16 HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iS.il Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PKINTI.VG CO., Telegraph llulldlns. Federal Boare, L* J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief I'\ R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American I Newspaper Pub- Bureau of Circu sylvanla Associat- Eastern olTice. Story, Brooks & Flnlcy, Fifth Ave nue Building, New People's Gas Build- Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917. JVe would have misery cease Yet will not cease from sin. — MATTHEW ARNOLD. THAT "BONE-DRY" BILL NATIONAL prohibition may be nearer than even its most en thusiastic advocates have imag ined. Passage by Congress of the bill to forbid the shipment of intoxicants into prohibition states came as a big surprise to those who had not noted the steady growth of prohibition sen timent at Washington. The bill was attacked as opposing "State rights," but it is distinctly a State rights measure, in that it forbids outsiders violating State laws. Its passage is the biggest temperance vic tory in the history of Congress, the members of which do not go far be yond what they believe to bo the wish of their constituents in matters of popular legislation. Congressmen with their ears to the ground no doubt have heard the distant roar of the pro hibition wave and have taken heed. The next big temperance move will be the adoption of a resolution for the amendment of the federal consti tution forbidding the manufacture or j sale of alcoholic drink in the United ! States —after which national prohibi- | tion will be only a matter of time. CHANCE FOR TEAM WORK GILBERT A. MONTAGUE, of New York, sees In the Webb bill the sole hope of our industrial sal vation when the end of the European war shall luui ue threatened with the bitterest commercial competition that has ever been presented to our view. In an address to the Business Science Club at Philadelphia recently, Mr. Montague said: The Webb bill promises freedom to American export trade, oppor tunity to smaller American manu facturers, and stimulus to our en tire American commercial and in dustrial life; but, still more, it promises the only possible salva tion and continuance of our for eign trade against the threatened economic alliances now forming in Europe against us. One of Mr. Montague's eyes is ex ceedingly clear of vision; the other, it is feared, is out of focus, inasmuch as the report of his address contains no mention of the tariff question. There has been considerable propa- j ganda of late circulated in relation i to the Webb bill for tho purpose of i drawing the attention of the Ameri can public from the more engrossing question of tariff protection to Ameri can industries. A few of our smaller manufacturers have actually "fallen for this stuff" and have become im bued with the idea that if they un unite in highly organized combina tions they can control the trade of a large share of the world. Now the Webb bill may be a good bill, but it is by no means the sine qua non of commercial prosperity. American manufacturers can com bine to the nth degree, but if our European competitors can beat them in their home market by displacing' goods "Made in America" with goou.,' made at a labor cost, equaling one-! third or one-fourth our own, the out look for the extension of our trade abroad is bound to be dismal. And that our European competitors can do it under a tariff law but nine per cent, above absolute free trade is a fore gone conclusion. Tho entire domestic production of the United States is in excess of 135,000,000,000 annually. The esti mate of the Department of Commerce of $45,000,000,000 is doubtless over drawn. A serious curtailment of tnis production due to inroads of foreign goods in our market, means a curtail ment of production here and a conse quent Increase in the unit cost of such production, hence an additional hand icap to our manufacturers in compet ing with foreign vendors abroad. Se cure In their domestic market, our in dustries can operate at capacity and reduce this unit cost of production; They will then have a larger oppor tunity in the markets of the world. The Webb bill perfected and har nessed up with a protective tariff law will afford tine team work. The Webb bill by Itself will never get the goods to market. GREECE NEAR STARVATION THE allies starving Greece are no better than Germany starving Belgium. America, which has shed tears over Belgium, should not rest quiescent while men, women and children of Greece suffer. The relief of the helpless and homeless of Eu rope has become a well-nigh Impos sible task, but we should do what we can and our sympathies should be as warm for tho victims of the entente FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 23, 1917. powers in Southern Europe as for those of Germany in the North. Two wrongs never made a right and the allies are making a blunder of the first magnitude in Greece. The funniest thing we have seen in the newspapers recently is an article on "Threatened Invasion of America" by the German army that hasn't been able to get so much as across the Eng lish channel. REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION TT has required the action of a r.on partisan, non-political organization to draw the attention of warring Republicans to the fact that the voters are watching closely their constructive work in the Legislature and that there is little or no public interest, save of a deprecatory nature, in the petty bick ering of factional leaders. There should be a lesson for every Repub lican in official life and for every man high in the counsels of the party in the resolutions adopted on Wednes day by the State convention of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join ers, endorsing the administration of Governor Brumbaugh and severely censuring leadership in any faction that would devote more time and at tention to the squaring of personal dif ferences than to the enactment of a legislative program at once popular and constructive. The resolutions mention Governor Brumbaugh specifically, and very properly so, for it happens that nearly if not quite all of the progressive laws enacted since his inauguration had re ceived endorsement at his hands cither during his campaign or in his mes sages to the Legislature. But it must not be forgotten that these bills be came statutes by the support largely of Republicans in the House and Senate. Had they been obstructive, instead of constructive, in their attitude not one could have been pushed through. However much the issue may be be clouded by personal antagonisms and the efforts of Democratic newspapers to make the people believe otherwise, the truth is that the Republican party since the last gubernatorial election has made a record for the enactment of advanced and progressive legislation second to none in the nation. Here are a few of the more notice able of a great number of laws of the kind passed by Republican votes and approved by Governor Brumbaugh: The best Child Labor law in the United States. An advanced female employment law of great benefit to thousands of poor women. I Workmen's Compensation law, a; modern, effective and highly beneficial act. State insurance fund law, designed to keep down insurance rates and pro tect employers and employes. Continuation school law, a great step forward in the way of education for the poor. Purchase of the remaining Capitol Park extension zone. Improvement of school conditions In general. These and more like them are dis tinctively Republican laws. They were conceived by a Republican Governor and enacted by a Republican Legisla ture, and the credit belongs to the party as a whole. Not a single bill antagonistic to labor has been written on the statute books of the State since Brumbaugh became Governor with a Republican Legislature in power. But the point to be pressed home upon Republican legislators and Re publican leaders is this—that while! the voters are deeply interested in the | kind of laws enacted, they resent any factional differences that may tend to concentrate the attention of the law making bodies upon political prefer ment rather than the best interests of the people. The surest way of perpet uating the party in power is to con tinue to jive the people the kind of laws so warmly commended by the carpenters in the aforementioned reso lutions. v If this thing keeps up, Poland and Belgium may yet be called upon to send food to starving America. Social note during the food short age—"As a souvenir each guest was presented with a cold boiled potato." OH, MAN! By BRIGGS ' f ' 1 1 NEV6.R -To I I JUST HAPPENED Tb I EVE MING Ha-hah* ha (THERE'S somethim< IN ) "IJLANCHE DEAR- 1 EVPRESSIOM NOUJ J LIST6M- IV6 GOT 1118 Hlllll TUP Tfwr RE.N\f-4'DS ME OP • Amm IV HI M / y ■BMBI lli ..~ | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" SOUP AND BREAD To the Editor rf the Telegraph: Last Tuesday's issue of a local Dem ocratic newspaper contains the follow ing editorial paragraph: "For humor ous reading you are referred to last election time's prediction of 'soup houses' in event of Wilson's re-elec tion." The first page of the same paper contains under a bid headline an account of starving women in New York rioting in their desperate need for bread for themselves and their Children. It must require a fine abil ity in distinguishing technical differ ences between starving for want of soup and starving for want of bread, but to the average reader the two cases will seem to be about the same. Such thoughts may strike the mil lionaire owner of the paper as "hu morous," but to common people they are a tragic revelation of what Dem ocratic "prosperity" means, with Its exorbitant prices for food and all other necessities of life. ONE WHO PAYS THE TOLL. Rhymes From the Nursery j Tea Party Time Our breakfast comes at 8 o'clock, af ter we're bathed and brushed We eat It in a hurry, for we're always, always rushed; Daddy, he must make a car, and baby wants a bath, And sister has a lot of tasks —a sort of aftermath From yesterday—so mother says; so breakfast ain't much fun, We. eat some cereal, then drink some milk —and run! And luncheon time is just as bad. Then daddy isn't home. And we jest have a pot of soup; then mother gets a comb, And straightens out our hair, and sends us back to school. At luncheon time there ain't much fun —least wise not as a rule. And dinner 1 time we're sleepy, and want to go to bed. And long before desert comes In each fellow hangs his head. But say!-we've one meal in the day that's heaps and heaps of fun, We eat it in the nursery, Just as the clock strikes one For half-past three; that Is the time we're happy, for that's when It's party time—tea party time! at that there ain't no men, Nor grown up folks to rush us! just dolls and dogs and bears, En we eat cakes 'n candy, en some times fruit like pears. En sometimes mother bakes a pie with dough that she has over, And sticks some sugar on the top, oh, then, we are in clover! Er sometimes we've just nursery tea, that's only made of milk, Er lee cream made of crackers —but it's all as fine as silk! Of all the meals through the long day, tea party time's the best, When the great big bear or the Curly Doll, is our "estingulshed guest!" —By Edna Groff Deihl, Paxtang, Pa. "The New Telegraph" Following an announcement Saturday that the Harrisburg Telegraph had purchased the Star-Independent, of that city, the two papers were consolidated in the Telegraph Building, and Star- Independent readers on Monday re ceived the Telegraph, which is now en tering its eighty-sixth year. The com bine was dictated by the unprecedented conditions in the printing trades. For many years the Telegraph, under the able management of E. J. Stackpole, has filled the highest ideals of clean newspaperdom, standing for complete news service and the best interests of Harrisburg and the Commonwealth at large. The Telegraph incorporates all the features which make up an ideal family newspaper and with the increas ed opportunity afforded by the addition of thousands of readers we predict even increased power and effectiveness under the splendid management of Mr. Stack - pole and his able corps of assistants; covering a Held which renders it not only the greatest newspaper In Central Pennsylvania, but one which will reflect credit upon the publishers and the State, comparing most favorably with our greatest metropolitan dailies. Keystone Weekly Gazette. Bellefonte, Pa. Preparedness Claude had disobeyed his parents, and his mother knew it. "I am afraid." she said, "that when I tell your father what you have been do ing this forenoon he will punish you severely." "Have you got to tell him mother?" asked the boy. "Yes," was the reply; "I shall tell him Immediately after dinner." "Well, mother," said the boy, "give him a real good dinner, won't you? You might do as much as that tor me."—Uppincott's. 'Pottttca- ck "^ > e.n,KOi{£tfoVH,y declared h)m to be. On the other hand," Representative Stern, one of the Penrose floor leaders, said last night he haA heard of no change In the program, no matter what the Gov ernor did." —The Philadelphia Press to-day ed itorially attacks the plan for taxing natural resources proposed by some of the legislator. The Press says: "There is no need of a tax on natural prod ucts. It is of more than doubtful con stitutionality. If good legally It would be bad practically and economically, as it would place a disadvantageous han dicap on the natural products of this State in whatever market they reach." —The publicity bureau of the State Suffrage Association has issued a statement in which loyal support is pledged by the members in whatever emergency may arise. —Tt is probable that some steps will be taken In a few days to get the State Highway Department into closer touch with legislators. The feeling NUNS WINTER IN FLEMISH BARN A Correspondent in the Weekly London Times A BARN stands in a field, few yards back from the chaussec which leads to the trenches. Flemish barns are small, thin-roofed structures through which the winter winds howl doefully. The ground floor usually accommodates the pigs, which no peasant, however poor, is without, the poultry and the garnering of the Held—potatoes, beans, onions and cabbage. The loft contains the fodder which keeps tho cow through the win ter. This particular barn at one time contained similar farm stock. On grey winter mornings when the fog clung to the trees and spread over the stunt ed shrubberies, the peasant wife would stand Inside its open door threshing the beans with a great unwieldy flail. In the sty, hard by, the pigs grunted. Before the door the fowls gossiped. In the summer the scene was much the same, except for the absence of the grayness and fog and the increased size of the pigs and fowls. A monoto nous contentment held the place until one day, when the sun blazed down on the plans and the barges on the canal basked in the heat, word came to the peasant wife, that all was not well with her country. That was the beginning of the change. The barn was desolate during the early autumn months after that August day. The peasant wife was safe in France when the new occu pants arrived hurriedly and settled in the cottage. And soon all the cottages round about were filled and still new occupants arrived. One night, when the fields lay brown beneath the harvest moon, a dozen homeless stragglers stopped be fore the door where the peasant wife used to flail her beans. Their journey had been long and tortous. Through clumps of forest, over ploughed fields, across streams, and past solemn rows of barges which everywhere dot the canals in Flanders, came this strange human procession, their eyes wide in wonderment at the sights which met them. They walked with difficulty, for their long, black skirts trailed heavily in the sodden fields. One of them had seen eighty-three winters. She couldn't walk, and had not walked for many months. Her journey was made in a wheelbarrow, which the others in turn trundled. This was part of a colony of nuns whose convent near Bruges had to be abandoned when the enemy marched Into Belgium. Their first glimpse of the world outside their sacred walls was when their own countrymen were brought to Bruges wounded. They were obliged to pass by the convent, and many received their first dressings from the hands of the black-robed sis which has grown up among the law makers Is due to . misunderstanding, say the people at the department. —lndependent Republican legisla tors to-day discussed printed reports about a community of interest with relish. One legislator said that If a community was to be established it would not Include any reorganization Democrats, because if Democrats got control in Pennsylvania they would not recall Independent Republicans any more than they did at Washing ton. —Dropping of Clerk Neall by the Auditor General does not appear to have received much attention from certain newspapers which have here tofore found fault with every Repub lican action. —This is the season of the borough council banquet in many sections of the State, and the membors of the minor legislatures are commencing to say things about bills which are pending. —ln Exeter it was discovered that one reason why the chief of police did not co-operate in closing Sunday amusements was that he had an In terest in a movie. —When Republican leaders go to Atlantic City it is a dreadful thing and their statements from that place are denounced as utterances from meetings where matters for the 111 of the body politic are framed up. Lately Democratic State bosses appear to be going to the same place and the re marks they give out are considered by some newspapers as only a little less than gospel. It all depends upon who is doing the talking. An Infant Pessimist A youngster of four in a family in the city, which family had just re ceived a visit from the stork, was told that he had a new baby brother, and would be allowed to take a look at the latest arrival. Taken to the baby's crib he gave tho newcomer a careful and prolonged survey, then turning to his father with an expression of utter disgust remarked. "There's things in this house we need much worse than that." ters. Others, too, on their way to bat tle, stopped at the convent walls and turned in through the gate to receive refreshments. Some four or five hun dred came, every day, for weeks, and were looked after by the 19 nuns—for, although prosperous, the colony was small. The Might The nineteen left their home to gether the night they started out to find a new lodging in the part of their country where the enemy had not yet penetrated. Seven became separated, and wandered aimlessly about the fields. They never reached the small corner which has been kept free from the German heel, and are now some where within the area from which no news comes. These were the twelve refugees who paused before the barn door. They occupied the barn for many weary months. For a bed, they had the bare loft, with a thin layer of straw; for a coverlet, a strip of car pet from their chapel. The Govern ment. allowed each 30 centimes a day for the purchase of such food as could be purchased. It was mainly potatoes. Their neighbors were mostly refugees like themselves, and could give them but little help. But they managed to exist through the first winter months, even the old Marie, who was carried in the wheelbarrow. Those months brought more unaccustomed sights to their eyes. For that part of Flanders, though not actually invadfed, was within range of the enemy's guns and within the airmen's radius. The barn escaped both bombs and shells, though the fields round about were ploughed with them. In the spring the nuns were discovered by an Englishwoman who motored up and soon afterwards established a depot a stone's throw away. In the big subterranean living room of their new home the nnns told me of their experiences. They were very comfortable there, having been install ed in an old chateau which had sur vived other wars. In one of the great rooms upstairs was 4 bed which is held, if not in reverence, at least in awe by the peasants all round, for the fearful Duke ol' Alva, when on one of his visits to the town, had slept In It. The nuns are still there, and still hear the booming of cannon, the whistle of shells, and the hideous noise of bombs. But although old Ma rie still shudders when the tocsin from the belfry warns that aircraft is on the wing, she does not know the fear she felt when she lay in the barn loft. Bhe has plenty of food and a warm bed, and never ceases giving thanks to the Blessed Virgin for her deliver ance from the hand of the enemy. OUR DAILY LAUGH RESTING. S poor cripple with his arm In a sling 1A H and h ' B heat * a " JLA\ sT bandaged up? yHj He's a moving rl picture comedian on his vacation. HAPPY MAN. To what do you JUI/i - attribute your re markable health? | V Well, I reckon I got a good on moßt people by bein' born be- AbM gTHP fore germs Bi • | discovered, there- f?J . til by havln' less to worry about* ATHLETIC REC ORDS. ——- I suppose all jJV -you fellows out pT" there In Qulet ville are Tegular That's what! v There isn't one of Vll us but can cut his fifty square yard* ot f?Tass with the ' '® wn mower In four .hours or bat |ltettittg (ttlfat According to the records of the State Department of Agriculture horse breeding has assumed considerable proportions In Dauphin and Lebanon counties and there is a pronounced growth of sentiment among farmer* and others using horses for betterment of the stock. The demand is not for fast horses, but for good, strong work horses and the value of careful breed ing is being more and more recognized in this community which, in spite ol its industrial and transportation ein! nence, is nevertheless one of the Im portant agricultural districts. There arc no less than eighty stallions In the A two counties, of which sixteen are reg istered. Cumberland has sixty-five and Dauphin fifteen. In this county five are registered and in Cumberland eleven. Only one of the registered Is not considered as up to par. The reg istered animals in this county are C. H. Cassell, Hummelstown. standard bred; M. S. Hershey, Hershey, Per cheron; John H. Miller, Harrlsburg, standard bred; John K. Smeltz, Loyal ton, French Coach and the Upper Dauphin German Coach Horse Com pariy, of Ellzabethville, German Coacli. The registrations in Cumberland county are: S. B. Best, Boiling Springs, Belgian; Israel Failor, Newville, Belgian; Farmers' Horse Company, Shippens burg, Belgian; V. C. McCormick, Rose Garden, Percheron; W. 11. Miller, Highland Farm, Carlisle, Standard bred; George K. Nelson, Newville, Percheron; Newville Percheron Horso Company, Newville, Standardbred and Percheron; Slilppensburg Horse Com pany, Walnut Bottom, Percheron; S. E. Wonderly, New Kingston, Per cheron; Carlisle Percheron Horse Company, Carlisle, Percheron. * • * Some person asked the question the other day, "What are the veteran pen sioners of the Pennsylvania railroad doing?" None physically able have idle moments. Of course, they are not doing strenuous work. Their long service with the railroad cohipany gives them a right to take things easy. If you watch closely their movements, however, you will see they are follow ing some vocation. In several of the big department stores the elevators are in charge of railroad "vets." Some have gone into business. One retired passenger engineer is passing the time in making oil paintings and he has be r come quite an artist. Up on North Sixth street there is a passenger en gineer who is selling oil. He knows what good oil is. having used it on his engine for many years. A well known train man is making furniture; while a shopman who had a record as a car builder is a carpenter and is keeping busy. Railroad pensioners believe that keeping active prolongs life, and as long as they can be their own bosses or have proper hours for work, they will not kick. It is not often that a trolley car par takes of the nature of a zoo, even on Saturday nights when the "owl" cars are more or less filled with the hilari ous. But last evening a suburban car furnished the entertainment. A man got on a car with a dog in a box and placed it on the front end. There were a couple of chickens in another box on the platform and the dog snuffed th fowls and began to give voice. He gave some yelps and the chickens clucked a little until they were sura they were well protected. The dog continued to growl and when the pas sengers were all taking notice from the rear came a loud "quack." It was from a duck, safe and sound in a bas ket carried by a very much fussed young man. City health officers are keeping clos watch upon the development of con\ tagious and infectious diseases this spring and declare that in spite of the weather there have been few out breaks. Some of the people observing health conditions attribute the situa tion to the cold weather and others to the lessons learned last year when there was so much sickness. In othei words, say doctors, people are taking more care of themselves and theii families. Whooping cough has noi been as prevalent as usual. • • • Albert Rosenthal, the Philadelphia artist who appears to be considerably In the llmelightat Philadelphia bec*us of some attacks made upon paint ings he executed of the fathers for In dependence Hall, is well known here Some ten or fifteen .years ago Rosen thal appeared to be the only artisl with any standtng on Capitol Hill and he painted the portrait of officials and flourished about as though he was th court painter, as indeed, he was dub bed by some. Rosenthal was strong on having collections of portraits made for departments and when h was not doing that he was executing likenesses of eminent Pennsylvanians for various expositions, some of his works being now in the Department of Public Instruction. Ho painted th gallery of chief justices of the su preme court and various department heads and if his voguo had not de clined he would probably have antici pated Governor Brumbaugh's sugges tion that the history of Pennsylvania In art be made a feature of the Capi tol. Unconsciously Ilarrisburg appears to have taken the bull by the horns and forged ahead of the rest of the country in the "save an hour of day light" plan. At least that largo part of the city's population that lives on the Hill and uses the Mulberry street bridge Is an hour ahead of the rest ol the world if it regulates its life bj the large electric clock that blazes brightly each evening. Some weeks ago a new electrically lighted face was put on the clock which is part of a huge sign. Whether the workmen squinted carelessly at their watches when they came to set the tlmeplec or whether they are publicists for th "save an hour" propaganda Is not Just clear. Anyway the clock has merrilj blazed ever since one hour ahead of all competitors. So it is no unusual thing to see persons scurrying rapidly across the bridge wondering how they cam to be a whole hour behind time. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —L,. C. Maderla, the Phlladelphian, who has taken issue with State Treas urer Young on State appropriations, has been a trustee of the University oi Pennsylvania for years. He graduated there. —Fred Rasmussen, State College agricultural expert, is urging peopU to do more planting. —Judge Joslah Cohen, of Pitts burgh, says that people who allow automobiles to stand without taking care of them do not deserve any con sideration. —Franklin Matthews, of Columbia University, is to speak at the Cornel) dinner in Philadelphia. —Superior Court Judge Orlfldy was congratulated yesterday upon his birthday. —Frank McGrann, well known her® has offered land for quarters for th Lancaster militia units. | DO YOU KNOW 1 —That Hsurrisburg payrolls hav quadrupled and then some In twi years? HISTORIC HARRIHBURG Back in 1835 they talked about • tabllshlng a summer resort hotel nea| Harrlsburg.