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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
BOROUGH PROGRESS

THE Importance of the State
Bureau of municipalities, under
whose auspices an important
conference of borough officials has
been in session at the Penn Harris
Turing the week, is beginning to be
understood by many who have not
heretofore realized the serious de-
fects in the administration of the
boroughs of Pennsylvania.
1t has developed that these smaller
municipalities have been run in a
slipshod and haphazard fashion to
the point of financial bankruptcy
and the conference this week will
doubtless lead to legislation which
will effect reforms that are mani
testly greatly needed unless the
borough is to become a by-word of
reproach among the organized civic
bodies of the Commonwealth.
1t is almost certain that out of the
exchange of views this week will
come some practical methods of
administration which will serve to
overcome the serious difficulties
which now confront many bor-
oughs. One of the things which
has called attention to the gen.
eral breakdown OF the borough
system is the movement for better
highways in the State. All travellers
know that the borough has been the
one great obstacle to continuous
highways of modern construction be-
cause it could not or would not CO.
operate with the State in the on
struction of better roads. This re-
suited in frequent stretches of high
ways between borough boundaries
so intolerable as to make travel
actually dangerous in many places.
There is much that the Bureau of
municipalities can do to aid the
borough authorities, and it is only
fair to say that the bureau already
has justified its usefulness in what
has been accomplished in the way of
discussion and actual methods of
improvement. There is much vet TO
be done, of course, but now that a
start has been made it is reasonable
to expect that definite regulations
will be adopted through legislation
in the way of providing sinking
funds and proper financing so that
these minor municipalities may over
come the handicap which has re-
tarded their reasonable and inevit-
able development.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Sirteen Marriage Don'ts
[From the Buffalo Courier.l

tFrom the Buffalo Courier.l
"Life's Greatest Venture-Marri-
age" was the topic of the Rev. Rob-
ert MacAlpine at the Central Pres
byterian Church. 1t was announced
as a sermon to young people and
included advice embodied in list
of "don'ts" as follows:
Don't bank on good looks; it is as
unreliable as the weather.
Don't marry for wealth, without
love; it would be as insipid as
saltless egg.
Don't marry where common sense
is no greater than dollars and cents;
your happiness would soon be bank
rupt.
Don't marry a person who thinks
more of n good time than a good
name; your good time would never
arrive.
Don't marry to reform; the fail
ure of remaking would likely be
your unmaking.
Don't marry for home; your
home in all probability would be
just a house.
Don't marry a bad temper; your
happiness would soon be untem-
pered.
Ion marry q person whose
clothes are better than his habits;
the habits would make such unhap-
piness as clothes could not cover.
Don't marry for sentiment; like a
perfumed flour, it is apt to fade be-
fore your honeymoon is over.
Don't marry your opposite in re-
ligion; strangely true, your religion
is likely to outlive your love; like
water and oil, they are hard to mix.
Don't marry until you are in sound
health; if you do your married hap
piness will start off limping.
Don't marry eXtravagance; you
could never make ends meet, much
less overlap.
Don't marry in haste: it's a life
leap; be sure you're ready before you
jump.
Don't marry reputation: without
character, it is a worthless check.
Don't marry until you have earn
estly prayed about it; il marriages
are made in heaven, surely heaven
should have something to say in the
choice.
Don't forget that in the United
States one in every eight marriages
ends in divorce or separation. chiefly
because these warnings are not OBJ
served.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Reset Farmers Clocks
GFrom the New York Timesl

GFrom the New York Times1
For the farmers objection to
daylight saving" there was in real
ity only the excuse, or rather the
explanation, that it did not add to
his profits and his joys in quite the
same measure that it did to those
of other people. AS for the reasons
assigned they were all based on the
obvious fallacy that he had to ad-
vance by an hour the daily work.
ing schedule of himself and his men.
he was and is, of course, under no
imaginable compulsion or obligation
to do that. He can continue to work
exactly as he always has done. In
stead of beginning his day at five,
six or seven o'clock. that is, he can
begin it at six, seven or eight, ac-
cording to his preference or his
needs, and instead of using the hour
between twelve and one o'clock for
rest and dinner, he can use for those
purposes that between one and two.
Then he would be on exactly his old
time table, while all his weeds would
disappear, while by having his clock
set in the new or newer way he still
would be in as close touch as ever
with the rest of the world.
This easy expedient apparently
has not occurred to the farmers, and
instead of adopting it they are bonn
harding Congress with demands
which, if granted, will both displease
and injure all of the millions and
millions of people for whom the
daylight-saving law appreciably has
increased the not too numerous joys
of life. And Congress, if it is not
admonished, Immediately and stern
ly, by the other millions that they,
too, have preferences and votes, is
likely to heed the farmers plea!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
SEND THEM HOME

TABLE advices are to the effect
l that four ships have been
chartered for the voyage from
China to Europe for repatriation of
all Germans in China, excepting a
few missionaries. The average Amer
ican citizen, however, will not be
satisfied until he sees an announce
ment from Washington of the char
tering of as many ships as may be
necessary to return to Germany
every native of that country who
has been interned during the war
or who persists in shouting "Deutch-
land Ober Alles." Their room is
much more desirable than their
company and it is time anyhow for
America TO clean up from one end
of the country to the other, TO the
end that we may have homogeneous
population devoted to American
ideals and ready to support American
principles of government.
We must not drift back to the
old contented order in which we
were willing to permit the malcon-
tents of the world to come to our
shores and Immediately engage in
anti-American propaganda. If they
want to come here and enjoy the
privileges of our liberty and our de-
cent home life, then they should be
welcomed with outstretched arms.
But when they establish here bases
of opposition against the countries
whence they came' and plan the
destruction of our own government,
the strong arm of authority from
washington should come down with
immediate force and effect in fore
ing their prompt expulsion. We
don't want them and the American
people are not going to stand for
any more foolishness of the sort
which has encouraged the anarch-
istic groups responsible for much OF
our industrial and social unrest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
TIRPITZ THE PAUPER

Pity for Tirpitz the pauper is diff
ficult emotion for any of us to work
up. We are told that he is poor and
friendless in Switzerland" But if he
were anywhere but in Switzerland he
might be in worse case than merely
poor and friendless." There are
folks in many other countries. even
including Germany, who would wish
TO visit upon him even a severer
measure of retributive justice than
has so far been his lot. He is in
many ways the arch-demon of the
late war, the instigator of the SUBJ
marine atrocities which outraged the
humane feeling of all non-Germans
and the man whose fatuous folly
contributed as much as any other
one agent to bring to his own country
the pulverizing defeat under which it
now groans and regrets.-The Phila-
delphia Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

Senator Edwin II. Ware is one of the
lawmakers who is consistently an ud-
Nocate OF walking as the most whole
some form OF physical exercise. 1t
is interesting TO observe that there
has just heen organized the Ware
Hiking Club which will meet every
morning at o'clock at the Senate
Hotel for a hike along the river drive.
1t is fact that the visitor to Harris
burg appreciates the splendid scenery
OF tho Susquehanna basin more than
the resident who accepts as matter
or course what nature has so lavishly
bestowed upon the people OF this sec
tion. Senator Ware has been walking
along the river front OF Harrisburg
Tor several years during the session
OF the Legislature and it has not been
an uncommon sight to observe him
leading score or his colleagues in
an early morning hike along the
river. 1t would be we'll for many of
our own citizens to take note of the
ware Hiking Club and organize a few
such walking groups themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
GoDernor Sprouts Warning

lFrom the Philadelphia Bulletin. /
At the annual dinner of the
Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania,
in this city. last night, there were
numerous patriotic sentiments earn
estlyN and admirably expressed in
their bearing on the preservation
of American liberty, law and order
according to the principles of Amer
lean stability.
But there was none of them that
went home so straight to the hearts
of this splendidly vigorous company
of Pennsylvanians as the ringing
sentences in which the Governor of
Pennsylvania himself proclaimed
the purpose of the State to stand
firm and sure in putting down all
enemies that may threaten our form
of government or the peace of the
Commonwealth.
When Governor Sproul declared
that IF there were people who at
tempt any rough house. they are
going to get all of it they want"
he uttered the loyal law-abiding and
resolute spirit, never stronger than
1t is today, of a vast majority of
the men and women of this State.
1t Is good and reassuring thing
that the Chief Executive of Pennsyi-
vania is a man who is not only level
headed, but who is fully and un-
hesitatingly prepared to strike with
fearless vigor at every act, menace,
or crime that may be aimed at our
institutions by ignorance or by IA
naticism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Common Ground of Assassin
(From New York World

(From New York World)
The attack on Premier Clemen-
ceau by an anarchist is considered
in the Paris papers as a blow to
radicalism in favor of the demo-
cratic conservatism of France. BY
the same token, the assassination of
Premier Kurt Eisner of Bavaria by
n titled monarchist and the shoot
ings in the Diet must be considered
a blow to reaction in favor of radI-
cal republicanism in Germany. The
extremes in current European poll
tics here meet on common ground,
and that is assassination.
The news from Munich appears
to have peculiar significance in re-
lation to the great transition from
the old to the new in German So
ciety, politics and government. 1t
proves that to the monarchists and
reactionaries or Germany at least
the general movement toward demo-
cracy is genuine, and they know if
anybody does. 1t is not a masque-
rade OF Pan-Germans for use merely
in getting by" at the peace table
with easy terms. 1t is not a device
or Junkers to tide over the crisis
of a crushing defeat at arms and
then restore militaristic state for
renewed attempts to subdue the
world. 1t is not just another ex-
ample of German cunning used to
serve the ends of Kaiserism.
1t would be too much to expect
that so profound revolution as
appears to be taking place in Ger
many could escape many deeds of
violence, however shocking and de-
piorable they may be. But it is i'm
possible to suppose that revolution
accompanied by such deeds is a revo-
luton only in appearance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1919
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

TT is plainly evident that a war
weary world favors the expert
ment of a League of Nations 10
enforce peace and that the idea first
expressed by former President Taft,
and more recently advocated with so
much fervor by President Wilson,
will be adopted in one form or an
other. With the idea itself there
IS little objection in the United
states. Men of all parties are will
ing, even desirous, of getting to-
sether in an effort to prevent a repe-
tition of the frightful slaughter of
The past four years. But Americans
IRE not willing to sign away their
national rights. They feel that they
must retain all of those principles of
liberty and independence for which
hey and their forefathers fought
and died since Washington's day
md which have made the United
'tates the refuge of the oppressed
md our government the ideal of
,.own-trodden people everywhere.
.lse we shall have gained nothing
the war and we shall be pulled
DOWN to more nearly the level of
Europe.
To the end that the bulwarks of
ur liberties shall be safeguarded,
ne proposed constitution of the
eague, as pronounced by President
Wilson should be torn to pieces,
hred by shred in as careful analysis
it is possible to apply. Nor should
iie President regard this process as
Yecessarily an unfriendly proceeding.
lie must remember that the Senate
{ the United States has it within
IS power to destroy utterly all that
e proposes. The Senate must be
ltisfied that the constitution of the
ague is in the best possible form.
s yet the public has heard very lit
.e from the President with respect
, the inner workings of the pro-
osed league and what it will mean
the final analysis to this country.
lis Boston speech was an admirable
resentation of the ideals of Amer
"a, but it dealt largely in generali-
lies, and the effects of the proposed
3ague upon the nation received but
mall attention. 1t is here, how
Dver, that the crux of the whole
natter is reached. Americans will
lot willingly enter a League of Ma
ions that subordinate the rights of
ationalism, as it has been developed
n the United States, to a more or less
ague internationalism that may lead
s we know not where. The public
3 not averse to the league idea. 1t
only wants to be shown and then
20 be sure that it is not asked to
surrender more than it will receive.
That is. the situation in a nutshell
md If the President is wise he will
,iiscuss his proposition as freely with
he people as he has behind closed
,,oors., Americans always have been
suspicious of secret diplomacy and
cne-man dictation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

building that is now universally de-
manded by the people of the city
and county.
We sympathize with Mayor Keis-
ter in his desire to install his force
In a more desirable place; in fact.
this newspaper has consistently. for
long period o: years. advocated
the concentration of the city offices
in some suitable building. but on the
eve Of the consummation OF the
movement of years for joint build
ing 1T might be unwise to expend
any considerable sum of money in
providing temporary quarters.
1t is generally understood that
the change of the city electricians
equipment-the switchboard and
other electrical machinery--would
Involve much diff iculty and expense,
and it might be better to endure the
evils we have for a little while than
press on toward the better day
when our officials can be properly
housed and the taxpayers be re-
lieved of frequent jaunts about the
city while transacting business with
the municipal authorities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
HERON Brand Of Socialism

A writer in the Boston Herald
says: AS the nation realizes the in
suit it is becoming amazed and dis
gusted that the President should
appoint a free lover and a Socialist
to represent the American people
in high and most important official
position.
III IL was necessary to appoint a
Socialist for the conference with the
Bolsheviki the President should at
least have given the honor" to a
man whose private life has been
moral and decent, like Mr.. Debs for
instance. In order that the Herald
readers may know the kind of a
man President Wilson picked to rep
resent them quote from the Social
ist papers the following attack made
by Prof. George d. Heron in reply
list party to appeal to the Christian
church. Prof. Heron said:
christianity today stands for
what is lowest and basest in life.
The church of today sounds the low
est note in human life. 1t is the
most degrading of all our institu-
tions and the most brutalizing in
its effect on the common life. The
church is simply organized Chris
tianity. For Socialism to use it, or
make terms with it, or to let it make
approaches TO the Socialist move
ment. is for Socialism to take a
Judas to it's BOSOM"
And this is the kind of a man
whom Woodrow Wilson infiicts upon
the American people as our repre-
sentative. Woodrow Wilson, the
autocrat of the White House, in
suits the entire American people
excepting the Socialists, the I. w.
w. gangs and the red fiaggers in
general. Like it?
F. G. r. GORDON.
Haverhill, Feb. 16,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Menace to Our Troops

''In my judgment the most serious
menace to our troops in France at
this time is the lack of decent facili-
ties at the ports of embarkation.
Unless the sanitary conditions at the
ports of embarkation are rapidly i'm
proved many boys who escaped death
in the trenches will meet it in these
camps awaiting orders to return to
America. 1t is my purpose, at once,
to call the attention of the secretary
of war to this matter and urge him
to take immediate action.''-Con-
gresham Edgar r. Keiss. Just re-
turned from France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
The Rose and the Craze

The Grave said to the rose
what of the dews of dawn.
Loves flower, what end is theirs
"And what of spirits flown,
The souls whereon doth close
The tomb's mouth unawares?"
The Rose said to the Grave.
The Rose said: I'm the shade
From dawn's tears is made
A perfume faint and strange,
Amber and honey sweet"
"And all the spirits fleet
Do suffer sky-change
More strangely than the dew,
To Gods own angels new"
The Grave said to the Rose.
VICTOR MARIE HUGO
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Patriotism in Prisons

Most of the service flags used in
Massachusetts were made by women
in the state reformatory. These pris-
oners also supplied more than two
thousand socks to the American
army. At the recent conference nm
on prison labor. where these facts
were stated, the plea was also made
that judges should cease to look
upon all women delinquents as GRIM
inals, but should acquaint them
selves with the circumstances back
of, the delinquency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. James L. Barnett, form
State treasurer, has been taking
prominent part in military prepare
ness in Allegheny county.
Robert McAfee, former seer
tary of the Commonwealth, and Ct
James Elverson, the Philadelph
publisher, are celebrating birthda
today.
George McPeak. former memb
of the Legislature from Washingtd
county, is a candidate for coron
in his county.
DR.. Robert Ellis Thompso
head of Central high school in Phi
adelphia, has just celebrated twent
five years in that position.
E. It. Stotesbury, the financid
is spending a couple of weeks
Florida.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Back to the Peace Basis

A rumore-. reprimand of one high
army officer by another high army
officer now makes as much stir as
the smashing of a German division
did six months ago. The army is
getting back to peace basis where
the quarrels between Colonels or
Brigadiers take the place of battles.
the Springfield Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

IVY HATEVER may be done re-
wv garding temporary quarters
w for the Mayor and the Police
Department ought to have reference
o the inevitable joint city and
ounty building. No large amount
Of money should be expended even
.or an emergency building and
nothing should be done at this time
which might be used hereafter as
.tn argument against proceeding
vita the municipal and county
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Ten Years in County Prison

Judge Mccormick, who by his
severe sentences has earned the
nickname of Treat En- Rough
Mccormick" in the underworld.
wasted no time in disposing of the
case. Where are you from ?" he
asked the prisoner.
Connecticut" was the reply.
Very well. Ten years in the
county prison."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

Judge Mccormick is giving to thou
ssson in the majesty of the law.
Ee has already been nicknamcd by
he criminal elements "Treat-em
tough" Mccormick and that is a
sreat compliment for the eoura sc GUS
urist who is indicating law and or
,er through the imposition OF prompt
nd adequate punishment upon those
Who are rushing Wild in the met
opolis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Beating OrpheuS

or a stone move with his music, h
there are piano players today W
Orpheus OF old could make a tt
have made whole families move.
boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
The Socialist

AS a general thing Socialists are
the kind of men who can be made
to believe turkey is all white meat
From the Galveston News
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

Hopes for a basic eight-hour day
and $40 a month increase in wages
are held out for the expressmen now
working for the government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg steel is us
o make raZorS?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
Z, j. STACKPOLE
President and Editor-in-Chief

Members OF the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
OF all news dispatches credited to
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, 1919-02-28

The average wages of women mum
ition workers in Great Britain are
1929, ranging from $500 in Scot
land to $t010 in South West London
establishments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

United Shoe Workers of America
are demanding that the manufact-
urers Association in New York and
Brooklyn deal collectively with their
employees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Harrisburg used to have a p;
station along the canal ne
the old Penn lock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

Female employees of the Lewis
town, Augusta and Waterville Rail-
way Company in Maine are paid
the same rate of pay as men where
they do the same work
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28
LABOR NOTES

Over "a per cent. of the employees
of the English banks are women.
Women are successfully employed
as welders in a Terrence (Cal) steel
plant.
The London City Council is offer
ing 324 trade scholarships to girls
who are between the ages of 13 u
and 15h years in March 81 next.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

Governor Sproul, who received
a notable reception from Pittsburgh
Shriners last evening is in Philadel-
phia today and will spend the week
end in that city and vicinity. He is
TO be the principal speaker at the
Terrapin clubs annual dinner on
Saturday night and will return here
on Monday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28

Governor Sproul is expected to
name the two new judges for ALLIE
gheny county soon. He is receiving
numerous suggestions for appoint
ment and his mail on the subject is
pretty large.