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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Increase in Immigration

During the fiscal year which
closed June 80, 1919, there was an
increase in immigration of aliens
to 141,1 1872 as compared with no.
61S in the fiscal year 1918, accord
ing to the annual report of A. Cami-
netti, commissioner general of i'm
migration. During the fiscal year
123,522 emigrant aliens left the
country for permanent residence.
Creation of an additional office of
assistant secretary of labor with
Jurisdiction over all immigration
matters, deportation of alien draft
slackers and strengthening of the
border patrol service against unde-
sirab are among the recommen-
dations in the report.
Suggestions that immigration be
suspended completely were opposed
by the commissioner general on the
ground that it would have an lin
furious effect on our efforts to fur
ther American commerce and en-
terprise in foreign countries" The
commissioner instead urged coptin-
uance of wartime passport wise reg
ulations and assignment of immi-
grafton bureau representatives as
consular officers to aid in excluding
undesirables.
Only two aliens were excluded
from the country during the year on
anarchistic grounds, while thirty
seven aliens in the same class were
expelled from the country, and 9TH
ers are now awaiting deportation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27

ity with the principles of Western
civilization, until the smaller races
of Middle and Southern Europe
reach a modus vivendi. In so far as
the Paris Conference undertook to
reorganize the world on n perma-
nent basis and become sort of
super-governing body, it failed. 1t
could not punish and placate Ger
many. 1t could not crush and toler-
ate Bolshevism, ii could not pre-
serve the solidarity between it's COM
ponent parts, when the several parts
quarrelled over details in the settle
ment.
The alliance against Germany
could, in spite of obvious difficult
ties, incidental to all alliances, make
war, because it was equally a mat
ter of life and death for all the al
lies to defeat the German. No such
unifying influence compelled coop
Grafton in peacemaking, the French
man who would fight to save France
from the invading German would
not go to Russia to crush Bolshe-
vism. With the coming of the Ar
mistice separate nations automatic
ally resumed their own individuali-
ties and the effort to preserve the old
conditions failed completely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
The Vision
GGrace S. II. Tytus in Harper
Magazine

GGrace S. II. Tytus in Harper
Magazine
Across the dreams of years a little
hill
Obtrudes it's shining outline; very
still
The sunshine lies upon it, and wild
bees,
Like fairy galleons. sail it's heather
seas.
We knew the path so well-and then
the way
Began to fade n little, till to-day
Our unfamiliar feet on that same
Can scarce make out to find the
paths we trod.
Only our hearts are loyal-for our
Has always faltered ere we reached
that hill!
Can we not stay our feet. lest we
forget.
And, thanking God the way is open
yet,
Set them, before it is too late. to
seek
The old green pasture. and the
heather peak?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
NOW THE TIME TO BUY

1vOW that the Christmas shop-
N ping season is over and the
- merchants have on hand many
broken lots of goods which are
usually sold at comparatively low
figures in order to clear the
shelves for the early spring
trade, the wise buyer will go into
the markets to meet his needs. 1t
is a fact that there is more old
clothing being worn in Harrisburg
now than ever before. Many men
and women, discouraged by the pre-
vailing prices, simply declined to
make purchases and have been get
ting along with their last years
garments. Now comes the time
that these provident ones can go
into the markets with some hope
of getting real bargains. The jan
uary sales this year ought to be
more widely patronized than ever
before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
CUTTING DOWN ARRESTS

RRESTS in Harrisburg have
n been reduced by forty-five per
cent. through the operation of
wartime prohibition, the records
show.
This reduction in court costs
should prove interesting to those
who have been laying stress upon
the great losses incurred by the pub
lie treasury through the cutting off
of liquor license fees.
But there is a bigger. more i'm
portant side to the prohibition ques-
tion than that of finance. merely.
It ought to be worth lot to any
community to cut the number of its
arrests in half; in other words. to
have only fifty per cent. of the num-
ber that had come to be regarded
as normal. Back of the fewer arrests
lies a lesson in good citizenship. 1t
is evident that under prohibition the
laws are being obeyed to a greater
extent than heretofore and that peo-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Responsibilities
Elizabeth Frazer in Saturday Even
ing Post

Elizabeth Frazer in Saturday Even
ing Post
Neither the arm power of indus
try nor the money and brain power
of capital is perfect, sacrosanct or
infallible. Both are at bottom
driven by the same primitive urge:
Self-interest, n bigger place in the
sun.
Both need a lot of watching. Both
have certain inalienable rights-and
with those rights go certain inalien-
able responsibilities Both sides do
a powerful lot of yelling about
their rights; but I have yet to hear
since my return from Europe either
side rise up in meeting and testify
how he meant to tackle his respon-
sibilities. Both sides are deaf mutes
when it comes TO that angle of the
theme. And that significant deaf
and dumb attitude on the question
of responsibility is the niger in the
woodpile in both camps.
Speak up, honorable gentlemen,
who represent workers, and likewise
honorable gentlemen who represent
employers! Bury the hatchet of your
differences-your just and inalien-
able rights-and let us hear you
crate for n while on your just and
inalienable responsibilities. Chin
music on such subject would seem
beautiful as the tabled divine har-
mony of the spheres to the invisible
third party to the contract-that
poor, meek, long suffering contin-
gent, ground between the upper and
the neither millstones of the strug-
gle. which is called the general pub
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
A COMMUNITY SERVICE

-HE Chamber of Commerce per-
formed a real community serv-
= ice Christmas evening when it
financed the Christmas pageant in
Capitol Park. Few people realize the
extent of the Chambers activities
along these lines. Through the
Social Service Committee and with
Mrs. Ley in cvharge, activities of the
kind are being encouraged all over
the city. The money is well spent.
Thousands of people are being given
places in the affairs of the city and
are being made to feel that they are
rendering real help in the develop
ment of its neighborhood spirit. The
more community affairs we have the
better for Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
HARRISBURG ARMORY

ANCASTER is losing no time in
providing an armory for the
- military forces of the State
with headquarters IN that city. The
other day n dinner was given in
honor of Adjutant General Beary
and $1,000 was subscribed to the
armory fund. This amount will be
increased to at least $4,000. Ian
caster is going to provide a fine To-
cation and the State will erect a
building with accommodations for
at least four units of the new Ma
tional Guard.
The armory committee of the
Chamber of Commerce here will
have a conference with the State
military officials in a few days and
will then outline it's plans for the
new armory which this city must
have to house it's several units of
the Guard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27

Banking Commissioner Fisher is
taking tine people of Pennsylvania
into his confidence in way that is
refreshing and most encouraging
His recent report on the building and
loan associations of the State shows
that these associations helped to buy
30,S60 homes during last year. MIR.
Fisher is thorough student of affairs
and, with his practical mind and his
broad vision. is bound to enlarge the
usefulness of these helpful organiza-
tions. especially in this period of de-
ficiency in homes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
VILLAGES Not to Be Rebuilt
[From the Stars and Stripes, Wash
inptOn

From the Stars and Stripes, WASH
ington.l
Fifteen villages in the Aisne dis
trict. destroyed by war, will never
be rebuilt There are II towns in
the Marne district which will be
abandoned, and probably 100 in all
of France. For many sears, at
least, the soil on which the villages
stood will not even be titled. 1t will
become a permanent no mans land.
According to government advices,
the sites of these villages are too
dangerous to be used again. In or
der to avoid loss of life the govern
ment has purchased the land on
which the villages stood and Will
keep possession of it until it can be
made safe.
These sites are the ones often
fought over, on which the ground
has been turned over and over again,
burying explosives of all kinds to
unknown depths. There is no trace
of buildings left in the l . villages, so
the refugees faced more than the
usual hardships. They returned,
however, and lived in the worst
makeshift caves and dugouts.
Only signs maintained by the gov
ernment will mark the sites of the
villages warning people of the lurk-
ing dangers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Oriqin of Wdtered Stock

[From the New York Evening SUM-
There are more ways of protiteer-
ing than raising the rent. One of
the most alluring forms of "goug
ing has just been exposed in the
seizure of $4,000 live hens whose
crops were full of $4,000 worth of
sand and gravel. which increased
the weight of each hen about one
pound.
In its final analysis profiteering is
said to be nothing more than dealing
in watered stock, or, as the econo-
mists would say, the artificial infla
ton of values, and recalls the epi-
sode from which originated the term
''watered stock" a phrase coined in
Wall Street nearly two generations
ago and since circulated throughout
the world where barter is carried on
in accordance with trade usage and
customs.
Some of the older manipulators in
"the Street" say that the phrase
''watered stock" is due to an inspir-
alton of Daniel Drew, although some
credit it to James Fisk, who with
the late Jay Gould taught Wall
Street a few quips and quirks in
finance that it had never known
before. Fisk. it is said, never could
get away from the idea that the
sharpest manipulators in the tinan-
cial district were, after all, as bucolic
in their methods as the Veriest hay
seed" of Alfalfa Center. Fisk him
self had been a farmer and he had
a deep-dyed respect for the rural
gentleman who possessed "hard-
baked sense. He was one of that
class.
When Fisk commenced to burgeon
out in Wall Street those who had
cynically regarded his somewhat
rapid rise as a stroke of downright
luck pried into his antecedents,
especially after the brilliant financier
by an alchemy all his own, proved
how a five-million dollar concern
could easily trade on assets of five
times that amount.
Rumors were set adrift in "the
Street to the effect that before Fisk
came into the arena of finance he
had taken a flier in the raising of
livestock which was sold on the hoof
by weight, and that just before the
cattle or horses or hogs were driven
on the scales Fisk ContriVed to have
them gorged with water he, in the
meantime, having subjected them to
II hours thirst.
OF course the weights shot up in
a few minutes and an SOO-pound
steer, with five gallons of water
aboard. weighed $40 pounds. Some
one, 1t is said, discovered this plan
and thereafter Fisk's livestock were
alluded to as "watered stock"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Commissioner of Labor and In
dustry C. b. Connelley, who has been
ill, has recovered and is attending to
work again.
Col Edward Martin, State Com
missioner of Health, has been maxi
ing some inspections of dispensaries.
Highway Commissioner Lewis s.
Sadler continues to decline to make
speeches, although being asked al
most daily.
Arnold w. Brunner, the Capitol
Park architect, has given up his
southern trip so as to be able to COM
pIete the plans for the State work.
The Rev. L. w. Haines, Norris
town minister, is seriously i'll. He is
well known here.
city Engineer Nuebling, of
Reading, says that city must either
increase water rates or go dry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
THE RAILROADS RETURN
DRESIDENT WILSON has lifted
= a load of worry from the minds

DRESIDENT WILSON has lifted
a load of worry from the minds
of those who feared he might
railroads to their owners January
/. without that legislative prepara-
ton so necessary to a successful
transfer of the transportation sys-
TENS. The interval between the pres
ent and March l is ample for Con-
gress to work out a proper program
of action.
The people of America want to see
the railroads out of the hands of
the government. They know that,
whether in private or public hands,
the systems must have more funds
if they are to live, and they are
pretty we'll convinced that the neces-
sary increases in freight rates will
be less burdensome if the roads are
back in the hands of the companies,
with restoration of competition both
in tariffs and service, than would be
possible with the present eXtravagant
methods in force.
But let nobody suppose the re-
turn will be without discord. Much
depends, of course, upon the patriot
ism and wisdom of Congress with
respect to its course regarding the
railroads. Peanut politics or favorit-
ism must play no part in this tram
saction, if the public is to be pro-
tected and the roads given their
just dues. Neither the Cummins nor
the Esch bill is satisfactory in its
present form. But the Cummins
proviso for the creation of q Trans
portation Board to relieve the over
worked Interstate Commerce Com
mission is a step in the right direc-
ton. Its antistrike provision, how
ever gives fair promise of precipi-
tating a strike even before it is en-
acted. 1t is a useless, even perniciOus
clause, for it must be evident to
anybody that if the railroad men
want TO quit work all together some
utH tneS "oulu oe pToteCleu III peace
times in SO doing by their individual
rights under the Constitution, even
though such a strike might be a ma
tional catastrophe.
Hard common sense and fair play
must characterize every cons!dera-
ton of Congress in the railroad
transfer if the interests of all are to
be properly protected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
COlOred NeIUS From Russia
[AlonZo E. Taylor in the Saturday
Evening Post

ENenlnS POSI-.
The best information as to eco
nomic conditions in Russia is OBJ
tanned from Americans who have
long lived in Russia-engaged in
business enterprise or managemen
of industrial plants-who have per-
sonally not been disturbed by the
revolutionary government and who
have gradually come out because
they have grown tired of unsatisfac-
tory conditions of life.
They state that communism is a
failure and explain the reasons for
it, The writer has not found them
embittered and they will return to
Russia as soon as communism is re-
placed by capitalism, irrespective of
the form OF government. The neu-
trail nations, especially Sweden,
Denmark and Switzerland, have
maintained fairly close contact with
Russia, and The information avail
able in these countries corroborates
that obtained from Americans.
Information brought out by writ
ers who have made hasty trips into
Russia for purposes of propaganda,
for or against the present regime, is
usually so devoid of data and SO OBJ
viously motivated as to be of little
value. Americans who have looked
over Russia since the advent of the
soviet government belong TO one
of three groups: Those who have
talked with Lenine. those to whom
Lenine has talked and those who
have talked to him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
IT IS TO LAUGH

TTOW Cinnamon who have Wis
II tied this country must snicker
over the announcement that
Americans have endorsed the move
ment now afoot in China to save
Chinese girls and women from foot
gear that distorts their feet and ham,
pers their movements. What a great
joke it is that a nation given to the
wearing of high-heel, sharply pointed
shoes should turn its attention 10
helping the women of China to
proper footgear. May be, after Chi
nese women have learned to wear
low-heeled, sensibly designed shoes
they will send delegates to the
United States to teach our women
the folly of present-day shoe styles
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Orange Trees in North
Joseph f. Chamberlin in Scribner'
Magazine

[Joseph f. Chamberlin in Scribner's
Magazine.]
Marvels of adaptation will be
achieved, but they will not be
achieved without confidence and
that kind of patience that outlasts
life.
| had a friend, a Spaniard, who
though he lived in New England and
knew the bitterness of its winter
winds as we'll as any one, asked
me why we did not raise oranges
in Massachusetts. And let me eX-
plain that this Spaniard was not
n fool, but as wise n man as I ever
knew. He told me that far up on
certain high mountain in Spain,
at whose summit the snow some
times lies all summer, there is a
monastery which is occupied by a
most patient order of monks. For
centuries these monks, each gen.
GRAFTON taking up the task when
the one before it had laid it down,
carried the growth of the orange
higher and higher up the mountain,
until at last. acclimated, the trees
grew and throve and produced their
sweet fruit in the monastery gar
den; and no bitter winter wind can
longer wither them. why do you
not, then, do the same?" asked my
Spanish friend.
If we were like the monks of
Montserrat, or like Coburn of Kan
sas, perhaps we might eventually
have oranges growing in Berkshire
and Westchester orchards. If there
is now some enthusiast who is seek
ing to cover the barren slopes of
the Catskills with orange groves, /
shall at least associate myself with
him in spirit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Empty StOndchS in Europe
Elizabeth Frazer in the Saturday
Evening Post.

Elizabeth Frazer in the Saturday
Evening Post.]
It's the empty stomach that
makes your true radical; and the
empty stomachs in Europe would
make the American workingman
look like a c;Iricature of Taft.
Madame" said a woman one
day, halting me on a street in Brus-
sells, for the sake of humanity, and
because you are a woman, stop and
listen to me-" l listened. Il came
down here from Charleroi, where
my three children are, to see if
could get relief from the commit,
tee. But the head of the committee,
whom l must see, she is not in
town, and they told me to wait. But
have waited two days-and still
she does not return. And now
have spent all that / havef and
have no way to return to my chill
dren in Charleroi. The committee
tell me to wait. But l have no
money to wait-and / have no
money to returnl ask myself:
What are my children doing?'
Madame, ! think I am about to go
mad"
l poured some money into her
hand and she ran off, Sobbing,
toward the station.
do you suppose she was a
fraud?' / asked a Brussels member
of the relief committee the next
day"
ALAS, no." she replied. "Our poor
country is full to overflowing with
just such cases of desperate need"
AS a contrast to the above, the
other day there defiled past my win
dow in New York a Russian Bolshe-
visit parade-afterwar dispersed by
the police. The paraders, / OBJ
served, were comfortably clad, with
sturdy shoes and warm suits. Their
faces We're not gaunt or pinchcd No
abdominal emptiness here. The
vacuum was above the collar bone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
MORE PAY is JUSTIFIED

D ECISION of Congress to increase
the pay of soldiers disabled in
the war with Germany will
have the approval of the country.
No man wounded to the point of be-
ing unable to make living for him
self should ever be found selling lead
pencils on street corner or engaged
in any other semi-charitable means
of ekeing out livelihood. Some
day. perhaps. 1t will be necessary to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
One Gent
[From the Omaha News. I

An ingenious professor of mathe-
matics has figured out that 1 cent,
invested at the beginning of the
Christian era G,919 years ago) at a
rate of interest equal to the Gov
ernment Liberty Bonds, that Is, Az
per cent, with interest compounded
to date, would make 100000 globes
of solid gold, each the weight of the
earth.
The earth weighs six and twenty
one cipher tons. But the l cent with
its accumulations reduced to a mini
mum weight in gold at the rate of
$50 in tire ounce. would. he says,
make 100000 planets of the earth's
weight
The moral is: Save the pennies!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Meant What He Said

GFrom the Boston Transcript
isn't that an odd sign. Cigars for
Smoking?'" asked the man in the
tobacconist's shop.
"Oh, I don't know" answered the
proprietor. "I have cigars for
smoking. and then I have cigars for
Christmas presents"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27

place many men of the a. f. F. on
the Nations pension list, but at
present the people of the country
will be in accord with the sentiment
expressed by the American Legion.
which is that for the present only
disabled men should receive pay, and
they generously.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
By the Blood of Christ

If we call on, the Father who
without respect of persons judgeth
according to every mans work. pass
the time of your sojourning here in
fear: forasmuch as We know that We
be not redeemed with corruptible
things; but with the precious blood
of Christ, as lamb without blenoish
and without spot Peter /, IL to
10
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
Self Protection

[From the Kansas City Times.
Massachusetts is experiencing a
wave of reaction against prohibition.
The drys, having lot of idle time
or their hands. were understood to
be plotting a ban on beans and cod
fish.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27

pie are more orderly. which is we'll
worth any loss we may experience
by striking Ithe bar-rooms of our
lists as contributors to the public
budget.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27

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, 1919-12-27
SATURDAY, DECEMBER -, 1919

You tciU ind as you TOOK back
upon your life that the moments that
stand out, the moments tchen you
hare really Hred. are the moments
tchea vou have done things in spirit
Of lore.-HENRY DRUMMoND.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
The Difference

tFrom Kansas City Starl
The difference between saving
coal and saving daylight is that we
had the daylight to save.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
DO you KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has been
sending many tons of knitted
goods to coast cities for export?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first water system VIVA
projected for Harrisburg in the
thirties. but did not materialize fos
twenty years