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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
FARM TO MARKET

PROFESSIONALLY one of the
biggest factors in the high cost
of living is our defective
method OF distribution. Every ounce
of farm produce that goes to waste
because, for one reason or another,
it cannot find its way to market adds
just that much to the high cost
of living. We condemn the farmer
for letting his goods perish rather
than bring them to the city and
sell them for low prices, but some
times he has no remedy. Often
he cannot bring them to market
and sell them at a profit, so he let's
them rot. He must have a profit
If he is to live.
Therefore, it is apparent that If we
solve the difficult problem of trans
portation from farm to consumer, we
have gone a long way toward re-
storing prices by using up all the
crops produced. thereby keeping the
equal.
A big step will have been taken
in this direction If Governor Sproul
is able to work out the system of
motor truck transportation from the
producer to the consumer which he
has proposed. The railroads cannot
handle the local business the farmer
offers, but the farmer could afford
to sell reasonably to the truck driver
who would call at his home regu-
larly to relieve him of the time and
cost of transporting his wares to
market. Much can be expected If
the State can be districted from
border to border for the operation
of motor trucks taking the place of
the old-time slow going huckster
who used to buy up the wares of
the farmers for miles around and
then peddle them out to customers
in town. Modern methods can i'm
prove that form of service, which
before 1t went out of practice was
of vast benefit to the consumer and
the farmer alike.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
NOT TO BE FOOLED

no THE radical wing of the
Socialist party hesitated to call
- itself the Communist party and
declined, for the present, to add a
torch to its insignia because "it
didn't want to ALLEVIATE the SYM
pathies of the working men of
America, without which it could not
hope to succeed" This is interest
ing information indeed After it
had safely corralled the labor
vote" of the country and was pre-
pared to overturn the Government,
then it would be ready to take on
the uniform of the terrorist, fly tho
red flag and put the torch on it's
standard, but not before. The
working people were to be fooled
into supporting a party designed to
destroy the United States.
What a pack of ignorant fools
these Communists are. This is not
Europe. The working people of the
United States are tho back bone of
the country and there Is no such
thing as q labor vote" here, nor
a capitalist vote" either, for that
matter. Men in this county are
educated. The little red school
house has attended to that. And
they vote according to their in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

as rule. profitable investments.
The report from London that
Great Britain would gladly give the
United States some or, all of her
West Indies as part payment of the
British debt Is neither preposterous
nor incredible. 1t costs money for
Britain to own and administer the
islands.
They are OF no strategic value
now that the United States has the
Panama Canal and the Virgin Is
lands. If Great Britain could trade
in batch of Indies for n hundred
dollars or so II would be a good
stroke of business.
1t is not likely that the islanders
would object to the transfer of al
'egiance. There is, indeed, a fac
ton on some of the islands that
openly favors American annexation.
The only interested party likely
to make objection is the United
States. The American republic has
negligible imperial ambitions. and
acquiring islands does not appeal to
the American fancy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
Shall Prices Be Pushed Up?

[From Kansas City Star.1
1t is self evident, as the President
said, that to meet the wage demands
of the railroad shopworkers would
entail an increase in the price cf
transportation that would at once
be added to the cost of living. In
the same way a 6-hour day for the
anthracite miners with an advance
of 60 per cent. in wages would in
crease the price of coal which would
increase the cost of transportation
and of manufacturing.
Sometime. of course, the race be-
tween wages and the cost of living
has got to stop. There are just two
ways for such an outcome to be
brought about. 1t will come as the
resu of that sober thinking to
which the President has appealed.
Or else 1t will come with jolt.
People will be unable to pay the
high prices, the demand will fail
off and facto ories will be obliged to
close. throwing men out of work.
Such an outcome is to be avoided
at all hazards, IL possible.
But it can be avoided only If the
Nation as whole is willing to ac-
cept the alternative and meet the
high cost of living by increasing pro-
duction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
Bargains in Islands

[ From the Cleveland Plain Dealcr.I
Not for their intrinsic value did
the United States buy the Danish
West Indies. Not because Denmark
was tired of bothering with them
and wished to unload did America
come to her relief.
We paid $25,OO0.0O0 for St.
Thomas, st. John and Santa Cruz
because we desired and needed an
outer protection for the Panama
Canal. Having bought the three is
lands the United States is less than
luke warm about acquiring any
more. West Indian islands are not
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel ]. P. Kerr, one OF the
candidates for County Commissioncr
in ALLEGHENY county, is making
speeches nightly in his old-time
form.
Congressman E. r. Kiess, of the
williamsport district, Is making
tour of the farmers picnics in Ills
section.
Colonel w. D. Uhler, chief en-
gineer of the State Highway De-
partment has been covering over 200
miles day inspecting roads.
Senator William E. Crow, who
has been i'll. is recuperat!ng at his
farm near Uniontown.
General w. G. Price, the new
commander of the National Guard,
has been visiting western counties
to view the situation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
Old Missouri Houn' DdUq

[From the De Kalb County Herald.
Rex. the Bunton greyhound, is
dead at about 1S years of age. lie
has been Il rare, bony, historic, long,
lean, lank and hungry looking fig
ure around this town a long time.
e. A. Bunton, owner of the dog,
brought him here years ago and he
is the last survivor of the mighty
string of hounds Mr.. Bunton once
owned in this community. When
Mr. Bunton was asked about the
outstanding qualities of the departed
Rex he said: "Oh, by grab, he was
just a friend to everybody"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

dividual views. They are the most
difficult people to fool in all the
world and they will laugh in their
sleeves at this nonsensical talk from
Chicago about making Communists
of them all and then leading them
affords them the best home and the
greatest opportunities of any on
earth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

n NE of the gratifying features
of the cooperation of the city
authorities and State officials
in the development of the Capitol
Park plans is the fact that While
the big problems are being worked
out by the experts engaged by the
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings, the proper officials of the city
have been on the job and ready to
proceed with the undertaking inso-
far as it relates to the city's part
of the improvement. City Commis-
sioner Lynch, the superintendent of
Public Works, personally introduc-
ed in the City Concil the ordinances
which were passed months ago au-
thorizing the widening of both wal
nut and Third streets along the
park. These streets are going
setting of the State grounds and the
extension of the width of each street
to forty eight feet in the clear will
greatly relieve the increasing con-
gestion of the central business dis
trict. A sidewalk on the west side
of Third street between Locust and
North of sixteen feet and n side
walk of similar width on the south
side of Walnut street between Third
and Fourth will provide for the
pedestrian traffic that is bound to
increase with the important de-
velopments in the neighborhood of
the Capitol.
Governor Sproul and his asso-
ciates on the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings are more
than pleased with the promptness
of the city authorities, in providing
for the Improvements that have
been outlined by the State and city
Jointly. AS matter of fact, Har-
risburg has manifested consist
ent desire to do everything possible
in harmonious cooperation with
the officials of the State to make
of this city an attractive seat for the
government of the Commonwealth.
The enterprise and vision of the
authorities on Capitol Hill have
been met at every turn with a for
ward looking program on the part
of the city. This is as it should
be and all our citizens are back of
their officials in the constructive at
titude toward the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
Europe'S Pie

Uncle Sam, don't linger,
Hear the warning cry;
Do not poke your finger
Into Europe's pie.
1t will make you tremble.
Cause you pain and aches;
1t does not resemble
Those that mother makes.
Strongly upper crusted,
Bottom sad to see,
1t cannot be trusted
Not to disagree.
Stop the fuss and fidget,
sBide at home for aye;
Keep your trigger digit
Out of Europe's pie.
-McLandburgh Wilson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

Harrisburg is being gradually
hedged about with farm expositions
through community cooperation.
These small affairs are indicative of
the desire of the farming interests
to develop the most modern and
scientific fairs for the upbuilding of
that important industry. One such
exposition held near Hummelstown
this week is an example for other
communities, and eventually these
must result in a great combination
State fair in Harrisburg, which will
still further educate those who till
the soil in the most up-to-date
methods.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

The Rev. DR.. Peter Joseph de
Strycker is here as the personal
representative of Cardinal Mer-
cier, arranging for the visit of
the latter to the United States
this month.
While the King and Queen of
Belgium are coming to this
country soon, Cardinal Mercier
will be the first Belgian of pro-
minence in the war to visit
America. The Cardinal comes
first to New York and will then
visit other American cities, go
ing through to the Pacific coast
If he can arrange his affairs at
home SO as to be away for a long
enough time to make this feas-
ible. His first thought will be
to visit his colleagues in the Col
lege of Cardinals, and inasmuch
as Cardinal Gibbons is the
senior American Cardinal, Car
dinal Mercier may go first to
Baltimore. If that be the case,
he will next visit Cardinal
O'Donnell, and Boston will have
its opportunity to see the simple,
kindly, quiet man who became
a world figure over night by
carrying out his pastoral duty
without regard to what might
come of it.
= FOUND Doctor de Strycker al
the office of the Belgian Bureau
far over toward the Hudson
river in Forty-seventh street, and
the humidity of a sticky August
forenoon seemed not to have af.
fected him, despite the climatic diff.
ferences between Louvain and New
York. AS he told me of the plan:
for Cardinal Mercier's stay in thi.
country Doctor de Strycker's eye.
lightened and he had a word to say
about the pleasure of his task be
cause of the almost affectionat(
interest Americans have in the Bel
gian Cardinal.
You may not have realized how
Cardinal Mercier's stand fired thu
imagination of Americans" I said
This is the land OF liberty and no
thing takes hold OF us more quick,
ly or wins sympathy and appreci
alton more readily than action sucl
as his"
No Thought OF Acclaim
But he didn't do 1t for that" re-
piled the Belgian. There was III
thought of popular approval in Car,
dinal Mercier's mind when he issuct
those PASTORAL letters. Nor, pri
marily. was he intent on defyins
the Germans. 1t was with hin
simply a matter of duty. 1t is a par
of his daily task to aid his peopl,
in an hour of need with any word.
that may be helpful to them. Suf
fering and afIiiction lay heavy on al
Belgium and his was the duty t.
tighten it IL he could. He did hi:
best to do it, and l need hardly tel
you of the comfort and fresh cour
age Belgians took from what III
wrote.
"He is a philosopher. one of til,
great philosophers of his age. Hi
is wonderful mind and he has de
veloped his intellect so that 1t ha!
many sides. No subject under tn,
sun but he has some familiarit,
with. He has made it n point t.
gain the widest possible range G
information and store it ava,
against occasion when he might re
quire it.
His conception OF the science o
sound and that fact is well know
in Belgium.
even King Albert has beer
known to discuss public affairs will
the Cardinal--unofflcia Of course
for the latter holds no official po
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

prospect of colossal drive hordcs
of Americans countless automatic
weapons, and a veritable tide of
tanks, was enough to make Ger
many quit"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg building
regulations have been copied
by a number of cities?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
For over seventy-five years stage
coaches had headquarters at the
north end of Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

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Associated Press is exclusively en-
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It or not otherwise credited in this
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All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

The devil neuter tempted q man Whom
he found judiciously employed. Spur
0con.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
CITY AND STATE

n NE of the gratifying features
of the cooperation of the city
authorities and State officials
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06

John O'Donnell, of Pittsburgh.
said to have been prominent in the
politics of that city for years, is no
longer connected with the State
Workmens Insurance Fund. He
was employed several months ago
as claim adjuster and is said to
have been recommended by friends
of Senator Max G. Leslie, of Pitts
burgh, but according to men at the
offices of the fund he was hard to
find. Occasionally O'Donnell visited
the office at Pittsburgh, it is said
here. but the only regularity in State
service that he seems to have mani
tested was when the payroll was
made UP.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12
GEORGE HAMILTON I'LL
AT LEXINGTON, KY.

LEXINGTON, KY. July -. (Spl.)-
George Hamilton, widely known South
ern sportsman and planter, is seriously
Ill in a hospital here.
Hamilton is a son Of the late George
Hamilton, who amassed a fortune which
his sons, George G. and J, Carroll, have
greatly augmented. George Hamilton
is widely known rs a gentleman farmer
and sportsman and social leader wher-
ever he goes. His country estate is
one Of the most extensive in the Blue
Grass. He was, seized with a sudden
illness several days ago and when To-
cal physicians could not relieve him
permanently he called in DR.. L. w.
Haskell, Of Memphis. his son-in-law.
He is very i'll but 1t is believed he win
recover. His wife Is at his bedside.
They have been noted ever since their
marriage for their great devotion.
Hamilton is about 50 years old and has
been married twice, his first wife dying
when he was a very young man.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12
Doug. Fairbanks
Will Open Week
At the Princess

Douglas Fairbanks. always 20 be re
lied pom for a comedy " real enter
tanning qualities. VIII he the star FOR
sunday and Monday AZ Loew's Prin-
cess IN his latest comedy, THE Knick
erboCker Buckaroc." This Ia considered
the best and biggest Of the Fairbanks
plUures and q Considerable sum was
expended In producing It.
1t marks the temperance Of Fair,
banks In the role q "Old boo Cheerful
He plays the part Of Teddy Drahe
wealthy New Yorker. who decides that
his life IL all wrong because Of his self.
tsh qualities, End starta out 20 DO uu
him into a series OF emusinglv compll,
Gated situations 'atd in the West,
Current news events viii be added
for Sunday and for Monday md Tues.
day tho third episode Of the thril}inS
serial, The Master Mystery,' Will
Houdini n the beading role. will b.
shown. THE Master Mystery" Ia gain.
Ing In favor with each showing and al
ready a large following Is engrossed II
its fascinating mysteries.
Tuesday only d. W. 0riffith's BIZ
production, Tho Girl Who Stayed a
Home" win be shown. with Clarin'
Seymour, Robert Harroun and other
equally well known in tho leading roles
The story %revolves about a pretty CIR
~ 'N''A'hilA''A Il WI " AiAAt A'Na
heart went TO war. and the many thing,
that happened TO her before he re
turned. 1t Is staged in Griffith's Gus
tomarv magnificent style.
Wednesday and Thursday the sta
will he Dorothy Gish IN I'm Get Hin
Yet" n 100 per cent comedy. The pic
ture deals with a girl worth million
who weds a newspaper reporter VIII
has radical ideas and many compiled
lions ensue during the five reels of fun
A Sennctt comedy. when Love l
Blind" will also he shown.
The attraction for Friday and Satur
day will he Mary Pickford in her de
lightful story, "Behird the Scenes
story Of stage life that presents thi
star IN what Is sald to he her most in
teresting role. There are many coined,
situations in the picture and some tru'
TO life action.
A news weekly VIII de the added fea
ture for these two days.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12
''AUctiOn of Souls" Will
Be Attraction at Strand
M~ardigdnidn, SurUiUOr of Atrocities,
Herself Enact s Leading Role

Local theater patrons will be given
the first opportunity they aver had to
see an authentic reproduction Of the
modern slave markets and harems Of
turkey during the presentation, start
ing Sunday at the Strand theater, Of
Auction Of Souls" the sensational pic
turization Of the amazing experiences Of
aurora Mardlganian, sole survivor Of
10000 young Christian girls taken cap
i've by the Turks when they ravished
Armenia in 1918.
Up to the present time all film and
stage versions of Eastern harem and
save market sCenes-even those pro-
duced by the greatest directors-sought
their inspiration from the stories Of
' me arabian Nights and from paintings
WHICH reproduced the harems and slave
markets of a thousand years ago, and
which are not true TO life in the goth
century,
In auction Of Souls" the producers
have broken with tradition and in stage
setting, costume and action, have repro"
duced not q conventional Arabian Night
slave market and harem scene, but have
taken as their models these places as
they actually exist today or did exist
before the British entered CONSTANT
nople.
Aurora Mardiganian, the beautiful IT.
year-old Christian Armenian girl,
"At' 80 AAAS pN'AAaA w
is woven and who herself enacts the
leading part in the film, was sold as a
slave in one of these modern Turkish
markets and was later a prisoner in a
Turkish harem.
From her own personal experiences,
and from the authentic reports from
officials of the American and British
governments who have seen these
things, the scenes have been recon-
structed. The Armenian girls, like the
Circassian and the Georgian, are much
more refined and beautiful that the ma
tiveA Turkish girls, and when the Ar
menian massacres were renewed in 1916
the Turks made them a pretext for
SELLING the most beautiful daughters OF
the Armenian families-end forcing them
into their harems. Those whom the
officials and officers did not keep for
their harems they allowed to be sold
in the slave markets.
Thus 1t happened that hundreds Of
these unhappy girls were stood up
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12
Miss Frederick
In Society Play
At the Majestic
One Week of Life" Is Title
of Talented Actress New
Drama of Love.

The age-old truism that AS We SOW
so do We reap" is often demonstrates
on the screen and stage. but rarely
with the compelling effect found IN
pauline .Frederick's new picture, zone
Week OF Life" which comes 10 the
MAJESTIC theater for four days begin
ming Sunday,
In every respect this ~engrossing
drama by Cosmo Hamilton Is worthy
OF tho larger talents Of the new"
Hauline Frederick revealed In "The
Woman on the Index" She is vivid.
dramatic, appealing. and her infinite
variety Is given full scope In assum-
ing Two characters throughout zone
Week of Life"
An ~unassuming girl who comes from
q small city to join the artists colony
IN New York and a brilliant woman
OF wealth and social dlstinction-it Is
10 these two dissimilnr soles that Pau
llne Frederick lends her histrionic en-
chantment, bringing both to life and
lnflsing each with a different mentality
and n different beauty.
~ Is the society woman who meets
with netribution as a result OF the de-
ceptiop she enters into that she may
steal away and enjoy a week of free
ishment, death by drowning.
That she deserves IT will be the YER
dict Of anyone familiar with the play,
for her %selfishness throws the girl
whose sympathies she has enlisted into
a desperate situation. She energies
from it only by the force of her innate
goodness and purity OF soul
Quiet comedy alternates with dra-
matte thrills in Tom Moore's newest
picture, "One Of the Finest" which
comes to the Majestic theater for three
DAYS beginning Thursday.
The cOmedy-drama shows the lik-
able star in the role of a traffic po-
liceman whose home life has quite as
much to do with the unique plot as his
adventures while on duty.
Most stirring Of the latter occurs
when he stops the limousine Of a so
ciety girl (Seena Owenl and reprlmands
her for allowing her chauffeur to ex-
coed the park speed limit. The girl
| receives the rebMke in naughty silencc
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12

nude and sold to the highest bidder,
and In many instances there were so
many of them, and human life was so
cheap, that the price which a girl
brought was even less than single
American dollar.
Aurora Mardiganian herself was sold
in one of these markets for So cents.
auction OF Souls,' is not merely q
story Of slave and harem life in the
East. These things are merely Incl
dents. II is a tremendous and dra-
matte picture Of the martyrdom of the
entire Armenion nation, through which
u n the thread of the personal ex-
periences of the beautiful little 17-year-
old girl who was finally rescued from
her cantors and brought 70 America.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12
CLAY TOURNEY BEGINS,

CHICAGO, July 12.-Eight rounds OF
play will be required to decide the ma
tional clay court tennis championship
of 1919 in the ninth annual tourna-
ment which Is scheduled to begin at
the South Shore Country club this aft
ernoOn.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-12

and later has the officer reduced In
rank.
But later he again meets her and
n pretty romance Is the result and
atonemeut is made for all past offenses.