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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
THE "DRY" DECISION

HE United States Supreme
Court in declaring wartime
prohibition legal did precisely
what every man knew it would do.
Had it cast Il doubt on the ability
of the government to take such eX-
traordinary measures as are in
,volved in this act. it would have
been evident that the control of the
railroads and other laws much more
important to the we'll being of the
people as a whole than the prohi-
bition law could be attacked.
This decision removes the last
hope of the "wets" for another sea-
son OF open bar-rooms, breweries
and distilleries. 1t is unlikely that
the Peace Treaty will have been ap-
proved and the war brought to an
end before the date upon which
the national prohibition amendment
will go into effect in January. This
means that the wartime prohibition
will overlap constitutional prohi-
biton and there will be no wet
period intervening.
Justice Brandeis does not accept
the contention of the brewers and
distillers, who hold that the act
constitutes confscation of property,
for he points out not only that the
way is open for the export of the
stores on hand, but that the law pro-
vided a period of sale extending over
seven months for the clearing out
of all stocks on hand.
1t is a noticeable fact that all the
protests that have arisen against
prohibition, either wartime or con-
stitutional, have been from those
who are financially interested in
the sale of liquor. All the suits, all
the propaganda, all the objections
have come from those who make or
sell booze. The people have accept
ed prohibition and a great majority
heartily approve of it. 1t is here
to stay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

Allentown having solved the public
comfort station problem in a practical
way. it would seem that this city
should have no serious difficulty in
bringing an end to the controversy
over such facilities here. Wheth-
er the station be located under
ground, along the sidewalk in Market
Square or Market street or in the
available space in the northern side
of the Courthouse is matter for
practical study and determination,
but there is no occasion to continue a
fruitless discussion of the subject.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

So DR.. Garfield has quit as Federal
Fuel Administrators. He doesn't be
lieve the administration at Washing
ton has played fair with the people.
He sees the public in a minority. Sec
retary of Labor Wilson also wants TO
quit and there appears a general dis
position to leave the ship to drift. All
is far from quiet on the Potomac.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919

1 asked the New Year for some mes
sage sweet,
Some rule of life with which to
guide my feet;
I asked. and passed; he answered
soft and low,
Gods will to know"
Anon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The King of France once do
mated money for n Catholic Churd
in this city, but for some reason TIN
money was never secured for ths
object.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
DO you KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's new
school plans are attracting at
tcntion throughout the State?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

If prices continue to go Hp it will
not be long before fruit cake will be
sold in jewelry stores.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
GARFIELD'S RESIGNATION

T HE resignation of DR.. Car
field as fuel administrator
may have been bit hasty,
but it is evident that it was not
entirely unprovoked.
DIR. Garfield made certain recon-
mendations, apparently with the
sanction of the administration, only
to have the President overturn the
most important of them without
consulting him. He should have eX-
pected as much. 1t has been the
custom of the President to over
ride his subordinates without
thought of their feelings or their
personal efficiency.
The wonder is that Garfield es-
capped so long. The whole situation
at Washington is honeycombed by
this feeling of antagonism against
the arbitrary actions of the Presi-
dent within his own party. DR..
Garfield happens to be little more
Independent, little more fearless
than his fellows, that is all.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

Eggs are nearing the dollar mark
for the easy mark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16

State Banking Commissioner Fisher
doesn't hesitate to speak out in
dealing with the peculiar tactics of
the Federal Banking authorities. He
calls spade a spade and stands up
for the rights of the State institutions
as against the encroachments of the
authorities at Washington. who seem
to regard their temporary power as a
personal asset.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-16
A GOOD INVESTMENT

II ED CROSS Christmas Seals
n, and Health Bonds are on sale
The sun., 1919-10-12
By ARTHUR MAURICE.

1.-TWO American men of letters Of the
Il last century stand out by reason Of
the impression they made in England.
The kindly mellowncss Of Washington
irving's philosophy, the quaint charm Of
his humor, the Addisonian quality Of his
style, astonished that large number of
;3nglishmen who had hitherto thought Of
The native American as only step or two
century after Irving first set foot on Eng
FISH soil Artemus Ward went there TO
astonish the land IN very different way.
Over those who in London came into
personal contact with him or listened to
his lectures he seems TO have east kind
. &c hypnotic spell. Audiences laughed
nproariously where they could not pos
s:bly have seen the point Of the joke.
Punch so far forgot itself as to puff
his show, under the headline: "a Ward
That Deserves Watching" And when,
after a few brief months in the land that
he had found SO generously hospitable,
Artemus died, at SO, all England moumed.
What was the secret of his hold on the
affections of the English and his own
enuntrymen? There is little in his pub
Iished writings that fully explains the
charm he exercised in conversation and
public speaking. William Winter has
attributed his phenomenal success to the
kindly, droll personality, compact Of
spontaneous mirth and winning sweet
ness-an attribute that words can but
family suggest. "He possessed" said
Winter, 40 an extraordinary degree the
faculty of maintaining a solemn COM
posure of countenance while making
comic or ridiculous statements-as when,
IN. his first lecture in New York, he men,
toned the phenomenal skill of his absent
pianist who, he said, always wore mittens
when playing the piano, and he could
The sun., 1919-10-12
The Book of a Canary

DEOPLE who don't like canaries and
Il people who do should read Golden
Dicky, the story of a canary and his
friends, by Marshall Saunders, who wrote
Beautiful Joe. You may have a canary in
your own heart and home which is as dear
as life. In this case Dicky's story will
touch every heartstring and Set it throb-
bling. Your neighbors may have canary
which is your pet detestation. Perhaps
this canary's singing has always seemed
peculiarly inopportune and meaningless.
If so it is to the end that your heart
strings shall be made to throb that the
book is written, and they will throb.
1t is impossible TO preserve the old at
titude in the face of all the noble and APP
pealing traits which Miss Saunders attri-
butes TO her bird. You will come to feel
that the canary is much better man than
you are, and your face will never again
wear the old sheer in his presence.
GOLDEN DICKY. By MARSHALL SAUN-
DERs. Frederick A. Stokes Company.
The sun., 1919-10-12

YOUR lectures. She got better at once.
She gained strength SO rapidly that she
Fitted the cottage piano quite distance
from the floor, and then tipped it over
On to her mother-in-law, with whom she
lad had some little trouble"
Also the audience was Informed that
"during the vacation the hall has been
carefully swept out and new door knob
added to the door,; and it was init
mated that Mr.. Ward would call on the
citizens of London at their residences and
explain any jokes in his narrative which
they might not understand; further, that
the audience might leave their bonnets and
cloaks at the usual place, but their money
with Mr.. Ward, who would return it to
them in day or two; or invest it for them
in America, as they pleased, &c; with the
concluding assurance that the panorama
was rather worse than panoramas usually
are, and that Mr.. Ward would not be re-
sronsible for any debts of his own
contracting.
ARTEMUS WARD CHARLES FARRAR
BROWNE): A BIOGRAPHY AND
PHOTOGRAPHY. BY Don c. SErrz
New York: Harper & Bros.
The sun., 1919-10-12

Ward in California; Five feet ten and
half" On tour he displayed conspicu-
ously three trunks of personal baggage
labelled respectively, "A. Ward: Hys
Store Clothes; "a Ward: Hys Business
Suite; "a. Ward: Hys Sunday Clothes"
His looks also lent themselves to
exploitation. Mark Twain in one of his
lectures thus described him: "His per-
sonal appearance was not like that of
most Maine men. He looked like a glove
stretcher; his hair, red and brushed well
forward at the sides, reminded one of
divided flame. His nose rambled on ag-
gressively before him with all the strength
and determination of COW catcher, while
his red mustache, TO follow out the smile,
seemed not unlike the unfortunate cow
w.
In his conquest of England Artemus
Ward found new devices to add to the old.
The programme for the London show at
Egyptian Hall included a testimonial
which read in part: "My wife was dan
gerously unwell for over sixteen years.
She was so weak that she could not lift a
teaspoon to her mouth; but in a fortunate
mdonent she commenced reading one of
The sun., 1919-10-12

impart an irresistible effect of humor by
means of felicitous, unexpected inflec-
ton of tone"
II.
There were other reasons for Wards
success and these are made plain in the
book Artemus Ward, written by Don G.
Seitz- Wards was o sway extending far
beyond his immediate presence. The
manager of the San Francisco Opera
House wired him asking: "What
will you take for forty nights in
Californian Altemus replied: Brandy
and water" The whole continent
shook with laughter. He braved even his
native town without disaster, appearing
in Waterford, Me-, in the summer of
1863, attired in gorgeously figured
6amask dressing gown, wearing a smoking
cap perched on the back of his head, with
big gilt tassel depending radiantly
therefrom.
1t was as travelling printer with an
cid fashioned carpet bag and composing
stick that, in the middle SOS, Charles
Farrar Browne left his native Waterford
and started out to see the world. He
rode his way to Boston, and thence by a
zigZag route across the Middle States to
Cincinnati, tramping much of the way
from town to town, after the manner of
hs kind. 81 didn't know" he said after
ward, "but what l might get as far as
China and set up newspaper one day in
the tea-chest tongue" Working along
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton line,
oausing briefly at Dayton and Sandusky,
he finally arrived at Cincinnati. There he
learned that a man was needed in Tiffin
the county seat of, Seneca county, and
tramped the distance, arrayed in a linen
duster and chip hat, toting the carpet
bag. After Tiffin came Toledo and
then Cleveland, where, on the Plain
Dealer, he passed the easy stage from
printer TO journalist, caught the fancy of
the country by his whimsicalities, and
adopted the pseudonym of Artemus Ward.
III.
In later days, when he had become con-
spicuously the Snowman, he tried TO drop
the Artemus Ward and resume his proper
name. he said to his manager: "Artemus
Ward is a good name for newspaper
work and books; but must go back to
my old Charles Browne to be Snowman
All good showmen begin with 'B' There's
Barnum and Booth, Burton and Bate
man." "What about Sothern? You said
The other day that you thought him 10 be
good Snowman" "Well, he can't get on
till he's got his b. That's why he's gone
over to join Blackstone" But despite his
conviction Artemus Ward he remained.
The most famous of all his lectures
was the Mormon lecture. The precursor
of the "movies" was the panorama, de-
vice by which vistas of noted scenes were
painted on long strips Of canvas, wound
on rollers, and so slowly passed across
stage. His panorama and his talk about
life among the Mormons he exploited by
every scheme of which the mind of a
clever Yankee could conceive. He an
nexed the best advertised spots of the New
York of 1854. Twelve Irishmen were
hired, painted and befeathered to look
like Indians, and each, carrying an UNI
brella announcing the show, solemnly
paraded Broadway. Tickets were issued
reading: admit bearer and one wife"
The four page programme impaired
such bits of personal information as this:
"Traveller-'How long was Artemus
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29

ment of a white undertaken and soon crowd threatened to attack the place. News of this spread and thereafter dead negroes would not be accepted by white mortuaries
 When the streets had been cleared in the negro section, the more per sistent rioters marched downtown and sought out negroes at their work The police in these instances did not offer protection to the blacks One band entered q restaurant across the street from City Hall, wrecked part of the furnishings, dragged a porter from the kitchen and beat him un- conscious with a five gallon bottle. Afterwards several bluecoats arrived and dispersed the crowd.
 Governor Lowden, before turning back to help stop the riots, tele graphed the following appeal:
 'I appeal to all citizens, white and colored. to obey the law. There are no wrongs committed by either race that cannot be better redressed through the orderly processes of law than by mob violence.
 "The entire power of the state will be used to restore order and punish those guilty of lawlessness It is time for all good citizens white or colored, to aid the authorities in every way possible to uphold the law
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29
Cook now without fire.

Turn on the gas oil stove for few minutes
 Heat thoroughly the radiators of the fireess cooker Meantime start things cooking.
 Then pop em into the cooker turn out the fire, leave the meal to cook When proper time arrives, what delicious meal will be ready!
 Yes; bake or bo stew simmer freeze desserts if you wish The Ideal and Domestic Science cookers are built the principle Tine food goes into that vacuum either accompanied by heat coldand the cooking freezing process goes right along till it ends by the food being removed.
 And in the meantime you enjoying the comfort of a cool kitchen
 Each treless cooker is equipped with radiators and thermometer and pastry and roasting racks with tongs for handling the hot radiators.
 Eight quart cooker, one compartment $175O ! Twelve quart cooker compartment,- $2l5O X Double cookers 8-qt wels one 8-qt vessel and one trip1cate vessel set,- $3l.5O ' Double cooker, Sqt and one 12qt well, trlpcates set and 1O1A at vessel,- S5l.3O < Double cooker with two 12-qt wells, tripcate set and a 4-ot and a 1O1h ct yessel- $39 Three compartment cooker, two 12-qt and one Sat wells eodded with each and 1o1 at vessel and one trphcate set,- $4S
 Fourth
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29
Enjoy comfort of
 couch hammock.

What real genuine restful comfort it isl
 How fine to lie at ease to relax, to ''take 40 winks''!
 the tred hour' of these hot days arrives when you feel that you simply rest while-then the couch hammock with it's soothing power refresh and ones strength.
 And for the young folks, during afternoon evening" For Father to ''cool off, in the veranda out der the trees.
 Why, tis of service almost every hour of the day knowno folks who slept such nights we've been having!
 Here is wonderfully-easy one-would make bed of true ease hottest of nights
 Back and both upholstered with firm tough fabric beneath that uholsterng foundation of silent live National springs in fabric form How it yields yet how firm it is!
 In khaki green gray, complete with lot of venient features- $29 Khaki hammocks of stout fabric good mattress, hung on chains, complete and easv,- $8.5O
 hird
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29
CHOKED WIFE
 HAS TO. GIVE @.'-5. :.
 HER MONEY

George Noel of S6 Crescent avenue, was in court this morning charged with choking and beating his wife oi three months. The court decided that a severance of marital relations would be the best thing for the cou- pl eand continued the case for a month, ordering Noel to pay his wife S7 a week
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29
OMQNOUs REMARK.

gisfrat tes-What is. the charge against this old man?
 Policeman-Stealing a lot of brim- stone, your honor, He was caught in the act.
 Magistrate (to prisoner)-My aged friend. couldn't you have waited few years longerf
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29

The druggist danced and ehort1ed till the bottles danceds eh 'tfie shelves. What's up?" asked the soda clerk Have you been taking something's" ?"
 "No, But do you remember when cur water pipes were frozen last Christmas?'
 'sYes, but what'' -
 Well, the plumber who fixed them has just cone to have a prescrip- ton filed"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29
UP TO HEIR.

Willie (doing his home 1essons)- What is the distance to the nearest fixed star, auntie?
 Auntie-Erreally, I don't know Willie, ! -s..Willie-I only hope then. you will fesr sorry tom osfow when you think that am being punished for your ig- norance.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29

b-Editor-Nothing doing in the news line today.
 Editor-AH right, Put a pair of trousers on the office cat. photograph him. and we'll run special story on the oldest living man in tho town
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29

"I want a doormat," announced Mrs. de Style.
 Here is a very nice pattern" said the salesman, with the word Well come,' woven into the fibre."
 "I see. suppose that will do if you can add the words Tuesdays and Fridays"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29

New fresh beauties that delight to the eye and comfort to the .4..l> White, cool in looks and actually cool 1a@t. Or white with a touch of ones favorite color < Whether large small of genuine Summer effect. Panama and Milan and basket-weave and feather light Georgette crepe. < Some are combinations of crepe and straw. Much opportunity to please ones individual taste
 $1S5 to $12.5O.
 hoor.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-10
SOLDIER or FORTUNE CONSIDERED
MENACE TO LASTING WORLD. PEACE

found openings for men of his own
kidney.
But the profession has become
over-crowded, and already the world
tired of war, is objecting. In the
Australian parliament recently, mem
bers protested against the presence
of Australian soldiers in the British
North Russian force, and the minis
ter of defense had to promise to en-
deayor TO secure their return. The
London 'Daily Herald" protested
against the attempt of the Lithuanian
Military Mission in Paris to recruit
brigade of G,0OO Americans for SER
vice against Germans and BolsAev.
lists alike. incidentally the Lithuan-
ians are said to have secured many
American and British volunteers, but
there is strong movement afoot
for International action to prevent
this armed Intervention in the af
fairs of other nations by interna-
tionaI would-be Napoleons
The Sunday Express said: "These
individuals are irresponsible, their
own native countries have no con
troll or authority over them, and
they are a perpetual menace to the
~ 4.
enemies of civilization, and ciyiliza
tion will have to devise measures
to deal with the adventurer as an in
ternational criminal"
There is a fine chance for the
League of Nations to draw up new
and drastic list of penalties for VIC
lators of an international Foreign
Enlistment Law
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-10
CHS. GRIDSTERS
To DO Or DIE IN
OKLA. CITY CAME.
Team Gets Away Today for Battle
With Capital City Eleven; Men
Make Statements Before Get
Away; Shows Plenty Pep

Pep. The Chickasha high school
foot ball team had plenty of it this
morning when it left for Oklahoma
City, to meet the fast Oklahoma City
high school squad in a gridiron battle
this afternoon. The squad of sixteen
men was in charge of Coach j. L..
Powers and Walter Marker. assistant
coach A few rooters accompanied
the team.
Coach Powers stated before leaving
the city this morning that p. White
would start the game at left end;
Stenberger at left tackle; Schlotter-
beck at left guard; Coryell at center;
Penny at right guard; Driskill at
right tackle; G. White at right end;
Stinson at left half; Smith at full
back; Capt. Williams at right half,
and Adams at quarterback.
Other men that are making the
trip as members of the squad are:
Leon Field, end and half-back; Ray
Greene. center; Marvin Washburn,
end; Eugene Orchard, center, guard
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-10

m.-Thanksgiying begins.
December 1, Monday, $3.50 a. NJ
Thanksgiving ends.
December 10, Friday, 4;sO p M
Christmas vacation begins.
January 6, Thursday, $500 a. m
Christmas vacation ends.
Second semestre.
February 2-Registration
Nav /. saturday-May Festival
MAY 3, Monday Cap and Gown
day.
May 2s, sunday-Baccalaweate SER
mon.
May "a. Monday-Fine Arts recital
May 25. Tuesday-Fine arts ana
technical arts exhibit.
May 25 Tuesday, $3.50 p. m'-Grad-
uation exercises, preparatory school,
May 26, Wednesday-College com
mencement exercises.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-10
or tackle and Houston HILL center
end, half or quarterback.
Players Hopeful of Victory

or tackle and Houston Hill, center,
end, half or quarterback
Players Hopeful OF Victory
Every Powers man was hopeful Of
a victory over the capital city lads
when they boarded the train at the
Frisco station this morning.
1--WE are in the pinkest Of condition
and are going into the game to beat
the boys" said Captain "spink" VIII
liams, who plays his first game Of
the season this afternoon. +" We are
going to do our Best to break up their
aerial attacks and stop their line
rushes believe we can if we just
work together-and we're going to do
that" he continued.
Man, talk about hittin' that line,
I'm going to do It, All | ask Of
Sphinx and Dick is to give me a lit
tie interference and l will do my
best to put the ball nearer the okla
homa City goal. feel good and am
rearin' to 60" said Smith, the big
fast full back, who pierced the Law
ton line for big gains here last Fri
day.
"If ever did use my head in pill
oting the team, Pm going to do it this
afternoon" asserted Leland Adams,
quarterback. 81 am in the best Of
condition and | will exert every bit
of energy. have in carving out a
Chickasha victory"
coryeI Wants to Repeat
I'm going into the game this af
ternoon with the hope of playing a
game superior to anything have
ever displayed on the gridiron," was
the statement of Coryell, the star
center and backfield man, whose
brilliant playing was the factor in the
victory over El Reno here three
weeks ago "My condition is not the