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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
WAGES and Production
[From the New York Sunl

[From the New York SUM
Wages are not money. Wages are
the commodities into which a days
work will exchange. If, to live the
American people need 110,000,0O0
loaves of bread and 110,000,000
pounds of provisions a day, and the
production, through whatever cause.
fell to 55,000,0O0 loaves of bread
and 55,000,000 pounds of other food
you might raise average money
wages to $50 day, but that would
not add a single ounce to the provis-
ions. The American people, on
whatever money wage, would have
to go hungry. To increase its re-
ward-which means to reduce its
cost of living-mankind must in
crease it's production. Under the
laws of nature there is no escape
by a people from that economic
compulsion. When labor increases
its production it has the right to
insist upon getting that increased
production as it's reward If labor
alone achieved the increase. II
ought to exercise that right. In the
possession of its faculties 1t will ex-
ercise it. But it will demand till
doomsday what is not produced,
what does not exist. and never get
it,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
The Story of Midas

[McLandburgh Wilson in the New
York SUM
Midas, favored of his god,
Walking on the autumn sod
Touched the field of goldenrod.
Bright 1t cleaned on every side,
Glimmered far and shimmered wide
Over all the land to bide.
Gold he shifted with every breeze,
Midas started in to wheeze,
Shuttle, snort and weep and sneeZe.
Keener still his anguish grew
TIL he cried in sorrow true:
Goods, take bag your gift! Achoo"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
Why The Prices Are Up
Knoxville Journal and Times

Knoxville Journal and Times1
With the men wearing silk shirts
and getting tired of working, with
women forgetting cooking and the
family demanding the services of a
chauffeur, with everybody studying
how they can pass the buck to
everybody else-why shouldn't a
fellow have to have more money to
keep up the PAGES? A young man,
or the older one, who works four
days in the week. then off two days.
to spend what he has made, will
probably complain the longest and
the loudest of hard times and the
high cost of living. He spends much
of his time in spending what he has
earned and has received. He puts
none of his earnings in the bank.
carries 1t in his pocket, gets rid of
1t. fearful that it might burn holes
in his pockets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
DOoley Sees the World
GFrom, the Kansas City STAR

-
In his latest volume our old
friend, Mr.. Dooley, discussing vari-
Gus matters, comes upon Mr..
Bryan's peace proposals of several
years ago. They included an inter-
national police force. The philoso-
pher of Archie Road comes to this
conclusion:
AN there ye ar-re. I don't
know whether twill succeed or
not I hope so. But there's wan
thing I am afraid iv, Hinnissy.
Ye see, me boy. the wurruld is
a pretty old hunk of mud an
wickedness, an I've been here
a long time an I've observed
this sad thruth. Ye don't have
to lend man money. Ye don't
have to amuse him; ye don't
have to take care iv him If he's
sick; ye don't have to do amy
thing FIR him but wan thing"
AN what's that?" asked Mr..
Hennessy.
"If he wants to fight ye, ye-ve
got to accommodate him." said
Mr.. Dooley.
The world is a pretty old hunk
of mud and wickedness, and the
man who fails to take this into the
account isn't going to get very far
as a peacemaker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
SEE WHO'S HERE

WY ELL well, folks, Just see
w who's here' No less per-
sonage than the old friend
who advises us to do your Christ
mas shopping early" This time it is
the New York Telegra phi that waves
the warning sign and bids us ge:
busy, And the advice is good, at
that Never in the history of the
country We're the stores so crowded
during September as at present, The
prospects are that as the season ad-
vances they will become more so,
We are headed for the biggest
holiday business since Christmas
buying began and December is just
around the corner, 1t will be on us
before we know it. So do your
Christmas shopping early" is not out
of place 1t might be amended,
however, to read, do your Christ
mas shopping a little each week"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
The Boston Outbreak
By BRIGGS
[F'rom the New York World

GF'rom the New York World
What is happening in Boston can
happen in any other large American
city in like circumstances. The great
majority of the people there as else
where are predisposed to law and
order and never need the restraints
of law translated into terms of
physical force. But it is equally true
that n numerous minority are held
in respect for the personal and
property rights of others only by
compulsion, and when that is with
drawn they revert at once to the
control of primitive instincts.
For this situation of general mob
rule and riot and looting and MUIR
der the Boston police, organized as
a labor union and acting as such in
affiliation with other labor unions,
stand forth as wholly responsible.
They knew exactly. what would re-
suit from their action. They delib-
erately invited such a result. They
made the certain consequences all
the more immediate and widespread
by the very publicity and concert
Of their action so carefully and
showily calculated. They not only
deserted their sworn duties in the
face of the enemy, but they did
their best to inform the enemy of
the precise time when the city was
to be disarmed and delivered over
to the mob.
The developments in Boston are
the immediate concern of every city
in the country. The fire there start
ed demands precautionary measures
everywhere against its spread. And
what started the fire there will start
it wherever tolerated.
Soon or late the Boston police
union as n militant strike organiza-
ton will have to give way and dis
solve. 1t is incumbent upon other
cities to see that such unions are
not allowed , start.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
GENERAL STRIKES

general strike sS''tl the &C Central mt
Labor Union of Boston an
nounces in explaining why It is not
supporting the strike of the police
men in that city. 1t might have
gone further and said the time is
never opportune for a general strike.
A general strike can not succeed in
the United States and no condition
can arise that would warrant it
No man who is truly American
would for a moment consider such
a move. for a general strike is next
door to revolution, and a revolution
ist is a man to be shot on sight as
a traitor to the best government
man has ever devised
The Central Labor Union of Bos-
ton simply yielded to the incvita BILE.
There can be no reason for u un-
ionized police force. Civil service
takes care OF police needs and any
thing beside can be threshed out
between their own representatives
and those Of the public. whose safe
ty they have taken oath to preserve.
Their duty is to protect the pub
lie. regardless of rank or station.
and they cannot be subservient to
the orders of labor leaders. They
cannot serve two masters, and the
public comes first.
The Boston police put themselves
beyond pardon when they left the
city at the mercy of the criminal
classes. They lost public support
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25

wy Il u w A Il ID RAFFERTY,
wv just returned from Armenia,
writes that a million
Christian people are in starving con-
dition there. The need is great and
thousands of these must die unless
America sends them food.
The cry of two hundred and
hfty thousand homeless, father
less, mothcrless children is Arme-
MAS great challenge to the youth
OF America. Probably one hun
dred thousand of these do not
Know their names. Even re-
Gently babies have been found
deserted in caves and at the
roads!des, living on grass and
carr ion. Every American boy and
girl, every young man and won.
an who has a home and parents
SHOULD answer this appeal and
make possible food, clothing,
Sheitcr and education for these
destitute thousanGs, many of
whom are now in orphanages in
the very land where Jesus took
the children in His arms and
blessed them. Groups OF young
people in SunGay schools. high
must rot turn a deaf ear to this
pathetic call. | spoke one SUN
day morning to seventeen hum
dred OF these orphans in one or
phanage at AleppC and dreamed
of the new Armenia that sat in
frort. of me. TIE young of
America must go into partnership
with the young Of Armenia to
make possible the perpetuity of a
nation whose God is the Lord.
In all probability more than
scventv-fve thousand unfortu-
nate Christian Armenian girls and
women are yet held as Moslem
slaves in the harems of Turks.
Kurde and Arabs. Many of these
found and photographed by the
writer bore the horrible tattoo
marks indicating Moslcm owner
ship. even as n Western ranch
man brands his cattle. Before
they were rescued and brought to
Refuge Homes they suffered in
dpacrihab'e agon-es. The captlves
must be set free and the rescued
ones must be nurtured back into
health and wholcson" home life.
Thcir need megaphonos n pitiful
challenge to American young
people
America has never turned n dea
ear to the suffering. we must civ,
and give generously. Organized eff
fort is being put forth in this ,direc
ton. it should. and no doubt will
meet with prompt and generou
response. In the elder days Armeni;
stood for Christianity when the re
!igiou wal OIL trial. In these day
Christians everywhere must recog
nize their obligation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
THE BLUE JAY
[By Louise Driscoll.1

[By Louise Driscoll.1
Villon among the birds is he,
A bold. bright rover, bad and
free;
Yet not without such loveliness
AS makes the curse upon him
less,
If larkspur blossoms were a-wing.
If iris went adventuring,
Or, on some morning, we should
see
Heaven bright-blue chicory
Come rifting by, we would for
give
Some little sins, and let them
live!
verlaine among the birds is he.
A creature of inquiry;
And yet, what joy for one who
An orchid drifting through the
trees!
The bluebell said a naughty
In mischief. and there was a
bird.
The blue sky laughed aloud, and
Saw wings of 1apis lazuli.
So fair a sinner surely wins
A little mercy for his sins.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
DR.. Finegan'S Congress
CFrom the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger

[From the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger.1
Doctor Finegan, the new State
superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, is reported as expressing the
opinion that there should be an ad-
justment of the work of the schools
to meet the new conditions that
have arisen as q result of the war.
He has called conference of men
and women interested in education
to meet in Harrisburg IN November
and to discuss the question for q
week. Prominent college professors.
high school teachers and city and
county superintendent will be in
vited. 1t has not yet been announced
whether any one save persons pro-
fessionally interested in education
will be asked to be present.
The fact that the conference has
been called should be encouraging
to those who are hoping that Doc
tor Finegan will make the public
schools of the State equal to those
in any other commonwealth. He
has come here with the hearty in
dorsement of educational experts as
a man who knows how to get re-
suits. His appointment of DR.. Will
liam d. Lewis, of the William Penn
High School, as one of his deputies
indicates that he knows how to
choose men to assist him. Doctor
Lewis Is a man who is not content
to follow the methods that have been
in vogue for a generation merely be-
cause they have been followed by
his predecessors. He has been more
intent on results than on method and
has shown himself willing to discard
everything that does not produce the
results he is seeking. Doctor Fine
gan is understood to be the same
kind of q man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator C. ]. Buchanan, OF
Bucks county, who was president
pro tenn. last Senate. was here on
legal business.
Mayor A. NJ. Hoagland, of Will
Transport, who is a candidate for
reelection, has been prominent
figure in Third-Class City League af-
fairs.
Representative Leopold Glass,
of Philadelphia, is taking part in
the election count controversy.
H. /. Koch, New Allentown
has been secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce of that
place.
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell will
preside at the meeting of the State
Firemen at Lancaster next week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
AN INALIENABIE RIGHT

4" HE American colonies declared
their independence in order
that the inhabitants might be
free to enjoy their inalienable rights
- life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. The Government was or
ganized in constitutional form in
order to protect those rights. In the
maintenance of life and the pursuit
of happiness. work is necessary. 1t
follows. therefore. that the right to
work is inalienable.s must be pro-
tected by the Government and can
not be denied by labor union
whose members decide that they will
discontinue their own employment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
GOOD ADVICE

|" HE Labor World, of Pitts
burgh, a newspaper devoted t.
the interests of labor in Amer
lea, is trying to anchor the swayini
sentiments of alien workmen and t
lead them to understanding tina
there is no place like America; n,
place where opportunity is create
or where better chance to make
decent living offers. even unde
present abnormal conditions. Be
meath the flare heading-"Som
Reasons Why You Should Stay il
America" the World says:
Europe is bankrupt financially
and wave of Bolshevism has
swept into every country there.
Food and clothing are so alb
normally high that Europe is
having trouble in sustaining it's
present population with the
bread of l'fe. Here are some
high prices and conditions in the
Czecho-Slovak Republic: Flour
is SO cents pound, COW costs
$4,000, fat is 81 a pound, horse
costs $4,000, shoes are $40
pair.
Cotton and WOODEN goods are
not TO be had. so the people are
in rags. Meat is very scarce,
and poor quality costs 81
pound. Sugar, tea, coffee and
other luXurles are not to be had.
Drugs are very hign and in most
places not 10 be had at any price.
Beer and all kinds of liquors are
scarce and so high only the rich
people can buy.
The crouin Is worth only 80
cents on the dollar and foreign
merchants demand the French
franc or the pound sterling.
The war taxes ire five times
higher than they are in America.
New farm implements are not
to be had at any price.
Seeds are scarce and of poor
quality.
Industry is at standstilI and
wages are so far below the
American standard that you
would not be satisfied. Send for
your friends and relatives and
stay in America, where peace
and plenty reign. with years of
prosperity and good times ahead
of you! 1t will take from one
year to FIVE years for the coun-
tries of Europe to go through
the reconstruction period and get
back on their feet!
Stay in America!
This, of course, was written for
The benefit of the alien who may be
tempted to leave these shores to try
mis- fortunes in his old home, and
very good advice it is. Wise labor
leaders want these men to remain
with us, both for their own sakes
rs we'll as for ours. We need them
and they need us.
But the messages the Labor
World addresses to foreign work
men is excellent reading for dis
sruntled Americans. as we'll. We
are apt to become discouraged over
the difficulties of present day condi-
tions, Prices are high and taxes
oppressive, Making ends meet i:
q daily puzzle. But we are SO mucl
better off than the people of the
rest of the world that the poores
of us is rich by comparison, In.
stead of brooding over our owr
troubles, if we gave a little thought
to the rest of the world our con-
ditions would seem easy and oul
burdens light by comparison.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25

and sympathy, without which no
strike can succeed, the moment they
left their posts. To have declared a
general strike to enforce police de-
mands woud have been suicidal to
union labor interests in Boston, and
the heads of the Central Union
were wise enough to see it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
Not That One

tFrom the New York World1
The kaiser's late war-kitchen is
to be added to the trophies at the
Smithsonian institution. 1t is field
affair. of course. and not to be con-
founded with the culinary depart
ment in which Wilhelm and his gen.
erals cooked the goose of imperial
Germany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25

TN a few days the u. S. S. Rich
mond, once a part of Admiral
David G. Farragut's fleet, will
be consigned to the scrap heap.
After long service as a training
ship the vessel has been sold by
the Government to a Philadelphia
firm of metal dealers. The Rich
mond, once the flower of the Ameri-
can Navy, on her last voyage will
depart from Norfolk and sail up the
Delaware to Bridesburg, Pa, where
the dismantling will begin.
The Richmond made a proud war
record in Admiral Farragut's fleet.
In his attempt to open up the Mis-
sissippi river from it's mouth, the
Admiral first employed camoufiage
in smearing the sides of his ships
with mud to conceal them from the
enemy. So successful was this
shrewd practice that when the fleet
was later ordered in 1852 to the
Southwest the mud bath was again
repeated.
The old Civil War battle wagon"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
A Suggestion to De Valera
lTrom Punch. London.) }

According to an American report
china raises 100 million pigs an
nually. An expert statistician cal
culates that, IL the whole 100 mil
lion were gathered together in a
flock and their tails pulled. very
little would be heard of the Irish
question.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
Rewards For Mercy and Truth

Let not mercy and truth forsako
thee: bind them about thy neck;
write them upon the table OF thine
heart: So shalt thou find favor and
good understanding in the sight OF
God and man.-Proverbs iii, 5 and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's war gar
dens were among the most pro-
ductive of any city of its size In
the country?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25

Asmoers of the Associated Press-Ths
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
OF all news dispatches credited to
1t or 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.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Canal boat service began here
lust about 80 years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25

We bear our o,cn burdens more
easily Chen zee help others to bear
3heirS-MARY A. LIvERMoRE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-25
ARMENIA AGAIN

WY L d w AR d RAFFERTY,
wv just returned from Armenia
writes that n oun rfarn,i illio,,
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
What Were Those Two to Each othera

What Were Those Two to Each Other2 brother and sister surely; and not lovers. The last was unthinkable Instinctively disliked the man, aware of an instant antagonism, realizing that he was evil; while his companion came to me as revealment of all that was true and worthy, in degree I had never known before. From the instant l looked upon these two I felt con- vinced that, through some strange va gary of fate, we were destined to know more of each other; that our life lines were ordained to touch and become entangled, somewhere in that mystery of the western world to which I had been condemned.
 Then the guards came to me, and with my limbs freed of letters, I was passed down the steep ladder into the semidarkness between decks, where we were to be confined. It proved a dismal, crowded hole in which we were quartered like so many cattle, the only ventilation and light furnished by the open hatch above. The ticket given me called by number for certain berth, and found this, throwing with in the small bundle I bore. Almost immediately there was a sound of tramping feet on the deck above, and the creaking of blocks. Then a sud den movement of the hull told all we were under way.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
WILL AID ROAD BUILDING.
U. s. Railway Administration Will
 Lower Rates on Materials.

U. s. Railway Administration Will
 Lower Rates on Materials.
 Special to The Star.
 Little Rock, April 1S.-The Arkan- sas Corporation Commission yester- day received official notice from the United States Railway Administra- tion, of reduction of 10 cents on the net ton of road building material. This reduction is effective all over the country, on roads controlled by the United States, from May 10, to December 31, this year, and is for the encouragement of highway construc- tion. The state legislature passed an act providing for a reduction in the freight rate on crushed stone and gravel used in road building, and the commission has given the seven short roads in the state, not under govern ment control, notice that next Tues day, May 22, it will take up the ques- tion of making an order for the re- duetion on these lines. There never has been such an era of road build ing as there is in the state at this time, and it is important that the material used in road construction shall be moved as cheaply as possible.
The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24
Notice to Confirm and Quiet Title.

Notice is hereby given, that A. J. Fair has on this day filed in my office his petition to the Chancery Court of Polk County, Arkansas, wherein he claims title to the following described lands, to-wit:
 The southeast quarter of section eight (8) in township four (4) south, of range thirty-one (31) west, in Polk County, Arkansas, and therein prays the court to grant a decree quieting and confirming his title in and to said lands.
 Now, Therefore, all persons who. have or claim any right, title or in.- terest in said lands or any part there of are warned 'and called upon to ap- pear in said Chancery Court within six weeks from this date and show cause if any there be, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted and why the title to said lands should not be quieted and confirmed in the petitioner.
 Given under my hand as Clerk of the Chancery Court of Polk County, Arkansas, on this 17th day of April, 1919. w. L. PARKER, Clerk. Adv. First pub. April 24.
 Last pub. May 29' 1919.