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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
HE is COMING

From the Kansas City Star1
But a few short years ago, lay
dees and gentlemen" said the side
show lecturer in tones admirably
adapted for declamatory purposes.
I'VE had here, as our greatest liv-
ing cu-ri-os-i-tee, that hideous hu-
man horror the Wild Man of the
Everglades, who three times a day
leaped upon gur-reat hunks of
r-r-r-raw and re-e-e-eking flesh and
devoured them with terrible ferocity
and blood curdling yells. He was in
due course succeeded by the repul-
sive freak of nature you now see be-
fore you-the Bestial and Bristly
Bolshevik. He will not work, he
never bathes, but day and night kicks
necessarily, and in the unintelligible
three-cornered language of his ma
tive land screams denunciations of
everything in existence. Probably
year after next he will be super
seded by the Last Pedestrian, a
white-eyed, shuddering wretch who
will leap eighteen feet sidswise il
you make noise like Ford horn"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
THE BUILDING MOVEMENT
1.-THE Bache Review1


There is no question that the
building industry is awakening
even that activity is increasing daily,
and certainly the deficiency of hous-
ings throughout the whole country
is such that under given conditions
a steady growth in building con-
struction, both for houses and Of
fees, is liable to set in and become a
boom.
A recent estimate of the United
States Department of Labor, for in
stance, shows that in the North
Central States there is a building
deficiency of $1,511, 100000, and a
in the North Atlantic States, made
by the same departme ent, places the
deficiency in that district at $l,200,-
100000. This estimate was arrived
at by a survey of the building per-
mits issued in the principal cities
in each state in pre-war years and
during the war.
The Department of Labor states
that the current year is likely tc
prove one of unprecedented building
activity, and that their reports or
building permits and contracts let
indicate that building construction
work the country over is rapidly
getting back to pre-war figures. They
also estimate that the new norma
will be far ahead of pre-war figures
The borough superintendent oi
Greater New York report thai
building in the last four months ha:
been on a larger scale than for the
corresponding period of the last five
or six years. In the Borough o.
Brooklyn it is 100 per cent. greater
than in 1918. According to these
reports, building is speedily reach
ing pre-war proportions.
The effect of a building boom
upon all markets, would be electrical
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
LudendorffS Explanation
By BRIGGS

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer
gent dissent from the opinion which
General Ludendorff lii a recent in
terview is reported to have express
ed, that America proved to be the
He even went so far as to say that
but for America, England and
France would have been beaten i'll
1918. That, however, is a mere
matter of opinion upon which
neither he nor any one is qualified
to speak with an absolute assur-
ance. There is no doubt that each
of those countries was approaching
the point of exhaustion, nor can 1t
be denied that there were some days
and weeks in the spring of last year
when their military position was
extremely critical. Yet their morale
had not been broken, even when
General Haig was constrained to ad-
nit that they had their backs to the
wall, and although, had the great
German drive been successful,
| France might have succumbed to
the pressure which the enemy
would have been enabled TO exert,
England could not have been con-
quered so long as it ruled the seas
| But Ludendorff states no more
than the truth when he says that
| the American reserves swung the
decision by making it possible to
withdraw the worn-out French and
British divisions from the line and
to reorganiZe ever fresh offensive
armies In military sense the day
was saved by the American troops
who hurried across the Atlantic
with such unimagined expedition
and in such unexpected numbers
and who arrived where they were
so sorely needed just in the nick
of time. They helped most mater.
tally to repel the German invasion
alike by the fighting ability and by
the moral effects which their pres.
ence on the field produced, for while
our friends were inspirited and en-
couraged, the enemy was CORE
spondingly depressed.
| 1t was claimed by some of the
German militarists after the sur.
render had been made that the
army had not been beaten, but tina
the will to win of the German peo
pie had been destroyed by the hard
ships they were experiencing and by
the Wilson propaganda.
| That is a view to which Luden
dorff does not subscribe. The reques
for an armistice was not enforced
according to him, by the pressure
of public opinion which had beer
brought to the point of demanding
a peace at any price. 1t was promp
ted by the circumstance that th,
German leaders had become con
vinced of the futility of continuins
the struggles with armies which hat
lost their fighting edge. They wer,
led to that conclusion by the sue
cess which the Franco British force,
achieved at Amiens on August 8
when they first assumed the offens
i've. Upon that occasion they brok,
the German line, and although tn,
breach they made was neither yer,
wide nor extraordinarily deep, tn,
ease with which it was accomplish
ed, as Ludendorff observes the stu
alton, was full of sinister signifi
canoe. 1t meant that as a flghtin,
machine the army could no longe
; be trusted and therefore that th
war was lost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
IN RUSSIA

* LowLY tho moose that finally
~ will hang them In Tightening
about the neoks Of Trotzky and
Lenine. On the north the Rntl-Bol-
Ahevik forces are pressing hard upon
tho slowly yielding armies of the
Reds, from tho east tho armies OF
the Ukralnians and Films are push
ing on toward Petrograd, from the
east comes Admiral Kolshak's VIC
torious legions and from the south
General Denikine marches ever
northward. All that Is left to the
Bolsheviki Is the heart of old Rus
sia, and they are in desperate straits
there. And now comes official recog-
milton by the Allies of the Omsk
government, which Is largely made
up of Kolshak's armies and has
harmonious connections with the
other anti -Bolshevik forces through
out Russia.
Kolshak, of all the Russians who
have come to the front since the
empire collapsed, appears to have
qualities of leadership of high or
der. He Is apparently intent more
upon the welfare of his country and
its restoration to sanity and order
than in the grinding of any personal
ak. He has formed a ministry of
representative Russians, recruiting
his army altogether of natives of
Russia and has made fine impress
sion upon the world at-large, both
as a warrior and a constructive
statesman of courage and vision.
For six months or more Kolshak
has been attracting the attention of
the Allies, who withheld recognition
of his government only because it
was thought he meant to set up an
imperialistic form of government. 1t
is easy to believe that Kolshak may
view with apprehension an effort at
representative government at this
time in shattered Russia, but he
has yielded to the degree of coming
out in favor of constituent assem-
bly, and this, together with favor
able reports from Allied representa-
tives with the Kolshak armies, has
led the Allies to give him their sup
port.
This recognition will be of great
encouragement to all the anti-Bol-
shevik forces in Russia and will be
of material assistance in the restora-
ton of law and order. Bolshevism is
nearing the end of its dizzy career.
It's head is in the gallows moose and
the rope is slowly being frightened.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
IF RUSSIA under the Cars suffer-
/ ed from asninnapn and thrnu off

TT RUSSIA under the Cars suffer-
ed from espionage and threw off
the hateful yoke of the secret
police, 1t is not to be wondered.
What did surprise the Investigator
was that the Bolsheviks should have
restored the system of espionage with
twice it's terror. When l say twice
its terror / ask to be taken literally
In the old days the suspect was
visited, his house searched, a docu-
ment POSSIBLY planted there by the
police) found, and the poor wretch
dragged off never to be seen again
by his wife and children. That was
sometimes the fate of the rich man
or even occasionally of the bour-
geois; almost any public servant of
the upper classes was liable to it..
But it never happened in the house
of the peasant.
Under Bolshevik rule the peasant
is as likely to suffer as any one else.
He too is dragged off without much
ceremony, but he is more often shot
than imprisoned--not that it makes
much difference. Not only does he
suffer, but his wife and his eldest
daughter are outraged by the officers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
WHY HANGON?

-vHY is it necessary for the
w Legislature to drag along un-
til July? Can't the leaders
devise a plan that will enable the
lawmakers to go home the latter
part of June? What are the grave
issues and the points impossible to
decide except by long deliberations
that are delaying the session and
making midsummer meetings nee
essary?
The country members want to
quit, as do many city members. The
prolonged sessions are costing the
taxpayers large sums. Everything
before the Legislature could be
closed up in four weeks if that body
only got down to real work. Why
hang on?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PENNA. STATE MUSEUM
the Editor Of the Telegraph:

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
There are possibly some citizens
of Harrisburg who have never real
lied what vast field of instruction
is at their very door in the Penn
sylvania State Museum in the Capt.
tol buildings. Under the efficient
management of the curator, DR.
Boyd p. Rothrock, with the CO.
operation of his able staff of assist
ants, 1t has been made a collection
that is a just cause of pride to our
State. and of vast educational in
fiuence. If there are any citizens OF
Harrisburg who have hitherto me-
elected to give this museum care
full examination in its various parts
let them no longer delay a visit to
it. 1t has been a matter of admira-
ton to many visitors from distant
places.
J. HOWARD VERT,
912 N. End St,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
M law a. 1a1az 4s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
German Critics of Germany
TFrom Harvey's weekly.J


No hostile critic of Germany has
ever been more severe than some of
the Germans themselves. The dis
ingenious and preposterous preten-
sions of Count Won Brockdorff- Rant
Eau, that the German people were
innocent of the crime of the war,
were authoritatively denied in ad-
vance by DIT. Muelhon and others,
who declared that the rank and file
of the German people were just as
hot for the war as were the Kaiser
and mis- military encourage. They
wanted war, an unprovoked and ag-
gressive war, for the sake of the
loot which they expected to get out
of it; and they made other profes-
sions only when they found that
they were getting beaten. Now
comes MaXimilian Harden, the fore
most journalist of Germany, and de-
clares that Germany is to-day un-
repentant and incorrigible. Here
are his assertions
THE Germans have not given very
convincing mental Guarantees dur
ing the six months since the revolu-
ClOH IndI lney nave ChdhSSu theil
system. On the contrary. the pres
ent Government and the press have
used the same methods of incite-
ment, the same tricks of bluff as
under the old rule of the petty no.
bility.
1.-The Governments proclamations
and speeches are only bad copies OF
the Kaiser's time. . The only
way to rescue the country is by
openness and honesty. The revolu-
ton has been a great disappoint-
ment."
We commend Herr Harden's very
plain talk to those maudlin sentl-
mentalists who are pleading thai
we ought to be kind to poor dear
Germany now that she has seen the
error of her ways and become truly
| good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

tersi men who have written a won-
derful chapter In the war history of
the country. They are deserving of
the best we have to offer.
The time is short In which to pre-
pare. Somebody must assume the
duty. These returning soldiers must
be made to feel that we are happy
to have them back with liz again
and proud of what they did AZ OUT
representatives abroad. Let thoir
welcome homo be as enthusiastic ar
their performance In the face of the
enemy was brilliant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

-Freeland Kendrick. prominent
Philadelphian, was at the Capitol
yesterday visiting the Legislature.
d. l.. Starr, Allegheny county
lawyer, interested in borough az
fairs. was among visitors to the
Capitol.
-Adjutant General Beary is being
asked to help arrange for the review
of the 18th in Philadelphia, but he
is pretty busy with the plans for the
new National Guard.
Louis Emanuel, reappointed to
the State Board of Pharmacy, has
been connected with that branch of
the government for years.
d. r. James, assistant treasurer
of Lackawanna county, was here on
legislative matters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
A FITTING TRIBUTE

THE Harrisburg Rotary Club is
\ to the memory of Harrisburg
men who died in the nations service
during the war flower boxes that
throughout all the summer season
will recall the beauty of their serv-
ice and public appreciation of their
sacrifice to the throngs that daily
traverse the Mulberry street viaduct,
where the boxes will be placed.
Scores of these men sleep in graves
IN France, many of them unmarked
and all of them beyond the reach
Of loving friends who would have
oedecked them with flowers had it
been possible to give their bodies
inal resting places in their native
soil. Only in some such manner as
the Rotary Club plans can their
friends and neighbors pay their
proper Memorial Day tribute.
The flower boxes will be as
vacred as though they bedecked the
graves of those to whose memories
they are dedicated. They should be
cared for and guarded from care
less or thoughtless hands as jeal-
ously and as zealously as though
hey were settings in a national
cemetery set apart for soldier dead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
A WELCOME FOR THEM

~HE men of the Seventy Ninth
Division, made up of volunteers
and selected men, many of them
from this part of Pennsylvania and
hundreds from Harrisburg and
Dauphin county, are coming home.
Philadelphia is making prepara-
tions for big parade, but what is
this city going to do by way of a
welcome?
They are just as much "our boys
as the veterans of the gallant
Twenty Eighth. They rendered val
liant service on many hard fought
fields and they never suffered a de-
feat They come back to Us as vic.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

A great responsibility rests upon
the Republican party now in control
of both branches of Congress and in
proportion as it proves constructive
in it's policies will the party grow
in the confidence of the people. Mere
criticism of what has or has not been
done by the Democratic administra
ton wilt not satisfy the people who
are looking for relief from ntoler-
able mismanag cement and inefficiency.
1t is generally accepted as a fact that
there has been failure in many quar-
ters during the present administra-
ton and it would be well for the
new Congress to subordinate the ex-
posure of shortcomings and inefti-
cheney to the more important work
Of devising measures of permanent
bctterment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
Read and Suffer

Here Is the favorite wheeze of
Ward 22 in a nearby hospital:
Two Yanks went into a restau-
rant in France. Give us Turkey
with Greece" said the Yank. Wait
er: I'm sorry. but l can't Servia" !"
Yank: Call the Bosphorus" The
Boss: II don't like to Russia, but
you can't Rumania." The two
Yanks went out Hungary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

Hundreds of visitors have been IN
Harrisburg during the last few
months and have learned to appre-
ciate many of the attractive features
of the city. They never tire in their
praise of the unique treatment of the
river front, nor do they restrain their
commendation of the fine system OF
parks, the unusual paving area OF
Harrisburg and the municipal pro-
visions for public recreation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

pansien. and intimated that there
should be removal of the restrictions
which bind the industrial and COM
mereiai giants and prevent the aotiv-
ity which would otherwise be here
II is up to Cengress to take off the
shaekies and allow business to go on
lite way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
Victory Stamp Propaganda
New York Times.

OH1
At meeting of the Bergen
County Republican committee in
Hackensack the other night, Presi-
dent Brennan of the State League of
Republican Clubs. exhibited a new
Scent stamp showing the flag of the
Allies and protested against its is
suance on the ground that it was
Democratic propaganda in favor of
the League of Nations. He said
that no other flag but the Stars and
Stripes should be put on stamps -of
the unltAd ssta4zarG G0zez nnnnt :.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel biz
lets have been used for many
kinds of government work In
many parts of the country?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
A Wise Kansas Editor
rouenemo News. I

The other day fellow was laugh
ing because the News said some
thing that wasn't so. Since 1t was
complimentary to a lady, the News
is not going to get in bad by ratify-
ing the mistake.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
The Child Jesus Acumen

And it came to pass, that after
three days they found in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the doctors,
both hearing them, and asking them
questions. And all that heard him
were astonished at his understand
ing and answers.-Luke II. 40 and
al. :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
Banker and Advertising

What a great banker says about
advertising: "A business that pays
due regard to the proper use of
advertising Is a safer investment
Gall other factors considered)E than
B. ashuaineszathatFi Eporez advertising. =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
An Arkansas Weather Report

[Fort Smith (Ark.) Times -Recorder1
Blackberry winter is lingering in
1.-THE lap of the strawberry shortcake
season, darn 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

Judge Gary. in his recent optimis-
ic speech before the steel manufac-
.urers, did not hesitate to predict a
great era of prosperity for the United
states. Like all other thoughtful and
competent observers of the trend OF
Affairs, he dwelt upon the factors
Ehieh enter into our ceRntrg'a sx-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
HISTORIC HARRISBURC

One hundred years ago there
were scarcely fifty houses above
State street in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

There is no friend like an old friend
Who has shared our morning days,
No greetings like his iCelcome,
No homage like his praise.
-OHuer Wendell Homes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28
Foch's Watch

philadelphia Record.1
The watch on the Rhine at this
writing is held by Foch, and it's a
stop watchs e
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-28

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press Is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
IL er not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-08
MARSHAL F0CH HAS FIRST
HOLIDAY IN FIVE YEARS

Paris. France. Sept Score
spondence Of The Associated Press).-
Marshal Foch is enjoying the first
holiday he has had in five years. On
his estate at Morlaix. near Rrest, the
generaiissimo OF the allied armies is
living the simple life, dressed in loose
rWeeds and wearing cap. only re-
tanning his leather leggins as a re-
hinder Of his uniform.
The marshal is a gerat lover OF
hunting and partridges are thick in
the woods OF Brittany. But the mar
shall disconsOlately watches them
flutter about with impunity. II Will
not be open season for hunting in
France until September Is. It was
open season for the enemy for five
years and the commanderinchief OF
the allied armies never missed a day.
Some newspapers are asking that an
exception be made in favor OF FOch,
one OF them adding narely that "as
he has rendered slight service 10 his
country, in Riding il Of the Germans
he might be allowed to deprive its
woods OF a few partridges.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-08

TANNED with cheering thousands at
eyentide.
1t looked like a triumphal process
sion as the president rode through
the throus Of Iowans. The ten thou
sand people who crowded the COLI
scum in Des Aloiues to its very raft
ers came from all parts Of the state.
Many rode 200 miles TO hear Mr.. VIII
son. II was a spontaneous tribute.
They respect Mr. Wilson out here.
though they don't care much for the
Democratic party.
But the president won his election
IN 1915 by the drift Of the western
folks toward his program Of peace
and his supporters west Of the Missis-
sippi river have not altogether de-
serted him
His strength Is stin based upon an
intense desire for peace and an end
70 war that is stronger than any Do-
htical party and stronger TOO, at
present. than the mistakes OF the
Democratic administration on demo-
cratic policy.
Appeal II Sentimental.
The president is making sentl-
mental appeal He is discussing the
suffering OF Armenia, the plight OF
torn and disturbed France and central
Europe, and the burdens of taxation
as well as the awful possibility Of
further conflict which he predicts viii
come If the United States decides TO
stand off and build Up a big army
and navy and refuses TO do It's part
in Riding the Torld OF the militarism
that made possible a world war.
Eyes are being turned inquiringly
toward the senate. They prayed for
the senate in Des MOines.-Conyrigh
1913, The FL paso Herald