davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
X. OF c. HAS BIG
ORGANIZATION
BEYOND RHINE
Independent H e d gu a rters
Has Been Established
at Coblenz

CoblcnZ, Germany. April "a
Since the beginning of American
occupation OF Germany, the Knights
of Columbus force has steadily
grown until to-day at CoblenZ there
is an independent headquarters OF
the organization with it's own COM
plete equipment. The operations be-
yond the Rhine are under the i'm
mediate direction of Fred V. Milan,
of Minneapolis. He has under his
taries. This quota would be much
larger were it possible to obtain men
for the work. So great has been the
need of labor, that German civilians
in large numbers are employed in
the warehouse and about the clubs
in lesser capacity.
The entire operation of the Army
of Occupation is directed from head
quarters in Coblenz. The city is
therefore a leave area and daily over
5000 soldiers have enjoyed the lib
erty of the city. These men come
from Treves and the camps situated
far up the Rhine or the Moselle. 1t
is a mighty army that the American
service organizations must make as
comfortable as their means will per-
nit, while they await the word to
start for home.
Visitors From Distance
The men come from the outlying
camps in the big fleet of river boats
plying the Rhine and Moselle rivers.
They are met by men of the knights
of Columbus and from their arrival
in Coblenz or Treves, the second
leave center of the area, they are
urged to make the headquarters and
club of the organization their homes.
Al CoblenZ the visiting soldiers are
billeted in a huge structure former
ly known as the Florient Magazine
and there is room for 1900 men
every night. In this big warehouse.
nearly 10000 doughnuts are fried
on some days. The entire output
of each day is sent to a given soldier
unit in the occupied district. AT
their destination these delicacies are
distributed by the head of the
Knights of Columbus secretaries in
each clubhouse.
Big BathhOuSe
In CoblenZ, before the war, there
was maintained one of the finest
municipal baths in all Germany. The
big structure now is in the hands os
the Knights of Columbus. who are
providing every modern bath, needle.
shower, tub. medicated or just a
plainf old-fashioned sponge and rub,
for over 500 soldiers every hour.
At the enlisted mems club there
are eight large rooms where every
want of the soldier is supplied. There
is also an officers club nearby.
Across the Moselle from Coblenz
is large American garrison, the
soldiers of which are not permitted
to cross the river. Four clubhouses
have been established at that post
for the enlisted men and a large
club has recently been opened for
officers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
DIFFICULT TO
SELL HIS WHEAT
British Farmer Has Trouble
TO Dispose of His
Holdings

London. April 22.-The British
farmer is suffering from the fact
that the government had stacked the
granaries of Great Britain with
wheat in preparation for n great
spring offensive against the Germans
this year. Now that the offensive
is not to be undertaken. the farmer
Is having difficulty in selling his
crop of last years wheat.
Explaining the situation at the
annual dinner OF the Land Union
recently, Lord Ernlo. formerly Rob-
ert l.. Prothero, president OF the
Board of Agriculture, said: II do
not know that l am revealing Il Sc
cret when l say that the government
intended, If the war had not finish.
ed in November. to make its great
push about this time. In this month
or next month we should have tried
to place on the western front the
whole force of the Allies we could
command and should have tried to
bring the war to a conclusion this
summer.
For that purpose we wanted the
absolute control of all the tonnage
we could get. We wanted every ship
TO be free to bring over munitions,
food and everything else which the
army required. For that reason we
brought into this country q large
quantity of food supplies. If our
shipping was to be engaged in bring
ing over food to this country in the
middle of that military push we
should have been hampered.
The consequence was that we
filled the granaries of this country
with wheat in order that we should
be free for this great military en-
terprise. You cannot alter your
plans in a few hours. The wheat is
now being passed into consumption
as quickly as possible"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
Texas Shipbuilders
Think Future Good;
Keep Building Ships

Beaumont, Tex. April 22.-Texas
shipbuilders believe there will be a
market for all the vessels they can
turn out and will continue operations
regardless of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation canceling contracts for
boats on which work had not started.
At the shipyards here and in Orange
no men have been discharged since
January l and the ways show as
great activity as in war time. Of
fcials of many yards. say that with
the revival of the American mer-
chant marine they expect to keep UP
capacity operation indefinitely.
The demand for houses for ship
yard workers has shown virtually no
decrease since the war ended.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
Atmosphere Better,
Says Mr.. Penrose

Senator Boies Penrose. who visited
most of the departments at the Capt.
tol yesterday. spent hours talking
with department chiefs, met the
Public Service, Commissioners and
chatted with numerous legislators.
said yesterday that it was his first
visit to the Capitol since 1918, when
he addressed the lawmakers.
'The atmosphere is a bit better
than 1t was in the last four years."
he remarked yesterday afternoon.
This remark got about the Hill and
was the cause of many smiles.
The Senator had fine time visit
ing yesterday. He called at the Gov
ernor's Office and had long talk
with Secretary Harry s. McDevitt
about the Governor. saw State Chair
man William e. Crow and various
officials.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
Jules Vedrines, Noted
French Aviator, Killed
Bu dssociuted Press

Paris, April g2.-Jules Vedrines, n
noted French aviator; was killed yes
terday when his machine fell in the
Department of Drome while We'd
rines was attempting to make a non
stop flight from Villacoublay to
Rome. The mechanician in the ma
chine also was killed.
The machine in which they were
making the trip was wrecked.
The accident occurred about 1880
o'clock yesterday morning at Les
Fouillouses. and 1t is believed 1t was
due to the machine collapsing in the
air. The aviators fell from n great
height and the death of both of them
was instantaneous. The mail sack
which Nedrines was carrying to
Rome was found among the debris
of the machine,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22

in the exempt class when an official
document informs Jim he is Glass \.
As had been anticipated from the
unanimous praise bestowed upon il by
well known critics OF
Hearts of the screen and the
Humanity" press comments where
ut Victoria ii has been shown, to-
gether with its own
record as an audience picture,
throngs crowded the Victoria Thea
ter yesterday at the initial showings
OF The Heart OF Humanity
In the NaStneSs Of its conception,
the breadth Of theme. and the gigan-
tic and graphic manner in which the
-ntiIe production is screened, The
Heart of humanity" proved TO be one
OF the tup-uotch motion picture fea-
turts that Harrisburg movie fans
have had the privilege of viewing.
Dorothy Phillips. in the leading femi--
nine role, i easily Vt the height of
her brilliant career as one Of the
screens popular and finished ac-
trcsses, and she more strongly en-
trerched herself in the admiration of
local fandom. if that were possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
ONLY POWERFUL
MEDICINE WILL END
RHEUMATISM

1t matters not whether you have
had agonizing pains from rheuma-
tism for twenty years or distressing
twttchings for twenty weeks. Rheu-
ma is strong enough and mighty and
powerful enough to drive rheumatic
poisons from your body and abolish,
all misery or money back. !
Kennedy's Drug Store and all
druggists urJ authorized to sell
Rheuma on no-cure-no-pay basis.
A large bottle is inexpensive, and
after you take the small dose as di-
rected once a day for two days You
should know that at last You have
obtained n remedy that will conquer
rheumatism.
For over seven years throughout
America, Rheuma has been pre-
scribed and has released thousands
from agony, pain and despair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
German Troops Attack
Red Cross Mission in
Kovno, Lithuania

New York, April 22.-German
troops have attacked the American
Red Cross mission at Kovno, Lithu-
ania, according to a cablegram re-
Ceived here by the Lithuanian Ma
tional Council from its Paris repre-
sentative. The message gave neither
the time nor result of the attack. A
Lithuanian soldier was killed in de-
Tending the Americans. it was said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
AVIATOR KILLED

Nantagh. \. Y, April 22.-Pri.
vate Otto w. Meyer a student avi-
ator attached to the Three Hundred
and Fitty-seventh Aero Squadron,
whose home is in California, was
killed Yesterday and Sergeant O. O.
Burnett, Il kentuckian. was seriously
injured when an airplane in which
they were attempting a tail spin
over Lufberry field fell 200 feet,
burying itself in a bog.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
Plan to ForestalI
German Attempt to
Establish Big Army
BIZ Associated Press

Paris, April 22.-The Council of
Foreign Ministers has approved the
proposed provision of the peace
treaty to forestall any effort the
Germans might make to re-establish
a military machine by utilizing out
side forces. The article prohibits the
sending of German military instruc-
tors to foreign countries. 1t was re-
ferred to the drafting committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
THAW SUIT POSTPONED

PhiIadcIphin, April 22.-Trinl OF
the civil suit against Harry X. Thaw
for heavy damages for injuries al
legged to have been inflicted upon 1S-
year-old Frederick Gump, of Kansas
City. was postponed to-day by Judge
Finletter in common pleas court. A
tentative date of May 19 was set for
the trial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
'4MTSE'sa| NEN7s!EI

ORPHEUM
Tonight and Wednesday matinee and
night-Elliott, Comsteeh and aest
oner Experience --,
Friday evening, April 20 - concert
oy the Municipal Band, ,.,, GA
saturday, matinee and nisht' Aprn So
Victory Frolics,' benent nursery
Monday. evening only, April as -
Charles Frohman presen.s cyril
Maude in The Saving Grace
MAJESTIC
High Glass Vaudeville-Pietro, ac
cordionist; George DruTy Hart ana
Company in u Beg aour FarISnd annSsdl
ians; Vera Sabine and Company IN
dancing novelty; the Four EarIs'
sensational aerialists'
COLONIAL
To-day and tomorrow - tempest
and Sunshine"
To-day and to-morrow - Grimm Is
Feature, The Girl Who Stayed al
Thursday. Friday and Saturday
Pauline Frederick in Paid IN Ful"
VICTORIA
All week-"The Heart Of Humanl:N
Mr.. Cyril Maude and his support
ing company, under the direction on
Charles Frohman: WI.
oIr. Cyril play an engagement Of one .l.,
Maude night at the orphSuhi on
Monday, in -, g, leH1Tw i,i.1,s
Grace" Mr.. Maude's portrayal of the
delightfully."- humorous character o.
Blnn Corbett. eN-officer OF the BTtt-
colonels wife because he thought IL
the sporting thing to do has won
the same high admiration from thg
local playgoers as vas, Was E0rtnsS E0pGnsatGSS tGa
long run Of the piece at the Emplf'
theater. Miss Laura Hope Crews mas
achieved one of the best successes OF
her notable career IN the role ot thg
wholly loVable wife Of the whimsical
hero. Miss Annie Hughes. whose long
career on the British and American
stage has made her familiar to an
patrons OF the theate", has IN TINS
play d most humorous, enSas .ng ana
sympathetic part.
Turn TO the Right" the widely
PRAISED comedy success which Win
chell smith and John /.
Turn to Golden viii nTrSSt.nt az a.
three days. beginning
Thursday. May lSt. direct from four
weeks al the Garrick theater. PhlIa-
delph.G. has broken records N every
large city in the country for recelpti
and length OF runs. Two companies
appeared ConCurrently in New YORK
al the Gaietv theater. and ChlcaEo.
at CohUr'S Grand opera House. for
a solid year. Boston. Philaielphla.
les Angeles. San Francisco. Seattle
and other large renfcrS ca0itu.ated u
its quaint rUn and heart interest ara
gave il tho heaviest patronage Of last
season Only a few high spots
were touched on tour last year. hut
rhe New York cast. headed BY Euth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22

OF the popular music OF the day. and
when j., starts playing. il is a hard
matter TO keep still. Four other eN-
CeIlent acts appear on the bill. Vera
Sabine and Company present a series
OF artistic dances. George Drury Hart
ami Company offer an entertaining
sketch entitled "I Beg Your Pardon .
Madison and Winchester are team
Ct clever comedians who keep the
audience in constant laughter. while
tho Four EarlS perform some splen-
did aerial feats.
David Coorh Grinith'S newest film
play. The Girl who stayed Home
Will be shown again to-
Crinith day and to-morr"w At
Film at the Regent. There are
the Regent TWO girls whose lives are
closely connected with
the central interest .of the story ami
who wit at home while the boys
they love are at the front. Ralph
Gray and his brother are sons of u
wealthy shipbuilder. Ralph voluu-
tecrS at the first call for soldiers. The
girl be loves IS a French maiden who
is betrothed to one OF her own COun-
tymen. He is wounded in battle and
dies in her fathers chateau. and the
American finally wins her.
jim, the younger Of the two bro
theirs. tries to eHade service. He Is
engaged TO q little cabaret dancer,
and his life has always been a pleas
ant joke to him. His father treats
him with q mixture of contempt and
Indulgence and tries to have him put
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
'SEBASTOPOL IS
FREE OF SOVIETS
Naval Port Has Not Been Oc-
cupied by Them, Says
Report

Paris, April 22.-The naval port of
Sebastopol. in the Crimea. has not
been coupled by Russian Soviet
troops, according to a dispatch to the
Journal Des Debats dated Sunday at
Saloniki.
The dispatch says that lighting ap-
pears to have stopped for the time
being in the Southern Crimea. The
Bolsheviki are said to be slacken-
ing their advance in the face of the
allied artillery fire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22

A Russian wireless message re-
ceived in London Sunday night said
that Sebastopol was said to be in the
hands of revolutionary committee.
The Russian message further added
that after negotiations with the al
lied command an agreement had
been reached for an armistice of
eight days to expire on April %.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22

in the exempt class when an official
document informs Jim he is Glass \
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22

As haG been anticipated from tn
unanimous praise bestowed upon il b
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
The Rip Van Wrinkle
Of Domestic Science

The reason the American woman's
servant problem should be of simple
solution as compared with her Brit
lsh sisters is because the latter has
been in veritable Rip Van Wrinkle
slumber as regards the progress of
domestic science. Even in many of
the big hotels one does not find such
labor saving devices as the vacuum
cleaner.
At the only hotel at which / could
find accommodations upon my arrival
in London there was one bathroom
to every eighteen rooms or so.
The English servant is expected
to drag as many pals Of hot water
as the habits of the family require.
She must black boots; she must
battle with the dirt that some eight
or nine open freplaces in one home
can be responsible for, and the only
weapon she has is the old-fashioned
broom!
When I told an Englishman that
the average family in America which
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Enelish Housewife Must Solve
Her Problem by Recruiting
From the Land Army

know the joy of calling their souls
their own.
10 tempt back into the kitchen as
many of this newly liberated four
hundred thousand as they can is the
task English housewives have set
themselves, and the British govern
ment has put its shoulder to the
wheel to help them.
They won't get them all back, that
they realize, despite the enormous
excess of women; for thousands of
them have lard their plans to emf
CRATE just as soon as there are ships
free to carry them to the colonies
and the dominio,is, where there are
jobs and, more important, prospec-
tive husbands. They will, however,
get some of them back, in view Of
the increasing unemployment of
women, that becomes automatic as
more and more men are demobil-
lied, but only if the promise to
revise the entire status Of the do
mestlc worker, her social as we'll as
her economic status, is kept.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

certain foods should be "put on" in
cold water and others in boiling; why
the contents of some saucepans
should be kept covered and others
not. And the increase in wages
which these skilled workers will be
able to claim, instead of impoverish-
ing the employer, should John Bull
think logically, will be largely
overcome by the absence of waste
that their newly acquired knowl-
edge should enable them to bring
about and by the decrease in the
number employed.
The establishment Of these train
ing schools was but one Of the rec
concentrations handed in to the Min
lister OF Reconstruction by the wom-
ems committee. A minimum wage,
specified hours of leisure and the
right to organize into trade union
empowered to hold conferences
with the employers are suggestions
that emphasize the Englishwomen's
determination not to do the thing
by half measures.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

of any ones hopes. Hot and cold
water baths, single and double
rooms and dormitories-the latter
more like a clubhouse with innu-
merable windows on every side. In
the grounds surrounding were flow
ers and fruits, games and grass,
mountain hikes, lake boating and
swimming, mess hall where "chow"
that was Something like" was
served - indeed, everything that
could be desired.
The home accommodates fifty, and
in an adjoining building, with
"spotless town" kitchen and mess
hall with windows wherever there is
a place to stick one, there is room
for others. There are wide veran-
das and there is a music room and
game rooms and porch that ac-
commodities frequent masquerad de
balls.
This is the summer home for the
Vacation Association girls, and to
enjoy it one need but apply to the
clubhouse at 38 West Thirty-ninth
Street and pay reservation fee of
81. There are no questionnaires to
be signed, no restrictions on liberty.
The house will close September Is.
If you have a crouch and want to
lose T. ssSe it aM 9y cation House.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
An Endless Chain
Membership Campaign

In the club the enlisted man when
on leave can get his mail from
home. 1t furnishes a place where
he can have his money orders and
checks cashed. The club has safe
ty deposit vault for the use of It's
members. The club means head
quarters to meet friends. And it is
also a place to carry COB griev-
ances.
Great Britain has sailors club
IN every one of her ports. Even here
IN New York City she takes care of
her sailors. We Americans never
thought of such scheme until the
war. And now we can't close down
all our makeshift homes for the
boys. The men themselves are or
ganizlng an endless chain of MEM
bershlp among the active service
men.
The ex-service men are to be
members of the club for little
larger sum than the active mem
bers. | feel sure that the gobs will
be able to make their organizatio
a worthwhile institution in the
city, and they are worthy the at
tentlon of us all, as citizens, in the
launching of their permanent club"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

able. Being in a big, lonesome
city, they sank down to the places
that wanted them"
The Navy Club is the gobs' own.
Perhaps one of the fascinations to
the women who go quietly in and
out is the distinctly masculine at
mosphere of the place 1t is COM
Portable and restful, but not dressy,
is this Navy Club. The walls are
lined with war posters and souve-
Mrs of ship days and holidays.
Several gobs are always shooting
pool. Others are always writing
letters and lounging about, reading
magazines. There is music all the
time. Now one sturdy blond young
ster is softly playing the aria from
II Pagliacci." He plays it beauti-
fully, too. Then as he drifts over to
the pool table a dark eyed little fel-
low sits down to "How You Coin
to Keep EN- Down on the Farm"
No Disorderly
Element
One or two extremely tired look
ing sailors are lounging in easy
chairs, and one of them has actually
gone to sleep. He isn't bum. And
he won't be turned out of the club.
He is probably just a very tired
youngster. There is never any dis
order in the Navy Club. And if
there were it would be made short
work Of.
"Once / was asked" said Mrs.
Hamilton, "by person whose ac-
quaintance with sailors is more or
less limited: But what do you do
with your disorderly element?'
-" L don't know 1 replied, be
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
In Or Out of the
Service the BOYS
Back the Club

ure. Many clubs are closing now
that the war is over The sailor is
losing some Of his picturesqueness.
The hospitality and welcome that
were his during the war are pass
ing in part.
THE navy is enlisting boys of
fifteen and sixteen years." contin-
ued Mrs. Hamilton. THE Navy De-
partment is responsible for their
military discipline and their beha-
vior on board ship. But on shore
here the people Of the City Of New
York are responsible for them. We
as American citizens ought to care
about the character of the person
mel Of our navy. The ships are not
the navy; Secretary Daniels and the
men in the department in Washing
ton are not the navy; the officers
are not the navy; but the over two
hundred thousand boys are the
navy for which all the others exist.
Zone of the men of the club re-
Gently told me that he believed the
reason so few new enlistments were
being made was that the men held
back because of the way in which
the uniform was regarded in peace
time.
"The Navy Club has won the con-
fdence and approval of the men
with two, three and four hash
marks on their sleeves, and the ap-
proval of these old service men is
no easy thing to get. These men
are behind the club. They know its
value because they remember the
old conditions before it existed.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
British Government Establishes
Schools for the Training of
Domestic Hell pers =.

of them have announced their in
tention of showing their apprecia-
ton of really good domestic helpers
by having them sit at table with the
family at meals. A move like this
has enormous possibilities, but
whether for good or for disaster
only time will tell.
What makes the English servant
problem a really aggravated one is
the antiquity of the architecture OF
the homes and the absence of labor
saving devices. The English servant
problem is Of recent origin, because
the emancipation of the women Of
the lower classes is so recent, where
as the American woman has always
had the independent maid to deal
with. She has seen the direction in
which the servant question was tend
ing, and each year her house has
become more scientifically arranged,
81 IlIdts dltHOuSH Sfe mas not YET
arrived at the stage where she can
sit Edison-like at a switchboard and
run her home by the pressure of
buttons, she nevertheless has had
the good sense to make her house
keeping compact and modern, so that
the departure of Bridget does not
leave sheer tragedy in its wake.
Many American women of moderate
circumstances have arrived at the
point where they no longer hate do
mesticity of the modern variety, but
carry on" quite we'll without
maid.
The English housewife cannot do
this in the present state of the de-
velopment of her home. She will
solve her servant problem instead,
she declares firmly. Her determina-
tion is superb; we shall watch her
performance, as they say at the
races.