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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
HAS A NEW MEANING

HOR thousands of young men and
women who formerly thought
of Memorial Day merely as a
holiday, the anniversary will have
new meaning this year. Vast num-
.bers of the sturdiest and best of
American youth, who last year were
enjoying health and had high hopes
for the future, are lying this spring
beneath the Towering sod of France.
The poppies blow in Flanders fields
over their graves and their friends
will never see the places where they
lie asleep, much less lay a wreath
of mourning and remem brance each
spring upon their lowly tombs. But
II far away in fact they are very
near in thought and the coming of
Memorial Day will add to the ranks
of those faithful guardians of the
graves of our soldier dead, the Grand
Army of the Republic, throngs of
men and women who will see in the
occasion significance and a solem-
nifty they never knew before. Hence
forth Memorial Day will be more
fittingly observed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
Viewed by an Erpert
IErom Forbes Magazine. ]

From FORBES MdSaZlHe'J
A trip to Middle Western points
and talks with all sorts and condi-
tions of people yields the following
impressions and conclusions:
First-In most districts, including
even the larger cities, work is avail
able for every man who wants job.
Indeed, the almost universal COM
plaint is that capable, steady work.
ers cannot be had.
Second-There is veritable hous-
ing famine in nearly every city, in
Guiding such diverse centers as Chi
cago and Indianapolis, a famine as
acute as in New York City.
Third Active preparations are
under way to launch what promises
to prove an unprecedented building
boom, the conclusion having been
reached by architects, builders and
others that the cost of materials is
not likely to drop drastically in the
near future.
Fourth-Retail business is report
manufa cturers find that buyers are
holding off wherever possible.
Fifth-The country's supply of
food animals is the largest in its his
tory and farmers are waxing rich
from the unparalleled prices they
are receiving for hogs and cattle, as
we'll as for their wheat and other
grains Everywhere the agricultural
community are evidencing signs of
their great prosperity.
Sixth-Whatever fears may have
been felt concerning the danger of
widespread appearance of Bolshev-
ism, I. w. w. ism and suchlike revo-
lutionary developments, have subsid-
ed. The general theory is that there
will be no extensive unemployment
and that this will deprive agitators
of effective ammunition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
JUST PLAIN PIFFLE
By BRIGGS
[Clarksburg. w. Va. telegram

IClarksburg, w. Va. telegram
A. Mitchell Palmer, newly appoint
ed Attorney General of the United
States, has figured it out that Amer
lca's success in the war was due in
large measure to the achievements
of the Democratic party in the four
years preceding the entry of the
United States into the conflict. He
got this off his chest in an address
before the National Democratic Club
at its celebration of the one-hundred
and seventy-sXth anniversary of the
birth of Thomas Jefferson.
Mr.. Palmer very carefully and
cautiously sidestepped all reference
TO Democratic. management during
the war, so far as can be learned in
the telegraphic report of his outgiv-
ings received by the Telegram. There
was good reason for that. The Demo-
cratic party has nothing to point to
with pride on that score. According
to Mr.. Palmer the whole thing was
virtually done during the four years
before this country got into the war.
How? That is easy. Men rushed to
arms to fight Germany and uphold
American principles because of
Democratic legislation, including, as
Mr.. Palmer alleged, 1.-The income tax,
the nonpartisan tariff commission
act, the child labor law, the Federal
workingmen's compensation law, the
Federal farm loan system and the
Federal reserve system" All of this
of course, according to Mr.. Palmer,
was the exclusive product of Demo-
cratic brains and the exclusive pos
session of the Democratic party.
The Telegram wonders whether
anybody will believe any such rot as
that. These so-called Democratic
achievements, Mr.. Palmer asserted,
constituted an almost inspired stroke
of preparation for war, without
which "the magnificent courage of
100000 men on the battle field
would have led to disaster" That is
to say. unless the American soldiers
who fought in France had not the
knowledge that an income tax law
had been enacted they would have
been defeated! Piffle
Mr.. Palmer's attempt to find any
war preparation whatever in the
Democratic camp during the four
years prior to this country's entrance
into the war finds poor proof in the
terrible plight in which the country
found itself when it actually got into
war. 1t was as miserably and utter
ly unprepared for military effort as
any country ever was, considering
what came to pass in Europe. So
-unprepared were we that we had to
begin from the very bottom and
build anew. So great was that task
that, for example, not a single Amer
lean airplane ever brought down an
enemy machine: nor was any Amer
lean ammunition fired, nor any
American ordnance put into action;
and in thousand and one other
things this country fell far short
of it's hopes and aims. Preparation
because of Democratic legislation? :?
Bosh
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
FRANKNESS
[From Forbes Magazine. ]


E. H. Gary, head of the worlds
largest industrial enterprise declares
that IL there had been frankness in
stead of secrecy and underground
wire pulling in 1914, the war could
and would have been avoided.
Nations are emerging from the
dark ages" of secret stealthy plot
ting and scheming.
II nations are finding it prudent to
drop their old-time secrecy, If busi-
ness concerns are now adopting a
frank attitude toward their stock
holders and the public, does it not
behoove the young man of ambition
to ponder the advantage of frank
ness and the disadvantages of Sc
cretive ways?
Frankness pays-ask the ex-Kais-
er what the wages are of secrecy and
intrigue and double dealing.
Also, the person who possesses the
habit of being entirely frank enjoys
life infinitely more than the one who
has to think twice before opening his
mouth lest he contradict some prev
ious misstatement or give a clue to
something going on, of question
able nature. under the surface
The frank person treads a firm
bridge crossing a river: the secretive
stone.
BY being frank yourself, you in
spire frankness in others.
And frankness will assuredly com
mend us to others and thereby make
easier and pleasanter the climb to-
ward the hilltops of success
Forbes Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
WASHINGTON PROMISES

NOW that President Wilson and
" his handyman, Postmaster
General Burleson, have decid-
ed to let go of the hot end of the
telephone and telegraph poker, it
is interesting to hark back to the
halcyon days of last winter whom
David I. Lewis, the Postmaster Cen
erals wire director. was emitting
all sorts Of promises about the cheap
telephone rates and super-service
which were to follow Government
operation of the telephone systems
We were told that under Govern
ment control the possibility of a
one-cent automatic telephone svsten,
throughout the country loomed I'D
strong. Competitive lines were to
be wiped out as in the case of the
railroads and there were to be great
savings in operating costs. Post
masters were to be the local man
ayers of the telegraph and telephone
system and in every town and ham
let the people were assured that
the cost of local messages would
fall to one cent; that the huge over
head charge carried by the COM
panies would be cut by consolida-
tion and the public would benefit
directly from it; that using telephone
wires for telegraph message and vice
versa would result in enormous saw
ing.
There was much mystery in those
early days of 1919 concerning the
operation of the telephone lines
but the Washington promise of one
cent telephone messages and all
sorts of cheaper service on the wire
systems almost ciogged the wires
while Mr.. Lewis and his chief talk
ed of the wonderful future of gov
ernment operation and ownership.
Then the curtain fell on the first
act and promptly went up for the
second. Instead of Lewis bringing
about millennium in the operation
of the telephones he was soon re-
tired as the right-hand man of Bur
Lesson on account of ill health. In
stead OF reduced rates the alleged
reduction schedules which became
effective last January turned out to
be increases. The so-called sweep
ing reductions affected few people
during the middle of the night on
the station to station basis and the
little joker of ope-cent tolls under
government control was soon recog-
nized by everybody.
An Idaho contemporary discuss
ing the Burleson fiasco in the hand
ling of the telephone and wire sys-
tenn declares that "even the old
Fashioned game. Of draw gsxe man
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
Undue Haste

The cables from Paris seem to in
innate that President Wilson has al
ready appointed Americas first
m EN- ber of the Council of the League
of Nations, and that he has select
ed Colonel House. And 1t is further
stated that Mr.. House will begin
upon his duties at once and that his
headquarters will be in London as
soon as the Peace Conference fin
ishes its labors. This is decidedly
prompt work on the part of the
President. 1t is also assuming that
Congress will have nothing to say as
to how the representative of the
United States in the Council of the
League shall be selected providing
that the League plan is accepted by
the Senate, which, has not yet been
'done.--From the Philadelphia Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
PLACES

Places I love come back to me like
music,
Hush me and heal me when 1 am
very tired;
see the oak woods at Saxton
flaming
In a flare of crimson by the frost
newly fred,
And I am thirsty for the spring in
the valley
AS for a kiss ungiven and long
desired.
I know a white world of snowy hills
at Boonton,
A blue and white dazzling light on
everything one sees,
The larches and hemlocks and
naples sparkle,
Their ice-sheathed branches tlnk-
lie in the sharp thin breeze,
And iridescent crystals fall and
crackle on the snow-crust
With the winter sun drawing cold
blue shadows from the trees.
Violet now, in veil on veil of eve
ming,
The hills across from Cromwell
grow dreamy and far;
A wood-thrush is singing soft as
viol
In the heart Of the hollow where
the dark pools are;
The primrose has opened her pale
yellow flowers
And heaven is lighting star after
star.
Places I love come back to me like
music
Mid-ocean, midnight, the waves
buzz drowsily;
In the ships deep churning the eerie
phosphorescence
Seems like souls of people who
were drowned at sea;
And can hear a mans voice, speak
ing, hushed, insistent,
At midnight, in mid-ocean, hour
on hour to me.
BY Sara Teasdale. in the June
Scribner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
[From the Literary Digest.l

[From the Literary Digest.
WYE WISH to bespeak, with
Wv whatever power and author
ity we may have and with
such words as may be granted to us,
some measure of consideration for
the foster-fathers and mothers of
our children-the school teachers of
the United States of America.
There is no class of workers of
which we demand so much. We
commit into their keeping the minds,
the bodies and the very souls of
our children in the tender and for
NATIVE years of their lives, and they,
receiving these children. can indeed
be said to hold in the hollow of their
hands the future of America. We
expect these devoted men and wo-
men to watch over and care for our
sons and daughters as though they
were their very own, to drill them
in the arts and sciences, to train
them for business and for citizen
ship, to instruct them in manners
and in morals, to do for them those
things which we would do had we
the training and the leisure.
No class has assumed so heavy, so
trying a burden AID a responsibility
with such willingness as these con-
sccrated men and women. No class
has performed their Increasingly
heavy tasks more devotedly, more
conscientiously, and with less
thought of self. No 8, class served
their country more whole-heartedly.
more loyalty, during the trying and
tempestuous, times of war, day by
day pursuing their round of duty,
dav by day helping the young peo-
pie, and through the children me
parents, to see the struggle in its
true light, thus securing the CO.
operation of The community in every
measure undertaken by the Govern
ment to win the war.
What, then, have the teachers re-
ceived at our hands in return? They
have received little of honor and
somewhat less oi pay. Other classes
have prospered. other classes
through powerful organizations have
secured generous wages. The teach
ers have no spokesman, however, to
demand even the simple justice of
living wage, so to them we give
their petty pre-war pittancs, so
meager, so ritifully inadequate, that
it places a burning brand OF shame
and disgrace upon the Nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
Mr.. Burleson's Real Status
[From the New York SUM-

TFrom the New York SUM-
Senator Calder speaks the truth
and nothing but the truth when he
saws of the bitter attacks now being
made on Postmaster General Burler
son by many leading Democrats:
when Democrats demand the re-
moval of Burleson they are demand
ing of the President the removal of
n man who has merely obeyed the
Presidents orders-nothing more.
nothing less.
Probably Burleson has come as
near wrecking everything he has had
the management of as any one could.
mo one man can entirely wreck
the United States Government, but
an official in high position can go
some way in wrecking it, and that is
what Burleson has done with every
thing he has touched.
"And every major official action
was at the direction of President
Wilson"
AS Postmaster General Albert S.
Burleson is the creation of President
Wilson. Mr.. Wilson selected him
for the job he holds, and Mr.. Will
son has kept him in that job. Mr..
Wilson can put him out of that job
at any moment. To relieve Mr.. Bur-
Lesson of his obligations as Postmas-
ter General has been within Mr..
Wilson'S power every minute of every
day since March 4, 1918, when Mr..
Wilson became President. The pol
itical responsibility for Mr.. Burleson
belongs to President Wilson, and to
nobody else.
At the present moment Mr.. Burle-
son occupies a position in American
politics practically the same as that
occupied in earlier days and royal
courts by the princes whipping boy.
The royal person was relieved from
the corrective application of the lash
the whipping boy endured the pun
ishment princely dereliction earned.
Every criticism aimed at Mr.. Bur-
Lesson as Postmaster General is a
criticism aimed at Mr.. Wilson as
President. Alas. that Democrats
shouId thus assail the man for the
deeds of his master!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
ANOTHER SERVICE

GERVICE is the watchword of
- the Y. M. C. A. everywhere and
it is particularly emphasized at
the Harrisburg headquarters. Few
persons not in direct touch with the
local association can appreciate the
extent and Importance of the service
which is being rendered to the COM
munity by this active institution.
1t is probably not realized that
among other things the physical di-
rector has been granted leave by
the association management to spend
certain days or parts of days in su-
.pervising the play of the school chill
dren at the various school buildings.
His efforts are greatly appreciated
by the teachers, all of whom are CO.
operating with him in giving the
girls and boys real physical instruc-
tion in a methodical way. The
pupils are enthusiastic over what
has already been accomplished and
Physical Director Miller is having
every evidence of appreciation of his
work at the different school build
ings.
This is only one of the extra ac-
tivities of the Y. NJ! G. A. It's in
fiuence is widespread in every Sec
tion of Harrisburg and the soldiers
on their way to the front and re-
turning home have found the facili-
ties placed at their disposal by the
Harrisburg association all that could
be desired.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
TRADE BRIEFS

Diamonds to the total value of
1856, 100000 have been mined in
South Africa.
De Beers contemplate the estab-
lishment of a diamond cutting fac
tory at Kimberley, South Africa.
The total exports of crude rubber
from Para and Manaos, Brazil, dur
ing January, 1919, amounted to g.
624.915 pounds, compared with g.
4O,613 pounds for the same month
in 1918.
The karakul is claimed to be the
hardest sheep in South Africa, and
as mutton sheep is said to be far
superior to the Afrikander.
Consul Horace Lee Washington at
Liverpool, England. has transmitted
a list of, importers. of raw cotton in
that city,. copies of which can be OBJ
tanned from the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce or its dis
trict or co-operative Offices by re-
ferring to File MO. 1I4624.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
Cleperest German of Them All

DIR. Maurice Francis Egan, who
tells in Ten Years Near the German
Frontier" (Doran) of his intimacy
with Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau,
who heads the German mission to
the Peace Conference, says that Ii.
c. Won Brockdorff is the cleverest
diplomat he ever met HE will
rake out of the ashes the best terms
he can for Germany" said DR.. Egan
at the University of Pennsylvania,
but in the end he must accept con-
ditions set down by the Allies, be-
cause there is no other choice"
DIR. Egan and the German minis
ter spent FIVE years in Copenhagen
together during the decade when DIR.
Egan was American minister to
Denmark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
Massachusetts Experiment

(From the Nebraska State JournaD
The experiment of doing away
with the annual elections in Mass
achusetts is proving so satisfactory
that it is now proposed to extend
the terms of the Legislature to six
years. This is carrying good
thing too far. The object of fire.
quent legislative elections is to bring
to the parliamentary bodies a fresh
mandate from the people at fairly
frequent intervals The object of
long terms for executive officers is
to avoid erratic and ignorant admin
istration and to keep in office the
experience that can only be gained
in operating the public machinery.
Short terms for legislators and long
terms for administrative officials,
with proper recall provisions to pro-
vide against accident, ought to prove
the hest argument.-From the Ne
braska State Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23

Another Federal commission is to
te created with the Presidents sane
tion to throw a life line to the many
street railway companies threatened
with bankruptcy. It's an open ques-
tion whether the owners of the street
railway systems will welcome any
aid of this sort from Washington In
view of the unfortunate experience
of the railroad. cable, telegraph and
telephone systems under Government
operation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
DOWN BUT NOT OUT

"HE Journal of Prison Disciplln
agrees with the Salvation Arm
in it's dictum that "man ma
be down, but never is out"
quotes a long list of instances t
prove that "once a crook always
crook is as false as the other
true. Note some of the examples
The other day we met "A" on
Market street. Accompanied by
his little son, he was speeding
away in his "fivver." He stop
ped to give us a greeting. and
indicated that happiness and
prosperity were his portion.
'B" is a spick and span police
man in neighboring city.
Though you may say "Set a thief
to catch a thief" this particular
guardian of the public peace is
discharging his duty to the COM
munity.
&C" seemed particularly pleased
to meet us the other day uptown.
He had joined the church, and
had attained TO the dignity of
usher.
3D." who was once an accom-
plished burglar. having served
at least two terms in prison, has
built up a manufacturing indus
try and is quite prosperous.
"E" is foreman in the jewelry
department of a large depart
ment store somewhere in
America"
"F," a one-armed piece of ebon
jollity, is one of the handiest men
employed on a certain prosperous
truck farm.
&C." who began cooking for
Blank Firm at $40 weekly wages,
now reports with a grin that
he is getting s65 a month with
board and lodging.
III" is one of the most popular
clerks in the office OF a NAM
moth establishment That he
once fell from grace is known.
but it is no longer reckoned
against him.
II" one year ago began as a
solicitor and now his business
has so enlarged that he has taken
a suite of rooms for his office.
We could easily exhaust the
alphabet with such cases. There
are failures. but we. try to dis
count our disappointments when
we take account of those who are
making good" The Parole Of
ficers have informed us that sew
enty-five per cent. are becoming
satisfactory citizens. BY far the
larger part of those whom we
willingly assist, in a short time
are beyond our ken. They take
with them our hopes and our
fears-our fears that they may
again yield to the manifold
temptations on every hand; our
hopes that they have learned
their lesson, and with courage
and by the help of divine grace
are performing their duty to the
community. .....r
This is the class of men the Sal
alton Army meets in civil life and
lelps; helps just as wholeheartedly
nd as generously as it helped our
oldiers over hard spots in France
Ill men look alike to the Salvation
army. There is so much good in
he worst of us, and so much bad in
he best of us, it hardly behooves
ny of us to talk about the rest OF
s," is one of the Army's notices
t goes out into the highways and
,yways, picking up the fallen, put.
ing them back on their feet, teach.
ng them to walk alone, saving the
hopeless from the river or the rank:
If anarchy and teaching them the
owe of God and the humanity Of
nan toward men. The Army is ask.
ng for money. Give as the Lore
hath prospered thee"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Talcott Williams, formerly
of the Philadelphia Press, has re-
tired from the Pulitzer College of
Journalism at Columbia University.
Governor Sproul, who spoke at
the Penn Mutual dinner in Philadel-
phia last night, is one of the trus-
tees of its funds.
Major j. Clyde Miller. selected
to be Allegheny county poor direc-
tor, is an old National Guardsman.
Senator w. C. Mcconnell, of
Shamokin, is interested in numerous
enterprises in his county and is an
attorney
Representative John r. X. Scott
is an ardent fox hunter and head of
a club near Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23

some chance of an even break"
And now a deceived public will
watch with interest the unfolding of
the third act in the Burleson comedy
of errors which has to do with the
untangling of the mess by Congress
and the return of the wire COM
panies to their owners
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23

People are still wondering how
Harrisburg ever got along without
the Penn-Harris Hotel. Thousands of
people have passed through it's hos
pitable doors since the opening day.
and it has developed as a great So
cial center All of which is most
gratifying to the public-spirited men
and women who made possible this
hotel as community enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23

We do not recollect reading any of
the announcements of the War De-
partment that it will court a full in
vestigation of its contracts and ex-
penditures, but the inquiries should be
conducted just the same.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23

The Wilson administration learned
the art of camo ufiage during the war,
and 1t knows how to practice the art
ir times of peace. Note its pictures
of present conditions in Brest as an
answer to the exposure of deplorable
conditions while thousands, of SOL
diers were camped there few months
back.