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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
T. r. on. Industrial Peace

I'm our complex industrial civili-
zation of to-day, the peace OF
righteousness and justice, the only
kind of peace worth having, is at
least as necessary in the industrial
world as it is among nations"
Those words, spoken by Theodore
Roosevelt, in 1910, showed the
Coloners understanding of the inn
portance of a problem which has
come to press the entire world for
solution since the world war. Col
onel Roosevelt used those words in
n speech in Christiania. Norway, in
acknowledging the Nobel peace
prize of 1905. awarded to him fo-
his work in promoting the peace
between Russia and Japan. The
prize consisted of a gold medal and
$40. 900 in cash. The medal Colonel
Roosevelt kept. but the $4,000 he
used as nucleus for q foundation
to forward the cause of industrial
peace"
II think in most cases." Colonel
Roosevelt said in his speech, "it
would he eminently just and proper
that the recipient of the prize should
keep for his own use the prize in its
entirety But in this case, while /
did not act officially as President OF
the United States. it was. neverthe-
less only because I was President
that I was enabled to act at all
and 7 felt that the money must be
considered as having been given me
In trnst for the limited States"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
Echo Seat

1t is the greenest nook beside the
wayl
A dark hill climbs behind it, dark
with pines,
Where one may know not If tits day
or night;
But, all in front, the laughing
river shines.
And, near the river bank, there is a
seat,
So old none knows the time it was
not there,
Where many rest them from the
summer heat,
And breathe the cool, down float
ing, pine sweet air.
Then, they who still are young
enough to play,
Toss one another's name across
the stream,
And laugh to hear a hidden mocker
In accents clear the cadence word
redeem!
And there are others in youths
later bloom,
Who of the cavern dwelling
nymph require
what fortune snail be thelrS, or
who loves whom
(Say, did that hidden one grant
their desire?)
How many a voice since then is lost
is still.
OF those that called with fresh
and lusty cheer;
Or If they call, tits past some
heavenly hill,
The voice responds-not heard OF
earthly ear.
1t is so many absent years
gone by,
Since l the airy magic put to
test,
I doubt me, If the Echo would reply
To those old names I lock within
my breast.
Edith NJ. Thomas. in the New
York Sun,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
w. Va. AsSdilS Pennsylvania
[From the Philadelphia Inquirerl

[From the Philadelphia Inquirer1
This State has very properly en-
tered legal proceedings to prevent
West Virginia from executing the
law passed by its recent Legislature
which prohibited the transportation
of natural gas from it's limits until
local demands have been satisfied.
Ohio, also having interest, has join
ed in the proceedings and the Su-
preme Court of the United States is
asked to take original jurisdiction in
order to settle the matter quickly.
There arc many important indus
tries in Ohio and this State which
depend on natural gas from West
! Virginia. If West Virginia takes
from Pennsylvania the gas upon
which it lives industrially it does
much material damage.
OF course, the whole point is in
volved in the Constitutional clause
as to interstate commerce, together
with certain other provisions, such
as one state giving good faith to
what the other does as represented
! through corporations duly erected.
1t seems monstrous to suppose that
West Virginia should try to get rid
of all its obligations so suddenly,
but there is something back of it
which illuminates the problem.
Recently after many years of liti-
CATION West Virginia has been COM
PEELED to pay Virginia some s13,-
| 000,0 900 in bonds as its share of the
debt of the Old Dominion in 1861
plus interest. West Virginia's claim
was that the treasury assets of Vir-
ginia in 1861 exceeded all debts and
that they were wasted by the Civil
| War. Unfortunately the promise in
the West Virginia Constitution made
no reservations and the Supreme
F., Court upheld the claim. The bonds
have been delivered and must be
reduced rapidly by annual pay
ments. Hence the State is trying to
conserve all it's resources and pro-
hibits giving us gas when it Is need
ed at home.
| Once more the Supreme Court
must decide. The moral is that the
next time State wishes to remain
in the Union when part of it decides
to secede it should make no rash
promises. West Virginia could have
escaped paying a dollar, but she
wanted to appear fair. She was ad-
mitted to the Union under circum-
stances which made Constitutional
lawyers shudder but necessity pre-
vailed and the same consideration
would have admitted her if she had
never agreed to pay a dollar. So
that Pennsylvania and Ohio are
really asked to suffer now because
western Virginia counties were low
al almost sixty years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
"MOira'S Keeping"
nv NorrcyS Jcphson O'Conor

By NorrcyS ,JcphSon O'Conor
From "A Treasury of War Poetry
Houghton- -Miftlin Company, Boston
- mountain of Erin,
Your beauty is fed:
Beyond you in Flanders,
My darling lies dead.
Through the dunes aud the grasses
Bespattered with blood,
They bore him; and around him
Bareheaded they stood,
While the chaplain in khaki
Was reading a prayer.
And the wind for his keening
Was moaning an air.
. son of gray Connaught.
No more shall we stand
BY the dark Tough at evening,
My hand in your hand,
And talk of a houseen
To hold you and me.
The scent of the heather.
The gorse on the lea.
Yet. bridegroom of mine,
You are waiting afar,
Past the peak and the blueness,
The shine of thon star,
Where Mary the Mother
Is bending her head,
And YOU sleep at her grooming,
O boy of mine! dead.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
Iron Ore From Bacteria
[From the Youths Companionl ]

From the youths CompanlonJ
The most imaginative among us
would hardly suspect that bugs are
responsible. ut least in part, for the
common tiatiron and other useful
articles made from the same metal.
Yet European physicists have known
for some time, says Chase 5. Os-
born, former governor of Michigan,
in his autob. oSraphy, that there are
iron ore bacteria" and the fact is
now commonly accepted in America.
Iron bacteria live in either stand
ing or running clear waters that con-
tain iron compounds; not in turbid
waters and those containing much
organic matter. So active are they
in establishing deposits of ferric
hydroxide that water pipes of cities
where the water contains ferrous
carbonate have been known to be
completely closed by them.
Sheaths of dead iron bacteria have
been found in multitudes in limon-
ite deposits. and enormous deposits
of several kinds of iron ore are
known to result from their work.
Yet we know little about them. They
may even be at the very threshold
of life.
1t is interesting. however, to note
that the greatest deposits of iron
ore in the world that are being
mined are in arctic and subarctic
regions, or in zones where nearly
half the year is winter, as in the
Lake Superior country. The greater
commercial activity in the colder
regions may partly account for this.
for there are extensive iron ore
formations in the tropics and sub
tropics. But the fact remains that
iron bacteria live in pure water and
that in the colder regions water is
most likely to be pure
Although iron bacteria are manu-
featuring new deposits all the time,
this is not of great importance as
far as the supply of iron is concern
ed. Bodies of ore are being formed
more rapidly than We used to think.
But Nature probably cannot create
iron as fast as we are using it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
PROGRESSIVE ALTOONA

A LTOONA is fairly on its toes
u and, with Harrisburg as an
example, it is going ahead
with q great community hotel move
ment, Indeed, so much progress
has been made that the hotel is as
sured, an architect and manager
having already been agreed upon.
Also, a central site has been pur-
chased not far from the main rail-
road station and in the heart of the
business center. The total invest
ment for site and building will ap-
proximate three-quarters of mill
lion dollars and in the campaign,
which has been responded to with
spirit by the community, the same
general appeal was made as that
which resulted in the construction
of the Penn-Harris here.
Plans will be rushed and it is ex-
pected that the new place of enter
tainment in Altoona will be ready
within a few months. The city at
the foot of the Alleghenys is also
having a thorough planning survey
made by experts with a view to cor
recting some of the mistakes of the
earlier days. Like Harrisburg. the
city at the other end of the Middle
Division of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road is throwing all kinds of pep"
into it's public activity and the flu
ture is full of promise by reason of
the aroused interest of the people in
their own community welfare.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

attacks on the purists, they bind
them, and rush from the castle. A
year later they again go to view
thelr prison, but they find the Cas-
tie of Ignorance transformed into
the Castle of Better Speech.
These are only few of the many
mover means being employed in the
Michigan city to impress upon school
children the advantages of pure
speech. Teachers are endeavoring
to shun the commonplace-to at
tract and hold the interest of their
little charges in the Better Speech"
campaign.
DO Without Clubs" have been or
ganized in many of the schools, their
members pledged to drop the use of
one slang expression a week. AS the
weeks pass, one by one these phrases
are being eliminated from the vocab-
ularies of the school children. Hard
boiled language is headed for the
land of the Dodo and you tell the
world, it's travelin' fast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
A GOOD MOVE

~HIEF STONE. of the Brother
| hood of Locomotive Engineers.
has made move toward low =
ering the high cost of living that, if
properly handled, may get some
where.
His plan is to get together a party
of consumers and producers and
outline plans for getting foodstuns
from one to the other without many
of the unnecessary transactions be-
tween them that now add so much
to the cost of provisions.
Some middle men are necessary.
There can be no doubt about that.
But others are in the market purely
on a proft-making basis. They serve
no good purpose and could be elm
mated with benefit to both producer
and consumer.
Let us hope that Mr. Stone is sue
cessful in his effort, in order that
his example may be followed by
others.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
TIME TO MOVE

TT HARRISBURG is TO get into step
with the capital cities of other
States and to keep pace with
Erie. Meadville, Greensburg, West
Chester and other county towns of
its own Commonwealth in the mat
ter OF facilities for its military or
ganizations, it has to move right
now. Much has been said and
written in this city the last ten
years about the armory that the
State Is going to build for Harris
burg some time. The State is not
building armories as presents. 1t is
building them where municipalities
or communities provide the ground
and some cash to help pay for the
cost of construction. Places
smaller than Harrisburg have given
fine lots and the lake city not only
presented the State with half a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
A LIMIT TO LAW

+" HE Railroad Brotherhoods
threaten to strike rs protest
Il against "nonstr!ke'' legisla-
ton in the railroad bill now efore
Congress.
They are perfectly right and rea-
sonable in opposing an attempt to
stop strikes by law.
1t was nonsensical to include
such Il provision in the railroad
measure. Nobody can prevent a
man from leaving his job if he be
so inclined, and what one man can
do n thousand or million can do.
If a million railroad men chose on
certain day to take vacations,
who could prevent? Their en-
ployers might dismiss them and the
law - although that is very doubt
ful-might iEdict them, but it
could not compel them to return TO
work.
The way to prevent strikes is not
by legal prohibition, and to try to
do it that way would be merely to
make laughing stock of law
makers and law-making.
The Brotherhood leaders have
the right end of the argument and
Congress will do we'll to heed.
A clause to forbid men to inter-
fere with others in their desire TO
work would be all right, but n non
strike provision is hopeless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
Was Constitution Inspired?

Harry T. Atwood, author of Back
to the Republic" in Motor World
I believe that the Constitution wa
as much inspired as parts of the
Bible. You know they met for four
weeks, day after day, and had not
written single word or a single
sentence, and on the morning of the
NTH week, in the midst of a very
heated discussion, they were about
to adjourn and abandon the great
purpose for which they had ,met-
and what a difference il would have
made in the history of this country
and the entire world If that had
happenedl-butB BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
one of the wisest men. If NOT the
wisest man who sat in the conven-
ton. arose and, addressing George
Washington, who was in the chair.
said:
"Mr. Chairman, we have been
cropping Tor four weeks in the dark
ness searching for political truth and
nave not found it. How is it that we
have not invoked the divine guid
ance of the Father of Light unon
our proceedings? The longer I live
and the more I know the more I
believe that God governs in the af-
fairs of men, and II the sparrow
cannot fall without his notice, is II
probable that an empire can rise
without his assistance? Except the
Lord build the house. they labor in
vain who build it, I firmly believe
this, and I also believe that without
His concurring aid we shall succeed
in our political building no better
than the builders of Babel. I, there
fore. move you that from henceforth
we open our daily deliberations with
morning prayer"
And from that moment they be-
gan to make progress in the franz
ing and adoption of that fame
crowned old document.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
THE NEXT STEP

TNASMUCH as City Council is IN
full sympathy with the important
Italian Park plans and the deve;-
opment scheme which comprehends
important street changes and diver
sion of water so as to provide for 4
small park, we may expect prompt
action to the end that all of these
matters shall he determined before
the coming of winter. the city is
now ready for its next step forward
and the election next week will he Il
signal for greater activity in al
directions.
Harrisburg officials have. never
failed to respond in a public-spirited
way when the community has indi-
Gated definitely it's wishes. There
can be no doubt that the plans for
the development of the Italian Park
district will be worked out without
unnecessary delay in any particular.
EreSert sugar prices do not tend ( .,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

block, but donated $4,000 beside
for n building.
Harrisburg is an important mill
tary center both from official and
transportation standpoints. Its ar
mory facilities were woefully in
adequate before the war. If this
city is to have any place in the new
National Guard worthy of its pa
triotism. its sons and its standing as
a capital something has to be done.
and the time to start to buy that
property for the new armory Is
right now other cities are already
moving
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

President Wilson is about to learn
that the present Congress is not like
the old. 1t has a mind of its own and
it does not see much virtue in rum.
The country is dry" There is no rea-
son why we should go back to an
orgy of drink, even if the President
does approve. and the Senate may be
expected to follow the course of the
House in passing the enforcement
bill over the executives veto.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS

A indicated in an authoritative
n business publication to-day
the real object of the Wash
ington industrial conference was to
arrange for business. to proceed un-
disturbed hereafter by unrest and
dissatisfaction on either side. Many
theories have been advanced for the
solution of the industrial controversy
which has been so widespread. but
the determination ,of the disputes
seems to hinge upon a change of
view as much as upon wages or
working conditions. What the
worker may do with his money. as
has been suggested by a recent
writer, is the affair Of the worker.
but it is believed that remedy for
the situation must be found either
by educating the workers to get
lasting benefits from their increased
earning or by putting into operation
some plan which will bring about
this result i'm another way. The same
authority observes that education
toward thrift is OF course. the bet
ter way. but il takes too long. Arti-
fetal arrangements will not change
economic laws. Labor cannot be
benefited permanently unless pro-
duction is actually increased. IAN
honest days work for an honest
days pay" according to Charles NJ.
Schwab. is the only solution.
The great public. which is usually
outside in conferences between labor
and capital, is waiting for the happy
day when employer and employe will
I realize tEGt the interests OF the third
party are quite as important as those
of either of the other two.
It is believed that the l. w. w.
propagandists are at the bottom OF
most of our trouble; that they have
/ stirred ~. dissension wherever pos
sible and that until their activities
/ are suppressed no real progress will
! be made in the way OF agreement
Ibetwecn the workingmen and their
employers in many industrial cen
! ters. The radical element must
! first be eliminated before a reason
able settlement can be reached be-
I tween the two great forces, which
! should never have disagreed. be-
cause their interests are mutual.
( But there are signs of sanity in
many directions at the present time
I and as both sides TO the controversy
move irresistibly toward the same
! goal of confidence in each other and
/ consideration for the public there
must come a solution of the whole
problem.
! AS has been suggested by the Tele-
graph more than once the individual
| responsibility of the citizen at this
| time is greater than ever before in
| the history of the country. Each
must do his part and do it with the
sole purpose of advancing the well
| fare of the particular community in
! which he resides. to the end that a
great community movement may be
started which will extend from one
end of the country to the other.
| Upon the outcome of the labor
contest in America depends in q
large measure the future prosperity
of all classes of our people. There
must be reasonable concessions OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Thomas Shipley, of York, well
known here, is head of the commit
tee named for the Knights Templar
conclave in that city in May.
DIR. Leo S. Rowe, former UNI
versity of Pennsylvania professor,
has left the United States Treasury
Department to become head or the
Latin American Bureau in the
State Department.
Bishop T. j. Garland, of Phila-
deIphia. who declined the bishopric
of Utah, may become bishop or
Delaware.
-Ex-President Taft is to speak
at State College next month.
Major Alfred M. Collins, OF
Brywn Mawr, has taken charge or
O. housing survey near Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

all sides: no autocracy OF any sort
will be permitted to rise in tho
United States SO long as SO many OF
the people are determined upon a
course that is manifestly fair and
reasonable and Just.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
Women Voters in City Politics

[From the Twilight Hour Magazine. j
The part that women will take in
city politics in the next election is a
wholesome prospect. provided they
put more importance upon organiz-
ing for nonpartisan city govern
ment than they do on the mere act
of voting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
Speak Euil of No Man

Put them in mind to be ready
with every good work, to speak evil
of no man. to be no brawlers. but
gentle, showing all meekness to all
men.-Titus Iii. and 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

At Lewistown the county jail holds
no prisoners and there has been no.
body in the lookup for five months.
Lewistown is dry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
The TWenty Eighth

[By Lawrence Doyle. Private first
class, Twenty eighth Division.
We are lads from Pennsylvania
From the grand old Keystone State,
And I'm glad that 1 am fighting
In the famous Twenty eighth.
We fought in many a battle
The work we did was great.
I am proud to be a soldier
In the grand old Twenty eighth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

Nothing could ever stop us
For they feared us all the time;
IT was the Twenty eighth Division
Which broke Old Hindy's line.
We are lads from Pennsylvania,
That grand old Keystone State;
I'm proud 1 am a soldier
In The gallant Twenty eighth.
From the "Dauphine Doughboy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
DO YOU KNOW
HIsrORIC HARRISBURG

That Harrisburg hosiery is
sold in Cuba?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

Is this Indian summer or just &
continuation of the regular variety?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28
TO ROUT BAD ENGLISH
BY PAGEANTS AND PLAYS

Speech Week." For a UNIQUE Campaign
Against SangDetroit Schools
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

Fresert sugar prices do not tend Il
sweeten the disposition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

We fought at Chateau Thierry.
From the Marne up to the Rhine,
And every place we fought them,
They retreated double time.
We always had them running,
If they stopped they knew their fate
For they always got their medicine.
When they fought the Twenty
eighth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

Harrisburg used to be dis
tribution point for Huntington AMI
Mifflin county wheat century agn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

Insurance people are nothing If
not versatile. In recent Legislature,
they have been getting through
laws which extend the field of in.
surance, one of the recent acts au.
thorizing insurance against BON
bardment from air or land and sea
while others were from variou:
kinds of natural disturbances. Now
various firms are offering insurance
against riot and civil commotion.
Arizona republican., 1919-09-18

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