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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
CLIMBING THE LADDER

A MOTHER Harrisburg boy Is
Il bearing alcft the banner Of
a - the old home town as he as
cends the ladder of u useful and sue
cessful career. We have reference,
of course, Ito the election, Saturday
of L. H. Kinnard, at Philadelphia, as
the president of the Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania-the Very
top rouid of the great telephone
system which he has helped to de-
velop step by step and which now
finds him at its head.
or course, Harrisburg is proud of
Kim and gratifed because of this
latest recognition of his proved fit
ness for high executive position.
Mr.. Kinnard has never lest touch
with the city of his birth and his
pleasure in the growth and improve
ment of Harrisburg has been no less
than the appreciation by his friends
here of his interest in the city where
he began, in a modest and patient
way, the career which has made him
an outstanding figure in foremost
utility. His is brilliant record of
achievement and Harrisburg is glad
to acclaim him as a worthy son who
is maintaining the best traditions OF
the home town-thc progressive COM
munity where he climbed the first
telephone pole.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

~O-DAY the American people
pause to pay respect to the
memory of Theodore Roosevelt,
on his birthday.
In doing so they place him along
side Washington and Lincoln in the
history of the country.
1t has not required the perspec-
tive of years to show us the figure
of Roosevelt in it's truly great pro-
portions. The country realized its
loss the moment the news of his
death was flashed across the wires.
Roosevelt was the greatest expo
nent of Americanism his generation
has seen. 1t is a pity that he could
not have been permitted to die as
he desired-on the battle lines of
France fighting for the perpetuation
of the ideals of democracy; it is sad
to think that pettiness and jealousy
of men in high places which could
not keep him from rendering a great
service to the Nation during the war
should have been successful in keep
ing him out of uniform. History
will write it to their discredit; not
his.
His example will stand for all time.
Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt!
So long as the country produces
men like them, America is safe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

the whistle or shrek of the shell
which is caused by the wake OF air
following the projectile.
Accuracy of Work
THE accuracy with which the
work was done is remarkable. Dur
ing the st. Mehiel drive, in a period
of three weeks of advance, the corps
found 425 separate locations of
enemy batteries. OF these two
American flash posts found 63 per
cent and three French posts got 16
per cent. Three American sound
posts located 81 per cent.
"A little later during stationary
period in which 392 positions were
located, three American flash posts
found 3S per cent, two French flash
posts per cent and three American
found 54 per cent. The American
were much faster and worked with
far greater accuracy than the
French. 1t took but six or seven
observations to locate within 20
yards of an enemy battery.
THE Germans tried ear sound
ranging, but it was insufficient and
slow. We did in two minutes what
it took them about three-quarters of
an hour"
In closing Doctor Trowbridge paid
tribute to the men who worked
under him.
1T is entirely due to them," he
said, that the work was successful.
L was but the figurehead and direc-
tor. The honors which 1 have since
received are but tribute to them,
given me because I happened to be
their leader. They worked tire
lessly, without rest or leave, and
only about 1000 of them served the
entire army" .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
THE RED CROSS BBIDGE

A SUGGESTION made in another
II column tonight that the
bridge which the State OF
Pennsylvania will some day build
across the Susquehanna to provide
for a western entrance to the civic
center of the Commonwealth be
named in honor of the Red Cross
of Pennsylvania is most excellent
and timely.
The great bridge to be construct
ed on the East front of the Capitol,
which has been lauded by everyone
who has been told of the plan,
is to be the memorial of a grateful
State to it's warrior sons and the
capital city will build its memorial
to its own at the eastern end of the
half-mile granite structure.
Comprehensive plans call for the
building of another bridge to link
the Capitol with the great roads
coming from the southern counties
and States, and certainly nothing
could be more appropriate than to
name it in honor of the women who
did their part so well during the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
The Worlds Age

Who will say the world is dying?
Who will say our prime is past?
Sparks from heaven, within us lying,
Flash, and will flash, till the last.
Fools who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
Ante-room to. hell.
Still the race of Hero-spirits
Pass the lamp, from hand to hand,
Age from age the Words inherit
Wife, and Child, and Father
land"
Still the youthful hunter gathers
Fiery joy from void and wood;
He will dare as dared his fathers
Give him cause as good.
While a slave bewails his fettersi
While an orphan pleads in vain;
While an infant lisps his letters.
Heir of all the ages gain;
While lip grows ripe for kissing;
While al moan. from man is wrung;
Know by every want and blessing,
That the world is young.
Charles Kingsley.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
THE PRESIDENTS STAND
TN HE American people as a whole
will heartily approve the firm

TN HE American people as a whole
will heartily approve the firm
stand President Wilson and
his Cabinet have taken in the threat
ened bituminous coal strike. The
statement to which he subscribed On
Saturday is vigorous in language,
forceful of purpose and designed to
give the miners pause for thought.
1t is pity that he did not show his
mettle earlier, thereby avoiding
much of the present industrial dis
turbanCes. for it is unthinkable that
the soft coal miners will fly in the
face of authority so strongly rep
resented. If they do their fate is
in Their own hands and they perforce
must accept the results, whatever
they may be. Uncle Sam is not so
easily frightened as private en-
ployers. If necessary, hc can oper-
the industry on its feet and the diff
liculties settled. and the people could
afford to stand such loss better
than to be deprived of coal.
The President does not say so, but
the miners up to this time have not
produced any rea! reason for their
demands over and above the fact
that they believe their organization
able to demand anything it chooses
to ask, realizing that the livelihood,
yea the very lives, of millions of
people depends upon a steady flow
of soft coal from the mines. And
the American people are getting
pretty tired of this, Money or your
! life" stand and deliver" policy.
They have more at stake than the
miners themselves and they will
stand back of the President in his
determination to insure for them
the fuel they must have.
I Mr.. Wilson has offered the miners
Il way out. They may arbitrate il
they wish, and be assured of a
square deal. There remains for
them to accept his suggestion OF
| declare a strike with which nobody
| outside their union will have any
sympathy and which is bound to
! fail,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Ode in Memory of Theodore
Roosevelt

Tread at the Roosevelt Memorial
Meeting held in Lyon]
A man has died. We pause to meet
this hour
OF reverent grieving,
And see the empty road where once
This comrade of our youth this man
of power,
Upon whose sudden leaving
A something in each one OF US
seems dead.
He lived the wonder spirit of our
land,
OF our cities with their towering
OF brick and steel;
He breathed the glow of Arizona's
sand,
Barren but glistening where the
desert teens
With burning life. He heard the
crying call
OF cattle ranches far in Idaho.
And in Dakota's summer grazing
plains
He sought the hoof prints of the
buffalo.
Within his very veins
He felt the message of our soil, and
Our craving for the forest and the
might
OF giant shouldered Rocky noun
tain peaks
Rising to touch the beckoning stars
at night.
He breathed from sea to sea
The fragrance of things infinitely
free,
And heard the endless miracle that
speaks
From every corner of our Mother
Thus could he fling with tempered
His life upon the world and press
his hand
Up to the high fruition of his goal
His days in their torrential zeal of
living
Were but flow of ever candid
giving,
Until at last this ageing man of fire
Whom sixty years made young with
young desire
Has died.
We pause before his shrouded
bed
And something in each one of us is
dead.
Rudolph Altrocchi,
End. 1t. Inf, U. S. A, Liaison officer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Anri-IuberculoSiS Campaign

[From the Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin.1
There are 10000 deaths annually
in Pennsylvania from tuberculosis,
while $4,000 to 100000 others have
the disease.
At least $4,000 of those having
consumption receive no systematic
medical treatment, either because
they do not know they have the dis
ease or because they fail to go to a
doctor through timidity or indif-
ference.
Over 1900 Pennsylvania men were
rejected for army service because
they had tuberculosis unknown to
themselves and the health authorities
School medical inspections in
pennsylvania show that 65 per cent
of the children have physical defects
State county and city authorities
are doing much excellent work IN
fighting the white plague.
But they cannot do all.
Their work will be a success only
as public opinion is enlightened and
people made to see the vital need of
better health habits.
The State can legislate but laws
will do little good if the people are
not educated and trained.
Private health agencies, such as
the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis, find their
chief work in educational propa.
ganda. Their efforts are fully en-
dorsed by the State Health Depart
ment. In fact, State health officials
say they can do little If the people
are not educated by such agencies
as the tuberculosis society.
National and State health authori-
ties have Joined in asking private
health agencies to enlarge their pro-
gram for next year. It is for this
reason that a much larger sale of
Red Cross seals is being planned for
this fall.
Locally this work is in charge of a
committee of the anti-tuberculosis
society.
Williamsport and Lycoming county
will. as always, do their full share
in this work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Sugar Short or DiSlOcdted

From the Washington Star.
1t makes but little difference to
the housekeeper whether the sugar
supply is short or is merely dis
located" as Claus A. Spreckels testi-
fed recently before the Senate Com
mittee on Agriculture, investigating
the matter. All that the sugar user
knows to-day is that it is next to i'm
possible to get sugar in any quantity
at any price. So far as the domestic
use of sugar is concerned there is
shortage, call it what you will. Dis
location implies boarding, and the
Mr.. Spreckels charges, naming par
ticular firms as guilty of holding
back immence quantities of sugar.
1t should be possible under the law,
certainly under the amended food
control act, which is now awaiting
the Presidents signature, to punish
those guilty of the holding back of
supplies of necessities.
If there is no real shortage of
sugar in this country, if there is
enough to keep the people supplied,
somebody is assuredly guilty of a
most criminal ''dislocation." Vari-
Gus explanations have been advanced
to account for the situation, but none
has been entirely satisfactory. Some
allege undue interference by the
Government in the matter of price.
Some allege the failure of transpor-
tation through the strike of long
shoremen in New York. Some cen
tend that it is due to a conflict be-
tween beet and cane sugar inter-
, ests. Meanwhile the housewife suf-
fers for sugar. During the preserv-
ing season she was held on short
+ rations and immense quantities OF
fruit that could have been saved fer
winter use went to waste. There is
no token that the use of sugar in
the manufacture OF ice cream and
candy has been curtailed and the
display of great quantities of con-
fectionery is calculated to arouse the
indignation of those who are fruit
1 lessly seeking sugar for family use
! from store to store day after day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
MORE PROFITEERING

u ROwN sugar sold as high as
- twenty cents pound in Har-
risburg on Saturday.
Butter went to a maximum of
ninety cents a pound.
Both these prices are unreason-
able, unjust and beyond the patience
of a very patient public.
Both are plain evidence that Mr..
Palmer is not getting very far in his
war" on the profiteers.
If brown sugar was worth only
ten cents a few days ago it is not
worth one cent more to-day and
with many milk condensers closed
and milk being refused by many of
the crcameries-due to the sugar
shortaGe-there is no excuse for
ninety cent butter.
There is only one reason for it
all-greed; the desire to wiring the
last cent of profit from every sale;
to gouge the consumer and grab as
much as possible, giving in return
as little as possible.
This is the sort of business that
adds fuel to the public unrest, 1t is
rank injustice and when the Gov
ernmcnt promises to correct the evil
and does not, unthinking men lose
confidence in the Government, fail
ing to distinguish between good in
stitutions and weak or faulty public
servants.
The price of sugar must he ma n
tanned at a reasonable figure, and
butter and other foodstuffs the same
if we are not to add recruits to the
forces of disorder now doing their
best to upset the country. Every
or manufacturer wh o
takes penny more profit than is
fair is playing into the hands of
reds" and radicals. And Il Govern
ment official who tells us that food
prices are declining the while we
know that some of them are going
up like sky rockets is either Woe
fully misled or is trifling danger
ously with public sentiment.
Next year, thank heaven, comes
presidential election, when we shall
have opportunity of turning out of
office the army of incompetents and
worse who have well nigh ruined
the country.
But that does not remedy the
present perilous situation. i
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
The Capital City

Penn, writing in the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin about a conversa-
ton with a Harrisburger interested
in public improvements here, says:
"One of the things that is taking
place." he informs me, "is the Gull
tivation of a broader public senti-
ment in the relations of Harrisburg
to the rest of the State. We feel
th:-t in having the seat of State gov
ernment with us we should be
more of an object of interest as a
community to all the people of
Pennsylvania. The sort of distrust
which used to exist between the in
land and Philadelphia, for example,
sort of inherited state of mind,
has much declined and there ought
to be none at all. PHILADELPHIA
constantly becomes nearer to us by
reason of fast trains, motor cars,
telephones and so on, and Pennsyl-
vanians in the interior ought to
take pRde in it as their great city
and port. AS for ourselves at Har-
risburg, we want to have Philadel-
phia take pride in us at the State
capital"
Time was when Philadelphia
wanted the return of the Capitol; in
fact that feeling fingered as late as
the perlou Wnen the capitol was
burned down in 1897 and the ques-
ton came up as to how it should
be replaced. To-day, or since the
present Capitol was dedicated, the
fixity of the capital at Harrisburg
has become apparently immutable.
and sometimes, too, when one goes
thither on the Iii P. NJ. train and
finds himself there before he has
finished reading the early edition of
the Evening Bulletin, he almost
feels as il the seventy thousand
population on the banks of the
Susquehanna may some day be-
come a Philadelphia suburb. Ger
tainly the time is not distant when
aviation will easily carry us there
regularly in thirty to forty minutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

in the campaign now being wa..~
between District Attorney George
MaXey and Judge James O'Ne!ll, in
Lackawanna county. Each party is
openly supporting one of the two
candidates with leaders in the Re-
publican wing, including County
Chairman Zimmerman, advising
voters to support Mr.. Maxey on the
ground that he has always been a
Republican, and that through his
election the Republicans will gain
control of the bench here. The
Democrats were the first to violate
the nonpartisan policy in the
judgeship campaign and the Repub-
licans promptly accepted the chal-
lenge."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John C. Acheson, Pittsburgh
college president, says the death
penalty should be meted out to dan
gerous radicals.
John C. Jones, Philadelphia
manufacturer, has been given the
distinguished service cross for ord
nance work during the war.
Thomas Patterson. attorney,
we'll known here, is chairman of
Roosevelt Day celebration in Pitts
burgh.
-Ellwood j Turner, of Chester.
chairman of the Chester Community
Service drive, has long been active
in municipal affairs.
-Ex-Mayor Ira w. Stratton has
been selected as head of the Read
ing Red Cross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

worldwide struggle for freedom.
The Red Cross is the greatest
women's organization in the world,
the sign of mercy and sacrifice.
A bridge dedicated to the women
of the Red Cross of the Keystone
State would be fitting indeed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

Another publication. the Bache Re
view. has been issued without the aFl
of typesetters. The current number
was produced from engraved sheets
oc typewriting and the appearance of
the publication is quite attractive.
Wonder whether the striking print
ers in New York City are now forcing
a new era in the whole printing in
dustry by changing the methods Of
printing? Necessity is the mother of
invention and the important maga-
zines and other publications which
have been suspended during the con-
troversy in New York City will find q
way out of their difficulty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Daylight SdUing

[F'rom the Altoona Tribune.l
The question of daylight saving
will not became acute before late in
May, 1920. Before that time arrives
Congress may have been convinced
by popular protest and appeal that
it blundered when it passed over the
Presidential veto the bill to repeal
daylight saving. Voices from var
ious sections of the Republic may
be so numerous and so strenuous as
to convince Congress that there is
nothing to be done but to march
down the hill again.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Earth Is Not Perfect Yet

[From Seattle acknowledgement
Some of the sharps are trying to-
communicate with Mars, but it would
seem the part of intelligence to try
to improve our mail and telegraph
facilities and try also to understand
each others signals here on earth
before we aspire to interplanetary
comm unication
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

By the way. as an individual citi-
zen it is your duty to take an interest
in the loans which are to be submit
ted to the people at the November
election and no Indifference on your
part ought to menace any of the
items which will appear upon the
ballot
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
SaDinq Sugar

[From the Houston Post
They tell us that sugar famine
is certain. We heard that during
the war, when the system was to
restrict us to a teaspoonful for
cup of coffee and permit us to buy
candy by the ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Hail the Jitney Liners!

[From the Providence Journal
Now 1t is rumored that Mr.. Ford
is going to establish line of trans-
Atlantic steamers. Hail the jitney
liners!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg made steel
used for fiat cars employed In
war work?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Who's Who in Russia

IFrom the Chicago News1
If Russia has national Who's
Who" it must be necessary to get
out an extra edition every day or
two.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Too Good to Be True
IFrom the L

From the Detroit News.1
There is no loss without some gain.
The volcanic eruption in Hawaii may
have buried many ukuleles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

Members of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
sof all news dispatches credited to
it 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, 1919-10-27

1t Is the business of this life TO make
GTcuseS for others, but none for our
Selues.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
HIsToRIC HARRIsBURG

Indians used to come here for
big annual fur sales late In the
winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
Small Piece of Platinum, Far in
the Rear of Battle Lines, Located
Hun Guns and Helped Win War


Howl Location and
GayeT Target They Firing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

-Rcoarding The nassing nm Of tho
nonpn rtisan election ideas the
Lackawanna and Lehigh contests
WORTHY of mention. They look
Ike straight marty fights and there
gro some others in the arsocinte
'ud~eship elections. Regarding the
Ia ckawanna fight the Philadelphia
Press SAYS THE doctrine of non
uartisanism In elections of judges
has been knocked to the four winds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27

n ROwN sugar sold as high as
- twenty cents pound in Har-
risburg on Saturday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
ROOSEVELT'S BIRTHDAY

"O-DAY the American people
pause to pay respect to the
memory of Theodore Roosevelt,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-15
FRENCH ARMY To
OUTNUMBER HUNS
Will Maintain Numerical Su-
nremaCy Of Three to One
Over Germans.

PARIS. Aug. 15.-Though engag-
ed in demobilizing her entire re-
serve army, France VIII maintain
Numerical supremacy Of at least
three 20 one over Germany's military
Z fces. thus guaranteeing the out
carrying Of the treaty terms
Al the present time France has
nearly two million men under arms.
but the present Generalization plans
call for the discharge Of all but
500. 900 before November I. Ger
May now has about 100000 men in
her volunteer armies. This number
must be reduced TO 100000 during
the next few months Hence. in
Novenb Der, with Frances demObiliz-
alton completed and Germany re-
duced TO the army permitted her by
the treaty, France will still have full
control OF the situation.
DemobiIize BY March
on March 81. 1920, Germany will
have TO have demobiIized all but a
perm anent standing force OF 100, 600
men. France will on that date still
have $685. men modified. or a
superiority Of six to ore. Not only
will France then be in a position 10
watch Germany closely, but she will
be aided also by the occupation
forces Of the United States, England
and Beigium.
With Germany thus reduced in
military strength, France has hopes
OF also lessening the term Of service
for her troops. The French have in
the past been driven 10 long term
obligatory service by Germany. The
future promises 10 remove this cause
permanently. The 10000 men
Frakce viii for the time being re-
tain under arms consist Of two classes
those Of 1918 and 1919 as well as the
professional ard colonial troops.