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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
THE DIFFERENCE
WYE venture the guess that If
w the Pennsylvania State Po-

WYE venture the guess that If
w the Pennsylvania State Po-
lice had been in charge of the
situation in Cleveland on May Day
there would have been no blood
shed and little disorder.
At Yankeetown and Watertown.
Indiana county, the State police
broke up the red flag parades of
foreign-born radicals before they
got fairly under way and while
there were few marchers in line.
The ring leaders were arrested and,
OF course, that stopped the demon
stration, for the rank and file of the
ship or it does nothing. 1t would
be a great thing If the federal gov
ernment, playing on this fact, sent
out foreign-speaking agents to in
struct these foreigners in the prin-
ciples of American government and
the meaning of our democracy. The
trouble is that these people need
education of the right sort and, in
stead of getting it, they are having
their heads filled with nonsense by
the agitators who are the only
teachers to address them. Conse-
quently. they go wrong.
The State Police, knowing these
facts full well, have been able to
break up red-fiag gatherings in Penn
sylvania by getting rid of the ring
leaders and letting the others know
they have nothing to fear so long
as they conduct themselves properly
If some of Captain Lumb's men
had been on the job in Cleveland
that parade would never have got
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
THIS is THE DAY!

[From Kansas City Star, April 30l
Oh-o-o Skinnay! Hurry up!
The day is here. The train will
soon be in. Run like everything!
The boys are coming home. It's
the day we've all been waiting for.
The First division of Kansas City
soldiers to arrive from the front
actually from the front-the One
Hundred and Tenth Engineers and
the One Hundred and Twenty eighth
Field Artillery-are due to arrive
this morning. We can hardly be-
lieve it, it is such bully good news.
Therell be nothing much done to-
day but welcome. Let business go
hang.
The boys are coming home.
The breakfast dishes will not be
washed this morning. you can bet on
that. Maybe the tables will not be
cleared" The cat will be pat out,
the canaries will be fed early; the
house will be locked up. 1t will be
an off day for agents and bill col
lectors. There will be a note left
on the rear door for the laundry
driver to leave the bundle on the
back steps, for the neighbor on the
south and the neighbor on the north,
also will be away from home to-
day.
Kansas City is going down to the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

depot this morning. bright and early.
Never mind about dressing up. To-
night we expect to look "all mussed'
anyway. For we are going to shout
and yell-and cry.
The boys are coming in-and
among them, the boy.
We are going to lay eyes upon
him, and hands We have hoped for
this hour, and we've prayed for this
hour. and we've paid for this hour.
We have given our hearts to the
cause, along with the boy, and we've
contributed to the Red Cross ana
we've bought Liberty bonds-all be-
cause our hearts were centered III
the day of his return from the bat
tlefield, victorious, well accounted
for, brave, courageous, manly.
1t is not day for oratory; not a
day for eulogy; not a day for words.
We are going to show them what we
think of them.
So, come along. Let's be going
down town. We rather expect the
train to be a little late-trains usu-
ally are late, but we wouldn't have
one of those trains come in before
we get there for anything. We want
to shout for the first one to arrive,
and we want to shout for the last
one to arrive.
We will not even read this well
come word in the paper. We will
put it aside and read tonight, to-
morrow, or some day next week.
What's the use of reading about the
soldier boys coming home, when
we're going down to see them.
oh, joy. They're coming in to-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
Top O. the MOrnin0!

Smell of the woods in the morning;
The sun shines gold through the
trees,
And the heavens are filled with mu-
sic
From the lips of the wide-eyed
breeze.
And who's for a plunge in the water
A swim in the laughing lake?
Be quick! There is breakfast TO
follow
And there still is the fire to make.
I'm in! What a splash! Are YOU
ready?
Who, who would lie lazy asleep
When all of the wide world is call
ing
With the lure of the lake blue
and deep?
So come, that's the stuff, all to-
gether,
Swim, swim with a stroke true
and straight
To the boat and the first back, the
winner
Great ginger! But swimming is
great!
The first back, the first one to break
fast!
Then the trail once again and the
fun
The day lies alluring before us,
And the morning is only begun!
Edmund Leamy in Boys Life for
MAJ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
Easy TO Vice Out Paris
Twill Irwin in the Saturday
Evening Post.

In a new war between France
and Germany the sudden destruction
of Paris at the beginning of hostili-
ties would just about win the war
for Germany. The entire confus-
ION of the greatest national rail-
way center; the destruction of the
seat of government, finance and COM
merce; the general panic-would so
delay and confuse mobilization that
the French Army would be easy
prey.
MobiliZing aircraft fleets and tor
pedoes behind the Rhine would be
no very difficult task as compared
with that of mobiliZing an army.
From there the fleets could be above
Paris. at present speeds, within two
or three hours. An advanced squad
ron of skirmishers would drop upon
the roofs of Paris n multitude of
small, noneXtinguishable phosphor-
Gus bombs to set the roofs on fire
and give the main fleets sight of their
target. In fact, the Germans, when
the armistice came, were planning
to use this method in their next
raids on Paris. 1t is not at all un-
likely that by the time for the next
war, aircraft attack will be so per-
lGCltu llill di "tth VI StiCll Idlulu5
would finished off city like Paris
or New York.
OF course, the old, hampering,
chivalrous rule that q city about to
be bombarded must be notified in
order that noncombatants may be
removed, went by the board long
ago. Such notice would ruin the
element of surprise, which is half
the battle in such an attack. Be
sides, in modern warfare, there are
practically no noncombatants. In
Il new general European war the
destruction of nearly all the great
European cities. with the wealth
and beauty which they have been
accommodating for two thousand
years, stands we'll within the limits
of possibility. In case of an armed
peace, such as Europe had for forty
years before this war. men might
have to rebuild their cities with the
valuable, the "living" part, under
ground.
Only recently an authority on
bacteriology eXpounded to me the
horrible possibility of ravaging n
whole population. military and civil
lar alike, with swiftly killing incur
able diseases. while guarding vour
own army and your own population.
believe that with little patient
research 1T could be done. And given
the perpetuation of war as an insti-
tuition some race of Bernhardis is
certain to arise which will Justify
this method-and use it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Congressman B. f. Focht has
five engagements to speak in his
district this month.
N. NJ. Edwards presided at the
Williamsport Victory Loan meeting.
He is city solicitor and well known
here.
w. d. Mahon, head of the troll
leymen's union, is in Pittsburgh in
connection with the controversy over
the increase in wages.
A. Leo We'll, the Pittsburgh
lawyer figuring in the West Virginia
gas suit. started his career as Il
lawyer in Bradford.
Colonel +. A. Snyder, who is
coming home as head of the Key
stone Division engineers, spent years
in Canada and Northern States. He
lives now in Philadelphia.
George w. King, a Pittsburgh
Fire Department captain and in SER
vice since 1866, has retired.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
Real "Melting Pot' Here
Will Be Found in Universal Training For Nations
Service, Wood Says

becoming uainted-knowing each
other, talking things over.
IF there is anything good in them
and there is much more of good
than of bad in all classes of our
population-it will come out. Men
as they work on in fair weather and
storm, on the march and in the
watches of the night, discussing
many of life's problems, come grad
ually to know and understand each
other as men going to a common
destination, and on the whole and at
heart, actuated very largely by the
same purposes and ambitions, the
same hopes and fears. Standing in
the ranks, stripped of all llartifcial dis
tinctions, indeed, of all distinctions
other than those which are given by
character, courage, physique, and
education, they learn to judge each
other by truer standards and to meas
ure each other not by wealth or an
cestry, but bv character and by the
manner in which each does the days
work and by the way in which each
lives up to the American standards
and ideals. Bv this ] mean those high
standards which we who love Ameri-
ca establish as indicative of the best
Americanism''
In conclusion General Wood says
that in universal training he be-
lieves will be found n flame hot
enough to make America what she
is not and never has been. to the ex-
tent we would havn her-a real
melting pot. in which all the divers
elomenta which come into. our pop
ulaton will he fused into one homo
geneous mass of Americansm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
n n AJoR GENERAL LEONARD

AJOk dEN EftAL IEONAIlD
M WOOD, in the May issue of
the Metropolitan Magazine,
says in an article on "UniversalTrain-
ing for National Service" that at
present this is "of vital Importance
to the United states, and that adop-
ton of the principle will mean "a
stronger national spirit and u better
understanding between the groups
and classes of our people, between
labor and capital, Jew and Gentle.
immigrant and native born, Catholic
and Protestant" Universal training,
he thinks, will do more than any
thing that has ever been attempted
to iron out those shallow differences
which so often come from lack of
understanding, appreciation and
sympathy between the different
groups and classes of our population
differences little in the beginning,
but often leading to misunderstand-
ing and friction and finally to open
hostility"
Bring our people together should
er to shoulder Labor and Capital,
the newcomer and the native born,
East and West. North and South.
and let them know each other" is
General Woods advice. Let them
become acquainted one with another
while they are preparing for service
with n purpose single to the nations
welfare. Once men are thrown to-
gether under these conditions you
will find that these little differences
will disappear like snow before the
south wind. There are no influences
which are stronger than contact un-
der favorable conditions. than men
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
PROTECT THE CHILDREN

" HE meeting called for the Board
of Trade hall this evening, un-
der the auspices of the Visiting
Nurses and the Civic Club, at which
Stanley G. Jean will be chairman
and Health Commissioner Martin
will preside, should be largely at
tended.
The Visiting Nurses Association
has done more for the health of the
children of Harrisburg than most
people realize, and its members have
had the hearty support and CO.
operation of the Civic Club. Now it
is proposed to widen the work, to
interest more parents in it and to
make Harrisburg model city from
the standpoint of child welfare and
health.
The announcement that DIR. Dor
othy Child, superintendent Of the
Children's Division of the State
Health Department, and Miss Sallie
Lucas Jean. of the Child Health Or
ganization, will speak, make it cer-
tain that those who attend will hear
something worth while. Bdth are ex-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

The Political Master Generals
urgent recommendation to the Presi-
dent for a prompt return of the
cables and telegraph and telephone
lines to their efficient owners, sug-
gests the chap who had no use for
the hot END of the poker. or the
affrighted hunter who yelled to his
comrades, as he rushed for cover. that
he was bringing the bear to camp.
Burleson has at last heard from the
people and mayhap the voices in the
air have reached him. For arbitrary
Indifference to public sentiment he
has had no equal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Eugenes Sues Mysteries of
Paris" cannot compare in contem-
poraneous human interest with the
daily correspondence from that city
nowadayS.-New York Sun.
There are. moments when we Won
der If, perhaps, the money that the
war cost could not have been spent
to better advantage in some other
way.-New York Call.
The Bolsheviki are weakening at
home and growing stronger away
from home. The home-fol5 know
the BoIsheviii best.-Charleston
News and Courier.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
He KneU

To -the-Soup war
news comes slowly. All the talk is
still of the great German retreat.
The news of the armistice will not
arrive till the week after next.
Hence the following:
How do you reckon them soldiers
kept the dugouts from Gavin in?"
asked the oldest inhabitant.
Why" said the landlord of the
Pink Pig, "I certainly am surprised
at your ignorance o. military affairs!
They cemented 'em with this here
trench mortar. From Answers.
London
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

It's too bad that on the Fiume and
other subjects of disagreement at the
Paris Conference this country has
been placed in the position of holding
the bag. President Wilson's arhi-
trary methods have been responsible
in large measure for much of the re-
sentiment of former friends of the
United States abroad, and to his
cocksure attitude on grave points of
difference as to the real sentiment Of
his countrymen has been directly due
the unfortunate revulsion in popular
feeling among our allies. Sentiment
in this country is rapidly crystalliz-
ing, and when the President permits
Congress to meet the lawmakers will
net need to investigate public opinion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

ten under way, and so the rioting,
chances are, would have been avoid
ed This is the chief difference be-
tween the Pennsylvania State Po-
lice and less efficient officers else
where.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
THEY'RE COMING HOME

" HEY are coming home-those
boys of ours-as fast as the red
tape of military life will free
them from the service.
Of course, it would have been a
fine thing to have had the entire
Twenty-eighth Division parade as a
unit in Philadelphia. The people
had their hearts set on that be,
cause they wanted to pay special
tribute to the men who went out
with the old National Guard of
Pennsylvania to represent this Com
monwealth on the battlefields of
Europe. They have brought honor
untold to the standards of the Key
stone State and it was but natural
that their friends and neighbors
should have desired to let them
know how the home-folks feel about
it.
But the war-weary veterans want
TO come home more than they want
10 parade, and so there will be no
final review of the famous Twenty
eighth. We can understand that.
For more than two years their
thoughts have been constantly 60
ing forward to that glad day when
they should lay aside their rifles
and uniforms and come back to the
old home town. A thousand times
they have dreamed of being back
again with their families and
friends; of renewing the old ties,
of getting back to the old job. oh,
it has been weary while for them
since they marched so gallantly
down Market street in answer to
the call to arms, and they have had
their fill of parading. What they
want is to get home, and who can
blame them?
But if there is to be no divisional
parade, there will be a great DEM
onstration when the Harrisburg
companies of the One Hundred and
Twelfth arrive in Harrisburg on
their way back from camp. Every
man, woman and child in the city
will want to help make the cele-
bration a rousing success. THE
bands will play, the children shout,
the ladies they will all turn out"
as the old song has ii, "and Wen
give him a rousing welcome them
when Johnny comes marching
home"
No matter what the hour of ar
rival, no matter what the day, we
shall be at the station, or as near
to it as the police lines will per-
nit and we shall cheer ourselves
hoarse and be really. truly carefree
and happy for the first time since
the men of the old National Guard
companies marched away and left
so many Harrisburg hearthstones
desolate and so many hearts sad and
pining. It's been a long time COM
ing, this day of the return, but it
will be well worth the waiting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
IOlUd Farm Tenant Problem

About fifty-one per cent. of the
farm land in Iowa is now operated
by tenants, according to the annual
report of the Agricultural Expert
ment Station, Ames, Ia Increased
price of farm land is given as the
cause. Most of the tenants desire to
become owners. State and national
aid is being sought by the station
to aid returning soldiers to gain a
foothold on the land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
WORTH A TRIAL

DUBLIC SERVICE COMMIS-
SIONER A1NEY gave an In
teresting turn to the discussion
of street railway troubles in mis-
81. Louis speech when he urged the
fve-cent fare as the best ISOLATION
of the revenue problem of the most
popular public utility. Chairman
Ainey, in his official position, has had
opportunity to make an intelligent
study of the whole matter and in
his conclusion as TO practical rem
edy he will have the concurrence OF
many who believe an important
public service is being menaced by
existing conditions. If increasing
fares fails to provide the necessary
revenue, then Mr.. Ainey's plan
would seem to invite a trial in the
interest of public favor and a lal ger
income.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

perts with broad experience in this
line of work and they will bring q
message to Harrisburg that will be
in full harmony with the energetic
campaign the State Health Commis-
sioner is waging here for cleaner,
more healthful. capital city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

The returning Harrisburg soldiers
will have something to say about the
proposed bathing facilities in the
Susquchanna Basin. They have not
forgotten the inadequate shower
baths and the infrequent spigot over
seas. 1t will be a solid soldier vote
on this question in the affirmative,
but they will want to know in ample
time what they are voting for and
have a glimpse of the designs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

English girls are concerned over
the shortage of available husbands
over there, and Harrisburg girls are
wondering how many French war
brides are likely to reduce the
matrimonial supply when our own
boys come back. It's a throbbing
question.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
DO YOU KNOW

Harrisburg was one of the
first cities in the State to
motorize its fire apparatus?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first fire company was
formed in this city soon after the
town was laid out in 1885. Its
equipment was buckets
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

and the United States and all it's
people would reap enduring gains
from the national encouragement of
home building
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

Judge KunkePs opinion on the
Burleson invasion of State control of
its public utilities must have made its
way to the White House in Paris. In
any event, the coon came down,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03
Gaining in Favor

During the first three months of last
the Harrisburg Telegraph led its
competitor local advertising 13S,OOO lines
During the first three months of this
its leadership in local advertising scared
to .22o,OOO lines
with which Telegraph blankets the field with
City Suburban and Total
Circulation Country Circulation Circulation
Over 10000 Over 1900 10000
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-03

Members of the Associated Press-The
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, 1919-05-03

Do that tchich is assigned you and
yow cannot hope too much or dare too
Dluch.-EmerSon.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-03-27

While here attending a dance of the
Knights and Ladies of Security. ID. O.
Harris, manager Of the Lumberman' S
Exchange building in Portland, was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Ste
vens last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Donnerberg, who
are now residing in Portland, where
Mr.. DOnnerberg is connected with the
Portland Gas < Coke Co., spent the
week end here with Mrs. Donnerberg' s
parents, MIR. and Mrs. c. Dethman.
The county is making an improve
ment of the May street road. Crews
of men have been grading and straight
ening the road throughout the winter.
1t is now said to be one of the best
short drives of the community.
Ed b. Wood, chief special agent of
the O-.W. X. & N. Co.. who is now
making headquarters in Chicago as
special agent for the Railway Admin.
istration, was here last week to visit
his father, G. X. Wood, who is ILL.,
AL Kreig has completed remodeling
the display widow at the grocery store
of Vincent & Shank. With their dis
play very handsomely set off by potted
flowers, Vincent & Shank are now pre-
sentlng some attractive show windows.
Miss Frances Elizabeth Baker, who
mas completed her work at the Uni
versty of Oregon. has returned here
to be with her father, John Baker.
She will return to Eugene in June to
receive her degree and attend COM
mencement exercises.
In celebration of his eighth birthday
Leonard, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo /.
Slocom, enter tanned 20 little friends at
his Oak street home last Saturday.
With games and luncheon of the del
icacies that kiddies love. the guests
and their host spent merry time.
Fire Sunday morning threatened the
home of l.. H. Huggns, at the corner
of Eugene and Twelfth streets. AS a
result of the quick work Of the fire de.
partment the damage was limited to a
hole in the roof. The evening before
brush fire on the Hood river gorge
where IN. X. Coon is clearing land,
threatening the home of Chas. n,
! Clarke, called out the department.