8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. X. J. STACKPOLK, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F\ K. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. a Member American sylvar.la Associat niie Building, New Building, Chl ~ cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. , By carriers, si* cents a week; by mall, $3.00 —__sZ__ a year ,u advance. THURSDAY EVENTXO, OCT. 26 TVe shall never see the sacredness of secular callings until tee remember that the Son of God created the world, that €>j/ Rim all things, not simply all souls, are held together. — G. A. JOHNSTON ROSS. EIGHT CENT MILK HARRISBURG, apparently, Is ready to pay eight cents a quart for milk. Tho advance In price Is not welcome, any more than other increases in the cost of foodstuffs have been, and It will work hardships in poor families, but apparently It Is necessary. The retailers aro right, however, In their stand against the farmer who insists upon nine cents. Milk producers have not been going bankrupt under present prices, how ever close profits may be, and it Is not fair that they should attempt more than to cover their own increases in cost of production and delivery. Tho retailer knows that the first result of nine cent milk will be a sharp decline in the quantity used, and this lilts him In a way the farmer, who turns his surplus into butter or sells It to a creamery, does not feel so keenly. "With the higher price, also, we •hall expect to get better milk. The new municipal regulations will go far toward that end. They are rigid, but not too much so, for difficult though they may make operations for the milk men they safeguard the public, and that Is the all-important thing. Our thanks to the milkmen for mak ing it eight cents instead of nine. THE KXOX BALLV THE observation of Philander C. Knox, addressing the great gath ering of Republicans at Chest nut street auditorium last evening, that never in his political career had ho found the voters so seriously in tent upon hearing every phase of the Issues discussed, applied to last night's his audience as well as to those of the treat centers of population where Mr. Knox has been speaking recently. It is a good sign. The people realize the seriousness of the situation they face. Thej-e are fewer brass bands and more thought; there is less hys teria and more calm consideration. Quietly, undeinonstratively, but with their minds set, the great mass of the voters are going about their business with little of the furore that used to ,be part and parcel of presidential campaigns. Their mood bodes ill for the candidates whose backers are hys terically sobbing their homago and gratitude to the man who "kept us out of war'' by sending our troops to Mexico and to unavenged slaughter at Vera Cruz and Carrizal. There's one comfort, anyhow; just as coal gets too high in price for use in broiling steak, steak gets too high to be broiled. WHY XOT SOW? AXY possible decisive action of the administration to stem the tide of anarchy now enveloping Mexico will be held in abeyance until after election; discussion of Mexican affairs in any of their varying phases is no longer welcomed at the State Depart ment," writes a usually well Informed political correspondent of one of the big press associations at Washington. Despite denials from Washington and the border that Carranza's hold on the precarious situation in Mexico Is slipping, there is ground for the be lief that he cannot hold on much longer and the feirr has evidently arisen at Washington that this last faint hope of Wilson in JJexlco will be eliminated by a collapse or the whole Carrama power before November 7. For the mere political effect of the thing and in order to prevent the wrath of the people from descending too soon on the head of Woodrow Wilson, administration officials are content to let tyranny continue to vent its spleen upon the unfortunate and anarchy to rein south of the border. But If It is known now that drastic action must be taken as soon as the voting Is over, why would not such an honest and courageous President as Wilson pretends to be, proceed to his duty now? Apparently, "watchful waiting" Is to be supplanted by politi cal expediency. LIGHTS '*>X_ VEHICLES THE law very prppcrly requires all motor-driven vehicles to carry lights when on tho road at night, and tho Humane Society dele gates meeting here yesterday recom mended that the statute be extended to cover horse-drawn vehicles as well. There Is common sense behind this THURSDAY EVENING, &ABSIISBUROQfipftj TEIEGRAPB3 OCTOBER 26, 1916. proposal, and farmers are coming more and more to understand that self-protection demands that they thUB equip their carriages and wagons. A few years back an effort was made to have the Legislature enact such a law and the strenuous objections of the farmers alono were responsible for Its rejection. There are two reasons for the change of vlowpolnt. In the first place, It has come to bo pretty general ly understood that tho automoblllst who runs Into a dark tea'm on a coun try road bocauno he hod no means of knowing It was there lfl not tho only Injured party; and, secondly, many farmers themselves havo become auto mobile owners and know the difficul ties of the highways after nightfall for tho man at tho steering wheel. Alcohol, It Is said, is being used as a gasoline substitute, but joyriders should remember that It Is to be put into tho car. THAT CHILD LABOR LAW MR. KXOX In his speech last night tore the cloak from the so called Wilson child labor law, showing that It does not forbid the employment of children In either southern or northern mills and that Its provisions aro easily evaded. But there is a more serious matter In volved iven than this. Mr. Knox re ferred to It when ho asked: What effect does this legislation have upon the child labor laws of the States? May both the State and the nation legislate upon this sub ject? Or does the legislation of Congress ipso facto nullify the child labor laws of the various States? We, In Pennsylvania, have a child labor law, enacted by Republicans, of which we aro £>roud. It Is stringent and effective. It protects tho cihlld and punishes the unscrupulous etn- I-loyer. Are Its provisions to be ren dered Ineffective by the wretched ef forts of the Wilson administration to protect southern child employers, while at the same time playing to the galleries for popular approval? The Democrats are trying to capture the Irish vote by berating a man named O'Leary. HEALTH BOARD'S DITTY IF the Health Board 13 wise it will not be caught again as It was In the typhoid epidemic. Time after time the board has made recommen dations to council which council has ignored. It has asked for more men and more money, and for equipment and stringent regulations that have not been forthcoming except under the pressure of emergency. It knows that It is not in shape to meet an unlooked for condition suddenly aris ing; it has known that for a long time. It is handicapped by the nig gardly policy of council, which, for the sake of a few dollars to be diverted to some pet purpose, has been willing to "take a chance" with the health of the city. The typhoid fever epidemic is on the wane. Tho board has conquered the disease after a hard fight, but if it had had the force and the equip ment and the law with it at the outset thousands of dollars in doctors' bills would have been sa\ ed the people of Harrisburg, untold suffering would have been averted and the grim spectre of death would have been barred from entrance to many a household where his shadow still ling ers on a vacant chair. This is the price Harrisburg has had to pay for "unpreparedness" in the past. If the Health Board wants to square itself with the public in preparation for the next epidemic that shall come for come it will it must go before council without de lay and tell that body Just what it needs. The people, with the horror of typhoid fresh in their minds, will stand back of any such demands. Thus responsibility will be placed, at least, and the burden shifted to the shoul ders where it belongs. If the board does not do this it, of necessity, will be answerable for consequences. Cato Sells rises to Inform a waiting nation that there are more Indians now than when lie took office as Indian Commissioner. And fewer Democrats, rrfay we add byway of political conso lation. HVGHES AXD HYPHENS IF I am elected, we shall have an exclusively American policy in the service of American interests. This was tho declaration of Gover nor Hughes, in reply to tho fantastic efforts of Mr. Wilson's campaign man agers to make it appear that Mr. Hughes is pro-German. Mr. Hughes continued, "We have no secret understandings, no unstated purposes. If any one expects, in case of my election, that American rights or interests will be subordinated to any ulterior purpose or to the policy of pny foreign power, he is doomed to disappointment." Mr. Hughes was addressing a vast audience, composed largely of Ger man-Americans, in Scheutzen Park, New York. He continued: ' r As to any person whose allegiance to our flag is not simple and com plete, who would not Instantly cham pion our rights against those of any country on earth, who wants impunity for foreign aggression, or who would have the power of this nation held captive to any foreign influence or swerved by alien machinations, let him not vote for me." That, we respectfully submit, ought to be sufficient for the moment. That Upper End cyclone appears to have blown away the last Democratic chance in that district; anyway, it's gone. "Why give tho untried Hughes a chance to make another mess of it?" ifsks a Democratic contemporary. So, it's a mess, is It, and we ought not havo another —Just the same old mess is good enough. We wonder If, those new Tlritish "tanks" can find their way home with out a guide in the early hours of the morning SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAY HAPPEN AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTY f*?- 1 <■< * I feMif WID' THE: (rOOOS ' * ?3\°mk ,s u Y ) ON DIS TIME"— 25^6 AY C C V.>C JS§ I 1 CMT 6tT OUT , \ COME V | lo ' \ \ APPPoWA-rf MAtfE. Mistakes 6%§ / ( YOU'PE A (AW bcat it, i S \ J / / / / LBMOM-ButT \va Poo (2 11 uM ]TWe M(?ST COMICAL C IWNOTA Ov A A f / / A • CHAM BEPOF fOWME K t (11l 111 HALLOWE'EN CELEBRATION ■— m ff A event. > jr • JUD6&S COULD THERE APE HftRDOT 0E BLAMED SOME PEOPLe WHOM THESE FOR THig . COSTUMES WOULD FIT acka wanna Democratic circles last night by attacks upon the Democratic ticket. In .some way or other the I>ackawanna bosses got the Idea that the Pro hibitionists were only going after Hughes. They attacked Wilson with a vigor that made much talk. Members of the Central Demo cratic Club last night gave a reception In honor of Alderman George D. Her bert, the Democratic candidate for senator, who is a great deal better Democrat than many members of the club when it comes down to party regularity. The alderman was honored by several speeches In which the orators had the grace to admit that he had always been a Democrat, in sunshine and in storm. It was a grace ful tribute to party regularity in a troublous year. —Democrats have about given up hopes of coming anywhere near de feating Congressmen Heaton, Schuyl kill. and Hopwood, Fayette. Both men are making energetic canvasses In their districts and some excellent re ports of progress are being made. Armstrong county lawyers have endorsed Justice Walling at a big meeting held in the county seat. Prac tically every county In the State has backed up the Erie justice. —Congressman John R. K. Scott spoke last night In Chester county, going there from Bellefonte. He joined the State candidates In Blair county to-day. —Arrangements are being made In Philadelphia to strike off about 4,500 voteru found by police to bo fraudu lently registered. —The local option committee will announce the names of the men It en dorses at a meeting to be held in Philadelphia. —Governor Brumbaugh left this morntiKr for New York to make a series of speeches In New York and Connecticut. The Governor will speak to-night at New Rochelle ami Mount Vernon and to-morrow In Hartford and Norwich, returning for some sneeches in New York. Next week the Goverr ">r will speak In New Jersey. —Three of the men selected as com missioners to take the votes of Na tional Guard organizations now at the Mexican border may lose the chance to take a trip to El Paso If reports coming here are correct. It was re ported to-day that the Scranton, Fotts \ille and Philadelphia engineer com panies would leave within afewdays for home. General James H. Coryell was named to take the vote of the Scranton engineers: Herbert W. Salus, of the Philadelphia engineers, and Luden Norrls, of Huntingdon, the Pottsville company. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT] A\ho has summed up the attitude and Interests of Japan better than Judge Gary when he says: "Japan Is not look ing for trouble. She wants peace now and the pursuits of peace."—Philadel phia Ledger. Why doesn't President Wilson send a punitive expedition into the War De partment to avenge our besmirched Revolutionary heroes?— New York Sun. Those new British "tanks" are some what more effective than the kind they had In England before Lloyd-George closed the saloons.—Boston Transcript. A New Hampshire person says that Theodore Roosevelt is a "survival of a pre-Neoeeno era of human thought." It sounds awful, but T. R. survived it and the rest of 'em didn't.—Detroit Free Press. The Real Provincial [Louisville Courier Journal] The desire to live as well as one's neighbors is no more common In a city of 1,000,000 than in a city of 10,- 000. And even in the rural districts there is, and thero has been always, the same income consuming spirit. More farms are mortgaged In Ken tucky because of a standard of living which has its rigid requirements than because of a need of money with which to conduct agricultural opera tions. In the smaller cities and towns expensive apparel, showy equipages, handsome homes are, in proportion to incomes, Just as great a burden as these outward evidences of expendi ture are in Louisville or Chicago or New York. The common dream, and the fre quent theme, of metropolitans is that it is only In the metropolis that life is financially stressful, and that in the smaller cities and the little towns everyone leads an idyllic existence safely within whatever his income may be. To find the real provincial find the inhabitant of a great city who has studied life upon the sidewalks and in the cafes. He believes sincerely that his opportunities to put human na ture under the reading glass are unique and that what is under his reading glass is unique. Very Fluttering Kind American X-ray Society has a ma chine which records eVery flutter of the heart. Proximity of small, blue eyed blonde would wear out machine in no time. Louisville Courier-Jour nal. . Proof Positive We shall never be entirely satisfied (hat the trend of humanity is really upward until we see men willing to trade their automobiles for aeroplanes. —Browning Magazine. They're Liberal Minded It Is all a mistake about there being no paramount Issue this year. Any campaign manager will tell you that whatever Induces you to vote for his candidate is that very thing. —New York Post. THK GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET The poetry of earth is never dead; When all the birds are faint with the hot sun And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new mown mead. That is the grasshopper's—he takes the lead In summer luxury—he lias never done With his delights; for, when tired out with fun, He rests at east beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth Is ceasing never. On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increas ing ever. And seems, to one in drowsiness half lost, The grasshoppers among some grassy —John Keats. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlaburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organisa tion's annual "Municipal Qulm."! What does It cost the city for rent of Citv Offices, and how far toward tak ing care of a loan for a new city hall would the amount go? About $8,900, Including water fur nished county for use of Court house and Prison. If a loan for $250,000 was floated, with $50,000 falling due in Ave yearß and SB,OOO falUn" due each ytar for twenty five years after, the interest and State Tax would amount to about $169,000. The estimated amount paid in rent for thirty years would "mount to $240,000. This amount would not onlv take care of Inter est charges and State Tax, * l nncl was dressed In a scarlet gown. ♦ • • ...Jn 4 ?® a < n * seneral and governor as w an a good bit of a He was very dignified and trie Indians, who used to come to town hi?,'," i? e 2 " ear b >"> were afraid of him. He had discussions with manv of the people about here and is said to have had a row with John Harris which led to the suggestion that tho name of (he new town be called Lou la bours because, he argued, llarrlsburg being cailed after the dauphin, the !• rencli king, who aided the colonies, should also he honored. John Harris, however, had the making out of tho deeds for the lots, and although tho precept for the first court called fop "Louisbourg." Harris Ignored that name, and his town became officially Harrisburg. There was a good bit of state politics mixed up In that episode, as Harris and his son-in-law, William Maclay, the first United States sen ator, were aligned with a different party than McKean and his friends. • * * Herbert Quick, the lowa member of the Federal Farm Loan Board, whose mental alertness Impressed everyone at the State Capitol, has made a state ment regarding the second mortgage proposition calling attention to the fact that the law does not permit the gov ernment to make nny second mortgage loans. In a statement Mr. Quick says that the land hanks can not have any thing to do with them. It seems that there have been many questions along this line. * * • William R. 1). Hall, statistician of the State Highway Department, has been elected rs chairman of the com mittee on publications of the Engi neers Society. Mr. Hall, who is a University" of Pennsylvania man, serv ed in the First United States Engineer regiment in the Porto Rlcan cam paign and was later news editor of the Philadelphia Press. He was a member of the Philadelphia Telegraph and Inquirer staffs. Refusal of the Hoard of Publia Grounds and Buildings to let a con tract yesterday for the erection of the now barn for the Pennsylvania Stato4 Hospital property to replace that de stroyed by lightning illustrates the ad vance in the price of materials. What was considered to be a very liberal es timate, as compared with what prices were a short time ago, was made but when the bids were opened it was found that figures were away up and that it would be impossible to erect the building within the estimate made by the board. Prices have gone up so fast that even the estimators could not keep in touch with them. , Salmon fishermen say that the weather lutely lias been just right for their sport and that people who hava given up fishing are missing the time of their lives. The construction of the sanitary dam has, it anything, im proved the fishing and there arc soma splendid specimens taken out? almost every night down around Tuscarora and Dock streets, while up at the dam there Is also fine angling. • * Senator Marshall L. Phlpps, of Oil "itv, who was here yesterday, used ittnbui sh. He was formerly in this State. —The Rev. Dr. John B. Laird, the retir ! ":r rnde.r:>tor of the Presbyterian "ynod. who Is against tabernacle evan gel)* in is a prominent Philadelphia clerg"i>'at\ •—Chancellor P. n. MeOormick, of the l'niversity of Pittsburgh, has been rlrcted president of the Pittsburgh Schoolmen's club. —Ellsworth Kelly. Scranton city clerk, refused to testify in mine cava proceedings the other day until guar anteed his foes. ""DO YOU KNOW 1 That linrrisbura: Is one of tlic l)'j> wrap iron (vntcrs of Penn sylvania? HISTORIC HAHRISBURG The first telegraph otflce in Harris burg was in Third street near the pres ent locations. These offices have al ways been within a few blocks. The Logical Conclusion "They (the Democrats) told us four years ago that we were guilty of wast* and extravagance, but now tho hold the record for waste afid extravagancy • * * more than $230 000,000 in excess of the record of the Republican session of 1910."—Hughes, at Baltimore, October 10. • ■ 4 Quod Erat Demonstrandum How does President Wilson figure it out that there will be war in case of Republican success? His mental processes are evidently something like this: "War is hell. "It will be hell if I get licked. "Things equal to the same thing ara equal to each other. "Therefore there will be war if X get licked. "Quod erat demonstrandum. Class in logic dismissed." Muncle, Ind., Republican. What Is the Inference? "Wo were told four years ago that the Republican party was responsible for the high cost of living. The cost ot living Is higher now than ever before." —Hughes, at Baltimore, October 10.