Operators and Miners Before Entering Conferences Err lief of Strike Settle 1 HARRISBURG iffillfe TELEGRAPH H ====^ === _ ===== _ ======= . - ' Star-Jnbtptnftenl. LXXXVIII— No. 291 11 PAGES omIVL'&SSSSS.S""HARRISBURG, PA. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9. 1919. ""KWKEuKK"*£,TIIBUHO'" "TWCTCSTB 5 ® HOME EDITION DAYLIGHT SAVING ORDINANCE GOES BEFORE COUNCIL Passes First Reading Without Comment; Up Finally Next Week GETS GENERAL SUPPORT Mayor Keistcr Asks Municipal Approval For Idea Gen erally Supported A n ordinance authorizing daylight saving in llarrisburg each year was passed on first reading by City Council to-day, with no comment by any of the Commissioners. It was present ed by Mayor Daniel L. Keister and will likely be called for final passage at the meeting next Tuesday morning. The measure provides that each year , the standard lime in Harris burg shall be advanced one hour at 2 o'clock on the last Sunday morn ing in March, and shall be retarded one hour at 2 o'clock on the last Sunday morning in October. An Aid to Business The ordinance is similar to ones passed by New York, Philadelphia and other city councils. It was pointed out to-day by officials of llarrisburg and by businessmen that because of the adoption of the day light-saving plan in New York, all business will be conducted there ac cording to the changed time, and that for llarrisburg to attempt to continue without changing its time would cause confusion here. The ordinance follows: The Ordinance An ordinance living the stand ard time throughout flic city of llarrisburg. Whereas. The Congress of the United States has passed the repeal of the Daylight Saving I.aw, a statute which from a humanitarian stand|K>int lias <-oiitribnted largely to the com fort of the great body of wage earners in all the industrial cen ters of the United States, with out detracting from a proper measure of service to employers, which has afforded the work man the. opportunity to enjoy the society ol' his family by the light of day, which lias enabled the bread-winner to spend more lime in the improvement of his mind and body, which has given an extra hour of air and sun shine to the toiler in the shop and factory in the recuperation of health; and Whereas. This rc|Mtil was cfl'cctcd through the misiakea effort of the farmer employer, inspired and augmented by the avarice anil selfishness of the lighting trusts throughout the country: anil Whereas, The City Council of the City of Hanishurg. voicing the sentiment of the overwhelm ing majority of those who labor in the diversified industrial oc eupations of this progressive city, who have realized through practical application the great boon of one hour's extra day light for mental improvement anil physical recreation, enacts the following ordinance: Section I. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of llarrisburg, anil it is hereby or dained by authority of the same. That tin' standard time through out the City of llarrisburg is that of tin - seventy-fifth merid ian of longitude west from Greenwich, except that at 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in March of each year such standard time throughout the City of Hurrislmrg shall Is* advanced one hour, and at 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in October of each year such standard time shall, hy the retarding of one hour, In* re turned to the mean astronom ical time of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west front Greenwich, and all courts, pub lic offices and legal anil official proceedings shall be regulated thereby. Universal Endorsement In Addition to meeting the ap proval of businessmen, officials in various industrial plants in the city have declared themselves heartily in accord with the daylight-saving plan. In many of these plants the employes have joined in the move ment to petition Council to enact the ordinance. Quincy Bent, of the Bethlehem Steel Company, is one of the offi cials who had endorsed the plan, [Continued on I'nge B.] RED CROSS TOY MISSION* will give Christmas cheer where otherwise there will he none. Toys, foodstuffs and CASH are needed. Call Home Service Section. American Red Cross. 119 South Front street, or articles may be. left at various substations in the city. I THE WEATHER! HitrrlNburK unl Vicinity: Ituin |IIm Jiftrrnooii nml \VrlncMliiy fnir anil roliler. Ennli'rn IVniift.vl* n vilh : Ifjiin to- * it lifl* t probably (iiimlmk to wnow \\ uriiM-Mfliiv. ( older WcdncMday. IroNh Mouth wlndn lilftinK to uurtimcrit wind. CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDIED BY COMMISSION A T OPENING CONFERENCE Two Courses Are Open to Body MAY ENDORSE A NEW DRAET Proposed Amend ments May Take Place of Entire New Pact In less than fifty minutes from the time of assembling the State Commission to study the Constitution of Pennsylvahia and recommend such changes or revision as deemed advisable was divided into committees and at work. Attorney General Wil liam I. Schaffer, the chairman, addressed the commission upon its work and immediately after Dr. William Draper Lewis, of Philadelphia, was elected secre tary and the organization of the body outlined. The opening Session was a bril liant scene. People from many sections of the State were here for the meeting. Beside Chairman Schaffer sat ex-Judge Harry White, of Indiana, and on the Iloor were heads of departments of the State government and legislators, as well as men of prominence from many counties in the State. The galleries were tilled with people from this city and vicinity. Kchoft'er Sounds Keynote Mr. Schaffer's speech In which he urged that the Commission ap proach its work not in any icono clastic spirit, hut determined to give mature consideration and to weigh experience of this and other States, was the keynote of the occasion. As to the extent of the revision, he said, that was a matter to be de termined. Attorney General William I. Schaffer called the meeting to or der and prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. L. S. Madge, pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, Harris burg. Secretary of the Common wealth Cyrus E. Woods administered the oath of office and the proceed ings began. Seven members were unable to be present at the opening. They were A. Mitchell Palmer and William B. Wilson, engaged on Fed eral business; Edgar F. Smith, T. DeWitt Cuyler, Isaac Sharpless and James Gay Gordon. Lewis Made Secretary Dr. William Draper Lewis, of Philadelphia, was elected secretary at a salary of SSOO per morrtli, "with the consent of the Governor," on motion of George Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia, and William Wyant and Edward E. Jauss, of Harris burg, stenographers in the last House of Representatives, were ap pointed as the official stenographers. Chairman Schaffer named John S. Fisher, of Indiana, ar.\l Edward J. Fox, of Northampton, as members of the committee on organization, the chairman being designated us a member. Hampton L. Carson, of Philadel phia, then moved for the appoint ment of live committees to consider related subjects, and -Mrs. John O. Miller, of Allegheny, that all ses sions of the Commission he held in Harrisburg. Chairman Schaffer, after naming the committees, suggested that they meet at once, and an adjournment was taken until 2 o'clock, when the organization will be reported and the committees will report on the outlines of their work. The Committers Chairman Schaffer appointed the committees, as follows: No. I—Bill of rights. Legislature ar.xl legislation and the Executive: A. Mitchell Palmer, chairman; George E. Alter, John S. Fisher, Chester J. Tyson and W. 1. Schaffer. No. 2—Judiciary, impeachment, oaths of office, etc.: Hampton L. Carson, chairman; Mayor Sulzberg er, John P. Kelley, E. J. Hox and James Gay Gordon. No. —Suffrage and elections, public officers, county officers and new counties: Francis Newton Thorpe, chairman*; Isaac Sharpless, William B. Wilson, Mrs. John O. Miller and R. L. Munce. No. 4—Taxation, corporations, railroads and canals; George Whar ton Pepper, chairman; Gifford Pinchot, T. DeWitt Cuyler, James 11. Reed and E. J. Stackpole. No. s—Education, militia, cities and amendments: Edgar F. Smith, chairman; John P. Connelly, Charles H. English, Mrs. Barclay H. War burton and William Perrine. Veterans in Attendance in the preliminaries of the gath ering Mr. Schaffer had the assistance of W. Harry Baker, secretary of the Senate and on* of the best parlia mentarians in the State. Guy H. Davies acted as the clerk anil Col. M. H. Taggart. of Sunbury, and P. T. Meredith, of this city, will likely bo chosen as officials. Judge White gave some interest ing reminiscences of the gathering of 1873 to the men who congratuat eil him upon being present to-day. (Continued on Pago 21.] History of Pennsylvania's Four Constitutions I he purpose of the constitutional commission was outlined at the opening conference in the Capitol this morning as follows by Attorney General William I. Schaffer, chairman: "I think it may be stated, with a fair degree of assurance, that no commission or body of any kind has been called into existence by the Commonwealth, at least since the last Constitutional Convention, charged witli more important du ties or greater responsibilities than 'The Commission on Constitutional Amendment and Revision' created l)> the Act of June 4, 1919, which we are to-day, as Its members, starting on its career. "Pennsylvania has had four Con stitutions. The ilrst, that of 1776, was formulated by a convention pre sided over by Benjamin Franklin. Its marked figures, in addition to him, were David Rittenhouse, George Olymer and George Ross. Three of its members, Franklin, Clymer and Ross, are among the immortals as signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence. This Constitution was drafted when the great experiment of launching a free government in America was being undertaken. It marked governmentally the passing of the old proprietary government and the transition from colony to commonwealth. Second Was Model "The second was that of 1790, which took out of the Constitution of 17 76 those features of It which were found not to be wise or work able. This Convention really added a most important chapter to Con WOMEN ASKED TO BE KINDER TO OWN SEX Lotlginghouse Keepers by Refusal to Rent Rooms to Work*- ing Girls Create Serious Economic Problem "The Eternal Feminine" is at the bottom of another question which is causing considerable anxiety on the part of persons interested in the housing conditions in Harrisburg. The question involved is that of convincing householders that women are desirable tenants and should be given fair consideration when they make applications for rooming ac commodation. The State Depart ments and other female employers give work to hundreds of girls in Harrisburg, thus necessitating prop er living accommodations for these girls. The Housing Bureau of the Harris burg Chamber of Commerce, which lias been successful in finding living accommodations for more than 1,500 persons since its establishment a few STATE POLICE FOIL ROBBERS; TWO KILLED Thieves Permitted to Walk Into Trap Carefully Set at Bank The State Police of Pennsylvania were instrumental in halting a bank robbery at Orwell, 0., last night, and giving information to the Ohio authorities which resulted In the killing of two of the robbers and the fatal wounding of a third. The police are hot on the trail of the fourth and hope to have him be fore the close of the day, according to reports received here to-day by Captain George F. Dumb, acting head of the State Police. Captain Lumb received word of the prospective robbery through private sources. The plot was for the men, all of them Poles, whose names are not on record here, to go from a point in Western Penn sylvania, to Warren, C)., there to steal an automobile and drive it to, Orwell, where the bank of that place was to be looted unil the stolen car used as a means of get ting the booty back into Pennsyl vania. Auto Is "Planted" Captain Lumb directed a ser geant of the State Poli e to go to Warren with an autoino ile. where it was carefully "planted" at a spot where the robbers were ex pected to look for a car. The four men appeared on schedule time, look the car left for them and drove in it to Orwell. Meunwhilc, at Captain Lumb's orders. Lieuten ant Gearhart, of the State Police, had gone to Orwell and informed the Sheriff of the intended rob bery. A posse was formed and the men hidden around the bank. When the robbers appeared late last night three of them were allowed to force their way into the bank and the fourth took up his post outside as a watcher. The Sheriff find his men came out of their concealment and demanded the surrender of Die robbers, who at once opened tire on tlie officers, with the result that two bandits were killed and one fatally injured, the fourth making his escape with the police in hot pursuit. stitutional government, and gave to the commonwealth a body of or ganic law which served as a model lor future State Constitutions, not only in Pennsylvania, but in many of the other states, its strong men were James Wilson, who played such a leading part in framing the Fed eral Constitution; Thomas McKean, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania'; Thomas Miftlin, first Governor of Pennsylvania; Timothy Pickering, William Flndlay, Albert Gallatin! Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and AVilliam Bewis, who was one of the leading lawyers of that day "The third attempt at Constitu tion making was that which produc ed the Constitution of 1838. The Convention which framed it really only amended the Constitution of 1790, preserving that Constitution's main features. Its president was John Sergeant, famous as a lawyer in his day and generation; and its outstanding members were Charles J. Tngersoll, noted among his con temporaries at the bur; William M. Meredith, leader of the Philadelphia bar; Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Attorney General of Pennsylvania and president of the Constitutional Convention of 1873; David Agnew, afterward Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and Thad | Continued oil Page 18.] months ago, to-day reported that it is essential to the well-being of the transient female population of Har risburg that householders begin to flavor their treatment of potential female tenants with a little of the milk of human kindness. "It is not uncommon for house holders advertising rooms for rent to slam the door in the face of girl applicants," said, the statement is sued from the Chamber offices. The housing secretary pointed out tha women and girls sometimes make the best tenants. Despite this fact, there seems to be widely-preva lent antipathy to female roomers, it is said. One woman who came to Harrisburg to work was forced to give up her position because she was unable to find suitable accom modations. MILLS HAVING OWN COAL MAY RUN AS USUAL Xew Fuel Regulations Now in Operation Throughout the Nation Washington, Dec. 9.—Although dras tic nationwide restrictions in lighting and heating were ordered last night in the face of the coal famine, it was presumed to-day that the restrictions would not be enforced for industries and business places which have suf ficient coal on hand. Settlement Ineffective In the face of an expected settle ment of the bituminous coal strike at Indianapolis, Fuel Administrator Garfield put into effect to-day the most drastic regulations since the restrictions of 1918. Even if the strike were settled to day, he de clared, fuel saving measures would be necessary as several weeks would be required before the nation's nor mal fuel supply could be restored. The order, which will be admin- [Continued on Page 18.] EAGLE AND AIRMAN MEET FOR SUPREMACY OF AIR Great Bird Bested l)y Loop-the-Loop Iligh Over Pyrcnnes While Flying Ninety Miles an Hour Hy Associated Press London. Dec. I.—Kagle and airman have met in a contest for ( the su premacy of thfe upper air. and the eagle has been defeated. The encoun ter occurred high above the l'yrcnnes In the half light of early morning recently when a British ufficor was piloting a single seater scout machine from Paris to Madrid. The airman was flying at a rate of about 100 miles an hour when the. big eagle soared up to meet htip. "It was as If the eagle had thrown me a challenge." said the airman, "but the laughter died on jny lips when I thought that perchance a lucky dive .jf the bird. of. maybe a collision in midair, would send me crashing to tho rocks beneath. "Then the eagle lumbered around DANIELS SEES BRIGHTER DAYS FOR AMERICA Patriotism and Spirit That Won the War Will Prevail, He Says WATCH FOR WM. JENNINGS Fellow War Workers Present It at Chamber of Com merce Dinner "The right of a man to have and to hold what he earns by his brain, his skill or his hands never has been questioned by the United States, and it never will be by any considerable number of people," declared Secre tary of the Navy Josephus T>aniels, speaking at a dinner given in his honor by the lfarrisburg Chamber of Commerce at the Penn-Harris Ho tel last evening. Reciting the efforts of the govern ment to suppress treason and sabot age during the war by the imprison ment. of the leaders of the I. W.' W„ pro-Germans and others of their ilk, the Secretary suid the wartime ac tivities along this line will be con tinued and "all who in this period of readjustment would undermine our institutions deserve and will re ceive the same treatment." "We all know," he continued, "that there are profiteers among businessmen, but the number is in iinitely small as compared with the great body of honest, patriotic busi nessmen who devoted themselves with so much energy to the winning of the war. We all know there are anarchists among workingmen, but they are few as compared with the great army of laboring men who gave themselves with so much zeal to the defeat of the Kaiser, and they will rid their ranks of the danger ous radicals." Better Days Ahead "There are better days ahead," the Secretary said, "and the sun is about to break through the clouds that now obscure the blue sky." Mr. Daniels told in picturesque fashion the story of America's par ticipation in the war from the stand point of the Navy; how Mr.'Wilson addressed nearly 3,000 officers of the fleet gathered in York river, di rectly after the declaration of war, and urged them to devise some new means of meeting the submarine menace as the Navy's great contri bution to the war. The result was the laying of a mine barrage com pletely across the North Sea and the destruction of at least ten German U-bonts in the first ten days of its operation. Mr. Daniels said that America's industrial achievements in France are second only to the valor of the American soldiers. He paid a high compliment to the whole-hearted devotion and singleness of purpose which prompted businessmen and laboring men to join together with no other thought than the winning of the war. lie said he was im pressed with the "oneness of Amer ica" at every turn during the war, and he. spoke highly of the devotion of patriotic women and the activ ity of men of ail ranks who thought they had passed the age of useful endeavor. Refers to Captain Dismukes Referring to the heroism of the men of the Navy, Mr. Daniels took occasion to praise the skill and cour age of Captain Dismukes. who sav ed his troopship after it had been torpedoed by the Germans, lie said (he war had given a new meaning to the word "Yank." "A little while ago and a North Carolina soldier might have object ed to being called Yank," he said; "but in France the Yanks from North Carolina and the Yanks from Dennsylvania joined hands and de feated the shock troops of Germany, and all were proud of the term." Mr. Daniels, who left the dinner early lo speak at Grace Methodist Church, where he dedicated the [Continued on Pago 12.] May Not Benefit in Real Estate Left Over by H. C. Frick New York, Dec. 9.—The public and charitable institutions named as beneficiaries in the will of the late Henry C. Frick may not be permitted to benefit from the decedent's real estate in New York because of the provisions of the decedent's estate law. This law provides that if a non-resident gives more than one half of his personal property to charitable institutions, none of the real estate in New York can "go to such beneficiaries but passes to the heirs of the deceased. me at about 90 miles an hour and I throttled down to the same pace while we took stock of each other. The air by then was crystal clear and I could see every feather on him as we circled about for'all the world like two antagonists above the west tcin front. "The eagle started to climb and I went after him yard by yard. Unable to resist longer, I opened the throt tle, put my nose down and looped right over him. He made one great effort to catch up and with it his strength failed. "His wings gase a feeble beat and with every appearance of a shot plane, he nose-dived to earth. I fol lowed him down a good 1200 feet and saw him flatten out and land near a village in the foothills, completely exhaused." RUSSIAN SOVIET IS BACK OF RED AGITATION HERE X. Y. Legislative Committee Learns of Foreign Stimu lation of Move DISTRIBUTE PROPAGANDA Anarchists, Syndicalists atid Communists Are Spread ing Doctrines ISII Associated Press Now York, Dec. 9.—Radical agita tion in this country, with its result ant social unrest, is not due to eco nomic conditions but to an organized, artificially stimulated movement un der the inspiration of the Russian Soviet government. This opinion will lie submitted to the New York Legislature in an exhaustive report by the joint legislative committee which has been investigating radical activities here since its organization last may, it Was learned to-day. Three Itig (iroups Three big groups of the radical element have been supplying the forces for wholesale dissemination of Bolshevist propaganda through out the depths and breadth of the land, the report wfll assert: "The anarchist group, including the Union of Russian Workers and other organization; the syndicalist group, the main body of which are being Industrial Workers of the World and the communist group, including the communist party of America and the communist labor party. In each of these groups the overthrow of government by illegal means, in cluding violence is the weapon urged upon the musses, the report will state." New Yory city is one of the big headquarters for the organized movement, the report will point out, with Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and virtually every industrial center from the Atlantic to the Pacific har boring a headquarters for the radi cal campaign. Heavy Sentences in Federal Penitentiary Given "Dope" Peddlers Two men were sentenced to the Fed eral penitentiary at Atlanta. Georgia, to-day by Judge C. 11. Witmer in Federal court. They were William Bradshaw, colored, charged with illegal sales of habit forming drugs, and Karl Wesley Scott, convicted of represeting himself to be in the United States Secret Ser vice. Bradshaw was given one year and nine months, and Scott, two. years and one month. Bottle Reynolds, col ored, WUH given three months In the Dau phin county jail, when she pleaded guilty to peddling "dope." Bradshaw, it is charged, was one of the leaders in a group of men employed in the illegal sale of narcotics. In his arrest Federal authorities believe they calight one of the men largely respon sible for the distribution of the drugs among users in litis city and other muni cipalities in the State. Bradshaw pleaded guilty before Judge Witmer. Scott was tried and convicted on charges of impersonating Secret Service men while in Wilkes-Barre, N'orristown and other cities in the eastern part of the State. Master Plumbers Ask For Appointment of an Assistant Inspector Three members of a committee from the Harrisburg Association of Master l'lumbers appeared before City Council men to-day to request the appointment of an assistant to Plumbing Inspector Pierce J. Bradley. They were H. B. McClure. William Began and H. J. Wolford. The master plumbers told the com missioners that because of increasing building activities the plumbing inspec tor is too busy with them to Investigate all minor repair work. They said that they believe some plumbing repair work is being done in the city not in compli ance with State laws and that an as siftaht inspector could be of much help in following up this work. Resolutions passed by the Master l'lumbers Association petitioning coun cil to name an assistant inspector were tiled with the commissioners who refer red them to Commissioner S. F. liassier. NO INCREASE Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 9.—The United States District Court injunc tion restraining members of the miners' union from conspiring to continue the strike order in effect in the Southern West Virginia coul fields has not resulted in any ma terial increase in the number of mines working, according to re ports received to-day by operators. MINK OFFICERS DIGGING COAL Altoona. Pa., Dec. 9.,—At the offices of the Central Pennsylva nia Coal Producers' Association in this city it was announced that few coal miners responded to the call of the seven mining compan ies at Barnesboro for a resump tion of work yesterday. The op erating officials, however, made good their promise of going into the mines themselves a#id many superintendents, foremen, clerks and others dug coal in this dis trict. The attempt to resume was not successful but the operators believe most of the men will be back to work to-morrow. SETTLEMENT OF COAL STRIKE SOON BEING PREDICTED Government, Miners and Operators Are Confident Labor Trouble Will End Before End of the Week WILSON'S PROPOSAL MADE TO LEWIS UNDER CONSIDERATION Hi/ Associated Press Indianapolis, ind., Dec. 9. Set tlement within 24 hours of the strike of 4 00.000 bituminous coal miners of the country which had its incep tion more than five weeks ago was confidently predicted to-day. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the executive board and scale commit tee of the United Mine Workers of America went into session to con sider a. proposal made by President Wilson to John IJ. Lewis, acting president, and William Green, sec retary-treasurer of the organization, Saturday nighl. The proposal was approved 1 by the miners' olliciala, who received it while in conference with Attoi ney General Palmer In Washington and agreed to urge the executive board to accept it as basis for settlement of the strike. The mine workers' officials returned to Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. On the same train with the min ers' leaders. Attorney GenerM Pal mer and C. P. Ames, assistanF to the Attiffney General, came to Indiana polis (o confer with government at torneys already here with regard to the future action of the government in connection witli criminal con tempt proceedings pending against st international and district officials of the United Mine Workers, and with regard to proceedings with a Federal grand jury investigation of charges of the violation of the I,ever and antitrust laws made against both operators and miners. The terms of the proposal sub mitted to Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green 4* A 4* . f --* 4 t I I 4 4 • • i t * * 4 f • 1 TP i i I I x 4 4* I! f 2 * s t $ T 5 T T 4 I t i I % O, . J pCi yr £'S| * 3, ■ a U. X < * 4 * * T * * T | i;i i'i. Dist-.ichcs frc.rr: /.pj at... u. ' !t v/ ' 4* * it • X MARRIAGE LICENSES 1 Charles K. Miller and Ida M. Bowers, Heading. 4 PROLONGED COLD WAVE COMING Washington, Dpc. 9. A pro longed period of cold weather over the entire country is indicated, the Weather Bureau announced to-day, by the abnormally high pressure over the region west of the Mississippi and the low pressure over the Gulf of Mexico, the Ohio Valley and oft the North Pacific coast. The cold wave in the west is spreading eastward and southward with aero temperatures as far south as tho Texas pan handle and cold weather is forecasted in the east and south to-night and to-morrow. Saturday night were still a carefully guarded secret. With Coal Supplies Low Coldest Weather of Winter Sweeps East lly Associated Press < lilcngo, Dec. 9. Hope of paving the way for final settlement of tho bituminous coal miners' strike to-day turned to Indianapolis as an exten sion of stringent fuel administration rationing orders reduced the nation's industries virtually to one-half time basis. The most severe weather of the winter, with sub-zero tempera tures and further depletion of the di minished coal reserve gripped nearly all of the country west of the Missis sippi river with a spread southward [Continued on Page 12.]
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