6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THS HOME Founded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- Ai inflfff Ushers' Assocla tlon, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn 'if fA* eylvania Associat |SP » s»l ed Dailies. SC? © S3S M Eastern office, IfiESSEsa SI " .Jry, Brooks & IRSSSiISI at Finley, Fifth Ave lOlHim iW nue Building, New JjjgjgfeSJußjUl: York City; West ern office, Story, Brooks & Fin - ■ qr i ley, People's Gas Building, Chi- — — cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. /B >' carriers, six cents a •asgsaffliffiiy week: by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29 The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth. — RICHTEK. THE PROPOSED GAME CODE PROPOSAL to codify the game laws of the State, uniting all the game regulations under one general title. Is in line with the simplification of statutes of all kinds and the group ing of borough, school and other laws in such manner as to make them eas ily accessible and in accord with the needs and conditions of the present. There should be no difficulty in get ting such a measure through the next session of the Legislature. The prob lem will lie in putting a bill together that will meet the views of the sports men of the State to a degree where one or more dissatisfied factions will not seriously oppose it on the floors of the legislative bodies. Evidently the Game Commission had something of this sort in mind when it suggested the calling together of the sportsmen of "the State in ad vance of the legislative session for the purpose of endeavoring to thresh out existing differences and to get to gether, if possible, on a common ground. At all events this is a wise move. The sportsmen now know what the Commission has proposed and they have ample time in which to decide for themselves what changes in this program, if any, they desire. Unqestionably, the change in the rabbit season will be popular. Rab bits are becoming so plentiful in some parts of the State as to be a nuisance to farmers and a menace to young orchards. They multiply more rapidly than any other kind of game and they no doubt will be well able to survive without serious diminution of num bers the proposed two months open season. The other change of season sug gested, that limiting the shooting sea son for turkeys, grouse and quail to November alone, will be the subject of ivo little debate. There will develop legitimate grounds for differences of opinion on this subject. The outcome will be watched with interest by every lover of gamebird hunting in Penn sylvania. Unquestionably something must be done for the better protection of the young birds in the early Fall and for Increasing the supply in coun ties where the birds are becoming scarcer and scarcer each year. Whether this is the remedy or not must be developed by men who have given the matter thought and who are familiar with conditions. Dr. Kalbfus, in his letter accompany ing the draft of the proposed code, makes a plea for the creation of more game sanctuaries. Unquestionably, the Dumber of these places where game may find refuge at all seasons of the year and in the shelter of which young birds and animals may come to ma turity and spread over the surround ing country should be increased. They are doing more than almost any one other thing to keep up the game sup ply In Pennsylvania. THE GRANGERS* PICNIC THE persistent attraction of the Grangers' picnic, that annua! exhibition and exposition at Williams Grove, has for Central Penn sylvania people is one of the marvels of those who have seen scores of similar affairs come and go while crowds continue to flock year after year to see the same old sights and meet the same old crowd at the Cum berland county gathering. The farm er who does not take a day or two from work to "go to the Grangers" is an exception in his community. Reason for the success of this pop ularity probably lies in the fact that the management wisely chose a week after harvest work is out of the way and before the county fair has entered l9to competition. Farmers and city people, too, are fond of fairs and ex positions and the crowds they bring. If the Grangers' picnic is the drawing card it is. how much more so would be a great properly conducted State fair In Harrlsburg or vicinity. OUR UNMOUNTED CAVALRY PENNSYLVANIA well may be proud of the showing made by the more than 13,000 National Guardsmen who marched in review last Saturday before the regular army officers in Texas. Accounts from the border and comments by the review ing officers all tend to show that the men made an excellent appearance and created a most favorable impres sion on those whose duty It was to pass criticism upon them. But there are two things which *hould bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of those responsible. The cav TUESDAY EVENING, airy marched unmounted and there was not a motor transport In the Pennsylvania line. Think of it—all this chatter about preparedness, all this gush about the "great emergency" the troops were to meet at the border, and the cavalry—by far the mo6t use ful branch of the service in putting down bandit raids—without a single horse fit to ride after some two months in camp. And not a motor transport, when Europe reports that the only possi bility of maintaining the great armies pitted against each other there has been through the rapid and depend able gasoline driven vehicle. The only consolation for Pennsyl vanians in this condition lies In the fact that the Keystone soldiers and officers at the border are "in nowise to blame. THE DROP IX WHEAT THE drop in wheat prices yesterday following the announcement that Rumania had entered the Euro pean war was to have been expected. Two prime factors have been at work to run prices up in the American mar kets —the shortage of the crop at home, as compared with that of last year, and the inability of Russia to get her immense quantities of grain to the world markets. Rumania is itself a great wheat raising country. Large quantities of its yield have been going into Austria and thence into Germany. Now all of this grain will have to find a market elsewhere and it will go naturally to France and England, with a com paratively small quantity to feed the Russian soldiers who no doubt will shortly pour through Rumania Jnto Austria. This unlooked for supply of Euro pean grain can be delivered at lower j cost to England and France than can the wheat of the American plains, and thus the American home supply will be conserved. Then, too, in the eyes of the wheat speculators. Russia will be able to market quantities of Its wheat through Rumania, and the en trance of Rumania into the war nat urally brings nearer by many months the opening of the Dardanelles, with the flood of grain that will then flow throvgh that port to the outside world. This may not be good news to the farmer and the wheat speculator, but it will not be badly received by the consumer, who has been facing the possibility of six-cent bread or smaller loaves for five cents. GOOD WORK SUFFRAGISTS of Pennsylvania are to be commended for the promptness with which they have volunteered to assist the State Health Department in its fight against the sprea'd of infantile paralysis and to have "better health ordinances pass ed in every quarter of the Common wealth. Very apparently these women are interested in more than merely getting the vote. The task of the State Health De partment in the present instance is largely one of popular education, j People must be brought to a knowl edge of how best to protect their chil dren from the mysterious scourge concerning which science itself can in struct them only to the extent of teaching them the necessary precau tionary measures to be taken. In this work the suffragists have been of vast assistance, making hundreds of per sonal visits, distributing thousands of circulars, arranging with moving pic ture proprietors to show films bear ing on the subject and calling confer ences in various counties where the need is great. One list of health hints just issued by Mrs. Orlady, president'of the State Suffrage Association, is so well worth while that it ought to be pinned up in every home where there are children. Here is is: Clean bodies, clean finger nails, clean clothes, clean houses, clean yards, clean food, clean water and clean milk. Finger nails short and clean. Cut every second day. Dirty finger nails are the greatest source or sickness. —even greater than dirty milk. Cut finger nails —do not bite them. Two tepid tub baths a day for children of all sizes and ages. Little clothing. A cotton shirt— diaper and very thin dress. No shoes and stockings or bands. Guard the baby from sudden changes in the weather. When it becomes sud denly cold put on stockings and an extra shirt. Keep the hair short. Plenty of sleep. Out-of-door sleeping is excellent. Afternoon napping for the growing children. Babies should be left alone as much as possible—not handled or carried about. Screen houses and porches against flies and mosquitoes. Keep children out of the hot sun. Do not take them downtown. Do not take them shopping. Plenty of good food, under three years of age no raw fruit, melons, ice cream, ice cream soda ana candy. Children of no age tea or coffee—not even a taste. Plenty or good milk and plenty of good drinking water. Keep milk cold and sweet. A sick (child should be kept apart from others until the doctor has called. Castor oil is a good cureall. This kind of work will do more than years of speech-making to win votes for suffrage, although to be fair to those who inaugurated the movement it should be said that it was not under taken as a campaign measure. LET THE SOUTH "COME ACROSS" COLLECTORS of campaign funds for the Democratic national committee are using the ar gument that since the South has been a very large gainer by Democratic administration, there should be large contributions from that section of the country. Sure. If the South is at all grateful, It will put up the larger part of the fund. The administration has so manipulated revenue legislation as to place the tax burden chiefly on the North, and has spent the government funds largely In the South. It is dif ficult to understand why any North ern Democrat should contribute, but, of course, they will be asked to do so. CHICAGO AND HUGHES CHICAGO may be said to reflect with no little accuracy the general opinion of the great territory contributory to that city's commercial and financial leadership of the Middle West Hence, the view whlcJx Chicago takes of Hughes is of much more than local or municipal interest. And Chicago, be it said, has made unmistakably known its opinion that Hughes is all right. IK By the Ex-Committecman To succeed Dr. E. L. Moore as State superintendent of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League, the headquarters committee has elected Dr. Charles F. Swift, of New York. The committee also elected as attorney J. Day Brown lee, Jr., of Indiana, Pa., as State so licitor. Both Dr. Swift and Mr. Brown- Ice make Philadelphia their headquar ters. Mr. Brownlee will devote him self exclusively to the legal end of the tight against the saloons and will be ready to give counsel and help in any county where the organization may have work to do before the courts. He will also become one of the speaking staff of the organization. Congressman \V. H. Coleman, chair man of the Allegheny county Repub lican committee, has made public his list of committees for the management of the presidential campaign In that county. He announced at the same time that an active campaign will be made which will prevent the Demo crats from making any notable gains. Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic county chairman, and acting Democratic State chairman, also made some announce ments. According to Mr. Guffey. Penn sylvania is to be made doubtful terri tory. If the claims of the chairmen are made good, the voters of Alle gheny county will at all events be given some lively political entertain ment. Mr. Coleman said the Repub lican headquarters will be opened on September 6. He repeated his expres sion of hope that Candidate Hughes will make a speech in Allegheny coun ty. So far it is admitted no promise has been obtained from either Hughes or tho national party managers. In making up his committees Mr. Cole man very carefully gave ample rec ognition to all elements of the Repub lican party. E. V. Babcock is chair man of the finance committee, which is the committee honor of greatest distinction and responsibility, but Wil liam Flinn and George T. Oliver both have conspicuous places on this com mittee. • Frank E. Baldwin is receiving con gratulations from his friends all over the State, In and out of the Twenty fifth Senatorial district, because of the strong hold he has obtained upon the scnutorship at the November election. With the Potter-Tioga-McKcan district normally Republican. Baldwin Is op posed now only by Harry Sherwood, Democrat, and Sherwood is not re garded as a formidable candidate. Samuel W. Smith, a Washington party man in the district, ran for the nomi nation in May. but Baldwin defeated him. Smith, however, captured the Prohibition and Washington party nominations, but formally withdrew as a candidate last week. Smith's withdrawal shows the back-to-the party drift in the Twenty-fifth district and indicates that the normal Repub lican majority will be increased be cause of the sentiment for Hughes and 'Fairbanks. Talk has been heard of putting a substitute on the Washing ton ticket in place of Smith, but this is unlikely. Progressive leaders feel that it is too late to do this, even if pronounced anti-Hughes sentiment was seon. Besides, they have not been able to find a candidate. Another rea son ae-ainst such a course Is that Smith antagonized many independents imme diately after the primaries. Baldwin had beaten him 3 to 1 for the Re publican nomination and Smith openly threatened to close out all his busi ness interests and leave the com munity because the people had r not supported him. Badlwin represented the Twenty-fifth district in the Senate In 1909-1911. He has made friends of many former political enemies because of tireless work for good roads, for Improved agricultural conditions and to develop manufacturing in his dis trict. United States' Honor (Portland, Ore., Telegram) The Republican party has selected a standardbearer whose utterances from day to day justify the people who chose him. Not only does he bring before the country the short comings of the administration that owes its existence to a divided Repub licanism, but his criticism Is every where constructive. He tells what must be done and will be done by the party he repre sents to prevent wastefulness and ex travagance in the governmental ex penditures and to put a stop to the vacillating policy that has caused other nations to believe that the United States has no intention of backing up its demands made in the interests of justice and humanity. Most vulnerable of all points in the Democratic armor is its foreign policy. Primarily this is because of the spoils system by which men trained in the consular and diplomatic service through long years, have been dis placed to make room for politicians and friends of politicians, whose sole claim to preferment was their serv ices to the Democratic party. "If I am elected President of the United StateSi" said Mr. Hughes last night, "I propose that every man I put in charge of an important depart ment shall be a man eminently fit to discharge the duties of that depart ment." The denuding of the diplomatic service of men of experience in order to supply political jobs, as has been done by Mr. Wilson, or with his con sent, Mr. Hughes denounces as "a capital offense—trading in the good name of the United States and dam aging its honor." "Nobody," he adds "has a right to pay political debts with the good name and honor of the United States." Which is clear proof that Mr. Hughes has not been unmindful of the high principles of government which must be maintained in order that this republic shall maintain its place as a shining example to all na tions. Suffragists Busy Suffragists of the State continue their campaign for the vote. They have prepared a series of new fliers the first two of which have just come from the press. All the new litera ture will carry the organization's n«w slogan: "Suffrage First: Safety Will Follow." The most striking of the new fliers shows a map of the North American continent, white and black subdivi sions denoting sections where women do and do not vote. Another of the fliers reveals the attitude of suffragists toward women in general, mentions advantages that the workers have gained by coming in contact with their sisters through out the State and calling for a unified womanhood to fight for suffrage. TOO FAR By Wing Dinger When I told my younzsters That school-opening: date Was postponed some two weeks. Both exclaimed, "That's great." But when I oaid ball games, Movies and street car Were tabooed, both said "That's Going a'bit too far." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY f^t' '* .¥i©nel mmzHSZ I 1 fefe , a\ 3L-C- p ry/j I Llw iW pHw^K SYKES. 10 Philadelphia Evening Ledger Kindling TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE~I —Rabindranth Tagore Is coming to this country, but it is not stated whether he is to build a new Hindu temple or make a speech in favor of universal peace. —Something tells us that we are go ing to say farewell pretty soon to that old friend our Palm Beach suit. —We guess the new dances aren't going to be very popular. They are said to have'been passed favorably by a party of ministers. —What has become of that once popular war cry, "Give us Wilson and ws will give you Pennsylvania"? —New York has boasted that it has no such wholesale vice raids as Phila delphia, one of the reasons being, per haps that the police force couldn't make a complete roundup in a single night. —Atlantic City has extended its bathing season one full month and we would like to know before taking ad vantage of it how the weatherman feels on the subject. EDITORIAL COMMENT" Agfent Buying Munitions Here For Venezuela. —Headline. Probably mere ly preparing for a Presidential elec tion.—New York World. The shade of Moses must look down with keen interest upon the latest Sinai expedition that is followed by a lino of water-pipes.—Cincinnati Times-Star. Marquis Okum says it was not Com modore Perry, but a Russian envoy, that opened Japan. But we are speak ing of the front door. —Boston Herald. Apparently, when a German drops a bomb, he hits only women and children, while an allied aviator can throw one into a crowd and never vouch a soul except soldiers in uniform. —Indian- apolis Star., After these political orators finish the campaign and are all through tell ing the public what they really think of one another, they shouldn't complain if a lot of us fail to vote for any can didate. —New York Morning Telegraph. Puck Rewrites History Puck, the famous humorous weekly, is going to revise the history of the country according to the modern theory of telling the naked truth about historical events. The first of its Historical Numbers appears on the newsstands this week, and if we may accept tne Initial ar ticle as an indication of what is to come ,our satirical contemporary alms to upset some cherished traditions of the little red schoolhouse. Tradition has clouded history since the beginning of time, explains Puck's historian. There is abundant testi mony extant that Joan of Arc was burned by proxy only, and as a mat ter of fact lived long enough to settle down and marry the man of her choice. Beatrice, the flame of Dante's pas sion, was a giddy young debutante of nine summers at the time of her death: and facts indicate that if Sir Walter Raleigh ever laid a cloak over a mud puddle to protect Elizabeth's feet, it was the garment of an unfor tunate retainer and not own richly brocaded Inverness. Tradition has painted the Bastile as a prison of horrors, crowded with un happy victims of the royal displeas ure. Facts indicate that it never con tained more than sixteen or seventeen prisoners at any one time and that these reveled in any luxury they craved. Puck has uncovered many tradi tions of our own history as widely at variance with the facts as the inci dents quoted. In the first place, says Puck, Queen Tsabella never pawned her Jewels to start Columbus on his voyage of dis covery, for the very simple reason that Isabella's jewels had been t>ut to the slaughter many months before Columbus appeared at the Spanish cpurt and asked for yelp. Nor did the doughty adventurers on the Mayflower first set foot on Plymouth Rock, unless they used a hydroaeroplane, for the waters around Plymouth Rock would hardly float a cream skimmer. Peter Stuyvesant. we learn, enjoyed the full use of two perfectly good legs, and the wooden stump handed down to posterity seems to have been a figment of the imagination. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] Who are the officers of the Police Department? How many in the Police Department? How many divisions in de --rtment? Chief of police. T. J. Zell; cap tain of police, J. P. Thompson; lieu tenant of police, J. Ed. Wetzel; su perintendent of detectives, William L. Windsor. Including officers and patrolmen the Police Department consists of 67. The department is divided as follows; Police and de tectives. HOW ABOUT JAPAN? Uninvited Guests . By Frederic J. Haskin L_ __ ' J BETWEEN Japan and the United States to-day lie two great un solved problems. They are the problem of conflicting Pacific policies and the problem of immigration. We are too prone to regard these questions as settled, as soon as they drop out of sight for a few weeks or a few months. They are as far from be ing settled to-day as they ever were. More than that, they are continually adding to their vitality and impor tance with the passage of time. Along with the many disadvantages attaching to the centralizing of power in the hands of a small group of men, Japan has derived one compensating benefit from the system. She has gained a consistent foreign policy. Her statesmen have never lost sight of the two great issues that face their empire. They have withdrawn those issues from notice at times, when cir cumstances seemed unfavorable, but they have never for a moment for gotten them. They never relax their efforts to put Japan in the most favor able position to meet them when the time comes. These issues will come to the front again, beyond the shadow of a doubt. They are so real and fundamental that they will arise of their own vital ity sooner or later; and Japan stands ready to raise them as soon as she thinks the time has come to do so with advantage. Japan has steadily pursued her two fold foreign policy. Her objects are the opening of a road for her people to emigrate to the Occident, and the extension of her power in Asia, with a view to ultimate dominance of the Orient. At the time of the sudden outbreak of the European war, she had been devoting her attention to the matter of emigration. With the war came an unexpectedly perfect op portunity to further her other aim, the domination of China, and she hastily turned to avail herself of it. Lnder cover of the world-conflict she extorted concessions from China that she might never have gained otherwise. It is no wonder that she let the emigration question lapse for the moment. To regard that question therefore as settled, to imagine that she has let it lapse for good, would be the height of short-sighted folly. Every sign points to a renewal of the dispute on the part of Japan in the near future. The immigration question has been so thoroughly discussed that it seems unnecessary to review it. Yet the very richness of the comment and argument poured forth on the mat ter has contributed largely toward burying the fundamental issue at stake. The mass of the discussion has concerned itself with superficial as pect®. "? f the situation, until the real conflict of interest, policy and prin ciple has been almost lost to sight. Japanese emigration to the Occi dent so far is only the ripple before the wa,ve. With Japan's population increasing: at the rate of almost a mil lion a year, with the spreading of oc cidental methods of sanitation and occidental ideas of the value of life promising to augment that increase L as P ass « s . It is obvious that the eighty thousand Japanese now in the United States can have no real effect on the problem one way or the other. In themselves they constitute an other problem, but it is a problem . a J nd distlnct - American thought tends to regard the two is !! U S« fv ? n f' * J a P ar *ese diplomacy has contributed to the error by focusinc attention on the case of the Japanese in America, but it is certain that Japanese statesmen have never con fused the problem of what to do with an increase of population of almost a million a year with the question of the status of a few thousand Japanese in California. The case of the Japanese in Cali fornia is in itself a. real issue in Japan Japanese national pride is a very real and sensitive thing. The California question itself will arise again. Japan dropped the negotiations over the antlallen land bills with the express stipulation of resuming them when she got ready. The gentlemen's agree ment, by which Japan voluntarily ex eludes her laborers from the Pacific coast, and to which she has adhered with exemplary faithfulness, is still a source of continual irritation to many elements in Japan, as a study of the Japanese press will show. The time and study devoted to the California question, the mass of evidence and argument printed concerning it, all apply to an important international deadlock. The bulk of it does not apply to the great underlying prob lem at all. Tlie question has been discussed with a view to finding a solution which should meet the wishes of both parties. Americans of the Pacific coast have plainly stated their wishes. They do not want a stream of Japa nese labor. The Japanese have shown a willingness to meet the American viewpoint on this angle, at least tem porarily. They have voluntarily lim ited their emigration. They demand in return, however, that America should respect thslr national pride Thus In looking for a solution of the conflict, investigators have tried to find a sche/ne which should at once exclude the Japanese without insult ing them. A typical device to this end Is the AUGUST 29, 1916. system which would amend all our emigration laws so that the immi grants admitted would bear some defi nite proportion to those already here, under this arrangement, the people "of any nation which forms a large j* n our Population would be admitted as freely as ever, because tnose who want to come in are only a er j small fraction of those we al ready have with us. On the other u the Japanese immigration It- oii dawn to next to nothing ' 11' At the sar ne time, Japanese | h v " »e r i ut , on an equal footing with i °f J t t e wol "ld, and thus their pride would have nothing to take of ! fense at. The pill of exclusion would go down sugar-coated. | Such an expedient has its value but what of the million extra Japa -1 # m the empire has to find room for every year? our inv 'estigators have de- T.fif themselves to discussion of the 2 the J a P an ese as a resident, they have photographed him pick i%.2?? Wber £."- they have compiled hi« °" s ® arni »g capacity and tm ? nt of the 80,1 and his Reaches of contract. They have an h.is political prejudices, his eco ' ® and his domestic moral ui" ir conclusions are very valu " , we must not forget that they apply to the problem of the Japanese in the United States, not to mUHnnt il y ♦ '"? P res sure of Oriental tion problem the real imm,Era ti J, hat prohlem - the Chinese ques "'V represents a fundamental con flict of policy and principle. It is a rfJhf t re each side sees itself in the right, where eadr side feels that na l'nce a m e I >einß,^ eVen national exist ence, may depend on the triumph of havfi°ronn tlon Tu The Japanese must nfo wf he Un 'ted States bars tereJts Tf" 1 «K bar the Way ' in the in " terests of self-preservation—to the very room they want. 1 time ' J a P an hoped to gain Pi? g reat ends by gainins the iof Kreat sf^H° Ped f that her d °minance ! s of eastern Asia would !}? /?< give her the markets her in dustries nqeds, but also the field that her population demands for its expan i«p.nha h ,l,f,TovirKS«a*a„d'p!, l ?- •JKSi " r i» - »»: cnuria. she has encouraged emisrra "s?.,« nto thesc territories by evwv possible means. Yet the quantitv of t? emigration has been negligible /n a? ? Japanese-controlled railways in Manchuria find that If they want to run on a business basis, they have to labo ''' Ch,nese on less and do more. They have a lower Th o e n Tn,ne nda, ' d than ,he Japanese" them cannot compete with cid J e^i P t an ° Utlet is to the °c ciaent. Here she sees land that is hy Japanese standards sparselv