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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Princeton'S Good Fortune
[From the Philadelphia Pressl

[From the Philadelphia Press1
Everyone should rejoice at Prince
tons good fortune in getting fifteen
million dollars or thereabouts from
one benefactor at time when all
the machinery of the institution
with it's army of alumni is on high
gear in a drive for another sum
almost as large as Mr.. Frick's be-
quest. Had the bequest come earl
ier the drive for an additional sum
of almost equal amount would
probably not have been undertaken
at this time. But the battle for an
additional endowment of $14, 1926, 900
is already on. An unexpected gain
at another point is no reason for
stopping it. The university can
make splendid use of both sums. The
cause of higher education in this
country will be broadened and ex-
tended by this great Strengthening
of one of its best known and long
established institutions of learning.
Even with this endowment Prince
ton will be no richer than several
other American universities. 1t will
be considerably behind Columbia,
for instance, which is the richest
of the other greater universities
have many departments and sub
divisions among which their income
is divided, whereas Princeton will
have only it's College of Letters and
School of Science to absorb its
funds. No law or medical or divin-
ity schools will claim a share of the
income from this new endowment.
Its graduate college has its indie
pendent and separate endowment.
The Theological Seminary that
bears the name of Princeton has no
corporate or financial connection
with the university and is itself one
OF the richest of theological semi
naries.
Princeton University, though now
highly concentrated in its educa-
tional opportunities. will doubtless,
under the influence of these endow-
ments, branch out considerably.
Such is the intention and in the
enthusiastic language of President
Hibben, this new and large endow-
ment means a bigger and better
Princeton than its fondest graduate
has ever dreamed" There Is still
the danger that Mr.. Frick's bequest
from his residuary estate may prove
less than expected. Federal and
other taxes may still further de-
plete it, and the fourteen million
drive may fall short of the goal
aimed at. Allowing for all these
possibilities. it still remains true
that Princeton University is the re-
cipient of extraordinary good for
tune and we'll deserves warmest
concentrations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
The Census

gate of more than forty thousand
pages.
There were 6,S61,5O2 farms re-
ported in the 1910 census, valued at
more than 40 billion dollars. The
1920 census is expected to show
more than Z million farms.
1t required eighteen months to
complete the enumeration work for
the first census in 1890. In 1920
the census bureau plans to COM
plete the enumeration work for the
entire country in from two to four
weeks and announce the population
figures in less than three months
from the date the enumeration work
is completed.
Every census so far has disclosed
the fact there are more men in the
United States than women.
The ingenious machines used by
the census bureau to count, sort and
tabulate the information gathered
by Che census enumerators will take
care of three hundred cards n min
ute, the counting machine can do
five hundred cards a minute and the
tabulating machine is capable of
handling four hundred cards a
minute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
VictorS in SouUenir War

The Home Sector, the ex-soldiers'
magazine, conducted by the former
editorial council of The Stars and
Stripes, states that the desire to re-
turn with souvenirs of the land in
which they fought oftentimes caused
American soldiers to endanger life
and limb in efforts to procure suit
able exhibits to hang over the man
tel in the house back home.
According to the ex-soldiers' maga-
zine: so far, about the only things
sacred to the national memory of
France, which have come through
the American prying and lifting peril
unscathed, are the stones of the Bas-
tile, which are solidly cemented in
a modern sidewalk.
Even the most precious posses
sion of the Louvre in Paris did not
come through entirely untouched by
vandalistic Yankee hands. Unfor-
tunately the Venus de Milo is of
marble and too bulky to fit in its
entirety even an army overcoat
pocket, but these handicaps did not
deter an American permissionnaire
The details are vouched for by an
American woman who lived in Paris
during the great part of the war and
who is known by name to thousands
of doughboys.
"One day q soldier. who was a
member of party she was guiding
approached her triumphantly:
See this little piece of stone?'
he said, rolling a chip of marble
between his thumb and forefinger
Guess what it's from. It's off the
statue of the lady-the famous one
without the arms that's kept inside
that iron railing at one ends of the
gallery. There was nobody around
when 1 was there, and I saw that
there was loose piece near the bot
tom. 1t came off awful easy
The Blarney stone is lighter than
it used to be, if one can believe the
boasting tale of an American soldier
The hero of this tale related how he
had allowed himself to be swung
by the heels out from the castle walls
while he conscientiously knocked off
piece of Ireland's sacred relic with
a smaller and tougher rock"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge Mayer Sulzberger. of
Philadelphia, who is attending the
Constitutional Commission meeting
as a member. is accompanied by
his brother.
j. ]. Flannery, prominent in
Pittsburgh financial affairs, has been
seriously ill.
Ernest l.. Tustin, new director
of welfare in Philadelphia, has gone
to western cities to make some stud
les.
General w. ]. Latta, former sec
retary of internal affairs, made an
address at the Philadelphia veterans
flag presentation last night.
Major w. G. Murdoch has been
attending the reunion of Philadel-
phia engineer units.
Judge G. A. Baldwin, of the
Beaver county courts, let nine radi-
calls go on promises to sever connec-
tion with a communist society.
John r. Barbour, mentioned for
the vacancy in Pittsburgh city coun-
Gil, is president of the Pittsburgh
Stock Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Starued SdUing For Family
IFrom the New York Tribunel

[From the New York Tribune1
Somewhere in Russia a mother
and her three children are awaiting
the return of a husband and father
who left them several years ago to
acquire wealth in America. He will
never go back.
Frank Zabielski made the journey
half way around the world in his
quest for a fortune. He had been
living in a small basement room in
Newark, N. J., working hard and
skimping and saving. His bank
books show a balance of SLIPS in
one bank and 1926 in another. But
he is dead. He died the other night
in the city hospital Newark, and his
malady puzzled the physicians until
County Physician Warren made his
report.
Starvation killed Zabielski, the
physician said. Mrs. Rachel Lippen
to whom Zabielski had entrusted the
care of his bank books said he told
her he was saving money to take
back to Russia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
COMMISSIONS WORK

"HE preliminary work of the
State Commission indicates the
purpose of the Commissioners
to make a thorough and compre-
hensive study of the big subject
submitted by Governor Sproul.
1t is obvious that the fundamental
instrument requires some changing
to meet present-day conditions, but
it is doubtful whether there is any
serious purpose to throw overheard
the fundamental instrument which
has shown through the experience
of years the wisdom OF its provi-
sions and the comprehensive char
acter of its several articles and
sections
Radical proposals of every sort
have been suggested here and there
but the sitting process will likely
prevent any serious disturbance of
the checks and balances which are
necessary in the basic law. Some
measure of relief. perhaps, may be
necessary in enlarging the home
rule of cities and this may be ac-
complished through a reclassifica-
tion of the municipalities of Penn
sylvania along the lines which were
practically agreed upon when the
present Constitution was adopted,
but which arrangement was over
turned by the Supreme Court. 1t is
probable, also, that certain weak
nesses in the provisions affecting
the executive functions ought to be
carefully revised but wit hout chang
ing the principles involved.
There is real atmosphere of
what might be called conservative
progress in the early stages of the
Commissions work and it may be
assumed that no hysteria will be
permitted 10 influence its discus
sions or conclusions. All outgiv-
ing of a proposed constitutional
convention and intimations that the
study now being made is simply
preliminary to such a convention
are purely gratuitous and so far
as any official opinion has been ex-
pressed or implied are without JUS
tification.
Generally speaking, the body of
twenty-five is striving to ascertain
through careful investigation and
study the real needs of the Com
monwealth with respect to a revised
or amended Constitution. When the
problem shall have been thoroughly
studied from every angle it will be
time enough to talk about a new
Constitution or revision of the old
instrument. Until then the people
of the State may be reasonably as
sured that nothing serious is going
to happen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
THE ONLY COMPROMISE

FALSE insinuation, the Demo-
X cratic leaders are striving to
- place the Republicans of the
Senate in an unfavorable light before
the country, picturing the majority
members as standing stubborniy
against the League when ''compro-
mise" would have resulted in ratifi-
cation, according to their claim. The
fact is that the Republicans did
make all the concessions many of
them felt they could without sac
rificing American independence and
American honor.
When the general terms of the
proposed League Covenant were
made public, SO Republican Sena-
tors Joined in a formal declaration
that they disapproved of the Cove
Inant in that form and insisting that
| the League question should be elimi-
mated from the Treaty, peace terms
/ agreed upon and then the subject
/ of a union of nations for the promo
ton of peace be taken up separately
on its own merits. 1ndI WAS the
Republican attitude.
President Wilson would make no
concession to the body which, under
the Constitution, must be consulted
and it's approval secured before any
Treaty can become effective. There
was no spirit of compromise in lin.
He declared, in a speech in New
York the day after the Senators
signed their round robin" that when
the Peace Treaty came to the United
/ States it would have the League
! Covenant so intricately interviewer in
it's provisions that it would have to
be adopted. And so it came.
I Did the 80 Senators stubbornly
insist upon their carefully formed
| Judgment that the League question
should be eliminated and taken up
separately? They did not. Most OF
those 80 men, any one of whom is
just as capable of serving this coun-
try as President as is Woodrow Will
son, and every one of them just as
capable of forming sound judgment
upon foreign affairs as is he, yielded
that point, although a few stood out
against the League Covenant even
after the reservations had been
made. Those of the 80 who voted
for the Treaty with reservations did
SO Notwithstanding their judgment
that it would be better to make q
Peace Treaty without a League Cove
nant included. They were willing
in a spirit of compromise, to yield
their judgment in an effort to Sc
cure in legal effect the peace that
has already been practically ac.
complished.
The Republicans made this com.
promise. What compromise die
Woodrow Wilson make or offer tc
maker
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Eclipse Trip "Hoodooed''
[From the Boston Globe1


Word has been received from Prof.
David Todd's sun eclipse expedition,
Amherst College, attributing it's bad
luck to the fact that the sailors were
"hoodooed" by the number 13. The
ship Elinor steamed away May 13;
thirteen sailors were assigned to the
four life boats, there were thirteen
port holes on each side of the vessel
and the ship became totally disabled
on the Equator June 13.
When the Elinor reached Pernam-
buco, Brazil, a storm smashed the
sea wall of the harbor and crushed
the hydroplane that was to take the
Brazilians on a flight promised them
by Professor Todd.
At Bermuda the sailors conspired
to desert the ship and were prevent
ed by the captains steaming at once
for the deep sea.
Professor Todd left the ill-fated
ship, but failed to observe the eclipse
and could not get other transporta-
ton home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Popular Interest Sought
IFrom Pittsburgh Dispatchl ]


The proceedings of the commits
sion on revision of the State Consti-
tuition just opened at Harrisburg
should be closely followed by the
public at large. Unfortunately the
subject is too apt to be considered
dry and of little popular attraction,
vet the hearings and discussions
should be of the highest value to
every citizen of the Commonwealth,
involving as they do the fundamental
law of the State and therefore al
fecting the people in countless di-
rections, public and personal. Every
one can recall suggestions, proposals
and movements that have been sub
ject to the provisions of the present
Constitution, often to the dissatis-
faction of large bodies of opinion.
This will doubtless be true of what
ever revisions may be made or omit
ted by the present commission. Yet
this is the time to think these things
out, to offer suggest ions in the way of
eliminations, amendments or addi-
tions. Properly considered, the Con-
stitutional' Commission should pro-
vide the basis for general discus
sion of the basic law, to the end that
the people of the Commonwealth
may consider it intelligently. to weigh
proposals thoughtfully and later to
vote intelligently upon whatever re-
port is submitted by the Legislature,
whether for separate amendments
or for a new constitutional conven-
ton to take up the whole question.
The good citizen, that is the man
or woman who takes an intelligent
foi nf Sfafn nd
community, will follow the delibera-
tions of the Commission with the at
tention the potentialities of the dis
cussion warrant. This is the real
politics, the science of government,
and the better it is studied by the
people the nearer we shall come to
penlIine popular government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
All. HA; NOW WE HAVE 1T

ROF. EINSTEIN, eminent
Swiss mathematician. tells US
- that a 'yardstiek is shorter
when it is pointing east and west
than when it is pointing north and
south"
We believe there is something in
the theory and that it may have a
wider application.
Maybe that's why a pound OF
butter looks so small in comparison
with the price. And we guess that
what's the matter with the buying
qualities of our ffty-cent dollars.
If we knew how, we'd spend all
our money north and south, there
by, perhaps. preventing our pocket
books from being knocked galley
west.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Street Name TUiSterS
[From the London ExpressI

[From the London Express1
Some of our street names in Lon
don are not beautiful, but at any
rate, we avoid lengthy tongue"
twisters," such as they have on the
continent
In Paris there is the Rue des Pre-
tres Saint Germain rAuxerrois,
which is almost as bad as the Rue de
la Montague aux Herbes-Potageres
in Brussels.
But these are simple compared to
another thoroughfare in a suburb of
the Belgian capital, which boasts the
name of ildezilverenoeker-
nootjestraat. 1t is said to mean
''the street of the little unpicked sill
yer nut"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
WHERE PAPER GOES

A DVANCE copies of the third
~ annual report of the United
States Shipping Board have
just come from the press at Wash
ington, we are informed. 1t is an
cient history and most of it will
never be read by anybody. 1t en-
braces 213 closely-printed box-size
pages and all the real news in it
could be summed up in a column.
Yet there are those who wonder at
the scarcity OF white paper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
IN GOOD HANDS

TTAVING approved the selection
of a negro educator of high
standing and character as sec
retary of the colored branch of the
association in this city, the Central
Y. NJ. c. A. directors have thus en-
dorsed an important step in the ac-
tivities that have been encouraged
among the coiored people of Har-
risburg for some time.
Many of our people favor this
movement and now is the time for
them to show their interest in SUBJ
stantial support. Work of this char
acter cannot be carried on without
funds and the branch of the 7. N.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
r n view of the fact that the TAX
ing of the fourteenth census

III ~ NiSW VI the ldCl THAT thC tdh-
ing of the fourteenth census
of the United States will be-
gin in 4 few weeks. the following
items from n bulletin issued by the
census bureau are interesting:
The first census of the United
States was taken in 1890, during the
administration of George Washing
ton. 1t related solely to population.
A census of the country's manu-
factures was made for the first time
in 1910. Under the present law a
manufactures census is to be taken
in connection with the decennial
census and every two years there
after.
The sixth census, taken in 1910,
was the first one to cover agriculture
statistics, now one of the most i'm
portant parts of the entire census.
About $50 people were engaged
in taking the first census. The 1920
census will require the services of
ninety thousand.
The statistics of the first census
were published in one small volume
consisting of fifty-siX pages. The
statistics of the 1910 census required
twelve volumes having an aggre-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
High Fares
rFrom Boston TRANSCRIPT

[From Boston Transcript
did you point out to him the
beauties of the scenery" asked the
suburbanite who had hoped he had
a Gust omer for his home.
"Oh yes" replied the agent, "he
liked the scenery, said it was grand
the trouble was. he said, there was
too much of it between the place and
his Office"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12

c. A. for colored people should have
the consideration and sympathy and
aid of all good citizens. 1t is in good
hands and the initial work has been
organized along practical lines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
The SilDer Trumpet

And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Make thee two trumpets of
silver; of a whole piece shalt thou
make them; that thou mayest use
them for the calling of the assem-
bly,, and for the journeylng of the
camps.-Numbers x, l and 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Sore

[Boston Transcript
Don'cha come round In yer leather
coat
Onless youse want to get our goat.
Jest been nicked eleven for shoes,
An we puts de blame on guys like
youse-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Venuses SdUe TdiIOr's Bills
IFrom the Ohio State Journal

IFrom the OIIU SIdIe JOurnaII
Some of the girls in our wife's
favorite fashion magazine look as IL
they were dressed to have their
measurements taken for comparison
with those OF the Venus de Milo, but
we suppose they really are just going
to go to a party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's fro de-
partment is one of the few en-
tirely motorized systems OF cities
of the third class?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12

Don't forget the Toy Mission when
you are buying toys for your boys
and girls; the store people will be
glad to deliver your contribution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The Citizen fire engine was in
were built on the west shore. 1t
was used to pump water to the in
trenchments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12

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.
AL rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1e, 1918

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith,
quit you like men, be strong.-1 Con.
16 :l3.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12

Writing in the PHILADELPHIA In
quirer. George j. Brennan thus clas-
sites the Pennsylvania congressman:
"Of the Pennsylvania Congressman,
Thomas S. Butler. of the Chester
Delaware district. the dean of the
delegation has served twelve con-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-12
Pseitico i~
Pe~~s4esa~ia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

Governor William c. Sprouts
speech before the Republican ma
tional committee Is generally COM
mended for it's Americanism, the
only criticisms being by two remo-
cratic newspapers which print
frankly partisan editorials. The
Philadelphia Inquirer praises 1t for
its stalwart Americanism and the
Evening Bulletin is we'll pleased
with it's sentiments. The Pitts
burgh GaZette-Times says that the
Governor got right down to the
fundamental need of the country,
and the Philadelphia Press says 1t
was sound and strong.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
finds some objections, one being
that 1t is too colored by Pennsyl-
vania conservatism. The Pitts
burgh Post in violent Democratic
article calls the Governor "a parti-
SAN and invites the Republican
party to keynote the speech as much
as it wants. while the Democratic
Philadelphia Record suggests that
economy begins at home and takes
whack at the selection of DR..
William Draper Lewis as secretary
of the Constitutional Revision Com
mission.
L. w. Strayer, writing from
! Washington to the Pittsburgh Dis
patch says that William B. Wilson
| will soon retire from the Cabinet
together with Secretaries Lansing
and Lane. Similar rumors have
been heard from time to time and
there is a hope here that IL he
should retire that he will consent
TO serve on the State Constitutional
Revision Commission from which he
resigned a few days ago in a letter
received by Governor Sproul in
Philadelphia.
Just what effect Wilson's with
drawal would have on the Demo-
cratic national committeeman fight
in this State is a matter of specu-
lation. He would be for Palmer
for president but between Guffey,
Sterling and Dewalt there are some
who have doubts.