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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
KISSES AND Boards

1t is so easy to understand what
the Americans say, because they talk
so loud-it is not the same loudness
as of the French. and one day I have
laughed to hear in a bus how two
girls of the Y. NJ. c. A. have talked.
There was one who was not at all
pretty, except to be young, who has
regarded a French gentleman who
wore his beard long. Look" she
said, what a horrible beard. Imag-
inc to be kissed by anyone like that"
Then they have both laughed.
The other one has said then: "I
suppose his grandfather wore his
beard long, so he does the same"
and the first one has replied: Yes,
it is always like that. What was
good enough for your grandfather in
France is good enough for you"
was not angry to hear them
speak So because, you know, they
were very ignorant. For me. I do
not think that they have known very
much the emotion of to be kissed.
or they would have understood that
it is not whether or not one has a
beard that makes the difference
From the london Bystander's Paris
Letter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
AN HL-TIMED MYSTERY

[From the Phila. Evening Ledger
1t is perfectly obvious that the
keynote of the coming Victory Loan
campaign should be joyous. The
shadow of appalling tragedy hung
over the previous bond-selling en-
terprise. There was little evidence,
even last fall, that the financial sue
cess of the loan would mean an inn
mediate end of the slaughter.
But the curse is lifted now and
the money which the Government
wants is to pay for the triumph
of the right which has been achieved.
Vigor-plenty of it-should char
acterize the campaign. 1t should,
however, be cheerful energy, lusty
and good -humored.
Outside such a category fall the
.lurid posters bearing the ominous in
scription, Beware Poison Cas-, and
followed by a cryptic interrogation
point. The loan committee confesSes
to knowing the precise meaning OF
these placards, which have appeared
not only on walls and fences but
actually on the boarded-up windows
of some private houses.
Residents of the Rittenhouse
Square district had a little shock
when they saw these haming signs
Yesterday. The mental specter of
Bolshevism appeared. But even
though that spirit can in this in
stance be laid, the posters are not
eye -gladdening.
Advertising that is alarming miss
es fire. The display of these threat
ening posters was not a good idea.
Ingenuity should delight, not dis
quiet, those to whom the appeal is
made
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
First Yankee Division in the Argonne

ground where the 35th had fought
desperately. The dead of the 35th
were in groups in the EXermont ra-
vine. When the men of the 1st saw
them they knew how good it was
TO be veterans under eXacting, COM
petent direction; for veterans do not
bunch under the enemy's fire. This
is giving the enemy a target.
And Summerall was in command, I,
He had led the 1st in the drive to-
ward scissors. He is a leader COM
pounded of all kinds of fighting
qualities, a crusader and a calculat-
ing tactician, who, some say, can be
gentle as the sweetest natured chap
lain, while other say that he is
nothing but birthstone and ruthless
determination. The 1st, with Sum-
neral in command! We knew it
would "go through! 1t had always
gone though. This was the part
cast for the 1st in the A.,E +.
"As per schedule" the brief di-
visional report begins the account
of this operation--a report which
is the coldest prose have ever read
for as hot a piece of work as l have
ever seen. l am not sure that among
his other names the general might
not be called Per Schedule" sum
neral.
Four new German divisions were
identified on the lists front on the
first days attack. Constantly, un-
daunted by casualties, the division
Kept plowing ahead, blasting the
enemy's counter attacks before he
could bring enough troops to bear,
Keeping the initiative in its own
hands.
When the 1st came out, its losses
were more than 5000 in killed and
wounded. Half of its infantry was
out of action, 1t had paid the price,
but it was the price of a vital sue
cess. If in future years you should
ever ride down the valley of the
Aire, as you look up at those hills
which command all the valley and
the gap of Grand Pre-, you may con-
clude that not only the 1st, but the
other divisions which fought through
their machine gun nests and under
brush were capable of deeds Which
make Lookout Mountain appear
somewhat less of battle by com
parison than some of us think that
it was.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
THURSDAY, APRIL Il, 1919
INDIFFERENT

TIME TELEGRAPH has made an
earnest effort to arouse inter-
est in the shade tree need of
this city. but we admit failure in
securing from the City Council any
definite action in the matter of a
commission which would have the
planting and treatment of shade
trees along our streets as its princi-
pal business.
Action should have been taken
long ago to protect the trees which
are rapidly disappearing through ne
glect and indifference, but it is not
yet too late to adopt practical meas
ures for their preservation. Time
was when the overhead wire cor
porations deliberately interfered in
this matter for selfish reasons, but
we doubt whether this influence is
responsible for the failure of the
municipal authorities to create a
Shade Tree Commission under the
law passed by the Legislature a few
years ago.
1t seems more matter of delib-
crate indifference.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TEACHER PROTESTS
To the Editor Of The Telegraph:

10 inc bditof 0t thC Ictegrdph
] was sorry to see the enclosed
article "350,00O teachers declared
unfit. Cleveland, Ohio-"At least
half the teachers in the United States
are not fit to teach. We ought to
get rid of $4,000 of them" declared
d. b. Waldo. president of the West
ern State Normal School, Kalama-
zoo, Michigan, last night before more
than 1000 delegates to the North
eastern Ohio Teachers Association
in convention here" in your issue
of Saturday evening, April IL. Such
an unqualified statement as this may
create wrong impressions and hurt
us in our campaign for State aid to
increase teachers salaries.
l am sure that Mr.. Waldo did not
stop with this bare fact. 1t may be
true that $4,000 teachers in the
United States are not fit to teach
and that we ought to get rid of them.
If you had given the reason for
this sad condition of affairs, it could
have been used as an asset in favor
of giving teachers salaries high
enough to attract and hold the right
kind of people in the teaching busi-
ness.
lowered to keep the schools of the
United States open during the past
year, and it is to maintain the STAN
dards we have fought so hard to win
that we are asking the Legislature
to pass the Woodruff bill Can YOU
wonder that many persons unfit for
the work are now teaching school
when 10000 of the $4,000 teachers
in Pennsylvania alone make less than
5000 a year.
l know that your paper has al
ways been in sympathy with our
cause, and | have many times thank
ed you in the name of the teachers
of Harrisburg for your splendid arti-
cles in our behalf. / am sure that
the article in Saturday evenings
paper was not published with any
intention to hurt us. Nevertheless
I was sorry to see such an unouali-
fed statement go before the public.
Sincerely yours,
ELIZABETH S. BAKER.
Pres. Harrisburg Teachers League,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
In Defense of Policemen

The policemen is a general sized
man, with large feet and an extra
large nerve. With no weapons save
an abbreviated club and a high eX-
plosive vocabulary, he is expected to
control crowds of infuriated citizens,
chase murderers into dark alleys
and bring them out in recognizable
form, or capture gangs of desperate
yeggmen without losing his hat or
tearing his uniform. His duties re-
quire him either to walk thirty or
forty miles a day, or to stand on
one spot for hours at time; SO his
feet have a better excuse for being
large than have most feet. Police
men are always ready to help child
rem remember where they live, as
sist ladies to cross the street, punch
masculine flirts on the nose and ac-
cept the position of leading man in
any riot, no matter how large or
boisterous. Consequently they
should not be critized too severely
when they sneak into a convenient
garage for a nap and a cigar
Kenneth L. Roberts in Judge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
CLEANUP WEEK

AYOR KEISTER has given
MI proper expression to the senti-
AVA ment of every progressive
Harrisburger in his proclamation for
the approaching cleanup week.
There may be a resident here and
there who cares nothing about the
cleanliness of the city as whole,
but it is reasonable to assume that
most Harrisburgers are proud of the
reputation of the city as clean
and wholesome place in which to
live.
During the war there was a little
let-down in the regulations regard
ing the throwing of debris in the
street, but this period is over and
the municipal authorities are prop
erly directing their attention to over
coming the indifference of the care
less individual. In recent bulletin,
the American Civic Association prop
erly declares that annual clean-ups
will not save the day, but the yearly
example of good housekeeping should
have it's influence upon those who
are disposed to forget their obliga-
ton to the community at large.
Dirty streets and unkempt private
premises react upon the people and
any neglect of the ordinary precau-
tons is bound to influence the COM
munity adversely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

THE City of Comrades, is the title
oil novel of Basil King to be published
Immediately by the Harpers. MIR. King
mere tells the story of a down-ando
who pulled himself together and found
his soul The scene is laid in one of the
most curious spots in America. The wise
and the foolish live here. the high-born
and the low, each for all and all for
each. helping one another along. The
down-and-outer is an architect. he drinks
and the rest is easy to guess. At the
beginning of the story he leaves a note,
beautifully lettered as only an architect
could letter it, for a girl whom he has
never seen. 1t was meant as leering
joke, but The City of Comrades" goes
on to tell how this sordid jest became d
command in the hand of Fate.
The great number of Snaith en-
thusiasts will be delighted to know
that d. Appleton and Company are
publishing this week the entertain
ing Englishman's new novel, 1.-The
Cndefeated." 1t is said that the new
story is of life in a small town dur
ing war days and the havoc it plays
in the life of man and a woman.
In the end they are regenerated
through their experiences.
James Morgan's Theodore Roose-
welt: THE Boy and the Man" (Mac
MILAN Company, has just appeared
in a new edition with new chapters
completing the story of ROOSEVELT S
life.
Mr.. Morgan's aim throughout this
book has been to present a life of
action by portraying the varied dra-
matte scenes in the career of a man
who had the enthusiasm of d boy
and whose energy and faith illus
trated before the world the spirit of
Young America.
The new chapters are entitled From
White House to Jungle, and The Bull
Moose and the Last Years.
The volume is nicely illustrated.
His Wife's Job" is the title OF
Grace Sartwell Mason's new novel
which the Appletons are publishing
on April IS. 1t is said to be about
a frivolous young woman whose hus-
band goes to war and who has an
unusual experience earning her own
living.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
The Chapel on The Spree

lFrom the Red Cross Bulletin.1
On the right bank of the river
spree, 66 kilometers from Frank
tort. IL is not hard to locate This
former prison camp, just outside the
city of Berlin. The approach is NOT
uninViting. There are some fine old
trees and well-made road, over
Whlch peasant carts jog in the early
daylight. over the entrance to the
prison grounds there is an orna-
mental arched gate, fashioned oddly
ouI OF plrch trees "Kriegsgefange-
neniager, we read about the arch
war prison camp" The gateway
we are told, was built by Russia n
prisoners, many hundreds of whom
passed through its portals to suffer
starvation and i'll usage at the hands
of their captors.
1t Is still enough now. There are
no pacing guards, with long bavo-
nets, beating their arms to keen
warm, no Sinking figures shiverinP
across the prison campus, no guard
ed ranks of laborers, forced into the
service of the enemy, passing
through the little gate.
The little chapel just inside the
prison enclosure is quietest of all. 1t
mas friendly look. There is a group
OF sparfoWs, those feathered cosmo-
polites, tWittering on the doorsiII
holding heated arguments over an
edible morsel in the snow. They scat
ter frantically at the approach of
human footsteps, carrying their dis
cussion and the crust to the tree
tops. There is a familiar symbol
still family red, above the doorway
a cross snow-powdered, Built by the
American Red Cross-1915."
There is an uncomfortable feel
ing in our throat as we push omen
the door, which has been forced
slightly ajar by the inquisitive river
wind.
For a moment the long pews seem
to be tenanted again by bowed
figures, Russian, Italian, Frenchman.
Briton and Yank, their heads bowed
in their hands, asking patience, forti-
tude and ultimate deliverance from
the hands of their foe.
On the deserted pulpit lies a book
with an inscription inside it's front
cover: The gift of the American Red
Cross-1915." 1t is a well-thumbed
book and many of it's passages are
marked. We close it quietly without
disturbing the faded purple ribbon
that runs through its pages Quietly,
too. for we do not want to make
any noise in here. somehow, we pass
out again into the snowy campus,
pink in the sunset. Our eyes turn
as If in a parting salute to the little
plate above the door.
Truly the Red Cross went all the
way
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
A. p. Men in the War

tFrom the A. P. Traffic Bulletin. I
Some of them got to see real fight
ing. Those who did not, as one of
them aptly puts it in rhyme, Simply
did as they were told" The rhym-
ster is II. w. Peckinpaugh, who con-
cludes a letter detailing his war ex-
periences with this: I'm glad to
have had even a small part in it,
albeit L must write to the home
folks:
Darling, here's your soldier bold !;
Silver stripes instead of gold
Shine upon his sleeve to-day
Cause he did not Sail away.
But. my darling, don't you bleat,
For he did not get cold feet,
Simply did as he was told,
Silver stripes instead of gold"
Peckinpaugh almost got there.
After waiting six months he finally
secured transfer into the 424th Tele-
graph Railroad Battalion which was
ordered for overseas. After being
completely outfitted the "hu" cpl
demic caused a further delay. The
battalion was on board the transport
at Hoboken headed for Brest when
the armistice put a period to his
martial career. He is now located
at Mitchell, S. d.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
OF INTEREST TO LABOR

~ FFICIAL figures of imports and
exports for the eight months
~ ended February, 1919, show a
gain in imports of manufactures for
further use in manufacturing and
manufactures ready for consump-
ton of s126, 100000 over the corre-
spending eight months ended Febru-
airy, 1918, and a loss in exports OF
these same groups of S226, 100000,
or a total loss by way of increased
purchases from abroad, and decrease
sales to foreign countries of $685.
100000, or at the rate of 100000
monthly. These losses are with re-
spect to goods on which the great
est amount of labor is expended, and
they are symptomatic of a disease
whose ravages will spread from now
on unless steps are taken to effect a
cure. The disease is free trade and
the cure is protection.
The aggregate value of imports of
these two groups during the 1919
period was $720.00O, 900, compared
with s5s4, 100000 during the 1918
period; of exports, S2,132, 900, 900 for
the 1919, compared with s2,358, 8,0OO,-
900 for the 1918 period. Imports
Of these two groups for the single
month of February totaled nearly
s75,000,000 in 1919, compared with
s66,000,OOO in 1918. And the Eu-
ropean embargoes on exports are not
all off yet, nor has the drive on
our free market commenced in ear
nest, as it will as soon as peace is
proclaimed.
From Japan alone our imports for
the 1919 period-eight months-to-
tailed almost 5000, 600, 900, or twice
what they came to during the full
wear before the war in Europe broke
out; from. Australia and New Zea-
land came $71,vOO,OOO worth of
goods, on: $4,000, 900 more than for
1913; China sold us $4,000, 900
worth of goods in these eight months,
compared with $41.n0O,0OO for the
full year 1913; and our imports from
Canada totaled s330,0O0.O0O, COM
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17
THE 1sT Division was transferred

"HE 1ST Division was transferred
in the second phase of the
Argonne Battle, from Cam
eron's 5th Corps to Liggett's 1st
Corps. 1t was given the place of
honor in the general attack of Oc-
tober 4, and n place of honor in the
Argonne battle was bound to be
costly though glorious. 1t was to
drive wedge into the German lines
by moving up and down the slopes
and over the crest of the thickly
wooded hills on the east bank of
the Aire.
Since my return home l have been
asked if Belleau Wood was our most
brilliant action. One answer: Bril-
liant in what respect? In battle
efficiency? In courage?" For at
the front we thought of divisions
only in terms of efficiency. At home
you thought of them in terms of
sentiment, pride, and affection and
of great faith. should place in
even higher esteem than Belleau
Wood the drive of the 1st and I'd
Divisions toward Soissons in July
and possibly still higher that
which the 1st was now to make.
We had a dozen Belleau Woods in
the Argonne.
The 1st was a regular division, the
pioneer of our divisions in France,
the longest trained; but it was not
regular in the old sense, being bet
ter than regular to my mind, as
we have understood the word regu-
lar in the past. Many of it's young
officers were out of the training
camps, and the men who had filed
the gaps in the ranks had come from
volunteers or the draft in all parts
of the country. 1t was amazing how
soon that divisional machine made
recruit q veteran.
Buddy, you now belong to the
1st, and in the 1st we--." Thus
the NC hyte soon learned the ways
of the t.
l think that possibly when the
1st Division went into the Argonne
Battle it was the most efficient
American division that ever wore
shoe leather; if it were not, then
perhaps the I'd was-as all men of
the I'd will agree. We were all
thrilled when the 1st took the place
of the 35th and advanced over the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

pared with S142,OOO.000 for the full
year, 1918. Some of this increase
was due to higher prices, most of it
to larger bulk. There is nothing to
moderate this competition at the
present time, but everything to en-
courage it, and a free trade Presi-
dent trying to persuade this country
to accept a League of Nations cove
nant which would have the bulge
on our future tariff policies.
The Republicans know full well
the time to prepare for this COM
petition was years ago, but now that
they control the legislative branch
they are going ahead to prepare.
Investigations are being made by
them. even out OF Congressional ses-
sion, and the results of those inves-
legations will amply justify the re-
vision of the tariff on n basis of
wholly adequate protection to all
American industries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

Australia has appropriated s2,5oo.-
coo for the construction of public
work in order to take care of unem-
ployed returning soldiers. This is
pending the completion of a larger
scheme to provide work for the home
coming Anzacs along more permanent
lines. Pennsylvania is properly talk
ing similar action in it's road-build-
ing program and its other projects OF
public work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

tor, near Vauquies, September 20 to
October (Argonne-Meuse offensive.
September 26 to October 81; west of
Escaut river, Belgium, October 80 to
November 4; east, of Escaut river.
Belgium, November 10 and II.
Prisoners captured: IL officers.
2,400 enlisted men. Guns captured:
33 pieces of artillery, All machine
guns. Total advance on front line,
"a kilometers.
Insignia: Green fir tree. The 91st
is known as the wild West Divi-
sion" Design emblematic of the
far West.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-17

Alien enemies interned at different
places in the United States for the
period of the war are now being
turned loose. 1t would seem that
some definite policy should have been
adopted regarding these anti-Amcrl-
cans and their future residence in
the United States. Uncle Sam has
been entirely too patient with a class
of undcsirables who have no sympathy
with oul institutions and who con-
stantly breed dissatisfaction among
the aliens who are Influenced by their
antagonistic attitude toward our
Governme