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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

bounded ideals of the days which
are gone, and gone to stay. Many
hard-hearted, practical business
man, whose successes and financial
rewards in business life have been
phenomenal, Will serve as striking
illustrations of what we are saying.
Men who have turned aside from
the consideration of their own af-
fairs to give themselves and their
great talents absolutely, and joy
ously to the Governments interests.
We can not in fairness single one
out of the many, but we will quote
prophecy made by the head of the
shipping interests, a prophecy most
significant and noteworthy because
coming from such a man-"That the
test of the men of the future will
not be the wealth they possess, but
the service they render to their fell
lowmen."
This new conception of the value
of service to mankind is not con-
fined to any one strata of our social
foundation as the following tele-
gram bears witness. 1T desire to
congratulate officers and employees
of the railroads under Government
control for the splendidly patriotic
response made by them in the Vic
tory Liberty Loan campaign. Out
OF total of one million eight hun
dred and forty-one thousand two
hundred and siXty-seven employees
G,S41,267), one million four hun
dred and seventeen thousand and
forty-two G.417,042), or seventy
seven (77 pct.) per cent, subscribed
for Victory Loan Notes, a total of
one hundred and thirty-eight mill
lion six hundred and thirty-seven
thousand two hundred and fifty dol
lars ($138,637250). Employees of
sixteen roads showed subscriptions
of one hundred per cent This is
a renewed demonstration of the 10y
atty of the railroad men of Amer
lea. Signed: Walker d. Hines, Di-
rector General of Railroads" And
this proportion holds good in every
industry, so what we said in the be-
ginning will bear repetition, that it
| is almost worth all that the war has
cost us to have got this new vision,
this new conception and sense of
values. Copyright pending, 1879
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
Warm Weather Wishes

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
oh. l would dearly love to be
A fish that swimmeth in the sea;
A bird that fiieth in the air,
And findeth cooling breezes there.
A walrus on u cake of ice
That, too, methinks were very nice.
And yet, II I could have my wish,
/ doubt If l would be fish,
For be the weather what IL may,
Fish must drink water, every day.
And i retract my former word
That | should like to be a bird;
For though 1t would be fine to fly.
Ii would be work-and that is why
And though indeed 1t would be nice
To sit upon u cake of ice.
Yet how much nicer II would be
To have that cake of ice in me!
So. like the bird, I'll seek the shade,
And there Ill have a cold drink
made;
And, like the fish, I'll soak II In
Till il pervades my very skin.
And In that drink shall clink and
float
A chunk OF ice to cool my throat
And l shall be more happy, far,
Than bird and fish and walrus are.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
THE GORED OK

T X-CONGRESSMAN HERMAN
n METZ, of Brooklyn, N. Y, ap-
pearing before the Ways and
Means Committee recently, advo-
Gated a fifty per cent. ad valorem
duty for dyes.
Metz was a Democrat in Congress,
and he voted for the outrageous
tariff ess-than-revenue measure
which President Wilson dubbed
through that body in 1913. That
law knocked the daylghts out of
industry in the United States until
the war resuscitated it, but Con-
grCssman Metz didn't care about
that To-day ex-Congressman Metz
wants dyes protected.
Why? Because he is head of the
Metz Laboratories, which manufac-
ture dyes.
Funny how quickly the Democrats
change their tune when their per-
sonal interests are affected.
Representative Frank Clark. of
Florida, always insisted vehemently
on protection for pineapples.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
FOOD PRICES

FULLEST attention should be
given the Federal Trade Com
missions charge that the five
big American meat packing concerns
are trying to get monopoly on food
staples in the United States and to
control the international markets.
The denial of a single head of one
of these concerns cannot be accepted
as discrediting the report of the
commission. The public is convinced
that there is something radically
wrong with food prices and is curl
Gus to know just where the blame
lies, so that it may proceed to cor
rect conditions.
With so much beef and mutton
in the country that the packers have
been talking of advertising to induce
people to eat more meat, prices are
at topnotch and going higher. This,
Notwithstanding that the govern
ment is about to throw out for sale
S121,OOO,OO0 worth of foodstuffs
no longer needed for Army use.
Somebody is keeping food prices
higher than they should be. If the
packers are not to blame perhaps
they can tell us who is. At all
events a little more light on pro-
vision prices and control will do no
harm. BY all means let's hear more
on the subject.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
Tests For Airnlen
.ByBRIGCS
From the New York Evening
Post


Post.]
Medical tests for the pilots of
public airplanes, laid down by the
International Aeronautical Conven-
ton, should lead to further sensible
restrictions upon indiscriminate fly
ing. Much has to be done to pre-
vent airplanes from being used by
unskilled persons who would be a
menace to themselves and to the
community. The rules of the con-
vention practically bring into inter-
national use the requirements of the
spinning chair tests and others
which originated in this country for
the wedding out of men unfit to be
aviators. Federal legislation might
enforce such regulations as existed
at every well organized aerodrome
during the war. All our army and
navy PILOTS are familiar with the
rules of right of way in the air, and
"aerodrome discipline" was an eff
fective factor in saving life on
crowded training fields. There is
the matter of time limits for the
use in fight of airplane engines and
airplane wings and other parts.
Army experience has shown that
after certain number of hours of
flying it is unsafe to use an air
plane or an engine until it has been
inspected and readjusted. A con-
tinuous replacement of parts under
a regular schedule took place on
our flying fields in war. Would it
not be in the interest of public
safety to provide that civilian fiiers
must take the same care, must exer-
else the same vigilance in the re-
placement of parts, as was required
In our military air service?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
A Chorus of 10000 Sang
[London correspondence of the
Weekly Manchester Guardian.1

[London correspondence of the
Weekly Manchester Guardian.l
There was a memorable scene the
other evening in Hyde Park, where
the Imperial Chorus and the massed
bands of the Brigade of Guards per-
formed a few anthems and patriotic
music in the presence of the King
and Queen, the Prince of Wales,
Princess Mary Queen Alexandra and
an audience of a million. 1t was an
ideal evening and, an ideal place.
Somewhere to the\west of the Mar
BILE Arch a natural hollow formed
the performers stage, and the banks
rising on both sides were one huge
mass of spectators. Underfoot the
grass was green and velvety, and
the trees in the park are now at
their best.
Considering that the choir alone
numbered ten thousand singers the
volume of sound must have been
tremendous, but, far or near, one
never got that impression. The
sound was in great part carried
away, and the number of the per-
formers seemed only to add weight
and dignity to the simple and NOV
ing beauty of the music. The ap-
pearance of the royal family was
the signal for a great outburst of
cheering, which was repeated later
when his majesty and the queen
acknowledged the greeting from the
conductors desk. 1t was a very
democratic and sincere demonstra-
ton of popular feeling, and over all
was the soft and solemn beauty OF
the perfect summer evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

e. Lawrence Fell, the new Phil
adelphia registration commissioner,
is an expert on cost accounting.
DIR. S. T. Acheson, of Pittsburgh,
here this week to see the Governor
on war camp community work, is
just home from overseas.
George Wharton Pepper, as
counsel for the Fairmount Park
Commission, is taking a promi>~
part in the test of the Sunday r~
ulations in Philadelphia parks.
j. v. Thompson. the Fayette
county coal magnate, is planning
new coal developments in southwest
ern Pennsylvania, II is said.
Samuel j. Graham, nominated
for the court of claims. is a Pitts
burgh lawyer and a personal friend
of President Wilson of many years
standing.
John Wanamaker was congrat-
ulated yesteday upon his birthday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
Hotels as Homes
[From the Spokane Spokesman
Review.l

tllC oPOhdH6 SDOhGSIldn-
Review.1
The apparently unlimited willing
ness of capitalists to invest millions
upon millions of dollars in the erec-
ton of magnificent hotels makes
natural the speculation as to wheth-
er we are on the way to becoming
a country of hotel dwellers. AS
fast as each new hotel, with it's thou
sands of rooms and ingenious re-
hnements of comfort and service, is
completed it is instantly filled, starts
waiting list, and only regrets that
1t has not a few hundred more rooms
to be let at a minimum of SIS a
day.
Americans who can afford such
luxuries-and there are more in this
class than ever before-are fiocking
into hotels because living conditions.
particularly in the greater cities, are
abnormal. If the abnormal condi-
tons become permanent and there
fore normal the hotel dwellers will
increase and the American home
will become a new sort of thing en-
tirely. The municipality of new for
tunes has intensified the search for
luxurious living conditions and made
consideration of expense negligible.
Then there is the great shortage of
suita BILE houses, created by the sus-
pension of building during the war
years. Finally we have the SER
want problem.
1t is this last more than any
other factor that is Fastening the
trend toward hotels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
London Is Herself Again
London Correspondence of the
Weekly Manchester Guardian.l

" SShIy MdllCHSSlSI Sueti dloh'I
One by one they are coming back.
The vivid" four-inhand coach sets
out for Northumberland Avenue IN
the ordinary way every morning,
with it's we'll groomed horses and
its coachman blowing his horn. 1t
is that which makes the colonial
soldiers rub their eyes, and old Nell
son at his masthead. whose lions
are being washed today, must feel
that London is almost herself again.
The fountains are now frothing like
pots of "four-'arf' round about him
in the sunshine.
Quite suddenly the streets seem
full of horses, which seem to step
more lively since their demobiliza-
ton, like the young men in the
velour hats and coats with funny
pockets. The ice cream barrows
have modified in Fleet Street again,
and the redhaired man who plays
the miniature bagpipes in front of
Charing Cross Station is back again,
and the swirl of his little pipes
mingles with the traffic, reminding
you (for you hardly notice him) of
the story of the lost piper who went
along the mysterious underground
passage under the streets, his music
growing fainter and fainter till it
stopped. Well, there he is back
again, and his pibroch is not lost
after all.
The flower sellers and apple wo-
men, too, are turning up in their
usual spots, and l should not be sur
prised any day to see Pineapple Dick
in his Melton Mowbray coat bucket
ing along Fleet again with basket
of select pineapples. The round of
flower shows is scerting London
again, and Salter Bros steamboats,
go on their delectable voyages be-
tween Kingston and Oxford.
Whatever is to come, London, at
the moment, looks her happiest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
Quiet EndedUOr

To have a cheerful home that knows
not strife,
A garden filled with sweetly SMELL
ing flowers,
And fruit and wine; few children, at
all hours
To know the constant love of a good
wife;
To have no debts; to leave lawsuits
to fools.
To hold relations in their proper
place;
Content with little, seeking not the
grace
OF this worlds great ones; keeping
honor's rules;
To live with no inordinate desire;
To seek souls purging in devotion's
fire,
To make the passions answer rea-
sons call:
To keep the spirit free. the judg-
ment clean;
To tell ones beads: doing these
things, / ween,
A man may wait for death, nor fret
at all.
-Christophe Plantin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
NONPARTISAN FAILURE

~ OVERNOR SPROUL has DEM
- onstrated the courage of his
~ personal convictions in approv-
ing the repeal of the nonpartisan
law as applied to Harrisburg and
other cities of the third class. OF
course, his political opponents will
strive to make it appear that he is
acting in obedience to political in
terests, but the Governor has mani
festly arrived at his conclusion in
this matter through the same pro-
cesses of reasoning that have led
law is called a nonpartisan piece
of legislation it doesn't follow that
it is necessarily a wise enactment.
Harrisburg made its greatest
strides in municipal progress and
development under the old system
and when the Clark act, with it's nom
partisan features, was imposed upon
this and other cities there was grave
doubt in many quarters as to it's
practical results as a reform meas
ure.
1t was contended by those favor
ing the Clark act that it would
eliminate the power of political par
ties in the choosing of municipal
officials; that the nonpartisan ma
chinery would give the people a
higher class of public servants and
that the millennium of reform re-
sided in the new system of choosing
municipal officers.
But exactly the opposite effect
followed the operation of the law.
All manner of individuals wished
themselves upon the people in the
primary campaigns. Amy one could
become q candidate on his own
Initiative and 1t was not unusual
to find as many as twenty OF thirty
candidates running on the nom
partisan ticket for single office,
Frequently the voter was entirely
at sea as TO the qualifications of the
aspirants and voted with his eyes
shut. No responsibility rested upon
party leaders to choose fit men, but
these leaders frequently made use
Of the hodge-podge ticket to help
nominees who would not have been
chosen in a straight party contest
American government is based
upon political parties and the non.
partisan theory has not worked well
IN practice. With the elimination
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
From Men Who Were There
[From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
At dinner to the commanding
officers of the regiments OF Illinois
In the A. Il. II. there was given a
most impressive lesson on the sub
iect of preparedness. Each colonel,
fresh from his war experience. tes-
tihed TO the loss of life through our
failure to make training In peace a
part of citizen duty. There was no
dissent from the truth. that unpre-
paredness is paid for In the wasted
blood of patriots. Shall we listen
now to the men who have seen with
their own eyes the demonstration of
this lesson on the page OF history
In human bloOd2 Every soldier at
this dinner, and almost all were
civilian soldiers, declared from their
observations OF conditions abroad
that war would come again sooner
OF later.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

A great fruit growing corporation is
being organized in this State, with
capital of $5O.OOO,OOO. 1t is proposed
that this strong corporation shall COW
er the entire field of fruit and produce
growing in this country. If this or
some similar organization will pro-
vide ways and means of preventing
the waste of fruit which has con-
tinued year after year in many sec
tions of the United States and arrange
better distribution it will achieve
laudable purpose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

of party nominations public inter-
est in large measure disappeared
and under the operation of the Clark
act there has been a gradual sub
sidence of the individual concern
which was previously manifested in
choosing municipal officials. With,
party responsibility there is less
danger of unfit candidates being
foisted upon the people than through
the operation of nonpartisan ma
chinery. Multiplicity of candidates
has been the rule since the enact
ment of the Clark law and it is
difficult to always choose out of a
long list of aspirants the best quail
ified candidates for the public serv-
ice. In fact. the least fit candidate
frequently emerged as the success
full nominee at the primary polls.
Returning to the old system of
party nominations does not mean
a step backward in any sense. 1t
does mean, however, that party lead
ers and party organizations will be
compelled to select proper men for
the various municipal offices. To do
otherwise would weaken party
prestige and invite defeat at the
general election.
1t has not been forgotten that
under the nonpartisan system Har-
risburg has lost the unselfish and
able public services of the Board
of Public Works, the Park Commits
sion, the Board of Water Commits
sioners and other advisory bodies
which contributed so materially to
the Transformation of this city from
an overgrown town to the most
progressive of Pennsylvania mu-
inequalities.
The trail of the nonpartisan law
has been marked in many places
by ineficiency and mediocrity, and
we believe the placing of respon-
sibility upon political organizations
will give the voter a higher type
of men 10 choose from in the mu-
nicipal elections. Here in Harris
DurS some OF the most CapdDle anu
public-spirited of our citizens have
declined to permit the use of their
names as candidates for important
offices as a consequence of the free
for-all primary campaigns in which
without appreciation of
the obligations of public service,
have sought office simply as job
with a salary attached.
1t is now up to the party leaders
to show wisdom in their support of
available candidates. No right of
the citizen is taken from him in the
repeal of the nonpartisan law. He
can still go TO the polls and express
a proper choice as between candi-
dates and the fact that he may be
in his party activities
will serve to prevent a careless or
Indifferent attitude on the part of
party leaders and organizations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

All Harrisburg will be pleased TO
know that the Department of Parks
and the City Forester are contemplate
ing a real tree planting campaign in
the coming autumn. For several
years the trees along the streets of
Harrisburg have been disappearing,
and it is high time that some steps be
taken to reforest the city. il we may
use that term for general planting.
May we not hope that those in charge
of the matter will be prepared to give
the people generally definite instruc-
tions as to the size and kind of trees
to be planted and the best way to
protect them from damage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
SET BUILDINGS BACK

"HE proposed building code
should contain a rule against
erection of houses on the build
ing line of Front street Provision
should be made to set all houses
back from the street and a mini
mum depth should be fixed. Front
street is to be the city's one great
driveway. 1t should be kept as open
as possible and no building should
be flush with the street. Meantime,
property owners ought to meet pub
lie desire half way. and. even with
no law to enforce the wishes OF the
people in this respect, ought to set
all new structures a reasonable dis
tance back from the sidewalk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
Why Won't World Reform?

[From the New York World.l
Within forty -eight hours after the
signing of tho peace treaty we have
been grieved to observe in the news
that the conscience of the world"
is not reacting in proper way.
American soldiers were
killed by Bolshevists. A plot to
assassinate the Regent of Serbia
was discovered. Two persons were
killed In a riot between French and
American soldiers in Brest. Serbian
and Italian troops have clashed. Ii
is all very wicked, and human.
Where is the great tide" that was
running In the hearts Of meng"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
Samples Win BE Furnished

Now that the question as to
ia intoxicating will be left TO the
jurIes, far fewer men will think up
excuses for lodging jury duty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

Not word of objection has been
heard against the City Planning Com
MISSIONS proposition to take over the
Italian Park section and convert it
into beautiful resort for the people.
City Council will doubtless realize the
Importance of accepting the free ten
der of fifteen or twenty acres in the
very heart of a growing residential
section.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

Perhaps when Congress shall have
created the Federal Power Commits
sion 90 deal with power projects on
streams the susquehanna
river will come into It's own. Utillz-
ing the stream for power purposes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's new school
development plan is attracting much
comment among the cities OF tho
State?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

When we contemplate the colossal
figures OF s3O.i7T 900. 600 which rep
resents the war cost of the United
States up to June 20 we are forced to
conclude that this country had some-
thing TO do with winning the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

He tDho sotcs courtesy reGps friend
ship, aud he tCho plans Kindness
gathers Iove.-Bdsil.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

There will be qualification among
the fraternity throughout the country
over the fine showing of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order OF Elks in
the war. At the Atlantic city conven-
ton all the reports indicate the pa
triotic policies which were observed
by the Elks in their war activities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

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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
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
uIsToRIC HARRIsBURG

Harrlsburg's first schools are said
TO have been in Second street near
Mulberry and on Walnut street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12

and transportation is no longer re-
gsrded as fantastic dream division
aries.