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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
PROGRESS IN RUSSIA
[From the Kansas City starl


While the Bolshevist government
in Russia makes the most noisg-as
Is natural, seeing that 1t does most of
the shooting-if ought not to be for
gotten that there are other govern
ments in Russia, that by processes
less spectacular and riotous are
making steady progress. The Omsk
government. of which Admiral Kol-
chak Is the head, controls vast area
in Siberia and has been recognized
by the Russian Liberals as the center
of their hopes.
Bolshevist sympathizers in this
country have represented Kolchak
as reactionary, and leader of the
forces that would restore the 'czar.
This view of the man Is controverted
by his own words and by the course
of events.
Tho admiral is the young naval
officer who was in charge OF the
Black Sea fleet in the revolution of
1917. He Immediately recognized
the sailors committees and was able
to handle the situation without Sc
rious disorder. When he became head
of the Omsk government last autumn
he announced that he would not
"enter upon the disastrous path of
reaction" but would await the ac-
| ton of a national assembly to be
summoned as soon as practicable.
| His cabinet is q coalition, with half
of the members Socialists.
Recently at Ekaterinburg Admiral
Kolchak attended q joint meeting of
the municipal council and zemstvo
assembly at which he outlined the
purposes of his government and
pledged it to the support of con-
stituent assembly whenever the Rus
sian people are free to choose one.
from reactionary. He said. as re-
ported in Struggling Russia, the
weekly magazine published by the
Russian information bureau:
! The program of the government
is to re-establish the economic and
political life of the country in close
cooperation with the organs of
local self governme ment-municipalities
and zemstvos. The first task of the
government is to re-establish the
rule of law and order, the rule de-
stroyed by Bolshevism from the Left
and the Right The government will
fight, without and possibility of
compromise. the Bolsheviki of the
Left and of the Right, with the pur-
pose of establishing n great, free,
sia will be democratic Russia. The
government. of which I have the
honor to be the head, believes in
universal suffrage. in the autono-
nous development of the nationali-
ties comprising Russia, in a demo-
cratic, solution of the main Russian
problems; the land problem and the
labor problem"
According to the report OF this
meeting in Struggling Russia, the
president of zemstvo assembly an
nounced that the peasants of the re-
gion had collected more than a
million rubles for the army of which
Admiral Kolchak is commander-in-
chief: that the representatives of the
Socialists -Revolutionists announced
that the party had excluded all those
of its members who had held ne.
gotiations with the Bolsheviki and
that the Peoples Socialist party de.
clared its entire adhesion to the
fOmsk government and it's program
of no compromise with Bo1shevism
We should say that leader ex.
pressing the views of Admiral Kol.
chalk three years ago would have
been regarded as dangerous agi-
tator and harebrained radical.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
The Spirit of The American Legion
William slavens McNutt Golfers Weeklyl

Hey, doc" the young fellow
called weakly.
What is it, son the major
asked, bending above him.
Tell me, doc" the boy begged
huskily. Am lam bad hit?"
The major looked at the descrip-
tive slip with which the wounded
boy was tagged and hesitated. He
knew the young fellow had less
than half an hour of life left in him.
well, I'll tell you, son." he said
slowly. you're in a pretty bad
way, but we're going to do all we
can for you
The boy-who was a very ordi-
nary young fellow, as have said
saw the truth under the thin camou.
fiage of kindness.
He knew he was dead. He caught
his breath quickly, closed his eyes,
and reaching up. caught hold of the
majors hand and held it tightly for
a little time.
Then he sighed. opened his eyes,
and folded his arms contentedly on
his breast. He looked up at the
major, and there was the calm light
of a glad resignation on his face.
"Well. anyhow" he whispered,
triumphantly, II guess I made good,
didn't ~
You sure did, son." the major
assured him.
The boy smiled again and died,
happy in the knowledge that he had
made good in his personal obliga-
ton to establish the principles of
Justice. freedom and democracy
That's the spirit that the Ameri-
can Legion wants to crystalline. to
perpetuate, to preserve and trans
late into terms of constructive civil
lam effort that will insure the con-
tinuation in force of the principles
that the soldier fought to save.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
TRIUMPHANT FRANCE
New York Times. ]

our entire war finance was a tri-
umph, and the Victory Loan crowns
the achievement. 1t will be week
or two before all the Implications are
corrected and the precise figures are
known, but il is sure that the Fifth
Loan. like all before 1t. was oveg-
subscribed. The Treasury asked the
people altogether for $1S, 500, 600, 600,
and there was offered "above and
beyond the line of duty" something
more than the largest single loan in
addition to the requisitions. AS a
result. the United States alone among
the belligerents has all it's war loans
funded before the war is ended.
Moreover, our currency is the only
currency in leading commercial ma
tions which is in normal condition.
That is q recital of fact, not boast,
and il is put on the record in re-
membrance of how much easier 1t
was for us than for others, whose
practice hitherto has been better
than ours, and whose difficulties in
this war have been incomparably
greater than ours. We acted at our
leisure. with the errors OF others as
a warning. They acted almost over
night. with the sound of hostile
bombs and cannon in their ears. and
did what they could. not what they
would. The facts are to our credit,
but show only our discharge of our
duty to ourselves. The cleaning of
our slate only puts us in condition
to return in The way of finance the
service our cobelligerents did to our
common civilization in arms, by
holding In check and wearing down
our enemy until We could give the
final blow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
Appreciate the Telegraph

Colonel L. V. Rausch, who has
been in the service since the begin
ming of the war and who is located
at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for
some months, but who is now on
special duty at Washington. writing
to the circulation department of the
Telegraph, directing a change of
address says:
The Telegraph has been the
source of a great deal of informa-
ton about the homefolks and doings,
the receipt of which lightens the
burdens of camp life very much. 1
have found correspondence during
busy weeks iaborious and entirely
unsatisfactory on account of delays,
but to have the home paper arrive
daily was satisfaction, the extent
of which cannot be described. II
any one has any complaints to make
about the Harrisburg Telegraph,
should say that an absence from
home for month or more during
which time they receive the paper
by mail would change their opinion
entirely"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
"Structurdl Weakness"

The Rev. DIR. George B. Stewart.
president of the Auburn Theological
Seminary. and former pastor of
the Market Square Presbyterian
Church in this city. whose long SER
vice as trustee of Princeton College
gave him opportunity to learn Pres
ident Wilson's characteristics, has
written the following letter to
Colonel George Harvey's Weekly:
"Sir.-Permit me to express my
great sa tisfaction with both of your
publications. Your attitude toward
the President. who is so conspicu-
ously misrepresenting the American
people. and toward his various
schemes is quite in harmony with
my views. Nv long personal ac-
quaintance with him has made me
fully aware of the structural weak
ness in his character and leads Inc
to the confident opinion that he is
a most dangerous man. I am pleased
that your two publications are rem
dering such noble service to the
country.
George >. Stewart.
Auburn. n. Y.s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
Spending and Taxing Under the
Sixty-sixth Congress

From the New York Sun.l
OENATOR PENROSE'S financial
- program is so sound, so wise
~ and so necessary that it scarcely
needs discussion. AS put forth by
the Senator, it explains and COM
mends itself:
Il. Repeal of the luxury taxes.
"2. Installation of a budget sys-
tenn.
"3. Simplification of the tax laws.
81. Reduction of taxation of indi-
viduals.
"5. Investigation of war expendi-
lures.
"6. Repeal of all powers hereto
fore granted for price fixing and
other forms of interference with le-
gitimate business"
Yet in respect of an early realiza-
ton of these sound aims, Senator
Penrose and all of us may be doomed
to disappointment. The new Con-
gress can cut prodigal and foolish
appropriations. The new Congress
can practice simple and safe tax
methods. The new Congress can
perfect the budget system. The new
Congress can erect stone wall in
front of the financial waste and ex-
I1aNdBdHCet lue tCOlOlhlC
which have threatened and harassed
the American people under the Con-
gress which they rejected last No
vember. But the new Congress may
not be able for some time to take
the tax pressure off the American
people.
We can't estimate, we can't guess,
what unpaid bills-heritage of the
incompetent management. the wild
spending. the reckless waste of the
last two years-must be provided for
by the new Congress, These are not
counted merely by hundreds of mill
lions; they are counted by billions of
dollars
The new taxes. which will not all
be in until the end of this year, were
all spent long ago. The whole
amount OF the Victory Loan just
now closed was spent long ago.
Neither the proceeds of the tax levy
nor the proceeds of the Victory Loan
will all be in for many monthsi
but if every penny of both were in
tomorrow it would not make very
deep dent what the United States
! Government owes. If there were
another Victory Loan cashed into
the Treasury next month 1t wouldn't
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
The Honeymoon Trout

incidentally. with the instructive
feminine desire for an anchor to
windward, l stealthily baited a worm
on q dropline and let it noiselessly
down over the side of the boat. |
committed the atrocity during low
visibility, so that it was executed
without detection. And then we
had pushed gently up toward the
inlet of the river, with nothing more
stirring than intonating frogs.
Finally, when the stars were quite
out. My Fisherman reluctantly
reeled in his line and gave the good
word for home. 1t was almost at
the precise moment that the guides
oars caught the water that | felt the
indescribable tug at my line. ] had
almost forgotten that | had a line.
/ had absently held my hand over
the gunwale, letting my fingers trail
in the cool water. My first thought
was that | had caught bottom. |
had a mental flash of the guides
face when he learned how | had
been deceiving him, and he was
forced to maneuver around with an
oar to free my hook. y second
flash made me abandon hook, bait
and sinker, and thus avoid all com =
plications of an unpleasant nature.
But third flash was an unmistak-
able triple tug on the line. After
that | screamed, and began to pull
in, hand over hand.
There were shrill barbaric cries of
Let him rum Let him run! Give
him line. Give him line. Don't
pull him in like an anchor! Play
him, Play him." And then that
Of hnnnN-
moon: II command you to give
me that line"
With the memory of marriage
vows still in my ears, | realized in
stantly that l was undone. Even in
that ear-splitting confusion, | knew
that / should have TO obey Let
modern brides smile as they will
over the absurdities of the marriage
ceremony. When primitive man
calls in no uncertain voice TO un-
hand. it is best to unhand. But first
| intended to have one more wild
fling of freedom. I sid both hands
deep i'm the water and took firm
twist on the line. Then | braced
my shoulders for n mighty heaVe
With a quick thrust of my knees
reared suddenly to my feet, threw
nv arms high and wide and!
Well, that night back at the cab
in. after we had supper and the
guide had built us a huge wood
fire, l could still feel myself sprawl
ing madly in the bottom of that
leaky boat, scrambling and slipping
clawing madly with everything en-
cept my teeth TO keep that dact
from skittering back to the deep
From The Making of an Anglers
Wife," by Ruth Danenhower Wilson
in the May Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
BILLS TO BE SUPPORTED

"HE purpose of the Hess bills,
providing that the Supreme and
Superior Courts of Pennsylvania
shall be established at the State
Capital, is to bring about the same
situation as prevails in other States.
The city of Albany is the seat of
the appellate courts of New York,
Jefferson City is where the higher
courts of Missouri sit, Columbus is
the headquarters of the similar tri-
bunals of Ohio and Richmond is the
center of all government in Virginia.
These States have capitals located
midway between their two largest
cities. From a geographical stand
point, the situation is the same as
in Pennsylvania.
II the higher courts of Pennsyl-
vania were located here there would
be greater dignity attached to the
courts and the eminent men who
occupy the benches, because the
fact that they are the State judici-
ary is rather lost to sight in the
larger cities, which have their own
important courts; in time it would
bring a distinctive home for the
courts and offices for the judges;
some are of the opinion that 1t
would decrease litigation and there
can be no question but what it
would bring that concentration of
governmental activities, executive,
legislative and judicial, which pre-
walls elsewhere.
The Hess bills are in a committee
Of the House and should be prompt
ly reported and passed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
the war before the Allies had

the war before the Allies had
marched through Berlin.
While German militarism has
been crushed. the people are still
obsessed with the idea of their su-
periority over all the other peoples.
On this point writer says: "If she
can find some way in the future by
bluff. by intrigue. by underhand in
sistent endeavor to again ride over
her conquerors, she will do it,
Under the circumstances, there is
no Justification for the weak atti-
tude of those who profess to believe
that poor Germany" has been pun
ished enough and that her plight
should not be made more serious.
Unless the Hun is securely shackled
and until he realizes the enormity
of his offending, the world will not
be safe from another brutal out
break in one form or another.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19

umns about his remarkable men
tality-and then silence. A long
silence broken this week by the sad
news from Boston that the model
youth, at the age of twenty-one. had
been sentenced to eighteen months in
the penitentiary for assaulting an
officer and leading a Bolshevist pa
rade.
And so endeth the experiment that
was to demonstrate the ability of
fond parents to make men of boys
without waiting for the years to do
their part. Boys will be boys" and
anybody who butts into this dictum
of the ancient sage may expect to
reap the dire consequences.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19

clean up the Governments bills.
Probably it wouldn't half clean them
up.
The new Congress, which had
nothing to do with the appropriate
ing of the last two years, has got
to provide for the paying. 1t is an
imperative duty which the new Con-
gress has to perform. 1t is a colossal
work which the new Congress has to
do-paying, on top of the current
costs of the Government, for a dead
war horse to the tune of billions and
billions of dollars.
We may be thankful that it is not
wildeyed Kitchin Congress, but a
Congress of economic sense, training
and experience that is on the job.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
THE American soldier in the
Great War dedicated his life

TIIE American soldier in the
Great War dedicated his life
TO the establishment of justice,
freedom and democracy in the
world. Analytical wise guys have
been busy ever since America got
into the war furnishing cynical ex-
plantations of the American fighting
mans impelling motive.
In spite of the complex arguments
of the analytical psychologists who
can understand anything but the
simple sincerity of an honest man,
the American soldier did fight III war
for the establishment of those prin-
.ciples, and he has every intention
of working in peace for the preser-
vation of that for which he fought.
l talked of the purposes of the
American Legion with Colonel
Roosevelt. In his conversation, as
he explained them to me, the word
'crystallization" occurred again and
again.
I'VE want" he said, "to crystal
lize the spirit that made it possible
for us to get into this war and to
night it as we did"
Do you realize, you who read this,
Wndt that spirit is that TINS organ
ization wants to crystalline and pre-
serve? I'll give you an example of
1t that l saw.
a shattered church in the Marne
salient during the latter part of
July: 1t was filled with freshly
wounded on stretchers. The shells
were whining over and bursting
about it. a slim, big-eyed, very
boyish boy was brought in all shot
to pieces. He was a very ordinary
American boy, certainly not more
than is. A medical major was
passing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
No Protest Left
rKansas City Star.1

"I am unable to believe" said
Chancellor Scheidemann that this
earth could bear such a document
without cry issuing from millions
of throats in all lands, without dis
tinction of party: Away with this
murderous scheme
The chancellor forgets that the
millions of throats became too hoarse
protesting against Germany's mur-
derous schemes to have any strength
left to protest against stearn but
Just peace imposed upon the author
of those schemes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
SPRING RAIN

The raindrops dancing on the pools
and hiding in the grass,
And cutting capers like gang of
fairies as they passi
Oh, let them dancel A goediy rain,
and when the summers
through,
And bumper crops delight our
eyes, by goily, we'll dance,
tool-Tennyson J, Daft,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Harrison s. Blount, we'll known
resident of Palmerton, has taken
charge of the work of the Carbon
County Historical Society connected
with the war.
Bishop ]. II. Darlington spoke
last evening at Holy Trinity Church
in Philadelphia.
IS. NJ. Vauciain, the locomotive
builder, is being congratulated upon
his birthday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1919

DidSt ever think hoic souls hare size
And trei0ht and measure in Gods eyes,
So other than the treight aud span
And measure giren them 5y mGn'
joaquin Miller.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19

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Associated Press is exclusively en-
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of all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
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All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

A series of conferences here
about 1890 brought about the for
nation of the real opposition to the
Federalists in early Statehood days,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is again
making engines for electric
plants?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19

Harrisburg Is not sws~Ass - -
MORALS. For a place wa y -
tory of 200 years and town ~%@A
has participated in many stirses-
events, n State capital and trans
portation center with a rare record.
1t takes no pains to tell 1t. Not a
tablet marks any of its historic sites.
The grave OF the man who saw its
advantages in the dim distance of
1918 is, as Mr.. Miller says, practical
ly forgotten. The home of a real
statesman, who was conspicuous in
making this the capital and who
dominated much of the Susquehan-
ma valley. is not known to one in
each of the hundreds who pass IL in
daily walks along the river front
which he preserved for the public.
There is nothing to show where the
first Legislature sat in Harrisburg.
The place of Harrisburg I'm carly
railroad history. as In State political
history, is neither written nor COM
memorated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-19

NE ORE of Harrisburg's veterans
N of the Twenty eighth Division
49, are coming home soon. The
The Washington times., 1919-03-18
A Big Arm Chair and a Tall Lamp
They Will Make Good Present for Your Soldier
A letter from young woman asks his.question:

letter from a young woman asks this, question:
''What would be good present to have ready for
soldier when he comes home? l am not talking any
foolish sentimental least not about this soldier for
he is my brother. | want to give him some little
SURPRISE and my mother and l cannot agree on what
it should be. What is your advice?
The best present for every soldier is the smiling happy
faces of his family and friends and that of his mother
above all.
The next best present that could be made would be six
months pay from the Government Considering that he
gave up his job and ready to give up his fe neces
sary the Government might make easy for him to look
around and place himself without having to crowd some
woman out of work.
In the way of practical suggestion offer this while
waiting for suggestions from readers:
If you afford it, get for the returned soldier big
WIDE comfortable chair Pin little sign it
reading: ''This is waiting for you
Back of the chair put of those movable tall lamps
placed that the light will fall the soldiers left
shoulder upon the page he sits and read.
There is something about special chair that appeals
to the imagination The sign of ngly power is great
chair throne The first proof of dignity is the babys
high chair The sign of is the old gTandfahers
chair close by the fire, saved for him.
real welcoming present for the soldier would be a
brand chair with deep comfortable cushions and
good tall handsome reading lamp, all brand and
waiting and not necessarily costly. The back from
the army has been sitting hard seats and reading your
letters by poor light Nobody has paid much attention
his comfort Personal attention careful Thought double
the values of gift
So we suggest the arm chair and lamp What do our
readers suggest?