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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1919
Page
3
In The Hague on December 26, Dutch women celebrate full suffrage gained last year while activists form groups to push legal and economic changes. Promoters argue education and family law favor paternal control, urging equality with men and an end to married women's subjugation.
Ill and destitute American sailors in Manila are being sent back to the United States by the Insular Collector of Customs. American ships bound for the Pacific Coast will transport a limited number of these seamen. Previously army transports handled this, but crowded ships now prevent that. The Manila Bulletin reports efforts to keep Manila from becoming a dumping ground by asking consulates in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and other ports to send their destitute sailors home direct.
London dispatch notes Miss A Helen Ward asserts the League’s success hinges on intelligent cooperation of women. She proposes a Woman’s Bureau within the League and argues women be appointed for general fitness rather than confined to “women’s interests” expertise.
Berlin reports many returned German prisoners are applying to the military department for new Iron Crosses after saying the originals were taken by the Entente. No prisoner admits selling an Iron Cross to American soldiers or trading it for tobacco. The German government demands proof that the crosses were actually taken.
Philadelphia December 26 Ten million dollars in silver are being melted into silver bars at the United States mint here. Later the bars will be processed into dimes quarters and half dollars. The government finds it cheaper to melt the dollars than to buy silver on the market at the high price in years.
Wellesley Hills Massachusetts December 26 Roger W Babson statistical expert says the use of a budget system in regulating United States Government expenditures would save the people 2 000 000 000 in 1920 He bases the figure on the Treasury climate of an expenditure of 6 166 951 000 Babson declares the budget would end annual financial uncertainty and shorten lawmakers endless discussion of appropriation bills.
In Hamilton Bermuda the House of Assembly votes 17 to 15 against a proposal to raise the ban on motor cars. The brief debate ends with the rejection of the measure.
A Brooklyn firm with trading posts in Alaska and Russia reports sables are not the most pricey furs this year despite a 50 to 75 percent price advance since last spring. The extraordinary coat, weighing just over five pounds, cost about 1062 dollars per ounce and valued around 52 times its weight in gold.
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