6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iS jr PUBLISHED BT THE TIXEGIUPU PRINTING CO. B. J. BTACKPOLB President and Bditer-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER Secretory GUS M. BTEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Bun day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phonea. Member American Newapaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Aisool ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Bunding, Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Ma tied to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. ' Sworn daily averager circulation for the three months ending Aug. SI, 191S ★ 21,083 ★ Average for the Tear 1014—31389 Average (or the Tear 1813—19,903 Average for the year 1913—19,049 Average for the year 1911—17,603 Average for the year 1910—18,261 The above lfim are set. All vs» , turned, unaold and damaged copies de- I Auctcd. !« = MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. IS. i ____________________________ Heard melodies are sweet, but those . unheard are sweeter. —Keats. BACKYARD GARDENS ; rpHE Telegraph for years has urged !| J[ the planting of backyards to ' ' vegetables and flowers, on the ground that the family garden adds fto the pleasure of life In or out of ► the city and materially reduces the jeost of living. As an instance of what j can be done in just a common back ward, the case of a foundry foreman, .one James Young, of an Ohio city, 'may be cited. Tomatoes were his chief •item. He used hot beds and common sense. He raised besides, sweet peas, grapes, beans and other vegetables. He also raised puppies and chickens. He made over S3OO out of his venture last summer, added a few years to his life, and besides got lots of fun out of it all. Men like this foundry man are not usually failures. They provide for "the day when age, or business de pression might leave them with no visible means of support. They find that the hour each morning spent in the garden, or in the evening in learn ing the rudiments of thrift, adds a sense of scrutiny that sustains them through the laborious working hours. Thomas A. Edison in discussing "Failures" said: "Failure is a matter jof self-conceit. Men don't work hard jbec&use, in their self-conceit, they Ithink they ar® so clever that they'll leucceed without working hard. "Most men believe that they'll wake •up some day and find themselves rich or famous —and, eventually, they *wake up'." These "Failures" who never learned In youth the value of thrifty habits are in the vanguard of the increasing host of dependents in the country, which now numbers in its pitiful list 97 per cent of the men and women over 65 years of age who are totally dependent on relatives, the state or county, for their food, their clothing and shelter. Why not begin to-day to encourage .your children to make gardens in the yards if you live, in the city, or give them a piece of land to cultivate if you live in the country? Plan it now for next summer. It will be a de lightful anticipation for them during the long winter months. Let them understand that they are to have the proceeds. Impress upon them the de sirability of saving the money thus acquired to be used toward their fu ture education —a course in music, engineering, medicine, law, farming, forestry or whatever appeals to them. Tou, your children, your neigh bors and Harrisburg as a whole will be the better for a host of back yard gardens next summer. Soon the Civic Club will make its final In spections of the gardens planted this summer and the club and the Tele graph prlxes will be awarded. Are you going to be on the list or will you be among those who let their backyards grow to -weeds? THE ILIi-NOURISHED PTTPTT, POVERTY of parents of school children is the subject of a bul letin Just issued by the health authorities of Philadelphia. The bul letin says there are thousands of chil dren in that city suffering from lack of food and that about three per cent, of the school population goes to school without breakfast. Only fifty or sixty per cent, have an Inadequate morning meal, and ten per cent, eat & scanty breakfast before six o'clock. Coupled with bad housing condi tions among the poor and the Indiffer ence of the parents, the child cannot be physically normal under such con ditions. The poorly-nourished child cannot compete with his well - fed school companion in any of the .activities or tasks assigned him. He •Is easily the subject of diease and he Is the spreader of germs that sweep ;ln epidemic form through the ranks of all classes of pupils. The condition In Philadelphia Is serious. If by law children are forced to attend school, then the law ought to be responsible for their well-being. They must be fitted for study and safe guarded against disease. An educa tion la of small value If Its possessor , has not the physicaj stamina to put It ,to use. "We must get over the notion (that the school la tor mental training MONDAY EVENING, only. The ill-nourished child Is a detriment to the progress of the whole school and he Is a menace to the pupils with whom he associates, for always he Is a potential spreader of contagious diseases. Philadelphia ought to do more than dismiss this report-with-an item In Its newspapers. ESTOPPING THE PRESIDENT 'TVHE Boston Herald says that from J_ the advocacy of some Issues President Wilson Is estopped by party history or tradition. It will be news to the American peo ple that party history or tradition, or party pledges or personal promises, can estop President Wilson from any thing. During his campaign did he not personally promise support of free tolls for American coastwise shipping through the Canal and also assure the people of the country that "pitiless publicity" would be his policy In ad ministration? Did those promises estop him from pursuing a directly opposite course? Did not his party platform promise economy and maintenance of the merit system In the civil service? Were not both .of these pledges broken with his approval? When personal and party pledges on which the Ink Is scarcely dry do not estop President Wilson, what peculiar power can there be In party history and tradition to bar him from changing his attitude over night on any and all subjects according to his varying moods or the shifting of the weather vane? PXTBLIC WANTS NO STRIKE REALIZING that the uncertainty of the outcome of the prelimi nary negotiations between the mines workers and the coal operators Is having and will have a serious effect upon many business interests of Wy oming Valley, needlessly depressing activities which otherwise would move forward, merchants, real estate brok ers and other business men of Wilkes- Barre, acting through the Chamber of Commerce, are preparing to solicit an Immediate conference of the opposing forces for a consideration of the Issue. Their views and aims are set forth In the following letter: The demands of the mine work ers definitely have been drafted; their trl-distrlct convention has empowered a committee to meet with the operators; it certainly should not take until next April to settle whatever differences there may be. Whether the demands of the miners are just or unjust, it Is not for us to say. What we want to see accomplished is a settlement before the time comes for a strike. That fairly sets forth the thought of the public as a whole. Business con ditions are uncertain enough without the complication of an anthracite coal strike. The public is the great suf ferer when labor and capital clash as they have clashed In the coal fields | in years past, and the public Is going to have very little sympathy for either union or operator that allows the pres ent controversy to drift into the folly of an enforced shutdown. FLOCKING TO PbATTSBCRG THERE seems to be no end to the Plattsburg camp. As one body of volunteers departs another ar rives. The men of Plattsburg know they would.be the first to be called in time of need. They would be called upon to officer the companies and the regiments that would spring up in a moment, willing but untaught, from every city and countryside. Most of them are office men, which would ap pear to disprove the tlmewo'rn notion that Americans are not made now adays of the rugged, fighting fibre of their ancestors. The people are awake to the neces sity of national defense. They now know, with General Wood, that: The system of volunteers has al ways been a failure. Washington warned us earnestly even in his day against depending upon volunteers for our national defense. The dis trict in which we manufacture our munitions of war and our gunpow der is embraced in a small area on our Eastern seaboard. You can very readily Imagine what a force of, say 150,000 trained soldiers, once landed on our shores, could do to us under the circumstances. You know as well as I that if you stran gle hold a man's throat It doesn't make much difference how much he kicks and hits out wildly at you." We employ policemen to defend us from tha lawless element at home and we have come to understand that we must have a national police force to save us from brigands abroad who regard their International treaties as mere "scraps of paper." BECOMING UNEASY THAT the tariff is going to be the great Issue before the voters of the United States next year is becoming more and more appar ent. Even Democratic newspapers ad mit that the Underwood law, so far from solving the tariff problem, has merely aggravated It. Slowly but surely they are getting around to the view that a permanent tariff com mission, like that appointed by Presi dent Taft' and discredited and thrown out of office by Democrats, is the only means of taking the tariff out of politics. This right-about-face is the first open admission of Democratic newspapers that the Underwood tariff law Is the rank failure the general public knows It Is. After going at some length Into the merits of such a commission, one of the Wilson publicity organs has this to say: The first step toward a perma nent tariff commission Is a constitu tional step. Until that is done, whatever tariff commission there Is will merely represent the predomi nating thought of the congress upon whom the constitution im poses the duty of regulating cus toms. This Is nonsensical. The opinion of an Independent tariff commission might bear absolutely no relation to the "predominating thought of Con gress." But even thourh It should happen that the two coincide, wouldn't It be better to have the "predomi nating thought of Congress" written into a tariff law than the absolute dictation of an occupant of the White House? Democratic newspapers havs become so accustomed to being bossed by the President that they have lost all Interest In the rule of the majority. Nevertheless, it is a good sign when they become uneasy over his tariff blunders, - ' ■■■ oOKc* U I*7 tfse Er-Cm—imniia«n 'V —A new third class city Is In the making: In Allegheny county. Petitions to have the names of the boroughs of Turtle Creek, Wllmerdlng and East Pittsburgh changed to Westlnghouco were referred to the grand jury, to be heard on October 11, at Pittsburgh. On Saturday Judge Brown paid a tribute to the name of George Westlnghouse by stating that he was one of Pitts burgh's foremost men and deserving of the honor with which the citizens of the several petitioning boroughs desir ed to remember him. Each of the boroughs petitioned the court sep arately. —ln Westmoreland county, where three candidates are running for the nomination to the Common Pleas bench, now occupied by Judge A. D. McConnell, the liquor license question has jostled aside almost every other consideration. The incumbent Is a candidate to succeed himself and his opponents are Curtis H. Gregg, for mer member of Congress from the Twenty-second Congressional District, and George B. Shaw. Judge McCon nell Is a Republican and both his op ponents are Democrats. Mr. Shaw rep resents the leadership of the reorgan ized Democracy In Westmoreland county, while Mr. Gregg has stood In most Instances by the old guard, al though he bolted the Guffey crowd at Denver eight years ago, as a delegate In the national convention, and sup ported Mr. Bryan. —The Philadelphia Inquirer In a re view of the Chester county judgeship says: "Comparatively no change exists in the judgeship contest. Supported by the organization that Is well organ ized and backed by a faultless record, Judge Gawthrop will be returned with flying colors. Extravagant claims of the Frank E. Hause. or Democratic clan, have no existence in fact. The third candidate, Arthur T. Parke, champion of the drys, is making no gains, his total primary vote is esti mated at from SOOO to 4000." —The Schuylkill county grand Jury having failed to make the investiga tion wanted by Judge Brumm into the enrollment in parts of the county was summoned back to the Job to-day. —George F. Holmes, Philadelphia newspaperman well known here, has withdrawn his petition to run as a Democratic candidate for county com missioner In Philadelphia. He is run ning very much Bull Moose however. —County Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, who is being attacked by circu lars in his county, is out with speeches telling why he should be renominated and many of his friends are sanguine that he will run far ahead. —Pittsburgh people will vote on a proposition to issue bonds for $4,- 270,000 for improvements. —Montgomery county Republicans say that there will be no "doubt about a well-balanced ticket that will win at the general election. —The Insurgent movement against the Lancaster Republicans to exist chiefly in Sunday political re views published in Philadelphia. —Perry county's associate judge ship contest is attracting considerable attention through the Juniata valley because of the prominence of the drink issue. SEPTEMBER Among the stubbled corn The blithe quail pipes at morn, Th« merry partridge drums in hidden places. And glittering insects gleam Above the reedy stream. Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces. At eve, cool shadows fall Across the garden wall And on the clustered grapes to yellow turning; And pearly vapors lie Along the eastern sky, Where the broad harvest moon is redly burning. The cricket chirps all day, "O fairest summer, stay!" The squirrel eyes askance the chest nuts browning; The wild fowl fly afar Above the foamy bar. And hasten southward ere the skies are frowning. —George Arnold. "DOESN'T THIS WAR BORE YOIIt" [Don Marquis in the Outlook.] I met a young m'nor poet the other day—perhaps you know the type, he is "revolutionary and "virile" in his verses, but lisps when he talks about the Blond Beatht and the Thuperman— who said to me, "Don't you think this war is getting to be a frightful bore?" It takes something more than merely fifteen or eighteen million men under arms, with the fate of democracy In the balance, to awaken any active Interest in these young geniuses who are com rades of the cosmic urge and under writers of the oversoul, f The State From Day to Day w—_——— —J Our progressive contemporary, the Allentown Chronicle and News, tells the story of how a flying ball gathered up with It half a dozen lawsuits and cost the county several hundred dol lars. It was only a 10-cent ball, too, but it was knocked Into Jacob Beck's jard and Jacob was accused of steal ing it, after which other people be came involved. * • • An Indiana woman has just died, at the age of 89, after a controversy and loss of funds arising over her thir teenth husband. The Williamsport Sun remarks in an editorial way that "this well-endowed woman retained her belief in men to the very end, and had accumulated considerable prop erty as the result of her numerous widowhoods, both grass and by the funeral route." The thirteenth hus band always has proven to be unlucky. • • • We read recently of a married man who had dinner with his wife one evening last May, put on his glad rags and went out. Several days ago he returned home and had such a good excuse for his previously unexplained absepce that his wife forgot all about the divorce which she had obtained and married him again. This man Is now living at 3144 Shields avenue, Chicago, if anyone wants to know the answer. » • • Three big iron boxes, six feet long, two feet wide and two feet deep, which are the solid iron frames for entrances to the new vaults in the Reading City Hall, were mistaken for coffins by the councllmen of that city, who desired to know whether they were not for the candidates. • • • The courageous heroism and head work of the police force of Washing ton, Pa., was expressively lauded by the Daily News of that place. Robbers made way with property in the street car station and were pursued by the local force, who gave them plenty of chance to get a good lead, a la movies, and never came any nearer to them. One officer gave up the chase after running a few steps and the others soon dropped out and returned for reinforcements. Needless to say, the thieves made a good get-away. » • • A sequel to the above account reads that the same robbers left a trail of nickels and dlmet, strewed over sev eral blocks. These were picked up by . souvenir hunters. HARRISBURG TTSJ& TELEGRAPH When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS / WELL - I \ / See. SCHOOL \ / OPEMS THE \ / THIRTEENTH TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE | —Maybe the weather is being af fected by the heated political cam paigns now In progress. —The war, It is said, Is interfering with the importation of barefoot dancers from Europe. After all, the. war does have its virtues. —The Germans appear bent on pre venting the Russian Bear from taking his winter nap. —"What is all this Haitlen revolution about?" asks an exchange. About the customs house receipts, so far as we can Hnd out. —Sometimes a pretty woman culti vates the friendship of a homely woman for the purposes of contrast. —lf the $60,000,000 of sugar duties be lopped off by the Democrats next year, as proposed, the Republican party will have to face even a larger deficit when it comes into power March 4. 1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT | What the people of Galveston can't understand Is why those Italian peas ants persist In living on the slopes of v esuvius.—Boston Transcript. In Alabama they lynched three negroes accused of poisoning mules The honor of mules must be protected, North* American Georgrla - —Philadelphia The twenty-flve-cent increase In the price of coal indicates that the dealers have Just heard about that seventy flve-cent cut ordered by the Inter-State Commerce Commission.—Boston Tran script. "Take," was the advice of Mrs. Jean ette Schwartz, who attained the com fortable age of 10#, "a drink of beer in the middle of the night and you will live to be as old as 1 am;" and many an earnest seeker for longevity sits up till small hours to do it.—New York Sun. SCHOOL FOR DfISOONTENTS A "School for Discontents" has late ly been opened in Kansas City, Mo., and is receiving the approval of the educators of other cities who have been noticing Its work. It is based upon the principle that children are likely to be contented In school if they are given work that interests them. The ordinary course of study sometimes fails to do this. Any child in Kansas City who has passed the fifth grade in the regular school and is discontented can bo transferred to the Lathrop School, where he will have his energies en gaged in some practical manner by pre-vocatlonal work of the kind which he himself prefers. Boys are taught shop work, pat tern making and carpentry. Girls are taught cooking, sewing, millinery and embroidery, with special provi sions to meet individual need and de sires. The boys receive Instruction in mathematics as "shop arithmetic." They learn correct English as "com mercial expression" and geography by the evident need In their work of se curing some knowledge of the source of the supply for their different mate rials. Our Daily Laugh MII J® e out * J Snail: Tow