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LEGISLATURE NEWS
APPROPRIATION
WANTS ARE HUGE
Almost $125,000,000 Asked of
House With Revenue Less
Than $90,000,000 Now
1 Appropriation bills listed by the
j House appropriations committee
■ have reached the stupendous total
lof $>124,423,315.01. This breaks all
records for requests and the figures
have been double checked to make
sure that they are- correct.
Estimates of the revenue avail
i able for appropriation range any
where from $86,000,000 to $90,000.-
00 and Governor William C. Sproul
has given $90,000,000 as the outside
figure, this being contingent upon
the Auditor General being able to
demonstrate that he can raise that
amount of money. The alternative
will be a tax of two mills on the
dollar of manufacturing capital.
Members of the Legislature in
i charge of appropriations are plan
ning to see Governor Sproul as soon
as possible so that they can start
reducing the biUs and in order to
make reports for which members of
both Houses are commencing to
clamor. Chairman William J. Mc-
Caig. of the House appropriations
committee, has sent out notices to
heads of a number of departments
of the State government to meet him
this week to show where their re
quests in the general aPP™Pation
bill can be reduced. This bUI is
now over $42,000,000 and at least
53,000,000 must be cut from it. in
other reductions will be J made
charitable, educational and similar
bills and the colleges recebdng
State grants will not get more than
they received in 1917.
Pronounced opposition to tne
levying of a manufacturing capital
tax is expected to be manifested this
week and Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder will ask that he be given
the authority asked in his series of
bills in order to raise the re^ e "" e |
without recourse to the much dis
cussed tax. Employers who are op
posing the increased percentages for .
compensation are interested in the
capital stock tax and wIU appear
against it. The compensation rate
amendment bill will likely remain in
committee until some actuarial esti
mates are completed for information
of the members. i
This data was promised by tne
committee of employers who appear- j
ed here last Tuesday in opposition |
to the administration bill as a sup
port for their contention that the j
proper way to amend the bill was
in fixing new bases instead of alter
ing the percentages. The admtnis- .
tration is having similar informa-<
tion assembled to back up its bill.
The self insurers tax will be op
posed in the House committee on
ways and means and the rehabilita- i
tion bill, another of the compensa-;
tion series, will be virtually rewrit
ten. Some men who have studied
this measure say that it would prove
a huge financial burden in a few
vears and that that the State would
have an annual expense of millions
to care for injured men. Redistrib
ution of the burden and provision
that it would affect only Pennsyl
vanians or men hurt in Pennsylvania
industries are suggested. The bill
reorganizing the Compensation Bu
reau is to go through as reported
from the Senates committee with sal
aries reduced and an actuary pro
vided for. Authority of the Com
missioner of Labor and Industry
will not be abridged.
Some amendments to the Cox bill
regulating sales of second hand mo
tor vehicle and requiring reports
on cars left for repairs to be made
by garages are rumored, opposition
to the detailed information asked
having cropped up on the ground
that it would be burdensome.
Changes to the Dithrich automobile
regulation bill are also possible.
Friends of military training will
call for action this week. The Daix
bill is on the Senate postponed cal
endar and it will be determined in
what form the proposition is to go
through. The way it stands now, it
is optional with districts and as the
bill does not carry enough money to
meet the expense of instructors, but
only for administration and launch
ing the system local districts have
been protesting. Prospects of a
larger grant by the State are un
favorable because of the appropria
tion situation.
78th Division Men
In Philadelphia Port
Philadelphia, May 26.—The trans
port Montpelier, bringing home from
France the 312 th infantry, made up
chiefly of men from New . Ne *[
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, in
the 78th division, arrived hereYes
terdav The vessel sailed from
Bordeaux on May 11 and had aboard
64 officers and 2,199 men, £ c 'u di "K
the headquarters company. First and
Second battalion, headquarters, sani
tary detachments of the Second and
Third Battalions, marine n
talion and companies A to H inclu
sive.
DISABLED SOLDIERS TO
D,9A GET EXPERT ADVICE
To supplv information to disabled
soldiers, sailors and marines as to
the method of procedure to be fol
lowed to secure vocational instruc
tion to aid them in earning their live
lihood, Vocational Adviser U. 3. G.
Scull of the Federal Board of Vo
cational Education, will soon visit
Bterrisburg. Plans at this time are
that he will establish temporary
headquarters at the Red Cross Rooms
in the Harrisburg Library Building
en Tuesday, June 3.
THREE SHALL FIRES
Small damage resulted In three
tires reported to the Harrisburg flre
department yesterday. The first call
came from the Pennsylvania Rail
road. where a blxcajr caught fire
The fire was extinguished before the
arrival of the fire apparatus. Anoth
er call came when a construction car
in the Harrisburg Railway shed at
Cameron and Herr street* caught flre
and the. third when a blase occurred
in an automobile In Market Square.
BABTENDKKS AID THE ARMY
Ooebocton, Ohio, May 26. A
for $68.41 was presented to
Che Salvation Army yesterday by
Che local Bartenders' Union, and it
was received with expressions of
gratitude. As a result of saloons in
Ohio going out of business yesterday,
the bartenders dissolved their organ
ization, which was affiliated with the
Bartenders' International eague.
MUSICAL
Merchandise of all kinds at
J. Yohn Bros.
£3 N. 4th St.
MONDAY EVENING,
SUFFRAGE WILL
BE UP TONIGHT
Senators Will Pass Amend
ment Resolution; Ratificr
Coming Along Soon
People about the State Capitol
are speculating upon the possibility
of Pennsylvania being among the
States having an early chance to
ratify a woman suffrage amendment.
Most of the Legislatures have ad
journed and as the Keystone State
General Assembly is generally be
lieved to have a month more in pros
pect some people here are of the
opinion that Congress may act upon
the amendment before the gavels
fall In the State house on the session
of 1919. The suffrage amendment
is now in the United States Senate,
having passed the House. Predic
tions are made that if the amend
ment measure conies hero from
Washington it will pass the Legis
lature.
The resolution proposing the wo
man suffrage amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania, which
passed the House on April 22 by 128
to 66, is the special order for the
Senate at ten o'clock to-night and
the suffragists claim that it will pass.
It must pass the next Legislature
before it can be submitted to the
electors of Pennsylvania, who re
jected it four years ago.
The fact that some of the national
Republican leaders are favorable
to suffrage and the desire to keep it
out of the primaries next year may
have the effect of hastening favor
able action in the State Legislature.
Just 101 members of the House who
voted for prohibition amendment
ratification voted for the suffrage
resolution. Some suffragists claim
as high as 35 votes. Twenty-siS
are needed.
Both branches of the Legislature
will meet at 9 o'clock, each with ex
tensive calendars. It is the plan to
hold sessions on Tuesdav and Wed
nesday. but there will be few hear
ings. The amendments proposed to
the Philadelphia charter bills will
be considered by the House Muni
cipal Corporations Committee on
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Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. Hilld IVXlllilld J
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A bale Oi Blouses ror Memorial Day r& t l!fX t mmittgs ~ all exprcssing the joyous
Dainty Georgettes & Fine Quality dainty fining complements for the frilly of *1
Hundreds of new blouses in a score of handsome styles are featured in a pre-Memorial
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woman cannot have too many blouses. 1 .. 1
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In A Basement Sale At 5 2. 75 to $lO Special Values Are Shown At $5.50 to $12.50 > At Savings Of A Fourth
Aerolux shades for porches and verandas are altogether There are handsome styles for informal occasions as well as manyelaborate creations for $45.00 Mahogany Toilet Table, reduced to . ...v-w $33.75
different from ordinary makes of shades. Their patented afternoon and evening. $65.00 Mahogany Toilet Table, reduced to .. $48.75
construction closes out the heat and glare of the sun and .... $39.00 Walnut Chiffrobe, reduced to $29.25
permits cooling breezes to enter, transforming the porch shades most 111 favor are nav y- Llbert y blue > flesb . wh 'te and orchid. $55.00 Mahogany Bed, reduced to. $41.25
into a comfortable, shady and cool resting place. Exceptional values are offered in Crepe de Chine blouses at $3.50 to $6.50 Wdnut Bed L reduced to V fSS'of
They can be raised or lowered instantly. . Dives. Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. $49.00 Mahogany Bed, reduced to $36.75
Made in brown, green and white: ' $ 2900 Ivor y Bed ' reduced to ..p $19.50
White Shoes Of Course Printed Georgette and
? S S: For Summer Foulard Silks lonn D w .,, w ,m w
8 ft. wide by 7% ft. drop _ soon „ , ~ . , , 1200 Boys Will Want To Wear
10 ft. wide by 714 ft. drop sß.oo Popularized by the great vogue for filmy, Two of the season s most popular dress "
12 ft. wide by 7& ft. drop . sio.oo light and white dresses, white shoes will be weaves are these soft luxurious silks of OtTO /vf TVlfiGf* vn^afi ,, T-£ImiQCC
among every woman's articles of dress. georgette and foulard. vylltJ UX J-IltJotJ XVCtj iltJtJ UIUU.OCD
Made in brown: T
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6 ft. wide by 6.8 drop! !!!!!!!**!!*?*!!!*? ! 1!; 1" s!t 65 footwear than they have eypr been hereto- sheer and clinging; 40 inches wide, at, yard, news that brings these durable blouses to them at 89{^
7 ft. wide by 6.8 drop! !!!!."!' 5440 f° r e, and early selections are advised. _ . $3.00 Ready tomorrow.
8 ft. wide by 6.8 drop .. !*"* s 4 'so wru-* r~i .u r 1 • i * etn Foulards in navy, Mack, taupe, amethyst Kaynee white madras blouses in collar styles or with neck
10 ft. wide by 6.8 drop S6 - >n Wh | te Cloth Colonials .... $4.50 and copen grounds; 36 inches wide, yard, band ; si2es 6to 16. Each 89*
12 ft. wide by 6.8 drop, $8.40 White Cloth Pumps $5.50 frtr cnnr+e „ • Kaynee stripe madras blouses with collar attached; sizes
™ White Cloth Oxford* Sfi Ort anrl S7 OO New Velveteen for sports coats, in Vic- c * u i on.l
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Basement. ' wnite ClOtn Uxtords, and ?/.UU Victorv blue and black vard 6to 16 ' Eacb 89*
White Pro-buck Oxfords ....... $6.50 ' ' 53.50 Serviceable Summer blouses of the Kaynee line at 89*
White Nubuck Oxfords $6.00 Kumsi Kumsa in new plaid patterns, are of blue dark stri P e chamhray in sizes 6to 16.
TTT-11 r\ k n ' -White Canvas Oxfords $5.00 yard $7.50 Sport blouses blue chambray and stripe percale, with ad-
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Demonstration This Week Summertime Frocks For Juniors & Girls TX7I ., orn , n -Lt jtt
JZSt&tXa Enchanting Styles In Colors& White , . , White & Flesh Ribbed Vests
was it possible to present lf ~ ~ , Dainty types of dresses that will appeal to girls as well as tJt/C X 0 O^C
a vibrator that at " e their mothers are shown in style after style in the Junior Girls' . i
rvemee t nerson a Now it is De P artment - l u Special ValUeS FOT Women
average pc s , aM', .< Whether your daughter be light or dark of complexion, slender jS tif% C. ~ Iri 1 n •
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enjoy tne rejuvenaung ei- f rom at very modest prices. jjjTL|l
terts ot an electric mas- Dainty little white voile frocks are shown at $3.50 to $12.50 231 fef Women's white cotton ribbed vests; low neck, sleeveless
T special demonstra- Bjgjb. hochi and Jack Tar tog,, for V 0 M
uon of the Star ,s now ra are priced at..... 4.95 to *7-50 l~f lar s j zes , 39^. extra sizes ' 504
progress in the Market White and flesh georgette dresses, beautifully trimmed and ■ 77) Pink cotton ribbed vests
Street Aisle. Ihe price is • carefully made, are $27.50 to $32.50 U V J White lisle ribbed vests; regular sizes, 50<£; extra sizesJ
remarkably low at $5.00 Printed georgette frocks with ruffles and frills are $22.50 - v Jl 59^
Dive's, Pomeroy & Stewart, Basement Divee, Pomeroy A Stewart, Second Floor. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Flooj),
Tuesday and It is expected that they
will be disposed of In the House
along with other Philadelphia bills
the following week. Meanwhile it
Is probable that estimates of the
revenue available for appropriation
will be determined upon the final re
vision of appropriation bills made in
committee. Ninety millions of dol
lars figures largely in the discussions
as the limit.
During the week a convention of
i men interested in revision of the
I Constitution will be held here and
committees will visit the Legisla
ture. The Senate bill providing for
a commission to be named by the
Governor to study revision of the
Constitution is on the third reading
calendar in the House and will be
disposed of during the week.
The Senate calendar contains a
large number of third reading bills,
including those to regulate dwelling
construction, forbidding offering of
stale eggs as fresh, authorizing con
demnation of land for Stato forests,
reorganizing State Compensation
Bureau, new public printing bill,
authorizing counties to erect me
morials to men who fought in the
war with Germany and Constitu
tional amendment forbidding ap
pointment ot persons rejected by the
Senate after Senate has adjourned.
In the House the calendar con
tains dozens of postponed bills, in
cluding the prohibition enforcement
and alcohol content bills fishermen's
license, requiring all vehicles to
carry lights on roads after dark,
branch bank and physical education
bills. The new bureau of markets
bill is on third reading. On second
reading is the new contagious dis
ease drafted by the State Department
of Health.
Borah Again Pleads
For Peace League
To Be Party Issue
Washington. May 26. —A plea that
the Republican party accept the
question of a peace league as a
party issue and oppose as a unit the
league covenant was reiterated by
Senator Borah, Republican of
Idaho, in a letter he made
public here. The communication,
addressed to D. E. Dunne, Wichita,
Kans., commending the Sedgwick
Republican Club for resolutions de
nouncing the league covenant, was
similar in content to the letter re
cently sent by the Idaho Senator to
the Boston Transcript.
B£RiQßdDita^fi^TEQxnrQ>s
American Jews 1 Day of Mourning
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
It has been decided by the spiri
tual and temporal leaders of Ameri
can Jewry that a day of mourning,
fasting and praying be set and ob
served by all Jewish communities of
this country, as a protest against the
wholesale massacres of and pograms
on their six million brethren at the
hands of the newly liberated poles.
The coming Thursday, May 29, our
Christian friends may be surprised
to see Jews closing their stores and
shops for a few hours to repair to
the synagogues. Well, it will bo the
day of mourning observed by the
Harrisburg Jewish community. On
all the Jewrish faces will be read a
sorrow as deep as the sea and a
pain as silent as the night.
The real protest, however, is com
ing from the victims themselves,
from the outraged and then killed
widows of fallen soldiers, from the
torn from the torn babies,- from the
wild shrieks of despair of the moth
ers which are only silenced by the
death blow of the club wielded by
the murderer from the wrecked
homes, from the desecrated syna
gogues, from the defiled holy scrolls,
from the ruined cemeteries, from the
blood of the son which is made to
mingle with the blood of the aged
father, etc., etc.
Many people have asked the
meaning of the word "pogram." In
vain will the Americans look for it
in their dictionaries. It is a strictly
Russian product, adopted now by the
reborn Poland, and evidently coun
tenanced by the majority of the
"Peace Conference." We Americans
have heard of lynching. Well, a
pogram Is a wholesale and incom
parably more brutalized form of
lynching. But there is another im
portant distinction between lynch
ing and pograms. Lynching is
detestable, horrible, and barbarous
enough. But the victim that is be
ing lynched is more or less guilty of
a crime, while the victims of the
pograms are absolutely innocent.
|An important distination, is it not be
tween these two. And there is yet
another difference between these
two. The satanic work of lynch
ing is being done by the blind
ignorant irresponsible mob,
while pograms are being carried on
by the people higher up.
You will ask "why do they do
that?" Just for a pastime.
Some newspapers expressed them
selves that Poland declared war
against six million Jews. We scout
such a war against non-combatants.
We scorn a war with cowards who
attack defenseless women and chil
dren, who first disarm our self-pro
tecting young men under peaceful
pretenses and then kill them from
behind their backs. Shame on those
who call such cowardice war. If
Poland wants honorable warfare, we
accept the challenge. In fact, we will
throw down the gauntlet first. 1-et
the Allied nations for whom our sons
bled so freely, let the nations who
cajoled Americans, who coaxed our
Jewish lads into a war for Democ
racy, and then betrayed their wives,
fathers, mothers and sisters into tho
hands of brutes, allow us to equip
a transport to go together with our
nearly three million Jewish soldiers
who fought under the flag of the Al
lies to fight against the barbarous
Poles even as valiantly as we fought
against, well, shall I say, the less
barbarous Germans. No one can
make a better soldier than the Jew.
For what are the qualifications of a
good soldier? Morale, self-denial,
fatitude and endurance. History
will show as to which Nation has
shown the most endurance.
For honorable warfare we are al
ways ready, even if not prepared.
l*et the citations and decorations of
Jewish soldiers testify. In honorable
combat all of us Jews are willing
to be exterminated even completely.
But the children of Israel, the sons
of the prophets, the lineal descend
ants of the Maccabees flatly and
categorically refuse to be drowned
like rats, to be throttled like snakes,
to be crushed like worms. Only a
completely demoralized and thor
oughly depraved world can tolerate
such a state of affairs.
Poland had become the fondled
child, the pet of those Allies who
went into the war for aggrandize
ment and material gain. Why? Be
cause by Poland's geographical posi
tion the majdVity of the Allies ex
pect her to hem and hedge in Ger
many. (What guarantee they take
from Poland that she will just cater
to the interests of the Allies, I do not
know). So Poland is allowed to
cloak her cowardice under the pre
text that she is killing "lawless" Jews
Yes, we are lawless only In the sense
that we are not vouchsafed any law
to protect us, no law to save tho
lives of our defenseless women and
children. Ip other words, we have
been outlawed. Yes, we have been
outlawed by the flower of civiliza
tion. Do people really believe that
we deserve no protection of the law?
If so, let them say that openly, so
that we may know where wo ate
at. The outrageous insinuation of the
leaders of the new Poland that the
Jews in their domain are lawless
finds its parallel only in the notor
ious amount of slander coming
from the same source that Jews use
the blood of Christians for rituul
purposes.
Has not the cup of Israel's tragedy
been filled to its brim yet? For
centuries we hoped that the time
would finally come when Israel too
would see light. Patiently we waited
for the dawn of a new era. With
the strong confidence in humanity
and with the fortitude characteris
tic of our race we pierced through
the dense fog of the "dark ages"
'and projected our visions into tho far
future. How refreshed, how glad
dened because Israel's cry had
been heard that at last a war for real
civilization, for genuine Democracy
was being fought. With all his
heart, with all his energy be plunged
into tho great struggle. His eyes
received a new luster, his face be
came brightened, and the old wrin
kles began to become smoothed
down by the new hope. Then
after the war. With throbbing hearts
and with tearful eyes, we cast our
wistful and hopeful glances across
the ocean to the tribunal of justice
that was set up in Versailles. We
lifted up our eyes to the mountains,
saying fervently, "Thence will come
our help."
But what now? Is our tragedy
to be worse than ever before? Has
light came to the world only to
make us see our misery in a new
light, just unspeakable, and incon
ceivable agony? There are societies
and organizations for tho prevention
of cruelty to animals. Are we worse
than animals? Is the Jew who was
the first to give the conception of
justice to the world to be the last to
enjoy its blessings? Oh, ungrate
ful, treacherous, false world! Why
encumber your dictionaries with
such meaningless words as justice,
humanity, righteousness. civiliza
tion? Why make your dictionaries
so bulky and heavy. When there is
a single word that can take the
place of all the afore mentioned
terms —camouflage. Erase, blot out
1 those words from your codes. Why
MAY 26, 1919.
blaspheme? The German E-Kalser
shocked the Allied world by his
sacrilegious appeal to God. Now
some of our Allies shock God by
this hypocritical auction, shame and
shameful reference to Justice.
This is the tone in which America
should speak to tho world. America
staked its all for the sake of four
teen idealistic terms, for the sake of
true idealism for the sake of estab
lishing justice in the world. Is this
[the way in which those that are able
are paying America it debt? Even
Mr. Charles Hughes said in New
York the other day at the protest
meeting in Madison Square Garden.
"Connivance at the torriblo mas
sacres of the Jews at the hands of
Poland is a betrayal of the prlnci-
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pies for which America
The dire distress of the six million*
of Jews is also an American lotim
And I am sure America knows box*
to take care of its principles andj
Ideals, so that a whole Nation shoal<fl
not have to mourn in the way-that
Jewish Nation does.
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