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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
'Pssstscs sn
J 'Ps~settssania
By tho Ex-Committccman

Now that the War Service Bureau
mas been abolished and the collec-
ton OF data placed upon definite
basis for the writing of the history
OF PENNSYLVANIA in the great war 1t
is expected that Governor .sproul
VIII make some changes in the State
historical Commission, which is
coilaporatng with the War History
Commission. SO that the Historical
commission can take up actively
the work of perpetuating the history
OF the state in earlier wars while
Dr. A. E. Mckinley gets together
the information about the sons of
the state in the war with Germany
and Austria.
Inc Governor is said to have some
plans Tor the Historical Commission.
Oh (which he has been chairman and in
which he is interested. His own
nomination to that body he with
drew and he has two vacancies.
me men the Governor is said to
nave in mind are William Perrine..
edltor of the PHILADELPHIA Evening
Bulletin, whose writings are widely
READ and who has a wonderful fund
OF information on historical matters.
and. Judge w. Rush Gillian, of the
FRANKLIN county courts.
People at the Capitol are watch
Ing with great deal of interest
developments in regard to the Pub
lie Service Commission and the De-
partment of Agriculture. 1t is not
oelleved that Governor Sproul has
made up his mind as to the size of
the commission, although there is
much talk of a reduction to five.
rms VIII not mean, say people on
the Hill, that the Secretary of In
ternal Affairs will have anything to
do with the commission. The Gov
ernor has been asking many ques-
tions about the opinions of people
relative to the commission. The
story that reduction to five is prob
able is going the rounds.
Now that the appointment of
Thomas f. McNichol as a municipal
court judge in Philadelphia is prac-
tically out of the way there is much
speculation about the other men to
be named. -
Belief is expressed that the
Governor will accept the resigna-
tions of the State Commission of
Agriculture along in the spring. The
bills to change around the bureaus
in the Department of Agriculture
and to make things more up to date
are understood to be. under prepara-
ton. ,.r
Governor Sprouts remark that
he favors a light anthracite tax is
being much discussed among legis-
lators. 1t is felt that the anthracite
region should have something for
the coal that is being taken out, but
just how to tax hard coal without
taxing bituminous is regarded by
many on the Hill as knotty prob
lem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
, The Age of the Earth

Vast age, be the discussion of
sequoias or Egyptology. always af-
fects the thoughtful reader with an
awful fascination. How much more
so, then. when the occasionally elo-
quent scientist is discussing the age
of the earth! Harlow Shapley of
the Wilson Solar Observatory has
recently undertaken this computa-
ton, basing his theoretical estimates
on the various findings of eminent
geologists and astronomers.
We gather from this technical
dissertation in the publications of
the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific that the most available
tiquity Is, perhaps, the scratchings
of time on the rocks of the world.
For example, sit now appears" he
writes, that the Oldest known
rocks, the granite-gneisses of the
Laurentian system in Canada, were
in existence nearly a billion and a
half years ago." Barrell remarks,
in the Bulletin of the Geological So
ciety of America, that Surprising
as 1t may seem, the date known
with the greatest precision lies far
back in Precambrian time. From
Norway. Texas. Quebec and German
East Africa uranium minerals aSSo-
ciated with granite give an age
which approximates 1,120 million
years"
Mr.. Shapley has quoted Prof. Jo-
seph Barrell of Yale University. In
the bulletin mentioned the latter in
PRODUCES his discussion with the fol-
lowing impressive lines:
THE fight of time is measured
by the weaving of composite
rhythms-day and night, calm and
storm, summer and winter, birth
and death-such as these are sensed
in the brief life of man. But the
career of the earth recedes into a
remoteness against which these les
ser cycles are as unavailing for the
measurement of that abyss of time
as would be for human history the
beating of an insects wing. We
must seek out, then, the nature of
those longer rhythms whose very
existence was unknown until man
by the light of science sought to
understand the earth. The larger
of these must be measured in terms
of the smaller, and the smaller must
be measured in terms of years.
Sedimentation is controlled by them,
and the stratigraphic series constiS
tutes a record, written on tablets of
stone, of these lesser and greater
waves which have pulsed through
peoloRic time"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
HARBINGERS?

~ UTTER Is dropping in price
X eggs have fallen off five to ten
cents q dozen, and potatoes
are cheaper, That's good news.
Maybe the farmer won't feel that
way about 1t. but there will be much
rejoicing among those poor down
trodden souls, the ultimate con-
sumers," and they are numerous
enough to organize quiteya little cele-
bration il they set about it, Also,
loaves of bread are growing, even il
the price isn't shrinking in proper
tion, and restaurantkeepers now
serve three slices instead of-two,
It's going to be grand sensation
to walk into a restaurant and order
two fried eggs with bread and but
ter" calmly and nonchalently, Just
like that, without either trying to
look like q millionaire or feeling
that you have robbed the baby of a
pair of shoes.
We like to think that during the
war we did our part cheerfully to
help Mr.. Hoover feed the starving
Belgians and sundry other hungry
folks in Europe. We did our bit Joy
fully and look back upon our self.
denials with satisfaction as havins
helped in small way to win the
war; But now that the fighting is
over and there is admittedly d sur
plus of food in the country, even
beyond the needs OF Europe, we havf
a sneaking feeling that we ought
not to be required to pay starvation
prices I'm the midst of the greates
plenty the world has ever known
And so we note with exceeding 10,
that prices of certain grocery staple.
are receding and entertain the hone
that these are but harbingers, ot
what is In store.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
PIEZ is RIGHT

n EPORTs of n meeting of the
X National Marine League at
Philadelphia recently contain
the information that Manager
Charles Piez, of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, "came out un-
equivocally for private ownership OF
Americas merchant MARINE"
In this he is absolutely right. The
only useful merchant marine is the
busy merchant marine. A thousand
ships tied up ut dock nre no more
use than thousand ships at the
bottom of the sea. The private owner
is under the financial necessity OF
finding business for his ships, A
government operator will take busl.
ness If it comes. but he won't &c
after 1t,
Private ownership stimulates init.
ative and developes enterprise, Gov
ernment ownership stiles initiative
and leads to dry rot. Piez has been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
TRIUMPH
[Erom the sonnet.)

(From the Sonnet)
Hears measure gave 1. Is 1t oil Tor
winds cannot blow or beat it into
dust,
Or waters cover it, or moth and
rust
Corrupt it into aught that 1t was not
For what is more remembered thah
the spring,
The scarlet tulips running tnroush
the grass
By q wet wall, ana gone with but
Alas?
Q know not how I know this old
thing)
How now, poor one. that loved me
for a space?
Mine is the trimph of the tulip
flower;
My ruined April will not LEI
you by;
To east my laughter. and to west my
face.
Housed with you ever, down some
poignant hour
There drifts the scrap of music
that was ].
-Lizette Woodwork Reese.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
A FRONTIER NEEDED
IFrom the Erie Heraldl

The frontier was the great Ameri-
canizer. When Englishmen, Irish
men. Germans and Scandinavians
forced the point of wedge of civill-
zation pushing into the forest the
pressure of common work moulded
them into Americans.
The little frontier society, passing
in few years from the semi-sav-
agery of the hunting and fishing
stage to contemporary civilization,
blotted out racial differences. Such
cooperative neighborhood under
taking as log-rolling, house-raisng
and corn-husking built a common
citizenship in doing common tasks.
The foreign colonies of the great
cities came with the disappearance
of the frontier. AS nationalities drew
trade, political and residential lines
they built race partitions in our
"polyglot boarding house."
Then came the great common task
of the war, when we carried the
frontier of American democracy
! overseas. The national army became
the great Amerlcanizer. 1t did the
greatest common task in history.
Men who march, eat, sleep, fight and
suffer the danger of injury and death
in u common cause lose sight of race
QlIIeTonceS. F1IIy nAtlOnalltleS
marched away to the Great Crusade
and came marching back Americans
all.
Americanism is the child of the
frontier. 1t was born of the conquest
of continent. 1t develops only in a
crusade against common difficulties.
We need frontier and a crusade to-
| day. Nothing else does the work.
| Teaching English does not make
Americans. Teaching civics Is not
enough. These only supply the neces-
sary tools for the work of American
ization. They may be misapplied.
They have been used for the destruc-
ton of Americanism.
1t is the frontier, the crusade, the
| common task that makes us Amer
leans. The frontier is before us. The
crusade is calling.
Society is advancing. Its problems
were never more urgent. It's frontier
is now social and political, rather
than geographical and primitive.
But the call still goes out for from
tiersmen, pioneers. crusaders.
Instead of forests, prafries, deserts
and swamps, I'VE. must now advance
against ignorance, disease, poverty
and injustice. Instead of foreign
autocracy, we fight against domestic
greed and tyranny.
1t is along that way that society
advances. There is the great COM
mon task that calls for pioneers and
| crusaders and q common army of
American citizenship. Doing that
work In common will make us all
AMERICANS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
BRITISH BIG BUSINESS

" HE day of the big business,
after the American pattern, If
not yet on the same scale, has
definitely arrived" says the Liver
pool Post in q review of last years
trade and finance of Great Britain.
1T was year of great combines
adds the paper.
Americans will recall the abuse
to which "big business was subject
ed by the Democratic party from
1890 up to the time we got into the
war, when the Administrator even
tually found 1t necessary to enlist
the services of some of the captains
of industry, formerly subjected to
it's curses. to bring some sort of or
der out of Bureaucratic chaos.
The. advantages Of trade combina-
tion, along American lines have
come to be appreciated in Great
Britain, and the efficiency born of
those combinations will be q promi-
nent factor in the British competi-
ton which America will very soon
be called upon to face at the same
time that the Democratic reaction
aries are resumlng their attacks on
the octopus" the wicked trust" "
and the "hoggish profiteer."
But fortunately those attacks will
come from party ousted from con-
troll of government, while the func-
ton of the incoming Republican
party will be. not to destroy, but to
regulate combinations with respect
to trade, and prosecution is very
different from persecution"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30

~ RIEFLY the telephone rate case
X started in the Dauphin county
courts yesterday is contest
to ascertain, the power of the fed
eral government over intra-state
business. AS such it is of tre-
mendous significance. Upon the de-
cision will hinge issues of great i'm
port.
We are now to find whether the
State retains its power of police
rights or whether the national gov
ernment is empowered to everstep
the acts of the State Legislature on
matters pertaining to Pennsylvania
alone, and in nowise of an interr
state character, In effect, the Pub
lie Service Commission asks It's the
United States government to be per-
mitted to step in and run our State
government for us with respect to
our own local affairs, or does the
doctrine of State rights under the
constitution still hold good7"
There could be no contest of au-
thority did the government own the
telephone lines, but there is very
grave doubt as to the federal gov
ernment's legal right to step in and
defy State laws regulating corpora
tions chartered by the Common
wealth and already limited by State
law with respect to what they may
and may not do,
Unless the United States Attorney
Generals Department has card up
it's sleeve which it has not shown,
Mr.. Burieson's phone-controi appears
about to receive a painful jolt,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
Mr. Burleson in a Corner
(From the New York Morld,


1t must be said that Postmaster
General Burleson did not fare very
well before the House Post Office
Committee in showing cause why
Government operation of the tele-
graph and telephone service should
be extended for two years more or
why 1t was ever assumed.
The argument of the war as max
ing such action imperative is weak
ened n trifie by the fact that Mr..
Burleson was on record before the
war in favor of Post Office control
of these enterprises.
When Mr.. BurlesQp urges con-
tinued Government c6ntrol after the
war as Q transitional measure OF
necessity in getting back to peace
conditions, he is met not only by
that same pre-war record of per-
sonal predilection but by questions
from the committee of, Why two
years and why not for many other
industries besides?
Burleson took refuge in the contra
And when to these questions Mr..
dictory, overlapping, vexatious con-
troi of forty-eight. states" and so
on, one of the committee came back
with the statement that 95 per cent
of these services are purely local.
The Postmaster Generals reply to
that Is unrecoded and probably un-
recordable. Z
If Mr.. Murleson favors virtually
indefinite continuance of present
government control in the purpose
OF effecting ultimate government
ownership of telephones and tele-
graphs, his position is quite under
standable. Otherwise 1t is not.
And SO far as he finds support in
such a position from owning COM
panies. that also is Understandable
in view of the assurances which are
theirs that sale to the government
would be at good prices, with gov
ernment guarantees meantime OF
the old profits and dividends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
in business lons enough to know

in business long enough to know
this.
During the war emergency there
was need for government action In
the production of ships. There must
still be fulhllment of government
contracts and undertakings. But 1t
Is up to Congress to work out a per-
manent policy of development and
maintenance of an American merr
chant marine.
The American flag must stay on
the ocean and we must never again
be In position where an emergency
Will compel us to depend upon the
ships of other nations to transport
our soldiers OF supplies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
THE HIGHWAY PROGRAM

n oVERNOR SPROUL and High
1T way Commissioner sadler are
determined to get the States
great new highway program under
way at the earliest possible moment.
This Is good politics. good states
ship and good business. Senator
Sproul. author of the original State
highway bill, is especially well
equipped to help Mr., sadler in the
preliminary work. He knows more
about the roads of Pennsylvania, the
errors and accomplishments of past
administrations. the need of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
A Quick Change
(Frod the outlook.)

Most readers are familiar will
story of the German bank in an.
erican city which, finding Its !
unpopular, changed 1t to the "s
man Bank" Here is another
ample on the same lines: A pol
New York City German restal
was called Kloster Glocke (Cls
Bell), and its front was deco
with a large bell as q sign.
name has been changed to the
erty Bell" and the bell of tn,
monastery now does duty as q
lica of the one which rang on
dependence to the colonies. 7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General c. T. Menoher, who c
manded the Rainbow Division,
native of Somerset county.
General L. t. w. Waller, of
marines, who is now making
home in Philadelphia, has been n
ing a series of interesting adore
General e. T. Jadwin, who
formerly in charge of the Ur
States engineering work at r
burgh. Is due home in a short
General p. C. March like
meet old college friends of his
at Lafayette and West Point.
General Marlborough Churt
head of the military intelligence
vision, used to be in artillery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
Friends a Hindrance

Paragraph from the Queensland,
Australian, newspaper:
Dave Lewis begs to notify that
he has started business on his own
hook as an up to-date restaurant.
and hopes that his many friends Will
damn we'll stop away and give him
q chance"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
"A SeT-Actina Lllru

A Jury recently met to Inquire into
n case of suicide. After sitting
through the evidence the twelve men
retired. and. after deliberating. re-
turned with the following verdict:
"The jury nre all of one mind
temporarily insane" From the
Jersey Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
Brian Gets Taste of Victory

1t must be conceded that Mr.,
Bryan's prohibition campaign has
given him the only really big VIC
tory he ever enjoyed, but 1t would
be rash to predict that it will ever
make him President.-Buffalo Cour-
fer F
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
Gern1anu's Job

Having junked the Junkers, Ger
many's job is to can the Spartacans,
and show them they are Sparta
cants.-From the Chicago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
The Feast of BelsI,azzd

Belshazzar the king made a
feast to a thousand of his lords
drank wine before the thousan
Daniel, v. 1,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30

Members of the Associated Presa-The
Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
it 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, 1919-01-30

The wage scale of the railway
workers in England has been more
than doubled since the beginning ef
the war. ..sfS 3t
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30

About one-fourth OF the popula-
ton of Hawaii are engaged in the
growing of sugar cane and the man.
ufacture of raw sugar.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
DO YOU KNOW
THAT Harrisburg-made n
nitions are in use among
Rhine occupation army?
HISTORIC HARRIsBITRC

EARLY builders used to
stones out of the river for fou
tions and seldom had to go far,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30

Newbiggen miners in Northum-
berland, England. are demanding
that the system of working in three
shifts be changed to two shifts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
LABOR NOTES

The American Bridge Company of
,Ambridge, Pa, holds classes of in
struction four nights week for its
employees.
Mere than $4,000 workers employ
ed by the Ford Motor Company are
now receiving a minimum wage of
SO per day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-30
THURSDAY, JANUARY 80. 1919
THE PHONE RATES

~ RIEFLY the telephone rate case
X started in the Dauphin county
courts Yesterday is q contest
The Raymer enterprise., 1919-02-20
sToNEHAM NEWS NOTES

Mr.. r. X. Neiderjohn was bus.
tness visitor. in Sterling Tuesday
Nh Raydoe Bohner and friend OF
to Breezer autoed to Wyoming Tues.
day.
A truck load Of Stoneham people
attended the dance In Raymer Sat.
urday night and on their return re.
ported 9 good time. r
The program and pie-soQial given
Friday the fourteenth at the Hulse
school was largely attended and the
pies sold we'll. They made about
| 1920.
Mr.. James Larson is again at home
after o long absence In the hospi-
tai. He still has to wax on crutches
but is improving fast and We hope
that he will soon be able to throw
them away.
i Mr.. and Mrs. y. l.. Nichols were
delightfully."- surprised Monday ngiht
when few OF their friends called
to help them celebrate their wedding
anniversary. The evening was spent
In playing Progressive High-Five''
Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs, John Dugan, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Bartram, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Mic
hols. Mr.. and Mrs, AL Bethschieder
Mn. and Mrs. d. B. MINER and Mr..
and Mrs. Charlie Roth
Afew of the friends and neigh
bors Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Bonner
enjoyed a very delightful supper with
them Monday night it being Mr.
Bohner's birthday. Those present
were, Mr.. and Mrs. e. W. Pierce and
Harry. Mr.. and Mrs. l.. |. Belk and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. wilkins
and Charlie, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Chandler and Gerald, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. W. Runyan and Anpa, Mr.. Otto
Beezer and Miss Verda Bowe.
Mrs. A. W. Nusbaum was delight
fully surprised Saturday, afternoon
when few OF her friends called to
help her celebrate her birthday The
afternoon was spent in playing
"High-Five" and at five O'Clock q
delightful lunch of sandwiches, po-
tato salad. fruit salad, cake and coif-
ee was served. Those present were
Mesdames Dugan. Mitchell, lWhitak-
er. Thomas, Nichols. schooiey, lHar-
wood. Miner, Rothrock. Luce, Ap-
plegate, label. and Misses verad and
Verna Bowe, Hazel Mitchell and Jen-
ME Schooley.
The Raymer enterprise., 1919-02-20
PUBLIC AUCTION

The undersigned will offer at Public
Auction on his farm "A half mile
north and one mile east Of Stone
ham, on the State Highway.
commencing at 1000 Il. =
M. on
Tuesday, February 25th
head OF horses, 4 head OF cattle,
and lot Of good farm machinery,
etc, etc.
Lunch Served at Noon
Terms:-All sums Of SO and under.
Cash in hand; all sums over $40, a
credit Of Q months time will be given
the purchaser, the purchaser to give
a bankable note drawing 10 percent
interest from the date Of the sale, be
ofre removal Of property. percent
iscount for cash on all sums over
$40.
D. J. GRAHAM, Owner.
Col Carl Sanstedt, Auct.
First National Bank. Stering. Clerk
The Raymer enterprise., 1919-02-20

VIII ship hogs Monday, March 3.
A. e. Pischel.
Mrs. Ewing came hack from Ster-
ling yesterday. having been down
for dental work.
Mrs. Ewing went to Sterling Tues
day to have dental work done. She
is a resident u Hightower.
Mr.. and Mrs A. w. Wagner and
two children of Keota came down
last Saturday evening to attend
LII Liza Jane"
George Newell returned from Nor
gan the early part OF the week. He
has been there taking treatments
for his dislocated hip.
Mrs. Meacham went to Stoneham
Friday to visit with friends in and
around Stoneham until Tuesday
morning when she returned.
The C. B. and Q. for the first time
in the history OF this year, almost
had passenger train. only one
freight car being left on SO that II
would not look too dinky.
All those having accounts which
hNe not been closed with the
Schmeeckle- Bros. Hardware Co.,
kindly come In and pay them or
make arrangements for their settle
ment by the lst OF March.
Miss Elsie Lyons was the recipi-
ent OF birthday gift from friend
In the navy yesterday. 1t was bag
made entirely of sailors konts and is
certrnly fine specimen OF work.
II looks much neater than some OF
the fanciwork done by THE gentler
sex.
Jesse Beson did some real work
one night. He took long walk.
The only cause for this was losing
the cork out OF the vacuum feel IN
his Oakland. Later on nndins the
stopper he put 1t In. thinking it
would soon fill up and be ready 10
go. 1t didn't work, so he. had to
walk.