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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
The Laundry Strike

And now it seems the laundry strike,
the laundry strike, the laun-
dry strike,
Approached swiftly down the pike.
The shirt, in Scotland called a
"sark,"
Deserts your torso, leaves you stark;
The collar too will be taboo;
You will not get it in the neck
No, that your beard must deck.
Each bachelor above a tub, above a
tub, above a tub
Must soap and rinse and squeeze
and rub,
Unless he finds him tout de sweet
A Phyllis handy. swift and neat,
A kindly scout who'll help him
out,
And take for pay a wedding ring
The Benedict's the thing.
But who knows what the end will
be, the end will be, the end
will be,
For you. dear reader. and for me?
A charitable mantle weayes,
So Adam found, from certain leaves,
While collars trig? For them a
fig
That troubles easy to avoid
With snowy celluloid.
Maurice Morris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
AMIABLE BUT ILL-SMELLING
BOLSHEVIKI AT BUDAPEST
There Was Decidedly Humorous Side Bella Kuns Short
Lived Revolution
Lived Revolution

yellow bone buttons. His trousers
were of very bright and broad stripes
and spread out bellwise over his
bright yellow button boots. He had
yellow glove on one hand and a
very nice yellow diamond-though
perhaps, it can hardly have been
real diamond because he would have
had to surrender it to the govern
m ent if it was real-on the other.
His favorite scent was, think, wood
violet, and he was very fond of it.
The rest of the government were
all very like Mr.. Cohen, though
some preferred Patchouli or Ess
Bouquet. and some wore rather
more pomatum than others. If you
happened to see them all at once,
discussing some knotty point about
the division of the swag or some
thing like that, with all the sixty
six hands going at once like so many
seals fiippers, the sight was very
impressive. But I cannot honestly
say that they struck me at all alarm
ing. An to me that is the most cur
ious part of Bolshevism, in Hun
gary and elsewhere.
ITO hear ordinary people in Eng
land talk about what is happening
in Bolshevist countries you would
imagine tnaL tney are enllrely IN
habited by murderous monsters,
twelve feet high or thereabouts,
who go about armed with huge axes,
looping off the outlying limbs of
anyone who doesn't happen to agree
with them, and tapping up the blood.
When 1 was on my way to Hungary
1 had to give up mentioning my des-
tination to respectable friends be-
cause they always tainted first and
burst into tears afterward. And
when you got there you found these
, bloody minded monsters were poor
little East Enders from London who
were just as frightened as they could
be about what was going to happen
to them, and only kept in power be-
cause everybody else was too fright
ened to turn them out. 1t is a
solemn fact that the only reason the
soviet government came into power
in Hungary was the terror of the
middle classes, who had been re-
duced to Jumps of jelly by the
stories of what was happening in
Russia-nine-tenths of which were
not true"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
The Spirit of the LdW
BRIGGS
[From the Scranton Timesl


Nothing will so much help to re-
establish confidence in communities
that have felt that property rights
are too frequently emphasized at the
expense of the humanitarian side of
existence than to have courts take
strong stands favoring humanitarian
principles when property rights clash
Herewith. Such a decision has been
made by the Supreme Court of New
York State in the case of certain
tenants against landlords who
sought to evict them.
1t was contended by the pleader
for the tenant that tenants should
not be thrown into the streets
through the arbitrary action of a
landlord. The life, health and well
fare of the citizen as against the
value OF property, was stressed. 1t so
happened that the case involved the
disposession of man. his wife and
seven children and that on the day
the writ was to be executed 1t rained.
The officer refused to serve the writ.
He was mandamused by the land
lord. The supreme court sustained
the action of the officer, who acted
on the advice of an assistant dir
trict attorney.
The point is not that the officer
used common sense in holding in
allegiance the writ. That should al
ways be done in the administration
| Of law. What is of importance is that
that the highest court in the state
confirmed the principle that human
rights were superior to property
rights. 1t is when individuals. courts
and corporations stand rigidly upon
the letter of the law that guarantees
property rights. that law is often
brought into disrepute.
The law is at the most a guide
It's letter is intended to be fulfilled
but since law cannot fully define its
spirit in letters there is left to the
administers of law the exercise OF
the Judgment of common sense.
This judgment is not sufficiently
exercised
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
EDUCATIONAL GROWTH

40 THE Harrisburg Academy is 10
have another new dormitory.
~ When the big preparatory
school was located on the northern
outskirts of the city, amidst pictur-
esque and delightful surroundings,
it's development was as certain as
that day follows night. 1t is not
going to be question in the future
of obtaining students for the
Academy; it will be problem of
providing Accommodations for those
who seek admission. Already at the
opening of the present term scores
have been turned away daily and
only additional dormitory accommo-
dations will make possible further
expansion of the industry.
Headmaster Brown and the trus-
tees have outlined a comprehensive
plan of furt her development and
the city is doing it's part by provid-
ing its own great educational build
ing on the bluff Immediately east OF
the Academy property. 1t doesn't
require much of a vision to see the
future of the Academy as one of the
great preparatory schools of the
United States, attracting hither not
only our own boys but the youth OF
South America and the islands OF
the sea.
Things are coming our way in the
educational line and soon Harris
burg will be known far and wide as
leader in progressive educational
methods as it is already famous for
its municipal progress and develop
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
THE RENTING PROBLEM

TN LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
n, FRANK Il. McCLAIN is looking
carefully into the alleged rent
proiiteering in Philadelphia as the
operating, head of the Public Welfare
Commission. The unfortunate part
of ineXcusable rent protiteering is
the effect upon reputable real estate
operators. The indefensible tactics
of those who are sclfshly filling
their own pockets at the expense
of the renting section of the COM
munity too often bring upon the
heads of perfectly honest house
owners and landlords unreasonable
and unjustiflable criticism.
We believe the associated real es-
tate men of this city are accomplish
ing much in their determination to
stamp ont this sort of thing so far
as it relates to Harrisburg.
There is reason to believe that the
housing conditions will be some
what relieved during the next few
months, but no considerable relief
may be expected until there shall be
n large increase in the number OF
dwellings to supply the constantly
increasing demand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
Fl. p. Miller, Encyclopedia

George Nox Mccain, in the Phila-
delphia Evening LEDGER
One of the best things Don Cam
eron ever did for the Senate of
Pennsylvania was when he appoint
ed Herman P. Miller to be a page
in that body. That was away back
in 1876.
The boy was barely old enough to
qualify for the position.
During the succeeding decade
Herman P. Miller rose through all
the gradations of service on Capito oil
Hill. To-day he holds the response
BILE position of librarian of the
Senate. He has held it for twenty
eight years, succeeding the late Cap
tain John c. Delaney.
For years before Captain Delaney
retired in 1891 Herman Miller had
been his assistant. He stepped into
the place fully equipped for the
work He was the youngest man
ever appointed to the position.
l think that / have solved the
secret of his long and honorable
service; it is his perfect self-efface-
ment He is never in the limelight.
In that respect he Is distinctly diff
ferent from some other Harrisburg
officials. Senators may come and
senators may go, but Herman Miller
remains, for his services are essen
tial to the perfect organization of
the upper body.
He knows every senator who has
served during the last forty years.
He possesses a kodak memory as to
names and faces
He has an encyclopedia knowl-
edge of legislation.
He has legal, legislative and ref
| erence information at his finger
| ends. During a session If a senator
requires data of a biographical ma
| ture concerning some one who has
| been dead for a quarter of a GEN.
tury, the name and the information
required are handed on a slip of
paper to a senate page. In ten
minutes he is back from the librar-
ian's office with the documents.
| He is editor of Smull's Hand Book
and the Gust odian of all reports,
bills and documents of the Senate.
! Modest. retiring and the possessor
F.! of unfailinG courtesy. he ir the one
! Indispensable official to the State
! Senate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
Petrogrdd and TOlStOy

In a remarkable sketch, depicting
the crimes OF a Bolshevik soldier
named Petrov, Count Ilya Tolstoy,
son of the great novelist, in Every
body's, for October gives a dreary
picture of the Russian soldier as he
roamed the streets of Petrograd aft
err the first days Of the revolution.
The opening paragraphs contains
the following: 1T was a beautiful
clear. frosty morning in Petrograd.
Russia's former capital had awaken
ed from sleep. The sidewalks, which
had not been cleaned since summer
were covered with dirty ice and
snow.
The people. shivering with cold.
we're Fastening to and fro; women
with empty bags in hand. seeking
food; some of them mothers, follow
ed by hungry. children; men in tat
tered, wornout clothing; workers and
so diers. soldiers and sailors.
Soldiers on the sidewalks; SOL
diers OH the crowded street cars;
soldiers in the long. waiting lines
before the stores. where goods are
sold at prohibitive' prices; soldiers
hurrying no one knew where, in
automobiles and in trucks: here and
there and everywhere soldiers, SOL
dierS. soldiers
Russian soldiers of to-day are
not what they once We're, not the
superb troops of the past, the pride
of Petrograd, the amazement of all
the crowned guests of the Gar. The
Petrograd soldier is only semi-mili-
tary. often roaming through the
streets of the city, unarmed. beltless,
his coat unbuttoned; half of his
Costume wore according ~ his own
individual taste or caprice. Only
soldiers may be seen: never on
officer.
From the first days of the revo
? ton, officers were permitted to
wear the clothing of civilians, which
they preferred for self-protection,
not wishing to incite the class feel
ing Or violence of the soldiers by
wearing epaulets. bright metal but
tons or other conspicuous marks Of
distinction"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
" HE humorous side of Bolshev-
ism as it manifested itself in

" HE humorous side of Bolshev-
ism as it manifested itself in
Budapest under the short lived
revealed by a correspondent of Lon
don Truth who was in the Hungar-
ian capital at that time. He tells
how he was awakened in the dead
of night to find lot of Red Guards
wandering aimlessly about his hotel
room, examining his shaving soap
and things. He continues:
Il think it was the smell that
woke me up, because it was a good
deal louder than the noise they
made. Besides the dirt, they were
dressed in the remains of field gray
uniforms, and they had cherry col
ored ribbons round their caps and
in their buttonholes. and rifles and
bayonets in their hands. and 1 ex-
pect they thought they looked very
impressive.
II was annoyed, and 1 told them
so. and they came and stood all
around the bed like a o'clock in
the morning conscience, and we
talked a great deal. 1 couldn't un-
derstand what they said, and they
could only understand one word Of
what l said-but it was a very good
word, 1t was 'Angol,' and 1 had
been told in Vienna to use it freely
1t means English by the way, in
Hungary. When 1 had said it a few
I times they got the hang of it, and
went away to wake somebody else
up. One of them stayed behind
one of the dirtiest, who correspond
ed to an officer. He had a sense
of duty, and stood upright by the
side of the bed all night, feeling the
point of his bayonet on his thumb.
! Or he may have been cleaning his
| finger nails on it. I am not quite
sure, because 1 switched the light
off and tried to get to sleep again.
But he had an unpleasant habit of
shifting. and it took me some time"
The writer met Bella Kun-or AL
bert Cohen, as his real name ap-
| pears to be-the following day. He
wore a bowler with fiat brim set
far down on the back of his shiny
/ hair so that his ears spread out like
! young palmtrees. He had a very
tasty brown overcoat with an amber
colored velvet collar and very large
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
A FINE EXAMPLE

IT. HE EXAMPLE of Herculean
Il lodge. Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen. in appropriat-
ing $40 each for the forty members
who served their country I'm the war
toward the City Memorial fund
should be followed by every lodge
in the city.
1t is not always easy TO reach
down into the treasury of an organ
ization and take out $500. however
worthy the purpose. but Herculeau
lodge did it voluntarily and by
unanimous vote.
That is patriotic spirit worth
recording.
Every organization and business,
lidtSIHdl oI otHeT"lSe, III ttdTTlSpuTS
ought to take as much pride in see
ing to it that its members are in
cluded in this memorial as it did in
putting their stars on the service
flags which were so prominently dis
played during the war.
The Memorial will be the city's
service flag for all time. 1t will
never be demobilized. 1t will stand
for all time as a testimonial to the
love and esteem in which Harrisburg
people hold the men and women
who donned the uniform and went
out at the call of country.
What lodge will he the next to
follow this splendid example of the
Railroad Trainmen?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
A REAL POLICE STATION
T LAST, thanks to Mayor Kei

A LAST, thanks to Mayor Keis-
~ ter and members of City Coun-
Gil, Harrisburg has a police
headquarters of which it need not
be ashamed. The transformed
Eager school building is we'll located,
dignified. conveniently designed and
generally what it should be.
The suggestion has been made
that the city buy the structure and
use 1t permanently for police sta
tions purposes. This, it is argued,
would nowise conflict with the pro-
posal to erect joint courthouse and
city hall, but rather would tend to
simplify that problem by removing
for all time. the police headquarters
from the municipal building. 1t will
be q short time, indications are,
until the Legislature relieves tho
mayors of third-class cities from
police hearing duties, in which case
it would be no longer necessary to
have the Mayor and the police
quartered together. In addition,
there is . growing feeling against
police stations being located in city
halls.
At all events, the proposal is
worth thinking about. Certainly,
Councilmen are to be congratulated
on giving the Mayor and the police
the kind OF offices to which they
are entitled.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
A Step at a Time
4 Frnm the New York Snnl

[From the New York Sunl
Mr.. william Allen White. of
Kansas and fame, who is reporting
the Industrial Conference. sends this
item to the Evening Post:
"Mr. Lanes speech was liberal
speech; it advocated the step at a
time which is the slogan of the
evolutionary Socialist
Perhaps the evolutionary Social
list has copyrighted 1.-The step at a
time" as a slogan, but the process
itself Is too old to be patented. II
has been used by the infants of pre-
historic caves, by cats on fences, by
the Israelites of the Exodus, by Ma
poleon and Edward Payson Weston
by big business and little business
by art and science. by commerce
and trade, by war and peace, by
banks and delicatessen stores. Tht
Socialists adopted 1T when they dis
covered that any other form oi
economic advance would break this
experimenters neck.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John Duggan, mayor of Con-
nellsville. who has been ill, has. re-
sumed his duties.
IT. J. Underwood, we'll known
here has been elected president of
the Association of County Controll-
ers. He comes from Washington
county.
The Rev. DR.. Edwin Heyl Delk,
who speaks at the Lutheran confer
ence tonight, is one of the promi-
nent clergymen of Philadelphia.
John f. Baker, prominent In
York county affairs, has erected a
chapel for workmen at Billmyer,
Comfy Treasurer Edward Frei-
bertshauser, of Allegheny county,
says that every license holder in his
county has paid up for license re-
newal.
Berry has attracted some attention
at Philadelphia by a statement that
Joseph was "a dreamer"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
by MAJOR FRANK c. NiAHIN
or the Army Recruiting Station

The average American soldier who
fought in France had six months of
training here, two months overseas
before entering the line, and one
month in a quiet sector before going
into battle.
Most soldiers received their train
ing in infantry divisions which are
our typical combat units and con-
sist OF about 900 officers and $1,000
men.
Forty-two divisions were sent to
France.
More than two-thirds of our line
officers were graduates of the officers
training camps.
France and England sent to the
United States nearly 500 specially
skilled officers and noncommissioned
officers who rendered most important
aid as instructors in our training
camps.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
Objects to Private

tAmerican Legion Weekly.1
1t is all wrong to call q soldier a
private" says correspondent of
the Vests Recall. There is moth
ing private about me-" he asserts.
81 have been examined by fifty doc
tors, and they haven't missed
blemish. have confessed to being
married and having no children. I
have told my previous occupations
and my salary. have nothing in my
past that has not been revealed. I
am the only living thing that has
less privacy than goldfish. 1 sleep
in room with countless other men
and eat with about nine hundred. 7
take my baths with the entire de-
tachment. 1 wear a suit of the
same material and cut as 5000, 900
other men. 1 have to tell a physi-
clan whenever I kiss a pretty girl.
never have a single minute to
myself And yet they call me sPri-
Yate'"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

The Dauphin County Historical
Society will have it's regular meeting
this evening, and the importance Of
the work of this association is be-
coming better understood and appre-
dated as the necessity for gathering
the data for the history of the county
In the great war is emphasized.
This society should have in its menu
bership all who are concerned IN
preserving the records which mean
SO much to the community. 1t is
all q labor of love. of course, but
because 1t is a disinterested and un-
selfish proposition is all the more
reason why citizens who are inter-
ested in perpetuating the WORTH
while things of the county should
take part in the work of the asso-
citation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
COMBINING ACTIVITIES

rT IT be true. as generally re-
ported, that the Ohev Sholom
synagogue on North Second
street is to be converted into n head
quarters for the Red Cross and the
associated benevolent institutions of
Harrisburg, it is step in the right
direction. Harrisburg has learned
through it's war activities that much
effort and considerable overhead ex-
pense can be conserved through a
combination of these associati tons CO.
operating under the same roof.
There has been considerable criti-
cism of lost motion in the past and
OF waste In overhead expense by du-
plication of effort, and as the same
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
BOROUGH STREETS

.~TATE HIGHWAY COMMlS-
sIONER SADLER and the bor-
~ ough authorities of Duncannon
have reached an agreement on the
Improvement, of the principal streets
of the up-river town. More anu
more the boroughs are understand
ing that the State wants to help pull
them out of the mud If they Will
only cooperate.
Dauphin county towns should size
up the situation and cooperate with
Commissioner Sadler in every pos
sibie way. A great highway system
cannot be constructed with jo!ting
links represented by the streets of
Indifferent boroughs. ..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

If yoN haven't ordered that tree
yet for the Arbor Day planting, may
we not suggest that now is the time
to lock into the matter and provide
for your personal participation in
the Arbor Day program. Dead
trees. if any, should be removed and
replaced by others of the proper
species. Speak to your neighbor and
encourage him also to join in the
shade tree movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

Much religious. activity has fol-
lowed the various movements having
for their purpose the reviving of
efforts along practical
lines. The power of organiza-
tion. as demonstrated in the co-opera-
tion OF the war period, has impressed
the religious community and must
result In great achievement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

community must provide the funds
for the worthy charities of the city
and the welfare activities, II is only
proper that these funds should be
safeguarded I'm every possible way,
Placing the various activities in
one building, where there can be an
of heads and assistants
for routine work. seems eminently
practical and desirable,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
The way you feel at mornings start
A SlOu Job
[From Kansas City. starl

THE cost of living is coming
down, and
so was the water coming down
at Lodore. in McGuffey's Third
Reader of forty or fifty years ago.
rapidly and with a rush and n roar"
interrupted Festus Poster. And If
YOU will examine a late edition OF
that fine old book you will find that
while the water is still in the act of
coming down at Lodore 1t hasn't
got down yet"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

Harrisburgers have not forgotten
in these cool October days the dis
comfort of last summers heat and
the constant desire for bathing fa-
cilities in the river. They are going
to put over that loan for bath houses
and bathing beaches with Il jump.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
A Kansas Musical Note

tFrom the Atchison GlobeI
P. Percy Johnson has come back
to the old home town on a vacation
p. Percy has made progress. When
he was hoy in Atchison he played
the guitar, but now he plays the
caIliope.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's plan of
raising its memorial is attract
ing much attention from other
cities?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

Cicott. is a name that can be pro
noGnced variously Thank heaven Il
not be necessary to worry with II
very long.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

This country will not be a good
place for any of us to live in unless
We make IL a good place for all of
US to 1--we in.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09

Some times we think the roast
chestnut vendors ought to be arrested
fer cruelty to animals.