8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWBPAPBR FOR TUB BOHR - - Foundea mi Published evenings except Sunday by TBI Tll.bfllUPß PRINTING CO. Telegraph Betiding, Federal leue K. J. BTACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. 1L OYSTER. Butintu Manager OVB U. STEINMETZ. Managirf CfWpr A. R. MICHENBR, Circulation ,'anage.- Executive Beard 3_P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD id. OQEBSBY, P. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Prese—The Associated Press Is exclusively en tltlod to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local n<*vs published herein. £.ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. /! Member American Newspaper Pub- BjM |g jpft ijj Eastern * Avenue_ Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris bcrg. Pa., as second class matter. Bv carrier, ten cents a 4'hKifeyStn week; by mail. 13.00 a year In advance. Let us dream of noble things, and theulcork for them, too, Tho' tee may not attain to them quite; Unless ice shall plan grander tasks than ice do. We shall not climb as high as ice might. —Sixon Waterman, j SATURDAY, .1 AM"AItY 4, 1919 _ # s= - I j GRATEFUL REPUBLICS? THOSE responsible for the order suspending all promotions in the army on the day the armis tice was signed will be remembered by the fighting forces and the folks back home for an ungrateful and wholly inexcusable act. The sign ing of an armistice had nothing whatever to do with the crushing of the hopes and aspirations of our fighting nfen. It should have been Instead *-nr rewarding those who had made possible -hs andlpg of the war, instead of penalizing them for achieving victory over the Hun. There have been many blunders at Washington during the war, but none h'as been so cruel in its effect as this order stopping automatically all promotions wlftr the signing of j the armistice. Harrisburg soldiers who had been recommended for commissions two or three months before the cessation of hostilities are donied promotion bccauso some bonchead higher up figured that a few thousands of dollars would be saved through refusal of promotion to men who had fought for months that Justice might live in the world. There are already signs of weak ening on this impossible position at Washington, but whether the pres ent administration chooses to rescind | its unfair and wholly inexcusable order or not it is certain that the time will, come when the men who were entitled to promotion will re ceive the consideration which Is due brave soldiers who have served their country gallantly and without thought of their own personal re ward. Placing bravery on the firing line in the scale with expenditure of money is about what might have been expected of the inefficient, four flushing individuals who have mis taken high-sounding phrases for constructive thought and the ex pression of ideals. The Telegraph has been advised through a letter from overseas of a young Harrisburg lieutenant who had been recommended for promo tion three months before the armis tice was signed and who is only one of the many young officers in whose face the door of natural ambition was closed by an ungrateful govern ment in the very hour of victory. These men have long memories and .they will not forget who were their real friends in the great crisis. Because millions of dollars were squandered in a faulty aeroplane program and millions more in ship ping plants and in other colossal failures of the war is no reason why those who fought the good fight should fail of their merited recog nition for the reason that promo tion would involve a few thousands more In the military payroll. What might have bden saved in the great American junket to Europe would have provided for thousands of young men who must return horns without the recognition they earned la courageous and unselfish service. Auditor General Snyder Is said to favor a fine bridge over the Susque hanna river at State street, as part of the comprehensive plan to create an imposing entrance to Harrisburg from the east oyer the monumental viaduct at the eastern front of the Capitol. It is quite as important to SATURDAY EVENING, approach the Capitol frotn the west over a dignified structure as It Is to enter the city from the east amid dignified surroundings. In short, -the splendid Capitol should be the out standing feature of the highways from the east and west and north and south—a sort of hub from which all these radial routes should extend to every part of the State. CIVIC ACTIVITIES HAVING rounded the annual mile-post the various civic organiza-tons of Harrlsburg are now looking forward to the ac tivities of a new year. These or ganizations embrace a wide latitude of usefulness in this community and each in its own way is performing Important public functions. Having emerged from a great war which Involved the thought and •energy of all good citizens, j oung and old, we are now free to resume the enterprises of peace which are more important than the activities of war. War is a crime which must be punished, and most of us have been engaged on that job. but the undertakings of peace Involve in a larger way quite as. much of con structive effort and entail manifold greater blessings in ever-increasing circles. ' Starting with the municipal ad ministration down to the most humble organization there is much to do. But in the doing of these things there must be cheerful co operation to the end that the pur poses in mind may not be lost through friction or the failure of one to help the other in the Achieve ments which count for the welfare of all. With the incoming of the Legis ! lature next Monday and the discus sion of measures which are designed to promote the prosperity and hap piness and safeguard the material interests of all the people of Penn sylvania, there may be a tendency in local circles to mark time. But instead of this attitude we should be pushing forward at every point that the State officials and the makers of our laws may realize that- here at the seat of government of the Com monwealth is the most active city of all the State. Many commendable things have already been accomplished, but there is much awaiting action and aside from earnest co-operation with the State in the development of the splendid scheme of Capitol Park im provement there is that other part which has nothing whatever to do with the Commonwealth save as Harrisburg must maintain its pres tige as a progressive community. There is general approval, of course, of the proposed combination court house and city hall on the proposed civic center, the erection of a modern high school in the same section and the working out of other plans which will mean a most at tractive and wholesome city. City Electrician Diehl will have the j general approval of all citizens in his j consistent and constructive effort to ' • a'prS.**} '.*• V 1 * wires. He expects to wipe out another j considerable section of this unsightly system during the next few weeks, and in this work will have the co£ operation of all civic bodies. FOR A CLEAN NATION THE war has wrought many tre mendous and far-reaching changes in American charac- ] ter and American thought. It has \ been a great awakener to duty; not I alone to the great outstanding duties 1 of raisftig billions for the Allies, of creating an Army out of nothing, of depriving ourselves of food so that Europe might not starve. These were big duties, unselfishly per formed. With the coming of peace there has come, too, a realization of the smaller, but none the less Important, duties we owe ourselves. One of the greatest of these is being pointed out by the United States Public Health Service, and backed up by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretaries of War and the Navy. It is the duty of clearing the Nation from vice diseases, which war dem onstrated to us all were the prime causes of inefficiency within the Nation. Before the war it would hardly have been possible for the news papers to discuss such a theme as venereal disease; the narrow, short sighted view was that such a sub ject was shocking, immodest, dis gusting, not fit to be discussed. The result has been that ignorance of the extent to which these venereal diseases were menacing the Nation has allowed them to thrive and mul tiply until, when for the first time In our history, millions of our young men were forced to submit to ex pert medical examination, the per centage of men found to be infected with one or the other of these dis eases was appalling. It was estimated that five-sixths of all the venereal disease in the Army was brought there from civil life. Such revelations as this add ter rific poignancy to President Wilson's grave note of warning: "It is not an army we have to make fit; it is a Nation." To know the truth about com municable diseases is to be able to guard against them; to lessen them; to control them. That has proved to be true of tuberculosis, of measles, or small pox; of all the communi cable diseases. So we must all come to realize that these other nameless diseases are highly communicable. They are primarily diseases of vice, but they are also communicable by innocent means. The United States Public Health Service, under Surgeon General Rupert Blue, is making a nation wide fight for the cleanliness of American communities. Prostitu tion la being suppressed: laws re quiring the reporting of venereal diseases, just as other communi cable diseases are reported, are being passed by many States. Clinics for the skilled treatment of venereal diseases are being established. In this work, which has for Its object a clean America, every citi zen must help in his single strength. The false modesty which has pre vented a free discussion of this men ace to the Nation must be brushed aside, so that everyone may know and realize the danger to be fought against. Never again can we as Individual citizens be content with an attitude of indifference toward such a sub ject as this. The war has opened our eyes; we must keep them open until the danger is past. The late Charles A. Kunkel was more than a banker. He was inter ested in the community and all agen cies for good. Never a grandstand player, he nevertheless contributed in large measure to welfare work and the various movements for the city's improvement. The Kunkel building, in the central business district, is an attractive monument to his public spirit and interest in Harrisburg. BAKER BUNGLES AGAIN IMMEDIATELY after the signing of the armistice. Representative Addision T. Smith, of Idaho, sug gested that in demobilizing troops the War Department arrange so that the men would be given trans portation back to their home com munities and that the final act In their honorable discharge from the army should be the signing of their papers by the local draft board. Thus would the government muster the men out where it mustered them in—it would put them back exactly where it found them. One of the arguments advanced by Representative Smith A-as that although most of tho men, if mus tered out at concentration camps, would use their transportation mon ey to go back home, many of them, just free from military discipline, would spend their money in having a good time and would be unable to pay their way home. But the War Department did not act on Smith's suggest ion, and experience has shown that he was right. Among the first troops to be de mobilized were those engaged in spruce production for airplanes. Re ports show that in a very large pro portion of cases the men spent their transportation money and then went back to camp "broke." "Under Smith's plan the men would have been given nontransfer able railroad tickets and would have had to get back to their local draft boards before they could complete their papers showing their honora ble discharge. Harrisburg is now at the threshold of another Important epoch of Its growth and development. Officials who have a real interest in the city • wat *lif*s ?t*Vu prises; they wifl join with all others in making the city the foremost mu nicipality of Its size in the country. Herbert Hoover, having been ap pointed Food Administrator for Eu rope, It's a fair assumption that the Germans won't have much opportunity to get their feet in the trough. -— -j 1 "fslLttc* Ik *i > .n.h4qftfCUua By the Ex-Committeeman j Republican leaders are in Phila delphia to-day holding conferences upon legislative patronage and the distribution of committee chairman ships In the House and Senate. Rival candidates for the chairmanship of the appropriations committee of the the House, one of the most import ant of all legislative committees, ap peared yesterday at the Bellovue- Stratford. They arTT' II , II- ,1 ■ WU^IIJIIIUI KAJRHISBURO OfiEft* TELEGrotPH THAT GUILTIEST FEELING By BRIGGS fI3v W faoSf s 0 ua s l,^ c NA vyeav'ToßftV sir ! \ CiJl OP I 8A64-- BUT HC OU4HTUV \ THERE AINT MO MORE. A CADDY- to! i ARAHH4 \B£Tone we STAOTfc-o OUT/ VAJARUED A*e YA VUAS A comim f / I Gov mot To l\ TodaT - wo C -•— ~—— - —With ycr FRimDS i CoulDA I HAue LOOKED rwM 'te-SS < f HAD CADDies H6R6 FOR VfH - i_~ r<,B V\youv GOT / / AIM T "THCRC AWV I BuT Yo,J ' DIC ' N Fee* IT / e^H p GCT 0 p A/uY 0 \ V UP BEPOORHAruD / ygC ' r I ll' I. j j : j L ,\ (ilf///////A^l/ l I / /ll\ 4 ', J3 —•" v THE day You vragged Thrpe v * , ;C, il JIf /////'/ &MI \ (mi\ . sd ••'" FlNlt? There are mq caddieS To Be MOT, 1 ,? If.- • )i „ ((/f l,ill >"''/'/]W had Because You failed To Phone ""•vi|lif• nr jrar r~,TT *j\M iili"",. ?i i i/ OLrr 16 Thg C<-UB and ARRANGE I, ■ 1"' ™ ■" *" ow ' ™ 737?' so closely to humane legislation. Standing with the chlb, almost, of the thug to have his character stricken down, this Governor came a poor man from the schoolroom, and retires an honest man and poor er than when ho went into publtc life." A majority of the members of the House and Senate from this city and the members of the city committee attended the meeting. The subcommittee of the Phila delphia charter committee which is drafting the proposed - new charter for introduction in the Legislature, held a .meeting last night in the of fice of the chairman, Thomas Rae burn White. At this meeting there was a discussion of the methods of electing councilmen. —Senator Vare, at the legislative meeting yesterday, asked the Phila delphia representatives to pay no attention to the charter committee's plans but to "sound out the senti ments of your constituents and give the people of Philadelphia what they want." —The "dry" forces look very ! hopefully upon the coming session of ; the Legislature. They are not mok- j ing flamboyant claims of majorities : for the amendment, but they are < saying that the sentiment is increas- | ingly favorable to the adoption of the necessary resolution in Pennsyi- ! this year auf. hjUowfiq* 1 letter sent cfut by John Royal Harris, : State Superintendent of the Dry Federation of Pennsylvania, is Indi cative of their feelings: "The Dry Federation of Pennsyl vania wishes to inform you that the movement for the ratification of the national prohibition amendment- by | the next Legislature has Ween | brought right up to the eve of sue- , cess. With the election of a Governor pledged to the support of this meas- | ure and a General Assembly prac- ' tically certain of voting to ratify, we ' feel that the prospects of a success- : ful outcome are exceedingly bright. ; "There is still much to be done by ' the dry forces between now and the J time the Legislature acts. None of I us can afford to relax our efforts even in the face of almost certain victory, and it is our intention to stay right with our job until the long battle has been won." Colonel Harvey Says, Sez He I "Yotv can return with heads i erect!" cried Herr Ebert, the head | of the Hunnish provisional govern- ; ment, to the returning Boches, Yes; I and with hands Imbrued with the' blood of murdered babes and rav ished women, and pockets bulging with loot. Such are the heroes of Hunland; and such is the head of ! the government with which we have to deal. Really, it seems to have been chiefly a change of name in; swapping a Hohenzollern for an j Ebert. Put all the railroad employees and all the telegraph and telephone em- i ployees under the direction of a Po litlcal-master-General, and then boast that those services have been "taken out of politics." In the Name of the Prophet, fudge! r Mr. McAdoo wants to keep right on lending to the Allies money to bo raised by taxation of the American people, peace or no peace! Force of habit! Easy come, easy go! Wake 1 up, Mr. Smoot! "I speak American," said Clemen- ] ceau when he greeted the President —which is precisely what and all we want the President himself to do. Though we are glad for our read ers to peruse what Taft, Roosevelt, Colonel Watterson, George Harvey and the rest of us suggest and ad vise in these stormy times, it is well enough for them to remember that our suggestions and advice are offer ed to the government, not requested by it.—Houston Post. We don't suggest or advise; we tell "em. Breaking the News Gently While crossing the street at Tenth and Polk streets Thursday evening Miss Lola Brethour was struck by an automobile driven by a real estate man whose name began with R.— From the Topeka Capital. One Way to Write It 19 —New York Sun. The End Not Yet And sometimes when one reads the day's news dispatches ho won ders whether the war is really over or has just commenced. —Utlca Ob server. Teachers Must Have More THAT teachers have been out- i rageously underpaid, that to j prevent disintegration and con- j fusion in the schools, salaries must | be largely increased; that as a first : aid measure, the state must supple- t ment present salaries at least 25 per j cent.; that the taxing system must j be made over on modern lines i to accommodate this increase; that j continued neglect will cost the state > and its children. What is far more ! -vital than money—these are the out- ! standing facts in a statement made ! public to-day by the. State Board of • F.ducatlon following an address by j Marcus Aaron, a member of the ; Pittsburgh Board of Education and : of the State Board of Education, i speaking before the Pennsylvania ' State Educational Association con- j vention here this week. Mr. Aaron ' declared that sources of revenue : other than real estate must be found : before full justice can be done to the schoolchildren of the state. "If anyone doubts Pennsylvania's ability to raise additional revenue,"; the statement explained, "let him study the statistics relative to the wealth and income of her citizens •tea /.'jg' ctn-perarics**. Lee >hv) r.u? the subscriptions to the various Lib- I erty Loans, the Red Cross, the Unit- | ["BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"] In connection with the recent Red ! Cross drive officials at Washington i have been much interested in what < Captain Carroll Swan had to say in his book "My Company" (Houghton Mifflin Company) concerning the overseas work of the Red Cross. His book commented frequently upon the excellence of that work. "It was dark, raining, and very hard digging. { The great work the Red Cross is i doing over there showed to full ad vantage that night. At about two o'clock in the morning, when every i body was waried and cold, these Red Cross men brought out big cans I of hot cocoa and fed everyone of i those-twenty-five hundred men." Houghton Miffiin Company has I the honor of figuring prominently ! in the book-list of the American Li- I brary Association. The following ' volumes have been placed upon its recommended list. "Right and Wrong After the War," by B. I. Bell; "The Psychology of Convic • tion," by Joseph Jastrow; "The Joys of Being a Woman," by AVinifred Kirkland; "An American Soldier," j by Edwin Austin Abbey; "The Faith I of France," by Maurice Barres; "The i A'oid of War," by Reginald Farrer; j "The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Trans port," translated by Grace Fallow i Norton: "Modern and Contemporary European History," by J. Salwyn Schapiro; "Steep Trails," by John Mulr; "Cape Cs*, New and Old," by Agnes Edwards; "The Education of | Henry Adams"; "Philo Gubb," by ; Ellis Parker Butler; "My Antonia," by Wllla Gather; "The Bell-Ringer," by Clara Endieott Sears; and "The French Twins," by Lucy Fitch Per kins. r Caused a Shudder j [From the Ohio State Journal.] We always feared we might have a little trouble with Great Britain at the peace conference after we tried to give her Mr. Barnard's statue of Lincoln. Neither Does He Dictate I Before a man hires a stenog ! rapher he asks to see her letters of : recommendation. But he seldom is ;so particular with the woman ho j marries.—From the Topeka Capital. Joy of Temptation Nothing plenßes a man wh most power during the New Year i and for evermore. I THE LITTLE TOtyNS Oh, littlo town in Arkansas and lit tle town In Maine, And little sheltered valley town and hamlet on tho plain, Salem, Jackson, Waukesha and Brookvllle and Peru, San Mateo, and Irontown, and Lake, and Waterloo. Little town wo smiled upon and loved for simple ways, ! Quiet streets and garden beds and friendly sunlit days, Out of you the soldiers came, I Little town of homely name. ! Young and strong and brave with laughter : They saw truth and followed after. 1 Little town, the birth of them | Makes you kin to Bethlehem! ,| Little town where Jimmy Brown ran the grocery store, Little town where Manuel fished along the shore, | Where Russian Steve was carpenter, i and sandy Pat MeQuade .'Worked ail day in overalls at his ,1 mechanic's trade. Where Alien Perkins practiced law, and John, Judge Harper's son, ,i Planned a little house for two that never shull be done— ' Little town, yen gave tlieni all, ,| Rich and poor and great and small, i Bred them clean and straight and ■j strong, ,! Sent them forth to right the wrong. , Little town, their glorious death .; Makes you kin to Nazareth! [ —Hilda Morris lu N. Y. Times. fowtttuj (tftfat "With the first cold snap will come the usual newspaper reports of fires caused by 'over-heated Hues,'" said State Fire Marshal Howard E. llutz. "This should not be. Dirty chimneys and Hues are for ninny fires. This can and show be prevented by properly cleaning all chimneys and tlucs at frequMC Intervals, and if done would result I in \he saving of thousands of dol lars." Mr. Butz points out St. Joseph, Mo., as an example. This town has the unusual municipal official known as "chimney sweep," who goes by that titio and is uppolntcd by the mayor for a two-year term and who is required to execute a bond for the faithful performance of his duties. These duties are "to sweep and clean in a faithful manner, once in each year, all chimneys within the limits of tho city which have been in use at least six months prior to the date of such cleaning." Also, "whenever he shall have knowledge of a defec tive tiue in any building in this city, . to report tho same without delay to tho superintendent of buildings." Where a defective flue is so reported, the superintendent of buildings noti fies tho owner, and if he fails or | neglects to repair the defective flue ! within twenty-four hours he is liable I to a fine of not less than twenty fior more than one hundred dollars, each day thereafter being a separate of fense. It is the duty of the owner or occupant of any building to have tho ciiimncys and flues of such buildings swept and cleaned and the soot and other matter taken there from and r'emoved from the premises by the chimney sweep at least once a year, and anyone who fails to do so may be fined not loss than five nor more than ten dollars. Tho chim ney sweep receives from the owner ot' the building 25 cents a chimney l'or a one-story house, 50 cents for a two-story house and 25 cents tor each additional story." . "Why cannot every city, borough, and town in Pennsylvania adopt a | similar method of lire prevention and ! a reduction of the useless fire waste?" Mr. Butz, asks. "It is interesting to note tho growth of the' olub luncheon idea," said John 11. Nixon, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, the other day. "A few years ago it was well nigh impossible to got. enough men together week after! week to hold organization luncheons regularly. Some four or five years ago a few of us, nil members of the Rotary Club, got together for a weekly luncheon. We called our selves the Wash Day Dinner Club, taking the name from Monday, our day of meeting, which is also the popular laundry day in Harrlsburg households when good wives don't care to see their hubbies at noon. I There were six of us at first and we met about in various restaurants and hotels until finally enough Rotarians volunteered to take us down to the Plaza in a body. We outgrew that diningroom and went to the Senate. From there we moved to the Engi neers' Club. That, also, became too small and we went to the Elks' Club. About that time the Y. M. C. A. show i ed signs of having come to life and 1 General Secretary Reeves invited us jto occupy the dining room on the j second floor. But the attendance is j outgrowing even that commodious I room and we now have our eyes on : the Penn-Harrls. And the Rotary [ Club lucheon has been the parent of ! many others. Now we have well at j tended Chamber of Commerce ; \unheons once a month, Ktwanis I Club luncheons, University Club I Luncheons, and what not. We have become a city of noon luncheons, ! and the idea is so good that we will j never go back to our old plan of go | ing out and snatching a hasty bite j alone, when we can have fellowship I and perform public service by I lunching in groups." * • • I Newport, ono of the more pro . gressive Central Pennsylvania bor oughs, has established an enviable record for itself during the time that | the United States has been at war. Its citizens have taken leading parts in every war work activity carried on in Perry county and the towns people made a record for the bor ough of which they may well be proud, in every ono of these drives. Never once did they fall to attain their quota; in each of the Liberty Loan, Y. M. C. A., Red Cross and other drives, the citizens oversub scribed the quota assigned them by handsome majorities. In the latest campaign, the Red Croßs Christmas Roll Call, more than 1,200 of the citizens enrolled. With only 2,000 people in the borough, theso figures represent a membership of sixty per cent, of the townspeople, a record of which any community might be proud. • • • The opinions expressed regarding any event that effects a large part of a city's population naturally de j pend upon the view point of the per i sons who'formulate them. That this I is true was evidenced yesterday re | peatedly during the first snowfall of I the year, when the youngsters start- Ito gleefully utilize the sleds that i were purchased as presents for I Christmas. While grown ups dug out | their rubbers, artics and boots, and wrapped scarfs around their necks, and wondered what was the use of a snowstorm any way, children were shouting excited greetings to each other, and scurrying around look ing for coasting hills. Every chiltf in the city who received a sled fof Christmas pressed his face to thp window panes with wtde-eyei> j anxiety during the early hours at ' the snow, and wakened yesterday j with pleasant forebodings. It WRJJ not long until the sidewalks anq I streets attracted many youngster*; | with their sleds, and staid adults b,v j gan to take u pleasure in the tia, j too, watching the kiddies eenai. Soft Snap of Winter WlutaX ( New York The fierce gales wlmtt&, The snow storms While safely The winter wh<% X It has no worrit No cares to dart; * Its price is promise By Uncle Earn. Its lot wo envy— Without hitch .To sleep all winder And wake up rich. McLandburg Wilson. Col. Harvey Sez, Sez He As a matter of courtesy, aftor hav ing slept In a royal bed at Bucklng- I ham Palace, the President will be . expected to accord particular con 's.deration to Corsin George's recom ■ mendationa. I'brliups that was the I idea.