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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
6
Fragmentary note discusses annual ballot paper choices and the impact of paper type on results. Text hints at a broader debate about how ballot materials influence voter perception and process efficiency.
Readers debate President Wilsons approach to the League of Nations and open covenants Open controversy highlights Senate duties and constitutional rights The Telegraph notes Governor Sprous reappointment of Captain George F Lumb as acting state police superintendent praising his fitness and the Harrisburg troop setup
A P R R product piece recalls Samuel M Vauclain rising from a Pennsylvanian Altoona machinist helper to Baldwins president. The piece highlights opportunity and self improvement in America, noting Vauclain’s early schooling and later recognition as top engine mechanic on the Middle division and beyond. It contrasts schooling norms with his ascent.
The Altoona roundhouse trains a new generation of engineers like Sam Vauclain, spending long hours in shops and evenings in study. He joins a lineage of industry leaders including Major General W. W. Atterbury and Samuel Rea, showing the Pennsy approach of promoting from the ranks. The Chamber of Commerce Homes Register Bureau also aids visitors by listing private rooms for hotel overflow, a service already widely used.
A Pennsylvanian naval officer, Admiral William S. Sims, quietly resumes duties as president of the Naval War College at Newport after dropping from Vice Admiral to Rear Admiral. The Wilkes-Barre Record notes the perceived slight to a patriotic hero while friends defend his fit recognition. June 20 marks a Chamber of Commerce June Joy Jaunt reception at the Colonial Country Club as Harrisburg business leaders mingle with new members to foster city progress.
Swarthmore commencement speaker Spraul urged Americans to rely on proven institutions and avoid utopian reforms. He mocked excess advice while warning against impractical theories and quoted that where the Spirit of the Lord is liberty. The piece also notes a bill to end mandatory German-language official ads, allowing English papers by discretion.
War Department reports 44 700 officers retired from the Officers Reserve list during demobilization. More than half of the relieved officers have applied for commissions as officers in the newly recruited Regular Army.
The piece notes that over 17,000 enlisted men have returned to service and calls for a report on reenlistments in the navy and merchant marine. It argues for retaining seamen and trained officers to support transport needs and the growing merchant fleet, warning against a shift back to land service.
The Pennsylvania House faced a rare quorum enforcement with sergeant at arms summoned to bring absentees to the bar. Past incidents referenced include 1913 attendance disputes, 1909 arrests, and a 1911 riot led by M Clyde Kelly and George Baldwin. Speakers Cox and Spangler steered order amid tense scenes as members rushed to explain absences.
The piece extols Pennsylvania with its diverse landscapes and rich resources from the Maryland line to New York. It highlights canal history and ambitions for future water routes, health progress reducing typhoid and tuberculosis deaths, reforestation efforts, and an expansive highway program funded by bonds and state action.
The writer argues soldiers sacrifice for America and homeland not for Armenia or Fiume. He claims reverence for the dead should not be tied to views on the peace treaty and warns against impiety in mixing memorial respect with political outcomes.
Beginning this year Columbia University will require applicants to know Bible content including the Old Testament epic, Hebrew history from Egypt to 70 A.D., memorize notable passages, and some early Christian biography. The piece questions how many modern men and women could pass such an exam.
The speaker contemplates memory and oblivion as two fountains in a dark cave. One fountain returns past joys, the other erases pain. He chooses to keep both love and remembered suffering, preferring a life with all memories intact over bliss without pain.
Upon return of Quentin Roosevelt’s belongings to Oyster Bay a neighbor sent Mrs. Hector Baxter of Minneapolis a copy of a prayer found in his private book. The text asks guidance to serve God, give without counting cost, fight without heed to wounds, toil without seeking rest, labor without reward, accepting only to do God’s will through Jesus Christ.
Hartford Times notes Kansas health improves with forecast wheat output of 197 million bushels and a potential 400 million dollars in wheat revenue. The piece envisions nationwide aid from sellers of tractors, trucks, cars, and planes, with many mobile supporters converging to help Kansas.
After the revised League of Nations covenant appeared Taft’s brother Henry and Henry’s partner Wickersham asked Root if the corrected covenant included their amendments. Root replied with a crisp no saying Hell no and walked away.
The Swarthmore College commencement featured Pennsylvania Governor and U S Attorney General Mitch Palmer. the president praised the two alumni as friends who share a dedication to the college and public service. The introduction highlighted their status, classmate bond, and impact as role models for students.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times argues that Pennsylvania legislators should enforce national prohibition and avoid undermining respect for the law. It predicts enforcement will fail temporarily after January 16 but will prompt public duty from authorities. It warns current lawmakers may not shape the next enforcing bill.
Captain James Norman Hall author of Kitchener's Mob and High Adventure is scheduled to lecture on High Adventure. Ellis Parker Butler author of Goat Feathers will give humorous readings from his works under the same program.
Arkansaw Thomas declares a quick engagement at the world’s end to face an adversary. He notes the foe fears following once confronted with his bold challenge and fixed plans for the jump-off place.
The article recalls Dr. J. W. Richards in Gettysburg predicting Harrisburg would become a great inland city. It notes the old Tenth infantry reunion at Pike Run Country Club with many veterans and the social ties from Greensburg and surrounding areas. It also recounts a House session poll incident and a 1909 copy run by a A P messenger boy, plus Lt. Governor Beidleman’s July invitations.
William L. Rentz of New Castle elected head of the Rotary Club. William A. Johnson of New York to speak at University of Pittsburgh exercises after 25 years out of college. William M. Davidson spoke at Latrobe School Commencement. Samuel L. Reed named orphans’ court judge of Cambria County, a leading lawyer and authority on the court. Congressman J. Hampton Moore awarded a degree by Ursinus College.
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