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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
The Governor on Good Roads

every farm is either on an improved
highways or within a very short
distance of one. There are 1925
miles of road in the States highway
systematic system of roads con-
trolled by the Commonwealth
There are approximately 10000
miles of roads of all sorts in Penn
sylvania. The, State Is bearing the
entire cost of constructing the Drim-
airy system. 1t asks that each county
eNpend on secondary routes the
money that it would have spent on
primary routes had not the State
shouidered the burden
The State of Pennsylvania has
innumerable assets. And it has one
liability which We hope soon to wipe
from the slate-bad roads. | am
pleased that Cambria county shows
II disposition to cooperate with us;
and L trust that during the next four
years the work done by Cambria
county itself will be proportionate
to that accomplished by the Com
monwealth."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
NO TIME TO BE BLUE

rHIS is no time for the blues.
There may be some disturbing
factors and some uncertain
ties in business and industry for the
moment, but with it all are we not
coming through the readjustment
period in much better condition
than we had any right to expect?
The situation has been badly handled
from Washington, it is true! Indeed,
the absence of the President and the
unwillingness of his subordinates,
without his Q. X, TO do much to re-
lieve the strain has been worse than
an administration that was trying
to do something, although failing
here and there. But despite failure
at the national capital and timidness
on the part OF many buyers, the
country is in a fair way to make an
early recovery from ills into which
the armistice suddenly plunged it,
and we ought to rejoice rather than
complain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
PEACE INSURANCE

"THILE the employment service
wv of the national government
has been seriously crippled
through the failure of Congress to
make an appropriation, Pennsylvania
will not fail of it's duty in this i'm
portant matter. 1t is highly import
ant that steps be tsS~ea to enlarge
the employment service of the State
to meet the deficiency created by the
unfortunate breakdown at Washing
ton with the adjournment of Con-
gress. Already many of the govern
nent employment bureaus have
been abandoned, and in the absence
of funds for this service there will
naturally be still further reductions
of agencies throughout the country
In Pennsylvania this service will
come under the State Commission
of Public Safety and Defense. and
already there has been active CO.
operation with the Federal goyern-
ment with a view to expanding tbe
service wherever possible to meat
the need. The factor of unemplov-
ment enters into much of the I'M
rest which prevails throughout
Europe, and the great Industrial
corporations of the United States,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
CAN'T HERD THE ARMY

= JUDGING from soldier interviews
published conspicuously by met
tropolitan newspapers of liquor
leanings, the American Army is made
up of ''rummies" whose one thought
is to get out of their uniforms and
into bar-room. We are solemnly
informed that the boys are coming
home to overturn national prohibit
ton" and that the army is oppos-
ed to a dry nation" The truth is
that the returning soldiers are di-
vided on the subject, just as they are
on every other topic of public dis
cussion. The army demobilized be-
comes so MANY individuals, each
with his own opinion.
Rum is making last desperate
effort to rally the discharged SOL
diers to its support, but they are not
to be herded together like so many
cattle behind any issue. The Soldier
vote" will be felt in elections for
years to come, but it will not be cast
en- bloc or as a unit at the behest
of any individual or any interest. It
will be the freest force in American
politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19

realizing the fact, are doing what
they can to provide work for all in
| need of employment.
In his practical way former Lieu
tenant Governor Frank. b. McClain,
as head of the State welfare organi-
cation, has gone deeply into the
| problems which confront his depart
ment, and he has also been in con-
| ference with the Federal employ
ment officials with a view to CO.
ordfnating the work of the govern
ment at Washington and the State.
so that there may be no overlap
ping and no waste of public funds;
also. that the State may undertake 10
carry on what Congress has failed to
provide for. 1t is also u reassuring
sign that the great industrial cor
porations are manifesting willing
ness to aid in this service to the end
that unemployment may be reduced
to the lowest possible point.
Empty stomachs mean discomfort,
and discomfort breeds all the violent
isms of which the world has knowl-
edge, and because this is true the
best guarantee of public safety and
contentment lies in providing em-
ployment for all who want to work.
Nothing should be left undone by
the State or the national government
to bring the worker and the job to-
gether. Thousands of men have al
ready been provided with employ
ment through these agencies, and
thousands more will be helped in
the same way. But these instrumen-
talities must have back of them all
of the energy and financial support
needed to provide thorough organi-
zation and efficiency in extending
the helping hand TO those seeking
employment.
/. Already many agencies of an un-
official character are cooperating
with the Federal and State govern
ments. and Pennsylvania will not
fall short in service which is in the
nature of peace insurance. Satan
always find works for idle hands to
do, and the best illustration of the
truth of this old saying is the un-
rest and discomfort in large areas
of war-torn Europe. We can best
guarantee peace and prosperity and
order in the United States by pro-
viding. so far as possible, employ
ment for our working forces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
A Doubtful RefOrnh

tFrom the Philadelphia Pressl
There is much food for thought
IN the comments that are being made
in regard to the selection of the Re-
publican members OF the committees
of the next House. What is hap
pening seems to be the inevitable re-
suit of system of selection which
as of comparatively recent creation.
1t is a method that was adopted in
response to the cry that the former
process of choosing committees was
wrong and that there should be Il
radical change. Under the old
method, the speaker made up the
committees and was the sole judge
of how the members should be dis
tributed. 1t was charged that this
made for autocracy and gave too
much power TO a single individual
So n change was made that the
committees should be selected by the
members themselves, each political
party doing its own choosing at a
party caucus. The inevitable result
of this method was to make up a
committee on committees which
should parcel out the posts, and then
report the result of its labors to the
party caucus for ratification. or for
whatever change the caucus desired
TO make. That is the method in use
at this time. 1t is easy to see how
this system works out. The COM
mitteeS must be made UP primarily
so as to receive the sanction of the
party caucus. To do this REQUIRES
that majority of the Republicans
in the House must be satisfied with
their own assignments, so that they
will vote to support the report and
TO ratify it.
The case thus becomes one wholly
of mathematics. One hundred and
twenty men are n majority of the
Republican caucus. That number
must be pleased with the committee
places given TO them. AS there are
over five hundred places to give out.
it does not require an especially as
tute committee on committees to
parcel out these positions so as to
satisfy one hundred and twenty Re-
publican members. Their satisfac-
port by the caucus. When the sneak
er made up the committees. he
could use his own judgment. Upon
him was the whole responsibility.
and he was held accountable for all
mistakes and misplacements. Tn
der such responsibility. A mess Of
men cannot be held to personal ac-
countability, nor. be indicted for bad
judgment. 1t will be great dues
ton in the mind of the country
whether the method adopted as a
reform measure is as good as its
predecessor in the securing of ef-
fective results, and there will be
many people who will wish that the
naming of committees was in the
hands of one responsible individual
who could place the members where,
in his experienced opinion, they
could do the best work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
STAMMERING
By BRIGGS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Having spent the best part of my
life in the study of stammering and
suffering and kindred maladies,
naturally read with a great deal
OF interest the recent news item re-
garding the attempted suicide of a
boy seventeen years of age who
stammered.
l stammered myself for nearly
twenty years, and l know what il
means. / want to register pro-
test against the common habit OF
making fun of the boy or girl who
stammers. If the average person
knew what a terrible state of mind
ridicule and laughter brings upon
the stammerer, | am sure that no
one would permit the stammerer to
see or hear any ridicule of their
attempts to talk. 1t is not too much
to say that this ridicule and laugh
ter deepenS the stammerer's trou-
BILE, from day to day, brings on a
highly nervous condition that may
eventually result in complete men
tai breakdown.
This practice of making fun of
the stammerer is due to ignorance
and thouShtlessneSs, and every
thoughtful person who has any re-
gard for the rights of other people
who are unfortunate enough to
stammer. will see to it that he does
not laugh at the stammerer or make
fun of him. The stammerer is en-
titled to just as much consideration
in his misfortune as the man who
is blind or the man who cannot
hear. We would not think of
laughing at these, and yet the stam-
merer is continually a subject OF
merriment.
l also noticed that the young
man who attempted suicide was con-
stantly reminded of his trouble by
a neighbor child who insisted upon
singing beautiful K-K-K-Katie." "
This song should be put on the
creased chute as quickly as possi-
BILE. How quickly we would put
the ban on song based upon the
affliction of blindness or deafness,
yet how readily we lend ourselves to
spreading Il song based on the af-
Fiction of stammering.
Another thing which can be Veri-
fed by any interested person is that
mimicry or imitation is one of the
most common causes of stammer-
ing. Alexander Melville Bell and
the son who followed him-AleX-
ander Graham Bell, the inventor of
the telephone-were two of the
greatest authorities on defective
speech in the United States and a
reference to their works will show
that imitation and mimcry are one
of the most prolific causes of STAN
mering and suffering. Any one
can readily see that the singing of
this song Beautiful k-K-K-Katie"
represents imitation in its purcst
form and / think that all parents
of small children should be warned
that the singing of this song in their
homes or by their children can
easily result in these children be-
coming stutterers-while the par
ents would probably wonder what
in the world brought it on.
The average mother or father
would probably ponder a long time
before they permitted their children
to play with q neighbor child who
stammered or suffered, but they do
not hesitate to play this song from
morning until night, little knowing
what danger it offers to the i'm
pressionable mind of a child.
Yours very truly,
BENZ. N. BOGEN.
indianapolis, March 13, 1919.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Harry ]. Trainer, Philadelphian,
prominent in politics. was among
visitors to the city yesterday.
Frank b. Mccain. director of
the Welfare Commission that is to
be, was here yesterday discussing
extension of the work of the COM
mission with State officials.
Marcus Aaron. member of the
State Board of Education who was
here yesterday, served for years on
the board of education in Pitts
burgh.
Henry Budd, one of the promi-
nent Philadelphia attorneys, and well
known in Democratic affairs, was
at the Capitol yesterday.
Samuel NJ. Clement. Jr., the
Public Service Commissioner, says
this March weather is starting him
to thinking of golf again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
AdUice to Workers

To Sheet Metal Workers No. 5S4;
The reconstruction period, which we
all have been looking for, has ar
rived Now it is our duty and our
one aim to see that we get justice
and save all we can for the boys
.'over there" when they come back
after having suffered for US. We all
want to show our appreciation and
love for them, which is so little COM
pared to what they have done for
we who have stayed at home.
~ hove tbe baII 10 roItino H., o,,r
memory. The TIME has come and is
with us. Now when we expect to
have and enjoy the fruits of our
forefathers. we must not forget and
do as they did.
Come across with the goods and
produce the work.-The sparks of
Labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
GETTING UNDER WAY

THE housing committee of the
Harrisburg Chamber OF Com
merce is getting along with
its program. The addition of Ed
ward Bailey to the committee indi-
Gates a desire on the part of the
members TO get somewhere with
the work at hand. Mr.. Bailey is q
practical man, and the father OF
the only workable plan so far sug-
gested for the betterment of the
housing conditions in this city. He
will be very helpful influence on
the committee, his presence insur-
ing the success of whatever financial
details may have to be worked out
to meet the emergency.
The stabilizing of steel prices.
which may be accomplished at a
meeting of the steel managers and
the War Industries Board in Wash
ington this week, will have a steady
ing effect on all other lines of build
ing materials. by midsummer we
should know pretty much about
building prospects for the coming
year, and at all events the plans for
housing could not be completed here
much before that time, even if the
committee devoted all its time to
organization and preparation. Now
is the time for the preliminaries, for
working up popular interest and for
making such n survey of local con
ditions as will enable those back OF
the movement to act with full knowl-
edge of all the facts. and so get as
much for the money that is to be
spent as is possible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
Comparative Values

one Hoyt was fishing from the
banks of Il stream when there ap-
preached him an individual named
Gates, who remarked with yawn:
Time amt very valuable to you,
brother, that's plain. Here | been
a-watchin' you three hours, and you
amt had bite"
Well" drawled the fisherman,
my times too valuable, anyhow. TO
waste three hpurs OF it watchin' a.
feller fish that amt gettin a bite"
-Harper's.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
DEATH

I like TO know that when I'm dead
Each bit Of me
Will live again in many different
things.
Not as dull dust for other feet to
tread
Unknowingly,
But obvious life-the power of bats
wings,
The eyes of squirrels and the breath
of herds.
1 like to think
The grass that from each hidden
eSeHd springs
Shal! hold the dew for powdered
moths to clinch,
And line q nest for little unborn
birds.
Nora Bomford in the Living Age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1919

Aud the ,coIf shall dtceH icith the
lamb. and the leopard shall lie dopn
lcith the Kid; aud the calf and the
young lion and the fdtIiHg together; A;
and q little child shall lead them
lisa. II 6.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel is used in
freight cars in operation on army
lines in France?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
utltd to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lish ed herein.
All rights OF republication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

French traders who tried to
raid John Harris found that the
Indians about here were very friend-
ly to the settler and soon quit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19

What has become of the fellow who
used to drive around town with a
Wagon and a barrel calling "Shad- oh ="
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19

Wives are having trouble choosing
spring hats. 4 little later husbands
will have trouble paying for them, q
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
Sirth DiUiSiOn

Regular Army.
Arrived in France
July 2S,> 1918. Ac-
tivities: Gerardmer
sector. September 3
to October 13; Ar
gonne-Meuse offen-
sive (First Army
G or ps S Reserve),
Nov. 1.
Insignia; SiX Y
pointed star of red
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19

The way TO make business good is
TO go ahead and make it good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19

cloth. with blue figure "6" super
imposed.
Evening journal., 1919-06-21
name Receiver FOR
PEOPLES COAL co.
Concern Formed to Lower
Coal Prices Admits
Its Insolvency
ALSO SEEK TO HAVE
STOCK CANCELLED

James II. Morris yesterday afternoon
w1s appointed receiver for the Peoples
Coal Company, which was organized TO
retail coal at reduced prices in this
city Counsel for the company ad-
mitted 20 Chancellor Curtis that 10 was
insOlvent, and the chancellor thereupOn
appointed Mr.. Morris as receiver.
The application for a recelyership was
fled by C.. r. MelchOir. a creditor, who
was represented by Sylvester D. Town.
send, Jr. lie not only asked for the ap-
pointment OF a receiver but also petit
toned for the cancellation OF sol. 600 or
stock Of the company that WAS issued
10 George W. Cooper and Leonard +.
Cooper, organizers OF the company. Il
is alleged that the stock was issued 10
them without consideration when they
organized the company The bill sets
forth that sji 900 OF stock was voted 90
George W. Cooper. and $4,000 Of 10 was
issued in the name OF Leonard F.
Cooper
Andrew C. Gray appeared for the
company and admitted IL was insolvent.
Chancellor Curtis yesterday did not
pass upon the question Of cancellation
OF tho Cooper stock That phase OF the
case will come up later.
Evening journal., 1919-06-21
MUST COLLECT TAX
ON ICE CREAM SALES

Collector OF Internal Revenue Bennett
has issued a warning TO all ice cream
dealers who have not been collecting
the luxury tax on dee cream that they
must abide by the federal law
Complaint had been filed with Mr..
Bennett by some ice cream dealers
against other dealers alleging that they
are not collecting the tax and thus have
been gaining a larger amount Of trade.
There has been considerable confu-
sion about the tax on ice cream cones.
Collector Bennett this morning stated
that cones are taxable whether the
cones are eaten on or taken from the
premises.
Il should be understood by the deal
ers. Mr.. Bennett says, that II they do
not collect the tax this will not relieve
them Of responsibility of making pay
ment 10 the revenue Office. The rev
enue office will make a strict investi-
CATION in all cases. particularly those
about which complaints have been
made
Where the tax has not been collected
the revenue collectors will make com
parisons with other dealers. and this,
together with the amount Of the cream
purchased from the manufactures, will
be used by the collector In determining
the amount 20 be paid TO the govern
ment In the form OF taxes.
Evening journal., 1919-06-21
QUICK ACTION Of
NORKNEN Saves
LIVES Of Z MEN
James Lilly and Robert
Horn Burned by Explo-
sion in Manhole
PULLED TO SAFETY
BY clarence BARKER

James Lilly and Robert Horn, cable
splicers employed by the Wilmington
and Philadelphia Traction Company
were burned about the face and hands
In an explosion Of a manhole at Fifth
and Orange streets about S o'clock this
morning
The two men would have probably
been burned TO death but FOR the
prompt action OF Clarence Barker, an
other employe who was Just leaving
the manhole at the time. Barker grab
bed the two men as they came up the
ladder from the blazing pit and pulled
them 10 the surface. The two men were
taken 10 the Fifth street plant Of the
company and treated.
Just what caused the explosion IS a
mystery, the three men having just en-
tered It to make repairs caused by the
storm Of last night
The report Of the explosion was heard
for several squares and the flames that
shot up extended 10 the top OF the
houses nearby.
Evening journal., 1919-06-21
loses HIS LIFE
WHEN NOTORCAR
TURNS TURTLE
Albert Stoll. Chauffeur,
Suffers Fractured Skull
in RockIand Accident
FRIEND With HIM At
Time ESCAPES INJURY

Albert stoll, employed as a chauffeur
by Lamolte dupont, died at the Della
ware Hospital shortly after o'clock
this morning, twenty minutes after be
ing admitted. from a fractured skull.
According 10 the records Of the cOro-
ner's ofilce StOll with another man
whose name was not learned were rid
ing from Rockland, where Stoll lived,
10 The dupont home shortly before Z
o'clock when the car, he was driving
turned turtle. Stoll was thrown out
and allghted on hih head. The other
man was injured about the face and
hands. but his condition did not re-
quire him 10 remain In The hospital
The injured men were taken 10 the
Delaware Hospital In a passing auto
mobile.
The body Of Stoll was claimed by
representatives, OF the duponis and re-
moved 10 his family's home at Rock
land
Il was learned this noon that Albert
Ston was bringing two men by the
name OF Starr and Dougherty 20 VIII
mington in his automobile, when the
accident occurred which resulted In his
death later at Delaware Hospital.
In front OF the old Gun Club on the
Brandywine, his machine turned over
twice. The cause OF the accident can
not be cOniectured, as the roadway IL
smooth and without curves at thi'
point. Stoll was a young man, abou
80 years OF age.