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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
A SCHOOL PROGRAM

TT MIGHT be wen In the prepard-
ton of a school program for
l. Harrisburg uIder the new condi-
tions to provide for daily instruction
in our own municipal affairs. Girls
and boys should learn to know their
own home town and to realize what
tis necessary for the proper develop
1nent of the community. Each sue
fceeding generation must realize this
responsibility and practical instruc-
tion, from the grammar grades up, In
all that pertains to the improvement
sof the city ought to be provided
Essays by pupils on these subjects
,and open discussion in the older
CLASSES would be a help in this di-
'rection.
Unless the people are in thorough
accord with the policies of public
rexpansion and improvement there
must be a breakdown that in the
END will destroy what has been so
carefully built up over a consider
able period of years.
The youth of Harrisburg are the
~benefciaries of the municipal actiU-
ties of the last generation and they
should now be given to understand
in some intelligent way the part
which they are expected to play in
the future growth of Harrisburg.
Civic duty ought to be taught at the
earliest possible time in the school
life of the pupil, to the end that the
community may be as one in the de-
velopment that will come with the
years. Progress depends upon an
Intelligent conception of the respon-
sibility of the individual and the
girls and boys of to-day will be the
men and women of tomorrow.
Community service is a great
thing and it is being promoted con-
stantly and successfully by the vari-
Gus civic organizations of Harris
burg. We believe that still more
may be accomplished by these or
ganizations in the enlistment of the
school children through proper
training by the teachers. Much of
the malicious mischief which finds
an outlet in the destruction of
flowers and the damage Of orEamen-
tai street lampsan park property, is
the direct result of failure to prop
erIy instruct the boys in the home
and the school as to their personal
responsibility TO the community.
1t is interesting to observe that
The Chamber of Commerce OF Eliza
beth is sending speakers TO the vari-
Gus schools to tell the pupils about
the relation OF the organizations to
the community and their relation to
the business body and the commun-
ity. An Elizabeth contemporary
says ~thS boys and girls should be
set to roofing for their community
with the same enthusiasm and per-
sistence that they root for their in-
dividuai schools."
Community spirit is a great thing
and it ought TO be encouraged and
developed among the school chill
dren of Harrisburg in some consis-
tent and practical way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
Want Beauty. Not Plumbing
lWill Irwin in the Saturday
Evening Post I


In our anxiety to get results in
France we were often tactless from
a French point of view. This cause
of irritation was exaggerated by our
general ignorance of the language.
I wonder il the American schools,
after this, will teach us speaking
French instead of the book French
they taught in my generation.
And we ran into certain French
peculiarities which we found it hard
to understand. For example, early
in our war a fine old chateau near
Bordeaux was leased for a head
quarters. BY the terms of the lease
we were to leave everything exactly
as we found il. The chateau in its
four or five hundred years of exist
ence had never known sanitary
plumbing; the owners bathed in
sh-basins or rubber tubs. Expect
ing to stay long time. we installed,
by permission, drains, bathtubs,
toilets, a water heating system.
When, last January, we ended the
lease and moved out, the officer who
conducted the business offered to
leave the plumbing where it was,
since it's removal would cost as much
as it was worth. The French owner
refused. We had to take out our
plumbing. What ne wanted from
that chateau was not sanitation. but
venerable beauty, and the sense that
1 he dwelt in the same identical home
as his ancestor of the tenth gener-
alton back.
The American finds 1t hard TO un-
derstand such a point of viaX; and
ne is q bit brusque IN expressing hi
opinion thereon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
THEY HAVE CHANGED

TTOw our Democratic friends
have changed since the ram
pant rearing. tearing days of
dear old -Pftchfork Ben" T1liman.
Why in those times for Republican
to have introduced an appropriation
bill that smacked of pork or con-
tanned a thousand dollars more than
Democratic estimators figured it
should. would have been to invite
upon the head of the guilty Con-
gresham or Senator the awful wrath
OF southern statesmen who boasted
as much of the notches on their
guns as they did of their capacity
for Kentucky whisky.
That's how indignant Democratic
members of Congress used to be
when anybody suggested the expend-
.itures of public funds above absolute
needs of the country, unless said ex-
penditure happened to relate to
some government development be-
low the Mason and Dixon line.
But now, how changed; what a
Transformation do we witness! Here
comes a bin from President Wilson
for a million dollars for the remodel
ing of the Hotel Crillon-the Paris
White House. And not a single
Democrat so much as peeps.
The Democratic orator appears
suddenly to have contracted a bad
case of laryngitis and there is rust
on the trusty fork, erstwhile the
trusty weapon Of the late, lamented
'Pitchfork Ben"
Alas and alack, that there should
not be one of the old school Demo
Gratis left to protest over the waste
of this million dollars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
But People Haze Spoken
[Kansas CITY star.l

Both branches of Congress by a
two-thirds vote submitted a prohibi-
ton amendment to the people. The
States by more than a three-fourths
vote ratified its amendment.
In the face of this overwhelming
expression of opinion why should
the President seek to give a few
months longer lease on life to beer
and wines?
Under the existing law prohibition
will go into effect July 1. 1t will
take an act OF Congress to alter
this arrangement If there had been
no national expression on the sub
ject 1t might plausibly be argued
that the emergency responsible for
the law had passed and that the law
should be altered. But the Nation
has shown that it is against booze.
It has shown this in the most inn
pressive possible way by amending
the constitution.
1t is inconeeivable that after the
win of the people has been so reg
isfered Congress will so counter to
I At the xHnaas< Of the President.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
SOLDIERS RELIEVED

THREE days after convenfng, the
House of Representatives passed
the deficiency bill carrying ap-
preparations of over $I5,00O,0Oo.
about SO. 900 900 being for the pay
ment of overdue allowances from the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance. This
Is a concrete instance of what the
country has been forced to endure
because of the perversity of the
President in not calling Congress
together at an earlier date. For
fear that his precious League of
Nations would be criticized in the
Senate. with results disastrous to
his negotiations at Paris, he has
been content to see the families of
100000 soldiers. sailors and marines
suffer for want of the money due
them from the Government. The
money appropriated . is to cover
checks that should have nkzn sent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
HOW IT WORKS

A RECENT writer in Leslie's
II tells of the logical results of
Bolshevism in Yucatan. where
morality, church and industry. AS
in Russia, the women are classed
as property and the social system
which made Yucatan i've years ago
Mexico has been utterly destroyed
The doctrines Of the 1. w. w. were
planted in Mexico several years ago
and these principles. or lack of prin-
ciples, were the basis of exploitation
of the unhappy country, now suffer
ing the consequences of theories of
government at variance with every
known tenet of civilization and de-
cency. Anarchistic fanatics, many
of whom were illiterate, dominated
the country and, terroriziEg the peo-
pie, they have accomplished the ruin
of Yucatan.
Russia seems about to emerge
from the clouds and darkness which
have enveloped that unhappy land
under the Bolshevik regime and the
awful results of terrorism in the for
mer realm of the Car will undoubt-
edly 1--we a tendency to stop the
spread of the menace to other coun-
tries. Even Germany seems to have
| been aroused to the danger of Boil
shevism and intelligent Socialists of
the better order are uniting to over
throw the impossible doctrine of the
Trotzkys and Lenines everywhere in
Europe. 1t has never been seriously
believed in this country that the
Russian propaganda would find fer
tile soil here, owing to the wide
spread intelligence OF the working
man and the refusal OF the great
labor organizations to be drawn in
to the net Of anarchy and violence
But the sad story of Yucatan is i'm
pressive in the fact that within 30
short q time as four years a reason
ably prosperous and contented peo-
pie could be made to suffer through
the oeVeiopment OF government
ideas at variance with everything
necessary to the development and
welfare of a nation.
Wherever Bolshevism or l. w. w.
theories prevail it will be found that
religion is constantly attacked and
that church buildings are the object
of the frenzy OF men returned to
barbarism. In Yucatan churches and
cathedrals were destroyed and the
clergy prosecuted, exiled and abused,
the industrial life of the state was
practically wiped out and those who
disagreed with the dictators were
brutaIly executed. These victims
were principally among the educated
classes.
AS always happens where the Boil
shevist theories prevail. people in
the unhappy Mexican province are
starving and the resources of the
country are being consumed without
relief for the hapless people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Ex-Governor Edwin s. Stuart,
who participated in the Sproul re-
ception at Philadelphia last night,
succeeded the Governor as head of
the Union League.
George F. Holmes, former Phil
adelphia newspaperman and now
county commissioner, was here yes
terday.
-Brigadier General J. W. Mean
drew, the new head of the War Col
lege, is n native of Hawley, Wayne
county.
DIR. William Draper Lewis, who
spoke at the convention of people
interested in constitutional revision
yesterday. is an author of law books
and collaborated in a digest.
REPRESENTATIVE II. M. Showalter.
who stirred up people on Capitol
Hill by his remarks about the legis-
lative session. is a Lewisburg at
fornay
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
Soldiers Want to Come Home
[Forbes Magazine. !


Discomfort is seething among
American soldiers held in Europe.
They went over to lick Germany;
they have licked Germany; now
they demand that they be returned
home. They're through. They don't
give snap of their fingers whether
Poland gets Danzig, whether Italy
gets Fiume, whether Japan stays in
Kjao-Chau a month or a year, or
whether the Jugo-Slavs get all they
want or nothing they want. These
strong. outstanding. energetic am
bilious full-of-action young Amer
leans threw themselves with glow
ing fervor into the task of tanning
Germany. That was a mission
worthy of their manhood, worthy,
IL need be, of their lives. But now
that their object has been attained,
they feel that, so far as concerns
them 1t is about time, as one of
them expressed it. that 'the Watch
on the Rhine was wound up" In
viewing critically some of the COM
promises acceded to by President
Wilson Il will be we'll for Us 70
take into consideration the attitude
our troops in Europe are aaentlnR
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
A Muddled Mouiik
boston Transcript /

bOSIOH ITdnSCrIpLI
Mr.. Tower, former American Am
bassador to Russia told this story of
a typical moujik entering RAILROAD
station and inquiring when q certain
train would leave. He received the
information and departed.
A little later, however. he Was back
again, asking the same question
why" exclaimed the agent, 'T
told you that only minute ago"
you did truly" the moujik an
swered, "but II isn't myself that
wants to know this time. its my mate
nzzzzzaasf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
PAXTON CREEK

NTHEN the former Board of
wv Public Works completed the
Paxton Creek concrete chan
mel it was understood that this out
let of an obstreperous stream should
be kept free of debris along the en-
bankments. This has not been done
and there is now considerable COM
plant of the conditions which exist
in some sections of the channel. It
would seem that a definite plan
might be adopted for the cleaning
OF TIE inveFk = fraQuen1 intervals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
Thoroughly Prepared
[From Tit Bits, London. ]

Mr.. Tomkins was obliged to stop
overnight at small country hotel.
He was shown to his room by the
one boy the place afforded.
I'm glad there's an escape here
in case of fire." commented Mr..
Tomkins as he surveyed the room,
"but what's the idea of putting a
prayer book in the room in such
a prominent place?''
That" replied the boy, ''is in
tended for use in case the fire is
.ltss .ltsss Fsedyanced for you te,smake
Nolfr aana z.n ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
NEVER AGAIN
From New York Tribune1

One hundred years before Christ
100000 Germans invaded France,
numbering, burning. pillaging as
they went. At Aix-en-Provence they
were stopped and defeated. They
sued for peace and swore they would
never do it again. Sixty years after
ward 100000 Germans invaded the
Jura district of France. Six years
later 100000 Germans invaded the
territory between the Meuse and the
Disc. They were beaten. They swore
they would never do 1t again.
Sixty years before Christ the Ger
mans invaded the left bank of the
Rhine. Two hundred and thirty
years after Christ the Germans in
vaded France. They were beaten.
They swore they would never do IT
again. Twenty years later in another
invasion, another defeat, another SOL
emn pledge never again." In 274
A. d. the Rhone basin was invaded
by the Germans; in 275 Northeast
ern France. In sol Langres was pill
laged. The invaders were beaten
and they swore never again." In
351 they reconquered the left bank
of the Rhine. In 354 they devas-
tated Lyons, in $50 Besacon. In
S64 they invaded and plundered Bel
gium.
Here is the chronology of the sub
sequent invasions: 372, 382. 400
410. 41s. 500, S5s, s7S, 1924. 1914
1913, 1921. 1923. 1886, 1914, 1862
1853, 1857. 1869. 1875. 1887. 1896
1874. 1875, 1907, 1908, 1744. 1892
1898. 1914. 1915. 1870. 1914. Thirty
three invasions ina little over fif-
teen hundred years. an average oi
one invasion every fifty years.
When they were successful, the
Germans celebrated with unspeak.
able atrocities. Whenever they were
beaten they swore they would never
do 1t again.
lie Matin." which prints the above
statistics, recalls that three DAYS be.
fore the outbreak of the world war
Herr Haase, the German Socialist
leader. solemnly declared at Brus'
sells that the German proletariat
would oppose war to the utmost
Three days later Herr Haase voted
for the war budget.
Four and a half years ago, the
Germans again invaded France
Again they were beaten. And nov
they swear they will never. do il
again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29

to the end that damage may not be
caused by stoppage of the water
flow and inundation of the business
district which has been freed of the
menace of flood through the build
ing of the channel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
Referred to Mr.. Baker, ct al

[From the st. Paul Pioneer-Press.l
ITO our general unpreparedness
must be attributed the loss Of many
thousands of brave men,
No, this is not a quotation from an
American "militarist." 1t is taken
from the final report of Sir Doug
las Haig
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
One Bond of sympathy

[From the Topeka State Journal.
President Ebert declares that the
German people were hypnotized by
President ilson. Well, they have
nothing on he American voters who
were subjes ed to similar influence
in 1915
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29

Members of the Associated Press-The
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
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Horses used to be raced on
the river front below Market street
in the old days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-29
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is . dis
tributing point for automobile
tires and that many are shipped
from here daily?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-01
Mk local and F6reiqr,
Markets

Receipts 1000; pigs strong: heavy
and mixed. $1780@1790; Workers.
$17.75@17.S0; light Workers.. $4,000
$780,. pigs $16.50@16.75: throw-outs
$12.00@15.50; stays s10.00@13.00:
Canadians $1I35@1760. Sheep and
Lambs-Receipts 1000, strong; lambs
$11.O001S.00: others unchanged.
CHICAGO, Feb. Chicago U. S.
Bureau OF Markets-Hogs-Re Receipts.
1000; market, firm to lOc higher on
best weighty butcher hogs; one load
fancy heavy, S17.S5; other grades gen.
orally steady; bulk of sales, $3.50
1910; butchers. $17.5O@17.75: light,
$16.50@17.50; packing, $16.50@17.40;
throw-outs, $15.75; pigs, good to choice
$12.50@15.50.
Cattle = Receipts. 1000 compared
with week ago, medium to choice
beef steers and butcher stock, % to
SOC higher Gamers, cutters, stockers,
feeders and calves, % to soc lower
Sheep-Receipts, 500 compared with
week ago fat lambs and yearling,
mostly 35 to soc higher; sheep, 10 to
15c higher; feeders, firm.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-01
County Has Complete
Record of Tax DODGERS

Every delinquent tax account due
Wayne county for the past ten years
has now been traced and placed on
record, and the county is going to col
lect every one of them if it lies in
human power to do so.
o. d. Cosler of Indianapolis, who
has been in the county treasurer's
office for four weeks, tracing these
accounts, made the above statement
Saturday morning.
Due the county for this period In
delinquent taxes is about 100000, and
of this amount about SIT, 900 already
has been collected. Cosler and the
county officials are going after the
rest vigorously Many people thing,
said Cosler, that taxes cannot be paid
until the first Monday in May. when
the fact is that they are due and
payable any day after the first of Jan
uary; or they may be paid in two in
stallments due the first Monday in
May and the first Monday in No
vember.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-01
MRS! MRS, EMILY P. yE0
DIES AT HOME HERE

In the death of Emily P. Yeo, 81
years old, Richmond loses one OF it's
oldest citizens and almost life long
residents. She was the daughter Of
Francis w. and Susan B. Erwin Rob-
inson aud granddaughter Of John and
Elizabeth Plat Erwin. Through par
ents and grandparents she had an un-
usual knowledge Of everything con-
nected with the early settlement and
history of Richmond and a deep and
sympathetic interest in the life and
work of every citizen and the develop
ment of every phase of its civil life
Not less vital was her interest in nat
ional and international questions and
the men and women who were cngag-
ed in doing things that were worth
while and worth to be made eternal.
With all her ability, physical, fl
nancial, mental and spiritual, she con-
tributed to every good cause, only
grieved that she could not do more,
to aid the work, and comfort and en-
courage the workers.
She kept her interest in everything,
being unusually we'll posted in all the
news of the day and in passing on to
others that which she had cleaned.
She was devotedly attached to her
friends and desired that forgiveness
and mercy should go hand in hand
with justice and fair dealing.
She fell quietly asleep like a child
at thirty-five minutes past eleven
o'clock on Friday evening. Jan. 81.
She was married on March 3. 1857,
to Jonas w. Yeo. who died in 1879.
To them were born three sons, Henry
Martin, Herbert Robinson and Will
lard r. Yeo. Bert, as he was familiar
ly known, died in 1888, at the age of
10 years, Harry M. Yeo and two daugh-
ters. Ruth A. and Emily B. Willard
Yeo, and wife Mary q. and two daugh-
tiers, Matilda M. and Natalie r. YeO.
and one son. Erwin p. Yeo survive her
Two sisters. Mary A. Robinson, and
Mrs Anna r. Turner, and an only
brother, Henry E. Robinson. proceed
ed her in death. Fonr sisters. Mrs.
George w. Barnes. Misses Eleanora H.
and Frances M. Robinson and Mrs. S.
e. Swayne, with many other relatives
including nephews and nieces and
their families are included in the
large family circle who will miss her
kindly interest and love.
She took the warmest interest in
young people and was connected for
a number of years with Chappaqua
Mountain Institute, Friends Board
ing school in New York state. retain
ing her helpful influence over the stu
dents in their after life.
She was an interested worker in
the First Day school and often took
part in the vocal ministry of Friends
meetings within the limits of both In
diana and New York Yearly meetings.
She was active in temperance. equal
suffrage and reform work.
The funeral services will be held at
her home, 206 North Eleventh street,
Monday, February 3, at o'clock.
1t was her request that flowers be
omitted.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-01
FRUIT & VEGETABLES
,co''sc!ed na!iy by Eggemeye~s)
SELLING PRIcEs
VEGETABLES


New cabbage. &c pornd: Chinese
cabbage, zoe pound: green beans, zoe
pound; carrots, sc pound; spring
bcets, &c pound; cauliflower, 15c lb.
cucumbers, SOC; egg plant, Csc pound 4;
kohlrabi. 10c per bunch; Leaf lettuce.
Csc per h.; head lettuce, trimmed
Csc pound, untrimmed 25 cents pound
leak, loo bunch; Bermuda onions
&c per h.; parsley, &c bunch; man
goes, &c each; tomatoes, hot house
grown, 35c h.; Jersey sweet potatoes
10c h.; turnips, new, sc pound; pota
toes, old, $1.75 bu.; young onions
10 cents ounch; breakfast radishes
10c bunch; button mushrooms, $500 a
pound; cranberries, 80 cents pound |;
sprouts, 35c straight; parsnips, &c Id. /;
Black walnuts. 1Jc pound, SO so blu. /:
straight; Malaga grapes, 40c pound /;
pumpkins and squashes, &c to sc per
pound.
Miscellaneous
Eggs, 45c; butter, creamery, 55c !;
country, 47c ID.
Produce (Buying)
Country butter, 40c h.; Eggs, SIC
dozen; old chickens. &c pound; fry
chickens. 24c pound
Fruits
Grape fruit, 10c, 15c and 1Sc; ALI.
gator pears, SOC each: bulk King
apples, 1Oc h., or S1.75 per basket;
Jonathan apples, lbs. Csc; bananas.
10c lb.; lemons, 30c doz; lines, SOC
doz.; oranges, soc doz.; strawberries,
S100 Qt
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-01
Arrange for Discount to
Be Giuen Soldier Buyers
(By Associated Presss

NEW YORK, Feb. Ito enable
discharged sailors and soldiers to OBJ.
tain civilian clothing more cheaply,
the Shopping bureau of the National
League for Women's Service, has ar
ranged with number of mems furn-
ishing establishments here to allow
low all former enlisted men substant-
ial discount, it was announced here
today. A majority of the merchants
have agreed to ten percent, discount,
said the announcement, while one has
notified the bureau he will allow the
men discount of thirty percent on
clothing.
The action of the bureau was taken,
it was said, because many former
sailors and soldiers did not have
enough money to buy outfits of civil
ian clothing. The granting of the dis
count will enable them to do so.