10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bttablishti itji , PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH rRIHTWO €•. m. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and TreM**. ». R. OYSTER, Secretary. pus M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun | day), at the Telegraph Building. 216 Federal Square. Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story « Brooks. (Wastern Office. *123 West Madison street, Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at «B&Q*nl3ni> six cents a week. Mailed to gubacrlbers at ft.OO a year in advance. (Entered at the Post Office In Harrli burg as second class matter. ®Tk« Association of Amwr- ( 1 ican Advertisers baa ex- / arainad and certified to <' tha circulation of this pub- i i lication. Tha figures of circulation i' 1 1 contained in the Ansociation'a re- i 1 1 port only are guaranteed. ; Association of American Advertisers . j Ne. 2333 Whitihall Bld|. N. T. City \\ I •wen dally average tor the month el April, 1914 23,606 Average for the year 1918—21,677 Averare for the rear 1812—21.175 Average for the year 19H—18,851 Average for the year 1010—17,495 TELEPHONES I Bell Private Branch Exchange No. JO4». United Business Office, 20S. Editorial Room 586. Job Deot. Ml. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28 PRIMARY STRAWS WHAT is in store for the Palmer-McCormick bosses of the Democratic machine is shown by the official figures of Wilkes-Barre, where, according to the Record, one of the most influen tial newspapers in the anthracite field, "the Democratic voters turned against the gang's candidate for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and State Sena tor. Nor was this all. There was nominated a candidate for Congress who is not in sympathy with the gang." It is further stated by the Record that the election of Daniel L. Hart, as a member of the State Demo cratic committee from the Twenty first district of Luzerne county, is a staggering blow to the local Court house gang. They gave the candidate for the United States Senate a pitifully small majority, in view of the fact that Mr. PalmcV was the recognized representative of the Wilson admin istration and made an energetic personal canvass of the county while his opponent was practically unknown. Now the control of the Luzerne delegation to the State committee passes out of its hands. It is also shown by the official fig ures that while Palmer received 5,954 votes, McCormick got but 4,023. Brumbaugh received 6,076 votes. These are the straws which indicate more clearly than any argument the drift of party sentiment and the breaking down of the fake reform propaganda of the White House twins. Bees Swarm at Capitol."—Washing ton dispatch. Irony of fate. Those statesmen who have been stinging others will now know how It feels to be etung. THE PRESIDENT AND THE G. A. R. PRESIDENT WILSON'S refusal to attend the Memorial Day exer cises of the Grand Army of the Republic at Arlington, while at the same time accepting an invitation to speak at the unveiling of a monu ment to the Confederate dead in the same cemetery next Thursday, has aroused indignation throughout the country. Commenting on the President's re fusal tu take part in the memorial services, the Scran ton Tribune-Repub lican says: Coming on the heels of the action of the Democratic administration in removing old soldiers from the Washington post office the veterans have reached the conclusion tliat prejudice, or at least indifference toward them, is entertained in ad ministration circles in Washington. The Presential explanation that he will absent himself from the Me morial Day exercises because of a determination to decline all invita tions to appear in public while the Mexican trouble is on, is not re garded as sufficient for his accept ance of the Confederate invitation following his refusal to participate in the Grand Army of the Republic exercises. The conviction that the President is unfriendly toward the Grand Army of the Republic has been heightened by the recollection that Mr. Wilson absented himself from the Arlington Cemetery Memorial Day ceremonies a year ago, spend ing the day motoring in Virginia. The veterans are very bitter and their feeling is shared by thousands of people throughout the United States, who feel that the men who died for their country are entitled to more consideration. It has not been forgotten that President Wilson declined to attend the great reunion of the survivors of the Gettysburg battle last year and that it was only by insistent urging on the part of Democrats who real ized the political effect of the Presi dent's indifference that he was finally persuaded to spend a few minutes on the battlefield. His special car was • run within a few feet of the entrance of the great tent in which the cere monies took place, and as soon as his brief address was ended he hurried away to his summer home in New Hampshire. There was much com ment among the old veterans at the time regarding President Wilson's neglect of them; and now comes a statement rf the president of the Rational Association of Post Office Clerks protesting against the removal of veterans from positions in Wash ington which they are qualified to fill. 1 WILSON IN MEXICO COLONEL HENRY WATTERSON Is not Impressed with President Wilson's proposition to force benevolent assimilation upon Mexico. The Colonel seems to think , the President Is foing to find It ; THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG tj TELEGRAPH ' , MAY 28, 1914. pretty difficult to relieve the "sub . merged" section of the Mexican people, and declares he talks very much as an I honest, sympathizing, sentimental New England clergyman might and did talk In 1865 of the negroes of the South. "Such talk led to the visionary freedman's bureau and the cruel and , foolish tyranny of reconstruction, in • volving years of hurtful things done ' with the noblest Intention on the part 1 of many who believed the blacks, op pressed by the whites, required only the ballot along with 'forty acres and i a mule' to redeem and revitalize the South. 1 "In consequence of errors, alike In ; jurious to both the blacks and the j whites of the Soufh, the plan of fanat ical uplift had to be abandoned. It is partly the remembrance of this which leads the Courier-Journal to challenge the policy which the President has adopted and to warn him against its dangers. After thus relieving his mind, Col oned Watterson says the President's "proposition Is preposterous. Such statesmanship," says he, "exists only in heaven. It has no abode on earth." As there will doubtless be soma amendment of the State-wide primary law at the next session of the Legisla ture, there ought to be provision made for Immediate posting of the returns as soon as the count shall have been com pleted by the several election boards. It Is rank absurdity to wait a week or more to find out who are the nominees. SPRUCING CP ALL over the city property owners and housekeepers are "sprucing up" for the summer season. > New sidewalks are being laid, painters are busy, planting is going on and there is a general cleaning In every section of Harrisburg. This is as it should be in a city which stands as an exemplar for up-to-date and progressive municipalities. Heads of all the important depart ments of the city are busy with the summer plans and owing to the fore handedness of the local authorities hundreds of men who would otherwise be idle are now employed. With the full resumption of work on the "Front Steps Of Harrisburg"—the river wall —many more men will be given employment and altogether the improvements of the city mean work for many who would otherwise be without employment this summer. Those who have not yet considered improvement of their properties, even in a small way, should remember that in doing whatever they contemplate in this direction at the present time they are providing employment for the un employed as well as placing their houses and grounds in good shape for the year. What has become of the good' old days when there used to be a band con cert or two at Reservoir Park on Me morial Day? TECH "OPEN HOUSE" JI'ST what interest the averago'Har rlsburg parent takes in the work of the schools was shown most forcibly the other night, when 4.000 people crowded the halls and workrooms of the Technical High School.,on the occasion of the annual "open house." Evidence or such Interest by the parent is unquestionably a stimulus for better work on the part of both student and instructor. And better work in the study hall and the shop room makes for better citizenship. Next Fall domestic science and other handicraft will be taught in the Cen tral High School. The faculty of that institution will do well to follow Tech's example in giving parents a chance to see just what sort of work the girls will be doing. The heroin victim who told Colonel Hutchison you can cure kidney trouble by digging up the body of a dead man may be right. A little work does a lot toward making men healthy. SAVING THE BABIES THE city health bureau has be gun an extensive campaign to reduce the infant mortality in Harrisburg and as part of the educational program Dr. J. M. J. Raunick will issue pamphlets to moth ers on the proper care of the child. Every mother who has the health of her little one at heart—and what mother has not —should study these expert suggestions until she has mas tered them. In the first place Dr. Raunick states that every man and every woman owes it to the children of the future to lead a clean life that every baby may be well born. The health officer gives everybody food for thought when he says "the baby's choice of parents is not its own." Dr. Raunick urges further that every Harrisburger should do his part toward raising the standard of home life that every child may be given a good place to live as part of its birth right. Filthy houses, it is pointed out, are due to nothing more or less than laziness. Personal, uncleanliness, dirty cellars, backyards and alleyways, un- < covered garbage cans, unwashed dishes, the common towel and the family drinking cUp are just a few of the things warned against permit tine In the home. No one will deny that these are sins against home pur- i ity that any person so minded can correct. One thing that Is soundly rapped in the health bureau's suggestions is alcoholism. Rum, declares the phy sician, is one of the chief contribu tory causes of infant mortality. Baby saving and prohibition, apparently, go hand in hand. The farm price of beef goes up three per cent. But, the Democrats will say, who wants beef when the mercury stands at 94 ? Lack of time prevented Wilson and Roosevelt from exchanging views, but perhaps it is just as well. Washington calls a new cocktail the ABC. Which is about as far as the mediators will get toward solving the Mexican situation. I EVENING CHAT I We're going to have our own home grown strawberries this year. Prob ably not one in twenty had any doubts on the subject, but it was not until yesterday afternoon's rain camq/lilong that the crop in this part of the state, and that includes the York county 1 berries, was anything like certain. It . has been a rather hard summer for fruit of all kinds, the spring being late because of the way King Winter lingered around, and then when it should have been hot to encourage the , farmers it was cool. Ploughing, har rowing, rolling and seeding is still in progress on many farms In this sec* tion and things as a rule are back i ward. Then the dry spell, which was broken yesterday, occurred to make the roads simply tracks of dust and ; to cause plants which should have been growing over night and showing plenty of fruit to look wan and deli cate . The strawberries-have been just coming Into their own, being about as large as the end of one's thumb. They have been that way for a while and people who have been observing them declare that unless the rain had come i the crop would have been pretty slim and the genuine "York countys," the , ancestors of so many planted through out this region, would, not have had the taste of the sunshine which makes them without peer and causes the Vir ginia. and Maryland berries to take a back' seat. The first Pennsylvania grown berries are reported from Ches ter and Bucks counties, but it is dol lars to doughnuts that the man who raised them used the hose or sprink ling can. E. M. Bierbower, who is active irk the work of the S. P. C. A., makes an excellent suggestion regarding the drinking fountains about the city when he says that the fountains should have places for dogs as well as men and horses to drink. Every man who owns a dog—and every man who has a dog sympathizes with him—has no ticed the amount of water a canine can drink in summer time. Yet, there are probably not half a dozen places In all Harrisburg where a thirsty dog can drink. A couple of the fountains have basins for dogs, but for some inex plicable reason those parts are closea up. Anyone who has been about Capi tol Park very much knows how the dogs slip by the policemen to drink at the two fountains near the Hart ranft statue. The dogs deserve some consideration and every fountain should be equipped for them. Dogs don't stay away from water in the dog days. They go to it. The popular belief Is that in the dog days the canines develop hydrophobia and some people think dogs don't want water in that period. Science has exploded the idea that hydrophobia is a hot weather disease and the Indians never report that disease among their dogs. Every Indian tribe has a place where dogs can drink and they are as well taken care of in that line as the babies. The city authorities could do a good deed by providing for the dogs as well as the horses at the fountains . Some idea of the task confronting the clerks at the Capitol In computing the return may be gained from the fact that each county returns on an average ten returns. In some of the big counties with several legislative districts there are more, and Philadel phia and Allegheny each have a regu lar bale. There is more work con nected with the primary returns com puting this year than ever known, owing to the new primary law. Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, state super intendent of public instruction, has gone to the peace conference at Lake Mohonk. The doctor has been one of the pioneres in the peace movement, having years ago urged that the his tory of the United States be more con cerned with the triumphs .of industry and development and invention than with the gory glories of war. De Benneville Randolph Keim, a for mer editor of the Telegraph, who died at Washington last Sunday and was buried at Readingthlsweek, knew many Presidents intimately. He was a loyal friend of President Arthur and the President upon one occasion nomi nated Mr. Keim for the secretaryship of the Civil Service Commission, but failed to secure his confirmation, owing to the enmity of a senator whom Mr. Keim had offended. When Secretary of State William H. Seward visited Alaska after the purchase from Russia of that great tract, now one of the great gold fields of the world, Mr. Keim accompanied him on this famous journey. Mr. Keim was very close to President Harrison during his ad ministration. Some years ago Mr. Keim startled one of the White House garden parties by wearing a brilliant red necktie instead of the conventional scarf. The red tie made a great hit at the party and friends made many pro tests against his breach of etiquette, until President Taft appeared with a scarf that was a dead "ringer" for that used by Mr. Keim. President Taft was delighted to find Mr. Keim had also offended Madame Grundy and both had a hearty laugh over the dis comfiture of the critics who had been guying Mr. Keim for his bravery In wearing a colored scarf. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —M. M. Garland, nominee for Con gress-at-large, imed to be head of the ironworkers in the Pittsburgh district. —Senator J. A. Miller, of Lehigh, who was renominated, says printing ink did it. —R. B. Strassburger, who made a run for Congress in the Montgomery district, went to Europe to rest. —H. E. Reed has been elected presi dent of the Pittsburgh Institute of Banking. * —J. M. Shramm, the head of the Templars, is a prominent resident of Ridgway. . GIVE THEM EQUALITY [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.] The militant suffragettes whose latest act of vandalism is the destruction of several priceless works of art in the National and Royal galleries in London should he given equality in punish ment. They are continually caterwaul ing about the equality of the sexes. If the sexes are equal In other ways they are equal in responsibility to the law. The civilized world is growing tired of Great Britain's watchful waiting for the militant lunacy to w«ar itself out. The British art galleries are In a sense world possessions. All civilized countries feel a common proprietor ship in the treasured works of the painters and sculptors whose art ad dresses itself not to a city or a coun try, but to all who are capable of appreciation. London will have a pretty tale to tell to the visitors of the next cen tury if it must admit that while the Government proceeded upon the the ory that women could not be punished, but must be let out Of jail upon the first symptoms of a self-imposed stomachache the,art galleries as well as the historic country seats were devas tated with torch and hatchet. Many of us, from all lands, who go to London, and many more who hope to go, feci that Great Britain holds its art objects In trust for the use of this and future generations. Our right as civilized beings and right ful beneficiaries of genius is to de mand a more careful trusteeship of treasures that money cannot replace There has been enough of fooling and foozling. The harridans and the hooligans should get their punish ment in the same degree, with the same certainty. Respect for the ad ministration of the law in Great Britain was world-wide until the days of the cat-and-mouse act and Its cat-in-the meal-tub results. AN EVENING THOUGHT Courtesy costs nothtng and buys everything.—Old WILSON ASKED TO BE BURDENBEABER Palmer and McCormick Already Seeking Help in Their Fight For Election This Fall PRESIDENT RESIGNED TO IT Republicans Will Make a Fight For the Congressional Seats in This State Having run on a White House slate, Palmer and McCormick are now ask ing that President Wilson kindly act as their life preserver In the storm that is coming in November. Wash ington advices are that the President, alarmed as to the effect a Democratic defeat in Pennsylvania would mean after his slate had won at the primary, is willing to become the burden bearer. In Washington administration Demo crats are pessimistic as to the out come, having in mind the way Palmer and McCormick fell down in 1912 when promised Pennsylvania to Wilson and failed to get anywhere even with the Republicans divided. According to Washington folks, there is a good bit of amusement among the veteran politicians over the way Palmer and McCormick rushed to Washington as soon as the pri maries were over to get promises of help. The machine Democrats are telling the administration people that Palmer and McCormick won a great, victory for the Wilson administration in the Keystone State and that they should be supported. Wilson is said to be willing to make a speech and to turn loose as many of his cabinet officers as are not fighting with each other by that time. Gifford Pinchot was greeted by be tween 125 and 150 Bull Moosers of the real militant type last night at the party headquarters in Market street, and they showed their Pinchot Puts love for him and the Wilson Tag cause by waiting for On McCormick an hour and a half. Pinchot was in Cum berland county yesterday inspecting the crops and did not get here until after 9 o'clock. He had Congressman Rupley and others with him and the going was heavy. Mr. Pinchot was given a tumultuous greeting and after giving a "message" from the Colonel proceeded to tell why McCormick should not be elected Governor. He ignored Palmer, considering that it was self-evident that he shoud be preferred to the Monroe man. As to McCormick, he said that he knew Vance and that he was a nice man, but he should be defeated because he was the Wilson administration candidate. The Philadelphia Public Ledger in a dispatch from Washington says: "Republicans of Pennsylvania are get ting ready to make an active campaign this fall. Congress and one of their chief aims Battles will be to increase the pres to Open ent Republican representa tion from the State in the Hfeuse. Representative Pat ton, of Pennsylvania, member of the congressional campaign committee, is preparing to call a meeting at Harris burg some time in June of all the party congressional nominees for the purpose of talking over the situation and making plans for putting the ticket through. Mr. Patton to-day au thorized the following statement: 'The Republican delegation from Pennsyl vania in the next House should be thirty. We hope to reclaim a number of Democratic distj-icts in the Keystone State, and if a vigorous campaign will bring this about such a fight will be waged. The tariff will be the big issue in the State this fall'." According to the expense account filed by J. Benjamin Dimmiek, he spent about half of his $12,084 in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia citi zens committee got $4,000 and the Philadelphia headquarters $2,450. The Altoona headquarters received SBOO. Dimmiek found the campaign to be an expensive affair. The formal call for the Democratic state committee went out to-day from the state windmill. The meeting is to be held at the Board of Trade on June 3 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The plan of the machine, which con trols the committee, is to re-elect State Chairman Morris and to adopt reso lutions prepared yesterday. Candidates Palmer, McCormick and Creasy are to speak. Up to date nothing has been said about McNair being here. Senator Penrose is at Marietta to day attending the annual outing of the Lancaster county people at Wild Cat Falls. The senator has a number of speaking dates through the eastern part of the state. 1 POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS 1 —Rather unkind of Gifford to say what a nice.young man Vance is and then to add he has not the ghost of a show for election. —Up to date we have not heard of any exchanges of felicitations between McCormick and McNair. —ln old days when any Pennsylva nia Republicans went to Washington they were accused of "framing" some thing. "When Democratic bosses go it is in performance of a high duty. It all depends on who is in. - —The West End Democrats havb endorsed the ticket. The agony is over. —Someone asked yesterday what good, full crops, outlined in the Patriot cartoon of yesterday, were going to do when people are out of work and can't buy them. —Grim appears to have beaten Diefenderfer, the machine pride in the Bucks-Montgomery district, by four votes. —Roosevelt is billed to speak at Shamokin in the fall. THE I. W. W. MENACB [From the Easton Free Press.] The National Commission on Indus trial Relations has been oftlciallv in formed of the purposes and attitude of the Industrial Workers of the World, by a witness who spoke plainly when called before the commissioners. He ar rogantly declared that In order to gain its end the I. W. W. was ready to de-~ stroy life and property whenever nec essary. The recent operations of that organization in New York and other places prove that this statement of Its defiant, lawless policy is in no wav ex aggerated. The I. w. W. is a menace to the civilization of the country and should be energetically dealt with by the authorities. » TO LOOK FOR COMET Members of the Harrisburg Natural j^s^^^o^let^wlll^ndeavo^^^et^ ■■AD4DIRTERI r«a 1 SHIRTS SIDES A SIDES J are not experimenting when you buy here. You decide on the price and pattern—we guarantee the clothes c You need not be a clothing expert. We are sole agents in Harrisburg for the famous V Ht['"j It Is too hot to work. But when our business day is o'er I To a back lot we go, And for an hour a baseball Around the diamond throw. The trouble is that we reverse Things as they should be done. Just try a course that's opposite— Begin the day with fun. Get up right early in the day And have that game of ball. And you will find it easy quite To work until nightfall.