18 AMERICA SHORT 700,000 HOUSES; BIG WORK AHEAD Prosperity Ahead For All Classes of Workmen, Says Expert "America is short 700,000 houses," said Leslie Willis Sprague of the Di-j vision of Information, United States Department of Labor, who was in Harrisburg for several houns yes-1 terday. "To make up this deficiency, j build, despite the high cost of build ing materials," he urged. "I have traveled through 20 states," said Mr. Sprague, ''and 1 ha> e yet to find a single community I that has adequate housing condi tions. "America is facing the greatest time in her history. There are] great things ahead. There is a timel coming when our every resource will | be taxed to meet the tremendiousi demand, and we need to prepare. We must make housing conditions ade qutilc for the w u x.r.an. "During the years of the war building operations were practically suspended because the Government needed the material. That is why we are short 700,000 houses. In order to catch up with the times, we must j build and byild heavily. Governor Sprout has sot an ex- j ample to the State and Nation by j his roadbuilding program, Mr. Spra- I gue believes. "The Government has! found it will cost a billion dollars to , put the roads of the Nation in shape j and I don't mean good roads like you are getting in Pennsylvania. It will require the million dollars to bring tbe roads into pre-war condi tions. The trucks, heavy wagons and military traffic has literally de stroyed them." "Now is the time for the states to begin work on their public buildings. It would be a splendid idea for you to begin work on the joint city and j county building right here in Har nisburg just as soon as you possibly ca.,i. Someone must set the lead for, regardless of the cost, we must build. "The argument is raised that people don't want to build when j materials are high in price. Do you know that the cost of living has ad- j vanned only 60 per cent, and a little' more? It is cheaper to build than you thought it would be, isn't it? "We must take care of our work men. The steamship offices have long waiting lines and people have paid ten per cent, deposit on tickets for months to come. The foreign governments are calling their alien labor home, and there may be reason for suspecting sinister motives. "There may be an abundance of common . labor of the wheel-barrow sort just now, but this won't con- ! tinue long. In a short time we will b • facing this serious shortage. ] With alien labor which has stood Drawing a Steel Ring Around Bolshevik Russia Revolutionary France, assailed on every side in 1792, sprang to arms and threw the invaders across the border in a few weeks and then gathered her strength for the great campaigns that planted the tricolor on half the palaces of Europe. Bolshevik Russia is now in a similar situation, but any dreams of a Soviet invasion of Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Rumania with 3,000,000 soldiers, seem nonsensical to American editors. While the Bol shevik forces under Lenine and Trotzky hold the inside position and can strike in any direc tion, at least five of the peoples of Europe are actively engaged in military preparations for defense. Of 850,000 Allied troops in Northeastern Europe "the English and French alone number nearly 300,000," says the New York Evening Post, and "with the Czecho slovaks and Poles in the North, a cordon of easily more than a million men can be stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea." Read THE LITERARY DIGEST this week —May 10th—if you would obtain a real knowledge of the present military situation in Russia. The article is illustrated by a half-tone picture of Kolchak, who heads the strongest anti-Bolshevik Government, and also by a map showing how Soviet Russia is hemmed in. Other articles of more than usual interest in this number of "The Digest" are: President Wilson's "Shirt-Sleeve Diplomacy" A Translation of Articles From the Italian Press Showing the State of Public Opinion in Italy on President Wilson and His Action Regarding Fiume Burleson Dropping the Wires British Influence in the League of Turkey's Melancholy Days of Peace Nations The First Concrete Freight Car Riotous "Passive Resistance" in India A "Full-Blooded Romance" From Selling Eggs by the Pound Italy , German Professors Kicked Across the Another Man Who Wrote Shakespeare fT Rhine Finding Saloon "Substitutes" Uncensored News of Korean . Christians The Ukraine ar £> e pL Probe of the Y. M. C. A. (Who the Ukrainians Are, and Facts About Prohibition and the Electric Light Their Country) Real Estate Riding on Snowflakes American Public Opinion on Fiume News of Finance and Commerce Personal Glimpse of Men and Events The Best of Current Poetry Many Interesting Illustrations, Including Humorous Cartoons The Surest Remedy for Bolshevism Ihe study of the new social disease, Bolshevism, common sense. It is up to every red-blooded whose menace is today overshadowing the greater American to do his share in spreading this cduca part of Europe, reveals the outstanding fact that it tion as to the real issues, the vital facts, the actual is most prevalent where ignorance is most strongly conditions that lie behind the world's unrest and " e a d r 0 is simp,y trr fostering of this dread disease. The surest way to . g C faCtS ' stn PPed of unessential details, combat these is by education, by enlarging the view- clean-cut, condensed, and up to the minute, you point, by substituting facts for for havc onl y to turn each week to THE LITERARY revolution. No perversion of the trutli can long DIGEST. Buy a copy today, read it yourself and endure under the pitiless light of publicity and pass it along to your family jnd friends. May 10th Number on Sale To-day—All News-Dealers—lo Cents (© Irteiafr Digest V Dlgost / (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionaiv). N FRIDAY EVENING, HABRE3BURG C6BBQS TELEGRAPH MAY 9, 1919. Iso loyally by us during ! ' e ikqining to the homeland, we need Ito get to work. II "There are great things ahead for America. Why, Belgium says it will take years to get her mines in shape, ready to work. And it is the same way for France. America must help | the other fellow, and we've got to ' I prepare." I The Governmental official was in Harrisburg yesterday enroute to ! Heading where he addressed a big mass meeting last evening. During his stay here he addressed the Ki wanis Club of Harrisburg, at their weekly luncheon in the Penn-Harris hotel. Extermination of Flies Is Urged by the State Dr. William C. Miller, director of the Public Sanitary Education Di vision of the State Health Depart ment, will speak to-night at 8 i o'clock in the Technical High school I auditorium, explaining the various | methods which can be used to ex ] terminate flics. The address will be I the first in the campaign to start I a State-wide fly campaign. Plans to start a fly-extermination | campaign in Harrisburg have been i outlined already by Colonel Martin, State Health Commissioner, and the co-operation of city officials has been assured. School children will he giv en an opportunity to help in the work also. For several years fly swatting campaigns were conducted in the city by the Civic Club, prizes being awarded to the boy or girl | killing the most of those pests. Drainage of stagnant pools of j water, covering of garbage recep i fades and screening of outhouses | are some of the plans which must !be carried out during the cam* paign. Rabbi Misses Stranger and $3OO in Cash ftor being entertained for two days at the home of Rabbi Horowitz, of Middletown, a stranger left sudden ly yesterday morning. Later Rabbi Horowitz missed $330, which he had left in a vest pocket. A reward of $25 has been offered for the apprehension of the stranger. He is described as being 27 years of age, of small stature, clean shaven, black eles and was wearing a soft hat and a grey striped suit. He | claimed to have been from Altoona. t The man came to the residence of I Rabbi Horowitz on Monday repre ! senting himself as a traveling sales man, and asked for a place to stay, saying he had no place to go and was without funds. IN SERIOUS CONDITION Boyd Gower, Berryhill street, is in the Harrisburg Hospital with a frac tured skull, a broken right leg, bruises and scratches all over the body and • probable internal injuries, as a result ]of an automobile accident. His condi | tion is serious. Gower is said to have j been driving a touring car in Derry j street when the car struck a rut and hit a tree. VETERANS OF ALL WARS TO PARADE MEMORIAL DAY Grand Army Invites Men Re turning From France to Join Them Preliminary plans now being arranged for the Memorial Day parade, expected to be one of the greatest held in Har risburg .provide for hundreds of re turned soldiers being in line. Veterans of three wars, the Civil, Spanish-Ameri can and the one just ended, will be in line. Special emphasis was placed on the invitation of the veterans of the present war following a meeting of three local G. A. R. posts last evening: "We want every man who was in the service to be in the parade, re gardless of his color and regardless of whether he was overseas or not," Charles H. Honlch, secretary of the general committee said. "There seems to be some hesitancy among members of the Buffalo Division and among men who remained in this country to par ticipate. This is absolutely the wrong idea. We want each and every service man." Conveyances will be provided for every soldier who is unable to march, including veterans of all of the wars. E. B. Hoffman, who will serve as grand marshal of the parade, has requested that persons having automobiles to of fer at the time communicate with him at Post 58, 26 North Third street, any evening before Memorial Day. The parade will form at Front and Market streets at 1.30 o'clock to move one-half hour later. The line of march will be announced within a few days. Dr. Robert Bagnell, of the Grace Meth odist Church, will deliver the address at memorial services which will be held in the Harrisburg Cemetery at the con clusion of the parade. The graves of the veterans will be decorated at the time. Free Membership in Y. M. C. A. Is Offered Three months' membership Is be ing given by the Central Y. M. C. A. to all men who have served in the Army and Navy. The membership includes all the privileges of the building. Application should be made to officers of the Association. PEN BROOK OVER TOP Penbrook has oversubscribed its Victory Loan quota, it was an nounced to-day when the borough topped its quota of $79,585. Among the heaviest subscriptions was that of L. A. Hetrick for $lO,OOO. FIRST TELEGRAMS OFF THE MORNING WIRE By Associated Press Cleveland. The Federal Council of trie Churches of Christ in America closed its three-day meeting here last night after adopting a series of reso lutions and a message on "the church and social reconstruction." which it commends to the churches of America for consideration. Copenhagen. Superior • Czech forces, after a bitter and fluctuating struggle, have gained a footing in the town of Nagyszecseny. the Hun garian supreme Army command an nounces, says a message from Duda pest to-day. New York. Neadly 2,000 Righty second Division drafted troops arriv ed from Bordeaux on the steamship Santa Cecilia. Paris. The Belgian delegation has issued a note relative to Great Britain being appointed mandatory for German Kast Africa, saying that "it is unable to believe that this action has been taken by the Council of Four." New York. - The Navy's dirigible C-5, which left the naval base at Cape May, N. .1., yesterday afternoon for Montauk, N. Y., arrived safely last night at Montauk. it was announced to-day at the office of the Third Naval District here. John C. Nissley Elected Moderator of Baptists Delegates at the fifteenth annual ses sion of the Harrisburg Association of Baptist Churches, held in Lancaster, elected John C. Nissley, moderator. Other officers elected were the Kev. W. S. Dunlop, pastor of the Market Street Baptist Church, clerk, and D. P. Jer auld, treasurer. Mr. Nissley is a mem ber of the Dauphin county bar and a former member of the House of Rep resentatives. Officers of the Women's Missidner Cir cle werj named as follows: Mrs. K. G. Butler, president; Mrs. C. 8., ( Adams, vice-president; Mrs. A. H. Frey, secre tary, and Mrs. M. A. Stout, treasurer. Speakers at the sessions were the Rev. Charles A. Soars, Philadelphia; the Rev. Dr. William G. R-sseil, Dr. Samuel Zane Batton, Philadelphia; George N. Spencer, the Rev. William H. Lock hart, Miss Winifred Roeder, of China; Mrs. A. H. Frey and Mrs. W. S. Dun lop. BON-OPTO SHARPENS VISION Soothes and heals, the eyes and strengthens eyesight quickly, relieves inflammation in eyes and lids; sharpens vision and makes glasses unnecessary in many instances, says Doctor. Druggists refund your Doctor. H. C. Kennedy, Croll Kel ler and J. Nelson Clark, druggists, will refund your money if it fails. Y.M.C. A. Plans For Big Picnic During July The Y. M. C. A. picnic will be held sometime in July, it was decided at the meeting of the Social Work committee, held In the Central Y. M. C. A. building, a$ noon to-day. Plans to make it even better than last year's festivity, were laid at the committee's meeting. John F. O'Neill was appointed by Gen eral Chairman P. T. Barnes, as chair man of the picnic committee. J. Wil liam Bowman, A 1 K. Thomas. Henderson Gilbert, Harry C. Leonard and C. W. Miller are the other members. C. W. Miller will be in charge of the sports, and assisting him will be Ross H. Swope and Paul C. Rexroth. Frank F. 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