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MONDAY. MAY 26, 1919
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M If all our wishes were gratified, most '
E of our pleasures would be destroged. — J
5" Archbishop lVhatleg.
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NOW GET BUSY
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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
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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- !