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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
Palaces That Have No Tenants

! hued sand-stone, winding through
the rock as though 1t was the most
plastic of clay. This six, or defile,
is nearly two miles long. It's gem
eral contour is a wide semi-circular
swing from the right to the left with
innumerao short bends, having
sharp curves and corners in it's gem
eral course.
''The width of the Six varies from
twelve feet at its narrowest point to
thirty-five or forty feet at other
places. Where the gloomy walls
actually overhang the roadway and
almost shut out the blue ribbon of
sky, it seems narrowerer, and per-
haps at many points above the
stream the walls do come closer than
twelve feet. The heights of the per-
pendicular side cliffs have been esti-
mated at from 200 to 1000 feet
Heights like distances, in this clear
desert air are deceptive, but after
many tests and observations we are
prepared to say that at places they
are almost sheer for 500 to 400 feet.
Seen at morning, at midday, or
at midnight, the Six, this matchless
entrance to a hidden city, is un-
questionably one of the great glories
of ancient Petra. Along it's cool,
lllC CdEdNdHS Ol
antiquity-from Damascus and the
East, from the desert, from Egypt
and the heart of Africa. Kings,
queens, and conquerors have all
marveled at its beauties and it's
strangeness. Wealth untold went
in and out of it for centuries, and
now for over thirteen hundred years
it has been silent and deserted.
Carved in the face of the cliff
half revealed, half concealed in the
growing shadows, is one of the larg-
est, most perfect and most beauti-
full monuments of antiquity
Pharaoh's treasury. Almost as per-
feet as the day 1t came from beneath
the sculptor's chisel, fifteen hundred
or two thousand years ago; colored
with the natural hues of the bril-
liant sandstone, which added an in
describable element to the architec-
tural beauty; flanked and surmount-
ed by the cliffs which had been
carved and tinted in turn by the
powers of nature; approached by
the most mysterious deficit is al
most overpowering in it's effect"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
Democrats Looking to 1920

In an illuminating political horo-
scope, Charles w. Duke discusses
prominent Democrats available for
the Presidency. He says:
An American businessman for
President in 1920?
In New York and Washington, in
Chicago and the Middle West, out
on the Pacific slope and down i'll
the near South, as you touch in Sue
cession the mainsprings of Ameri-
can enterprise, you hear men and
women in all walks of life and rep
resenting every phase of American
life talking along this line
In this connection they point to
various leaders from the business
world who in a spirit of common
patriotism blended their efforts III
the common cause. They mark out
Charlie" Schwab and Edward HUI
lay, who directed the shipbuilding
program; Herbert Hoover, the food
generalissimo; George w. Goethals,
who was first shipbuilder and then
army quartermaster; Henry P. Da-
vison, who left Wall street to guido
the destinies of the Red Cross; Ber-
tries board; John d. Ryan, the cop
per king who directed the aircraft
board after the departure of How
ard Coffin, the automobile man;
julius H. Barnes, head of the grain
corporation; George M. Rolph, sugar
administrator; ]. Leonard Replogle,
steel director; Thomas A. Edison
and his associates on the naval con-
sulting board; julius Rosenwald, tie
Chicago business chieftain; DR..
Harry A Garfield, who gave UP a
college presidency to be coal admin.
istrator; Edward r. Stettinius. who
left the firm of ]. P. Morgan & co.
to become the Allies chief purchas-
ing agent in this country; Guy L.
Tripp, of the Westinghouse COM
pany; Paul Warburg. the New York
bander. These and host of other
capable American business mon
were as instrumental in victory as
the Pershings, Fochs and Haigs of
the battleflelds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

r. p. Stewart. United States
District Attorney for South Dakota. a
former Harrisburger, has resigned
his office.
The Rev. John VanHorn. chan
lain of the 18th Infantry mentioned
for his services, comes from Scott
dale.
Lieutenant Governor Edward r
Beidleman made the address at Mil
tons welcome home ceremonies.
Samuel B.. Crowell, the new
president of the State Retail Coal
Dealers, is well known to Harrisburg
people.
Dudley 7. Mervine, general
manager of transportation of the
American Railway Express, is a
northumberland countian and raised
in Milton.
The Rev. DIR. Patrick McHale.
Philadelphia priest, has gone to Paris
to- attend the convention of the So
ciety of ST. Vincent de Paul, held
every twelve years.
Major Isaac b. Brown, of CORY.
who was here yesterday to attend
the progressive meeting, is devoting
considerable time to study of State
history of his section of the state
Senator Wallace Barnes. of
Honesdale, was among visitors to
the city this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
The Butterfly

On the brilliant wings you pass the
hours,
Lightly poised. now here, now
there;
Taking sweetness from each flower
Living on a magic fare.
As l watch you softly swinging
Through the drowsy summer day;
Watch you lightly. lightly winging,
While sign my heart away.
Would that possessed your power
Never troubled. gay and free;
Give me of your fairy dover,
And my heart shall be your fee.
If held some fiowery treasure,
That would make you rest with
me;
In my garden find your pleasure,
Butterfiy-could that ever be?
M, P. in the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
American Independence
[From Harvey's weekly.l


There must be effective reserva-
tions."
Those are the words of Chairman
Will II. Hays of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. They embody the
unalterable determination of q ma
jority of the United States Senate of
the Republican party and of the
American people. There need be no
further concern respecting the pre-
servation of the independence of this
Republic. The fight has been won.
Those who are unwisely conveying
the contrary impression to the Presi-
dent are either ignorant or deluded
or vainly bluffing. We are telling
will realize that fact. The sooner
the better for the country and for
himself.
What precisely are those reser-
vations? Mr.. Hays sets them forth
succinctly and accurately in these
words:
These observations must safe
guard the sovereignty of the
United States in every particular;
must guarantee the Monroe Doc
trine beyond the shadow of
doubt; must either eliminate
Article x. entirely os so modify
it that our own Congress shall be
morally as well as legally free
after a specified period to decide
when and where and to what ex-
tent our soldiers shall be employ
ed; must retain our full control of
immigration, tariff and all other
purely domestic policies, and
must provide full rights to with
draw from the league at any time
without hindrance or conditions
of any kind, upon giving suitable
otice.
Mr.. Hays does not say in so many
words that he would advocate ratifi-
cation of the treaty if these reserva-
tions were incorporated, but the in
ference is plain and unmistakable.
He would. So would Senator Lodge.
So would practically all of the Re
publican Senator'S. Consequently Mr..
Hays is fully warranted in adding:
1t is up to the Administration to
decide whether it will or will not
accept these essential guarantees
of American independence, which
would unuestionably be promptly
accepted by the other ations.
The correctness of the last state
ment is beyond question. Botn
France and England have made 1t
clear that they attach slight i'm
portance to the proposed League or
what the Covenant contains. They
will accept readily whatever the
United States may offer. 1ndubit-
ably. then, it Is "up to the Admin
istration to decide" whether it will
join in conserving the interests OF
the country, or get no ratification OF
the Treaty which the President per-
sonally negotiated. There is no other
oil
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
EVERYBODY MUST HELP

n n ERE passage of an anti-fore-
1Hl stalling ordinance will not
clear the city markets of the
forestaller. The fact that such a
law is on the books will discourage
those who have been practicing the
evil, but the measure must be
strictly enforced if it is to amount to
anything. A few striking examples
at the very outset would help lot.
To be sure, the duty of making
the measure operative should lie
with the city authorities. A city
detective. or two if necessary, should
be assigned to this work on market
days. A conscientious. devoted Of
ficer could make himself and the
whole police department very popu-
lar by an active enforcement of the
new law.
But everybody must assist. 1t
should be the duty of every man or
woman to whom knowledge of fore
stalling comes to take that testi-
mony to the authorities.
The practice has been so profitable
that those engaged in it will at
tempt to evade the law and they will
watch very carefully for the first
sign of break-d in the vigilance
of the police department. They will
not relinquish their pound of flesh
without a struggle.
Council has done admirably in
the enactment of this ordinance. But
it remains with the police authori-
ties and with everybody who patron
ICES the markets to help put it into
effect.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
SPROUTS LEADERSHIP

X OVERNOR SPROUL will doubt
tr less tell with great pleasure
and justifiable pride on his
-isit to Salt Lake City the story of
Fennsylvania's awakening as a mod
ern road building Commonwealth.
Time was when he could not have
boasted much of the State from the
good roads standpoint, but as the
patron saint of better highways the
Governor has right to tell the story
at every opportunity. He will also
have much else to tell of the sub
stantial achievements of Pennsyl-
vania and its proud position of lead
ership in humanitarian projects and
education.
Governor Sproul has earned q
vacation and the western trip will
afford him an opportunity to COM
pare notes with other leaders of the
country. and through this inter-
change of ideas gain knowledge of
what is being done elsewhere which
might be adopted for our own Com
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
Wdshington's Warning
[From the Kansas City Star.

lF'rom the Kansas City Star.l
President Washington, in his fare
we'll address, warned the American
people of the danger of depostism
involved in abuses of power by ad-
ministrators of the Government. He
pointed out that If the Constitution
be changed by any method except
that provided for it's amendment the
act is one of usurpation and a step
in the direction of the destruction
of free government. The warning
ought to be read, in this hour, by
every American. 1t follows:
THE spirit of encroachment tends
to consolidate the powers of all the
departments in one, and thus to
create, whatever the form of gov
ernment, real depotism. A lust
estimate of that love of power and
proneness to abuse it which pre-
dominates in the human heart is
sufficient to satisfy us of the truth
of this position. The necessity of
reciprocal checks in the exercise of
political power. by dividing and dis
tributing it into different deposi-
tories and constituting each the
guardian of the public veal against
invasions by the others, has been
eVlnced by experiments ancient and
modern, some of them in our coun-
try and under our own eyes. To
preserve them must be as necessary
as to institute them. If in the opin-
ion of the people the distribution
or modification of the constitutional
powers be in any particular wrong,
let it be corrected by an amendment
in the way which the Constitution
designates. But let there be no
change by usurpation; for though
this in one instance may be the in
strum ent of good, it is the customary
weapon by which free governments
are destroyed. The precedent must
always greatly overbalance in per-
manent evil any partial or transient
benefit which the use can at any
time yield"
1t is impossible to read these words
of Washington without the convic-
ton that he would call the attempt
to substitute the covenant of he
League of Nations for the Constitu-
ton a usurpation. and the attempt
to embark the United States upon
a policy of foreign alliances. with
out previous consultation with the
Senate, an abuse of power tending to
' the creation of a despotism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
Paying For Freedom
IFrom the Johnstown Tribune.1


Judge Bonniwell, leader of the
"wet" Democrats of pennsylvania,
vigorously denounces an attempt of
the Palmer-W Wilson Democratic State
Committee to levy political assess
ments on the Democratic postmas-
ters and other Federal officeholders
in Pennsylvania. The Judge asserts
the hold-up is an "impudent viola
ton of law and that the money is
not intended to be used to promote
the success of the Democratic party,
but is to be spent in the mainten-
ance of the rule of the Wilson-P al
mer faction, now proprietors through
control of the Democratic State
Committee.
We are not at all Mortified be-
cause of the levy. Confessedly. we
are cynical when we read loud
professions from Democratic poll
ticians-from the President down.
We did not look for poll
tical millennium when the Demo-
the new freedom" Back of every
rhetorical rounding and scholarly
scolding has been an autocratic rule
of one. Money is just as necessary
as ever-in the promulgation of
Democratic doctrine. although we do
confess that we are in agreement
with q local contemporary, which
suggests there is no longer any such
thing as Democratic doctrine"
Democratic postmasters must pay,
just as they paid in the Nineteenth
Congress District campaigns on 1914
and 1916. We cited the fact that a
minion of the Democratic State
Committee once hiked to this town
and ordered the postmasters to pay
him, rather than any local politi-
clan. The Bonniwell stuff is old,
and will have no effect. The money
must be forthcoming or the new
freedom" will lapse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
POOR CONSTRUCTION.

T SHOULD not be possible for a
! single motor truck, no matter
= how heavy, to push sixteen
houses out of plumb by such an ac-
cident as occurred in the upper part
of Harrisburg the other night.
Houses should not be built like a
row of dominoes, to be toppled over
in a heap by little pressure at one
end of the row. 1t speaks very
poorly of the type of building we
have in this city that such an acci-
dent could happen.
For many years we have been
building carelessly, even recklessly,
and the result is a great many houses
that will be little more than shacks
in a short time. No matter how
good looking or commodious the
structure may be, if it is not erected
along good building lines it will go
to pieces in a decade or less and a
city Uttered with -down-at-the-
heel slip-shod ruins that should be
well-kept dwellings is a disgrace to
itself and no more attractive than
an unshaved, unkempt tramp.
No matter how small our houses,
they should be substantial and city
ordinances should require that they
be kept in good repair. We are
sorely in need of a new building
code. The Chamber of Commerce
housing committee if it does no more
than write such a measure on the
statute books will have done a very
good years work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
COLD COMFORT

ERTAIN Democrats who man
age now and then to get
- into political power and place
through the division of the Republl-
can forces are greatly tickled over
what they profess to believe is Re-
publican dissatisfaction in this and
other counties of Central Pennsyl-
yania. They have managed in other
years to encourage party disaffection
among Republicans and are count
ing on the same game this year to
pave the way for their own ambi-
tions.
Unless we greatly mistake the
spirit of the great political party
with which the names of Lincoln
and Grant and Mckinley and Roose-
yelt and others are gloriously link
ed, the Wilsonian group are going to
find it a hard job to drive a wedge
between the Republican forces any
where. Looking forward to 192o
and the return of the Government
of the United States to sane and
safe hands there is no disposition
among Republicans to open the way
for the entrance of the wolf of in
efficiency and discomfort into the
fold.
Ordinary intelligence ought to
make it possible for the rank out
slider to realize that he is counting
on conditions which do not exist
and which cannot be created by the
transparent Vaccinations of those
who have benefited in the past
through a disruption of the Re-
publican household. That sort of
thing might work out once in a gen.
Grafton, but not frequently.
The best evidence of the construc-
tive type of Republican statesman
ship at Washington is the fact that
at the present time the ratification
of the peace treaty and the covenant
thereto is being made possible by
the able intervention of great Re-
publican leaders, who have sub
mitted reservations that will safe
guard the sovereignty of the repub-
lie and prevent a serious deadlock
on the international agreement,
The people in all sections of the
country are looking to the Republi-
can party for a return to safety and
sanity in administration and the re-
adjustment of the upset conditions of
the war.
Tomtit leadership here and there
among Democrats who are striving
for power rather than the promo
ton of the good of the country will
be repudiated overwhelmingly this
year as a step in the election of a
Republican President in 1920.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
X" HOUGH Turkey will be dis
membered and pushed out
- of Europe the Ottman en-

OF Europe, the Ottman en-
pire probably will continue in con-
troll of some OF the sacred shrines
and most precious history spots of
ASIA" says a bulletin from the Ma
tional Geographical Society.
For example there is the Rocky
City of Petra, known as the safe
deposit of caravans en- route with
precious ware to Eyre and Sidon,
which also contains Pharaoh s
treasury
The bulletin quotes from a commu-
nication by Franklin e. Hoskins de-
scribing Petra as follows:
THE Highlands east of the Jordan
river are strewn with ruins marking
the rise and fall of successive civili-
zations-Semitic, Greek, Roman,
Christian, Mohammedan and Crusad-
er. These ruins have been preserved
for the modern explorer by the tides
of nomadic life which have swept up
from the Arabian desert; but at all
southern end of no-man's land, deep
in the mountains of Edom, lies one
of the strangest, most beautiful and
most enchanting spots upon this
earth--the Rock City of Petra. Its
story carries us back to the dawn of
human history.
In the days of Nebatheans, Petra
became the central point to which
the caravans from the interior of
Arabia, Persia and India came laden
with all the precious commodities of
the East, and from which these COM
modities were distributed through
Egypt, Palestine, Syria and all the
countries bordering on the Mediter-
ranean for even Tyre and Sidon de-
rived many of their precious wares
and dyes from Petra.
The Rock City was always to
these regions and peoples what
Rome was to the Romans and Jeru-
salem to the Jews. Horites, Edo
mites, Nabatheans and Romans, have
all rejoiced and boasted in the pos
session of this unique stronghold and
most remarkable city of antiquity.
The entrance to the Rocky City is
the most striking gateway to any city
on our planet. 1t is a narrow rift or
defile, bisecting a mountain of many
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
Missouri Hard Moneu

[From the Springfield Leader.1
A man walked into bank in West
Plains recently carrying an innocent
looking bucket covered lightly with
a white cloth. He announced to
the cashier that he wished to make
deposit, but instead of digging in
to his pockets he dumped five hun
dred silver dollars out of the bucket
onto the counter. He had been
boarding the money on his farm un-
til convinced that bank vault was
q safer place
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

Ex-President Taft and other big
men of the country are justified in
their vigorous protest against the
negro lynching in the South and out
rageous race antfpathies which have
developed in Washington. Chicago
and elsewhere. The splendid services
of the negro soldier on the lighting
front in France have not been for
gotten by thousands of their country
men who appreciate devotion to the
flag. Justice must finally prevail and
the patience of the negro citizen is
one of his finest attributes. He is
setting an inspiring example for his
white brother in many instances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
Fares Better Than Jonah

[From the Providence Journal
Persistent rumors of the resig-
nation of Postmaster General Burle-
son naturally suggest comparison
wit hthe case of Jonah-but with the
added reflection that the skipper of
the good ship in the biblical story
had sence enough to cast Jonah over
board while there was still time to
gave thA sbip.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

With such men as George Shoe
maker. Horace Geisel and other over
seas veterans taking the leadership
in reorganizing the Governors Troop
for the new National Guard, there
can be no question as to the charac-
ter of this important cavalry unit.
Several of the officers of the new
Harrisburg mounted organization are
men who were wounded in the fight
for American ideals and they will
inspire with confidence the new mem
bers of the organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

Lieutenant Governor Beidleman
was the guest of honor at dinner
of the Chamber of Commerce at
Selinsgrove and delivered an eloquent
address. No man can live long in
Harrisburg without absorbing the
real civic spirit and our own Lieu
tenant Governor finds this city a
splendid inspiration for his public
addresses on community enterprise
and cooperation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
A KdnSdn Musical Note
rFrom the Topeka CapitaI l

lfrom the Iopekd Capltai.l
A dog which belongs to one of
the members of Marshall's band does
not howl when the band Is playing
real music, but when the band starts
jazz tune the dog bursts forth
loudly and dolorously, which is a
distinct addition to any jazz selec-
ton
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
WEDNESDAY EVENING,

monwealth. In short, hobnobbing
with the other Governors who will
assemble at Salt Lake City will en-
able our own progressive head of the
State Government to correct many
false impressions of Pennsylvania
and spread abroad it's splendid rec
ord as patriotic and constructive
Commonwealth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

ted to the Senate at the same time as
the Treaty and provision was
included to this effect. but the inspired
author of "open covenants openly ar
rived at" will presently" give the
Senate a peep at It.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

AS the receiver of stolen goods,
Japan is having a fine time explain
ing why it does not turn back to
China the real estate stolen originally
by the Germans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

Who would have imagined a year
ago that Americans would be lending
the Germans 500. 900, but that
fact has just been divulged in a cable
from Berlin. Your Uncle Samuel is
an accommodating neighbor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

Here and elsewhere posts of the
American Legion, the natural sue
cessor of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. are being rapidly organized
and there will be drawn into this as
ISOLATION of veterans of the great war
hundreds of thousands of the most
promising men of the country, who
will in the future WELD a tremendous
power for good.