8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH /f NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Found id ISJI r— —=—■—■ Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telcrak Bnlldlnsr. Federal Square. K. J. STACKPOLE, Prts't and Editor-in-Chitf P- R. OYSTER, Busintu Manager. OC3 M, STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American ?j| Easting nue^BuJldlng^New People'n Oaa Build lnj, Chicago, 111. Entered at tha Poit Office In Harris burg, Pa., aa second class matter. By carrlara, ten oente a week: by mall, <5.00 a year In advance. IRDDNESDAT KVKMNO, MARCH 7 In Thee Ooi't promise is Amen and Tea; Wfcat art Thou to usT Prize of ev ery lot, thepherd and Door, our lAfe and Truth and Way— Kay, Lord, what art Thou not! — CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. AUSTRIA'S NOTE | A USTRIA'S note supporting Ger many's decision to wage ruth less U-boat warfare contained no •urprisea. Austria Is the creature of Germany, in this war, Anything: the imperial government does must of needs be stamped with the seal of Austrian approval at Vienna. The note reads as though it might have been written in Berlin. All the in tricacies of Teutonic diplomatic argu ment are used in an attempt to prove the good faith of the central powers, and the effort is so strained that one feels, upon reading the document, that even those who framed It must have felt the weakness of their case and tried to make up in length what they lacked in logic. There appears to be ! but one thing to do, and that was I inevitable from the moment relations! were broken with Berlin—ask lAy Penfleld to return and send back the newly-arrived Austrian ambassador. ALL TOR ONE; ONE FOR AM, THE difference between American ' labor and English labor is well illustrated in the selection of Samuel Gompers by President Wilson to be a member of the new National Council of Defense. When England entered the war with Germany organized labor did everything but help. The occasion was seized upon as opportunity for strikes and demands of all kinds. For j a time the newspapers of Great Brit- j ian expressed doubt as to which was the greater enemy of the empire— Germany or-English labor. Of course, all this has been changed and British workmen have responded so loyally that the mobilisation of Industry in the Isles is regarded now as superior even lo that, of Germany itself. But American labor does not wait until the fate of the nation hangs in ihe balance. The moment the country is beset by o foreign foe the head of Ihe great American Federation of Labor is called to the assistance of the President, his part being the mo bilization of labor for the great work of guarding the country; even as Dan iel Williard, of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, is to mobilize the trans portation system; Howard E. Coffin the industries of the country; Bernard Baruch the nation's finances and Julius Rosenwald the country's busi ness men and its business. When the armed fist comes knock ing at Uncle Sam's front door it finds the whole Tankee family waiting within and ready for the fray. They may have differences among them selves, but they prefer to settle them without any neighborhood assistance. capital, business, the profes sions, all stand ready to do what they may be required to do, and In that lies greater national strength than all the armed preparedness in the world, de sirable though that, too, may be. SENATOR KNOX THE most valuable addition to the Senate this year Is Senator Philander C. Knox, of Pennsyl vania. Senator Knox is not only one of the biggest men In the country, but he is peculiarly fitted for senatorial duties at a time when our foreign relations are badly snarled In many quarters. His long experience In the Senate and as a member of the cabinet, suppllmented by travel and extensive study, have given him knowledgo of great use to the administration leaders if they choose to avail themselves of It. Senator Knox goes to Washington as the overwhelming choice of the Re publicans at Pennsylvania for the post ;he so well fills and he received as well tha votts of thousands of Democrats ivrho saw In him the State's foremost icitlien In publlo life. Ha holds his commission from tha people, and the people alone. He Is his own man If .any Senator ever was, and he may be nxpected to conduct himself In a man ner calculated to reflect credit upon both himself and the Commonwealth. < ' FREE SUMMER TRAINING THE decision of the government to make the Plattsburg and other military training camps kbsolute ily tree ot cost next summer Is a step In |th right direction. Doubtless the ex pense regulation was necessary In the WEDNESDAY EVENING, experimental days of these great camps, but that time is long since passed. Many young men of splendid military qualifications could afford the time for summer training but not the financial incidentals. "A dozen well-located and perma nent camps, taking the place of five or six sporadic, imperfectly situated training places; an expected attend ance of 40,000 men as compared with about 20,000 last year and 2,600 in 1915; a Federal appropriation of $2,- 000,000 for the expense of the camps and the consequent relief of the In dividuals from nearly all the finan cial sacriflc hitherto Involved in se curing summer training; the formula tion of a progressive and uniform course of study, practical and theo retical for the various camps—these," says Secretary of War Baker in Na tional Service Magazine for February, "are among the considerations that occur to me when I am asked to de scribe the progress of the citizens' training camps for elementary in struction in military practice." The Institutions that seem now about to develop into permanent, ade quately financed organizations had their beginning in two training camps for college students in the summer of 1913. The experiment proved suf ficiently popular and profitable to war rant its repetition in 1914; the follow ing year, 1915, witnessed not only the continuation of the students' camps but the inauguration of similarly con ducted business men's camps at Plattsburg, N. Y., Fort Sheridan, 111., Monterery, Cal., and Tacoma, Wash. The attendance at last year's camps increased COO per cent, over 1915, and Army officers are confident that the number In the camps of next summer will nearly double that of 1916. Secretary Baker hits the nail on the head when, In the same article, he says: The future army of the American people will bo democratic. In a Re public such as ours it is essential that every citizen shall have an opportunity to become an officer and that the officers shall be se lected for reasons of merit alone. While the recent legislation pro viding for the training of reserve officers in the colleges of the coun try is unquestionably necessary to supply a pressing temporary need, we are not in sympathy with such a system as a permanent measure. It is neither right nor wise that a system should be perpetuated under which a large proportion of the of ficers are selected from the com paratively small percentage of our people who are able to attend col leges. All should enter the ranks and rise to authority on their proved capacity, so that the son of the millionaire and the son of the mechanic will have equal oppor tunity to demonstrate their capa bilities for leadership. Such a sys tem would be a cornerstone for the democratic army. It would furnish an effective guarantee against a military caste and all the evils in herent in such a class. Freo military training at the volun teer camps will be a long step in that direction. LARGER OUTPUT—SMALL COST THE London Telegraph, In a recent issue, says: If the British motor industry after the war is to be recreated and developed, a protective tariff will be necessary. • • • Even before the war American competi tion was becoming more and more severe, but to-day the Americans , have the field to themselves, and but for the entire prohibition of im ports would have overrun the Brit ish market. • • it is diffi cult to explain why American com petition should be so keen, as wages are higher, buildings more costly and material no cheaper In the United States tlan in this coun try. The "Autocar," an Influential Brit ish motor journal, believes that the explanation is due to the fact that the individual output of the Ameri can workman Is not restricted, ihat the American market is vastly great er than the British market and that the purchasing power per unit of population in America is far greater than that of Great Britain. "One might add," says the Telegraph, "that in Great Britain cars are pro duced as from an engineer's labora tory, and not from a factory, as In America." There Is a whole lot of tariff phi losophy in that item of news. What chiefly concerns the auto manufac turers of Great Britain at present Is the competition of the cheap Ameri can cars. Under the Republican tariff law all automobiles imported paid a duty of 45 per cent, ad va lorem. The Democratic tariff law made a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent, on those valued at less than $2,000. Probably the influence of Mr. Henry Ford had something to do wltlj this reduction. Ford has patents on his cars which give him ample protec tion, and any loss sustained by other cheap cars, through foreign compe tition, would affect hla output but little. Of course, tho war practically put a stop to any such competition. Those who are acquainted with the Ford will be amused to read what Ford had to say with reference to the automobile, when tho Republican law was being framed: "This differ ence (in the, amount paid to labor) is very small, as the amount of labor on automobiles in proportion to the amount of material Is almost insig nificant." Naturally, he had the Ford car In mind. On the high grade oars the Demo crats preserved the Republican rates on the score that they constituted luxuries. The present abnormal prosperity, derived from the Euro pean war, has Tnade trade in these high priced cars quite prosperous, through the process of elimination has considerably reduced the number of manufacturing companies. But the development of oui 1 foreign trade in the low priced car, the car which makes Great Britain turn to a protective tariff, has been due pri marily to unrestricted output, which, of course, means an exceedingly low unit cost of production, and this un restricted output will continue so long as we have no competition from abroad, and the United States re mains prosperous. But let the end of the war find us operating under a tar iff law but 9 per cent, better than ab solute free trade, and the prosperity of the farmer and of the purchasers of low-priced cars generally will melt away, the output will be restricted by smaller demand, and all the evils which attend the Democratic tariff fwiNTER GOLF AND GOLFERS >:■ By ( pg£> California•, FLORIDA GROUMD HM>M'T ' ! : s SvJgU- GOOD SCORE- ) l Ju^r^Etc }) RW E ' VS/G <^ Al COMgy OUTDOOR L. - C KOR.THERH policy In normal times will be reflect- I ed In the automobile trade. Great Britain, however, recognizing at last the value of protecting her In dustries, is ready to adopt the policy which has been denounced and re pudiated by tho cotton-planting rep resentatives from the South. | Rhymes From the Nursery J The Paper Doll Family When I hear grown-ups talk, it surely makes me sort 'er smile. Why, some folks call a family jest an "only chile!" And when folks have, say, three or four, why goodness me, you'd think They lived in a volcano, or leastways on the brink. Says Mrs. J. to Mrs. T., "Four chil dren, goodness me! "However you can manage, I simply cannot see!" And Mrs. T. she nods her head, as if she were quite smart. And says, "Well, Mrs. J., this raising children is an art." When I hear grown-ups talk it surely makes me sort 'er smile, Talk about a family! I wish you'd see the pile Of kids I have, there's sixty-eight. I stand them in a row. And fit a dress on Caroline, and on Camille a bow, Or turn the flaps on the twin's caps, and one most always snaps! And then the thing is ruined! There's always some mishaps. With sixty-eight kids, Mrs. .T. would— What do you s'pose she'd do? I guess she'd 'bout c'mit suicide, with my bunch to subdue! —EDNA GROFF DEIHL. Jules Verne's Prophecies When man was a boy he read Jules Verne. Now that lie is a man (or, is be?) be acts Jules Verne-—in how many instances in the war. and before it? Was it not Jules Verne who absconded a. man in a traveling case and sent him oversea. who invented suffocating shells, mines at sea, submarines, air ships—although the last two were adumbrated, with many other inven tions not yet manifested, in Bacon's "New Atlantis?" Jules Verne is. indeed, representative of the French imagina tion. which is scientific: the Russian Is psychological; the English poetical; the German transcendental.—E. H. Vlsiak in The Westminster Gazette. Tragedy in Wasted Foods [From the New York World.] According to the report of the Health Department, more than 960,- 000 pounds, or approximately 481 tons, of food products, were con demned and destroyed last week. The lot was made up of food which, good for use when it started for New York, liad spoiled en route and had been seized by inspectors. It was dumped below the lower hay. Back of this amazing piece of business, which amounts to little less than a tragedy of the markets In this season of mon strous overcharging and needless de privation, Is a story of faults In ship ment, or in transit management, or in both these particulars. Labor Notes Porto Rico employs 400,000 agri cultural laborers in its principal in dustries. Toronto (Canada) District Trades Council has endorsed tbe formation of a labor party. The total membership of the Laee Operators' International Union Is 1,152. Fifty thousand women are employ ed in the factories and stofes of Wis consin. Eleven members of the Labor group of the War Industries committee have been arrested <• charge of conspiring to overthrow the existing regime and establish a Social Democratic Republic. San Jose (Cal.) Woman's Civic Ijeague has asked the Supervisors to donate seeds and labor to plow vacant lots in the city so that the unemploy ment problem will be lessened by the employment of men. San Franclseo Labor Council has In dorsed the physical training bill In the State Legislature. The bill proposes to lnstal a system of physical training for boys and girls In the public schools, as opposed to military train ing. New York trade unionists are oppos ing the Bewley overtime bill, intro duced in the State Legislature, which •would authorize the State Industrial Commission to permit persons over 18 to work unlimited overtime in making up for losses occasioned by break down of machinery. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Ot "ptKKQljlcafcUi, Kx-CommiUeeman^^Jj Announcement In Washington by National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer that Pennsylvania's Demo cracy will urge National Chairman Vance C. McCormick for Secretary of the Treasury has stirred up consider able comment In the State, because It would give Pennsylvania, whose Democrats failed when they had all the odds in their favor in the last gu bernatorial campaign, two cabinet places. It is believed that the Pal mer announcement is the commence ment of a big drive by the national administration to get more congress men from Pennsylvania and to further weaken the Republican hold in the coming gubernatorial election. The Pennsylvania Democratic leaders have gotten a tremendous lot of patronage for their own friends and they are now scheming to get more to keep their machine In running order. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times has this to say about the Palmer state ment: "Mr. Palmer said lie is not a candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for Governor of Pennsylvania, but. did not say he would not be. He admits Mr. McCormick lias said he would not seek the office again, but added: "You remember he said that prior to 1914, but he was the candi date, and may be again.' If success ful in the campaign to put Mr. Mc- Cormick in the cabinet there is a strong likelihood that Mr. Palmer will ask tho party to name him for Gov ernor. He thinks the Democrirtfc have an excellent chance to win in 1918, remarking that he felt confident the breach between the Penrose and ihe Vare-Brumbaugli factions of the Re publican party could not be healed. He expects the followers of Senator Penrose to nominate a Republican for Governor, and predicts the Vare- Brumbaugh combination will give aid to a third party movement to defeat the regular nominee." —Palmer's statement, coming so soon after the announcement that Mc- Cormick had an Idea of running against Senator Penrose in 1920, has been taken by a good many Demo crats as notice that as far as the big i nominations go the two star perform ers during the disastrous year of 1914 propose to keep the center of the stage or to name the men who are to do so. Tn some quarters the position of the two leaders is considered to be bosslsm of a most interesting type. * —ln this connection it is noted that all of the men talked of as possible candidates for Governor or Senator have been gentlemen of the highest type, but any of whom would with draw the Instant word came that the President of the United States favor ed someone else. The President dic tated the nomination* in 1914. —Senator Penrose's return to Phila delphia the end of the. week and tho reconvening of the Legislature next Monday are being awaited with hope by the Democrats and interest by evoryone else. The Senator Is suld to intend to call for some inquiries. —The Philadelphia Press in an edi torial to-day on State grants to char itieu says: "But the solution will scarcely lie either in withholding State aid from all privately managed chari ties or in taking them entirely under control of the Commonwealth. Rigid State supervision and partial control after au equitable system of State aid has been devised would come nearer to being a remedy for the pres ent acknowledged evils." —Senator Edwin H. Vare and the twelve members of his party who left for Hot Springs, Va, ten days ago, returned yesterday, excorft Chairman Harry A. Mackey. of the Workmen's Compensation Board, who remained at the resort. "About the only thing we did not do on the trip was to discuss politics." said Senator Vare. on his return. "Recorder of Deeds Hazlett and myself spent the better part of the time horseback riding. The oth ers golfed during the morning and afternoon and danced -at night. I nev er had a more enjoykble trip In my life and other lhembers of the party seemed to be of the same opinion." Congressman Vare was in lengthy conference yesterday afternoea with Mayor Smith but the nature of the matters discussed was not made pub lic. Senator McNlchol and/ward lead ers In his party who are at St. Lucie. Fla.. are not expected to return to Philadelphia until Saturday. —Albert Tj. Moist, Philadelphia bus iness man and one of the favorites the State machine leaders, is being boomed for the vacancy In the ap pralsership of the port fo Philadel phia. This is the job mad* vacant by 1 \ THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Palmer and Postmasters To the Editor of the Telegraph: I noticed" In Saturday's paper uomc of the doings of A. Mitchell Palmer concerning postoffice appointments. Perhaps you never have heard what he did concerning the Mt. Union post office. Owing to the death of A. W. Jones, the office here became vacant Novem ber 27, 1916. The applicants all con sisted of good citizens and lifelong Democrats of the town and men who have spent their lives building up the party. Among these applicants v.'as Mr. Jones' son, who asked for the un expired term. The Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer ig nores all these applicants and sends the name of Jas. Wiley to be con firmed as postmaster. _ At the time of Mr. Jones' death this man was not a resident of town a year, and never voted in the town but once. The citizens of this place were bit terly opposed to his appointment. It is the belief of the citizens that they know the way Palmer was in duced to hand over the office, but they are not saying. Yours respectfully, A MT. UNION CITIZEN. Extends Thanks To the Editor of the Telegraph: Please allow the members and pas tor of the Asbury M. E. Church space in your valuable paper to thank Mrs. Carrie Patton and Mrs. Lawyer W. Justin Carter for the delightful enter tainment given last evening, sth inst., in honor of Rev. D. W. Hays, district superintendent, and Rev. W. H. Gaines, pastor, at the home of Mrs. Patto.n, 117 Balm street. We also tender our sincere thanks to Rev. K. Cunningham, B. M. Ward and U. G. Tjcoper and a host of friends who contributed in no rhood and Al toona and Johnstovn are keenly In terested in development of water sup plies and now highvays. Out In the coke country the cities of Uniontown and Connellsvllle aie projecting ex tensive municipal Improvements and the new city of Butbr will launch an ambitious program when it celebrates its centennial this spilng. Coatesvllle, which has been suffering effects of ab normal industrial coiditlons and im ported labor now has plans for mu nicipal efficiency in administration. All of the third class cities are grow ing and have plen:y of resources which their people ire now content shall be employed for common bene fit to a greater extent than ever. • • • In this connection it Is interesting to note from conversations of legis lators that some of the larger bor oughs of the State are awaiting changes in the third class city code and further tryouts for others before submitting to their voterH propositions to become cities. On several occasions recently questions of entering the city class have been defeated largely through antagonism of the liquor In terests, which objected to the higher license fees and were strong enugh to hamstring good municipal moves. Enactment of a "home rule" amend ment to the constitution, such as is proposed by Senator Beidleman, will bring more boroughs into the' city class where there are greater oppor tunities and where they should be with their big populations and fine re sources. • • * The manner In which every H&r rishurg kid took to coasting late yes terday afternoon and last night was well worth watching. There *' re dozens of sledding parties in the 11111 streets last night and they wers by no means confined to youngsters. Nu merous grownups took part. Quite a few llarrlsburgers went over to Cum berland county to enjoy the hilla and folks living in Steelton went to those of Swatara township for fun. It was about the last chance for coasting fun this spring and no one seemed to want to miss the opportunity. In the east end of the city it seeimd as though everyone who owned a sled was out for the fun. • • • "Something seems to be frong about this Legislature," obserted a former member who stopped ot? here yesterday on his way home from the Inauguration. • "Well, outside of the fact that It has n6t done anything there does not appear to be anything different from other general assemblies," wis the reply he got. from several newspaper men who had run across liiti In a Capitol corridor. "You're a fine bunch of wltcliers, you are," replied the ex-member. "Here you have been in sesstpn two months and you do not Jiavo a bill in hand for a State song or ft State flower." • • • , Herman XJ. Collins, the Gipard of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, makes this Interesting observation on the re cent report of the Pennsylvania Kail road: "An annual statement toy- Pres ident Rea is the tallest talk -re ever hear. What I mean is that lie deals in such stupendous figures on the one hand tiniest fractions of pen nies on the other. Gulliver's giants and llliputlans are mere symbols iof the Pike's Peaks and grains of dust which President Rea must alternately nego tiate in his work. One moment he needs a IJck telescope and the next a thousand-power magnifying glass. 'Whadya mean telescope and mifro scope'? you ask. Just this. Presi dent Rea with one breath telli us his railroad system last year collected $4 43,000,000 of revenue, but that to earn the price of one two-een.t stanl> it had to carry a ton of freight twelve miles, fan you beat that for vivid contrast?" . | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —John Wanamaker is cruising on Florida rivers in his house boat. . —Congressman Thomas S. Butler, of Media, who completed twenty years In continuous service Sunday, Is a keen navy advocate. —Judge J. Willis Martin, who Is urging social service as on adjunct of the courts, is one of the veterans of the Philadelphia bench. —Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, will return from Florida this week. —Robert Whesley, the Philadelphia Golf Association president, says base ball Is the national sport, but golf is next. —John Williams Patton. of Devon, noted for years for his horses, has gone In for dogs and has raised some prizo winners. —A. 8. Deysher, of Reading, the , president of the new racing circuit, has been Identified with racing and fairs, for years In Berks oounty. | DO YOU KNOW Ttiat HarHsbnrg RIMI Is in me In machinery in Imftte Island JfnJT yarfl? HISTORIC 11ARRISBVRG In old days the weekly newspapers used to be during legislative sessions. Noteworthy Fact It Is noteworthy that the Mexicans occupying the "territory vacated by Pershing are VtUlstas, not Carransta<. aa—New Tor* Evening Sun.