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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-01-17
A Long Record.

How long have
you had your
cook 2" asked the
abrupt woman.
More than two
years." replied the
patient hostess.
"My! One of
you must be easy
TO please"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
MAKE 1T PERMANENT

"HE Homes Registration Bureau
of the Chamber of Commerce
has performed an excellent SER
vice for the city. 1t has told us just
where we stand with respect to
housing and has given us clear
understanding as to our needs.
1t could be continued as a per-
manent branch of the Cham ber's
activities and as such do very good
work. A careful record of all the
vacant houses and rooms in the city,
with, their location, rentals and
other particulars, would be of vast
use to persons coming to the city to
reside or desiring to remove from
one part of town to another. It
would leave us, also, with a very clear
understanding of the whole housing
situation and builders would find the
information on file helpful both in
deciding the type of house most
needed and the number in demand.
If the bureau can be financed, it
ought to be made a permanent part
of the Chamber of Commerce or
ganization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09

1t was the hope of the company
making the sale that they would
enjoy larger business with the
Japs in this line so soon as these
machines had been tested out, and
in order to retain the good will of
the purchasers they offered to send
some American mechanics abroad to
put the machines in, an offer which
was courteously refused by the
Japanese, who said they could do
tho installing themselves.
Not only did they do so, but jap
anese experts made a study of these
machines and in a short while very
large number of machines identical
in character had been manufactured
in Japan and have since been oper-
ating to compete with American tex
tiles in the Orient.
If the machine manufacturers in
New England look for sales of their
products to the Japs, some agree
mcnt should be reached which will
prohibit the latter from pirating the
designs At any rate, hero is an
indication of future competition with
Japan in textiles, moro drastic than
that which we have been experience
ing during the past few years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
NORTHERN FRANCE

Elizabeth Frazer in the Saturday
Evening Postl
Most of the villages of Northern
France are as dead and cold as the
ruins of the Roman Forum-and
not half so beautiful. Here were
no great architectural splendors.
No priceless art collections. They
were nothing but plain humble little
hamlets Of plain hard-toiling peas
ants. The houses were destroyed
and the simple, brave, hardy folks
who owned them were also destroy
ed. The graveyards of the men 1
had seen at scissors, Champagne,
Verdun, row upon silent row. Here
were the graVeyards of their houses,
village after village, as dead as the
men. The only difference was that
the soldiers had been buried under
ground, while these Ghastly mutt
lated wrecks still remained exposed
to view.
There was more of this kind of
scenery. And more. And more and
more. And at last-so soon does the
mind become stated by mere fiat ex-
ternal spectacles of horror began
to feel welling up inside of me a
vague irritation against all these
graveyard of gaping mutilated
specters of what had once been hu-
man habitations for being so monot-
onous, so repetitional, so drably,
blankly, impassively the same. l
wanted them, to get better or l
wanted them to get worse-or l
wanted them to be blotted clean off
the map. Those mutilated corpses
of towns, with their stark immobili-
ty, their contorted postures, their
shattered members lying rigidly out
stretched on the pavement, began
to get on my nerves. They had the
same stiff fixity, the same grotesque
sprawl that one notes in a human
corpse frigh4ully mangled by a
she'll.
l had heard of men blown to
pieces in battle and unrecognizable,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
Not Merely q Good Soldier

Leonard Wood unquestionably is
sincere in his depreciation of politi-
cal discussion of himself He is too
hne soldier to Countenancc such
departure from army tradition.
And yet we venture the opinion that
General Wood, whether he will have
1T so or not, is II political factor of
some importance in the United
States. He is and has been for n
good many years, something more
than merely a good soldier. He is n
big aggressive personality with a
rare and happy faculty of speaking
the language as well as the belief
of common humanity. To a re-
markable extent he is the personifi-
cation of his own counsel to "keep
your eyes on Heaven, but your feet
firmly planted on earth"
He is able, as few of his conten
poraries, TO brush aside sophistrv
with phrase and go straight 10 the
root OF the matter faculty pos
sessed in remarkable degree by his
lifelong friend, Theodore Roosevelt.
Wholesomeness is the word which
best sums him up. Clean living.
straight thinking, fearlessness. hu-
man sympathy and patriotism
which practices what it breaches are
all attributes so rare in public life
that the American people could not
be blamed for refusing to take Cen
eral Wood at his word. Whether
he approves 1T or not, they will be
likely to regard him as an interest
ing future of the Nation, of which
he has been so faithful and efficient
servant.-F'rom the st. Paul Pho
neer Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
THE LAWLESS MAN
By BRIGGS

lFrom a sermon by the Rev. Newell
Hills reported in Brooklyn Eaglel.
Consider mans misconceptions as
to law Four murders in New York
in one day, fifteen thousand mur-
ders in one year, innumerable burg
laries, thefts, bombs. brawls, riots
and overflowIng Jails, represent
events that stir fear and alarm in
patriots and lovers of the republic.
These tens of thousands of criminals
are men who believe that every law
is fetter and that lawleSsness is
the road to liberty. Our population
includes several millions of people
who are ignorant of the laws or our
country as cattle in the stock yards
or cannibals in a South Sea island.
Perhaps the industrial outlook for
our country would gain if, for one
week, every wheel should stop and
every engine be still, while parents,
teachers and editors turned our land
into one vast Schoolroom and drilled
all children and adults in obedience
to those laws that are the paths to
national prosperity. Who shall esti-
mate the economic gain to our coun-
try If all the people could be made
to realize that laws are not weights,
but wings for the soul? Disobey the
law of fret burns man. Dsobey
the law of Steam-it ScaldS man.
Refuse the law of acids-and it eats
man; the law of wcight-and the
stone crushes him.
Obey the law of steam and Watt
has an engine. Obey the law of
electricity and Marconi has his wire
less. Obey the law of color. and you
have Turner's "Temcrack." Obey
tho Of u-r.ifi .,
Hamlet, speech at Gettysburg, or
"Principia." Each new law discov-
cred and obeyed yields a new tool.
This great city with it's airy
bridges. flashing towers, it's vast tenn
pies dedicated to art. literature, fl
nance and trade represents point
where builders obeyed the laws of
wood, stone and steel, until this
obedience to architectural law made
this city rise like an cmanation from
the sea. But take your stand on the
broken marble steps covered with
Seaweed, where once more the pal
aces of Carthage, or go to the fallen
towers of Baalbec, and the little
temples filed with sand in the val
leys of the Jordan, and 10, every ruin
represents a race that disobeyed the
laws of God.
Should Macaulay's prophecy ever
De lulllled, ana the New ZCalander
find this harbor deserted, and study
the streaks of iron rust amidst the
grass, and the meanings of the
broken towers, standing by ruins
where bridge once was, and seek
ing an explanation, he will have the
answer in these words, Here dwelt
men who hated the laws of God
where each man did that which
seemed good in his own eyes, There
fore, this city is become IA heap, and
this bridge Il ruin!" There is not
room enough in this vast universe
at the same time for two beings, one
named "A God of Law" and the
other named "A Lawiess Man"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
PRACTICAL DECISION

T LIEUTENANT G o V f r y o r
BEIDLEMAN publicly COM
mended Governor Sproul be-
fore the gathering of Pennsylvania
publishers in Harrisburg Wednesday
evening for his veto of the bill to
the public schools of Pennsylvania
and the delegates gave voice to their
approval in prolonged applause.
Mr.. Beidleman said the Governor
had shown courage in taking his
stand for the reason that there was
a mistaken popular sentiment in
favor of the bill, based upon war
feeling and public hysteria, and that
is true. 1t did require courage to
veto this measure. But the Cover
nor never hesitated for a moment
and he has come out of what might
have proved an awkward situation
with flying colors and the approval
of all thinking people.
1t would he foolish, indeed, to deny
ourselves knowledge of German
simply because we do not like the
German people. The more we
dislike them the more we should
know about them, that we may
counteract any plans they make for
our undoing. Let us learn all about
the Germans we can, in order that,
if necessary, we may meet success
fully their wiles in peace or their
barba rites in war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09

yond his means, and borrowing
money right and left. But we may
suppose that it seemed incredibl
that man in whom great trust was
placed, and who had shown him
self personally heroic, could really
do anything very wrong.
House Stands Unchanged
At Mount Pleasant, viVidly full as
it is of stirring recollections, one
feels, in an exceptional degree, the
very life and movement of history;
almost startling are the impressions
of the past in their intensity. The
place seems still alive with sinister
influences. 1t stands unchanged in
an unchanged environment.
The great show place was for sale
when Arnold came to high COM
mand here, and the general, fond
of show and deeming show as in
itself a means of retaining power,
coveted and obtained the place, in
the same spirit in which some Ro-
man general would have seized upon
some mighty mansiNn in an ancient
town.
Mount Pleasant stands in a finely
wooded portion of the great park,
one tree in particular being of enor-
nous size. The house is near the
edge of a high bank, which rises
from the level of the Schuylkill,
and there are fine views of the
bending stream. There are still
remains of terraced garden along
the bank, giving evidence that not
only the house, but the grounds
were literally planned. 1t is a noble
mansion. a beautiful mansion, a dis
unguiShed, debonair. delightful
mansion. 1t is of stuccoed stone,
darkened to tawny or almost yell
lowish buff.
House EXqusitcly Finished
The inside OF the house carries
out we'll the impressvencss of the
exterior. There is a richness of
cornic.ng. There is paneling of rich
design. The carved and paneled
over mantels are of unusual beauty.
There are pilastered and pedimented
doors. Finest of all is an upstairs
room, overlooking the river, with
exquisite beauty of carving over the
doors. over the twin cupboards, over
the fireplace.
This room must surely have been
especially the room of Mrs. Arnold
but the entire houSe-roomS and
halls and stairs-seems still filled
with the gay society folk and uni
formed soldiers of so long ago. And
how soon it was all TO vanish. Here
in this house the essentials OF
Arnold's plot were agreed upon.
Here Arnold urgently asked to be
transferred to West Point. The
tragedy of it all seems so very vivid,
so very recent, here in this beautiful
house, where the general lived so
haughtily. entertained so lavishly,
plotted so UNANIMOUSLY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
A REAL SERVICE

THE Boy Scouts of Harrisburg
performed a real service We'd
nesday evening when they kept
back the crowds along Market street
and prevented the impatient spec
tators from breaking into the space
in the street reserved for the pa
raiders and the returning soldiers
Had it not been for the Scouts, an
other such, scene would have been
enacted as was staged when too en-
thusiastic men and women marred
for time, the parade in honor of
the returning colored troops some
weeks ago.
With linked arms the Scouts
formed a living chain that had the
strength of combined young muscles
as we'll as the nerve to stand up
against the pushing, hustling throng
of spectators desirous only of OBJ
tanning first glimpse of the soldiers
and regardless of the rights of any
but themselves. The Scouts showed
themselves to be equal to the stu
alton at all times.
incidentally, Mayor Keister is to
be commended for fining an unruly
youth who started a fight when the
Scouts attempted to keep him from
breaking up the line of march. A
few more such wholesome lessons
and when the Scouts ar egiven a Job
to do by the police there will be no
attempt to violate the traffic rules
they are expected to enforce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John r. Windrim. the Phladel-
phia architect, was here yesterday
TO see the Governor and was much
interested in plans for the Memorial
bridge.
&C. Fred Wright of Susquehan-
ma, former State Treasurer. was in
Harrisburg renewing old acquaint-
ances yesterday. He is devoting him
self to his business enterprises and
one of the busiest of upstate men.
The Rev. Luke V. McCabe, Phil
adelphia clergyman well known
here, is celebrating his fiftieth year
as a priest.
Governor Sproul plans to review
the Twenty eighth Divisiin at
Philadelphia next Thursday with
State Off cials and legislators.
General \. ]. Logan, chairman of
the committee on arrangements for
the homecoming of Pittsburgh SOL
diers, commanded the old Eight
eenth Infantry, which became the
One Hundred and Eleventh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
LABOR NOTES


The state railways of Sweden have
agreed upon an eight-hour day for
shop and store employees, who have
been formerly working nine hours a
day. The wage scale for the en-
ployes affected by the new regula-
ton has been increased a fraction
over l cent an hour.
1t is estimated that there are now
100000 unemployed in Germany,
one-fourth of whom are in Berlin.
Cotton operatives in England are
now working 551a hours a week,
the machinery in both the spinning
mills and weaving sheds running 10
hours a day from Monday to Fri
day, and 5 " hours on Saturday.
Two-thirds of the women who re-
placed men in various positions in
New York state receive less than SIS
a week.
Electrical workers in Glen Falls,
n. Y. have been granted a reduction
in working hours.
Missouri is one state above the
Mason and Dixon line that has re-
fused. so far. to accept the principle
of workmen's compensation.
The Melbourne Trade Hall Coun-
ell has started a movement for the
establishment of a 40-hour week in
all industries in Australia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
Sdfetu For Traitors

We have revoked the citizenship
of lust two men in all the list of
overt traitors to America. We have
deported very, very few. OF the
few thousands whom we interned
for the period of the war. very many
were long ago out on parole. They
ought, of course, everyone one OF
them, be deported; but as q matter
of fact they will not be. They VIII
be handed over again to the benevo-
lent assimilation of America. the
land of the free, while the smile of
our benevolent Goddess of Liberty
still will welcome more of their ilk
thronging to our shores.-Emerson
Hough in Saturday Evening Post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
IN THE OPEN

T VERY true American will agree
II with Senator Penrose in his
demand that the United States
Senate's discussion of the peace
treaty be open to the public. There
is a provision that the Senate shall
but there is no need for secrecy in
this instance. Indeed, there has been
entirely too much secrecy concern
ing the treaty and the American
public is entitled to fullest enlight-
eminent concerning it and its pos
sible effects on this country.
We. have had from the peace con-
ference the commissioners own
privately made, personally approved
summary of the document. How
much did not appear in that sum-
mary that should have appeared we
do not know. But we are certain
that the trainers of the summary
sang very low on some points that
are apt to create a lot of noise in
the Senate.
Senator Penrose is not merely a
captious, partisan critic of the adj
ministration. He knows full we'll
that the next elections do not hinge
on what has happened in Paris re-
Gently, but upon the constructive
program which the Republican
Nparty is now framing. But he be-
lieves, as all good Americans should
believe, that the public is entitled
to know fully what the contents of
the treaty are, what the Senate
thinks of it and how it is believed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
PROTECT INVESTMENT

THE State Highway Department
has been taking great pains to
see that inspectors who will pass
upon work under construction are
men qualified for the job, thereby as
surfing the best possible results, and
in seeing to it that the least possible
damage is done to the States high
ways. This is commendable. The
department owes it to the taxpayers
of the State to see to it that every
possible precaution is taken to pro-
tect the tremendous investment
Pennsylvania is making in improved
highways.
Senate bill No. 100 contains pro-
visions which will save pavements.
This bill regulates the use of tractors
and would bar from highways those
huge mechanisms the flanges of
which cut and tear the surface. The
Highway Department has suggested,
and the suggestion doubtless will be
needed, that agricultural imple-
ments, such as grass mowers, bind
ers, manure spreaders, hay leaders,
hay rakes. grain drills, potato plant
ers and similar mechanisms be eX-
cluded from the provisions of the
act, which, incidentally, supplements
the original traction engine law of
June s, 1915. All agricultural trail
ers, such as farm machinery, water
or coal wagons, are excluded from
the provisions of the act, insofar as
license charges are concerned. The
Highway Department also suggests
that caterpillar tractors be permitted
to operate with such notifications
as the Highway Commissioner may
prescribe"
The department is urging certain
restrictions because it wishes to pro-
tect the peoples investment. 1t is
all very we'll to suggest that "roads
be built that will stand up under
all sorts of traffic. under all condi-
tions," but the common sense slant
at this proposition shows its abso-
lutte impossiblity. A castirop high
way might do it, were it of sufficient
thickness. Or concrete, if blocks
could he laid without expansion
joints and of very great thickness.
The Appan Way, to which reference
is so often made, went to pieces as
put down by Appius
Claudius; and as rebuilt consisted
of giant blocks two or three feet
in thickness, bound together with a
natural cement. The cost was so
prodigious that it is not possible to
attempt such construction in these
days.
Governor Sproul and Highway
Commissioner Sadler have a two
way job-frst, to see that Pennsyl-
vania gets roads; second, to see that
these roads stay with us. Pennsyl-
vania has had too many miles of
fly -by-night construction. 1t is re-
freshing to note that we are not
only to watch the roads as they go
down, so that we will know we are
getting what we pay for, but that we
are going to keep watching them
after they are down, so that they
will stay here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
COPY-CATS

THE recent visit of five Japanese
textile engineers to the New
England textile industries, for
the purpose of comparing American
made textile machinery with that of
Great Britain, with view to pur-
chascs of such machinery in this
country, recalls a story told by for
mer Republican representative in
Congress, Duncan Mckinley, of CAL
ifornia, in 1910.
Mckinley at that time declared
on the floor of the House that the
Japanese had purchased from a
thoroughly modern textile machin-
cry factory in North Carolina a few
machines to be installed in Japan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
AN EMPIRE

TINETY millions of dollars to
N meet the growing needs of
Pennsylvania in a govern
mental way during the next two
years is Governor Sprouts estimate
for those who will make up the
appropriation measures, and he says
there is. revenue enough in sight
to meet the demands. =
Ninety millions of dollars! And
there were some who had been Won
dering where Governor Sproul ex-
pected to get money enough for the
memorial bridge and Capitol Park
improvements, which he has assured
us will be pushed to early COM
pletion. 1t is, to smile.
Truly, PENNSYLVANIA is more than
mere unit in collection of States;
it is an empire of itself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-09
Our Fighting Families
tBassctt Blackley, in Leslie's1

| Bassett Blackley, in Leslie's1
The Smiths will win the war"
never appeared on n poster during
the conflict. Food, airplanes, propa-
ganda and other agencies ali were
offered at some time as the balance
of power, but the claims of the Smith
family were overlooked. They were
ready for the fight, however, 900
strong. An army by themselves were
the Smiths who Joined the colors.
They outdstanced all competitors
for first honors, for the Johnson
family only sent $4,000 memb bers to
the conflict. The Jones boys num-
bered n mere 22,500, running even
with their rivals the Greens. Amer
ica's other prolific family, the
Browns, sent 5000 men to fight for
Uncle Sam. The American melting
pot also turned out 4,5O0 Cohens
to help chase the Hun back to the
Hindenburg line. In addition to these
armies, there were enough bearers
of military names to frighten an
enemy that had studied American
history No less than "A George
Washingtons were in the ranks, 2
Ulysses S. Grants, and 0 more with
out the middle initial, and 70 Robert
Il. Lees.