Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-18
WARNS
ABOUT UNREST
Governor and Attorney Gen.
eral Make Notable Speeches
Before Physicians

Addresses made last night before
the Medical Club of Philadelphia by
Governor William c. Sproul and At
torney General William 1. Schaffer
have attracted wide attention because
OF the solemnity with which the gov
einor spoke of the unrest problem.
The Governor said in part:
The trouble has been that we are
toe easy going and too prone to let
others do it. The country needs us
now and. the physician can play a
big part. 1t is up to us and particu-
larly to you to awaken the people
to a realization of the blessings they
have enjoyed. We cannot afford to
muddle along with the old thought
that America always comes out all
right We must not wait until it is
too late. The diagnosis Is easy. The
ailment is here so let us begin the
treatment while the country is sus-
ceptible and not wait until the case
is a hopeless one The State is we'll
able to take care of the immediate
violent symptoms. We are better
prepared than you realize but there
are more opportunities to be ready
here than elsewhere because here We
have. great vital public sentiment
II have made it my business to go
about the State during the last year
because 1 felt it was my duty to get
in touch with real conditions.
knew the acid test was coming after
the war when we had to sit down
bind up the wounds and count the
cost.
THE test is coming. The institu-
tions here are poor and flimsy indeed,
IL we can't stand up and toe the mark
and protect all that we hold so dear
and provide for the perpetuity of the
country"
The Governor declared that the
physicians should enlist themselves in
the battle to preserve the country's
institutions and he said they are we'll
able to perform this service because
they are of the conservative type. He
then declared that during the re-
mainder of his administration he will
battle for better housing conditions
and in this crusade also, he said, he
will expect the aid of the medical
men.
Attorney General Schaffer also dis
cussed the present industrial situa-
tion.
mo man can have no other
thought" he said, than that now is
the time that men of strength, of
honesty and of intellect must assert
themselves, because IL we fail here in
Pennsylvania no man knows what
will happen in the world.
Pennsylvania is on the threshold
of the country. At dinner tonight a
man at my side said that there would
be a different telling of the end of
the great World War but for Penn
sylvania men. 1 want to say that but
for the example we shall set here in
the great Keystone State through this
fall and winer, the telling of the civil
lization of the world may be another
tale.
They are preaching the creed that
there is no place in the world for
men of special talents, of high train
ing and of great resourcefulness and
they want all the world to be leveled
down to a common mediocrity. What
the State needs above all is that the
conservative men in it shall step out
and assert themselves and that the
conservative influence during the
crisis shall ripen the conservative
thought in man and beat down those
who would crush our institutions"