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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
"Y" WAS FIRST, WILL
REMAIN TILL THE END

Sticking to the ~doughboy through thick
and thin has been the work of the Y.
M. c. A. during the war, and now tina
hostilities have ceased and peace is on
it's way, the Y workers more than ever
are on the job wherever the man in uni
form needs them. The thick of 1t was
war, but any soldier will tell you that the
thin of it is peace, and 1t is to fill these
long, lean hours of idleness that have
come with the armistice. that the Y. M
c. A. has taken up its new duties with
the A. e. F., increasing generously its
program of athletics. entertainment, and
amusement.
Just as the Y. M. c.. A. was the first to
greet the Americans when they arrived
In Europe, 80 1t will remain until the end
and bid goodby to the very last dough-
boy that leaves France, no matter how
far In the future that time may be. AT
the time of the signing Of the armistice,
the Red Triangle was operating over
seas fifteen times as many service build
ings as all other war organizations COM
bined, with the exception of the Red
Cross, and 1t has no intention of doing
anything else but keep up this work SO
magnificently started. "Y" men and syn
women are stf ing sent to France,
England and any. to bring fresh
to the Americans there. 'Y" huts ,
are the last buildings to close In home |
camps on this side, and win ~ the last |
buildings to close on the other aide. The
SLsC. A. Ia In to stay
n..-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09

The Man Beneath" Sessue Haya.
kawa's latest Haworth produticon dis.
tributed by Exhibitors Mutual, is 4
drama which emphasizes in a power.
ful way the ban of blood which stands
between the amalgamation of the east
ern n western races. This feature
will be shown today and tomorrow al
the Strand.
DIR. Chindi Ashutor, q famous Hindu
physician, falls in love with Kate
Erskine, a Scotch girl. Although she
really loves the Oriental, Kate realizes
that marriage would make them both
Outcasts.
Ashutor rescues Jimmie Bassett, the
fiance of Mary Erskine, Hates younger
sister, from a band of blackhand spies
by putting BaSsett into a state of coma
resembling death, during a sea voyage
from India to Scotland, and having
him apparently buried at sea. The
spies, who are on board, are deceived.
but subsequently discover thai Ashutor
substituted a dummy for Bassett's
body.
Trailing Bassett to Scotland they are
ABOUT to carry out the vengeance of
a society when Ashutor illustrates
their plans. The means which he uses
are tfnctured strongly with Oriental
mysticism and esoteric influence. andl
develop a situation that ends in al
thrilling climax. s.ys
1naI
the Hindu
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09
1 0The
At the Royal

A dainty Belgian countess who OBJ
Jects to being made a pawn of state
and sold in marriage to a dissolute
German prince, is the captivating
role essayed by Marguerite Clark in
her newest Paramount p~hotoplay,
out of a Clear Sky" which will be
shown at the Royal theatre tonight.
Miss Clark's picture is an adapta-
ton by Charles Maigne from "Out of
a Clear Sky" a novel written by
Maria Thompson Daviess, in which
the principal character is Celeste, the
tiny but stately Countess of Bersek
and Krymn. Her scheming uncle de-
mands that she offer herself as a
pawn of state, in order that his re-
lations with Germany might be i'm
proved. Celeste refuses to agree to a
marriage with a German prince, and
escapes with her governess to Amer
lea. Her uncle follows her abroad,
however, but when the ship docks
she eludes him and catches a train
for the south, hiding in a. Tennessee
mountain gorge. There she is dis
covered by Bob Lawrence, a hand
some young woodsman and wealthy
landowner, who lends his aid to
BATTLE the uncle. Scenes of intensity
and sensationalism take place. The
role of Celeste is one of great SYM
pathy, n it is probably the heaviest
one Miss Clark has essayed for some
time.
Another Big Feature
The human appeal and tremendous
dramatic power of THE Third De-
gree" which made it one of the
greatest stage successes of its day,
are splendidly maintained in Vita
graphs screen version of the Charles
Klein drama which will be seen in
the Royal theatre Friday and Satur-
day.
Alice Joyce has the stellar role of
Annie Sands, and the beautiful and
talented star lever appeared to bet
ter advantage. Her role is that of
the waitress bride of a college youth,
who brushes the power of her mill
lionaire father-in law, sworn to de-
stroy her, n of an all-powerful
police inquisition to save her young
husband from death for a murder he
did not commit, but of which he was
tortured to confess.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09


Today and tomorrow three big feat
ure attractions will be shown at the
Ditmas. Charlie Chaplin In his lat
est million dollar picture Sunny
side" William Russell in a special
production "All the World to Moth
ing'' in six masterful parts and added
feature attraction, SPEEDY Meade"
with Louis Bennison a Goldwyn super
photoplay.
Wholesome fun of the variety at
which Louis Bennison is without a
peer is mixed up in the thrilling
scenes of the famous cowboy stars
newest Betzwood production, Speedy
Meade" which Goldwyn
for presentation at the Ditmas theatre
beginning today. More pronounced
than ever are the remarkable fresh
style and the engaging personality of
this delighted screen star, whom
thousands have come to look upon as
the kingpin delineator of. Western
cowboy roles.
Speedy Meade" Is replete with the
situations that made Louis Bannison
a name to conjure with when the en-
tire nation acclaimed him in his whirl-
wind stage success, johnny, Get
Your Gun" In fact, no role of his
career has given the breezy Western
er greater opportunity than that of
Speedy Meade, a Government sleuth,
assigned to the h%erculean task of
rounding up a band of cattle thieves
on the border.
That Everything in life is more
or less of a gamble" is fairly we'll
substantiated in "All the World to
Nothing" the William Russell feat
ure which will appear at the Ditmas
theatre today. 1t opens with a three
night poker-game where Richard
Chester CANDLES away a fortune.
The next venture is where he mar ,
ries to ave himself from arrest, and
becomes the husband of an heiress
whom he has never seen before and
whose fortune will be of no benefit
to him.
Then the game of chance IS con-I
tinued at the Mecca of speculation
the Stock Exchange and the hucuat-
ing status of Brazilian lead shares
way the fate of those interested.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-09

and the Scotch girl, in which the ORR
entail comprehends that his love is
hopeless, shows Hayakawa in one of
those quiet and tensely emotional
scenes of which he is master.
The photography and settings are
superb. while the story grips with its
mystery and rapid sequence of action.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
OUT BY JUNE

A MERICAN troops in the Arch
n angel district are in no great
danger and are expected to
be out of Russia in June. according
to the statements of War Depart
ment officials.
They ought never to have gone
into Russia as they did. What was
needed at the time was strong inter
vention with thousands of troops to
back up demands of America for
a free representative government IN
Russia or no intervention whatso-
ever.
The few hundred men we have
thrown into the Archangel district
have been battling constantly against
terrible odds. They not only have
made no impression upon the great
masses of Bolsheviki in their path
but their inability to make headway
against superior armies have ire
parably injured the prestige OF
America in Bolshevik circles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
TOO EARLY

T ENTHUSIASTIC business men
II at the n. w. Aver dinner in
Philadelphia, Friday night,
hailed William Howard Taft as
the next occupant of the White
House. They were premature.
1t is not now apparent who will
be the candidate OF the Repub-
lican party for the presidency
next year. 1t is too early now TO
venture a guess as to the result OF
the national convention. But it is
true that Taft has been growing in
the public estimation ever since he
was defeated in the three-cornered
fight in 1912. He is a bigger man
to-day in every way than when he
was President.
Perhaps his friends may decide to
push him forward next time. Ger
tainly, they would be justified if the
peace league is to be an issue, for
Mr.. Taft was the originator of the
idea and he preached it long before
President Wilson had begun to think
of such an organization. And it will
be generally agreed, at least among
Republicans, that Mr.. Tafts ideas
on the subject are much more lucid
and practical than those of the
President,
1t might be pointed out that Tafts
defeat would be an indication OF
weakness, but Grover Cleveland was
beaten in a much less strenuous fight
than the three-cornered contest
which resulted in the first election
of President Wilson and was after
ward a successful candidate for the
office and made a wonderful record
himself as a wise and far-seeing
statesman. Stranger things have
happened than the reelection of
Taft, but the time is scarcely ripe
for seriously discussing candidates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
IN APRIL

A morning of gold and green
And a path to the top of the hill
Music and scent and sheen,
Color and flame and thrill.
Sap in the veins of the tree,
Twitter and bud and birth,
Hope in the heart of the bee.
And Love in the whole Of the
earth,
Sleep in the eyes of the sky,
And a hush in the hearts of the
stream:
Slumberous fields that lie
Burdened with beauty and dream,
Silence and shadowy light,
And q graceful crescent curled;
Peace on the lips of the night,
And God in. the width of the
world.
Perrin Holmes Lowrey in Con-
temporary Verse
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
INSISTS ON RIGHTS

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Judge Kunkel's decision that the
United States has no right to decide
on Interstate telephone rates is in
line with that of n Kansas court.
which is now in the Supreme Court
of the United States and is to be
argued in October Until then the
decisions in the various States will
be respected. 1t is presumed that
the same would apply to railway and
telegraph rates, and it is likely that
the Supreme Court will hand down
leading decision" unless by that
time the matter has settled itself,
which is not likely.
Judge Kunkel is careful in his de-
cision to draw a sharp line between
the Presidential war powers" and
those which have mo relation to
war" 1t can hardy be claimed
that at present the local telephone
charges have any relation to the mil
| itary situation and it is even hard
to believe that seiZing the lines in
the first place was of any value to
anyone. 1t seems to have been sole
I ly the idea of Mr.. Burleson, who did
not act until the war was practically
over, and it is believed that his sole
idea was simply TO start movement
in favor of national ownership and
operation. 1t is certain that there
! is little sentiment in favor of this
! idea at present and there is no
reason in the world why the lines
should not be returned at once.
Pennsylvania has a jealous regard
for its justly reserved rights. It is
hard to understand why the admin
istration should care to interfere in
dom estic matters which really do not
concern it in the least. We have a
commission erected for the very pur-
pose of maintaining just rates for
! all public utilities, and until it's de-
cisions are shown to be unjust, we
shall abide by them. It is curious
that the political party which has
always claimed as its chief stock in
trade the restriction of nationalism
has now. officially, at least. become
nothing less than n Prussianizing
Party which recognizes no red lines
whatever on the map.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
KITCHENER'S LAST DAYS

Several pages of "The Grand Fleet
1914-16" (Doran), by Admiral Wis.,
count Jellicoe, are occupied with an
account of Lord Kitchener's clos
ing hours on the Iron Duke. The
question has sometimes been asked,
Gould not Viscount Jellicoe have
advised the Hampshire to wait till
the weather improved?" The Ad-
miral tells us that Lord Kitchener
would never have consented to de-
lay. 'He impressed me strongly
with the idea that he was working
to timetable, and that he felt that
he had not a day to lose. He men
toned three weeks as the limit of
his absence, and l expressed aston
ishment at the program which he
had planned to carry out during that
period. He was most anxious not to
lose a moment on the sea trip, and
asked me more than once what I
thought was the shortest time in
which the passage could be made"
1t was on June 5, 1916, that
Kitchener reached Scapa enroute to
Archangel. He confessed at lunch
con that the strain of the last two
years had been very great, and he
felt that he could not have gone on
without this break, which he heart
lily welcomed. He was impatient to
be gone. and his heart was already
in Russia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
4 CHECK TO BURLESON

tFrCm Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.l
Judge Kunkel, in his opinion de-
nying the right of the Postmaster
General to change telephone rates
in Pennsylvania without the approx
al of the State Public Service Com
mission, discriminates sharply be-
tween the Governments general
war powers and the authority which
it arbitrarily claims in the present
instance. In the end we probably
shall have judicial decision defln-
ing as right or wrong the high
handed proceeding of the Govern
ment in seizing the telegraph and
telephone companies as and when
it did. For the present Judge Kun
kel contents himself, however, with
deciding in effect that there being
no emergency the Federal Govern
ment has no power to set aside State
authorities. That is sensible, at
least. And it brings into relief the
effects of President Wilson's action
entirely apart from the motives
which may have promoted it. They
do not commend themselves to the
general public.
To win the war the people were
willing that the Government resort
to any expedient. But they object
decidedly to the war emergency be-
ing used as a cloak for setting up
conditions of State socialism to the
public detriment and in violation OF
private rights. AS in the case of
the railroads, so with the wire COM
munication companies; seizure by
the Government was followed by a
course the procedure the end OF
which would have been inevita bic
public ownership. More than that
the course followed tended to de-
stroy the power of the States over
what is distinctly their own CON
Germs. The restraining action of
Judge Kunkel in Pennsylvania and
of judges in other States puts it
spuarely up to the Federal admin
istration to prove its right to sub
stitute Capitalization of control for
the rights of the States to exercise
authority in purely State affairs.
These cases should be pushed TO
conclusion as rapidly as possible. It
will be a poor reward for sacrifices
made in the war IL the people shall
find they have lost rights of which
they should not be deprived. If il
is possible to destroy State rights
as the Postmaster General and some
others seek to do, the sooner the
fact is known the better, for then
the sooner the people can take
steps for their protection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07

Owe RNOR WILLIAM c.
- SPROUL is to be commended
~ for establishing two lines of
veto activity - divorce laws and
measures tending to increase flnan-
cial burdens on counties. He has
shown tendencies to be vigorous in
his use OF the veto power and his
comments are interesting.
Some years ago the State passed
back to the counties the cost of
primary elections and the trend of
legislation for a long time has been
to add to expenses of administration
of county affairs. 1t is now planned
to return half of the personal prop
erty tax to the State, giving to the
counties, which enjoy it all at pres
ent, the benefit of the State system
of stiffening up returns of owner
ship, which worked we'll when ad-
ministercd by the Auditors General
of recent years. Other bills are
pending which would call for rigid
attention to details of county ex-
penditures. The Governor is right
when he submits that the cost of
elections, for instance, should not be
put up and that service on election
boards should be a matter of patri-
otic duty instead of a chance to get
money out of a county treasury.
There is no field wherein lawyers
who specialize in divorce have been
buster in recent years than in the
Legislature. Every session bills to
provide for particular cases have
appeared and while some have been
meritorious there have been many,
particularly in the last half dozen
years, which should never have
reached the Governor. In the dozen
or so bills vetoed this year, two have
been efforts to complicate the di-
vorce laws still further.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
And the Cat Came Back
[From an Army Report.l

Statement of Sophie Guillame-I
had a beautiful cat which 1 loved
very much. It was very beautiful.
I needed it. 1t was filled with mice
and rats. Besides that he was my
companion. L loved him very much,
because he was very beautiful.
An American soldier said in that
house Theveny that they had eaten
cat on Christmas day. 1 had not
seen him for fifteen days. He never
stayed out more than week before.
I. therefore ask for an indemnity OF
Fcs 90 90 for my cat. 1t was a beau
tiful beast.
Place du Marche.
From: C. o., 29th Military Police
To: Commanding General, 29th
Division.
Subject: Alleged eating of cat.
I. January Z, 1919, Nine Gull
lame reported that American SOL
diers had killed and eaten her cat
for their Christmas dinner.
II. Upon investigation the follow
ing facts were ascertained:
(a) Cat missing January 4.
OBJ Statement of Nine. Guillame
attached.
(c) Statement of Nine. Lucy
Theveny and her mother that Nine.
Guillame was queer" and that they
advised paying no attention to her.
cd Gendarme officially reported
this morning, (January IA, 1919
that the cat came back.
III. In view Of above, case has
been closed. (Signed)
CAPTAIN, Military Police Com
pany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
The Shdd0W at the Door

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer ]
All, distinctly we remember the
eleventh of November,
When each separate army mem
ber fired its last shot of the war.
Eagerly we scanned the morrow;
prayerfully we sought to bor-
row
Hone that all the load of sorrow
that humanity then bore
Would be lifted; that the Confer
ence to meet and talk it DER
Would end war forevermore.
But that Conference, not fitting,
still is sitting, still is sitting
In the classic shades of Paris,
where it talks-then talks
some more;
And its talk has all the seeming of
most visionary scheming,
While the world wakes from it's
dreaming; finds a shadow at it's
door.
And it fears that wars dread shad-
ow that grows blacker at its
door
Will be lifted nevermore.
HOWARD MARKLE HOKE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
"They Like Ii Out Vest

Bailey Millard, onetime editor or
a New York magazine. now on the
staff of the San Francisco Bulletin.
reveals some of the secrets of the
trade in the following.l
The New York magazine editor al
ways carries in his mind the picture
of Western reader. AT gathering
of editors about the evening board,
l always would hear some of them
say: We'll, l am running such or
such a series because that's the KIND
of stuff they like out west 1t was
a regular saying among The manu-
script readers in our office: They
like it out west
BY out West they meant the Mid
die West, for even Pittsburgh was
west to them.
1t used to make me smile, Tor 1
was from n long way farther west
than the region they had in nina.
But l had lived in the Middle west
too, and this ready sizing up OF tne
literary requirements of the readers
residing in the neighborhood or the
Great Lakes or the Mississippi River
always seemed n bit of editorial
coCksureness that was as inapt as
/ 1t was amusing.
A certain widely known novelist
wrote a very long and very prurient
serial story. The manuscript was
sent in for my consideration.
did not read it. In fact, 1 never
read it until after its publication.
BY my direction the manuscript of
! the novel was read by three readers,
ore of them Il lady. All these read
ers declared that it was so salaclous
as to be absolutely unprintable. The
! two men were very outspoken In
their denunciation of the story, ano
the lady blushed a deep red when
she handed in her report. All agreed
| that the reading public would MOI
stand for the story. So, wltnou'
reading it myself. l had the manu-.
script returned to the author. Tha'
was in 1905.
| Would you believe 1.-THE story
was published in 1916-eleven years
afterward-by the proprietor OF oul
magazine on the recommendation Of
my successor, and the public moi
only stood for It, but ate 1t up and
wanted more. But they could get
no more from that particular author
FOR he was dead.
Now what had happened to make
this story more acceptable to the
magazine reading public in 1915
than in 1905? 1t was very simple
Any oldtime editor will tell you
that the gradual decadence OF taste
on the part of the great mass o.
magazine readers. due to the gradua
feeding into them of rotten se2
stories. has not only made reader:
less easily shocked. but also actually
eager to embrace these fleshpots.
What shall say of this literature
and the prevailing demand for and
consumption of it? What shall any
one say? One word covers 1t all
| it is a debauch.
The New York magazine editor:
are responsible for this condition
But if YOU were TO ask one of then
to-day why he befouls his pages will
the prurient stuff he would say will
knowing smile, "Oh, they like Il
out Vest"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1t is hard to tell whether d Ger
man government has been set up or
framed up.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Too many bathtubs, safety razofs
and cakes of soap in this country to
.oake possible big crop of red an
archv.--ttica Observer.
Former Kaiser Bill wants to go to
warmer climate. For once we feel
like accommodating him.-Wash-
:ngton PCst.
" hat we need is a law that will
make an unjust strike impossible
and Il gust strike unnecessary
Greenv!le IS. Co. Piedmont.
Considerable astuteness was
shown by James Monroe in limiting
his much -discust doctrine strictly to
one point.-Washingt Star.
The government claims that it has
decreased train-robbery; there be
those who insist that every train
ride is a robbery now.-Nenango
Herald
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
MAKE WHEELS GO ROUND

vTTITHOUT discussing the cause
wv or causes of the failure of the
w Peace Conference to come to a
conclusion in Paris, 1t is obvious that
until satisfactory settlement shall
have been reached there will be
more or less unrest and uncertainty
here in America.
Most Americans feel that peace
should have been declared long ago
and because no agreement has been
reached there is an indefnable un-
rest which extends to the individual
and prevents the resumption OF
normal activities.
In short, the Paris conference is
the main spring of the world at the
present time and until the machin-
cry is properly adjusted the wheels
of industry and commerce and indi-
vidual activity in every direction
will not go rounA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-07
Meat Prices

why has not the price of meat
decreased since the signing of the
armistice?" asks Mr.. Consumer and
his wife.
Because livestock costs more"
is the answer of Armour and Com
pany.
Cattle for the month of February
cost the meat packing company
$12.40 a hundred. This was 1898
per cent higher than for the same
month a year ago and 72.70 per
cent higher than in February, 1914.
Hogs during February averaged
$17.1S, an increase of Ala per cent
over the corresponding month a year
ago and an advance of 1926 per
cent over the figures for 1914.
Sheep were only rs per cent high
err than in February 1918. but the
percentage of increase for the five-
year period was 1s0.7s.