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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
The Industrial Titan of America
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upward, he slowly transforms it into
a pear-shaped affair. The lower
part gradually becomes solid and
too hard to be workable even with
his powerful lungs. The snapper
puts it into the blow furnace, and
when it is properly heated he gives
it back to the blower. Standing
over the Swing hole" the blower
allows the weight of the plastic glass
to elongate the pear into a cylinder,
which he gives the desired di-
ameter by blowing into it inter-
mittently.
But, although it has reached the
desired diameter. the cylinder is
not yet long enough to, suit his pur-
pose. Sc he reheats it and blows
it over and over again until it at
tains the prescribed length.
At this stage the cylinder is COM
pleted, but the free end is closed
and the other end still adheres to
the blowpipe. 1t is put back into
the blow furnace and the free end
heated until it is soft enough to
permit the blowing of hole
through it. The resulting imper-
feet end is cut away by wrapping
n hot glass thread around the cylin-
der above the imperfection, at the
point of severance. Touched with
piece of cold iron, the imperfect
section breaks asunder. The cylin-
der is freed from the blowpipe in
similar manner.
We how have n perfect hollow
cylinder of regulation window glass.
But before it can be used in a win
dow it must be fattened. To ac-
complish this it must first be split
open. A hot iron or charged elec-
! trio wire, passed up and down the
line of cleavage, plays the role of
a pair of shears. 1t causes a strain
line to form from one end of the
cylinder to the other, and when
this is touched with a piece of cold
iron the big roll breaks open as
perfectly as though it were cut open
with a diamond cutter and straight
edge.
| After this the roll of glass is sent
| to the annealing furnace. Heated
to a proper degree, the glass be-
! comes soft enough to permit the
roll to be flattened. 1t is then care
fully cooled and stored, ready for
market.
Mechanical Genius n RGvolutionizer
BY the hand blowing process
cylinders up to as much as six fee;
! long and nineteen inches in di-
! ameter can be blown. Machine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
Ito Be COntinued)
Fifteen Years For Recovery.

IA. B. williams in New York Timesl
Given fifteen years of peace, every
nation now suffering from the great
war will have recovered its money
losses and restored it's material
waste. The process of recuperation
will be attended by enormous pros
perity and activity and intellectual
and commercial development and by
peril of moral and spiritual decad-
ence. Ancient and modern history
force this prediction on attentive
students. The Salvation Army slogan
is,s"A man may be down, but he's
never out" If we may judge from
the past, that is exactly true of
races, nations, countries, and cities.
When they have natural powers of
production or advantages of situa-
ton, permanent destruction or ruin,
in the mass, is impossible. Man is
the most swiftly recuperative of ami
mails. From the beginning of his
mastery of the world he has been
smitten by flood, fire, tempest, earth
quake, war, pestilence, and famine.
AS a whole and by political, racial,
and geographical divisions he has
not only thriven and increased
against them all, but has profited
from them and multiplied his power
over the forces of nature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
No Wonder Germany Quit
BRIGGS
NUMBER SEVEN

A MONG the many freak things
II I saw shells and bombs do in
France, said Major Frank c.
Mahir, of the Army Recruiting Of
flee, 325 Market street, Harrisburg,
II think the queerest was in the
town of Dieulouard, a place of about
five thousand inhabitants. on the
Moselle river Dieulouard, being
about five miles back from the front,
was shelled and bomed spasmodically
all through the war. The village
church was on an eminence and the
houses all around it were total
wrecks, but strange to say not a
shell had ever touched the church.
The town used to be frequently
bombed by night raiders, and what
was left by the shell fire was pretty
well smashed up by the bombs. Now
for the queer thing. The only aerial
bombs 1 ever saw which had failed
to explode were two in number, big
five hundred pound bombs, and both
of them had come down through the
roof of that church in Dieulouard.
There were two holes in the roof
and there were two bombs in the
church. Even before the armistice
people from far and near were COM
ing to that church and undoubtedly,
in years to come, it will be very
holy shrine.
Interesting as the town was, it
was a most unpleasant place to So
! jourR From time to time, some
times a minute or two apart, and
sometimes several hours apart, 9.5
inch shells used to land in the town
and blow up a little more. One eve
ming just before dark the main street
| was thronged with soldiers, when a
, French soldier accompanied by a
! war dog came down the street. Sud-
denly the dog crouched absolutely
| fiat in the road. There wasn't a man
around who hadn't seen war dogs
do that before. so it wasn't two Sec
onds until that street for five hun
dred yards in either direction was
| filled with Doughboys. every one of
them just as fiat on the ground as
they could lie. Suddenly, .'WHOOSH'
came a 9.5 and the remains of a
| house right alongside of that dog
went up in smoke and dust. Hun
! dreds of heads raised up, hundreds
of pairs of eyes looked at the dog.
| Mister Dog got up an ambled about
! his business and then some hundreds
of Doughboys did likewise"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
Wont Sign cant Pay"
GHarvey's Weekly

lHafVeyS WeeklyI
Germany, we have been told again
and again, will not sign the severe
terms of peace which the Allies have
prescribed. Therefore those terms
must be modified.
Germany, we have been told again
and again, can never pay the enor-
nous indemnity which the Allies de-
mand. Therefore that demand must
be abated.
Such is the unconvincing logic of
the gentle art of encouraging oppo.
sition.
For there is not the shadow of a
doubt of Germany's chief reason for
her parrot cry of Wont Sign" and
Cant pay" 1t is because the AL
lies themselves take it in good faith
and themselves re-echo it, and with
what should be incredible and i'm
possible folly purpose to act upon
it in accord with the German plaint.
OF course they won't sign, and
they will pretend that they can't
pay, just so long as the Allies are
willing to listen to their whining and
to abate their demands in accord
ance with it.
We cannot remember that when
Germany was bleeding Belgian cit
les to the extent of millions of dol
lars, they ever took into considera-
ton the question whether it would
be convenient or possible for their
victims to pay. We do not recall
that in a single place they said,
We'll. If you can't pay so much, we
will lessen our demand" On the
contrary, in every case it was PAY;
or be shot and have your town
burned!"
We would not have the Allies fol-
low that example. We would not
place civilized men on the plane of
Blond Beasts. But we do believe
that of every threat of I'VE won't
sign!" had been met with "You
shall sign!" and every lying plant
I'VE can't pay!" with "You must and
shall pay. or take the consequences"
there would have been mighty lit
tie such talk from the Huns. But
when the Allies yield as they have
been doing. and show such readiness
to adapt their terms to the pleasure
Of the enemy. the Huns would be in
credible fools If they did not persist
In their clsmor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
German Lust Not Crushed Out
Manufacturers Record.1

"Auy thought that the German
people have definitely abandoned the
idea of world conquests would in
dicate a complete lack of knowledge
of the German frame of mind. If
the Germans felt to-day that they
had a reasonable chance of success
they would not for one moment
hesitate to bring another war with
all of its horrors upon the world.
To conquer and to loot the world
has been the thought of the whole
German race for the last two gen.
erations. 1t has been born into the
baby's life from its birth, yea, even
before its birth. 1t has been bred
into the very bone and blood of the
German race. The recent defeat is
not yet accepted by the Germans as
anv real defeat. All the camouflage
which is being put forth as to in
ability to pay indemnities and to
meet the peace terms is hypocritical
and is put out for the express pur-
pose of creating neurotic sympa-
thy.
''It is safe to count upon the fact
that German chemists will for the
next few years put forth their ut
most power to devise more ways of
numbering men and destroying their
opponents than Germany ever gave
10 such a task before. The spirit OF
the German people will live and
thrive in the thought of revenge
and of world conquest. In every
laboratory chemists will be at work
in devising new gases and new
forms of destructiveness, and any
man who thinks that Germany does
not expect some day suddenly TO
return to the struggle shows little
understanding of the German peo-
Dle"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

blowers have been gradually sub
stituted and have revolutionized the
art of making fiat glass. All the
larger cylinders, such as are illus
trated on pages 393 and 394, are
machine blown.
In simple terms a machine blow
er is an apparatus which automa-
tically dips a big pipe into a kettle
of molten glass, and then gradually
raises it. pulling all the molten
glass upward as the pipe rises. A
constant stream of air kept flow
ing in through the pipe causes the
glass to assume the form of a cylin-
der. Dip a soda straw into a
thimbleful of molasses, and blow
through the straw as you lift it up
from the molasses-that process
would roughly duplicate the prin-
ciple of the mechanical glass blower.
1t would be too long a story to
tell in this article the processes of
making all kinds of glass; but it
for blowing bottles came into use
it changed the bottle industry as
much as the mechanical blower
changed the window-glass industry.
Machines have been invented for
blowing electric lamp bulbs also,
but the hand blowers are still able
to produce a major portion of
these.
When America went to war, there
was a dearth of OPTICAL glass in the
country. Germany had a monopoly
thereon: but Pennsylvania glass ex-
perts and the United States Bureau
of Standards set to work on the
problem, and to-day this State is
making as good optical glass as is
to be found anywhere. Hereafter
America will see the world through
its own spectacles and not through
glass that comes from overseas.
One of the demands of the war
was for one-way glass,-glass that
is transparent from one side and
opaque from the other-being re-
uuired for range-finding and other
optical instruments. 1t is made by
silvering one side, so that it trans
mits exactly the same amount OF
light that it reflects. There is a
possibility that such glass will ulti-
mately be used in architecture.
With it the manager of a big busi-
ness could have an Office where he
could work in privacy and yet al
ways be able to see what was going
on in the outer offices.
fTO Re COnfinnpdl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
CAPITOL PARK PLANS

TT IS expected that definite action
will be taken this week by the
- Legislature on the Capitol Park
Improvements. Governor Sproul has
been giving much personal study
to the problems involved in making
the environment of the Capitol what
it should be and in this study he
has had the earnest cooperation of
the other two members of the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings
Auditor General Snyder and State
Treasurer Kephart.
There has been general approval
of the memorial features of the
viaduct at State street and the land
scaping designs have met public ex-
pectation in their dignity of treat
ment and the provision for future
development.
Final steps are likely to be taken
without delay, to the end that the
rather unsightly conditions east of
the Capitol may be overcome before
the next session of the Legislature.
There appears to be nothing in the
way of immediate action in the
matter of reterracing the old park
section along Walnut and Third
streets so as to make possible the CO.
operation of the city in increasing
the width of both those highways.
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman
and Senator Frank Smith are in close
touch with what is contemplated by
the Legislature and are giving their
colleagues on Capitol Hill the bene-
fit of first-hand information regard
ing the city's part in this laudable
undertaking. Harrisburg has been
doing its full share in improving
the setting of the Capitol and will
not falter in any further steps that
may I've taken in the working out of
the comprehensive plans which have
evoked such universal praise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
(Continued)

"O say that civilizations advance
ment is based on glass seems
gross eXaggeration at first
blush; and yet, when one reflects
how many sciences and how much
human knowledge came to the race
through that commodity, the ac-
curacY of the statement is apparent.
The science of preventive medicine
was born of the microscope. But
for the telescope and the spectro-
scope the world would know about
as much of astronomy as was known
by the shepherds on the plains of
Persia. One may read the whole
list of chronological industries with
out discovering lines of of hot,
putty-thick glass. A big mechanical
rolling pin spreads it out, after
which it hardens. Then it is sent
to the annealing furnace, heated.
and allowed to cool gradually, for
cooling either too fast or too slow
would be luminous, Finally it is
ground down and polished and is
ready for shipment.
From Soup to Window Glass
The process of making blown win
dow glass is entirely different. In
hand lowing, after the batch has
been melted, the "gatherer" takes
a pipe about five feet long, with a
bell-shaped head at one end and a
mouthpiece at the other, and dips
the bell-shaped end into the molten
glass A small ball of the glass
adheres. He blows through the pipe
and transforms this ball into a
hick-skinned bubble. When this
cools sufficiently it is dipped into
the molten glass again, and more
adheres. The process is usually
repeated five times, the bubble
growing thicker of skin each sue
cessive time.
The pipe, with its adhering plastic
bubble, is then given to a snapper"
or helper, who carries it to the
blowers block" where the blow
er" takes it. The latter workman
is the king bee of the glass indus
try-big of body. powerful of lung,
and deft of hand. He places the
bubble in the block" which is an
iron mold set in water to prevent
it's becoming too hot, and lined with
charcoal to keep the iron from dis
coloring the glass.
BY turning the bubble in the
block, blowing air into it as he does
so, and gradually drawing the pipe
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Mr.. Editor: l understand from an
article in one of Saturday nights
papers, that the Health Commits
sioner of the State was annoyed
when he found his office full of
flies. Also, that he hopes to make
Harrisburg a model city. How can
Harrisburg be a model city or
escape the fly plague when the
garbage is collected only once.
week. My garbage cans are emp4ed
on Monday, after which they are
thoroughly cleaned with hot soapy
water. But by the next Monday
they are alive with vermin. / often
wonder how the collector can
handle the cans. The ashes in this
neighborhood were collected last
Thursday, the first time in three
weeks. The yards in this block run
down to small street in which
class of very clean people live. l
do pity them that when they sit out
front they must face overflowing
ash boxes and foul smelling garbage
cans. Harrisburg boasts of her
miles of paved streets. Strangers
admire the streets, but what would
they say were they to go into the
back yards and see the result of
the miserable garbage collecting
systemi Would it not be wiser to
pave less miles of street and collect
more garbage? Also some of the
city's money could be better spent
by putting it under the surface Gin
stead of on top) by putting in
sewers sufficiently large to carry off
the water instead of allowing it to
food the cellars every time there
is a rain a little heavier than usual
as is the case in this district.
Respectfully.
MRS. c. B.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. r. w. Seit, prominent
Allentown minister, has taken a
charge at Greensburg.
F. w. Connor, long connected
with the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Pittsburgh, has been put in charge
of the agency of the Pennsylvania
there.
A. c. Troutman, of Butler. Is
one of the new trustees of Wash
ington and jefferson college.
Congressman M. Clyde Kelly Is
out with statement that the Ger
mans should be made to pay all its
costs to restore France.
Mgr. A. r. Kaul. well known
here, will celebrate fifty years in
the priesthood at Lancaster this
week.
William A. Law, Philadelphia
banker, says that there are big
chances for American flnanciers in
the European field now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
BAND CONCERTS

"HE Chamber of Commerce hav-
ing turned its thoughts from a
Fourth of July parade very
properly has decided in favor of
public band concerts.
The Fourth of July should not be
permitted to pass without some
form of recognition. We have had
a surfeit of public celebrations. No
city in Pennsylvania did better than
Harrisburg during the war period
in displaying and arousing patriotic
fervor by means of mass meetings
so much of this that for the moment
we would prefer to celebrate in our
--=a way. But thara are those for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

whom some form of public enter
tainment must be provided, and
there is nothing so easily arranged
nor more generally satisfying than
a band concert.
Not everybody can journey to the
parks for their music. 1t is to be
hoped that for all such concerts
can be carried to them. 1t ought
to be possible to have three or four
concerts in as many parts of the
CITY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

was the center of all its war activ-
tiles. Many of the movements origi-
mating IN Cumberland spread all
over the country and were quoted
by the Commission of National De-
fense as models of their kind. The
town and the county both are en-
titled to celebrate and Harrisburg
not only wishes them we'll in the
undertaking. but will send over a
big delegation to take part in the
"doings" of the day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
HOUSING PROSPECTS

THROUGHOUT the country the
housing problem is being given
the earnest consideration of
public-spirited communities. Here
in Harrisburg the building campaign
is already under way and statistics
everywhere disposition to increase
building credits and make more SUBJ
stantial the building industry.
At the special session of the Legis-
lature in New York, which opened
yesterday. Mayor Hylans special
committee on the housing question
will submit an interesting report as
a result of it's Investigations. This
committee has called upon Governor
Smith to issue a supplemental proc
lamatior on the housing problem.
One proposition in New York City
is to permit single-family houses to
be altered so that they can accom-
modate three or four families. 1t is
pointed out that this would mean at
least 10000 more families would be
taken care of. The committee also
urges that the big insurance con-
Germs invest their surplus funds in
building loans.
Still another proposition is that
legislative action be taken looking
to the exemption of Federal tax on
interest mortgages of $4,000 or less.
These are significant developments
in the housing situation as it affects
the whole of the country and they
encourage the hope that definite re-
lief may be expected as a result of
the study that is now being given
most unusual conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

ington, in his address the other
night before the American Society
of Civil Engineers, at the Engineers
Club.
Professor Miller gave the history
of flying from the early attempts of
the French in the '70s down to the
latest Developments in aircraft dur
ing the war. He stated that the
best authenticated speed attained by
a biplane is 17S miles an hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
Building Giant Dirigible

[From the Seattle Intelligencer.1
A dirigible, with a carrying ca
pacity of more than two hundred
tons, and having a cruising radius
of twenty thousand miles at a speed
of eighty miles an hour. is being
built by the British, according to a
statement made by Professor ]. w.
Miller. of the department of aero-
nautics at the University of Wash
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

An American egg preserving plant
with a capacity of 100000 eggs daily
has been established in China.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

the shoe manufacturing trade OF
Germany was formerly the most i'm
portant in Europe. At the outbreak
of the war there were some 1900
factories in operation. employing over
$4,000 skilled woclrmon4
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg steel is being
used to manufacture car parts?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

When the Government took over
the railroads, the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks had a membership
of only 10000; now they have over
10000 members.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

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Associated Press is exclusively en-
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All rights of republication OF special
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Conrad Weiser once said that
John Harris has the best ford on
the Susquehanna. Weiser was in.
terested in the Middletown ferry
ford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
LABOR NOTES

The General Federation of Labor
intends to placard France with post
ers blazing forth its protest against
the League of Nations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

The Legislature seems to have lost
none of it's popular interest in spite
of its prolonged stay in our midst
and there is scarcely a day that a
delegation of pupils from schools, a
touring party of teachers or some
people here on automobile trips do
not fill the galleries.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-01-25
YANK STRENGTH
EXCEEDED ONLY
BY THE FRENCH
u, S, Had 1850, 100 at Front
When War Ended,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S-On the
day that the atmistice was signed tho
American army on the western front
was second in strength only to that
OF France itself Figures made public
today by General March showed tina,
on November II the United States
vas represented on the western front
by l.9S0,l00 men. France, on Novem-
her ]. the last date for which Off
oial figures were available, had g.
$4,000. The British and the Por,u-
gueSe attached TO the British army
to,alled l,7lS0O0 while Belgian army
Italian forces on the western front
aggregated about 10000
These totals are all based upon what
is termed the ration strength" Ths
includes every soldier who has to be
fed, both combatanN and the neces-
sary medical and supply organiza-
,lonS.
General March gave comparative
Rehabilitation totals for the United
States and British admies Up to
January a the United States had
actually discharged $3.50 officers and
8S8,ll7 men, The British on January
II had discharged l2,7S9 Officers and
6li,oS0 men. The total ordered for
discharge in thi, country now is L.
10000.