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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-27

Your crouch hurts you worse than ii
hurts those about YOU
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Striking For PetrOqrdd

lFrom the New York Tribune.
A joint movement to envelop Pet
rograd was started last spring, some
Finnish troops participating in it..
1t was halted by political rather than
by military consideration. For last
spring Kolchak had not yet come to
terms with the Allies and had not
given definite pledges to recognize
F1nland's independence if he should
be successful in restoring national
Russian government Now full CO.
operation between the Firms and the
anti BolshevistS is assured.
Finnish troops have penetrated
Russia to a point about thirty miles
north of Petrograd. Russian anti
Bolshevist forces from the Archangel
district have worked down into
Olonetz province, northeast of the
city, and British units were report
OF a couple of months ago on the
shores of Lake Omega.
The easiest way to take the capital
is to envelop it from the east, cut
ting the railroad communications
with Vologda and Moscow. A sup
porting attack was begun last spring
from the south and southwest by
Esthonian troops, but it was also
checked by the lack of definite po-
lltical agreements among the Firms,
Esthonians and the Kolchak Rus
slams.
The Firms have a strong enough
army to seize Petrograd, which Le-
nine and Trotzky have left to its
fate. The operation must be begun
promptly, however, if the city is to
be taken in time to consolidate Allied
control and resupply its famished
inhabitants before the winter season
sets in. Its capture would free most
of northeastern Russia from Boil
shevist rule.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT

~ FEAKING before the Senate
- Committee on Interstate Com
merce. some time ago, Chi
cago lawyer advocated the Govern
nnent ownership but private opera
ton of the roads. He would have
the Government sell bonds bearing
per cent. to raise money to buy the
roads, by which method, he argued,
the bondholders, being assured of
return on their investment, would
feel no interest in legislation, privi-
leges or political action. They
would have no speculative interest.
Their return would be the same. re-
gardless of the manner in which
the roads were operated.
For operating purposes he would
organize corporation where oper-
ating capacity would be its sole CAPT.
tai" The affairs of the corporation
would be administered by a board
of directors, of whom one-third
would be selected by the CLASSIFIED
employees below the grade of ap-
pointees, one-third by the appointed
Afficers and employees and one-third
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Denies Small Loaf

Governor Sprouts remarks on
desirability of small bread loaves
caused many a sigh of relief in some
households. 1 can't imagine any
city being served with better quail
ity of bread than Harrisburg, but
in families consisting of two or three
members there exists the problem
of what to do with ends of bread,
when the large loaf is the only one
to be gotten.
Some people have chickens that
absorb the surplus, but the major
ity of us are scanning the papers
to try to find some new ways to get
rid of the leftovers. OF course, we
have all eaten milk toast, dry toast,
French toast or fried bread, also
bread pudding, where in order to
make it palatable you use one-half
dozen eggs, l PINT of cream, one
fourth pound butter or reducing the
pieces to crumbs we use them in
omeletes, fried bread crumbs or
crumb griddle cakes, otherwise
known as grandpa's favorites.' Then
more is absorbed in breading our
oysters and veal outlets: By the
way, if you haven't eaten crumb
griddle cakes, you'll bless me when
you taste them, so here's the recipe:
Soak two cupfuls of bread crumbs
in a quart of milk for an hour. Into
this beat a tablespoonful of mo-
lasses and the same amount of melt
ed butter; salt to taste, then stir in
two or three well-beaten eggs. When
we'll mixed and a cupful of -four
which has been sifted with one-half
teaspoonful of baking powder.
Now you are ready for a hot griddle
and a satisfying meal. Notwith-
standing all these and many other
devices to keep down the stale bread,
it accumulates and in a fit of des-
peration you empty the half-flled
breadboX into the garbage pail.
A small loaf of bread would re-
lieve many persons from a lot of
worry and would avoid quite a few
family high talks, whose basis is
stale bread on the table three times
a day. l have heard of doctors who
preach that stale bread is healthier
than fresh, but you don't live very
long until you find out that doctors
don't know everything.
The baker who gives us a small
loaf of bread Will deserve and re-
ceive the thanks OF many house
holds, DR.. j. H. EAGER, SR.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Hard Work Would Help
]From the Detroit Free Press.l

| JtrOm the Detroit Free Press
High prices make high wages and
| again high wages make high prices,
and the process keeps on indefinitely
in whirling way that turns the
head dizzy and provokes the Verv
| it all going to end? In some way
brake must be adjusted and put
into operation, or we risk decidedly
| bad results from a financial aero
planning that really brings no ben
eft but creates a steadily increasing
| tension.
There is one corrective that is
| relatively simple, but at the same
time difficult from a practical view
point because it can be applied only
through general exercise of in
telligent patriotism. A revival among
workers of good, d-fashioned, con-
scientious, painstaking Industrious
ness, and a consequent straight
! forward price readjustment among
manufacturers and sellers of mer-
chandise would accomplish Won
| ders.
| To-day, unfortunately, the ten
! dency among the mass of men and
women with trades seems to be to
/ get as much money as possible for
as little work as possible, and the
| proficiency of some craftsmen in the
art OF "loafing on the job" would be
humorous if it were not tragic. The
lack of honest work in return for
| remuneration is unquestionably hav-
ing an appreciable effect on the eco
nomic condition of the country; it
| is responsible for the worst features
of that bugaboo known as the high
| cost of living"
| General cultivation among the
workers of the Nation of a sense of
obligation to put forth a full days
effort in, exchange for a full days
| pay would at once result in a new
| standard of productivity. Greater
productivity would mean a lessening
of costs to the manufacturer or
builder, and a consequent corre-
spending decrease in the legitimate
selling price of goods without any
corresponding decrease in the wage
scale. This is as plain as a lesson
IN the first primer. And while it is
not proposition that will appeal to
a Boishevik or an l. w. w. it ought
TO appeal to every real American.
True the rewards of industrious
ness would not be Immediately ap-
parent to the individual The con-
!
receive no more money at the end
OF the day or week than would the
Stacker. But assuming that the mer-
! chants and manufacturers would
deal honorably by their patrons,
good results would come in a gen.
| eral way almost at once through
! natural readjuStments of the prices
of merchandise in Difference to the
decreased cost of production.
! The working out of relief plan
along the lines suggested would de-
mand a good deal of practical un-
selhshness and the exercise of con-
siderable common sense, but the
people of the United States ought to
be equal to the efforts and in way
they are on trial in the matter
Whether the present readjustment
period is weathered successfully de-
pends much more on the mass OF
the people than it does on the. finan-
ciers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
CAN'T HAVE HIM

~ I. HELENA puts in a bid for
the Kaiser, anticipating that
~ the sentence of the interna-
tional court to try him Will be
banishment for life. st. Helena is
a thrifty little isle and knows the
money value of distinguished exiles,
having profited heavily during the
confinement there of Napoleon and
later, to a lesser degree, by the pres
ence of the notorious Dinizulu, the
Zulu chieftain who for many years
practiced Hunnish tricks against
British colonists in South Africa.
The merchants of ST. Helena grew
rich at the expense of the British
government, the fifty retainers OIL
Napoleon and the international "ob-
servers" stationed there to keep tabs
on the man who had set all Europe
by the ears and who it was feared
might escape to do it again. They
had profiteering down to a fine art
and they mourned right sincerely
when the great Frenchman passed
away. Those were the happy
days" on St. Helena and naturally
the natives, familiar with history,
would like to recall them through
the presence of the latest royal can
didate for exile.
St. Helena is poor place in which
to live. Even the natives think so,
the population in recent years hav-
ing shrunk to $500, but it is too
good for Wilhelm. To exile the eX-
war lord to the island prison of
Napoleon would be to raise Will
helm in his own estimation. The
ex-Kaiser has been aping Napoleon
all his life. To be placed in the lit
tie corporal's shoes, even in prison,
would be to crafty his vanity.
Wilhelm is not fit to dust Ma
poleon's shoes. If Napoleon made
war he also lifted France from the
dust and made nation of it. He
gave his people a great code of laws
= and where he found choas he left
order. And he was great and VIC
torious soldier, which the Kaiser is
not. He was killer of men in open
fight, but he did not murder chill
dren or ravish women, nor did he
stoop to the use of poison gas to win
battles. No, st. Helena can't have
the Kaiser. st. Helena is too good
for him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
The Vanished PdrlOr

According to the Rome (Ga.)
Tribune-Herald, the parlor was 8
heritage of a false aristocracy. anC
in its passing we have ore expires
sion of the new democracy add.
ing:
When person entered the
parlor OF mans home, he cloth
ed himself with due formality, he
stacked on ceremony, sat in a
bolt upright position with his
hands crossed, his feet obscured,
and talked in stage whispers,
using only correct phraseology.
Around the walls of the parlor
hung the portraits of the house
holds ancestors; in the center
was a large round table, on which
were placed the family album and
family Bible A big horsehair
sofs sat in one corner while a
whatnot stood in another.
In this parlor the children of q.
the house never dared to assem-
BILE, but on certain state occa-
slons the elder daughter of the
could beat her sister to it, sat
bolt upright in solemn grandeur
and received the final sworn as
surances of her accepted lover.
But the parlor is a thing of the
past; it has passed in its checks,
semble informally in the library
OF drawing room and attain a
considerable amount of ease"
But the Montgomery (Ala.) Al
vertiser observes sadly that the de.
cadence of the parlor indicates "tht
slow passing of the home as a gath
ering place for friends" professine
to see therein an irreparable loss tC
social life. 1t says:
The model home of a genera
tion and mere ago was a spacious
object within whose ample walls
weekend parties were held, and
a ballroom floor lay, while under
the house was a cellar to keep
things in that might be needed
on pleasant occasions. But the
model home is dwindling in size.
along with families. The cost of
maintenance. in the matter of
servants, lights, fuel and furni-
turc. not to speak of the cost of
building material, is too burden.
some to encourage the building
of large houses
1T has become necessary to
make smaller houses. When
something had to be sacrificed,
everybody agreed on the parlor.
With these alterations came also
a change in social customs Din
ner parties are frequently given
at hotels and receptions at down
town clubs. Dances are usually
given downtown. AS a rule, the
last thing people seem to desire
now is company in the house."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Catch the Criminals

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t will be remembered that in her
famous cookbook, Mrs. Glass pre-
faced her receipt for cooking hare
by the sage advice, first catch your
hare. This remark is suggested by
the news that a Turkish court-mar-
tial has passed death sentence on
Enver, Tallat and Djemal Pashas for
crimes committed by, them, in their
conduct of the Ottoman government
during the period of the war. No
one who is conversant with the facts
will dispute the justice. of this SEN
tence. These men were notoriously
responsible for the Arm menian massa-
cres and for innumerable other
atrocities. They were also traitors
who betrayed their country into a
suicidal conflict because the Germans
made it personally profitable for
them to do so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
Food and the Package
Oregonian.l ]

[From the Portland Oregonian.]
The War Department recently
rejected some sixty eight bids for
purchase of 143 million pounds OF
canned and cured meat which il
had on hand when the armistice
was signed. These bids in a ma
jority of cases were for less than
half of the sums the Government
had paid for the goods. Many OF
them were made by the same pack
ers who had sold the goods to the
Government.
There is, perhaps, an element OF
prottteering in these later transac-
tions. Evidently the War Depart
ment is going to get more money
for it's supplies if it can. 1t will
not, however, in ordinary eXpecta-
ton, get out all that it put into
them. They We're bought in a war
market; when they are sold their
own weight will serve to bring down
the scale in some degree. There is
a certain allowance to be legiti-
mately made between markets then
and now.
But there is another and an even
more influential factor. One ele-
ment in fixing the price of these
goods for civilian use is that they
ara packed in army packages. The
army packages are durable enough
but, as the New York Commercial
speaking from authority from the
trade viewpoint, observes, they
have a generally unfinished appear
ance, are unattractive to the eye
and the public would expect to get
them at a considerable reduced
price"
So the public pays for it's finical
taste in such matters as these
food put up attractively, it will
have it no other way. The eye, nc
less that the palate and the di-
gestion, figures in the purchase OF
necessities for the table.
1t is true enough. The most cas-
ual observer can verify the fact by
examining his own mind Given
his choice between the tin with a
handsome label, decorated with a
rose or two, in three or four litho-
graphic colors, and a plain, unlabel-
ed, square and unornamented car
containing several times the guam.
tity of equally nutritious food, and
almost any householder knows
which he Cor she) would choose
The fringe of the lace paper makes
the prune worth several cents q
pound more than his unaristocratic
| brother in the plebeian gunnysack
Cherries neatly faced always fetch
more than those in bulk. Packine
and processing institutions exist al
over the land, not to add to the
caloric value of common foods, but
to make them prettier and thus ado
to their selling price if not to theil
! actual worth. They are justified by
the requirements of good merchan.
dising. The business of a purveyol
is to give the public what it wants
Undoubtedly it is true that "tht
/ public would expect to get them a
| a considerably reduced price"-if
! indeed, it bought them in competi
| ton with attra ctively packed goods
| at all The packages figures Yer!
largely in salesmanship nowadays
| BUYERS in the mass have themselves
to blame for the added price the!
| pay for it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DR.. Thomas E. Finegan, the
superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, is preparing to take his vaca-
tion in August. He will spend most
of it studying the State educational
system.
-EX-Attorney General Francis
Skunk Brown is spending his vaca-
ton at his camp in the Adirondacks.
R. A. +. Penrose. brother of
Senator Penrose, was among the vis-
itors to the State Capitol.
Judge r. B. Mccormick whose
sentences created some excitement
in Philadelphia last winter, is to
hold court in that city again this
fall, having been assigned to it when
his own courts in Clinton county end.
DR.. Wilmer Krusen, Philadsl-
phia health official, says that pro.
longed rains bring damp cellars and
that people should beware.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
The Prince O. Dreams

We dream; and the mounting vision,
Freed trom the reek and stain
OF sin-bound cities, is lifted
To skies that are clear again
Homes redeemed from the spoiler,
The child at his happy day;
But for every dream we win to fact,
With blood and with tears we pay.
There kindled a dream of freedom,
1t burned with a holy flame;
When. slowly. with lips that trem-
bled,
We spelled out that awful name
Down in the dust of the battle.
Our best-our dearest lay.
We dream, and the dreams come
true at last,
But we pay. we pay, we pay.
Alice Rollit Coe in Scrtbner's
Magazine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25


States. with confirmation by the
Senate. No method was suggested
for the selection of any of the di-
rectors by the people who are to be
served by the roads. The employees
would select o-thirds of the direc-
ing with the political views of the
people of the country, would select
the other third. The operating COR
poration would be required to meet
all costs of operation and fixed
charges upon the capital employed
and would get a certain percentage
of the. net profits, the balance of the
profits to go to the employees as a
dividend"
The line of argument upon which
the attorney based his scheme is
somewhat as follows: Under the
old system of private ownership
and operation the hope of increased
returns actuated only those indi-
viduals employed in the service who
might reasonably be expected to
share in those returns. All other
employees were merely actuated by
fear that they might lose their jobs
or might face an actual or relative
decrease in wages"
This statement, even if it were
true, would not serve as a support
for the plan of turning the manage
ment of the roads over to the en-
ployes. That the great majority of
the railroad employees of the
| country have been actuated by fear
of loss of their jobs is so preposter-
Gus as to discredit the man making
the assertion. The records show
that the openings for promotion are
available to every man who enters
the railway service. A perusal of
the records of the men who have
been at the head of the manage
ment of the railroads will show that
vast majority of them are men
who worked their way up from the
bottom. And most of the men in
minor positions of supervision are
men who began in the lower ranks
and fitted themselves for higher re-
sponsibilities by faithful and eff
cient service.
Promotion on the basis of merit
has been the almost universal rule
among the railroad systems of the
country.
1t is true that only a small pro-
portion of the total number of en-
ployes can ever get to the top in the
railway service. but that will be
true under any plan of operation
that can be devised. 1t there are
only fifty supervisory positions to
which 500 men can aspire, it is
mathematically certain that only
fifty can succeed in securing the
coveted places, though all of the
500 may hope to do so. Turning
the management over to the en-
ployes will not alter the situation,
unless it is proposed to increase the
number of higher positions for the
express purpose of increasing the
opportunities.
The fact is that in every line of
work - farming, merchandising,
manufacturing, railroading, bank
ing, publishing and what not-the
large rewards are relatively few.
Except in the Government service,
most of the promotions in any line
of endeavor are attained by merit.
The man who is now at the head of
the Railway Administration began
as a lawyer not as practical rail-
road workman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
The Newspaper Headline
[From the Philadelphia Press. ]

lfrom the Philadelphia Press.
That well-known Wilsonian states
man and informed publicist, Henry
Ford, testifies that he never reads
anything but the newspaper head
lines. Has he ever counted the num-
Der of letters in a headline or the
arrangement of the words to dis
cover If some more significant word
could not be used somewhere? The
headliner is always a genius of the
highest order; he may not have in
vented any internal combustion en-
gines, but he has invented many
things quite as difficult and does IL
every day. Let Mr.. Ford stick to
the headlines and he will be better
informed than he. seems to be on
the witness stand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
A Republican Coop Store

[From the New York Evening PostJ
One Republican clubhouse in
Manhattan is to be turned into a
cooperative store for the sale of
foodstuffs as measure to combat
radicalism and the high cost of liv-
ing. Robert S. Conklin. deputy at
torney general, made a condition of
his accepting the district leader
ship that the club should attempt
something constructive toward al
leviating living costs which are such
a burden upon the clubs member
ship
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
DEEDS BACK WORDS

" HERE is probably no truth to
to the report that Secretary
Baker said he would make the
war so costly the, American people
would never want another one. But
he came pretty near doing it.,
whether he threatened to or not.
But the people will always prefer
even a costly war to surrender.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

Paderewski finds the job of premier
in rejuvenated Poland so strenuous
that he has given up music complete
ly. His sensitive ear must often suf-
fer from inharmonious notes and
how he used to scowl over the rus
Ting of a program.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of ell news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg shells are
in the Army and Navy reserve
supplies?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first arsenal here was along
the river front and was in a frame
warehouse, temporarily used in the
Revolution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25
THOUGHTLESS OF HIM

HE ARSHAL FOCH is a good SOL
MI dier, but a poor diplomat
In the midst of much i'm
passioned oratory from the Demo-
cratic side of the Senate in behalf
of the League of Nations as an in
strument for the perpetuation of
world peace, the Marshal, address,
ing victory celebration in London,
has this to say:
The next time England will
be In the same position as the
last time-it Will not be ready
and we will have to wait for it.
The military history of the
world contains no parallel TO
the production of such an army
in such way. In every respect
the British army has been superb.
Look at the out-of-date equip
mcnt with which we started this
war The next war will be more
than ever one of machinery. You
should have laboratories with in
Nentors always at work keeping
YOU abreast of the mechanical
side OF war"
The next war? Doesn't the Mar
shall know that we are about to
have League of Nations? Or is it
possible he doesn't take much stock
in it's efficacy as a peace promoting
institution?
The next war? We bet dime
President Wilson wouldn't let an
American general talk like that-at
least not until the Senate has voted
on the League plan. 1t was thought
less on the part of the Marshal to
talk like that, oh, very thoughtless
just at this time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-25

Austria probably realizes now the
danger of evil associations.