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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
Summer Is Dying

All! It's a melancholy hour
When fades the fragrant Summer
flower,
When through the woods and
meadows dry
The thistle-ghosts go drifting by,
While soft and solemn winds seem
signing,
Summer is dying"
All! it's n melancholy scene
When fields no longer smile serene
With waving grain, when birds
have flown.
And gladness seems to sadness
grown,
When reminiscent winds seem sigh
ing,
Summer is dying"
All! it's a melancholy sound
When leaves begin to rustic round,
When crickets chirp their lonely
lays
In tune to thoughts of bygone
days,
While restless. plaintive winds seem
signing,
Summer is dying"
All! it's a melancholy air
That nips the heart with whitening
care;
But. bird-like, let our minds take
wing
To soulful southlands, there 20
sing
Beyond the chill winds that seem
signing,
Summer is dying"
ARCANUS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
Increased Production

| lrrOm the washington STAR
Citing the failure of many histori-
cal efforts to have governmental
| liking of prices and wages, Andrew
j. Frame, economist and financial
writer of Waukesha, Wis, a prom
inent member of the American
Bankers Association, urges in a
statement just given to the newspa-
pers that Increased production is
the only true remedy for the high
cost of living" Mr.. Frame says, in
part:
THE high cost of living seems to
De the paramount issue throughout
the world to-day. To our mind the
real cause Is sidetracked because
the fallacious millennium builders are
| ming the air with blessed balsams'
that appeal to the masses to cure
| inSldlous disease, that If not checked
VIII end only in eating out our Wit
ais and iE slowing up human prog
Andrew ID. White, former presi-
! dent of Cornell University, former
minister to Germany and Russia,
wildly portrays a lamentable failure
of THE Law of the Maximum in
/ France in 1893, Notwithstanding the
| guillotiEe was freely used to COM
| pei compliance with the edict. MIR.
| White says: There are limitations
to the powers of government and of
peoples that inhere in the constitu-
tion of things and that neither des-
potisms nor democracies can over
! come
Let us call pre-war prices normal
| in the United States in 1914. Since
| then, the productive energies of 80
mi lions to so millions of men; also
vast manufacturing plants have been
| turned into destructive employ
ments. AS some 10 million strong
men and ~ million tons of ship
ping have been ruthlessly destroyed;
as the remaining ships at command
| have been largely used in trans
! porting armies, munitions, etc.,
| across the seas; as war-torn Europe,
| that could not produce much be-
fore to sustain life, has produced
less food and other necessaries than
prevailed before 1914; as the Russian
supplies, which formerly helped feed
Europe, under Lenine and Trots!ly
were confiscated and that great
source of supply practically cut off:
as shortage of shipping has greatly
curtailed the neutral world from
helping supply the war 20 le; as
starving Europe cries aloud for
food, ETC., from the United States;
as since the armistice was signed.
the demobilizing and change back
to normal have tested the worlds
eceI gies, therefore up to the present
time little progress has actually been
made 20 attain reproduction approx
mating former conditions.
"If so. is it not dear that ahro--
rtUl demands for hn underprc1uc-
tion OF world food and other nec"s-
sL-ics has forced prices above Gor-
NAL the world over?
IF farmers are forced to an eight
hour day, we fear the city man will
be compelled to hoe his own corn
or starve.
Theories never made two blades
of grass grow where one grew be-
fore. But labor does. Longer and
| not shorter hours a starving world
must have. Increased production is
the only true remedy for the Ugh
cost of living, and also the only true
principle for added comforts in the
world of progress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
Shdntunq

1t is always easy to prophecy an
event after it has happened. The
world is full of sages who wag their
heads and say, II knew ten years
ngo that this would come to pass"
But the prophecy which is made
beforehand, when proved true, has,
somehow, more poignancy than the
aposteriori one. The following
passage of Jefferson Jones's The
Fall of Using Tau" published by
Houghton Mifflin Company in 1915,
is, therefore, persuasive:
Regardless of the inconsistent
statements of Count Okuma on Aug
ust "a, 1914. relative to eventual
restoration, and that of Baron Kato
on December s, 1919. in the Diet
House at Tokyo. Kiaochow and the
Chinese Province of Shantung will
probably become a japanese sphere
Of influence after the close of Jap
anese peace negotiations with Ger
many. China having no
voice in the peace negotiations, and
with Germany in no position to dis
pute Japan's claim, the Shantung
railroad will pass into the hands of
Nipponese government. With this
concesSion will also go the right to
station Japanese troops along the
railroad right of way to protect the
property, and gradually the province
of Shantung will pass from Chinese
or German influence to Japanese in
huence. Shantung will follow ex-
actly In the footsteps of Manchuria
and under the japanese system of
freight rebates for japanese ship
pers, such as has been practiced in
Manchuria, Kiaochow, the birth
place of the Chinese nation, the
home of the Celestial philosopher,
CONTIGUOUS. will have become a part
of the working empire of Japan"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

ings were all furnished by the local
architects. who delved into their old
hles for blue prints which were lent
to the young builders. The houses
were all built on a scale of one-half
inch to the foot, the complete CITY
being based upon 155 acres reduced
TO the same scale. 1t was properly
laid out with streets. parks, etc.,
with real grass and flowers
The construction of Tiny Town be-
gan May and was completed June
20, when the completed town was
placed on exhibition in Convention
Hall Five hundred dollars in
prizes was awarded to the schools
and the individual builders of the
town.
Girls Furnished Houses
The work of furnishing the houses
by the pupils was all done at their
homes. The psychological effect of
this feature ca1 be seen at a glance.
Immediately the youngsters started
to work on their miniature building.
dad and the rest OF the family be-
came interested, and, in many in
stances, the small idea as it was be-
ing worked out by q small son be-
came transferred to his father on a
larger scale, and in a number of
the erection of some substantial
buildings.
The house building contest was
only open to the boys. There re-
mained the problem of interesting
the girls, many of whom possessed
artistic ability. Therefore an interior
home decoration contest was put on,
and the girls decorated and fur
nished the houses that the boys con-
structed. Many miniature works
of real art were shown in these in
terror furnishings in the way of rugs
and other floor coverings, draperies,
frescoing and design painting.
William II. Johnson, originator of
the idea, says that the Tiny Town
idea is to be carried out next year on
a much lar"or scale in the open. A
acre tract will likely be devoted
to plotting ana landscaping the Tiny
Town of 1920.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
Music and Booze
[From Kansas City Times.l

[From Kansas City Times.1
A speaker at a musical gathering
in Pittsburgh, quotes Musical Amer
lea, announced his fear that prohi-
bition would increase the demand
for light and frivolous music. De
prived of alcoholic beverages" he
said, 'intoxication by music will be
sought by those whose emotional vi
brations attune them to such stim-
ulant" The result, he concludes,
will be much musical composition
of an ''inebriating" and other unde-
sirable character.
The inference that the age of
booze was not productive of the kind
of musical composition he depre-
ciates will hardly stand. What pro-
duced jazz, we wonder. We won't
undertake to say, but it doesn't
sound exactly like a w. c. I. U.
convention to us. What sort OF
emotional vibrations were the musi-
cal revues of the last twenty years
written to catch? But we don't
need to be confined to the moderns.
What of that Venice that would al
ways leave off talking to hear
Galuppi play? Didn't Browning
say he was equally good at grave
and gay? We Judge that those
balls and masques burning ever TO
midday, when they made up fresh
adventures for the morrow, were not
danced to measures entirely want
ing in emotional atunements, even
though Venice did not lack the slim
ulant we are now deprived of.
On the whole-bah! Music will
continue to be good and bad as it
always has been. irrespective of the
habits of the age. If the age of al
cohol produced a "Salome" so did
it a Messiah" The age of re-
straint probably will not do worse or
better,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
BOATING AND BATHING

MAYOR KEISTER has heard
M from many people since the
Kipona carnival. regarding
his ordinance for bathing facilities,
and IL there was ever any question
about popular support of the loan
for this purpose it has been dis
sipated in his mind and in the
thought of every other person who
has given consideration to the sub
ject. We are only beginning to
realize how important is the river
and it's possibilities in the future de-
velopment of Harrisburg. Its broad
surface should be dotted next sum-
mer with hundreds more of sail
boats, canoes, motor boats and craft
of every kind. And the kipona
will attract increasing multitudes of
admiring people to witness the
great river spectacle. Boating and
bathing facilities should be certain
ties in 1920 and City Council ought
to lose no time in developing and
adopting the necessary plans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
ITTHEN William H. johnson of
the idea of having the school

wv Springfield, Mo-, conceived
the idea of having the school
children of that prosperous little
city build a town to arouse the
build now" spirit in their parents,
he hit upon an original and distinct
idea that has given Springfield a
building program that runs into the
hundreds OF thousands of dollars,
and which has absorbed all the idle
labor in the city. Besides this it
has brought out a great deal of un-
expected talent among the pupils in
the schools and has created a much
wider interest and manual training
than has even been manifested in
the city before.
The town that the school children
constructed was named Tiny Town,
and laid out on the floor of Spring
fields Convention Hall. All told,
there were one thousand tiny resi-
dences and other buildings in the
exhibit, no two being of the same
design. The campaign was financed
by interested business men through
voluntary contributions which
amounted in round numbers to $5,-
900. The campaign had the CO.
operation of the chamber of COM
merce and the school authorities.
After the building program of Tiny
Town was we'll under way, the
thought occurred to the prom moters
that it should have a set of city Of
ficials.
Commission Government
This was voted on by the school
children, but defeated, and a COM
mission form of government insti-
tuted instead. The election was one
of the most hOtly contested avar
held in the city, the little chaps
carrying their announcements in the
newspapers before the election Just
as in regular election. There
were stump speeches also and a lot
of quiet campaigning on the side.
All this assisted them to gain a
broader knowledge of civil govern
ment.
The designs for the little build
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Lee s. Smith, head of the Tenn
plars, is Pittsburgh business man.
General w. G. Price, the head of
the new National Guard, marshalled
the Darby homecoming parade.
F. ]. Connery, New Castle fire
chief, was presented with $1,000 in
honor of fifty years in the fire de-
partment
DIR. E. NJ. Schwartz, of this city,
will speak at Pittsburgh in the big
religious meetings this week.
Archbishop d. j. Dougherty Of
ficiated at a dedication in Delaware
county yesterday. He has been call
ed upon for this service almost
weekly.
DIR. w. d. Lewis, Philadelphia
High school chief, decried what he
called Jazz" stories which teachers
have been tellSg children to en-
tertain them. lie said Jazz" comes
from Africa and could be forgotten.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

suitable for a study of the problem.
1t is doubtful whether a recent sug-
gestion that bathing pools be located
at different points in the city will
strongly appeal to the city authori-
ties. They understand quite as well
as the average citizen that the real
desire of thousands of our citizens is
for proper bathing beaches and bath
houses in the Susquehanna basin.
Whatever additional swimming pools
may subsequently be provided the
first consideration should be the river
facilities for the great body of the
people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
THREE PARTIES TO 1T

~ USINESS is bound to improve
X in proportion to the vanishing
~ labor difficulties and industrial
complications here and there. Trade
experts concur in the opinion that
there has been a turn for the bet
ter and that the labor outlook is
less threatening through an eX-
change of views of intelligent lead
ers in every part of the country
Secretary of Labor Wilson, in his
speech before the Pennsylvania post
masters, declared with great conf
dence that the working forces OF
the United States would never adopt
the crazy theories of the Russian
soviets or extreme Socialists of Eu-
rope. He declared the widespread
this country would safeguard them
against acceptance of proposed radi-
cal changes in industrial and gov
ernmental methods. 1t was his
clear judgment that the backbone
of the propaganda from overseas
had been broken and that there
was less danger OF an industrial up
heaval than appeared imminent a
few weeks ago. Employers and en-
ployes are realizing that their mu-
tual interests demand sane decisions
and general cooperation.
AS the vacation period draws to IL
close greater activity may be ex-
pected in all lines of trade and IN
industry. But unless and until
It is definitely understood that
there are three parties to the con-
tract in all cases-the employer, the
employe and the public-there viii
be no permanent industrial peace. 1t
is evident, however, that this view
of the situation is becoming moIe e
universal and must in the end pre-
vail for the good of all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
Wilson Us. Wilson

May 81, 191S-"Politics is ad-
journed. The election will go to
those who think least of it, to those
who go to their constituencies with
out explanations or excuses, with a
plain record of duty faithfully and
disinterestedly performed"
October "a, 191S-"If you have
approved of my leadership and wish
me to continue to be your unembar-
rassed spokesman at home and
abroad. earnestly beg that you will
express yourself Enthusiastically to
that effect by returning Demo-
cratic majority in both the Senate
and the House of Representatives" /"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Now, 1 want you to understand,
my fellow citizens, that I didn't
leave Washington and come out on
this trip because 1 doubted what
was going to happen. didn't. For
one thing, I wanted to have the
pleasure of leaving Washington and
for another thing I wanted to have
the very much greater pleasure OF
feeling the inspiration that 1 would
get from you. Things get very lonely
in Washington sometimes. The real
voice of the great people of Amer
lea sometimes sounds faint and dis
tant. In that strange city you hear
politics until you wish both parties
were smothered in their own gas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

The Forestry Commission having
decided to erect six steel towers Tor
observation purposes on state Tor
estry reservations. it might be well
for those Interested in the shade tree
movement for Harrisburg to secure
an observation tower for those VINO
should be able from a lofty perch to
discover the places most in need OF
tree planting in the city. 1t is certain.
tower or no tower. that thousands Ut
trees ought to be planted along the
sidewalks and on the premises OF
Harrisburg property owners
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

or fifteen of them through a regular
third degree before his data would
be complete. The usual parting
shot of each scout each morning
would be hope the Major sends you
over scouting with ME- some night.
You never will ask anybody else
for any d-d co-ordinates. if he
does send you out, you cold footed
coffee cooling, yellow livered, Span
ish Inquisition." But it was this
endless patience, this attention to
detail, together with wonderful
scouting by our patrols that made
the Boche put a new verse in their
Hymn of Hate" for the benefit of
the Yanks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Emma Goldman. the notorious an
arChist. now behind the walls of a
Missouri penitentiary. wants her lib
ertv because she is not able to pay her
fine of $4,000 in addition to serving
two years of Imprisonment for inter-
fering with the army draft. Let us
hope that Washington will not weak
en- in its announced policy to bring to
book the alien propagandists and the
mischiefmakers in our own country
who, during the war and since. have
been responsible for much of the un-
rest that has disturbed the United
States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Governor Sproul is not manifesting g
wild enthusiasm over the suggestion
OF his name as an available candidate
for President. He has been long
enough in public life, however. to ap-
preciate the fact that the strongest st
recommendation for the higher office
in all cases is a record for efficiency
in the public service. And it will be
conceded by all intelligent Pennsylva-
mans that the Governor is doing a
good job on Capitol Hill in the ad-
ministration of the affairs of this
great Commonwealth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Members of the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
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All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Mayor Keister is going to see to It,
with the cooperation of his col
leagues in the City Council, that proper
bathing facilities are provided for
Harrisburg while tile conditions are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Admiral Bowman is finding a gem
eral spirit of cooperation among
young and old in the proposed confer
ference to consider the program for
the next Kipona and the constructive
work which must be undertaken in
the development of the Susquehanna
basin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

In taking the leadership of the
Forthcoming welcome-home celebra-
ton in honor of the returning SOL
diers. the Chamber of Commerce has
again demonstrated its proper con-
ception OF the functions of that i'm
portant body. Harrisburg has a repu-
tation to maintain along many lines
and it will not fall short in according
the boys who have come back a
whole hearted welcome and at the
same time pay tribute to those who
fell with their faces to the foe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg Is rapidly be-
coming n big tire distribution cen-
ter?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Funny how Secretary of War Baker
is fairly bursting with enthusiasm
over an enlarged army. This is the
same Baker who doused cold water
on the preparedness activities of a lot
of far-seeing men in 1914 and later.
The Secretary of War has evidently
learned that the Roosevelt theory Of
speaking softly but having a big
stick handy is the only safeguard OF
the American people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
An Early Peace Treaty

New York SUM-
Noah regarded the rainbow.
Wonder IL that Is a legal or
moral obligation?" he meditated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

Plant a tree in October and get the
feeling of a Kindness done the future
generation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

We are inclined to look upon bad
temper as very harmless tcedkneSs
but the Bible again and again con-
Genns II as one OF the most destructive
elements in human nature. Henry
Dr1tnmond
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08
TINY TOWN" STARTED A
CITY'S BUILDING BOOM

Springfield Sclooboys a Thousand
Model Houses Schoolgirls and Their Parents
Caught the Infection.
Tom Shras in Manufacturers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The court house was used for
trials, Sunday services and daily
schools 100 years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-08

The last contest for county office
on the Bucks county Republican
ticket was removed when Sidney v.
Morris. of Bristol, who was oppos-
ing Elwood w. Minister, also of that
borough, for the nomination for
register of wills. fled his formal
WITHDRAW wal papers. All the candi-
dates now are unopposed.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-07

There is a great secret in The
Woman on the Index the play in
which Pauline Frederick made her mi
tial appearance at the Columbia thea
ter yesterday afternoon. 1t is a secret
few women could keep. even though
well-known writer made the amazing
assertion q few months ago that every
married woman has secret from her
husband.
It would seem that George Broad
hurst, in producing The Woman on
the Index" had that in mind, for he
gives his heroine task to do and
risk to take that the average woman
would simply have to tell some one
about. Yet she doesn't breathe a
word, proving, of course, that a wom-
an can keep secret, even from her
husband. IN the course of this cpl
sode. Miss Frederick's many sided
beauty becomes sphinx like.
The scene is a thieves den in the
slVms Of New York. Louis. the
Count one Of the crooks, SO called
because of his frreproachable attire
and suave manners. carries into the
den a beautiful girl who lies uncon-
scious in his arms. And that is the
beginning.
THE Woman on the Index will be
repeated at the Columbia theater
again today and Saturday with a eau
mont Graphic and Strand comedy as
the experimenting film numbers for
the two days.
Arizona republican., 1919-11-07
CAS- The Sun Went Downy-Hin

"As The Sun Went Down7-Hiip
"As The sun Went Down" is the
title of the stirring western drama
which brings Edith storey TO the Hip
for a two days engagement beginning
today. The story is one Of primitive
womanhood, showing a girl of the
dance halls in the days when the west
Arizona republican., 1919-11-07

was young, struggling against the lot
fate has mapped out for her. and by
her own sheer force of character, and
her prowess with the six shooter. sue
ceeds i'm lifting herself out of the rut
into the sphere of the most respected
member of the mining settlement in
which the story is laid.
The plot is woven around a mine,
possessed 10y Faro Bill, whom Colonel
Billy edith Storey loves deeply. The
mine is sought by an unprincipled
gambler, who uses every method known
to Wickedness to gain possession, even
resorting to attempted murder that his
scheme might carry.
Associated with Edith Storey in the
presentation of this intense drama are
Lew Cody and Harry Northrup.