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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-09

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ur collectively that may he uevcs-
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-09
FAMOUS AMERICAN is DEAD.
Herbert r. Ward Dies From Effect
Of Exposure In Europe.

~ TINIFlNIITC III TWTNIN1
LONDON Aug S-The death NJ
Herbert T. ward. famous American
sculptor, artist and explorer, az the
American hospital a, Neuilly.
France. was announced by the Daily
Mail today MIR. Wards illness was
brought on boy exposure while ac-
companylnE Herbert Hoover, inter
national food expert. on an nutomo-
bile trip from bucharest to Belgrade
He was 81 years old
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-09
WHEN DRAIN WEARY

Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate
and relieve tho hea 1ache due io men
tai strain. worry or over work. Non.
alcoholic BUY a bottle --.Advt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
Fable Of the TurkeH Egg

An old farmer and his son were at
work in the field near the roadside
when his son discovered a dead tur-
key, which probably was discarded
by another farmer who was on his
way to the market. Both were Curl
GUS to learn the cause of it's death.
They brought the turkey to the barn,
dissected the fowls body and OBJ
tanned an egg. The boy set the egg
and the result was a fine turkey
gobbler that was sold the next sum-
mer for $500. With this money the
boy purchased a pig. The next sum-
mer the young capitalist sold his
sow and eight pigs for $50. He then
bought two thoroughbred heifers.
The ensuing fall he had two milch
cows and calves which he sold for
5000. His final investment was in
two one-year old filly colts.
After a lapse of five years the lad
was the custodian of two good mares
and $1,000 in gold which he procured
in the sale of their colts. And today
this farmers son in studying agri-
culture and animal husbandry in a
State University as the result of one
turkey egg.-The Thrift Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
Winqs Old and NelU

Come, darling, let's put on the wings
of a dove.
And fly to the orb-studded regions
of love;
Where the sun-setting 'spleador shall
shine on our bliss,
And well honor each star as we
pass with a kiss.
On, on, DER the shadow-fle cled plains
of the night.
We shall glide like the ileet-footed
heralds of light;
Till the morn from the darkness has
set itself free,
When we'll land on tho shore o.
some roseate sea-"
So the poet of yore used to spin on,
his rhyme,
Made his lovers disport through the
airlanes of time.
Though he knew that they could Tot
use wings of a dove,
He depicted the liGhtning-like flight
of their love.
But the lines of the present-day poet
forsooth,
Can he squared with the facts of ouI
up-to-date truth.
So he sends valiant Paul to his ardent
young May,
And makes him. with perfect consist
ency say:
"Come, kiddo. I've tested each part Of
my plane;
It's motor is tuned to stand any ole
strain.
So, get on your duds, and We'll fly
through that cloud.
And kiss in its depths while were hit
from the crowd.
Wen do a few loops. cut spiral an(
dip,
And over the top of yon mountain
we'll skip.
Then we'll plane home in time-if
have enough gas
To dress for a table d'hote dinner
my lass"
By HOWARD MARKLE HONE &
Harris burg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
Something For Nothing

Naively admitting that he is a para
site and demanding on these grounds of
high morality and logic the support Of
the state, Grand Duke Friedrich Au-
gust of Oldenburg, dethroned by n re-
cent revolution, presents a financial
claim to the Diet-Oldenburg's parli-
ament. He demands an annual allow
ance of one hundred and fifty thou
sand marks for the grand ducal family
over a period of fifty years.
That such a demand may receive
serious, even respectful, attention from
n body of lawmakers instead of being
laughed out of court is keener COM
mentary on the psychology of German
political concepts than the most accom-
pliahed satirist could hope to invent.
In America we would consider it
thus: And incompetent old public scr
want, cast out of office because of his
dishonesty, inefiiciency and stupid arro-
gance, wants his pay to go on neverthe-
less. He does not pretend to be of use
any longer, even as figurhead, yet he
haughtily demands that his former en-
ployers continue to support him and
his relatives in luxury.-From the San
Francisco Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
NelD Diplomacy Concrete

Diplomacy before this has con-
sisted in n nations getting what it
wanted out of other nations, no mat
ter how other nations were going
to feel about it in the next hundred
years. The general idea of diplom-
acy was to get something out of q
nation which the nation would be
sorry afterWard that it let you have.
Diplomats were proud when they
did this. ~he idea of what consti-
tutessa gift for diplomacy now is
precisely the opposite. We see now
all diplomacy that proposes to con-
duct world peace as kind of ele-
CANT horse trading between. nations
being brought to a stop full head-o
before all mems eyes.
The new diplomacy seeks to pick
out something concrete, dramatic
and revealing for a nation to do to
other nations, something revealing
for a nation to say to other nations,
which the other nations will like
better from day to day and from
year to year and will be gladder
of the longer they have had it,
Gerald Stanley Lee in the Saturday
Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
Creating Niagara Falls
[From the New York Sun.1

rom the -NeW OTh sun.
The project for control and storage
of the waters of the Colorado where
that river roars through the Grand
Canyon had its origin with a woman
Mrs. II. w. r. Strong OF California.
She points out three larga econcmic
values in her plan: Ii provides for
prevention of the "inconceIvable
money damage" done by the annual
floods of the river, the use of the con-
trolled water for irriEatiny deserts,
(which will grow anything" and the
enormous hydro-electric energy which
could be developed from "a success
sion of Niagara Falls" to be created
by her plan. Then she adds this
thought:
The blasted rock is ready for the
builder without cost of transporta-
.ion. The dams will be narr"w and
high. tied to granite sides. The STIR
face OF the river being raised TO the
top of the dams, it becomes a NOV
inS. living stream. life giving. and the
project. when completed the en;ir e
length CT the canyon, would be more
thar. she eighth wonder of the world,
49, miles of river fr5m 80 TO 1.o00
feet deep, interspersed with water
falls ThnS the scenic value Of the
canyon would be greatly incrcased."
No mere man engineer could be
more practical than Mrs. Strong when
she is talking economics. But would
any man have thought of foreclosing
objections by societies for the preser-
vation of scenic beauties? She had
them on her list of obstacles, and dis
played feminine wit in dealing with
them before they could deal with her,
and showed womans artistic touch at
the same time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
BARKING Up WRONG TREE
rHE TELEGRAPH has been and

THE TELEGRAPH has been and
is Il sturdy champion of Penn
sylvania State College. 1t be-
lieves the institution one of the most
helpful and useful in the country.
1t approves of States efforts to keep
it's activities before the people, but
when the college news editor uses
up good space in the bulletin for
which the taxpayers provide the
money TO fight the daylight saving
law, the Telegraph takes exception.
To be sure, the objections are
raised as vo!cing the sentiments of
the farmers, but there are more
townspeople in Pennsylvania than
farmers and at least as many more
city students as there are those from
farms at State College, and daylight
saving is n blessing TO thousands
upon thousands of town folks with
whom the law is very popular. The
college has done a great work in the
encoura cement of agriculture and
in prom oting the home-garden as an
auxiliary food producer, but without
the daylight saving law thousands
of Homogeneous could not be culti-
waited. States editor would do well
to let his hands off this issue. 1t
has nothing whatsoever to do with
the promotion of State College in
terests and is likely to create hard
feeling where only friendly senti-
ment now exists.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
THE AUTOMOBILE SHOW

DY ALL means visit the Harris
ID burg automobile show which
opens to-day, not alone because
it is the biggest and best that has
ever been held here, but because of
the inspiration it will give you to
put heart and courage into your own
work or business, for the associated
automobile dealers have banked
heavily on the future and have based
their whole years plans on a con-
tinuation of general prosperity.
That is the secret of the great
success that has attended the efforts
of the automobile maker and mer-
chant. Always he is an optimist'
glimpsins the bright side and maxi
ing the most of opportunities that
less enterprising men have failed to
see. The whole motor vehicle trade
is founded on the principle that
business is just what the business
man makes it. The makers and
sellers of cars have created markets
where there wer- -Nre. They have
built up an industry from nothing in
a few years that ranks among the
greatest in the world. But they be-
lieve they have only made a start
and that the immediate future holds
big things for them. They are bas-
ing their seasons campaign on the
text: Business better than ever"
and have set out to prove that 1919
is going to be a good year for every
business man who wills it SO and
acts accordingly.
That's the biggest message the
automobile show has for the visitor,
but in addition there is the finest
line OF cars ever placed on display
in Harrisburg. Every man hopes to
have car some day, and most Of
us eventually will, so the show has
interest for everybody, and whether
or not you are the proud possessor
of machine, a prospective buyer
or a mere spectator a visit will be
we'll worth while.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
SdW First Whites in West

Tom O-wah-Teet, who remembered
the first coming OF the white man to
the Hlickitat Valley. Washington state,
has gone to the happy hunting grounds
at the age of at least 1l0. He was
known and liked by every one in the
region, and would. tell vividly of the
events of days when white people in
vaded the territory OF the Yakimas and
klickitats.
He was present at the Council of
Walla Walla Plains ir 1855, and was
warrior under Kamiakin in the Yaki-
ma Indian War that followed.
He took part in the Block House
battle and massacre of white settlers
at the Cascades, where Lieut.. Philip
II. Sheridan was in command of the
troops sent from Fort Vancouver to de-
fend the garrison.
After the revolt was crushed, Tom-o-
Wah-Teet was always friendly to the
whites, and his many services were
repaid. for since he became nearly blind
about five years ago and could no
longer support himself and his aged
squaw by working on farms, those he
once aided had looked after his wants.
From the Detroit News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
"Freak Dances Won't Lasf"N
RAYMOND A. Eaton in the Rocky
Mountain News1

RAYMOND A. Eaton in the Rocky
Mountain Newsl
Dancing was never as popular as
IL is today according to Denver dane
ing instructors, and the ending of
the war and consequently the lifting
of a load of worry from the shoulders
of the people is held largely re-
sponsible for the increased popular
ity.
The freak dances won't last long,
in the minds of the instructors. Mrs.
William Warren Hayden says. "a few
foolish young people will take up a
crazy dance for a while, but il can't
last" and she added that there was
slight danger of any of the freak
dances remaining long in any of the
schools or public dancing academies
or in society.
The one-step, waltz and fox trot
promise to hold the boards for many
years to come, for they have perfect
rhythm, and only. dances with perfect
rhythm can survive, in the opinion
of authorities.
Music is held by instructors to be
largely responsible for dancing, and
they say the fox trot has been kept
alive by the pretty music written,
and here's something maybe you
didn't know: Music, not the dancing
masters, created the fox trot that
is. the foxtrot was originated to fit
music.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
tFrom the Christian sceince Moni-

tFrom the Christian Sceince Moni-
tori
~ OF only does the American SOL
nj der, as rule, read books, When
- he can get at them, but he reads
hooks that are commonly accounted
good. notwithstanding the 3,500,000
volumes at their disposal. camp librar-
ians of the American Library Asso
citation are testifying that they have
never been able to supply the demand
for poetry, especially American and
modern poetry generally. Among the
soldiers of the United States, at home
and overseas. American books and
American authors were the most popu-
lar. In fiction, stories of the American
West, well filled with action. were the
most popular. During the progress of
the war there was always q large and
constant demand for military works,
but this demand ceased the minute the
armistice was signed, a circumstance
characteristic of their country, which
has little use for militarism before or
afterward.
1t is really not to the point now
however, what books they read, or
what particular kind of books they pre-
ferred; what is interesting is that
these apparently TdlleT Careless lei
lows were fond of reading. Since the
shelves from which they We're in the
main forced to draw were supplied by
the American Library Association, an
organization deserving OF wider recog-
milton and warmer appreciation than il
has thus far received. they could not
have gone very far astray, even il they
we're disposed to choose thoughtlessly.
and they were not Observation rang
ing over many months. and applied to
nearly all divisions. has convinced at
tendants that the average United
States soldier has Il natural taste for
literature of the better class. He is
| fond of books written in the lighter
vein. but as already indicated. he is
partial to poetry, while well-told
story, short or long. is certain to en-
list a. share of his attention. But
during the war he has been a student as
well as a reader. and European history,
politics, and geography have taken up a
large part of whatever leisure time he
has had for the library reading room.
When the armistice was signed the
American Library Association had -
407 libraries in operation in the Uni
ted States and France. Forty-three of
these were full-slzed libraries in build
| ings dedicated to their use in the can
tonments and larger military reserva-
tons in the United. States. each con-
tanning about $4,000 volumes. while
l43 were in hospitals. 315 of the lesser
size in the smaller camps, and 400
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
SATURDAY, MARCH Is. 1919
STORYTELLING AN ART

TORY TELLING is an art more
difficult than acting and as cap
able of just as pleasing results.
The actor has at his back a stage
carefully set 70 reflect his message
10 the audience. The story-teller
must make his own atmosphere.
The actor is supported by colleagues
or assistants who share with him the
effort and the strain. The story
teller must depend upon his own
personality, magnetism and ability.
Storytelling is as old as human
experience. The memory of man
was for thousands of years the only
page upon which the history of the
race was recorded, and storytelling
was the sole method of educating
the young in the customs and
achievements of their forefathers.
Thus was tradition established and
history founded. The first teacher
was a storyteller; so was the first
preacher and the first historian.
But the art has been much neglected
IN recent years. The printed page
has been so cheap and so easy of
access that storytelling fell into
disfavor until very recently it has
been rescued from its obscurity and
given an honorable place in the
community
In Harrisburg this work is being
done very effectively by the Story
Tellers' League, which has been 60
ing along very quietly for a num-
Der of years but persistently and
with so much success that finally
its members have been compliment
ed by being asked to have a part
in the public school activities of
the city. The work they have under
taken will be one OF love and very
arduous, it requires careful study
and much preparation. But their
reward will be in knowledge of
service rendered, for story telling
can be made just as attractive and
just as effective a means of edu-
cation as it was before it was dis
placed by the cut-and-dry textbook
of which pupils see so much that
any variation in teaching that elimi-
mates it finds immediate favor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
TheAmerican SoldierReads

were branches established in naval sta
tions and on board ships. The libraries
had personnel of 2i3 librarians serv-
ing in the main libraries and larger
branches. The books available for the
Service would ordinarily supply ten
libraries of 10000 book capacity, and
fifty of 10000 book capacity each.
The fighting being over. there has
recently been some discussion in the
American Library Association over the
ultimate disposition of its great stock
of books, and a plan which has evil
IDENTIFY met with approval in the man
agement is that of distributing the 81
100000 volumes among the smaller and
more remote communities OF the Uni
ted States that still have no public
libraries, or public libraries that are
scantily supplied. In the midst of this
discussion, however, came cable mes
sage from DIR. Herbert Putnam, librar-
ian of the Library of Congress, who is
now in France in charge of the library
work of the American Army, saying, in
substance, that 100000 more books
of a miscellaneous character, for the
use of the American eNpeditionary force
during the next six months, were urg-
emily needed.
The fact seems to be that the SOL
diers still remaining overseas have eX-
hausted their book supply, or are likely
soon to exhaust it. The United States
Government and people will. of course,
take pride as well as pleasure in replen-
ishing and freshening the shelves Of
the army libraries. The sudden and al
most imperative call for books confirms
what has heretofore been said con-
cerning the American soldiers bent to-
ward reading and study, and this will
be most satisfying to the nation. Men
who read, study, and think, as do
American citizens, as rule, whether in
civilian clothes or in uniforms, are
likely to disappoint those who have
been counting upon sowing seeds of dis
content and mischief.
Librarians in the war camps say that
! the need of libraries in all towns and
! Eeighborhoods in the United States
will be more acutely felt henceforth
! than in the past The men returned
! from the army, when scattered over
the land. will. it is held. wish TO con-
! tlnue their reading, and will be rest.
! less il denied the opportunity. Conse.
| quently, although it may be necessary
| TO postpone the book distribution
| scheme tentatively decided upon by the
! American Library Association. the p!ar
! should be kept we'll in view, subject
! only to the amplfcation as may be
! c-Iessary to meet all the requirements
! OF the case.
| The returned American soldier who
| likes to read should be afforded the
! opportunity always.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
AT WHAT SALARY?

IN HE second member of President
Wilson's cabinet to resign be-
cause he couldn't live on s12.-
900 year is to travel to Paris with
Mr.. Wilson as general advisor and
assistant at the peace conference"
Now. we don't know just how
much money Mr.. Gregory needs to
live on, or how much more than
$4,000 he contemplated making by
his return to the practice OF law,
but it must be that he will receive
more as a member of the peace
crowd than he did as Attorney-Ge
eral or he would as a plain everyday
lawyer Strange how he just re-
signed and then happened to be ap-
pointed to this newly job.
Looks as though we might begin
to see where all of this $1,000, 900
expense money is going.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
PROBLEMS AT HOME

TUDGE WESLEY o. HOWARD, of
= Kew York: will nobody give
heed to America? Must the
tangles of Europe absorb all our
attention? Is the United States to
become only a province of the lea
que of nations? Are we to sur
render our sovereignty? While the
American people are groaning un-
der confiscatory taxes, taxes which
stagger their credulity and stife
their breath, are yet bigger taxes
to be laid upon them to rehabilitate
Europe? Are we to continue to
fight in the SHOWS of Archangel and
the deserts of Arabia to make the
world safe for democracy? Are the
unemployed Yankee soldiers to roam
through the streets of America while
abstract bureaus of labor are or
ganized in Europe? Are the desert
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
MIR. LANSING'S SPEECH

GECRETARY LANSING'S speech
- at Paris this week expresses the
sentiment of thousands of
people in America. He warns the
commission that a treaty of peace
is absolutely essential at once if
Germany is to be saYed from an
archy, which might spread to other
countries. We do not imagine Mr..
Lansing would have talked so force
fully if President Wilson had been
at hand to censor his remarks. In
deed. the Lansing address is a dis
tinct departure from the wilsonian
policy. which has been for a League
of Nations first and a peace treaty
afterward.
The Secretary of State has sensed
public opinion and the needs of the
moment much better than his su-
perior. He realizes the necessity
of an early peace that will enable
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
The Zoo

A pair of double eagles with
Their wings and talons clipped,
And every feather from their tough
And scrawny bodies stripped;
A draggled turkey that no more
Will swell and strut about
Recause one eye is closed for gool
And all his tail is out.
A hear that drags broken chain
And packs an ancient trap
And leaves a trail of blood and fun
Behind him on the map;
And goats for which Rumania
Is seeking pastures new.
Lo, willy nilly. Uncle Sam
Is keeper Of a zoo.
-MINNA IRVING.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge S. F. Channel. Of Tioga
county, has been spending several
weeks in Florida.
e. r. Stotesbury is home from
his annual winter trip to southern
Col. Edward Martin. commits,
sioner of health, has been attending
the Industrial physicians conference
in Pittsburgh.
Chairman W. D. 3. Ainey, oI
the Public Service Commission
smoke on the Pennsylvania law al
the American Electric Railway Con-
ference in New York yesterday.
chairman Harry A. Mackey, OF
the state Compensation board, made
an address in Pittsburgh this week
on the system developed for COM
pensation in this State