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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
The Industrial Titan of America
Pennyvanas John Oliver
Ggrnph Magazine

| improving it's peoples health. Take
a map of the State, and every dot
representing a community of 10, 900
or more inhabitants would furnish a
text for an article on civic progress
or industrial enterprise.
Outside of Philadelphia. Penn
sylvania is much more populous
than is New York outside of New
York City. Indeed. Pennsylvania
goes down to Philadelphia with
6,325,000 population, while New
York goes down to the Bronx with
4,723,000.
1t is the large number of cities of
less than thirty thousand popula-
tion that makes Pennsylvania, out
side of it's chief city, such a popu-
lous State.
A Monument to Religious Freedom
No bit of literature compiled re-
garding Pennsylvania could fairly
represent the State without at least a
passing reference to the religious
sects which were transplanted there
in colonial times and which flourish
to this day in nearly their primitive
simplicity.
When William Penn founded his
colony, the central purpose of his
life was to establish an asylum
where the prosecuted of all lands
could come and worship God ac-
cording to their own consciences and
live according to their own religious
convictions.
THE Quakers came by the thou
sands. Their meetinghouses sprang
up everywhere. Not content to eX-
press their religion in their walk
| and conduct they gave it expression
in their dress and in their very
| words. The broad-brimmed hat ani
the Quaker bonnet were seen and
| the thee and thou" were heard
everywhere. The lives the Quakers
| lived won the admiration of all who
came into contact with them, and
| much of the solid development OF
| the State is due to the high standard
| of integrity and fairness established
and maintained by these people OF
Quaker faith.
| Mennonites from Holland and
Switzerland and the Rhine country
prosecuted by nearly all creeds
alike, came in large numbers and
| developed into the successful agri-
culturists of the three original
| counties. The Dunkers of Switzer-
| land came as a body, root and
branch. The Schwenkfelders of ST.
lesia, distressed by prosecutions that
were without pity, braved the per-
| ills of the raging seas and untam ed
| forests in order to find a haven
where they could live in their faith
The Moravians followed later, tc
share with the other sects the bless
ings of tolerance in the land oi
| Penn.
Humble, unsung, content to play
their quiet roles without the ap-
! plause of men, like the bee thai
renders an unconscious service tc
the flower, these sects have wrought
richly in the making of the nation
1t seems like going back into ar
! earlier century to visit the cloister:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
BEER SUBSTITUTE

A CCORDING to the Literary Di.
~ gest, the whole country is all
''het up" as to what we shall
substitute for strong drink in case
Congress thoughtlessly ignores Presi-
dent Wilson's eloquent plea in be-
half of the benefcent saloon. Sug'
gestions that range all the way from
Spanish mate-a South American
tea with a "kick'-to ginger pop
have been offered and every day
brings forth a new soft drink"
But we have our own ideas on the
subject. You recall sundry and de-
lightful early experiences with
homemade lemon or winter-green
beer? Well. that's it. A decade or
two ago the mother of a family
OF thirsty boys realized that some
how, somewhere those thirsts were
bound to be quenched, and she had
no notion of surrendering her pets
to the tender mercies of a tavern
keeper who dealt in stock ale, lager
beer and dark brown tastes. No
indeed, she just turned her attention
to lemon beer, and let the whole
family in on the brewing of it,
You remember how you ran away
to the old woman around the cor
ner who kept yeast" and bought a
penny's worth? A penny made a bet
ter showing those days than a nickel
does now. And with what enthus-
iasm you scrubbed a wash-tub in
which to mix the beer, how ener-
getically you scalded bottles and
how jealousy you guarded the con-
coction as it fermented in the sun.
And by and by there came a day
when it was ready and bottle after
bottle lay cooling in a damp cor
ner of the cellar. With what anti
cipation you jiggled bottle to gen.
crate a bead how you swigged
the delectable, foaming contents, or
drank deeply a glass with big slab
of ginger bread on the side.
Substitute for strong drink? Why
give us lemon beer, the homemade
variety, the kind mother used to
make, and plenty of ginger cake of
the same vintage and origin to keep
it company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
Germans Haze Not Changed

[Louis Graves in Atlantic Monthly
us are asking is: How many Ger
mans are there who did not really
think their country was right i'll the
war, who did not sympathize with its
purposes, but whose voice was neces-
sarily stilled while the fight was on?
If the number of these is as large
as some profess to believe, then
there may indeed soon be liberal
Germany.
we read of the National Assent bly,
at Weimar, and of the great voting
strength of so-called liberals and
while, from Berlin and other places
in the Fatherland-even from that
same National Assembly at Weimar
we hear rumblings that sound very
like echoes of the old German spirit.
And here, in the American zone.
we find Won Ludendorff unpopular
only because he failed, the kaiser
pitied as a martyr, and Won Hinden-
burg a popular idol, and are left
with. the feeling that all these
parties, the Centrum, the Peoples
Democratic, the Majority Socialists,
and the rest, are shadowy things,
made up of just-Germans.
BY compulsion they may be kept
from continuing exactly the same
sort of Germans we have known in
the past; they may he patched up
and made over; but we here are not
expecting to see any genuinely
changed Germans until, possibly. the
children who are now the playfellows
of our American soldiers have be-
come men and women ---..s.....
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
TIME TO PROTEST

= SN'T it about time our President,
so prone to shed tears over the
iniquities of Central Europe,
turns his attention to Japan and
Korea? Do we, who sent our armies
overseas to throw the Hun out of
Belgium and France, want to be tied
hard fast to a nation that is doing
in Korea what Japan at this time is
reported as doing? A thousand times
no, and the sooner the Japs learn
how we feel about it, the better.
An American missionary has been
sentenced to six months in prison
because he did what any American
of courage would have done under
the Observation-Disclosures fleeing
Koreans from the wrath of armed
Japanese. American travellers write
home that Korean men, women and
children have been put to death and
thousands of others grossly mis-
treated by the handed Japs who
rule the country. Japan is doing to
Korea precisely what Germany tried
to do to Belgium, and just about as
ruthlessly. She wants Korea's wealth.
All her fine claims of giving Korea
good government are disproved by
the facts The Japs are fast display
ing traits that may soon change their
nickname from "the Yankees of the
East" to "the Germans of the East"
Yet our members of the peace
commission blandly announce that
Japan is to be made a party to the
League of Nations. That being so
land Korea rising in revolt, are we
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
GENERAL WOOD SPEAKS

TFrom the New York Timesl
"Think nationally" said President
Roosevelt. 1t was perhaps the
greatest thing he ever said, address
ed as it was to a nation which still
sang America and described at
as a land of ''rock-bound hills =
a good enough description of Massa-
chusetts, but not of South Dakota
as DR.. Crothers, Yankee himself,
has pointed out.
General Wood has the same idea.
We must, says he, build up spirit
of national solidarity" 1t is not so
pungently put as Roosevelt put it,
but allowing for the temperamental
differences between the two men the
idea is the same. 1t is time to for
get the rocks and rills and remember
the red mud of the Red River of
the North, the snow capped peak OF
Mount Hood, the sycamores OF the
Wabash, and the moss-hung trunks
of those strange gray willows in
New Orleans.
In this great land of all Ameri-
cans. the prairie men of Kansas and
the hard and silent mountaineers OF
the Nevada, General Wood can find
no place for the red flag. 1T stands
for nothing which our Government
| stands for. A moderate statement =
hut enough of itself to condemn the
red flag forevermore. 1t is not pos
sible to think nationally" either
while men are trying to teach us to
think in terms of New England, the
South, or the West, or while they
are trying to teach us to think in
terms of classes that override ma
tional boundaries. 1t is time to
think in the United States. Let us
pay some attention to our country
At last, to the whole of it ~.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
No Wonder Germany Quit
EoPLE have often expressed
BRIGGS
NUMBER NINE

<<D EOPLE have often expressed
their wonder at our success
in getting ships to France
without being torpedoed," said
Major Frank c. Mahin, of the Army
Recruiting Office, 325 Market street,
Harrisburg, 'and as an explanation
l always tell my own experience. We
went over on the Leviathan in April,
1918, just at the time the submarine
campaign was at it's height. There
were about thirteen thousand people
on board, crew and passengers, so
the Boche would have made some
haul if they had torpedoed us.
What a difference of that great liner
from peace times; instead of being
all lighted up inside and out, the
ship was absolute darkness outside
and inside were a very, very few
lights painted blue so that they
only made a dull glow. At sunset
everyone was chased inside and SOL
dier sentrieS were posted on all
doors to prevent anyone going out.
No one was allowed to have either
matches or flashlights in their pos
session, so If you wanted to smoke
you had to hunt around in the dark
to find an electric lighter on the wall.
There were guards everywhere, SOL
guards outside. After 10 o'clock no
one except members of the guard
were allowed to move around; no
one cared to for that matter, be-
cause every guard had a loaded AS
automatic and their nerves were
decidedly high strung, further, we
were extremely suspicious that we
had spies on board, so if you did try
to 'mosey' around you stood an ex-
cellent chance of getting shot Al
sunset every water-tight door was
closed and remained closed until Z
o'clock in the morning. The soldier
guards were picked men and were
permanently on duty and maybe
you think they didn't develop cats
eyes in the dark. Every time d
member of the guard felt a little
draft of fresh air three or four men
would instantly start out to trace
that draft to its origin. The rea-
son was that we feared a spy might
open a portfolio and signal a sub
marine, so we were taking absolute.
ly no chances. The last night, run
ming into Brest, l was commanding
the guard and it surely was a nerve
| racking night, We had a general
on board, commanding the troops
| and about 9 o'clock he decided to
make an inspection of the guard
He left his stateroom and started ur
the stairs. AS he reached the tor
an arm slipped around his neck, go
! a strangle hold, he felt the muzzle
| of a pistol against his ribs, and a
low voice growled in his ear who
are your He hastily explained
hands felt all over him and he was
allowed to proceed He stepped uI
to a door leading out on deck and
the same thing happened again. He
then and there decided to find me
and get me to pilot him back to his
stateroom before he got shot, so he
started to go down stairs to the
! guard room, when for third time
he was nearly strangled. Finally he
found me and with fearful accents
| implored me to guide and guard him
| back to his room, as he had seer
more than enough of the efficiency
| of the guard"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
GOOD FOR MT. UNION

HK T. UNION is planning a big
M welcome home for the towns S
A soldiers, sailors and marines
on the Fourth of July. Mt Union is
entitled to celebrate. Not only did 1t
send an exceptionally large number
of men into the service, but those
who remained at home were en-
gagged for the most part in turning
out war supplies. The town met its
quota, and more, in every war serv-
ice and Liberty Loan drive. and
otherwise conducted itself like the
patriotic American community it is.
There is something more than
usually attractive in the kind of
is to be real old-fashioned Fourth
of July celebration-the kind that
breeds patriots, the kind that used
to make for the lads of the smaller
towns of the country the Glorious
Fourth" the best holiday of the
whole year. You perhaps recall the
way they used to observe the day
back. home"-the village cannon
saluting the deep resplendent red
OF. the rising sun, the f1eecy white
clouds and the azure blue of the sky
at daybreak; the hurried breakfast,
the paper torpedoes and the fire.
crackers, the flags flying everywhere.
the military company, the band, the
flremen, the veterans, and the school
children in parade, and fiery old one
armed Major So-and-So repeating in
language that searched the diction-
ary for superlatives the sentiment OF
the day that-"America the great
est nation under the sun, with one
hand tied behind her back and blind
folded, could lick all creation"
Then back for the big Fourth of
July dinner, with three or four
helpings of homemade ice cream.
out again for field sports in the
afternoon and then more banging of
"squibs" until it was time for the
said it, friend.
Well, something like that's the
idea the Mt. Union committee has in
mind. Sometimes we wish we lived
in a town that hadn't forgotten the
homely,% wholesome customs that
marked American life less than a
generation ago. There was no need
for classes in Americanism in those
times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

| Ephrata and Nazareth; it appears
| passing strange to see the Amish
| Mennonite, with his tailless coat and
! broad -brimmed hat, on the streets
| of progressive Lancaster; it sur
| prises the visitor to Allentown to
hear well-dressed, up-to-date peo-
| pie, from court officer to manufac-
turer, talking Pennsylvania Dutch.
Yet millions of Americas best
| farmers inherited their command of
the soil from such ancestry; from
! such simple folk have sprung scores
| of governors of States, many jur-
lists, a galaxy of educators, etc. The
| Pennsylvania pietist, in his ascetic
way. has done his bit in making his
| shaping the bone and sinew of the
! nation.
The States Share in Making and
Preserving the Union
AS for it's history, whether in the
| remoter period of colonial times or
in the just passing era of Americas S
activities in the world war: whether
| in the battle for the establishment
| of the Union or the struggle for
| it's maintenance, the Keystone State
| has always played a role second to
no other Comm onwealth. 1t was on
Pennsylvania soil that the Declara-
ton of independence was written;
| that the disheartened colonists were
| reorganized for victory at Valley
! Forge, and upon which the Consti-
| tuition of the United States was pro-
| claimed.
1t was from Pennsylvania that
the men came who shed the first
blood in the Civil War. and at Get
| tysburg the tide against disunion
was turned, under the leadership
| of a Pennsylvania soldier.
When America threw the weight
| of it's power into the balance in the
! Armageddon of liberty in Europe,
Pennsylvania was in the van of those
ready for action.
No other division in France. out
side of the Regular Army forces,
was earlier in the fray than the
Twenty Eighth, made up largely of
keystone troops. With casualties
of 14,417 in the 1T days between
| arrival at A. E. +. headquarters and
| the armistice. the division made a
record not surpassed in the war. For
40 days it was in the very thick OF
the hardest fighting of the conflict
The State gave 29S.000 men for
the Army. $4,000 for the Navy, and
5000 for the Marine Corps-a grand
total of $4,000 men, to say nothing
of the hundreds of thousands of
workers in shipyards. munition
plants, ETC., who answered their
country's call.
OF course, Pennsylvanians are
proud of their States role in the
nations activities. And the coming
of peace will find them at the fore
front of those who shall provide the
world with0the munitions of peace
| engines and cars, coal and steel, a
thousand commodities. in the max
ing of which Pennsylvania serves
doubly-herself and the whole
world.
THE END
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
(Continued.C
Cities Which Boast Supcrlative
Industries

1IfuuStFiCS
Each of the States lesser centers
of population possesses some indus
try in which it's citizens experience
justiiable pride. Harrisburg, in ad-
dition to enjoying the distinction of
being the Commonwealth capital, is
one of the principal railroad centers
of the East, while one of it's sub
urbs indicates its name, Steclton,
the nature of it's industrial interests.
Johnstown, likewise, is an iron and
steel center.
If quantity and quality of the
manufactured product signify, AL
lentown is the worlds cement capi-
tai, for two-fifths of Americas out
put is produced within a radius of
twenty miles of this beautiful city
of homes, which is also noted for its
silks.
Walk from one end of it's main
street to the other in the summer
time, and every. lamp-post you see
supports a basket of flowers. Think
of a bouquet-studded street several
miles long. In the winter ever
greens take the place of the bios
SONS in the baskets. The effect is
charming. But it is characteristic
of Allentown and the spirit of Penn
sylvania.
The importance of Altoona's rail-
road shops is indicated in the fact
that nearly half as many people
sound employment in them before
the war as were required to man
the Fed eral Government machine in
Washington.
LancasJer's claim to fame is ex-
pressed in three superlatives: the
largest linoleum factory, the largest
umbrella factory, and the largest
silk mill in the world. In addition,
its output of books and magazines
devoted to science is extraordinary.
and it's stockyards are the most ex-
tensive east of Chicago. One of the
finest watch factories in the world
is located here. and, although its
industries give employment to 23,-
900 operatives, the city has never
had a strike.
York prides itself on the diversity
of its industries rather than upon
the magnitude of any one, and in
this particular it takes rank after
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Nc
| Keesport's pride is the largest tim
plate plant in the world is justified,
while Newcastle produces more tin
in sheets and blocks than any other
| city; Chester is a veritable Vulcan
| shop, WIN SHIPS SllulHBN lIoii lile
ways, locomotives rumbling from its
| shops, and shells coming by the
| carload. in war time, from it's mu-
nitions plants.
And so the story goes. from Penn
| svIvania city to Pennsylvania city.
Where the ambition of one turns in
I the direction of silk, or tin, or heavy
| forgings, another is the center OF
a rich agricultural district. or finds
qualification in the fact that 1t is
| distinguished for safeguarding and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

Speaking of the Penn-Harris Hotel
was ever great community effort so
promptly crowned with success? not
only the people of Harrisburg, out
thousands of visitors are singing the
praises of the hotel far and wide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
THE HUN STILL AT 1T
[The Bache Review

That German propaganda is be-
ing used in every direction to force
concessions in the Peace Treaty is
shown in one instance in the fact
that Washington is said to be receiv-
ing confidential official cables that
the war is not yet over and that a
secret war" is being supervised by
Berlin. with the object of disinte-
grating industry in all the victorious
and neutral countries. This, OF
course, is being done with the idea
of getting popular and official senti-
ment in line to become restive and
anxious, and to use its influence to
hasten the signing by advocating the
making of concessions to the Ger
mans in order to induce them to
sign
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
No Occasion For Haste
[From the Kansas City star1

tFrom the Kansas City Star1
Article x of the league covenant
puts this country under moral OBJ
legation to defend every boundary
established in Europe and Asia. This
is a tremendous responsibility.
The Senate is perfectly right in in
sisting that he-country shall not be
rushed off it's feet to assume such
an obligation. The proposal ought
to be separated from the peace
treaty and receive the fullest possible
consideration. Many a presidential
campaign has been conducted on a
far less momentous issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor Babcock has been called
to New York State by the death of
his father.
IT. w. Cunningham, leader in
the Philadelphia charter matter, has
been clerk of the courts for years
Senator P. c. Knox has been
invited to go to Scranton to speak
on the League of Nations. +
Mayor Kennedy, of Carbondale,
says he Is personally going TO deco
rate each. soldier as he comes home.
James e. Doyle. Syracuse news
paperman, we'll known here, has
been named deputy Commissioners
of public works for New York State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
In Wet Days, Before the Dry

[From the Courier-J ournalJ
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch tells
of a carpet merchant who bought a
drug store and used the sign by
making it Rug Store" Recalls the
purchase of a trunk factory by a
saloon man who insisted that the
sign went with the purchase and
made it, by stroke of the brush,
Drunk Factory"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

American labor has been dignified
in the attitude of the Federation of
Labor toward the Russian Soviets. No
greater reflection upon the intelligent
workingmen of the United States
could be invited than formal recogni-
tion of the so-called Red government
Of Russia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

Mayor Keister is taking the proper
course in the matter of noisy Fourth
Of July. There is no occasion to re-
sumo the pre-war racket and beside
the intolerable noise of explosives,
there is the added menace of fire and
injury to countless children. The
Mayor will have the approval of all
good citizens in his decision.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

in the United States expected to send
troops to help the Japanese keep
these liberty-loving people under
their thumb? No draft law that
Congress could devise would be
strong enough to create an army in
the United States to send on such
an errand.
Our sympathies lie all in the other
direction. We are too near our own
War of the Revolution and the love
of liberty is too strong in our hearts
for it to be otherwise. On the other
hand, it is difficult to see how we can
long avoid protesting to Japan
against her course in Korea. League
or no league, Americans cannot
stand by and see an inoffensive ma
ton badly used without putting in
word for the under dog. And they
do not much like the idea of being
bound by any agreement to country
that acts toward another as Japan
is conducting itself toward Korea.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg fnanufac-
lures coal and ice wagons;
pretzels and bookbindcrs?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

Organized painters in Davenport
Iowa, have won their fight against
wage reductions and the contractor
have now signed an agreement meet
ing their demands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19

Hamilton (Ont) bricklayers. who
have been receiving 20 cents an hour.
now demand 81 for all work done
during the coming season.