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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Praise For Americans
Correspondence of Associat
Press

London The provisional regi-
ment of American soldiers who fol-
lowed General Pershing in the Peace
Day procession was the first unit of
American combat troops to march
in London. Other United States SOL
diers seen here had been on their
way to the battlefields.
Here were the Americans in steel
helmets, marching in companies
eight abreast with bayonets fixed"
said the Daily Epress. They were
as jovial as any when the procession
halted, for time, but while they
marched their faces were as serious
and as imm obile as the gravest of
craven images. They made a pro-
found impression on the onlookers.
Their marching was Roman in it's
iron sternness and precision"
"A magnificent regiment it was"
said the Daily Telegraph, young
men, all of them, and the quintes-
sence of the alert and 1.-THE. Khaki
clad, in brown steel helmets, they
looked most workplanlike."
How magnificently they marched,
swinging past in perfect alignment,
with a long, easy stride, heads held
high and shoulders squared" said the
Daily News. They were greeted
voiciferously with as good cheering
as 1 ever remembered having heard
in London" .
There was grim, indomitable
look about Pershing's men" said the
Daily Sketch, IAN effect greatly
heightened by their sheIl helmets,
and it made all the more wonder
full the burst of clear color which
followed as their massed banners
came by. Old Glory along with the
I. .AlI AV-ta 60
the fabric flew freely and no shred
of color was lost. The cheering of
the crowd turned at the sight to a
great 'Ah!' of delight. Ecept for
the passing of the massed colors of
the Guards, with their laureled
staffs, it was the most picturesque
moment of the procession"
"'Good old Yanks,' thus are the
American affectionately if some
what familiarly greeted" said the
Morning Post in its story of the
procession.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT

1t is a queer world in which a
man can't drink booze and hold the
approval of decent folk, but can sell
a legal opinion favoring the booze
crowd and remain an important
citizen. - Greenville Is. c. Pied
mont.
Chairman Manly OF the War Lab
or Board warns that food is going
to be very scarce and high in the
United States during the next twelve
months" But consumers will con-
tinue plentiful and cheap. - New
York World.
If the law of supply and demand
is responsible for existing prices it
Arkansas Gazette. =.
Gage readings show that the Mis-
sissippi is still standing up we'll un-
der the drain, that came as a result
of prohibition in st. Louis.-Little
Rock Arkansas Gazette.
Lloyd Georges enemies should be
careful not to win too many by
elections. They may provoke him
into calling another. general cleo
tion.-New York Evening Post.
President Wilson says the world
to-day leans on America, and Jack
Harrison, of the Beloit Gazette. is
instantly reminded of Painting
Bertha" the celebrated police
court character who use to faint on
the street, and after some kind
hearted gentleman had caught her
in his arms, helped her to a place
of safety, and started away in the
proud consciousness of having
done a kind act, he usually discov-
cred that Bertha had lifted his
watch.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
A Plant For Father

1t is not his plant. He rarely ad-
mits that he has cause for complaint.
So someone must do it for him.
Imagine, if you please, a success
full man of so. Besides his prosper
Gus business or profession, he has
laid up an independence. He has
fine character, unblemished ideal
happy. Possibly he knows what
is the matter; more likely he doesn't;
but we do.
1t is those seemingly ideal domes-
tic relations. OF his three children,
his son, a fine young man of 10,
promises, after the subsidence of
youths effervesence, to follow worth
lily in his fathers footsteps. But
there is no comradeship between
them. The boy greatly respects his
father, and his love might be a stay
comfort in its dead levels. He
would as likely think of cumming
with Abraham.
His elder daughter is out" his
younger still a schoolgirl. He has
given them every advantage of edu-
cation, pays their bills, keeps open
house for their company, sometimes
boarding visiting girl friends for
weeks. He has been driven from
the parlor to the library by the
force of that deep rooted American
delusion that social pleasure is
strictly for young people. To be
sure, his girls sometimes take fits
of petting him, but the unfortunate
coincidence of these spells with calls
for some fresh indulgence will force
itself on his attention, despite his
loyal efforts to be fondly blind.
And his wife, the one member of
his family of his own generation,
she who has with him a common
past, common interests and a COM
mon remembrance of Loves
Young Dream" surely she is in per-
feet accord with him? Surely she
sits in the library with him?
No. she doesn't. A successful
ference paid to her for tribute to
her own charm, when in fact 1t is
paid solely to her husbands wife.
Occasionally death and misfortune
rob her of both husband and money
and then she is made to realize how
little court is paid to her person.
ality. But the mistake is Quite ma
tural, and she really believes her
husband fortunate to possess her.
Therefore, when she has given the
time and thought necessary to the
smooth running of the domestic ma
chinery she fancies she has done her
full duty by him. The rest of her
energy she gives to her clubs, her
linn CUISINE, the dressing of her daugh-
ters and herself; in fine, to all that
pertains to the social standing of the
family; never questioning the real
happiness of the talented man. who
is steadily working for, the means
to give her and her children these
advantages. She takes it for granted
that he is completely satisfied with
that vocation.
But he isn't. He Is human and
often love hungry. It is high time
his family call their dormant love
into active life and give smiles to
him now, instead of tears to his
casket. E. U. W
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
LdW and Profiteering

[From the Philadelphia Press.1
Pennsylvania has no law to pun
ish profiteers and Congress has not
yet enacted such a law. This is
the unsatisfactory sum and sub
stance of a conference between How
ard Heinz, the State Food Admins
traitor; Attorney General Palmer and
other officials and lawyers in this city
on Tuesday. In other jurisdictions
enough law has been found to pun
ish price gougers. But in Pennsyl-
vania the profiteer who extorts un-
reasonable prices for the necessities
of life has nothing to fear but pub
lie opprobrium until Congress takes
the needed action.
One remedy lies open to the De-
partment of Justice. The law
against the boarding of food remains
in full force. Under it the Federal
Government has power to seize and
throw on the market enormous
stocks of food which are held in
storage. This is being done and
some amelioration has resulted. But
1t Is incumbent on Congress to act
promptly to prevent the continued
soaring of prices for food at the
period of the year when the supplies
fresh from the farms are most
plentiful.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
COAL SUBSTITUTE

livery increase of wages at the
mines is used as an excuse for
even a larger increase in the
price of coal. to the consumer.
The miners are asking for more
wages and fewer hours.
Already coal prices are beyond the
reach of even families of fair in
come and there will be cold homes
in the United States next winter be-
cause the wage-earner cannot afford
fuel.
Necessity is the mother of inven-
ton. We are nearing the breaking
point on coal. OF course, there al
ways will be a market for this form
of fuel, but if somebody should sud-
denly come along with a coal sub
stitute for household use the whole
structure on which the coal indus
try is built would go to pieces, and
we may not be so far from that
substitute as might appear.
We. used to think that the solu-
ton to coal scarcity-we had no
vision then of high prices as a bar
to its use-lay in cheap electricity
and very likely that will be the
eventual outcome of mans age-long
search for economical artificial heat.
and light. But just now crude pc
troieum and a burner designed to
turn it into heat for cooking and
heating the home are the product
and invention to which we must
look, for the oil we have in i'm
mense quantities and all that is
needed is an ingenious devise for it's
consumption to make us independent
of the coal fields. Somebody is
bound to come forward with such
an invention-and soon. 1t always
has been so, and it always will con-
tinue to happen that the urgent
need of the hour is met.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
THEY WILL GET 1T

" OU may be certain the Rotary
. Club and the Kiwanis Club
will get the money with
which to finance the Kipona cele-
bration.
Along comes the War Camp Com
munity Service and offers to finance
the larger part of the pageant.
We in Harrisburg are asked to
meet the expense Of the smaller
half.
Will we do it?
Ask the members of the clubs
who have never had a failure scored
against them when appealed to
to perform a public duty.
There will be no difficulty in rails
ing the money. The men who have
pledged themselves to do the work
may be depended upon for that.
They have pride in their city and
service is their watchword.
When one of the campaigners ap-
proaches you give him broad
smile and dig down deep.
Harrisburg needs your contribu-
ton and you cannot afford to hold
back.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Germany Plans a Big
Surprise

vigor of Germany's resources begins
to make itself felt in competitive
commerce the Allies will get
shock
The Germans themselves are
we'll aware of the surprise that they
have in store. They believe that the
war is not yet lost. They fought to
get control of the markets of the
world. They have not succeeded in
their object; but they have succeed
ed in doing more damage to most
of their trade rivals than they
themselves have suffered. They
know that, despite the indemnity,
they can recover their legs fefore
France or Belgium. For one thing
they have insured themselves against
failing population; their streets
swarm with children. For another
they have cunningly concealed their
true wealth, by investing it in in
dustries in neutral countries and in
shipping, camouflaged as neutral,
which they control. They have
failed to win the war by force or
arms, but they still plan to win it
by sharp practice and the handbook,
while the nations they have wrong
ed are struggling back to solvency.
They do not wish to fight with the
cannon and gas any longer; they
have learned how to asphyXiate their
enemies with the cloud-gas of Boil
shevism and it's attendant social dis
cord. While countries engage in
class warfare within their own
borders. maddened by poisonous
thoughts of Germany's sowing, the
Germans plan to collar the world's
commerce. which was their obiec-
tive at the outset when they first
violated Belgium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
A GREATER HARRISBURG

"HE Chamber of Commerce slo-
gan "One hundred thousand
residents of Harrisburg by
1920" sounds good TO all those who
have been working for the growth
and development of the city since
the days when our first public i'm
provement campaign was under
taken nearly twenty years ago.
And why not? We have the
population at this moment in every
thing but name.
There is Rockville, and Progress,
and Penbrook. and PaXtang and
Steelton, not to mention West Shore
communities that might come in
under the arrangement all lying at
our doors, with their boundaries
tapping, and yet each under sep
arate local government.
Aside from the advertisement and
advantages that would accrue to
Harrisburg as a second class city of
125,000 or more population, there
are the benentS that would come
to the smaller communities to be
annexed in the way of pure water,
paved streets. fire protection, schools
and all those other things which the
large resources of the big town en-
able it to have, but which smaller
places cannot, by the limitation of
their revenues. enjoy.
The movement has been inaugu-
rated at the right time. Penbrook
and PaXtang at least already are
talking seriously of annexation and
vigorous campaign. pushed to
vote at the November election,
doubtless would result in the realiz-
alton of the Chambers ambition be-
fore the end of the year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22

had been sent to buy. But it is a
sad commentary upon our National
Administration and standing dis
grace to this great country that our
Government should have found it
necessary to pay for the life of one
of its representatives.
How different this cringing atti-
tude as compared with the famous
Roosevelt manifesto, when John Hay
was Secretary of State: "Pericardis
alive or Raisuli dead"
And the Moroccan authorities
knew he meant just that, as they
viewed the magnificent display of
American armed force at their front
door when a great fleet of battleships
and cruisers filed into the harbor
Or how we should hang our heads
in shame over this incident when
we think of the little republic that
declared once upon a time that it
had millions for defense but not
one cent for tribute" Not that the
life of one American should be need
lessly sacrificed, but that it should be
necessary to offer bribes when deal
ing with the people of a neighbor-
ing government.
This incident never would have
occurred had President Wilson long
ago assumed a firm hand with Car
rama and the rest of the Mexican
robbers and blackmailers in Office
and out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Daylight Saving LaWRepedled

[From the New York Times.1
If daylight saving were submitted
to the popular vote, it would be car
ried by a great majority. Even sup
posing that the farmers were solidly
opposed to it, the congressman who
voted to override the veto have
simply favored a class against the
majority, have approved a measure
virtually of class government.
Daylight saving, during the two
years it has been in effect" says
Senator Calder, has saved count
less millions Of dollars, and has
given the workers many extra hours
of pleasure. 1t has been a blessing
to us, but the majority of our peo-
pie have not recognized it," The
ma jority of the people have recog-
nized 1t. 1t is Congress that has
not recognized the majority. Mr..
Wilson's two vetoes recognized and
represented that majority. Next
summer the country will miss what
has been a source of health, recrea-
ton, outdoor work and play to many
millions of people, and has saved
many millions of people, and has
saved many millions of money. The
friends of daylight saving will not
put up meekly with this defeat.
Work should begin at once to collect,
consolidate, and strengthen public
opinion in favor of this sensible and
salutary practice. The daylight
saving law should be restored to the
statute books. 1t can be, and will
be, If the majority will make even
a tenth the effort that has been
made by a clever and loud minority.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Ads Built Big Business

A young man started small
mems clothing store in a middle
western city. He had a capital of
$4,000 and borrowed $4,000 more.
He also had ideas and nerve. Be-
fore he opened his door he had in
vested $4,000 in newspaper adver-
tising.
To-day, thirtv-two years later, he
is reputed TO 10 the largest retail
mems clothing business CT tho
world, and his store has Nation
wide reputation as leader. In
those thirty-two years he has spent
$5,000,000 in newspaper advertis-
ing.
Speaking of the part newspaper
advertising played in his success.
the other day, this man said:
1T may seem strange, but the
people believe what they read in the
newspapers. That's what makes
advertising in the newspapers so
valuable.
II have always made it a point
to state the truth exactly, never to
eXaggerate. I would rather have
the customer a little surprised when
he looked at the goods than little
disappointed.
i've tried advertising on bill
boards, in street cars, in magazines,
and pamphlets, in novelties. / once
sent up a flock of balloons with let
ters tied to them, and prizes-S500,
500 and other awards-to the
finders.
"I stuck up sign posts all over
the city. Well. some of them went
for kindling wood; some were. torn
down by the city. I tried many
other ways of advertising-but the
newspapers proved by all means
the best, and kept everlastingly at
it.
advertising is to the building up
of business what steam is to COM
merce."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
Poison in the Schools
IHarYeY's WeeklY.1

Investigation into l. w. w. Boil
shevism in New York has disclosed
some interesting facts. A woman
school teacher, in a private school
where she was free from restric-
,tions-that is, enjoyed entire free
dom of teaching"-wrote to head
quarters for Bolshevist literature
against Capitalism" for distribution
among her pupils while their minds
were still plastic and impressibIe;
and she shrewdly said, Please do
not select things that are so We
nomous as to antagonize at the out
SET" Not too venomous, you know
but Just venomous enough. After
the boys minds have become habit
uated to a moderate degree of We
nom, a higher degree may be ap-
Piled, until they are taught the
beauty of reputation of debts, the
.confiscation of property, and the
murder of all who disagree with
you. It would be interesting to
know how numerous these peda-
gogical purveyors of graded "ve-
nom" are in our public and private
schools.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
BATHING BEACHES

D ENVER has found it worth
while to install two municipal
bathing beaches and at the
close OF the season pronounces them
a profitable investment. Crowds
have swarmed to both during the
hot months and they will be op-
Grated on a larger scale next year.
Denver is a progressive city. The
municipal authorities never hesitate
to spend money when it is for a civic
improvement or for the betterment
of living conditions.
Harrisburg is coming right along.
Its enlarged Capitol Park is like
that of Denver, only larger il is to
have, like Denver, a civic center;
Zembo temple is planning an. audi
torium which will match up pretty
we'll with that of Denver, and like
Denver we have gone outside the
municipal boundaries for miles to
extend our park system so as to be
abreast with the development of the
city. And now, to match Denver,
City Commissioner Lynch proposes
to set aside $4,000 by popular loan
for bathing beach purposes.
Mr.. Lynch never did anything
more popular than to take the lead
in this matter. He will have back
of his project the support and votes
of every swimmer in the city, and
OF thousands of others who want to
swim but have no place to enjoy the
sport. Harrisburg can do nothing
better than follow Denver's lead. for
Denver is one of the leading cities
of the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
The DiSlocdted Dollar
1.-THE Nations Business for Sep
tember1

1.-THE Nations Business for Sep
tember.1
A rough inventory of the Ameri-
can credit situation shows . some-
thing like this: The United States
Government has less than $780,
100000 of the 0,000,000:0o0 au-
thorized for loans for allies remain-
ing to pay out, and. more than half
of this is already pledged. Small
loans have been made by private
banking interests to European
banks or governments, but these
are insignificant, when weighed
against the great quantities of
credit needed. Europe cannot send
gold to pay for goods, as she did
in the days of American neutrality
and, furthermore, American bankers
do not want it. They believe too
much gold is here already.
In addition to needs for currens
export transactions, Europe re-
quires about S750,000 to meet ma
turing obligations in the United
States during the last six months
of this year. Even the pre-waf-
offset of payments to European
shipping interests for ocean trans
portation is now reduced by the fact
that American bottoms carry
American goods to a larger extent.
An inevitable result of these con-
ditions is found in dislocarion of ex-
change rates which makes Euro
pean buyers pay as much as $3.50
for every dollars worth of goods
bought in the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-22
BEATING THE H. C.. L.

A RE you interested in beating
~ old H. c. L, Mrs. Harrisburg
housewife?
Well, there is a way; a very old
way, but a very good one.
Lean over a..u We will whisper it
into your shelllike ear.
It's this. Do your canning now,
and do a lot of it.
Fruits and vegetables are pleni-
full and cheaper than they have been
before or will be later in the sea-
son.
A Harrisburg woman sends the
Telegraph this letter:
Last year did little or no can
nlng or preserving. 1 paid for
my folly in grocery bills last win
ter. thought prices of vegetables
and fruits too high. This year I
am buying basket lots. The other
day l bought basket of green
plums delivered to my door From
that basket ! got eight cans of
plums' nine glasses of jelly and
two glasses of preserves. The
sugar l bought and the plums |
L.
the basket The whole cost me a
little over 50, plus my work and
little oil for fuel. Plums are SELL
ing at As cents the quart can in
the stores, and the cheapest jelly
is 20 cents a glass. My canned
product would cost me at least
$50 If I bought it in the store. I
wonder how many other women
would do as I am now doing
canning to the extent of my pock-
etbook-If they realized how
much they can save in that way.
Well worth printing. we should
say, and worth following, too.
We shall not get back to cheaper
living in the household until we get
over buying in quarter-pound,
pound and quarter-peck lots. We
must beat the market the way the
businessman does; by buying when
the market is glutted and prices low
and holding our purchases against
the rising market that is bound to
come with changing seasons. We
can live better and more cheaply
that way.