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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
The Death Lure of the Sea

lF'rom the Manchester Guardianl
The North Atlantic, which is the
center of anxious interest in connec-
ton with the great flying competi-
ton, may be called, from some points
of view, the most mysterious of seas.
No stretch of ocean has been more
often described, and yet it keeps It's
secrets. So much depends on the
point of view. Try to correlate, for
instance, Kiplings wonderful de-
scriptions in Captains Courageous
with the diary of the passenger on
a great liner who makes the cross
ing for the first time and thinks of
himself as discoverer. Certain sea
roads on the Atlantic are known to
marines as well as the great city
arteries of their homes, and yet a
few miles outside those roads lie
other countries alone, mysterious,
aloft from all passage of men and
ships. And even on the sea roads the
Atlantic is not wholly conquered /:
the calamity of the Titanic still
stands 10 memory of the struggle
that continues always.
Flying men must have strong
nerves. and they will be needed on
this fight. for to the men of keen
imagination there will be something
menacing in flying hour after hour
above the sea, silent and motionless
from that height. and waiting with
the patience of eternity for the one
fatal mistake. 1t will be like the fas-
cination of the abyss for the i'm
aginative man crossing it by some
frail bridge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Agriculfure's Part

War has put crown on the. head
of agriculture. reconstruction con-
firms the coronation. That farming
was the fundamental industry of the
world has been a matter of text
book common knowledge always.
Like other eternal truths it has been
so generally accepted as to come
near bNing ignored. To the farmer
and particularly to the farmer of
America, the world looked to keep
the stomach full while it attended to
the unpleasant task of making and
using munitions. Again to the farm
er and particularly to the American
farmer the world now looks to sta
biliZe and make sure the toilsome
processes of reconstruction. Every
prophecy of prosperity is based on
the reasonable assumption that Agri-
culture will continue to do its level
best. A beautiful, substantial struc-
ture cannot be built upon an inse
cure foundation. There can be no
prosperity unless agriculture thrives.
Plain-Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
The Attitude of France

How France feels to-day can be
illustrated by a little story: There
was once a man. eating tiger that
stole into a village, killed and ate
a child and was attacked by the
chllds father. who desired to save
the rest of his family and himself.
Two or three neighbors joined in
help, but even so the tiger was
getting the best of it when q par
ticularly powerful but distant neigh
Dor, who had scarcely realized what
was gong on, arrived, and with his
aid the tiger was overcome and tied
up.
Then arose n debate, led by the
powerful last-comer. as to the fate
OF the helpless animal. The death
penalty was overruled, and the dis
cussion centered about the strength
OF the rope that was necessary to
securely tether the tiger to a tree
around the corner from the victims
house. The man who had most to
say about the strength of the rope
was the last-comer, who lived far
ther away than any of the others.
ana he did not think such a thick
rope was needed as did those who
lived nearer the tigers tree.
The child's father, badly mauled
and, indeed rendered almost help
less, wanted the tiger killed. Failing
that, he wanted the tiger tied up
with the strongest ropes available.
regardless of the feelings of the
others. The child's father in my
story is France, the tiger Germany.
That is how France feels about
the Peace Conference. She was at
tackled and mauled and she wants
Germany rendered absolutely help
less She is afraid of even a tethered
tiger' and nobody can blame her.
She thinks Mr.. Wilson'S tether is
not strong enough, the help that is
promised her if the tiger breaks
loose too far away Moreover. she
feels that because she bore the
brunt of the attack she ought to
have most to say about the settle
ment, and she finds Britain and the
late-comer, America, @dictating a
peace to suit themselves. Small
wonder that feelings akin to panic
and anger are rifle in Paris-John
l.. Balderston in Philadelphia Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Wars Spotlight on Africa
TJohn NJ. Springer in World Outlook

non recruits die, many of them of
the white mans diseases and vices.
Tens of thousands of others find
thelr way back to the kraals, broken
IN health and morals, civilized
within an inch of hell" as one ex-
plorer expressed it.
That is what civilization" with
out Christianity is doing for the Af-
rlcan. At the same time Christian
lty has come with quinine and plows.
It's work has been less essential. But.
as one traveller says, For a hundred
miles around You can see the influ-
ence of we'll established mission
station. The natives have more
clothing and better food and less
likely to die of starvation during
a drought"
Before the missionaries came. n
chief buried two live slaves, a boy
and a girl, in his mothers grave, but
when his favorite wife died recent
ly, the missionaries intervened, and
there was no human sacrifice
Kabongo is a chief who wanted a
mission station-wanted it so much
that he sent out his women to clear
the ground and his men to bring
in poles and grass to build a house
for the missionary who was to come.
Then when the missionary came
Kabongo built a school, or rather
he had it built by cannibal prisoners
he had captured red-handed and
brought in to reform.
Thus the natives of the Belgian
Congo show their desire for Chris
tianity. but the church has been
slow in sending workers. We now
have only fifteen missionaries in a
territory the size of three states
The future of Africa depends upon
how quickly the church remedies
this condition. without Christian
ity the history now in the making
in Africa will be sad story of ex-
ploitation. The natives will be
crushed by a material progress for
which they were not prepared They
will become n liability to the world
With Christianity they may be-
come an asset to civilization. But
Christianity must come now in
greater volume and power to accom-
pany the industrial development.
AS this race of children faces twen-
tieth century industrial conditions
it must have. first of all. the trans
forming gospel preached to it, Tt
must have schools. including agri-
cultural and industrial training. 1t
must have sanitation. 1t must have
medical treatment and instruction.
1t must have social service. In
short. it must have the Christ.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Song Of the Trees

Dark against the sky yonder distant
line
Lies before us. Trees we see. long
the line of trees,
Bending, swaying in the breeze.
Bright with flashing light yonder dis
tant line
Runs before us, swiftly runs, swift
the river runs,
Winding, flowing DER the land.
Hark! oh, bark! A sound, yonder dis.
tant sound
Comes to greet us, singing comes
soft the rivers song,
Ripping gently meath the trees
From The Path on the Rainbow"
The box of American Indian
poems, edited by George w.
Cronyn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE,

Ex-senator John M. Jamison,
named on the commission to COM
plete the Blairsville State Hospital,
is prominent Westmoreland coun-
ty operator.
General f. L. King, former
chief of staff of the Keystone Divi-
sion, is home from France at the
head of q brigade.
Senator John G. Homsher, of
Lancaster. is an authority on laws
relative to justices of the peace arYe
magistrates.
Major ]. o. King, who returned
with the One Hundred and Tenth,
is an Altoona man of long experi-
ence in the National Guard.
III. w: Nicely. of Pittsburgh, we'll
known here, is chairman of the con-
mittee to make a 5S5 mile trip to
praise Pittsburgh products.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
DOirlq

When you have a thing to do, you
will do it right in proportion to your
love of right. But do the right, and
you will love the right; for by doing
1T you will see it in a measure as
it is. and no one can see the truth
as it is without loving it. The more
you talk about what is right, or
even about the doing of it. the more
you are in danger of exemplifying
how loosely theory may be allied to
practice. Talk without action saps
the very will, Something you have
to do is waiting undone all the time,
and getting more and more undone.
The only refuge is to do.-George
Macdonald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
. .LISABETHVILLE, doubling her
n, output of copper to meet war

TX LlSAbG GI11 V lLLE, uOuDllnS ner
n output of copper to meet war
orders, or Likasi with thirty
railway tracks and a great concen-
trating plant for the treatment of
low-grade ores, may sound TO the
average American more like Arizona
or Michigan than Central Africa. But
that is because the average American
knows so little about Africa.
OF course he knows that there
are diamond mines down Africa
way, and rubber and ivory and os-
trich feathers. But who in America
knows that in the heart of Africa
are a hundred and fifty hills so i'm
pregnated with copper that no trees
will grow there and cattle cannot
eat the scanty grass which covers
them? Or who knows of the almost
untouched deposits of coal, iron, tin,
and antimony?
And Africa is no less rich in plants
than in minerals. The yearly pro-
ducts of Central Africa in vegeta BILE
oils, cocoa, sugar, cotton. and woods
amount to nearly $100,000,00O.
These natural resources have
made the course of empire take a
long leap southwark and have COM
Conference. But the real future of
the continent does not depend alto
gether upon whether a single nation
or a league administers the colonies,
or whether their oils go to make ex-
plosives for the Allies or soap for
America. There is another most i'm
portant factor-the native.
In the past this native has lived
in n thatched hut which was eaten
up by white ants in year or two.
He has had a goat and a few chick
ems, maybe a slave or two. He had
an ulcer on his leg, unidentified
pains on his stomach, and fear in
his heart. But withal he had a
cheerful disposition. Also-like most
men everywhere-he was as lazy as
he dared be.
Now civilization" is coming to
Africa is coming for the diamonds
and the palm OILS. Often it comes
with little thought for the African,
and he, alone and unfriended, is no
more capable of meeting modern
industrial conditions than a child is
of managing an eight cylinder mot
or. Conditions in the Rand mining
district of the Transval have proved
this fact.
There every year half a million
natives come from the simple bar
baric life of the jungle or weld.
twenty thousand of these half mill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
The Rockies

The silence, the sense of space in
these Rocky Mountain solitudes can
not be expressed; neither can the
peculiar atmospheric beauty be de-
scribed. The shapes are the shapes
of the north. but the air is like the
air of the -shimmering, kin
ding. No pictures of the Rocky
Moutains which l have seen have
caught it, There is not a cold tint
here. No dome of Constantinople or
Venice. no pyramid of Egypt, ever
glowed and swan in warmer light
and of warmer hue than do these
colossal mountains. Some mysterious
secret of summer seems to underlie
their perpetual snows.-Helen Hunt
jackson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Among the Mountains

Afternoon in the dell, where was
A broken fall and many-voiced.
With evrgreens and red and golden
trees
At varying elevations grouped
around:
It's bason hid and cool and circular,
On which the leaves rested as
dreamily
AS If the stream could never wake
again;
The mountains lowered around, pur-
pie and rose,
The sun, still clim bing vainly
sought to peer
Into that still recess.
Margaret Fuller.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

.-. No form for the Harrisburg memor-
al to soldiers of the great war has
vet been adopted, but when the people
have had opportunity to express
.hoice they will undoubtedly do credit
to this patriotic community in their
inal selection. There is increasing
appreciation of the Importance of
,arc in choosing public memorials and
no doubt Harrisburg will avoid the
mistakes that have been made in
,ther years in the adoption of perma-
nent memorials.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
ENEMIES!

rLMER E. GREENAWALT, for
II mer president of the State
Federation of Labor. delivered
remarkably strong address before
he State Federation here yesterday,
n which he set forth clearly why
radesunionism and Bolshevism in
his country must forever remain
mplacable enemies. Bolshevism, he
aid, would merely be the substitu-
ion of one form of tyranny for an
.ther-the autocracy of the prole-
ariat for the autocracy of the few.
lie went further and said that under
3olshevism, as 1t has been developed
Russia, the working man is not
8 free a. he was under czardom.
md went on to show that. instead
4 the proletariat ruling. the masses
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK

VERY authority that has
n, spoken on the subject the past
fortnight has expressed the
conviction that a period of great
industrial prosperity is just ahead
and that there will be a labor fam
inc before the close of the present
year. From the same sources we
hear, and the truth of it is apparent.
that certain lines of employment are
lax and orders not plentiful, but
the volume of retail trade continues
large even in communities given
over entirely to industry, so it is
obvious that the purchasing power
of wage earners continues high.
This brings one to the conclusion
that the manufacturing trade must
soon feel the effects of these large
retail sales. Stocks, none too large
at the time the armistice was
signed, are lower now in many in
stances than at that time, due to
the desire of everybody in business
TO hold off for the expected drop in
prices, which it is now apparent
will not come. The other favorable
factor is the immensely of the wheat
crop about to be harvested and the
Nhigh price the farmer will get for
his products. In the same category
Is the sustained rise in security
prices on the stock exchanges of
The country. which reflects the op-
.imism Of investors as a whole. who
believe the United States will ben-
eft materially from the readjust-
nents now in progress and that the
predicted wave of prosperity is fast
approaching.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
10 to 1 in AdDertising's FAVOR

Ten failures are caused by too lit
tie advertising to every one that is
caused by too much advertising.
members of the Milwaukee Asso-
citation of Commerce were told at
their annual meeting and banquet
by S. f. Fannon. one of five experts
sent through the country by the
National Cash Register Company to
deliver addresses on The Troubles
of the Retail Merchant and How to
Stop Them" "One of the axioms
of modern business is that advertis-
ing pays" said Mr.. Fannon. Con
tinuous advertising. newspaper ad-
vertising and advertising in the same
newspaper space steadily are best"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
CAMP CURTIN MEMORIAL

TT is to be hoped the Legislature
will see its way clear to enact
the Smith appropriation bill for
the erection of a memorial on the
site of old Camp Curtin to mark
for all time that historic spot. The
plan originated with Lieutenant
Governor Beidleman, when he was
member of the Senate, who pro-
cured an appropriation sufficient for
the purchase of the necessary
ground. Senator Smith has taken
an interest in the matter and has
asked the Legislature for money to
complete the memorial, which every
Civil War veteran who went out
from the famous old encampment
would like to see Forthcoming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Poor Rich" in Bread Line

Evanston's community kitchen,
where the poor rich of the city who
cannot find cooks will have their
luncheons and dinners cooked for
them, positively will open in few
days.
The kitchen will be established in
the salesroom of the Evanston Wom-
ans Club, and the bread line" will
form to the right, purchasers either
taking their food to their homes or
eating it, a la cafeteria, at tables
provided for the purpose.
The directors had originally an
nounced delivery of food by motor in
special containers to keep it hot. but
this will not be started. it is said,
until later.-From the Chicago Her.
aid and Examiner
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Building

Let them that would build castles in
the air,
Vault thither. without step or stair,
Instead of feet to climb. take wings
to fly,
And think their turrets top the
sky.
But let me lay all my foundations
deep,
And learn before / run, to Green.
Who digs through rocks to lay his
ground-works low,
May in good time build high, and
sure, though slow.
-Christopher Harvey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
OUR NEW ROLE

The revised scheme of jacking the
United States into the affairs of all
creation is in no essential feature
preferable to the original. The two
are alike in that they abrogate our
sovereignty, our established policies,
our most cherished traditions. our
personal liberties and our freedom
as a nation.-Harvey's Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
The Autumn Wind

The autumn wind rises,
white clouds flying before it,
yellow leaves are torn from the trees
by the river.
Already the wild geese are wing
ing their way
toward the south,
the rose is sweet no longer,
and petals are falling
from the lotus flowers.
The Emperor Ou Ty (Han dy-
nasty, 40 B. c..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Crimes Most ErDenSiDe

If you spend S1,271,575.13 for
crime, sickness, poverty and unem-
ployment, what are you spending to
prevent them In Los Angeles the
answer was found to be $3S.983.14.
That is the allotment for education.
Crime costs $627.457.42; sickness
$33O,61S.16; poverty, $215.1O4.95:
and unemployment, $98,4S4.6O.-
From the World Outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
POe'S "Tdnerldne" Sold

The sale at New York book auc-
tion of a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's
first book, "Tamerlane." printed in
Boston in 1927, for $11, 900 the
highest price ever paid for any
American book-and at another
New York auction, of the dedication
copy of Milton's "Comus" for $1,425,
may be encouraging to modern au-
thors by showing them what sums
their works may sell for a century
or three hundred years from now.
From the Writer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
LABOR NOTES

A threatened strike of members
of five organizations of marine work
ers unions having to do with dredg-
ing and drilling operations on the
Great Lakes, has been averted tenn
porarily.
BY decreasing the weekly hours in
the Lancashire (England) spinning
mills, more work has been found
for 100000 people.
The great bulk of the Fifshire tex
tile trade is in the hands of female
labor.
The average wage of the ordinary
farm laborer in England has been
advanced during the war from s3.50
a week to $6.75 week.
Various British labor organizations
are urging on the government the
desirability of establishing an i'm
perial employment exchange system
In British Malay, Chinese are
chiefly employed for carpentry work
the number of other nationalities
being small in comparison. On day
rates the wages vary from As to 90
cents. depending on the class of
work.
The Kansas City Railways Com
pany has advanced the wages of all
employees five cents an hour.
Industrial wages in Denmark have
increased SS per cent since 1914.
In Denmark the annual average
wage for farm workers is s176 for
men and $g4 for women, the en-
ployer furnishing board and lodging.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Mischievous boys have resumed
heir activities in the smashing of
he standard light globes along the
Front Steps" of the city. 1t would
eem that there should be some way
# apprehending these culprits ana
punishing them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg products
have become very much diver-
sificd in the last five years?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Members of the Associated Press-The'
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
ALI rights of republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
A Comparison

Some folks can saw wood and say
nothing. but baby can't even cut
one measly tooth without rousing
the borhood.-From Answers.
London. r-.'-- '-'7- r''-. 1T
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
Intelligence

Sense never fails to give them that
have 1t words enough to make them
stood.-William Penn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

In 1900 Harrisburg had ten
coach and wagon works. this being
a center of transportation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
NdtiOnd Progress

National progress is the sum OF
national industry. energy and up
rightness.-Samuel Smiles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Harrisburg will, have an honorable
place in the great pageant at PhiIa-
delphia to-day and while many Will
not be able to participate in the pa
rade. they will not be forgotten in the
appreciation of the home folks for
gallant service. -ee-----,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15
THURSDAY, MAY is, 1919

Where have but him
Is my Fdtherldnd;
And all gifts aud 0rdces come
Heritage into my hands
Brothers long dcplored
I in His disciples ind restored.
-Friederich ron Hdrderber1.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Governor Sproul was the honor
guest at a regular farm banquet at
the Pcnn-Harris Hotel the other night
and the chef of the big hotel might
take leaf from the menu of this
interesting feast. Roast pig and apple
sauce and Apmpkin pie would appeal
to more than the gubernatoriai appe-
tite.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Anything that the Legislature may
do to further safeguard the sheen
industry in Pennsylvania by eliminat>
ing the sheep-killing dogs will be ap-
proved by large majority of the
people. The hills of Pennsylvania
were once covered with sheep and
the increasing industry should have
the protection of every law that will
reduce the destruction of the feecy
hocks by worthless dogs that are per-
mitted to run at large by their own
ers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-15

Returning soldiers are enthusiastic
supporters of the Salvation Army and
the effort which is now making in
this city and vicinity to raise funds
for the peace-time work of the or
ganization in this community will
have the sympathy of most people
who have followed the activities Of
the Army among the fighting forces.
Whatever may have been thought of
the organization in the earlier years
Of its work. it is now regarded with
favor throughout the world and es-
peciGlly among the men and women
who have come into direct touch with
it's welfare activities.