
been located on Walnut street where
men kept equipment after the mus
ter days during which each man
took his gun and uniform home with.
him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

Save your coal and burn WOOD, IS
.,,o odvice of one conservationist, but
he fails to tell us how to get thS
" God,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

Wen. anyway, we were saved the
agony Of turkey hash this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

Some of us would DO tickled to
death If we were to be insulted with
a fourteen per cent. raise of pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

e. ]. STACKPOLE
President and Editor-in-Chiet
F. r. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor
IA. r. MICHENERs Circulation Manager
Executive Board
j. p. MCCULLOUGH,
BOYD NJ. OGLESBY,
L. r. OYSTER,
GUS. NJ. STEINMETZ.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01

VXTASHINGTON-T That familiar
wv saying History repeats it
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
ONE MAN KILLED,
3 OTHERS HURT IN
CAMDEN ACCIDENTS
Unidentified Train Passenger Is
Crushed in Fa'I---Two injured
in Trolley Mishaps

An unidentified man was killed and
three persons were injured in accidents
in and about Camden late last night
and early this morning.
The death occurred at Runnemede,
when the man stepped in front of q
Reading Railroad express train shortly
after midnight. He was hurled several
feet and sustained q fractured skull.
The man was about thirty years old,
we'll dressed and had no marks Of identi-
fication about his clothing. except a
land Retew. Coroner Rhone is investi-
eating.
Edward r. Gardiner. Of Ardrnorc,
Pa, was struck BY q motorcycle driven
by Oscar Eckbers, Of Brooklyn, at
Broadway and Federal street, Camden,
last night. He sustained q lacerated
scalp and shoulder, and was taken to
the Cooper Hospital. Eckberg was re.
leased On his own recoGnizance.
Two men were the victims Of trolley
accidents in Camden last night. Jo-
seph Ritner. eighteen, Of 534 Moor.
street. Philadelphia, is in the Homeo
pathic Hospital, with a fractured left
arm. He was struck by a trolley neal
the Market street ferries.
William Ksssler. thirty Eve year.
old, of Millville, n. J., sustained cut
and bruises Of the head when he wa.
struck by a trolley at Third and Mar
ket streets. He Is In the Cooper Hos
| pital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
GLENSlDE OPPOSES
JENKINTOWN'S PLAN
TO CONTROL MAILS
Suburb Interprets Visit Of In
spector as Meaning It Will
Lose It's Postoffice

The civic pride. and with it the civic
wrath. of Glenside citizens have been
aroused as the result Of the visit Of
United States Potofice Inspector Jo-
seph Fl. Jordan. and the suggestion that
his visit means that Glenside's post
Office is to become only substation Of
the Jenkintown office.
Opposition to the idea Of combining
the administration of the two Offices do.
veloped at once. Henry Renninger. Of
Glenside. stated to the inspector that
the public opinion of Glenside is de-
cidedly opposed to any such measure, no
matter how it may have originated or
where it developed.
According to Edward F. Frikes. OF
Glenside, it is regarded as likely that
the idea originated in Jenkintown. He
says:
The person or persons bringing thi.
change to the attention Of the Post
Office Department at Washington is moi
known. but it is probably some one il
Jenkintown.' +"
This movement on the part Of tn
Postofice Department. will meet viii
vigorous opposition from the residents o
Glenside The different societies, head
ed by the Business Mems Association
and the Glenside Community Club. ar
prepared to take this matter up IL III
department does not alter its purpose
Under the consolidation, Glensid
would lose it's individuality and be sub
ject to Jenkintown in matters that ar
purely domestic. 1t is Understood tha
the Jenkintown postmaster would hav
| full control Of the policy of the Glensid
substatiou. G. G. Rittenhouse, csshie
of the Glenside National Bank, declare
that an attempt to force such q consoii
dation would act as a bombshell in hi
community.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
WALT WHITMAN DAY"
OBSERVED IN CAMDEN
Hundredth Anniversary Of Birth
of Good Gray Poet" Is
Fittingly Celebrated
TREE PLANTED IN PARK

This is walt whitman Day" in
Camden.
The American section of the Eng
lish speaking Union today placed
wreath on the grave of Walt Whitman
in Hsrleigh Cemetery in honor of the
Tooth anniversary Of the poets birth.
which is being celebrated today in Cam
den. his birthplace. and elsewhere.
The Whitman Park Association also
placed wreath on the grave. The
members marched to the cemetery and
then returned to Whitman Square,
where appropriate exercises were held.
A flag was raised and a button*ood
tree planted in tribute to the poet of
democracy James b. McAdam was
chairman of the meeting.
The little frame house. $50 Mickle
street. where Whitman lived in frugal
solitude, stands today transformed into
q shrine for Whitman lovers. In the
park at Whitman avenue and Everett
street. which perpetuates the name OF
the picturesque poet. memorial tree
was planted.
Within this park it is proposed to
transplant the Whitman dwelling
whose present site is along railroad
and in line of projected expansion oi
its tracks.
Removal of the Whitman house is
being planned by this association, with
W. F. Bolzau as chairman.
At tonights exercises John II. Fort
will make the Introductory speech and
Harry Stains will show picture scenes
from Whitman 3 life. Mrs. Weda Cook
Addicks will sing as solos 20 Captain
My Captain. 'Out Of the Rolling
Ocean" The Tan-Faced Prairie
Boy" all Whitman poems. Mrs. Miriam
Lee Farley Lippincott will furnish Sc
| lections from "Old IRELAND" and &C
Star of France" while the Elks' quar-
tet will sing The Hymn Singer of the
/ likewise Whitman compositionS. Her
/ bert Richardson will supply an organ
voluntary.
! DR.. Felix +. Schelling, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. will discuss
"Walt Whitman and His Poetry
Francis Howard Williams will giv'
Remniscepces of Walt Whitman ant
His Poetry: Prof. Duncan Spaeth. O
Princeton University. will make an ad
dress on Walt Whitman Among th,
Poets" and Harrison s. Morris will
give remarks and readings from Whit
man.
John II. Fort. Albert Austermuh
and James II. Long are the committe
in charge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
OLD SOL BRINGS OUT SUMNER
FRZLLS AT DEVON POLO FIELD
Weather Final Day Of Horse Shoso Is ErceentCnghams
, and Picture Hats Are Popular

II the governors of the horse show
made a pact with the elements for the
four days given to the show and coun.
try fair, the weather certainly kept to
its part Of the bargain.
The fourth and last day Of the great
est affair ever held at Devon opened
with all things propitious. "Old Sol"
became so pleased with the landscap pc
that he warmed up perhaps a little too
much, but there was always shade on
the big grandstand. ...
Summer frocks came into their own
decidedly and the pretty sinshams and
organdies and becoming picture hats
added not little to the beauty OF the
scene.
Miss Florence Bell looked very well
in a white linen skirt and waist. Her
large hat Of fawn- colored straw wae
faced with a Eeorgette crepe in pastel
blue. and French flowers wreathed the
crown.
Mrs. Paul Thompson had chosen Q
lovely frock Of lilac organdie. Her high
crowned wide brimmed hat was trim
med with purple violets.
This morning Mrs. Archibald Barklie
who is chairman Of the country fair
wore a white frock and her hat was
trimmed with a blue ostrich feather.
Mrs. Sydney Thayer looked yer,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
TOO WARM? RELIEF COMING
Below Normal Weather After Next
Wednesday Forecast

Washington. May 81 (By A, P.l.--
Weather predictions for the week be-
ginning Monday, are:
North and Middle Atlantic states !:
Warm weather at beginning followed
by a change to normal temperature
Tuesday or Wednesday and below nor
NAL thereafter. Local showers and
thunderstorms are probable first part
Of week the middle and latter parts
viii be fair.
South Atlantic and East Gulf states /:
Normal temperature probable. First
half of week will be showery; latter half
fair
West Gulf states: Temperature be :
low normal first half of week and nor
NAL latter half. Generally fair.
Ohio valley and Tennessee and re :
rioD Of Great Lakes: Showers first
part OF week followed by generally fair.
Change 10 normal temperature Mon
day followed by temperature below
normal through Wednesday aud normal
thereafter
Upper Mississippi and lower Nilsson
u valleys and northeast. southerr
Rocky Mountain arc plateau region
4 1zaoe oeratrfe below aormaI frsf hall
<neI seeond haif q week Gep
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
PARADE DECISION
TO BE GWEN MONDAY
General Kuhn Will Toll Mayor
Smith Result Of Testing
Sentiment Of Men

Definite settlement of the Seventy
ninth Division parade question is ex-
pected as the result Of a conference
scheduled for Monday between Mayor
Smith and Major General Kuhn, divi-
sion commander.
General Kuhn and Mrs. Kuhn have
been visiting Jay Cooke, 3D.. at Chest :
nut Hill. for the last two days, but he
will ascertain the feeling Of his men on
the parade and will be ready to give the
matter his final Endorsement or rejection
when he talks with Mayor Smith.
Saturday, June Z, is the day tenta :
lively selected for the procession. Sat
urday was selected to suit the con
venience OF business men and to Dc
away with the necessity Of declaring
holiday.
The units expected to parade, II thu
procession is decided ON, are the 3l6th
and 316th Infantry Regiments, III
312th Field ARTILLERY and the 3lfh
Machine Gun Battalion, in all OF which
are many Philsdeiphia men, the hrs'
unit being a distinctively Philadelphia
organization.
The Shosho hone, bringing more Seventy
ninth Division troops, is due here TO-
morrow. but no word has yet been re-
ceiyed from the ship. Neither has any
been received from the Canadaisua, an
other transport due here.