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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
GEORGE TENER OLIVER

"HE death of former United
States Senator George Tener
Oliver, removes from the circle
of influential Pennsylvanians one of
those dominant figures whose activi-
ties in the past quarter have
done so much to make the State
noted for its industrial enterprises
and whose powerful personality i'm
pressed itself upon the affairs of the
Commonwealth in a very positive
manner. Senator Oliver began his
career as q lawyer, but forsook the
bar for what he regarded as the
larger opportunity of business.
Prominent for years as a manufac-
turer and afterward turning his
great talents to the promotion of
good government through his pow
erful Pittsburgh newspapers, it is
little wonder that he early in life
became a leading figure in Western
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Oliver was a man of mag
netic personality, but of a retiring
disposition. The friends he made
were his friends for life, but he paid
small attention to cultivating the
favor of the crowd, although his in
terests lay always on the side of
social improvement. He was, for
Example, leading exponent of tenn
perance and his newspapers stood
openly for the abolition of the liquor
traffic long before that issue reached
degree of popularity that promised
Cor 1t early success.
Mr.. Oliver went to the Senate of
Pennsylvania at a time when the
Legislature filed senatorial vacan-
cies. It might have been that he
would have declined to have entered
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

the lists IL his candidacy had re-
quired statewide campaign, for
he had small liking for the spot
light: of personal prominence. But
Pennsylvania is fortunate in that
the law for the election of United
States. senator's by the people went
into effect after his election for the
Oliver influence at Washington was
always for the good of the State and
few men available at the time of
his election would have made such
a good record for the Common
wealth at the National Capitol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

1t has cost the Government $75'lSS
in the last six months to run the air
mail route between Washington and
New York. And the revenues totalled
s60,653. AS this for an apparent ba-
sis the Second Assistant Postmaster
General urges the appropriation OF
$4,000, 900 for the maintenance and
development of the service. Rather
an expensive experiment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Ex-Mayor Ira w. Stratton, who
is taking, an active part in the third
class city legislation. formerly sery-
ed in the Legislature.
Colonel Edward Martin, the
new health commissioner. is very
fond of golf.
Charles Ingham is head of the
Pittsburgh arhitects who desire q
registration act. Dg Il
--FS H. Fassett, who. has been
head of the State Horticultural AS
sociation, lives at Meshoppen, and Us
a. big fruit grower. A
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
OUR LOSS, JAPAN'S GAIN

"HE Seaboard Trading Company
in its review of 1918 trade =.
canned and salt fish, pauses to
digress moment and pays its re-
spects to the shrewdness of the
Japanese traders, aided by the ad-
ministration, with regard to coffee,
as follows: Nst.
Do to the restrictions of the
Food Administration and the re-
fusal of the Shipping Board to
permit tonnage to be allotted
for the coffee trade, an artificial
and unnecessary scarcity has re-
suited in this country, creating a
situation which our Jap friends
were not slow to accept and make
their own and develop to their
advantage to the fullest extent.
on the American people by spec
ulating, and to an extent now
control so foreign a thing to Ja-
pan and the Japanese as the cof-
the United States. the largest cof-
fee consuming country in the
world.
which accounts for the increased
price of coffee! Our own admin
istration went to sleep on the job
and let the slick Jap put one over
on us. Can we blame him? Not
much! Business is business. Didn't
Senator Hoke Smith and the Demo-
cratic cotton barons raise a howl
because their raw cotton consigned
to Germany during the war was
blockaded by Great Britain? But
every time Mr.. Householder plunges
an additional Ave or ten cents a
pound for his coffee he should call
to mind that an ossified administra-
ton is responsible for 1t in closing
off tonnage to the coffee trade and
permitting Japan to rig up a corner
in Brazil. 1t Is this sort of thing
to learn that the officials of our own
government are as stupid as War
dell'sffat boy-that hurt the shrewd
Yankee worse than the increased
coffee price
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
Judged By Home Prices

According to Mr.. Hoover's esti-
mate. 1t will take $500, 900, 600 worth
of food to feed Europe's hungry un-
til summer comes. Either there
aren't SO very many hungry in
Europe or they can be carried
through with very little food.-From
the Boston Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
NeulPerH of Liquor Interests

Thl liquor interests had better
hurrNor the country will go dry and
leave some of that million dollar
fund on their hands.-From the
KanHh City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
Forced to BeIiepe in It

"bo you believe in prohibition
"1elieve in it," echoed Bill Bot
tletp. 1--WE got to believe In 1t.
At PRESENT 1t is one of the most OBJ
viou facts in our community ?"-
FroA the WASHINGTON Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
TO.A, JANUARY

Howcome you to be here
Ard pipe your CHEEKY tuns?
Pray did you dream too late,
Or have you dreamed too soon?
From the New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
Injustice to Average Madhouse

Whoever coined the turrent
phrase Berlin the Madhouse." is
guilty of4fiagrant injustice Ito the
average well-conducted madhouse.-
From the New Orleans Times-Pic-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

On account of the inability to i'm
port tanning materials overseas, sew
eral Dutch tanneries have built
small extracting plants at an ex-
pense of about 100000 each.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

Nearly all of the Silesian coal
mining district is idle. owing to the
refusal of the operators to grant the
demand for more wages to the
miners.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
LABOR NOTES

Over 10000 men from every walk
of life have been trained as ship
builders by the training department
connected with the Hog Island Ship
building plant at Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

Thousands of nfachinists from the
Hazleton (Pa.) shell plant of the
Worthington Corporation, who made
many of the projectiles which hurl-
ed the Boches out of France. will
go abroad in February to aid the
French to rebuild their ruined cities,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

! Canadian railway employees have
asked the Dominion Labor Appeal
Board to grant them the same rates
of pay as are obtained by the en-
ployes of the Canadian government
railways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24
DO YOU KNOW

s-That Harrisburg has been enc
teEaaining some of the greatest
crowds it ever had the last year?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-24

lnsToRIC HARRISBURG
One of the first buildings used for
an armory was in Market street near
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23

lea safe for year. Democracy includes all that any other system includes provides the people with government they desire whether it be monarchy Soviet a republican form of government.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
months The time relatively short previous peace there such of material to be disposed of
 THE RIGHT TO WORK
THE RIGHT TO WORK


1@ HE BOARD of Education in accordance with us
 1 ce, industrial logic and modern progress when it prevented married from tnung their Many cities had these rules They unjust by them denied the rights that and There is good trained talented useful should her gifts because she marries unless she desires to do
 The right O a fundamental right. The duty to duties sometimes there jobs enough round is most of society," the defect most threatens possibly of the industrial system under which we live.
 that the pile social wealth Is smaller according to the number those the diligence with which they labor and the continuity of the through which they employed The objection to womans employment exists only under conditions that will be detrimental motherhood. Equal opportunity to work will for the part the well being the family and the we'll being of society since two produce instead Of when woFok we'll
 The will be all the better if they the vices a larger number of experienced teachers. profession passing upon marriage penalze The rule dscriminates against the unfair from top to bottom.
 As rule the married will prefer to stay in the home This is the fact of today But later will minge extensively the life the world Women we'll will be brOadened by the performance of col ectve tasks The has proved how useful and how the collective field The proved that in
 time of peril the the work of actual and much of the work behind the lines The people who develope the largest number of trained workers in lines where able to will be strongest in moral, mental, spiritual and military
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
OUT OF WORK DONATIONS

 \ ha g drawn the
 
  
 Work substantially the only wealth. It grave reflection the intelligence of understands little how to organize work Think of cond on Tn which great civilized country knows other to million idle than put them pension during their unempoymentA
 The waste involved in such transaction cannot be ured It must be measured n moral and spiritual losses, if accurate taken.
 Great Britain is thought to be but few steps a revolution. In this problem of the unemployed of the approaching change The Times Farmer and out that and influential find the road to penalty being replaced others, who will organize work.
 The problem in this country less y than does Europe because of the land here In unemployment exercises heavier for change than it does Engand here there employment pensions, insurance, donations srs a bitterer spirit
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23

N FEW YORK has two billions it's savings banks The state is indulgng in little verbal jubilee. making much of the circumstance that 1Z its deposits "only' billion.
 This is example of the habit of thinking alone and it raises the question again of the necessity of checking cash against commodities.
 During l7 years have been increasing been following prices Will the two billions savings banks buy of the usual commodities staples modern life, than billion would buy 17 years ago?
 If the comparison made it would probably that savings about where they seventeen two billions protection against want than billion formerly meant It may appear into consideration the increase population during teen the savings of the people, measured in the commodities rifle less than they ago.
 There will be much thought economies against staple commodity values
 The actual wealth of country is measured primarily by the number of bushels of wheat potatoes capita the pounds of beef mutton and head If the quantity of consmabe commodities increases period the individual has than he had then wealth
 In the term commodities will also included such homes and their furnishings The test the is this:-
 What that they need could the of the billion lars have bought with it seventeen years ago?
 What that they need the of the two billion dol lars buy with the money now?
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
NEED FOR IMAGINATION

HE ENORMOUS quantity of suffering present in the world
 pictured in the from day to day, and the picture makes little being fortunately constituted that they must close to suffering before it them very much The persons has, the anguish those to him ac him deeply his pain deeply
 Men sympathetic and helpful where tho suffering within their vision close to them is of the diff visualize away of those equally human and equally capable fering speak the language, similar conditions.
 For these those charged with the management the Near East drive for help will need picture frequently vividy the conditions they wish to relieve
 Only thus will the of the citizens and their hearts be opened aid peoples who the most broken dis tressed the most tortured of the peoples of the earth
 good that the Salvation Army shares the proceeds army close at hand. Its splendid appreciated The needs of stricken in of the people, but the need of the Armenian uaons rodden Turkey into the dust needs to be suazed
 All that most heated imagination conjure of ge nakedness tortured flesh bleeding bodies death by sword by fire starvation thousand forms will the facts of Armenian fate.
 giving then under pressure innagna tive mind, directed by yearning and sypathetc
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
U. S. NAVY DEPARTMENT.

The first Secretary of the Navy in the United States was Benjamin Stod- dert, who was appointed to that posi- ton by President John Adams 121 years ago today, May 20. 17sS. On the organization of the United States t;overnment the navy was placed un- der the supervision of the War Department. but in s17s3 the two branches of the service were separat- ed. The first Naval Secretary. like most of his successors, had little nau tical knowledge. He was a native Of Maryland and served in the Conti- nental Army as a captain of cavalry. He died in 1913, having held the naval portfolio under both Adams and Je1- terson. From Stoddert to Josephus Daniels. the present incumbent. who is an editor, the American naval sec retar4es have been with very few ex- captions men who had little or no knowledge of the sea and its ways. OnS exception was William Jones. in Madison's cabinet. who had served in, the navy during the revolution. The great majority of the holders of .the naval portfolio have been lawyers and, jurists. In fact. it would seem ths&' complete ignorance of naval matters has always been considered ono of the. chief qualifications of Secretary of the Navy.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
PIANOS ARE WANTED ALL
 OVER WORLD.

A marked demand for pianos and musical instruments is being felt in all parts of the country, and nanu- facturers in this industry are pro- ducing at capacity to meet this con- dition. Because of the somewhat re- duced production during the war, the stimulus given to music in these try ing days, and the larger pocket-book of the wage earnsr, there had been an unusual turnover of pianos and phon- ographs. At present judging by a survey made by the National Piano Manufacturers Association, New York. demand is particularly felt for the higher priced instruments among the upright and grand pianos and the more expensive monographs.
 The cultivation of the public taste for musical appreciation among those not themselves performers may be observed from the fact that about one half of the pianos which are be- ing sold are of the player-piano kind. Many of the styles of these instru- ments command a price running into thousands of dollars, and it is these, together with the art styles in case work of upright pianos and distfnc- tive designs in period furniture in photograph cabinets. that have shown the biggest increase since the first of the year. The preference for mahogany cases is still increasingly in evidence.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
TIN KING SUES
 ACTRESS WIFE.
Daniel G. Reid Says She Went to Hotel With An
 other Man,

New York, May 20-Daniel c, Reid, millionaire tin plate man. be- gan suit in the Supreme Court yester- day for an absolute divorce from young Mrs. Margaret Reid. whom he married in Paris, Aug. 24, 1910.
 Although the papers are sealed. it Is understood that the offences alleg- ed in the papers are said to have oc- cured between April and g last in the Hotel Chatham in this city. and between April 2z and 30 at the Ho- tel Belleview, San Francisco.
 Mrs. Reid before her marriage was Mabel Carriere ,an actress. She was the financier's third wife The first wife. who died about 20 years ago leaving one daughter. was married to MT. Reid when they lived in Rich mond. Ind. The second wife was Clarisse Agnew. a musical comed. actress whom he espoused. in 1900 She was taken III in London. and though her husband spent a fortune tying to restore her health. she dien in 1904
 MISS 'Carriere, who came from De- troit, was about twenty-three when she married. Her rise on the staga mad been rapid. She came to New York to attend school, but later de- cided to go on the stage She first appeared in the Casino as a show girl. The Shuberts gave her a part III The Runaways." She was -,7o seen In VA Chinese Honeymoon and "A West Point Cadet''
 During \the war Mrs. Reid gave most of her time to canteen work at Irvington- son. Mrs. Henry J. Topping. the tinplate mans daugh- ter by his first marriage. was closely associated with her in this. The two women are about the same age and spent much time together.
 Mir. Reid is sixty-one years old. He attained his present position in the financial world after a sensational rise from farmer boy. He was born in Richmond, Ind, and became inter ested in the tinplate industry in that State before he came to New York in 1899. Here he soon became an in ,ernationaI figure in finance. He aided in organizing and became President of the American Tin Plate Company. He is also a director in many large corporations. His fortune Is estimated at $40. 100000 to s5O,00O.0o0. His home is at No. 907 Fifth avenue.
 The fnancier maintained secrecy about his matrimonial affairs. His second marriage was kept hidden a. long time. was his third.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
GERMANS AND THE TREATY

significant fact in Germany at this moment is not U the loud utterance of the government in power which necessity to speak harsh of the the Independents who quietly but sternly affirm the necessity for immediate The German ords manufacturers landed classes be willing attempt struggle but the plain people not willing continue the because they rally working class support workers desperately families have furnished most of the dead of the wounded and all of the hunger
 workers know that the peace will bring food that follow and that by united effort Germany
 the indemnity complete the restoration and attain again a high degree of material prosperity.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
WHY DEMOCRACY IS BEST

TT ways in control of govern A ment may be taken by an individual, a group, a class The be acquired by conquest of by in heritance, by consent of the governed.
 The first sort of power held by William the Conquer or. and by Napoleon: by the Allies
 The second of held whenever throne from its keeper to his and the complete the degree the throne is
 The third sort of is exhibited by the United States and all other the choice rulers in the hands of the people.
 Those who by of the governed ment from the people does not beyond the ing people be they willing to people select those whom they most admire who please them most The result is never quite popular in it's results.
 Popular governments frequently represent class views as they do popular views, for this -
 That masses of men, not themselves competent government, they mor competent than themselves and making the choice have accept the individuals they have placed in office just as they are
 The difference between popular government like that of the United States. and the other of ment consists in ths that the people may within brief per- iod establish those acceptable to them.
 For instance there nothing whatever, excepting the will of the people, prevent socialist anarchist from at tainng the presidency United any the people could if they had the mind socialist to each
 They have not the mind n whole they prefer those they do elect Within brief period the people of the United States could if they wished to do it. amend their government of Soviet The United soldiers, sailors workmen who are inc material from which Sovie are constructed
 The Europe, however, arrived not by pop conquest; The soviets ogarchies they class rue accurately rule n he of a which s very little consulted.
 In time, doubt the Soves will lose their form of limit ed class domination call to the aid the state all brains that it The of the people will modify the original and must modify it; Soves will perish. Just the brains body paraively small portion of it, highly endowed trained citizenship of nation the smallest part of it, and the most form of state of the type like Abyssina which the people exist in primitive manner with the aid of focks and herds.
 such states be restored there would be thinning populations The dense numbers that upon the soil would disappear like dew the should the highly tfropop theirs anil
 Having asserted that the Sovs subject correction that they be expanded until all elements of the aon admitted to government what is the difference be- tween Soviets and democracy of the American type? this democracy permits people whatever they desire without anarchy boodshed painful disturbance Progress be obtained without The living need not suffer that poserity be benefited.
 Granting benefits come which might be obtained here comfortably will tained Russia ntoerabe confusion anguish murder famine and sudden death.
 The Soviet governments do not distinguish between friend Being governments based force they kill all the whether the foe is thought Tor sentence attempt to share in the government
 Democracy good road to travel It has carried Amer
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
THE REGULARS IN THE WAR

|EN HE FIRST, Second and Third Divisions regular
 1 troops. When their organization at peak it num- bered SiOOO These divisions suffered to p per cent of the total losses of all United States battle though they not than 5 cent of the whole number engaged The other regular troops failed to the opportunity they would have made showing regular the nucleus of all the
 it's members to extent and necessarily training euppng and preparing the volunteer troops.
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
THE INSURANCE LAW

E~ HE SOLDIERS Insurance law its
 A the war was in being. It is by completely scientific instrument! the matter of
 illogical month is granted but for the loss of
 serious disability from the industrial standpoint but 80 is all lowed This type of number of other that will be changed There is little risk that the law will remain The soldiers will be home they will perfect their organizations and in all matters that affect the well
 ing of their wounded the dependents of their will insist generosity precisely the veterans the
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23

n these days or 'alx1lRG6 tho don't play ltrannt Qrx oDGG
 Gssly 1l TT
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
BERLIN BEAUTIFUL

U HE MUNICIPAL council of Berlin has adopted a 1 not primarily to make the city beautiful, but it will that way All buss carvings, statues pictures of the Hohenzoerns to be removed the theory that the public ought not to be greeted at few feet with reminders of rulers who failed.
 The Hohenzoerns not beautiful The effect of the things that hrrt the
Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
TAKES TIME TO MAKE PEACE

NICE THE Thirty War, which ragged from 1918 to i648 great treaties have been made at the concu sion The number of months consumed in making have ranged from s2 down 2 The time from cessation of osies conclusion If has been fifteen sanths probable that the consumed in the