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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
Making a Nation Fit

IFrom the Kansas City Times
The country got something of a
shock when it learned that a third
of its young men in the prime of life
were not physically fit to enter the
army. The question now is whether
the shock will be all there will be to
it, or whether it will translate it
self into remedial measures for the
next generation.
That is why the campaign that
began during the war and is now
in progress under the direction of
the United States Children's Bureau
for the weighing and measuring of
children under six is of significance.
1t is an attempt to give intelligent
direction to the physical develop
ment of children. In Kansas City,
the Child Welfare Committee is US
ing the schools as centers for this
work. The children are weighed
and measured under the supervision
of physicians, and cards made out
giving the data so that any physical
defects may be known at home and
means adopted to correct them.
IF this sort of work can be thor
oughly done and effectively followed
up in the homes. the foundations
will be laid for better health and
better conditions of living. Medical
inspection in schools and physical
training later will supplement this
supervision of the young children
and will raise the level of effective
ness of the whole Nation.
OF course a people that is only
two-thirds efficient physically is liv-
ing far below it's capacities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
Sunrise From a Balloon

The balloon had now sunk to
within three-fourths of a mile of
the earth's surface, and we first be-
came aware of approaching dawn.
not by the appearance of the sky.
but by the awakening life below
There came to our ears out of the
depths, first the faint, shrill bugle-
calls of chandeliers, then the bark
ing of dogs, and finally the soft.
muffled rumble of wagon on it's
early trip to the city. AS if not to
disappoint the expectant life below,
there soon appeared a rosy flush on
the eastern sky, and the whole
heavens, both east and west. were
then suffused with pink. The sun
rise was not more brilliant than I
have seen below, but the unobstruct-
ed view in every direction and the
strange surroundings gave it an un-
usual beauty. The landscape was
now seen clearly for the first time.
and there spread out below us a
scene so picturesque that it Is diff
cult to describe. We were crossing
headwaters of the Wabash, whose
bed was covered with a broad river
of fog far more beautiful than the
river itself; while into it flowed
smaller streams of mist, and here
and there a lakelet of fog in a
basin between the hills reflected
family, from the crests of it's snowy
pillows, the colors of the rosy dawn.
While we were directly over the
valley of the Wabash. an elecric
car with glaring headlight. rushed
along on it's early morning trip, like
some submarine monster at the bot
tom of wide river of fog.-H. H.
Clayton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16

be needed in the long, slow, dull,
painful days and years and decades
or reconstruction! 1t takes courage
Tor soldier to stick to his machine
gun and tear down a wall in the
face of enemy fire. 1t takes even
greater courage for the woman
whose wall or whose house that it
is to come back to it and rebuild it
stone by stone, and to rebuild life
likewise stone by stone with a bleed
ing heart as a foundation. 1t will
take morale, courage, spiritual faith
and fortitude. AS an official of the
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
recently put it, France needs Amer
ica's material and financial help, but
could exist without it. 1t is how
ever, matter of life and death that
we should have Americas moral and
spiritual help-and we need it now
They need it now-all the folk
who are returning now to the 35O,-
600 destroyed homes of France; all
those who loved and depended upon
the two million French fathers and
sons who now lie beneath the battle
fields. The seven thousand blinded
soldiers need it. The two hundred
thousand MANNED need it, The mil
lion fatherless children need it.
Greater than any other present need
of France, is the need for a ringing
gospel of courage and good cheer.
Can America, in any way, help to
meet that need
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
TWO FUNDS

TIME liquor interests of New
York are out with another of
those numerous statements to
the general effect that prohibition
was not enacted as the result of
popular will, but was brought about
by large sums of money spent by the
Anti Saloon League and other
agencies of the kind.
Let us analyze this a little.
1t is true that large sums of
money were spent by the temper
ance societies for the promotion of
prohibition sentiment.
But where did this money origi-
nate?
1t came for the most part as free
will contributions from the purses
of those who were willing to donate
their own money for what they be-
lieved to be the welfare of humanity.
But it is also true that the liquor
people spent vastly larger amounts
in combating the growing demand
for national prohibition.
And whence came this money?
Why, from those who were inter
ested in maintaining the drink evil
for the sake of their own pocket
books.
Folks who live in glass kouses-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
Great Pr0SeritV Ahead

William A. Law, president of the
First National Bank, of Philadel-
phia, makes this optimistic state
ment:
There is abundant reason for be-
lieving that the country is in for a
period of great prosperity. The sign
ing of the peace compact will be of
largo sentimental benefit to the busi-
ness interests of all the nations en-
gagged in the world war. The sus-
tanned rise in security prices on the
stock exchange reflects the genuine
optimism of the people and the pre-
vailing belief that this country will
benefit greatly from the readjust-
ment now in progress"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
WHEAT
re. Davenport in the Saturday
Evening Post.

Il u.
I demand an alibi for wheat when
the high cost of living comes up for
Indictment. Wheat the source of
the staff of life; the cheapest and
best of all our American foods; the
deciding factor in the war; the
greatest single element in the con-
clusion, and to-day the strongest
bar against Bolshevism Wheat, the
great staple food of man, the civil
lizer of humanity, the greatest sim
gle find of the time, except iron. :
Since the Stone Age and the Lake
Dwellers, man has worked and
fought for wheat as the most prec-
ious of all his possessions. He for
gets it from time to time in the
press of other matters, but he al
ways comes back to wheat and to
the land for its production.
That is why there are grown to-
day in all the earth no less than
four billion bushels annually, pro-
duced upon a greater variety of
soils and under a wider range OF
climatic conditions than would be
possible with any other crop.
Four billion bushels of wheat
hushell About two bushels a head
for all the earth, when there should
| be six!
A solid trainload reaching around
the world! Rivers of wheat-for
| in motion, these four billion bushels
would make a stream over twenty
feet wide and a foot deep, flowing
four miles an hour continuously
wear in and year out forever and q
day. for the feeding of the nations!
Blessed be the Wheat!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
SPRING TIME

There is no time like spring time
Where ever you may be,
With birds all blithe a trilling
The air with lilt a filing
Their joyous bursts of light-heart
Poured out in melody.
There is no time like spring time
With brooks and streams set free
So musical and gushing
Cool. limpid, swiftly rushing
Onward through the long day
A travelling to the sea.
There is no time like spring time
The vernal time you see
That brings from out the winters
gloom
The wilder plants exquisite bloom
The velvet soft and silken grass
And virgin budding tree.
with some not all is spring time
The spring of youth In fee
When happiness from reservoirs
OF truest bliss itself outpours,
o, Youth. could we Thou Spring
of life and song
But travel yet with thee.
GEORGE r. PRITCHARD,
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
The Valley of Decision

The world is in the Valley of Deci-
SION
1t is standing at the parting of the
ways;
VIII it climb the steps of God to
realms elysan,-
Or fall on horror of still darker
days?..
All the world is in the Valley OF
Decision,
And out of it there is but one sure
road;
Eyes unsealed can still forsee the
mighty vision
OF world in travail turning unto
God. -
All the world is in the Valley OF
Decision,
Who shall dare its future destiny
foretell?
Will it yield its soul unto the TIeav.
emily Nisicn,
Or sink despairing into it's own hell ?
JOHN OXENHAM.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16

our big cities are voicing their opin-
ion of the Director General of Rail-
roads for an order he issued few
weeks ago. The experience OF
resident of small town near New
York City, on the main line to Phil
adelphia, illustrates the absurd
working of the new regulation.
This man commutes between his
home and New York. The other day
he was in Philadelphia, and wished
to go from there directly to New
York. He bought ticket to his
home town. intending to use his
commutation ticket from that point
to his destination. When he reached
his home and presented his COM
muter's coupon he was politely told
by the conductor that full cash
fare would be required under the
new ruling of the Director General
that Communication could not be ac-
cepted from a through passenger
for part of the distance Travelled. If,
instead of remaining on his train,
he had stepped off and waited for
the next train, his communication
ticket would have been accepted.
Here is a case where a premium
is placed on stop-oyers. There has
been a regulation in effect for some
time that stop-overs will not be per-
mitted on through tickets. but in
this case a man had in his pocket
what amounted to a through ticket,
bought and paid for. which he
could not use unless he stopped
over enroute. Could anything be
more absurd?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
The Laughter of the Gods

SAYS Lloyd George to Clemenceau:
This is the biggest joke l know.
He thought that He could run this
show,
He thinks He ran it, too. by joel
Well, let Him think, we've got the
dough
His vanity was f1attered sol
Ha! ha! he! he. heigh! heigh! ho!
ho!"
Says Lloyd George to Clemenceau.
Says Clemenceau to Toxic:
My laughter seems to grow and
grow,
Until my tears begin to flow;
! call this treaty really beau,
The Fourteen Points have come to
woe,
He doesn't vet suspect it. though
Ha! ha! he! he! heigh! heigh! ho.
ho!"
Says Clemenceau to Toxic.
Says Toxic to Sonnino:
With satisfaction I'm aglow,
My gains stand neatly in a row,
And of them I shall ne'er let go;
We gained Our Points by lying low,
We put one over on Him, Boz
Ha! ha! he! he! heigh! heigh! no!
ho!"
Says Toxic to Sonnino.
Says Sonnino to Georgia:
The time has come for me to crow
I've got Fiume now in tow,
And doubtless, too, the Trentino,
SO l can say Adaggio!
Which means in English, Let's &c
slow.
Ha! ha! he! he! heigh! heigh! ho!
no!
Says Sonnino to Georgia.
William Wallace Whitelock.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
This Will Rebuild Europe
willard Price in World Outlook.
TN Belleau Wood, where every
inch of the ground is sacred to

TN Belleau Wood, where every
inch of the ground is sacred to
memory, l saw what had been
beautiful house 'in the remains of
which the owner had erected little
wooden shack, and smoke was cheer
lily issuing from the temporary tin
chimney! In front of the house, be-
slde the road, a magnificent tree has
been literally torn off by shell fire,
leaving on the stump Il mass of
strings and threads of wood to show
how terrific had been the wrench of
the explosion. The giant tree had
doubtless been the pride of the place
for generations. Now the man of
the house, with the spirit that ex-
tracts comfort even from adversely,
was calmly saving up the old mon
arch into short lengths for firewood!
Morale did most to win the war.
Robertson, Canadian chief of staff,
said, "Seventy-fve per cent of the
resources winning this war was
spiritual"
Sir Julian Byng, when about to
lead his men, nicknamed the "Byng
Boys" into action, first made all
human 'preparation-then dropped
on his knees. g.
Sir Douglas Haig went on record
to the effect that the greatest essen
tial for the winning of the war was
spiritual energy.
And how much more will morale
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
NEW BOOKS

Houghton Mifflin Company take
pleasure in announcing for publica-
ton on May II, the following
books: Theodore Roosevelt" SEN
ator Lodges eloquent tribute deliver
ed before Congress on the death OF
Roosevelt; DR.. Richard Cabot's So
cial Work. Essays on the Meeting
Ground of Doctor and Social Work
err" authoritative information of
interest and value to every social
worker. DIR. Wilfred 7. Grenfelfs
Labrador Days." stories of the ad-
venturous life of the hardy inhabl-
tants of the Labrador coast; keith
Preston's TYPES of Pam" piquant
and witty verses that have recently
appeared in various well known
newspaper columns; Chamberlain
Vacation Tramps in New England
Highlands" a guide entertaining as
we'll as practical for the hiker; Lieut..
Robert II. Reece's Might Bombing
with the 'Bedouins,' reserved and
accurate account of experiences with
the Bedouin Division of the Royal
Flying Squadron by an American
who has been awarded the English
honor cross for aviators; THE Stu
dents Book of Inspirations" Profess
sor Edward Dickinson's happily
chosen collection of inspiring liter
ary extracts. and a reprint of Charles
Dudley Warmers classic, MY Sum-
mer in a Garden"
Major Ian Hay Beth, who is per-
haps the best interpreter of Eng
land to America and vice versa, says
of his new book 1.-THE Last Million
which will be published in few
days at has been a most difficult
book to write-the hardest job ]
ever tackled. In fact it is a job which
no Englishman has ever tackled sue
cessfully yet" Major Beith's diff
ficulty was the Interpretation of the
effect upon our untraveled soldiers
of the foreign countries and the inn
preston made by them upon the in
habitants His readers, however,
will feel that his compunctions were
unnecessary and that his sincere
sympathy with things American
! make him the ideal person for this
task.
"Bedouins" was the nickname
given to the squadron of The Royal
Flying Corps of which Lieutenant
Robert II. Reece writes in Might
Bombing with the Bedouins'
| (Houghton Mifflin Company be-
cause the members came from all
over the world and because night
bombing involves so many Ions
flights The greatest distance the
squadron ever travelled was 400 miles
to Cologne-the machine used be-
ing the famous Handley-Paige.
' Types of Pan tHoughton Milf,
fin Company is off the press says
a writer in the Chicago Sunday Trib.
une, land here 1 am still sitting or
the doorstep waiting for the post
man to bring me a copy. I'd hate tC
miss him! think Keith Preston i:
| the funniest funny man that ever
| looked a book straight in the eye
and told it what he Thought abou-
it," Mr.. Preston is a contributor tC
the famous Line o'Type" newspaper
column under the hitherto wei
| guarded pseudonym of Pan" as wei
as conductor of column of his owT
in the Chicago Daily News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
OUR SCHOOLS
CARSON STAMM, in remark

CARSON STAMM, in remark
u ably clear and straightfor-
= ward statement published
elsewhere in this issue, sets forth
the reasons why the school board
of Harrisburg finds itself facing an
increase of the mill rate.
Mr.. Stamm makes a good case for
the board, which as it stands to-day
consists of men whose integrity can
not be questioned and who are
above the average in business ability
These men cannot be charged with
mistakes of the past, If there were
such. Nor can they be held re-
sponsible for the vast increases oi
expenses thrust upon them by ad-
vanced costs of coal and all manner
of supplies. They are also face tc
face with the up-keep of the new
high schools, which, willy nilly
must be met.
A comparison of the expenses Of
running the school district of to-day
with those of the system as it stood
a few years back, shows that very
much special work of vast import
ance to the masses of the people ha.
been undertaken. The specia
schools, the delinquency schools, the
open air schools, the night school!
and the Americanization schools, no
TO mention the continuation schools
have been developed into successful
enterprises that nobody acquainted
with their work would think O
abandoning. We are simply face t,
face with an expense that must b,
met. There is nothing else to i
and no use raising a disturbanc,
about it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SHELL-SHOCK
By BRIGGS
o the Editor of the Telegraph {:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
l didn't win the war;" l just
helped, and recently returned from
France where / was for more than
a year. Most of the time in front,
where in seven battles, 1 had the
chance to observe some shell
shocked fighting men. l have been
asked many times if ''shell-shock" is
in the nature of a cowardly or yell
lowstreaked soldier. That is just
the way most people worded the
question. | was informed that three
thousand cases were suddenly cured
about noon, November IL, 1918, don't
doubt that. You do not need to be
an oversee man to understand the
possibility of such statement being
true. But in defense of a lot of
genuinely brave men, who are or
were really shall-shocked. Not shell
shy, but shocked, that term is not
mishonor in spite of the opinion
of some learned gentlemen, who sit
way back behind the lines and slur
brave men who won't even brag of
their deeds At one place we lost
an officer and six men. One man
did not have a mark on his body.
Another beside whom I slept for a
time on a French front and know
him for a brave boy, went down and
out with the above six men. He af-
terward revived and came out of the
fight. He is now in an insane ward
The French NJ. O.'s have a large
truck fitted with two steel cylinders
about five feet in diameter by seven
feet long connected with an air COM
pressor Four shell-shocked patients
who are unconscious are placed on
stretchers in each cylinder. The air
pressure is brought up to the esti-
mated pressure of the air immedi-
ately adjacent to the exploding shell
then gradually the air pressure is
lowered to one atmosphere and the
result in many cases revives the
shell shocked" soldier.
| looked over that truck with a
great deal of interest at Cd. Mount
Menard on the Marne river near
Saacy. I left most of my troubles
\ in France, sent. them into the Ger
man lines in the shape of a ninety
pound shell. "Boch Kisses the
French gunners called them Gone
I named Harrisburg). and I don't
write this to hunt trouble or blow
my own horn, but in defense of some
of the best soldiers the world has
ever produced Some of them came
home the other day. More are com
ing shortly. I was with these men
on the Vesle and Aisne rivers and
I don't like to hear knock" on the
bravery of any American soldier.
When your Iron Division was re-
lieved they were replaced by the
best soldiers of the entire French
armies.
Respectfully yours.
GENERAL BUCK PRIVATE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Colonel E. s. Greble. command
ing one of the Keystone artillery
regiments is regular and Penn
sylvanian.
Governor Sproul will speak 81
the reception OF the Pennsylvania
Historical Society to General Muii.
Speaker Spangler, who is STIR
ring up the animals over his McCall's
Ferry bill, has been working on
legislation of that kind for six years.
Fl. w. Reese, the new head of the
Knights of Columbus in this State
is a prominent Pittsburgher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
Sanction Not Necessnru

IFrom the Kansas City Times.
The Germans could save them
selves considerable unnecessary heat
by getting it into their heads that
the question of whether they shall
sign the Peace Treaty or not isn't a
point at issue. The treaty will be
as binding without the German sig
nature as with it.
In reality, Germany signed the
treaty November II, 1918, when she
admitted she was defeated and aban-
doned the means for further resist
ance.
If the peace shall turn out to he
lasting 1t will be because the Allies
make it that. and the Allies will
have that job to do quite as certain
ly in the event that Germany signs
as in the event that she doesn't
We will have a clearer notion of
the situation If we think of the
work of the Peace Conference as an
agreement among the Allied nations
rather than as an agreement he.
tween the Allied nations and Ger
manv. Germany was not a party
TO the negotiations Mt Paris. She
had no word in the making of the
instrument she Is now invited to
accent. and her refusal to accent
it. If 1t should come to that. would
not change IT or it's binding force
on the other sienatories in the
slightest degree. The Allied powers
have decided to do certain things
Of themselves, and that Germany
shall he compelled to do certain
other things Thev had NJ expecta-
ton that Germany would do her
part willingly. nor would her accent
arce and signing of the treaty ho
anv proof tha+ she meant to do It.
willingly or otherwise.
The Allies understand perfecfi-
well that what she does she will do
because she must and not bSeHuse
Count Won Brockdorff- ,ntzan's
name is or is not. eppaAded to the
treaty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
LOST 81 PER HEAD

"HE Railroad Administrator ran
behind 100000 in the first
three months of 1919, or at the
rate of $4,000, 900 a year, which
would be an average tax of about
ST per capita upon every man,
woman and child in the country, or
about $40 per family How do you
like paying your share of the loss ?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
GETTING UNDER WAY

IN HE organization of a perma-
nent committee, representing all
the civic organizations of the
city, is a long step toward getting
under way the plan which Colonel
Martin, State Health Commissioner,
has suggested for making Harris
burg a model city from the stand
point of public health and SANTA
ton.
The program which this commit
tee has formulated for itself cannot
be carried through in a day. There
must be campaign of public edu-
cation along some lines and of pro-
motion along others. Custodians of
public funds are always slow to ac-
cept ideas for improvement involv-
ing the expenditure of large sums,
no matter how praiseworthy the
objects, and those who have un-
dertaken to make the city better
place in which to live should under
stand that they have their work cut
out for them.
At the same time. the program
as announced to-day is of such vital
Importance and so free from the
unnecessary and the impractical
that it ought to be possible to put
it through bodily within a reason
able time. 1t is most encouraging
to note the readiness with which
the men and women assigned the
unpleasant duty of pioneering for
the contemplated improvements
have accepted the tasks assigned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has already
voted considerable money to carry
cne its share of the Capitol park
k=provcmcnts?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16
PREMIUM ON STOP-OVERS

= N THE storm of protest directed
at Mr.. Burlesons management
systems, we must not lose sight of
the shortcomings of the other Fed
eral managers of public utilities.
some of which are quite as ridicu-
ious as those charged against the
Postmaster General. Just at pres
ent, commuters in the vicinity of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-16

American drug manufacturers at
a recent convention, voted to use the
profits from German patents to pro-
mote scientific research.