10 IHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ▲ NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOUE Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELECHAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building. Federal Square K. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief S F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager J QUS. M. STEINJJETZ. Managing Editor M A. R. MICHENEU. Circulation Manager Executive Board i. P. McCCLLOL'GH. BOYD ,M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. $ Mnmbers ot the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en as titled to the use (or republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- Ire lished herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m. V- A Member American Pi Newspaper Pub 6CSS BSC M Eastern office •Ml on <4l Story. Brooks & W Fin ley. Fifth Avenue_ Building, office J* Gas Building Chicago. 111. m M * Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. 'Hi M B >* carrier, ten cents a creek: by mail. 13.00 a "" year in advance. Ps us MONDAY. MAY 26, 1919 m m i M If all our wishes were gratified, most ' E of our pleasures would be destroged. — J 5" Archbishop lVhatleg. j*. ! NOW GET BUSY B Jj -tttj-ITH a feeling ot relief Penn -5 \/\/ sylvanians outside of Phila- j st delphia read that the "Phila- j *: delphia differences have been for the < most part ironed out and the charter ; gj bills will l>e passed without further as difficulty at an early date." Perpetual wrangling in Philadel 8. phia is the nightmare of politics in •** Pennsylvania and an expensive uui- M tance in the legislature. With the * merits of the present bills we hate no quarrel. Doubtless, the changes outlined therein are highly desir- J able from the standpoint of Phila- j 46 delphia, but why not come before B the Legislature at the opening of thj session with a workable program al ready formulated and difterences of opinion threshed out and then lei tj" whatever debate and discussion must! 2* follow come at a time when the JS time could be most easily spared? In M the end the interests of Philadelphia 5J£ will suffer if the present course is pursued. People outside that cit;. are J* tired of the delay and indignant ove <s the expense necessitated by the 6 tying up of both House and Senate *. year after year until Quaker City squabbles can be settled. One of tv these days the incipient revolt that m developed last week among the £ country members may become a J* revolution, with the result that Phila- B delphia interests would be thrown HC. overboard entirely, -n which case 3* bcth the State-at-large and the city £ would suffer. Up-state members will not always stand patiently by and M; see such a constructive program as Xr Governor Sproul outlined at the B opening of this session endangered B by the political and personal bick ering of Philadelphia influences and E factions. Some way must be found * to settle these quarrels out of school. tFhe Legislature will do well to get through with the charter bills k at the earliest possible moment and J then buckle down to work on the many progressive bills Governor Sproul has outlined from time to time. CONVENTION BUREAU *£• establishment of a conven- I tion bureau by the Chamber of jJ, Commerce is a step in the right direction. Harrisburg used to have conventions at the rate of one a day £ during the year. Then came a time when, by reason of decreased hotel • (# accommodations and the many mod rem hostelries erected by rival cities, "5* we cou 'd no longer bid successfully against those better equipped for Mi conventions and they ceased, almost, • to come. Now. however, we are in position to offer the best hotel facilities in the State, and we have in addition good highways for automobile travel '.O from all parts of the country and ■ sr. abundant local attractions once the tourist reaches here second to none ■. in Pennsylvania. We are ready to m do a lot of convention advertising 3, and the Chamber is the organization * to do it. . | QUICK ACTION NECESSARY TF the hour of daylight we have I been enjoying as a result of the BR Daylight Saving Law is to be £ continued, all of us must act quickly. cuort wiu be maue tj Kill tni n ia u hi"g t'v ' ts repealer as a rider to the agricul i tural appropriation bill which Con- JS gress will pass before the end of ' S This was narrowly averted at the 1 last session of Congress. Those back of the movement are the big power companies, the coal companies and 4 the gas companies. They' have aroused the farmers to believe that daylight saving is directed against m, the farm interests and have tagged % them with the Job of killing this very excellent law. These companies MU less current, less coal and gas MONDAY EVENING, ias a result of duylight saving. The | heating and lighting bills are greatly I reduced. Every householder saves j money in addition to enjoying the I long evenings for recreation or work ! in the garden. If you want daylight saving con | tinned write to Senator Penrose, or ' Senator Knox, or Congressman i Kreider. or better still, all three of them, and ask them to vote against i the repeal of the law. But you must act quickly. A week |or two and it may be too late. "JOY-RIDING" mtiE other day a western rc- I ligious conference went on rec ord as violently opposed to au -1 tomobile runs that cost those par ticipating "large sums that might beter be employed to other usee," and roundly condemning those who indulge in "the wasteful pastime of 'jcy-riding.' " All very well, per haps, but why gun for sparrows with the woods full of bigger game? Take, for example, the $5,000,003 tiip of the President to Paris, fol io .ved by another, the bill for which | has not yet been rendered. And | there is Joscphus Daniels, knighted jby King George and homeward I bound after a "joy ride" with the ' licet, not to mention the eminent I Secretary of War who liked ■ Europe so well he made two trips ■ —both at government expense. | Then there is the host of lesser j lights, whose names are not allowed i to appear In front, possibly on ac ! count of their number. Why hot ! lake a crack at these international Jcj-riders, if the extravagance of touring is to be criticised? The ex pense of a single one of these would j pay the bills of all the privately-con | ducted automobile runs In the Unit- I eel States for any month of the year, j Why shoot sparrows while there are j droves of elephants within gunsho.Y And the "open season" has just be ! gun. i Colonel Harvey, discussing the go j ings and comings of our statesmen I abroad, gives us in his Weekly some | idea of what we may expect. Says I he: The royal progresses are to be ! resumed. For reasons of slate. | Italy, presumbaly. will not be re- I visited. But there is to be a bril liant procession into Belgium. Colonel House and all the glittering suite will be in attendance, with Admiral Doctor Grayson as sur- I goon-in-chief to look after the physical health of the cortege, while its spiritual welfare pos sibly may be under the direction of that exemplar of pious chastity, the Rather Reverend Herron, as chaplain, provided, of course, the Belgian laws regulative of puh- I lie morals permit his crossing the j frontier. There will be more hob- I nobbing with royalty, more sleep ing in royal bedchambers, more I dining off such royal plate as the Hun nobility, perchance, mav not have stolen. We already are informed, through inspired public informa tion sources, that there is to be at least one "great speech." Very likely it is to be a Message to Humanity from Humanity's pre siding officer. It may or may not precede the promulgation of orders as to legislation which the summoned American Congress is to get. Presidential touring en gagements permitting, some time in the near future. Just when our Government at T-argc may drop in on us here at heme for another brief call is un determined. There is now some talk of a little visit along about the last of June, in which case it would probably stay over the Fourth with us. Rut the matter is still too uncertain to permit us to make any plans for enter taining the distinguished visitors. Which sums up the situation very well. If we are going to get after the "joy-riders" let us begin with the chief offenders. Probably, how t'-er, a Congress that already dis plays indications of being brutally i irquisitive in matters of the kind j may be depended upon to deal ade quately w : itli the subject. AN EXCELLENT RECORD SENATOR FRANK A. SMITH has been responsible for some very excellent legislation in the few months he has served Dauphin county in the upper house of the State Legislature. Governor Sproul has signed bills of which Senator Smith was the author for the reorganization of the State Library, permitting the city and the county to join in the erec tion of a city hall and court house and authorizing the two also to build a joint contagious disease hos pital. The effects of this legislation once it is worked out will be highly bene- ] ficial to the people of Harrisburg and Dauphin county especially and will put the State Library and Mu seum on a modern working basis. Another bill which Senator Smith has fathered, that repealing the old tax collector system and providing for the appointment of a tax receiver for the county, has been passed by the Senate and is now in the House. It would save the people of Dauphin county at least $15,000 a year, and many other counties would benefit almost as much. It is to be hoped the House will concur In the Sen ate's approval. THE INCOME TAX SALARIED men and well-paid mechanics whose earnings are more than $2,000 and less than $4,000 will support the movement now in Congress amending the in come tax law so that a married man shall be exempt to the amount of $4,- 000, instead of $2,000 as at present. With the end of the war. Congress can well afford to make some modi fications in the income tax. Of course, the bulk of taxation will al ways remain on the shoulders of those who earn the most. That is only fair. But the salaried man especially has suffered severely dur ing the war as a result of increased living expenses without much, if any, advance in salary. Of all the peo ple of the country he has been hit hardest by war conditions. * At all events. $2,000 is too low a i basis for income taxation. Three ijthousand or l< ur thousand dollar i exemptions fof married men are ' -w L limits that would not result in much ; change In the amount of tux reul ( ized, but would save the taxpayors the small sums that often mark the ! difference between debt and money I In the hunk. Many mechanics who made more than $2,000 last year h'ad difficulty in meeting their tuxes this spring, be cause of loss of employment or re duction of wages. If these men had been enjoying a $4,000 minimum there would have been no such hard ship. [fotiUc* Ik | the Ex-Committocman From all accounts, the confmit tce named by Attorney General Wil liam I. Schaffer last Tuesday to get together on amendments to ihe Phil adelphia charter bills so that they can be passed early, did not finish the scene of its ac tivities. will he shifted to Harrisburg to-night. The committee was to draft amendments and send them to the House Municipal Committee to be put into the bill. Not only have the drafters failed to agree on all points, but some of the legisla tors are a bit resentful of the fail ure to include any members of the Municipal Committee on the Special Committee and are not backward about saying so. either. The plan is to have the bills amended and started through the House this week as the Governor and almost every one else is weary of the bills and the longer they remain on the House the more the session is drawn out. anrf there is danger of a flare-up over the failure to fix a date for adjournment and the delay in the determination of a financial policy and in acting on important bills. The Philadelphia Press in discuss ing the meeting of the Special com mittee in charge of the amendments declares it "sidestepped" the import ant features and the Public Ledger intimates that all was not lovely. The North American is far from satisfied. The Inquirer quotes City Solicitor John P. Connelly as follows: j "Excellent progress was made on al ! most all the provisions of the bills." "There are still some points on which further discussion was deemed necessary, and Mr. Gaffney, Mr. White and myself will go to Har risburg Monday to go over the re maining differences with the At torney General. One reason we de cided to hold another conference, I was that Mr. White wanted to ask his associates on the committee for instruction as to how far he could go on questions relating to the* bud get. Qther subjects discussed at the conference included the methods of choosing the City Solicitor, the Re ceiver of Taxes, and the proposed welfare department." —The Public Ledger gives atten tion to the clause that will be in serted in the bill providing that candidates for Mayor must be resi dents of the city for three years at least. —Prospects are that it will be well on into next week before the Phila delphia bills are clear of the House. The district attorney bills may be disposed of this week, hut there is no time set on the registration and other legislation which is full of legislative dynamite. —The old political game of "bury ing Penrose." of which so much has been heard here lately from the lit tle group which tried it in 1912 and 1913 and other years has been play ed again, this time at Washington. And with the same reuslt. The senior Senator from Pennsylvania emerges from the fight chairman of the finance committee and dominant political factor, just as he has done in Harrisburg in years gone by. The State can look forward to a fresh outburst of forestry and similar leg islation to detract from what hap pened at Washington. —According to Scranton dispatches 1 the returning soldiers are going to | figure extensively on the strenuous politics of Lackawanna. The follow ing is printed about men well known and who only recently returned here: "Colonel David Davis, who was chief of staff of the 28th Division, home, will aspire for the Judgeship nomination, opposing District At torney George Maxey. Another can didate will be James O'Neill, of Carbondale. whose term expires next January. Mr. O'Neill will have the solid backing of the Democrats, hence is assured of being one of the nominees. The real fight at the pri maries therefore will be between Colonel Davis and Mr. Maxey, each of whom has large followings. Two other war candidates will be Lieu tenant Harry M. Edwards, son of Judge H. M. Edwards, president of the Lackawanna County Court and Thomas Quinlan, baseball player, who lost an eye and also an arm in the battle of the Argonne Forest. | Lieutenant Edwards will be a can j aidate for City Councilman, while j Mr. Quinlin is to seek the Demo cratic nomination for County Com missioner. Edwards was a former football and baseball star at Lafay ette College." Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, late Democratic candidate for Governor ; came out at Reading on Saturday with a sharp attack on the admin -1 istration bill abolishing the State ! Fire Marshal's Department. He called it "vicious and various other , things not calculated to keep fire i men quiet. The Philadelphia Inquirer says I Schuylkill county lawyers are all be hind Orphans' Court Judge Mac- Henry Wilh'elm for re-election. Pottstown has increased its po lice force owing to trouble over house breakers. "More Flies This Summer" i Flies will be unusually numerous this summer because of the accumu lation of garbage resulting from the lack of available help for odd jobs 1 and because the mild winter has ■ enabled large numbers of adult flies . to survive, according to W. A. Riley, s professor of entomology In the Uni versity of Minnesota. A thorough clean-up of all refuse ' material should be started at once, Doctor Riley says. Unless tnis ac ' tion is taken the situation this sum mer will be critical, he warns. 1 "Flies can be eliminated when tlic 1 public awakes to the necessity of • concerted action. In the meantime, 1 the individual householder can greatly reduce their numbers by ' keeping his own premises clean and ' thus not only preventing fly-bread t ing but also lessening the chances of obtaining a supply of flies from , careless neighbors. "Screen your house thoroughly, ' and by the use of sticky fly paper " and 'swatting' get rid of the strajs i which escape this line of defense." HJLRRISBURG TELEGRAPH — . 1 AIN'T 17 A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUIPT By BRIGGS ' : 1 WHERJ ALL VOLFOTSR YOUVE ~ AKJD VOO'V/6 GROWM - A.JD ALL 7H£V HAVIS I 6E£NJ THE. SAME BILL OF TIRED OF SEEING The CH,AI*JGE.D IS TH£ J HOUJ ( C 1 FARE AT VOOR. FAVORITE SARV\E DLSHES DAY PRICES "AMD TH6Y '( ®?O" 1 \ RESTAURANT AFTER DAT A R£ ° P 1 - ' TAw I) Jus TAS TOO HE. SAYS SOM S - OM-H- H- BOY !!' ' ARE ABOUT TO TETT- THIINIG THAT Y ..,?\ THE WA.T6R TO SOES ' RLGH " R I RIRRY?" I T Kl £ . , STRS,.) U.S£ His OUJM - Y OUR I BFCRRY / GR-R-RAN*) 4 ND 6£RRV / ■ ~L ___ I SHORT-/ SHORT- I V HEART I GLOR'R^R'O 05 I CAKE/ ' ' ' V/ ' "' I .1 TRADE BRIEFS American exporters in correspond-' | ing with algerian Irms make fre : quent use of trade abbreviations j and commercial terms which arc not understood and cause considerable;' embarrassment. Goods invoiced for shipment to] the United States from Ceiba. Hon- j 1 duras. aggregated $2,290,635 in | ;;1918, bananas valued at $1,547,869; j and sugar at $638,550 being the] j chief articles exported. ] I The Government of New South . J Wales has set aside $486,650 out of; j which to make advances to farmers I who have suffered severe losses 'through successive bad seasons and | are now in need of assistance to save; them from ruin. A steamer passenger service has ] been inaugurated between Kings- J ton. Jamaica, and Santiago de Cuba.; For the past year small schooners have afforded practically the only i , means of passenger travel between Jamaica and Cuba. . Northern Chile depends almost j wholly upon two industries, nitrate! 1 and copper mining. Of these thej ; former is most important, both from| the standpoint of extensive operation] and the direct economic effect upon] ■ the population as a whole. ! Steel produced in the Transvaal, j • South Africa, from scrap varies; 1 i from very mild steel bars for black- ] • smith work to the hard steel bars] ■ used for Osborne tube mill liners, I ! but is chiefly medium carbon steel! i for rails, flats, angles, channels and ] ' rounds. : j The sunflower grows readily in l ' j South Africa and is cultivated to a] ' I limited extent for poultry food. In; 1 i the opinion of the British and South] ■ j African Export Gazette large quan ' i titles could be produced if there were a demand at a remunerative price. The production of hemp and flax in Baden is said to have increased twenty-fold during the war. For merlv these crops were raised by! small farmers for purely local use.. The Baden Chamber of Commerce; expects a still greater acreage to be devoted to flax and hemp when nor mal conditions are restored. According to the Nieuwe Rotter-; damsche Courant German mortgage , banks which during the war had come to an agreement providing for the extension of maturing mortgages; have found it necessary to reserve; the right again to extend the period, I from June 30. 1919, the date fixed by the above mentioned agreement, j to December 31. 1919. j There is need of paper in Bor-; r deaux, France, little having been . f imported or manufactured during] j the war, and a requisition being al-, so placed upon paper by the French ' Government during that time. Be-j fore the war a considerable amount ' of paper was imported from Ger- ] I manv and some from Ital. . i According to the Copenhagen Ber-; I lingske Tidende, the Norwegian; r Government expects to establish! three new factories, one each at; Haugesund and Vaagane. | for making oil and fertilizers from J e herring. The combined output is r calculated at 800 tons of oil and] y 6,000 to 7,000 tons of fish meal. ' Further discoveries of tin deposits • t in the Lukusi and Lualaba districts b (Congo. South Africa) are reported, r and a large increase on the present - output of those fields is anticipated i in the early future. • SAW FOUR WARS Mrs. Sarah E. Jones has lived to: see victorious American troops j ' march home from four wars. In a! r little town in Ohio nearly seventy- j five years ago, her father lifted her j up in his arms to see over the heads! of the crowd cheering soldiers re-! turning home from Mexico. Each j s soldier wore a heavy beard, she said,; - and in addition to his army equip-] e ment carried a new Navujo blank%t. ; a Some years later in the same town i s she helped welcome home a regi- ] s ment of tattered troops who had; , marched with Sherman from Atlanta 1 I to the sea. Bong before the next, war Mrs. Jones had moved to To e peka and was one of the great crowd • which cheered Funston's Fighting - Twentieth on its triumphal march I - down Kansas avenue. When the! 139 th Infantry marched down the] e avenue in Topeka the other day Mrs. if Jones was there to see them, and > to remark that the boys looked n younger in their drab uniforms and y overseas caps than the other Iroops d did as they returned from former - wars. —From the Topeka Capital. 'S " u Three Degrees of Presidency r t President, r Rex-President, s Ex-President. —From the New York Times. ■ - —ntn"tr~' : --nr- i;*-' i -N ... . As Britain Saw Us One Century Ago [Front London Observer, May 17, 1818.] 0' F ALL the nations in the world, i the Americans are proud to become eventually the equal j j rivals and competitors of England; j I they are of the same root and trunk ! i with ourselves: their constitution is; i as good, because made after the ex- ] perience of our own; and it is ab-j surd to imagine that their under- j [standings differ more from ours than ] their bodies and persons. It always [appears to us unnatural, as well us j most absurd, to speak with any ] ] contempt of what is our own family ; —transplanted only int a remote j region. We will even say more: Wo con i ,4 JOY PICTURE ]Th' gladdest thing in the world that's glad, j Er that's what I think's, a little tad, ! With a piece of bread, an' a horn to 1 blow, | An' a step to set on. No one don't know Anything that's happier much, I guess; By jing. I git such a tenderness ; When I see a little old tad like that j 1 feel like settin' down where he's j at, An' askin' him, with a friendly smile. , To let me toot on his horn a while, i i :Or for a bite of his 'lasses bread— ] A little bit of a touslohead, > settin' there on a step like that ] With a tootin' horn, and a old st••aw hat Right there beside him, is just all j right! He will swing his foot, an'U take | I a bite ] Of his 'lasses bread, an' then blow his horn; An' just as sure as you've been born. He knows more gladness than any thing 1 That was ever thought of could j give a king. A king ain't much—ain't one-half as as glad— | As him, awaiting there for his dad. With bread an' butter, and 'lasses, too; j No artist feller has ever drew ; A picture breathin' so much o' joy | ! As one like that of a little boy j A settin' thtere with his old straw j hat; ] I want to set down by where he's , at ' An' coax him, pattin' his yellow , head, i To gimme a bite of his 'lasses ; bread. ] —Judd Mortimer Lewis in the Hous ! ton Post. i Value of the Boy Scout • When the educational authorities ] of the State and nation finally de | termine just what sort of training is ; ' best suited to the needs of our j ' youth below the age of eighteen years in lieu of specifia military training, it will probably be seen that the product they want is fair- ] I ly well approximated in the Boy j i Scout. He is a boy who is trained 1 : to outdoor exercise; he is trained ( ] to use his eyes and hands; he is I taught to use his knowledge gained j ! in school and in reading to aid in j i discovery of facts for himself; he isj won to a manly attitude toward] ] his fellows and sensible chivalry of j behavior; he is constantly practiced j I in being useful to the public. If a great majority of our boys i ] were Boy Scouts to begin with, the ] ] end of any training looking to phys ' ical education and fitting the young J i men of the land for military duty 1 i would be in considerable measure ] secured. And thi? preparatory work ; would be done in the best man ■ ner because it would be voluntary. The best recruiters for Boy Scouts 'enrollment are the boys themselves. They like tho organization, like what they get out of it. put them . selves into it wholeheartedly. The ; great need on which nation-wide ] success will depend is a supply of ' | competent scout leaders. It is a po ; sition for a real man and a real ] teacher and a service that will be i done for the good of the country. | —From the Rochester Post-Express. The Lord's House Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Con i sider your ways. Go up to the 1 mountains, and bring wood, and i build the house; and I will take : pleasure in it. and I will he glorl i Med, said the Lord.—Haggal I, 7 and Ml*. • ceive that the institutions in Amer- I ica, and particularly the practice of I government, may afford many use j ful lessons to the more ancient gov -1 ernments of Europe and that kings ! and people may learn that governors ] are made for men, and not men for j governors; that the first considera i tion everywhere is the people and j the comfort of the people; that there : is no very close and necessary con ] nection between the expensive splen j dor of princes and the happiness of i the country, though the President i hangs the bridle of his horse to a i pole whilst he enters the Congress. If America wants something which we may possess, she likewise pos sesses much of what we are in want. "RHINE-WHINE" [From The Bache Review] We have frequently referred in ] the Review to the necessity for a i coalition of resources among the nations, to help the world to its ] feet. If we look at the world as a ] whole, we find that it is staggering under the smashing disaster to a I i great, important part of its indus-1 ] trial structure in Europe, that a ] j large part of Europe's liquid capi- i tal has been used up and its fixed ! capital badly cut '-*o. and that at ] the same time the proportion of its | effective man power killed off and | disabled, has been lamentably large. This places a burden upon the j immediately affected populations and ' resources—too great to be borne un aided. Germany, which wrought the ! unwritten terms for the nations she j has shamefully wronged are equally I difficult and the burden in the ag- I gregate far larger. The gross debt of the five Allied nations, including the United States, amounted at the first of this year to $130,000,000,000. The debt of the same nations on ] August 1, 1914, was $18,400,000,000. Germany, up to January 1, 1919, j had cost these five nations' for war ] alone nearly one hundred and twelve 1 billion dollars. i The yearly expenses of these five I nations, by reason of the war, will amount to over seven billion dollars more than their per-annum expenses during 1913. This is what Germany has done , by her preposterously selfish, arro ! gant and brutal expedition to con j quer the world. There is no possi ] ble way of making her pay in full measure for the damage she has 1 done, no way of completely punish ing her for her guilt. The exhioi j tion of bluff, insincerity, insoler.ee, .and contemptible wailing, which the I German delegates are giving, is thor oughly in line with the German character. A clever speaker lias designated it as the Rhine-Whine. What Is Cost of a Cloud? [From the Phila. Public Ledger] What is the cost of a cloud? In a city like Philadelphia tens of | thousands of electric lights are tutn !ed on when the sun is blanketed j and there are murky or somber skies ! because of the dark clouds. ISlec ] trie light means more use of coal i and coal means money and the ] money comes from the public's purse j when the electric light bill comes in. Someone figured that a rainy day j cost New York an unconscionable | amount of money. Women, he ex ] plained, disbursed 85 per cent, of j the money earned by men. On rainy | or dark days they remained Indoors ! mostly. Store sales were curtailed, traffic reduced and nearly cver>! I class and character of business was : affected adversely. Theaters, movie i shows, ball games and general ! amusements suffered seriously. There is a good deal of truth in this. However, there are some lines that are benefited. Persons buy more umbrellas, overshoes, rain coats and such articles. Strange to say, some department store people declared their rainy-day business was quite satisfactory, many women choosing such days for their buy ing because the crowds were not so great, and they did more purchas ing because they had better oppor tunity to make selections and re ceive attention. In New York, in one of the tall est structures, the electric light peo pla have watchers stationed night and day to search the skies. At the first sign of approaching storm, or dark clouds the word is passed to the great power houses, and the fire men get busy shoveling coal, so the Edison people will be able to give all the light New York needs. MAY 26, 1919. IMMUNE A Fritz that runs a truck farm out by Molesburg He says to me an' Jones the other day How the war is done an' ended an' thee rupture'd soon be mended, If we'd only look at things the German way. This boche allows that him an' us is brothers, An' jes to make our kinship more secure. Us, an' all our little buddies ought to take up with the studies These long haired boche profes sors culls "kultoor!" The Captain he's agin all fraternizin' lie claims this here "kultoor's" a bad disease;" Which is certain sure to get us, if we let the boche upset us With their propaganda mean' their ideas. Cut I'll tell the world the Captain needn't worry. This kultoor" will never be no pet o' mine, I have done a lot o' dopin', keepin' both my eyes wide open. An' I've seen the way it works across the Ithine. I have watched these highly culti | vated Heinies Hitch their wives in double har ness to the plow, : Settin' round the whole day idle, save for toyin' with a seidl. While the lady an' the bossy drug the plow. I have seen the lovely cottages they live in With the horses in the next ad joinin' room,— Seven feet between the stable an' the fam'ly dinin' table While the breezes wafted in a thick perfume. No, siree, young mister Captain needn't worry. Though we ketch a lot o' sickness over here While dischargin" of our duties—like the flu an' itch, an' cooties, An' the typhoid bug that burrows in the beer. Keepin' watch an' ward upon a gang o' Heinies Is a mighty risky business —that is sure, i But the world can hear me holler that I'll bet my bottom dollar, I won't never ketch the thing they calls "kultoor!" —James Montague in Kansas City Star. Now the "Raw Beef Jag" ■ [From the New York American] | "Drunkenness on food" was de scribed by Dr. A. A. Brill, of the Mt. I Sinai Hospital staff the other night, j He told members and guests of the I New York Academy of Medicine that ; the "raw beef jag" and "mixed I course spree" may be the rule among I chronic alcoholic victims after 'July 1. I He presented a concrete example iin the case of "Madame X." When | she was denied her accustomed al jcoholic stimulants. Doctor Brill said j the patient entered a state almost | identical to drunkenness by eating | the following: i Four pieces of toast with straw | berry jelly, j Two crullers. ' One boiled egg. One roast beef sandwich. One pound of almonds. Three sliced cucumbers. Six bananas. Two frankfurters with tea. Three nut cakes. One pound of chocolate candy. Although "Madame X" was frail, weighing about ninety pounds. Doc tor Brill said she ate the above food within a half-hour. Doctor Brill I cited this case to support his ascer tion that ingredients other than al cohol cause intoxication in ltquoas now sold. | Another case cited by Doctor Brill ! was dcscrtHgd as the "raw beef jag." . He said one patient, deprived of al cohol. received an "intoxicating" feeling after partaking of three ! pounds of raw beef. Yet another j patient became "drunk" after taking ' several teaspoonfuls of table salt. ■ 10-Acre Farm For 95 Cents Portluml, Conn.—lf there is any one in this section who is anxious to get a bargain, he should apply to M. J. Leahy, tax collector, who is advertising a 10-acre farm for sale for ninety-five cents. Collector. Leahy has been unable to find an owner for the farm and cannot collect the ninety-five cents due in taxes. He is therefore selling the farm for the taxes. —From the Hartford, Conn., Courant--* Ebnting (ttlfat Just to find out how those con ducting liquor business in Harris burg regard the coining of prohibi tion the question was put to several heuds of establishments of various kinds as to what they think is go |n(s to happen when the country goes j "dry." The results were extremely ! interesting and the contrast between the calm discussion of the proposi tion and the indignant manner in which such a question would have been repelled, three or four years ago was marked. There was also the interesting fact that no two of the men addressed seemed to agree. One long headed man said that he was going into the mineral water and so-called "soft" drink trade and had been working it up for weeks. He showed some figures that were astonishing. Another said that he would embark in the ice cream busi ness, into which a number of men extensively engaged in the whole sale liquor business have been going for months. These two men are wholesalers and did not care the sale of "near" products. As for the retail end, the head of one hotel said that he would do as they have done in Detroit and put a soda fountain in his bar and encourage the tea and coffee and pastry habit. He said that people were going to continue to gather in what are now bars and that the cofTee house of olden time was coming back with some features borrowed from Eu rope. Incidentally, he said that he expected a boom in the lunch bar business. The head of a plain saloon declared that he was going to quit and throw up his lease. He said the quick luncheries were going to get the money that now goes for beer. Another man who has a well known stand said that he had | thought about an all night coffee room, but that he was afraid that such places would in time grow notorious, just as some bar rooms have become in the eyes of police officials. This man also raised the interesting point that there was go ing to be trouble regulating men wlj brought their liquor along and would drink it out of tea cups in • coffee joints." as he called them; lunch rooms and similar gathering places which will replace the saloon as a place for men to congregate at nignt. He also said that he did not think that prohibition would decrease the so-called night life that has been increasing so noticeably in Pcnl "* " vania cities lately. Another man who has closed his place at mid night no matter who was in the bar says that people will go to earlier. • • When the men selected to, be questioned about the great P™P° 8i ; tion from the standpoint^ r the folks who sell grog were was going to make trouble in en""" ing prohibition they all said that't would be "home made. ™e "pin ion seemed to be general thay he amount of liquor laid by 'n cellar or medicine chests or hidden under beds is not as large as suppose,l and that it would be carefully hoarded Men having it said oho man who has a big trade in the minor fractions of liquid measure will keep it back and try their hands at making various "wines and will experiment in everything from peaches and cherries to apples and plums with dandelions as a side fine "There is nothing to prevent S man JSm Vaklnn ht, own U = , provided ho knows ho* any more than there is to prevent him from Suit 1 wfll f be ß more a fearful and won derful concoctions and more plctur esquc jags for a while after the dry law eoes into effect than you can lm lajy f Rut they will soon get over ft Experience in other States has shown that the number who go hark after a wrassle' with home stuff is small. People will bo more apt to tU "Harrtebunf"is an all* nighttown of vaHous works and there is going to be a own bar' 0 "! °don'™know what *am going to do, Xt'the"lunchrooms f?e n foin°g To y be the gathering places joints °P e nrohibition stuff and fhev are goingTo be big buyers of they are , ,___ t i t in their own wafch and see \ miffht than you have any idea o 2X the foreigners make their own ™nes on a scale that no one realizes. Some of them do get drunk occasion and when prohibition comes in theirbeddings and other celebrations „rLffing to be curious affairs, espec falty H Ivery family brings its own brand." p WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 Charles M. Schwab, who was here last week to look over Steelton, is causing New York people to sit up at his optimism. They say in finan cial newspaper circles that he has not gone wrong yet. —General Harry C. Trexler has just added more buffalo to his pre serve near AUentown. —General A. J. Logan is personally visiting the armories in his section nf the State to get them in shape for the reorganization of the National "flpresldent E. E. Sparks, of State College has recovered from his re sr,s had time to visit the Legislature. (" DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrlsburg Is making parts for machinery plants in eastern cities and building up quite a business? HISTORIC IIARRISBCRG The first- Arsenal bulit here had places for cannon on the roof, but they were never used. The "Nationalized" Wife Ten little Bolsheviks standing in a line. The rest desired the wife of one, and then there were nine. —Kansas City Star. • * • Should Interview Bismarck Why doesn't Conan Doyle or Pro fessor Hyslop, or somebody else who is having communication with the spirit land, get an Interview now with Bismarck on the terms of the Peace Treaty? For an authentic interview any enterprising Journal would be willing to pay at least 11.11 a line. —From the Boston Globe- !
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