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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
Like u. S. CigdretS
[From the Manchester Guardia

[From the Manchester Guardian1
The recent appearance in the
French tobacco shops of American
tobacco and cigarets Uhe. French
government having bought up one
billion packets of cigarets and sew
eral tons of tobacco which were sur
plus American Army stock) should
be welcomed with delight by most
Frenchmen. The French cigaret
smoker is particularly fond of Vir-
ginian cigarets, and smokes them
in preference to the French makes,
which he is generally forced to
have on account of the tobacco in
dustry being q state enterprise in
France. Virginian cigarets arc
rarely obtainable in the village
debts de tabac, and when they are
the price is prohibitive. But dur
ing the war plenty of English brands
were to be had in an unobtrusive
way. The soldiers ration cigarets
RUBY Queen" Red Hussar."
"The Flag" and other special varie-
ties-were not highly valued by the
men, who could generally buy at the
expeditionary force canteens the
recognized brands that they smoked
at home. Consequently the "ration"
was either given away or used in
bartering for other little commodi-
ties, and the French people never
said mo" to an English cigaret.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
Small But Dangerous

[From the Wilkes-Barre Record
The labor unions of the country
are beset by radicals who would de-
stroy them to pave the way to a
class revolution"
'Ninety-five per cent of our peo-
pie are all right. But we must be
alert-we must not sit by and let a
conf1agration get started which it
may take years of sacrifice to over
come"
These are the words of Governor
Sproul, uttered in a speech in Massa-
chusetts. The Governor is not given
to irresponsible talk and to the maxi
ing of wild estimates. What he
meant was that though the great
majority of the people of this coun-
try are against the red flag and the
vicious teachings of those who hold
1t up, the few radicals and fanatics
have resources in power strong
enough to cause the Ngreat majority
very serious trouble. We have ample
evidence to show that the Governor
is right. If 50 per cent of the people
are all right they can steer theNation
out of danger, but they cannot do it
by folding their hands and remain
ing inactive while the small minority
is active and aggressive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
Find Lost Emerald Nine

[From the New York Americana
Rediscovery of one of the lost en-
erald mines in Colombia, South
America, where flawless gems of q
rich and vivid green, valued as high
as $1,000 a carat, have been found In
almost unlimited numbers, became
known here the other day.
This mine is about one hundred
miles northeast from Bogota, capital
of Colombia, in one of the widest
mountain ranges in South America.
1t was worked long ago by the III
dams and some of the adventurers
from Spain, who died without reveal
ing the secret.
The rediscovered mine is known as
the Chivor, and has lain for more
than a century in the mountains near
Bogota, while scores have searched
for it's location.
News that the Chiver had been
found after a search of years became
known when stock in it became un-
attainable in Wall street, after doub-
ling at almost every sale. A few
days ago the stock was inactive at
$40 a share. Now those said to be
on the inside were talking about
$4,000 and $4,000 a share for their
stock.
The mine is said to hold untold
millions in emeralds. A small noun
tain river washes clean what is de-
scribed as the most flawless white
rock ever seen, in which are small
"boulders."
The emeralds are hidden inside
the "boulders," each containing at
least one emerald of large size, sell
dom being worth as little as 500 a
carat and more often $1,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
RIGHT, MIR. BOX

EDWARD BOX, who recently re-
h tired as editor of the Ladies'
A Home Journal, made q forceful
speech before the City Club at Phila-
delphia recently, in which he de-
clared the chasing of the almighty
dollar" should give way to a devoted
interest in civic movements and in
the improvement of living condi-
tons. He said with a changed atti-
tude among the people of Philadel-
phia there would be less occasion for
apology every time the name of the
city was mentioned. He spoke of
certain failures in public movements
and emphasized the need for avoid
ing constant public criticism of these
failures and instead urged magnify
ing of the many fine things which
have made Philadelphia wonderful
American city.
Mr.. Box appealed to the men of
wealth in the metropolis of the State
to cease striving constantly for ma
terial benefit and to devote more of
their time to doing the things which
are essential TO the development OF
a city which should symbolic in it's
activities the best ideals of the
American people. II like golf" said
he; II like horseback riding, but
God forbid that l should spend all
of my time playing golf and riding
Q horse"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
HOUSING PROJECTS

= r ILTON is solving the housing
M situation there by raising q
fund of 100000, most of
which is already pledged for the
building of homes for the people.
It Is the purpose to offer the houses
at cost of construction, and as the
dwellings will be erected near the
manufacturing plants the scheme
seems entirely feasible and must
meet the approval of all who real
ize how necessary it is to provide
properly for the unhoused popula-
ton of the State.
Five million dollars of capital and
the efforts of the leading business
men of the Wyoming Valley were
subscribed few days ago to a cam
paign which is expected to result in
providing homes for an increasing
population. Through the Chamber
Of Commerce of Wilkes-Barre and
the managers of the city's leading
industries a building and loan cor
poration has been organized as a
purely philanthropic proposition. Its
immediate purpose is to devote S.
100000 to building.
It is estimated that 1000 houses
are needed at Wilkes-Barre due to
building inactivity during the war
and increased population. The
homes will be rented and sold on the
interest plan. Tenant owners will
take possession of the property and
mshs I'D the cost by monthly allot-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04

What fine record of constructive
road development is embraced in the
figures just issued by Highway Com
missioner sadler's department. Con-
tracts have been awarded during the
present administration for more than
600 miles of new roadway. Still
other contracts will be closed before
the end of the present year. It's a
fine piece of administrative work of
practical character and, with the
completion of the great system of
highways designed by the State,
Pennsylvania will develop more rap
idly than ever before. Our people
are going to know more of each other
and communities will cooperate in
many enterprises through easy COM
munication over modern roads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
The Duty of Republicans

[From the Scranton Republican,
BY the use of every specious argu-
ment their cunning can devise
Democrats are seeking to induce
Republicans to forget their duty in
the present campaign and cast com
plimentary votes for Democrats.
There never was time in the
history of the party when duty made
stronger calls upon Republicans
than it does to-day. County and city
are strongly Republican, Democrats
are basing their hopes upon seduc-
ing Republicans from their duty
for in that lies their sole chance of
success.
1t is of the very first Importance
that Republicans stand together and
roll up a big vote because of the ef-
feet it will have on next years cleo
tions. The best interests of the
United States are dependent upon
Republican control. The highest
ideals of patriotism look to q sweep-
ing victory for Republicans next
Tuesday in Lackawanna county as
well as elsewhere in the Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
THE SUSOUEHANNA NAVIGABLE
Report Engineers Army
No. 1-HISTORY

motive power. The result was
1neVitable-riVer and canal trans
portation controlled or absorbed by
the railroads. Abandoned by the
operators, canals filled up and rail-
road tracks were laid in their
place; rivers filled up by sltation;
the appropriations by Congress held
up or musused, the railroads were
supreme. No use dredging rivers,
building canals, unless freight
handling facilities, harbors or re-
fuge, turning basins, wharves and
docks, are built and sufficient
depth is maintained to permit the
use of large size barges, up to $500
to 5000 tons capacity; also sufficient
barges built to start operations and
show the practicability and low
cost of water transportation. New
York State spent over One Hundred
and Fifty Millions on the barge
canal system and not a dollar on
freight barges for commercial pur-
poses-Result: When canals were
complete there were no large barges
built or building. and the canal
capable of carrying $500 ton barges
is operating with old canal boats of
100 to 800 tons.
If economy. in freight movement
is desired, the canals will supply it.
If prompt and speedy receipt of
freight is demanded, the waterway
at the present time eXcels the rail-
roads. Whatever may have been
the performance of the railroads in
other times, it is a matter that may
be proved beyond doubt, that car
goes by canal pass from Buffalo to
New York in less time than by rail.
Already, with a portion of the old
canal in use, and by means of an
tiquated canal boats, a fleet has
made the trip from the Great Lakes
to New York in little more than
seven days. With the new canal
route in use for its entire length,
five days may be counted as the
maximum time of passage.
To secure test for comparison,
inquiry was made as to the time
consumed by the railroads in carry
ing freight between Buffalo and
New York City. Records were
sought regarding some half dozen
cars. The tracing of one car show
ed that it was twenty-eight days in
transit, and the least time taken by
any car followed was eight days.
Taking the six cars as whole, the
average time consumed by car in
making the trip from Buffalo to
New York was eleven days. Argu-
ments, therefore, against water
transportation on the ground OF
slow delivery, are answered by
facts.
To Be Continued.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
AFIELD

oh, the scrubby pines are standing
with their lyric tops together,
Far from town and train and troll
ley and the stringent ways of
men,
And the little hills are waiting in the
sunny autumn weather
For the swift Llewellyn settlers to
be threading them again.
Seas of golden sedge are shining in
the open widths below me,
And the yellow grasses simmer in
the sweet rich swale,
And my eager heart is faring through
the virgin lands that know me,
Where the cleaning thickets echo
to the whistle of the quail.
l can feel an ancient gladness as my
settlers bound about me.
l am brother to the wildness and
my blood runs free.
And 1 know the ridgy wilderness was
lonely here without me-
Oh. my heart has gone before me
and the fields are calling me!
Now the dogs are flashing swiftly
through the tawny meadow
sedges,
With their brushes wagging madly
and their heads held high;
And l know the quail are feeding in
the amber thicket hedges
Where the hazel bushes stand
against the sky.
Now the dogs are moving slowly up
a gentle elevation,
For the wind is in their nostrils
and the scent runs strong.
They are padding through the bram-
bles in suppressed eXhilaration,
And my beating blood is lyric with
n song.
See! The dogs stand stiff. and their
muscles thrill and quiveri
Now the birds are whirring up be-
fore the sharp clear gun!
can see them curve and settle in
the cane along the river
Where the sumacs flaunt their
crimson to the sun.
Oh, the blunted pines are singing on
. the silver slopes together.
Far from town and train and troll
ley and the multitudes of men!
And the golden fields are waiting in
the vital autumn weather
For the silken-coated settlers to be
threading them again.
Perrin Holmes Lowrey in the Sat
urday Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
A GREAT CONVENTION

LII those familiar with the
Il movement will bespeak for
"A James w. Barker and his
fellow workers success in their ef-
forts to make next years State Sab
bath School Convention, to be held
in Harrisburg, the greatest gather
ing in the history of the association.
Not so many years ago the State
convention was held here and the
remarkable meetings and the even
more remarkable parade are re-
membered as among the high lights
of convention history in this city of
conventions.
Everybody recognizes the Sabbath
School as an uplifting element in
the life of the day, but few pause TO
analyZe it's great possibilities for
good and it's tremendous power as a
steadying force in these days of
stress and turmoil.
One never reads of a Bolshevist
or a radical who is a regular attend
ant at Sunday School. Right think
ing, proper relations toward ones
fellows and an honest, unselfish atti-
tude toward all the problems of life
and toward society in general are
the precepts that are taught there.
BY all means let us encourage the
Sabbath school and those who are
giving it the thought and effort that
have made it the immense factor
for good it is to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
A GOOD SUGGESTION

TT REMAINED for the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers
to come forward with the sug-
gestion for which the public has
been waiting ever since the failure
of the recent conference at Wash
ington-which is that another meet
ing be called, at which the differ
ences existing between labor and
capital be settled on basis of JUS
tice to all concerned, which means
that at last the public is to have
some consideration in the parleys.
The Brotherhood of Engineers is
not only one of the Oldest and most
conservative of labor organizations,
but its leadership has always been
staunchly American, and while
strongly insistent upon what it re-
garded as its own rights, has never
been accused of domination by alien
radicals. This is largely because the
foreign element never has been able
to get hold in the organization,
due to the fact that railroad en-
gineers are ninety-nine per cent
American born. They are of mature
age and possessed of the judgment
that comes with years, and they
hold a place of vast influence, not
only among the labor unions, but in
public thought as well.
Il is fine thing to note the head
of this body of men coming out for
the rights of the public as we'll as
for those of labor. If some of the
more radical labor leaders want to
restore their unions to the place in
public favor they once held, they
will follow this example, for the
public is aroused to the point OF
turning savagely upon any organiza-
tion or interest that fails to recog-
nize its rights. We have reached a
place where organized labor as well
as capital must reckon with the
public or accept the consequences,
which will not be pleasant, to say
the least.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
PRODUCE AND PROSPER

" HE labor union in Allentown
which proposestto the Bethle-
hem Steel Company a ten
hour working day with ten hours
pay has hit upon a solution to the
high cost of living. An eight-hour
day is necessary in many lines of
trade, no doubt, not excepting that
of the steel mills, as a regular thing
if men are not to be overworked,
but just now the ten-hour day for
everybody will go a long way toward
solving our difficulties.
In the first place, the two hours
additional pay would help meet the
high cost of living and, in the sec
ond place, the increased production
would help bring down prices.
1t is just as important now that
production be kept to top-notch as
during the war The more goods we
produce the greater the supply, and
the greater the supply the lower
prices will be. The law of supply
and demand will regulate that. Every
strike that cuts down production
adds to the living costs of every
body, the strikers included. Every
man that puts in ten or a twelve
hour day during this crisis helps
and the whole country.
Last year the patriot fought for
his country; this year the patriot
is the man who is willing to work
for it.
Work, and not strikes, will restore
pre-war conditions. The more idl-
ing there is the higher the cost of
everything and the less the dollar
will buy. Production is the keynote
10 the whole situation and the man
who shirks his duty or soldiers on
the job" is not only unfair to his
country, but he is cheating himself
and his whole family.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
King Would Be a Reporter

From the Philadelphia Inquirerl
We have often heard of the re-
porter who would be a kind, but
Albert, the ruler of the Belgians. is
the first monarch who has express
ed regret over the fact that he was
not a reporter. He has done so
many things so well that it is i'm
possible to feel that he would not
have been a good newspaperman.
He certainly has "a nose for news"
which is considered one of the first
requisites for real reporter and
the swiftness and the keenness with
"hlch he discovers the important
and essential things in his travels
prove that he is an observant tour
list and that he has q sense of
relative values.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04

our success was not due to
our preparedness, but to the eX-
ceptional conditions which made
it possible to prepare adequately
after hostilities began. 1t is my
opinion that If we had been pre-
pared adequately, we would
never have been called upon to
defend our rights"
This is the testimony of General
Pershing before a committee of Con-
gress. What a commentary upon the
attitude of certain pacitists now in
high places who contemptuously
spurned all suggestions of prepara-
tion for the war and who finally per-
mitted this country to back into the
conflict unprepared and at frightful
cost in men and money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John Murdoch Clarke, selected
as a Rhodes scholar. has been as
sistant to the dean at the University
of Pennsylvania.
james A. Flaherty, supreme
knight of the Knights of Columbus,
will be rendered dinner on armis-
tice day at Philadelphia Tuesday
DIR. w. T. Whitaker, secretary
to Archbishop Dougherty, was for
merly q rector in Schuylkill and
then served in the army.
w. M. Bertolet, Reading city
will direct the city cam
paign against increase In electric
rates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
Cheaper Than Magazines

William III. Rankin, of Chicago.
president of the Rankin Advertising
Agency, which spends $125, 5,000,00
year in advertising, told at New
Orleans what newspaper advertis-
ing has done for the Government
and how it helped to mobilize an
army. finance it, and win n war.
His remarks boiled down were that
the daily newspaper is the greatest
advertising medium on earth, and
he proved it with figures. Persist
emily, albeit perspiringly, he drove
home each point to an astonished
audience that was amazed to hear
an advertising agency give the
newspaper Its proper credit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
Hard on Good Clothes
TFrom London Answers. I

The pictures were a great nov-
city in Slowville; any travelling out
fit was sure of crowded houses.
Recently old Mrs Brown yielded
to her husbands persuasions and
paid her first visit to the cinema. She
put on her Sunday bonnet and cloak
In honor of the great event.
AS they entered, thrilling cowboy
film was being shown, in which men,
cattle and horses were we'll mixed.
Mrs. Brown gripped her husband
nervously by the arm.
BILL" she whispered frantically.
I'm going straight out. Just look
at the dust them sosses and cows Il
<aisin'l NY clothes will b ruinedi"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04

DR.. Thomas f Finegan, who is
injecting lot of practical energy
into his work as head of the school
system of Pennsylvania. has made
an appeal to the school authorities
throughout the State to enlist the
teachers and pupils in the great work
of assembling war data for the accu-
rate and comprehensive history of the
struggle which is now being COM
piled by the War History Commission
with Governor Sproul as chairman.
Harrisburg and Dauphin county will
doubtless respond to the appeal and
in this way much can be accomplished
in a short time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04

ments. These movements indicate
the purpose of Pennsylvania cities
to solve the housing problem in a
practical way, and Harrisburg must
not fall behind in n movement so
necessary and vital to the prosperity
of the community.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
English HutS to Belgium
[From the london rimes1

IFrom the London Timesl
Nearly five thousand army huts of
all descriptions, erected in France
and Flanders, have been sold to the
Belgian government by the disposal
board of the ministry of munitions
to house the homeless in the devas-
tated areas.
The price paid was almost two
million dollars and the money was
forthcoming from King Albert's
fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04

Members of tho Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to tho uso for republication
OF all news dispatches credited to
paper and also the local news pub
!. lished herein.
III rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919

For everyone that eralteth him
self shan be humbIed; and he that
AumbIeth himself shall be eralted.-
Luke 14:11.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-04
po YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg ships
much steel to nearby towns for
specialized manufactures?
HARRISBURG :. -.
The earliest polling place in
after it became town
was the court house.