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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE MINERS SIDE
To the Editor Of the Telegraph:

Robertsdale, Pa.
For the miners employed by the
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company. |
Will ask you to correct the enclosed
clipping published in your paper last
Saturday afternoon. 1t was the ON
ployes of the East Broad Top Rail-
road who were on strike since Feb
ruary q to March 10. 1t was no
sympathy strike on the part of the
railroad men for the miners.
The miners were idle on account
of no coal cars to load. AS cars are
all furnished by the East Broad Top
Railroad & Coal Company whose
employees were on strike. The Rock
hill Iron & Coal Company here who
employ all the miners in the Hunt
lngdon-Fulton county district have
not caused the miners to strike
lately.
The miners here when on strike
in the past never did ask any SYM
pathy from the railroad men. They
always fought their own battles. as
they expect to do in the future. Out
side OF April l when all miners will
be idle, their usual holiday. the min
ers in this district do not expect
any trouble this spring as the pres
ent scale does not expire until April
l, 1920. The miners in this district
are as peaceful as a hornets nest
unless disturbed with a promise OF
a reduction in wages.
\ MINER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
WEDNESDAY EVENING,

spend your s4.12 or s4.25. or what
ever 1t may be, in your War Savings
Stamp. You have got time to think
before you can spend it, and il you
think before you spend you prob
ably will not spend that w. S. S.
money foolishly, but will spend it
for something worth while. In other
words, it is not merely growing
money-it is also money with tho
magic power of helping you to get
your moneys worth-money tied up
just enough to keep it from flying
out of your pocketbook. And, re-
member, the wise-spending string on
your money in War Savings Stamps
is your own string-the string that
keeps your own wallet closed until
YOU really need the money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
Courtesy of The Hun

The latest reports are that there
is strong disinclinat,on on the part
of the German government to send
its delegates to Paris or Versailles
at all, unless they are to be per-
mitted to talk back to the judge
and discuss the sentence in an in
terminable talkfest. If they cannot
do that, what's the use in sending
four or five men across the conti-
nent? Why not ring up telegraph
messenger boy and send him to re-
ceive the document and fetch it
TO Weimar? That might not be
exactly courteous to the Peace Con-
gress; but what have Huns to do
with courtesy Harvey Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Tho Hun insists that a punished
Germany will be. u menace to the
world. Quite true. But less a men
ace than an unpublished Germany.
Helena Independent.
IT, as headline says, Germany
gave Bolshevism a start, the debt
has been more than repaid, since
Bolshevism has given Germany
several starts.-New York Evening
Post.
AS the eminent historian, De-
mosthenes McGinnis, once remarked
concerning the Roman general,
Wisonius, "a strong chin is some
times indicative of Indifference to
chin music. c."-Philadelp Eve
ming Ledger.
President Wilson says the Ameri-
can soldiers went to war because he
asked them to. Tut. tut, we had
always been under the impression
that they went to war because the
Kaiser dared them to.-Manila
Bulletin.
Frank Simonds says the Euro
peans can't understand American
politics; but who does Washing
ton Post
How the peace-loving Russian
must sigh when he thinks of the old
nihilist ays.-Indianapolis Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN

KIT OCAL jobs for local men" is
the slogan which is being
used in many communities
in the effort to find employment for
returning soldiers. 1t appears that
there has been a tendency on the
part of many of the men coming
back from overseas to locate in COM
munities distant from their own
homes and this has caused con-
gestion in some sections which
would not have resulted had the
men returned to their home towns.
The attitude of many soldiers is
20 find a wider sphere than that
offered in their former Jobs and
broader life than that furnished by
the home community.
1t is suggested, however, as an
argument against this, that the re-
turning soldier in stopping in a COM
munity other than his own. may ex-
clude a job from some soldier who
that particular town and who will
shortly return.
A committee of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, which has
had this matter under considera-
ton with a view to finding employ
ment for men leaving the service,
suggests that all men should return
to their own homes so far as pos
sible and wait for the period of re-
adjustment to pass in order to pre-
vent a complication of unemploy-
ment which might follow conges-
ton in communities other than their
own.
Most business men are trying to
place their former employees who
served with the colors and this pa
triotic attitude has had the approval
of the people everywhere. The gen.
eral disposition is to find a job for
every returning soldier and he is
entitled to all possible consideration.
But unless the soldier himself real
ICES the necessity of redistributing
the men who have been withdrawn
through military purposes in the
same ratio in which they entered
the service, there is bound to be
more or less difficulty in solving the
problem.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
"He Kept Us Out of Peace"

"He kept us out of war; was the
phrase under which the Presidents
election was urged by his partisans.
HE kept us out of peace" may
be the opprobrious verdict under
which that second term will pass
into history.
It is no longer possible to deny
that it is because of this obstinacy
that we are not now at peace with
Germany under a treaty satisfactory
to the Allies and to justice. That
testimony comes from many sources.
and is writ large and unmistakable
in the records of the Peace Congress.
It comes from French and British
and italian sources as well as from
American. From the very begin
ming of that Congress the Presidents
attention has been given almost ex-
clusively to other things than the
peace treaty, and so far as it has
been in his power to effect it-and
it has been very largely in his power
the attention of the Congress it,
self has been thus diverted from it's
most urgent and most important
business,-From Harvey'a Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
TWO KINDS OF MONEY

= T THERE were two kinds of
United States money-one just
ordinary money and the other
money that increases in value every
month you have it-you'd naturally
want the growing kind - all you
could get hold OF. You'd change as
much of your money as you could
for the growing kind of money that
got bigger right along. You'd hold
on to the growing kind and let it
crow for you.
But there are two kinds of money
ordinary dollars and quarters and
hents that don't grow and War Saw
sngs Stamps that do grow.
You buy War Savings Stamp this
month for s415, next month
il is worth $4.1s. the month
sfter SALT, and on January 1, 1884,
it has grown to SIS.
'sBut," you say, a ''war Savings
stamp is not ready money? 1t grows
al right, is a good investment, helps
me save, but I can't spend it."
You're Wrong-the war Savings
Stamp is ready money - that is,
ready enough money.
n you need the money you have
saved in War Savings Stamps-that
growing money-you can get it from
any postoffioe on ten days notice.
Gou can get an you paid in and
III the interest it has earned while
i a growing for you, and the ten
tAsys' notice is one Of the great fea-
t.Nrres. You can't Just rush out to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
PRACTICAL UPLIFT WORK

DY FAR the most constructive
X bit of trade union literature
- that has come to the Tele-
graphs exchange table in months,
is an interview with the chairman OF
the Collective Bargaining Associa-
ton of Johnstown, published by the
Johnstown Tribune. Says he:
Our association is determined
not only to improve conditions in
side the plant, to make working
conditions better wherever pos
sible, but We propose to do what
we can to improve living con-
ditions in the homes. Those of
for years know that man can
do better work and earn higher
wages when his home conditions
are good. We know men who
come from comfortable home con-
ditions when We see their faces
and watch their work. Now,
around Johnstown. in a number
OF places, many men are living
under conditions and amid sur
roundings which do not make
called the attention of the Cam
bria management to these con-
ditions and received a promise of
their active cooperation. In
there are going to be improve
ments at once. We have also
conferred with DR.. L w. Jones,
Health Officer, and Secretary Ed
wards, of the Board of Health.
and have their promise to aid to
the fullest extent. We are going
about this business in thorough
way and we want every civic or
ganization to join us.
We propose to have public
nf fha - ~
collective Bargaining" organiza-
ton. We want the newspaper re-
porters there; we want the public
there; and we especially want the
Cambria employees there. Let
everybody, come out with their
want to. Let's have all the cards
on the table. I am sure that If we
go at this thing in the right spirit,
we can accomplish a lot. We
don't need outside experts to tell
us what our business is. If there
is not enough brains and getup
in the Cambria men to run their
own business, it's time they took
tumble to themselves.
This is mighty wholesome talk
The Collective Bargainers evidently
know their own needs and we shall
be greatly surprised If they do no
get what they seek. They are look
ing beyond even wage scales and mil
disputes toward the higher thing.
of the community. There can b,
no quarrel with sentiments such a.
they express. The bugaboo OF trad,
unionism has been the professiona
agitator. He has been as great an evi
in the world Of labor as the public
be-damned" employer has been t.
capital. If the day ever comes wher
both the professional labor agitato,
and the "public-be-d EN-
ployer are ruled out of the dis
cussions that arise between capita
and labor there will be very few
strikes and each will understand
the other better. Most agitators ar
either unreasoning radicals or the.
are interested more in holding thei
Jobs than they are in the best in
terests of the working man. Blu
these Johnstown Collective Bargain
ers appear to have a broader grasl
of the situation. They are interest
ed in themselves and their own wei
fare. We shah be surprised indee'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
A Perdmbuldtinq House

Last spring, James Liller of North
Berwick, Me-, set his house on
wheels and in three days hauled 1t
to Bath, a distance of seventy eight
miles, while he and his wife and
his son Edward enjoyed uninter-
rupted housekeeping. Now he has
Just hauled the house back to North
Berwick in the same way. Thus
residents along the highways saw a
moving domicile, the man seated
comfortably on the piazza driving
the horses, the boy and a shepherd
dog running alongside the wheels.
the smoke curling from the kitchen
stove, and Mrs. Liller's face occa-
sionally at the window to watch the
scenery.-From the Boston Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
THE UNCONOUERED DEAD
[By Lieut. Col. John McCrae1

[By Lieut. Col. John McCrae1
Not we the conquered! Not to US
the blame
OF them that flee, of them that
basely yield;
Nor ours the shout of victory, the
fame
or them that vanquish in a strick-
en- field.
That day of battle in the dusty
heat
We lay and heard the bullets
swish and sing
Like ecythes amid the over-ripened
And we the harvest of their gar
nering.
Some yielded. No, not We! Not we,
we swear
BY these our wounds; this trench
upon the hill
Where all the shell-strewn earth is
scanned and bare,
Was ours to keep; and 10! we have
it still.
We might have yielded, even we,
but death
SdHle lot our HeIpeFS IKE sud-
den flood
The crashing darkness fell; our
painful breath
We drew with gasps amid the
choking blood.
The roar fell faint and farther off,
and soon
Sank to a foolish humming in our
ears,
Like crickets in the long, hot after
noon
Among the wheat-helds of the
olden years.
Before our eyes a boundless wall
of red
Shot through by sudden streaks of
jagged pain!
Then Strengthening darkness
overhead
And rest came on US like a quiet
rain.
Not we the conquered! Not to us
the shame,
Who hold our earthen ramparts,
nor shall cease
To hold them ever; victors we, who
came
In that fierce moment to our
honored peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
NOT so BAD

TONSIDERING the month and
the hesitancy of many builders
to invest in new enterprises un-
der present unsettled conditions,
Harrisburg's building record
for February was not so bad.
Thirty-five new houses in one
month make a very good start for
the season. II the record is kept
up we shall go far toward meeting
the shortage this year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Governor Sproul is to make an
address at Reading next Wednesday.
Harry A. Mackey, chairman of
the Compensation Board, and Roger
Dever the Wilkes-Barre lawyer, who
discussed compensation law yester-
day, are old debaters on the sub
ject. -'
John b. Eichenhour, Pittsburgh
lawyer active in the drafting Of leg
islation in 1918, was here yesterday
TO see the Legislature.
Harry A. Gordon, here for the
compensation hearing, is an active
officer in the Susquehanna Coal
Company.
Thomas ]. Kennedy. president
of the Scranton district, was a Har-
risburg visitor yesterday.
Major David A. Reed, compen-
sation authority and just homo from
France, was at the Capitol yester-
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
The Virtue of Antitorin

Warming against diphtheria is Civ
en- by the epidemiologist of the State
Department of Health, who calls at
tention to the fact that the seven
year average of deaths from the dis
ease in Massachusetts, is $50. He
notes the significant record that in
cases treated with anti-toXin on the
first day of illness all the patients
recovered, while in cases in which
treatment was delayed until the
sixth day fewer than half recovered.
Look out for the sore throat!"-
From the Springfield Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

Vosges, with Garibaldi sub-sector
(under division command) July q
to August IA; Gerardmer south sub
sector adde, August II to Septem-
ber 2; Argonne-Meuse offensive
(Grange-ie-C -Compte sector) Septem-
ber 81 to October 1; Somme-Dieue
sector, October 15 to November z.
Prisoners captured: 13 officers,
76S men. Guns captured "a pieces
of artillery, S5 machine guns. Total
advance on front line, 121A kilo-
meters.
Insignia: Santa Fe cross within
two circles of varying colors, the
outer one divided into four arcs.
The design was chosen because the
old Sante Fe trail started westward
from q point near the Missouri Kan
sas line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
POOR OLD CLARK ACT.

TTY HY all this excitement about
wv changes in the Clark act?
What does a little amend
ment or two count anyway?
The poor old statute is beyond the
being hurt, isn't It?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
DO YOU KNOW
That Dauphin county rails haw
been laid OH railroads IN FrSSSt
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

One of the first councils of pro.
vincial officials and Indians west OF
Lancaster was held here before the
French and Indian war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

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.
All rights of republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

If they do not accomplish something
for Johnstown that will set some
other communities to thinking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
Thirty-FIth DiDision

Nationab Guard
of Missouri and
Kansas: Arrived in
France May II,
1918. Activities:
North sector of
Wesseriing sector,
Vosges Gone bri-
gade) July 1 to 81;
North sector of
WesserlinR sector
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

vention of the labor interests of the
four western Canadian provinces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
WEDNESDAY, APRIL ., 1919

Reform those things in yourself
sohtch you blame in others.-oLD
PRovERB.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02
LABOR NOTES

Cleveland. Ohio. policemen ask an
eight-hour day.
San Francisco hotels now employ
Chinese be1lhops.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

Reading Republicans are pre-
pairing for big time at the Berks
county seat next Wednesday when
the annual dinner of the Republi-
cans will take place. Governor
Sproul is to be the speaker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

Chairman J. P. Gaffney. of the
Philadelphia councils finance com
mittee. was here yesterday arrang-
ing for a hearing on Philadelphia
finance bills on April %.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

Representatives Zook, of Blair:
Finney. of Crawford. and Rothen-
berger. of Berks. were absent this
week because of illness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

If the woman suffrage resolu-
ton passes this Legislature it will
have to pass that of 1921 before the
proposition can be submitted to the
voters of the State. The Ramsey
resolution would therefore go to
vote the fall of that year.
Evening journal., 1919-12-23
LAST CHRISTMAS
RUSH NOW ON
Stores and Streets Are
Thronged BY Happy
Shopping Throngs
PUBLIC SERVANTS
TO BE REMEMBERED

One day more OF hustle and hustle
on the street, In the stores and in the
bundle-ladened street cars. and VIII
mingtonians, their Christmas presents
ail purchased and their preparations
FOR the turkey dinner and for Santa
Claus visit all made, will be ready for
the joyous Yuletide-or, perhaps, as Is
usually the case, nobody will be quite
ready. From present Indications il will
be a rather quiet Christmas, although
entertainment programs have been pre-
pared by many institutions and assO-
Citations.
Today, the second Of the last three
big shopping days, brought thousands
OF shoppers TO the center Of the city.
Market street sidewalks were so crowd
ed nearly all day that the men took TO
the muddy street, taking chances with
the automobiles. teams and street cars
rather than the slOw-moving. bundle
ladened shoppers. IL seems that most
OF the persons put Off their shopping.
az usual until these last few days.
stores were crowded, and around the
popular cOunters-such as those for
Christmas cards. handkerchiefs and
h1ecial-priced articles-it was almost
Impossible TO be waited upon. The
Streets and stores literally cried out,
what shall buyg" and the express
sions OF perpleXity over that question
WAS worn by nearly every face. Tomor-
row the crowd is expected TO run true
20 form-Christmas Eye--is the time
that every salesman and saleswoman
viii be glad TO see pass as quickly as
possible
The Christmas rush will come to an
end tomorrow night. The sound Of
Christmas carols welcoming the day,
and the lighted candles In the windows
Will be the striking signs OF the en-
trance Of the Yuleiide. II will bring
solace TO the shoppers, knowing that Il
IS no longer OF any use TO worry about
whether that present is going 10 please;
81 Will ring Joy to the thousands OF
Evening journal., 1919-12-23
WHY THEY DID 1T!

such a solution n the decree were 10
charge us with guilt.
For this reason, enjoinlng us from
combining 10 restrain trade WI In no
way affect our operations. because we
are an dependent unit IN open con-.
petition with the other large packers
and with the hundreds OF smaller ones.
The decree in this respect WI merely
strengthen existing law, which we are
following 20 The letter.
With these thoughts in mind, ! trust
that you Will appreciate the fact that
our position Is In no way an admission
that we have been guilty Of anything
economically, legally. or morally wrong
and that we have made this concession
with the sincere hope that 10 will hep
TO overcome the suspicion wh ch still
Turks In the minds OF many people.
Yours truly,
l.. +. SWIFT
Evening journal., 1919-12-23
Swift 4 Co., Union Stock Yards,
Chicago. Dec. 90 1919.

NiiNttut Dtt. ~ wv
To the Editor OF the Evening Journal
Sir: During the next few days the
newspapers will, through editorial ex-
preston, interpret for their readers he
Significance, both as 10 cause and effect.
OF the recently announced agreement
between the Attorney General and the
packing concerns.
A statement OF our motives I'm enter
ing the agreement hope viii be OF IN
terest 10 you.
Although II is true that we have
agreed 70 sell our interests In stock
yards, ! want to emphatically assert
that our principal reason for being in
terested in stock yards has been to Inn
prove the facilities for the proper mar
keting and handling Of live stock. and
that ownership in snch yards has not
been used as means OF manipulating
prices, or obtaining unfair profits. /
have often publicly announced that we
should be willing TO part with our in
terests in stock yards Y arrangements
could be made to continue their efl-
'cient operation.
As for our willingness TO stop hand
ling canned goods and few other COM
modlties ordinarily sold by wholesale
grocers, want TO emphasize the fact
that there have been ample economic
reason for our handling these products,
IN that we have the distrlbutive mo
chinery to get these goods from pro
ducer 10 consumer In most direct anl
economical fashion.
We believe that eventually the pub
lie would have come 10 realize tho
souDdness Of our position, hut because
OF the spirit OF unrest and mlsunder-
standing we are glad 10 make sonse
sacrifices and concessions. ] believe
that il Is Just as necessary 10 make
such sacrifices during the uncertain
period Of reconstruction as It was dur
ing the war.
Let me direct attention 10 The fact
that the decree TO which we have agreed
TO submit in no way finds us guilty Of
combination In restraint OF trade. or OF
any other Illegal practices. Under no
condition would have consented TO
Evening journal., 1919-12-23

shopkeepers and their employees, for
their annual rush season Will be over.
Already gifts are being exchanged
The mail is full OF Christmas cards and
In the ONCE and shop the holiday
spirit prevails. Tomorrow the public
servants, the policeman, the letter car
rier. the trolley man Will be remem-
Dered by the public. Il promises TO be
happy Christmas for them all.
Evening journal., 1919-12-23
SUNDAY pAPEns. 10 CENTS.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2S-Publlshers Of
all newspapers In New York city, ex-
cept two. who already have increased
their rates, VIII advance the price Of
sunday papers IN the country districts
TO 10 cents on or before January 8. This
Is in answer 10 the plea OF the House
Committee on Postofllces and Postroads
that newspaper publishers Immediately
reduce consumption Of newsprlnt paper
10 per cent. below normal TO relieve the
paper shortage.
This announcement was made by the
American Newspaper Publishers Asso-
oallon, which added thas publishers Of
all but one New York evening papers
had decided 90 issue no editions on
either Christmas or New Years Day.
MAYOR SENDS GREETINGS
Department heads IN the county and
city Offices have received Christmas
cards from Mayor Taylor.