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The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

For many years the steadying hand
of Samuel Gompers has guided the
destinies of organized labor in this
country. He has kept the American
Federation of Labor free from revolu-
tionary tendency. Now the Fosters
and the Fitzgeralds have led their fol-
lowers into the organization with a
determination to wreck it and Com
pers is fighting for his life and the
life of the federation with his back to
the wall He dare not attempt to
guide the organization in the direction
that he knows it should go, for fear of
losing both what influence remains to
him and his official head as well.
The entrance of the I. w. w. into the
ranks of organized labor has brought
to the american Federation days full
of danger. The Reds are determined
to wreck it. If they succeed it will
be a sad time for the honest worker.
The public will not stand for bolshe-
vism in the United States.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

long red tongue. Fat babies! Don't
they sound delicious? But I've never
eaten any, because my consciencs tells
me it is wrong. If I had no conscience
would probably eat the babies and
then get hungry again, which would
babies for nothing. No; hungry was
born, and hungry I shall die. But
I'll not have any cruel deeds on my
conscience to be sorry for"
II think you are a very good tiger"
said Dorothy, patting the huge head
of the beast.
I'm that you are mistaken" was the
reply. IT am a good beast, perhaps,
but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it
is the nature of tigers to be cruel and
ferocious, and in refusing to eat harm
less living creatures l am acting as
no good tiger has ever before acted.
That is Why I. left the forest and
Joined my friend the Cowardly Lion"
But the Lion is not really Coward
ly," said Dorothy. IT have seen him
act as bravely as can be-"
'.All a mistake, my dear" protested
the Lion gravely. ITO others / may
have seemed brave, at times, but l
have never been in any danger that
was not afraid"
Nor t. said Dorothy, truthfully.
| But I must go and set free Billina,
and then will see you again"
She ran around to the back yard of
the palace and soon found the chicken
house, being guided to it by a loud
cackling and Growing and a distract
ing hubbub of sounds such as chickens
make when they are excited.
Something seemed to be wrong in
the chicken house, and when Dorothy
looked thru the Stats in the door she
saw a group of hens and Foosters
huddled in one corner and watching
what appeared to be a whirling ball
there about the chicken house, and at
first Dorothy could not tell what it
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

Senator Lodge, as leader. of the SEN
ate majority. has served notice on the
administration senators that hence
forth the responsibility for delay in
ratifying the treaty with Germany will
rest on the opponents of sound pro-
gram of reservations. At first. the
opponents of the treaty would have
nothing but amendments. Now they
are willing to put up with reservations.
If they could find some spot on which
to alight they would surrender the res
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

Senators who are opposing the rat
ification of the peace treaty, as writ
ten, on the plea of patriotic consider
ations for the future of the country
are not deceiving anybody. 1t is well
understood that this course is taken
for the purpose of administering a
rebuke to the president. II they carry
their opposition to the extent of de-
feating the treaty. they will hear from
the country.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25
THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN.

Some sort OF fear seems to have
been born in US all. So that one of
the great tasks of our life resolves it,
self into so training our will as to
cast out fear.
For fear, in its last analysis, is the
biggest bogy in the world.
Most. Of the things which we fear
actually never happen. I know a
mother whose constant fear is that
her children will get injured or fall
seriously i'll, tho they are the picture
of health. OF course this is a natural
mother-fear, but If anything is going
to happen, it will happen alright
worry or no worry.
The troubles that never come to
pass are always much more serious
in their effect on our character than
the ones which really do come to US.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

Even the blue sky law seems pow
erless to protect the people who are
looking for easy money, in every in
stance. Why will persons persist in
making Sinvestments without consult
ing a reputable banker. unless it is
that they do not want to be told the
truth
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

ervations also and vote ror the treaty
as it stands. Throwing responsibility
on the other side seems to be their
only way out of an embarrassing st-
uation. The administration probably
will be able to stand it, SINCE it has
a large majority of the people on it's
side, in the matter OF the treaty.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

An overwhelming maj ,rlty of the
people of this country desire and, if
given fair opportunity. will demand
good government end equal justice for
wage-earners and property owners
alike. A very large part of labor
union members desire nothir more,
altho many are fast being tempted by
their union politicians to demand very
much more.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

Japan has promised to get out of
China but when she does she may in
vite other countries to vacate along
with her. And what would they think
of that?
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
An Old whcezc Refuted.
BY ROY K. MOULTON

An Old Wheezc Refuted.
Thomas Barton of Detroit is here to
join his wife and incidentally to meet
for the first time his mother-in- law,
Mrs. Anna AngeI.-Harbor Springs
OlL) Republican.
The way to find out whether horses
have gene out of style is to try to
buy one.
New York laundry workers decided
to strike while the ironing is hot.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-10-25

The failure of burglar to find any
money in the pockets of a sleeping
Topeka man may indicate that the
mans wife had beaten the robber
70 it
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
IINFLUENZA GERM FOUND
(From the Buffalo Courier)

(From the Buffalo Courier)
British official reports of the army
medical service announce that the
germ or virus of the influenza has
been isolated" by work in the
army's laboratories.
This news, which may be accepted
as true, since the British officials are
far from given to exploiting uncer-
tainties, is one of the most important
items which have come over the
wires since the ending of the war.
Notwithstanding all the publicity
which has been given TO the wars
losses. it is a fact that since the
latest world epidemic appeared in
Spain, the influenza has killed more
people of the globe than were killed
in battle.
While the world is seeking TO end
wars it may well devote all possible
energies of it's medical science to
end, or at least check, the raVages of
this latest plague" Of the nations
and peoples.
After they had killed unnumbered
millions, smallpox, the cholera, yell
low fever and the bubonic plague
have been largely conquered by med
ical and sanitary science. Tubercu-
losis is slowly being defeated.
Now, as a first step, the germ of
the influenza is located, 1T may be
expected that sooner or later the
means of combating or destroying ii
will be worked out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
STORIES IN PAINT

[From the New York Post1
Besides armor and hand grenades,
war has revived historical painting.
What with Augustus Johns Pageant
of War;" last falls Allied War Salon,
and the coming of the official British
war paintings, it is clear that, for bet
ter or for worse, the "story telling
picture" is with us anew. Critics
shudder, of course. Ruskin said that
people worshipped Landseer not be-
cause they admired art, but be-
cause they admired dogs
Story telling in paint imposes limi-
tations. Your composition is ready
made and your color scheme pre-
arranged You are, so to speak, an
illustrator. You must follow the
text And you never quite escape
suspicion that literature, not paint
ing, is the best medium of narrative.
James Whitecomb Riley beats you
at sentimentalizing Milton beats YOU
at glorious scene building. When ii
comes to reciting history, YOU COM
pete unequally with Macaulay or
Parkman.
Was it altogether happy thing to
Danish the story telling picture out
right? You could prowl through
gallery of contemporary art with
out finding trace of the once num-
/ erous Bible chapters on canvas. hist
ory lessons on canvas. or mythologi-
cal whoppers on canvas.
Instead you would have effects
of sunlight of colors, of aerial per-
spective. You noted a number, and
running it down in your catalogue,
came upon Arrangement in Mauve, -
or Girl seated. or But Yet a Tree"
This ran counter to the childish
desire which persists in many grown
ups that a picture shall be about
som mething. The artists you talked
with seemed rich in ideas; why were
there no ideas in their pictures?
1t would be rash to urge American
painters to go in for the literary
picture. The critics are notoriousIy
wary. The moment you exhibit a
story telling picture they suspect
trickery. an attempt to cover up
artistic inferiority. True. you NAV
celebrate the exploits of Pocahontas
in lunettes for a hotel of that name
or paint the career of Francis f
Willard for the Illinois state capitol
The same pictures in an exhibition
Will bring down upon YOU whole
| squads of critical detectives.
But an occasional story telling
picture might add a note of vivacity
! to the somewhat neutral tinted ex-
| perience of gallery going, and in
a sense different from the usual one
be educational.
Those tiny French urchins you see
at the Louvre are having a good time
not because they appreciate art, but
because they appreciate stories. In
that way they come to love pictures
and by and by love them for their
aesthetic qualities as well as for their
entertaining qualities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
THE INDIAN BRAVES"

BY the forest of silver birches.
Quickened to Springtime's thrill
They folded their tribal blankets
On morning gray and still,
When from far came the sound of
bugles,
Calling the nation to war.
On the shores of the sapphire
waters,
Glad in the Springtime's thaw,
Flames of columbine beckoned
them
Red as the campfires heart;
But they answer the throbbins
And swiftly the Braves depart.
They come now again to their for
ests,
Shining lances at rest;
Their ranks are sorely broken
All! but they fought with the best!
BY the whispering waters their
maidens
ToiIed the moons away;
They dreamed, as the great guns
thunder
Shook the Gates of Day,
OF their Heroes with laurels return
ing
And Glory's Flag unfurled,
But dreamed not that SOLE would
be sleeping
In crimson fields of the world.
Down the old trail sing the larches-
Down the old trail sing the laches-
Wild ands weird their songs
Sweet to the battle-chiefs sounding,
Here their souls belong.
Shall the leaves of their shining
laurels
Wither upon their brow,
Or in Halls of the Nation blossom,
Token of Freedoms Vow?
-Antoinette Edmundson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
HINTS FROM DICKENS

For the unique in advertising the
columns of the London Times are
almost unrivaled. What pictures are
conjured up by the following ad:
1t is hoped that the irate
colonel VINO, metaphorically
speaking, sat on an unoffend-
ing subsaltern in West End
tube train a day or two ago
has now discovered his mistake
and made peace with the third
party.
And what posi- bilities for a pres
ent day Dickens are contained in
this:
Bank of England note receiv-
ed. We thank unknown friend
whose gift relieves much anx-
iety.
In lighter vain. but of serious pur-
pose is the following:
Notice-If the pet goat left
with me October last by Mrs.
III. l.. is not claimed within
seven days, it will be sold to
defray expenses.
And here is something that E.
Phillips Oppenheim ought to look
into:
Viii the officer whose cham
pagne glass was overturned at
Cafe Royal Wednesday evening,
January %. communicate at
Savoy Hotel with gentleman
whose card he has.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
Meetinq With the Farmers

The gathering with the farmers in
Wilkes Barre next Wednesday prom
ises to surpass in attendance and
Interest similar gatherings held last
wear. The Chamber of Commerce
under. whose auspices the meeting
is to be held, hit upon novel plan
of cooperation when 1t inausuarated
the movement to bring the tlller of
the soil and the consumer closer
together, that they might discuss
the problems that mutually concern
them. 1t has attracted much at
tention elsewhere.
1t is strange that the plan had not
heretofore been developed. Business
men of various branches find it to
their advantage to meet together and
cooperate along certain lines. Why
not the farmers and the people with
whom they do business every day in
the wear 1t is to the interest of
the farmer ito improve his market
1t is TO the interest of the people
who depend upon him for food to
help him to get the best out of
his farm, which leads to financial
assistance to good roads. TO better
transportation facilities. - Wilkes
Barre Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1919
FOR A DEEPER RIVER

" HANKS to Major William B.
Gray, the Harrisburg Rotary
Club and Congressman Kreider,
the first steps for the canalization
of the Susquehanna river have been
taken by Congress looking toward
a survey of the stream. Not content
with this first victory, Eli N. Her.
shey, president of the Rotary Club,
is about to call meeting of a spe-
cial committee of representative
citizens from points along the Sus-
quehanna valley to get earnestly
behind the movement, so that Con-
gress and the Legislature may un-
derstand that there is real public
sentiment back of il.
1t may be possible to link up in
some way the power plant plan
of Secretary Lane, which includes
a station at Harrisburg. with the
Susquehanna navigation scheme. AS
Chairman Zentmyer. OF the State
Water Supply Commission, said in
an address at a Columbia deeper
river rally recently, the power dams
in the river will be of great assist
ance in the canalizing of the stream.
They make the water deep for long
stretches that can be made travers-
able for steamers by a system Of
locks. The more dams, the more
cheaply the river can be made navi
gable.
At all events, there is big worl
ahead if the movement is to be
successful and those back of it must
be prepared to put their effort into
it for a period of years If they are
to win the fruits of their labors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge c. !. Lands, of Lancas-
ter county, is an authority on the
history of that county.
Judge Isaac Johnson, of Della
ware, is to be elected head of the
State Board of Public Charities.
next month.
Judge r. B. Mccormick, of
Clinton, has been holding special
sessions in Philadelphia.
Judge Gustave A. Endlich, of
Berks, endorsed by the bar of his
county for reelection, has sat on
the bench almost a quarter of a cen
tury.
Judge s. F. Channel, of Tioga
county, is an active officer in the
Red Cross of the State.
Judge John G.. Harman, of Col
umbia county, used to be Demo-
cratic floor leader in the House.
Judge ]. N. Langham, of In
diana county, is an authority on
state tax cases. having formerly
been in the auditor generals office.
Judge A. T. Searle, of Wayne,
used to be assistant to Judge Nc
Carroll when United States attorney
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
DECREASING PRICES

(Carl Snyder in New York Tribune.)
1t is not always the universally
expected that happens. There was
universal expectation that the
coming of peace would bring a
drastic decline in war prices. That
expectation still subsists. l wish
to suggest that possibly a very large
part of this expected decline has
already taken place, and this fact
may have a large bearing on the
course of prices in the next year.
Let us take a few instances:
From the peak of the war price
wheat is now down from about $3.25
to $2.26. or about 80 per cent.
Cotton is down from 81 cents to
25 cents. or about S3 per cent.
Copper has fallen from a high
price of SO cents to IS cents, or so
per cent.
Corn is down from about $2.25
to $1.25, or 45 per cent.
Pig iron has fallen from a peak
of $57 t. around S37, or more than
third.
Steel billets reached a peak of
500. They are now S47.50, a de-
cline of over half.
Spelter was 16 cents a pound. 1t
is now cents.
Carbolic acid was as high as 60
cents. II is now 12 cents, a decline
of 80 per cent.
Butter was 20 cents wholesale. 1t
is now around 50 cents.
Eggs rose to 70 cents They are
now 45 cents.
Here are ten basic commodities in
which the average decline from the
high price of the war is more than
40 per cent. The rise OF all com
modities during the war, on Dun's
and Bradstreet's indices, was only
about 80 per cent, and 1T Will be
seen that in a great many commodl-
ties a large part of the wartime
gain has already been lost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21

They're red," he answered.
The locomotive was moved further
away and the driver again identi-
fled the lights as red.
When the distance was further
increased, he said: two red with a
green between them"
The test was repeated with the
same perplexing result.
This was the situation. The man
was growing weak in color perccp-
ton, especially as far as red was
concerned. 1t was not all his fault
for it has been found that there are
differences in the red glass discs of
the lanterns, as revealed lately by
analysis. Glass transmits those wave
lengths which it cannot absorb. In
this instance, the center red glass
had permitted green to pass with
the red and while all eyes would not
have perceived it, others with pc
culiar characteristics would have
done so. The red discs employed
were made of copper ruby glass.
Glass that is unquestionably red owes
its true transmission of rcd rays to
the presence of a waste material, u
by-product of copper refining, for
which chemistry had been seeking
a uSe-selenium. IT selenium ruby
glass be compared with other ruby
glass by means of Il spectroscopc, it
is seen that those colors beyond the
red, and toward the blue end of
the spectrum fail to pass it, while
various wave lengths slip through
other less reliable vitreous material.
This test has become standardized
and a speotroscope permits only glass
of the proper qualities TO get into the
railway signals.
If q man sees red now, and now
green. as to his responsibility. So
the chemist does his part in the rail
road campaign for g.. SAFETY
FIRST"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
GOOD WORK

N1TY SOLICITOR JOHN Z. FOX
is deserving of public COM
mendation for the buslnesslike
manner in which he is closing the
long drawn out Hardscrabble pur-
chase litigation. He is proceeding
along practical lines 10 end the legal
controversies, which. after all, were
more apparent than real, and in
closing up the whole incident. He
has done good stroke of work for
the city.
The development of this section in
conformity with the general scheme
of river front treatment should be
included in the next program of
public work. The project has been
hanging fire for a long time and to
push it through to completion at a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
"Safety Firsf in Railroading
New Facts About Colorng of Glass Show Engine Drivers
May Not Be to Blame For Misunder
standing Signals
~ NGINE drivers and subway
n, motormen who fail to distin-
- pIlish the hnnc of cnlnred liphtS

~ NGINE drivers and subway
n motormen who fail to distin-
guish the hues of colored lights
may not always be growing color
blind, as their errors may be due
sometimes to faults in the material
used to tint lenses, according to
II. L. Howe, of the American Chemi-
cal Society.
Recent Investigations and tests
show that not only the eyes of the
man must be perfect in their color
perception, but that the utmost care
must be taken by the chemist In ad-
vising the kind of material for color
ing glass.
Red as danger signal and green
for clear track are firmly establish
ed in railroading. What would hap
pen If the same signal appeared
sometimes red and sometimes green
to the man in the cab? But for the
safeguards of chemistry this might
occur frequently and, in fact, it has
happened enough lately to cause rail-
road executives and manufacturers
. be unusually careful about the
composition and coloring of the
|! lenses of the lanterns employed in
signaling.
An engine driver who had been
running on certain railroad for
years was suspected of failing vision,
and was sent to the office of the
, traffic superintendent TO examine and
identify a mixed skein of colored
yarns. He was deeply offended that
anyone should ask him to undergo
such a test.
Il am not an old woman" he eX-
claimed. Meet me in the yards to-
night and I will pick out the lights
for you, all right"
Three lights were placed on an
engine and the veteran of the lever
was asked their color.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
Is There Cause For Fear?
(From the New York Times


To what extent, if any, this coun-
try is endangered by the BolsheVlkl
or their brothers in the l. w. W.
that is a question which many are
asking. in these days, ana very
rarely do the inquirers seem to see
or feel that they are seeking lntor-
nation about anybody except the
vowed members of such organlZa-
tions their admirers and sympa-
thizers. Yet all three taken To-
pether are not very numerous even
sccording to their own estimates
ana the anxiety revealed in the large
amount of talk about them now
going on is really based, not on aP-
nrehension of what these teW man
mad half-criminal folk can or VIII
do 6f themselves in the Oniteu
States, but on what is assumed 10
be the probability, that they caH
bring something like a majority OF
An,ericans around to their own way
of thinking and doing.
Now. that assumption ought TO De
deenly humiliating to any American
worthy of the name who makes IT.
Eor IL there is such probaoillty,
or oven such a possibility, the fact
moro than hints that in all the
vears during which we have been
q nation something we nave dohe
or left undone is vastly to our dis
credit. We are the product of our
institutions and our schools, and II
anv considerable number of us can
he convinced by Bolshevist argu-
ment. see beauty in Bolshevist
ideals, and can share the Boil
shevist preference for class tyranny
over a, democratic equality of rights
ond onnortunity, then-well, then
we are much to be pitied and even
more to be scorned.
For Bolshevist arguments are ab-
surd. Bolshevist ideals are despic-
able and the Bolshevist preference
is quite as much without attraction
for the workingman who reasons as
for the millionaire capitalist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
HOW II Happened

Here is a report from the Civil
War archives concerning the cap
turing of a rebel battalion by bat
talon of Union troops, in which the
major, detailing the engagement,
wrote as follows:
Our left was trying to move
around the rebel right. but the rebel
right was also moving around our
left. When the left of the rebel
right moved around the right of our
left, what was left of the rebel right
was right where our right had just
left. So when the rebel rights left
was left right where our right had
left, our right was left right left of
their right, and that's how it hap
pened. From the Los Angeles
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-21
Government Ownership

The. little burg into which Mar
guerite Clark fails from "Out of a
Clear Sky" is or was, supposed to
be in Tennessee. Yet, in spite of
this, L observe on the tender of the
engine shown the initials of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford On.
Y, n. II. & H.) Railway. Has gov
ernment control of railroads reached
such a stage that New England
trains are required to travel way
way down theah?-From Photo
play Magazine.