12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ":Bsi * Published evenings except Sunday by THIS TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Bulldlngr. Federal Square. K. J. STACK POLE, Pres't ana Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEIN'METZ. Managing Editor. r Member American Newspaper Pub- I IIS B >' lvanl Assoclat jj iS fi 8(31 M Eastern office, afijl jlpg jS jiue Building, New JSagS People's Gas Build- Entered at the Post Office in Harris* burg. Pa., as second class matter. — 4 By carriers, ten cents a <ul W?Jt'Sny L> week: by mall, )5.00 a "iiSii- year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8 I beg you whatever be your suffer ing, to learn first of all that Ood does not mean to take your sorrow off, but to put strength into you, that you may be able to carry it. Be sure your sor row is not yielding you its best, un less it makes you a more thoughtful \ person than you have ever been before. — PHILLIPS BBOOKS. THE SPRING STYLE SHOW HARRISBURG merchants, with j characteristic optimism, are j planning for the opening of: their spring style show on March 14 ! regardless of the snowdrifts that give j the city all the appearance of mid- j winter. The opening will be an oc- i casion of popular Interest. Thousands : of people will throng the streets of! the several business districts to see ] the lights turned on simultaneously In j the gaily decorated windows, but the ; spectacular is really a very small, ! though attractive, part of the event, i The big thing is that Harrisburg j merchants have laid in such large and varied and attractive stocks for the I spring trade that they are eager to ; place their wares before \heir patrons I for Inspection. They are so proud of their choice of goods that they are seeking this opportunity to let the people know what they have. This Is a good sign. If a man is an enthusiastic believer in what he has to sell, it Is ten to one he has something very well worth buying. So it will pay the! shoppers of the city to give attention j to the spring opening from the stand- 1 point of dollars and cents. It is worthy of note, too, that the j opening is a co-operative effort. The old idea of "every fellow for himself and the devil take the hindmost" no longer prevails in Harrisburg retail trade. Every merchant Is willing to take ideas from every other mer chant. The principle of "live and let live" prevails to a very large extent. The merchants have found as a gen eral thing that what is good for one is good for all. Sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander. Working to gether for a great spring style show is much better for all of them and much more desirable from the standpoint of the shopping public than the old-time hit-or-miss method of "spring open ings" one at a time and each store striving to out-do the one that had gone before in the way of music and other attractions. Also, the uniform spring opening is a big buy-at-home lesson for the pub lic. Harrisburg people owe it to their merchants to see what they have to offer before purchasing elsewhere. Do your shopping in Harrisburg and keep the money circulating here, is the motto of those who are arranging the big show. FEEDING BELGIUM EVERY ship that goes to the bottom accentuates the difficulty of feed ing the helpless people of Bel gium. This despite the fact that the problem of provisioning the vast and hungry population grows apace. "Hoover of Belgium," the American who has managed the relief work in the invaded kingdom, is in the United States to solve the shipping question, but before he can use the ships he must have money with which to buy the supplies. A penny a day from <ry person in the United States is needed, he says, unless countless men, women and litlle children are to die for lack of food. A million and a quarter is not much to raise in a rich, prosperous country like this. Are we going to let little children starve for the sake of a miserable, miserly penny a day? Are we? What's the difference between send ing little ones to the bottom with a torpedo or letting them die a linger ing death of starvation? Don't miss visiting the Feebleminded exhibit in Walnut street. You are pay ing your share of maintaining the menace of a growing number of de y* THURSDAY EVENING, fecttves in the community. Learn how the evil may be cured—and then do your part toward curing It. FARM BUREAU APPROPRIATION'S CUMBERLAND County Commis sioners have followed the ex ample of the commissioners of Dauphin county by • appropriating 11,000 for the expenses of the new farm bureau of that county. The commissioners of both counties acted with commendable promptness in set ting a'side money for these farm agencies. The outlay is justified. The cash will be put to good use. Better farming conditions, which in the end will result in higher valuations, will return to the county far more than the annual expense involved. The farm bureau is no experiment. It has been tried out with success In many places. Cumberland and Dauphin are fortun i ate in having commissioners who un derstand the situation and who are willing to set aside money to bring this instrumentality for good into their j own communities. Gomez ought to have taken a lesson from the course of ex-Presidents of the United States, who manage to get a lot of fun, money and honor despite their retirement to private life. OUR LAW SUPERIOR THE eagerness of labor unions to have railroad men working on inter-state lines brought wlth lin the scope o"f the Pennsylvania | compensation law serves to illustrate j the superiority of the Pennsylvania statute as compared with the federal compensation law. There was great rejoicing when the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that residents of other States injured in New York are en titled to benefits under the New York law, because it was believed that as a result railroad men of other States injured in Pennsylvania would then come in for compensation under the law of this State and that all Inter state commerce workers, whether residents of this Commonwealth or not, would be entitled to benefits in Pennsylvania if injured or killed within the borders of this Common wealth. From the working man's stand point the Pennsylvania law is much better than the federal statute. Un der our compensation act the Injured workman receives just compensation without the necessity of court trial. There is no doubt about it. The money is forthcoming as soon as the referee can act. It is just as well to remember lhat this law was passed by a Republican Legislature and fathered and signed by a Republican Governor, whose name is Brumbaugh. z' If there are any regrets'after death, we imagine Napoleon has 'em when he hears of himself as being compared with the Kaiser. A LINGERING DEATH IN the opinion of the editor of Farm and Fireside, an authori tive farming journal, starving Uncle Sani would be a very lingering death. About a thousand years is the Farm and Fireside estimate. The writer disposes of the food famine scare in this wise: All of this , stress by the public press directed toward the future danger of food shortage is at pres ent a false alarm. The city con sumer realizes only the food in sight. If a number of food staples continue in scant supply for a sea son, he jumps to the conclusion that the producer has reached the limit of his producing power. If the land seeded to wheat, beans, potatoes and corn last year in this country and Canada had produced maximum instead of mini mum crops, even the unusual for eign demand would have been taxed to find an outlet for these staple food crops. The farmer has ad vanced beyOnd the point where he is now unwilling to sow and reap beyond the needs of market re quirements merely for the sake of overflowing his barns and ware houses. Like other manufacturers, the farmer now prefers to limit his crop acreage to meet the probable requirements of consumption in his selling zone. When there is a staple demand for "two blades where one now grows," double production *-ill be forthcoming—whenever there is profit in it for the producer. It is much too soon to get excited over a transient food shortage even though a combination of circum stances has put several food staples in the class of luxuries. All of which is doubtless true and very comforting, but offers no relief for present hardships. Starving to death because of an actual food short age might be excusable and its suffer l ing mitigated by the thought that all werfe doomed to the abme fate by un controllable circumstances, but starv -1 ing to death in a land of plenty, in or der that our provisions may be ex ported or that unscrupulous brokers may exact their pound of flesh, that is quite another matter. What boots it how much food there be If Its price is out of the reach of the common pock etbook? If it were not for the law against the contamination of streams the Sen ate might dispose of and Stone by dumping them into the Po tomac. Won't somebody please wake up the Groundhog? — , ■ The Days of Real Sp V GGGIS OH VSKINI-NAVY x — ijiillPli HURRY UP -M CRcCWiTS 1/ ,| r N | Rhymes From the Nursery | j I love to paint with colors bright, The pictures In old books, I love to put some blue on sky, And then see how it looks. I love to stick my brush in green. And paint a bit of grass; Or with some yellow smear a dish. And make it look like brass. I love to get a lot of red. And paint up some boy's head Red hair is sort of classic, At least, so sister said. I love to stick my brush in black, And paint a passing cloud: It looks so natural when I'm done, You hear the thunder loud! Now I have just old magazines. And paints that cost a dime; But when I'm growed I'll have oil paints 'N on canvas paint sublime! —EDNA GROFF DEIHL. Labor Notes Holland mines about 2,000,000 tons of coal a year, about one-fifth of Its requirements. Twice as many women as men are employed in the Cigar factories of New York. A grant of $25 a year has been made to female teachers by the Moffatt (Scotland) School Board. Included in the mobilization of working women in Germany is also a plan for mobilizing educated women. City hackney drivers have applied to the Derry (Ireland) Corporation for leave to increase their fares. Shipowners of Newcastle, England, have voted 2,000 pounds toward the equipment of a school for wireless telegraphy. Armenia has a copper mine that has been operated without interrup tion since prehistoric times. It is claimed that 10,000 policemen can be mobilized in New York In 12 hours to meet any emergency. Lady Londonderry urges the enroll ing of suitable women as British Army cooks and waitresses, and thus do their bit. It is proposed in Toronto, Canada, to establish a pension-scheme fund for civic employes. Medical regulation and licensing of barbers are proposed in a bill intro duced in the Pennsylvania Legisla ture. i The Journeymen Tailors' Union has determined to abolish the contract system from the tailoring industry in San Francisco. ' Trained Brains, Please! The fact that Mr. Schwab very re cently more or less emphatically ob jected to a scheme of engineering edu cation that was so "practical" that it left out all the elements of literary culture, more or less summed up in the current classical or cultural courses in the arts, should be of great comfort to those who are so eloquently coming to the defense of the humanities in edu cation. The local disturbance over this Issue which has grown out of certain very sweeping utterances on behalf of vocational methods is only part of the general uneasiness that has led many to believe there is a sort of universal panacea, an educational specific, in the latest nostrum and to proclaim it loud ly- But since one of the speakers at the Young Men's Christian Association conference, a railroader, declared *hat the failure in education wus along the lines of the simpler features of a basic education, reading and writing, it is time that the faddist who would begin vocational training in the kin dergartens, and even Introduce there the principle of elective studies on the mere infantile whim, had better let well enough alone. Mr. Schwab Is of the opinion that what he wants are young men with trained minds, with Irrigated brains, as It were, and given I these he will do the rest in the matter t of mechanical instruction. And that is what the employe™ of the younger students ask of the public schools. What does it profit a child to know how a piston rod is made at sight if it cannot write a letter or "never reads a book" at fourteen? And sensible persons know, too, that the so-calied general culture in the three "R's," to give so simple a thing so big a name, is in no wise tn opposi tion to the fullest development of a proper system of vocational training, which now, since the United States has come to the'aid of the States, will re ceive an impetus and an attention that should yield the most practical re sults. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. HXRHISBURG tfatftfi TELEGRAPH MARCH 8, 1917. wv '"P tKKQ aula By the Ex-Committeeman There appears to be an Interesting difference of opinion between state ments made by National Committee man A. Mitchell Palmer and some of the newspapers inspired by other bosses of the Democratic State Ma chine. Palmer is insistent that Na tional Chairman Vance C. McCormick is to be put into the cabinet, inferring that when he has attracted attention there he will be a candidate for United States Senator. McCormick is under stood to be willing to enter the lists against Boies Penrose in 1920. Pal mer remarked rather cryptically in Washington Monday that McCormick might also run for Governor In 1918 and again he might not. To-day the announcement is made in a very inspired manner that "Persons looking for changes in President Wil son's cabinet are likely to be disap pointed." It is also added that this has been understood in "government circles" at Washington for "some time." The statement is also made by lead ers of the reorganized and internally troubled Pennsylvania Democracy that it is "too early" to discuss State candidates for next year. —Johnstown council has arranged for a proposed $2,000,000 bond issue to be submitted to the people. The money is to be used for general im provements and will add materially to the city's attractiveness. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, which has been reviewing the guber natorial outltjok. prints this portion of an interview with National commit teeman Palmer: "George W. Guthrie, Samuel Mehard and Joseph F. Guf fey„ of Pittsburgh, and Judge S. Les lie Mestrezat and Congressman Bruce R. Sterling, of Uniontown, are men tioned for the Democratic nomination for Governor. When asked about the probable candidacy of Colonel Rich ard J. Coulter, of Greensburg, Mr. Palmer did not appear enthusiastic. He said he understood there had been some publicity on the subject in Pitts burgh, but It had not attracted atten tion in the east. Then he took Messrs. Guthrie, Mestrezat and Mehard out of the fight, saying they were able men, but the situation called for a vigorous young fighter, and he doubtless would thus classify himself." —The manner in which John Bar leycorn is being handled in the courts from end to end of the State is at tracting attention. In Philadelphia police have gotten after some saloons and in several of the coal counties the dealers have proceeded against men who have not kept places which could pass muster. While Luzerne, Perry and other comities remain "wet," it is regarded as only a ques tion of time until big reductions are made in the number of licenses. —Pittsburgh citizens who are op posed to the city administration ure. threatening impeachment again, this time in court. Councilman Dillinger, an opponent of the Mayor, is the prime mover. —Things are again stirred up in Reading where charges against the police aroused some excitement. This time the city solicitor holds that the city treasurer cannot collect school taxes. —The Philadelphia Record.rises to day to protest against the slating of Register Sheehan and Receiver of Taxes Kendrick for renomination. It wants Democrats chosen. —The Philadelphia charter revision is being explained to clubs and other organizations by prominent Philadel phians. The Interest in the move con tinues to be pretty keen and it is ex pected that things will grow active when the Legislature reconvenes. —The Philadelphia Press is insist ing upon some very real economy in the State government and the mem bers of the commission are being urged to take steps to bring about changes for cheaper methods of ad ministration on Capitol Hill. —Philander C. Knox appears to have taken a pretty prominent place in Congress without much delay. He is being extensively quoted now for his views on the armed ship matter. —Dr. D. K. Santee has been elected to fill a vacancy In the South Bethle hem town council. —Ex-County Chairman Peffer, of Cumberland county, is the subject of an interesting story of how he was barred from the Capitol at Washing ton because some did not like his looks. That la nothing. An eminent Harrisburger did not get by the White House gates without some explaining. —The Philadelphia Ledger objects EASY TO AMERICA German General Staff Schemed to Subjugate United States; Kaiser's Advisers Looked- to an Easy Conquest AN eventual war upon the United States was considered by the German general staff beforo the outbreak of the present conflict in Europe. A comprehensive scheme for the invasion and subjugation of this country had been arranged, even to the points and methods of attack. Not long before the clash of Au gust, 1914, Field Marshal Von Edel shelm of the Prussian general staff engaged in detailing for the German newspapers the plans for world con quest entertained by the kaiser and liis military leaders. After showing in previous papers how to invade and conquer France and England and as suming this accomplished, he wrote regarding Germany's war alms against the United States: "Operations against the United States of North America would have to be c6nducted in a different manner from those against England. During the last year's political friction with that state, especially friction arising from commercial causes, has not been lucking, and the difficulties that have arisen have mostly been settled by our giving way. As this obliging at titude has its limits, we have to ask ourselves what force we can possibly bring to bear in order to meet the at tack of the United States against our interests and to impose our will. Foresaw a Naval Victory "Our fleet will probably be able to defeat the naval forces of the United States which are distributed over two oceans and over long distances. But it would be a mistake to suppose that the defeat of their fleet will force the United States with its immense re sources into concluding peace. ' Considering the great extent of the United States, the conquest of the country by an army of invasion is not possible. But there Is every reason to believe that victorious enterprises on the Atlantic coast and the conquest of the most important arteries through which imports and exports pass, will create such an unbearable state of af fairs in the whole country that the government will readily offer accept able conditions in order to obtain peace. "If Germany begins preparing a fleet of transports and troops for landing purposes at the moment when to-day to the plans of Mayor Smith for a convention hall that will not be large. The Ledger demands a real The rest of the State is inclined to the Ledger view as a convention at Philadelphia interests the whole State. Armour Makes Men Love Him J. O. Armour, the well-known pack er of Chicago, takes a great personal Interest in his men, and they reflect that interest. In an article written by Merle Crowell for the February Amer ican Magazine, this is said: " 'J. O.* takes an intimate Interest in the daily life of his men away from the office. Subordinates in other cities do not escape him. lie knows just how many children most of his branch managers have, where they are being educated and how they are getting along. "His memory is prodigious. He asks questions continuously and seems to retain everything he hears. "When his men go on the pension roll on account of Illness or old age, it often happens that their pensions are not large enough to pay medical bills or other extra expenses and support their families in comfort. In such cases 'J. O.' makes up a plentiful bal ance from his personal account—and there 'is only the instinct of the men to tell them whence comes the sur plus. Usually when Mr. Armour hears of a new baby arriving in the family of one of his employes he replenishes the father's pocketbook with a suit able sized check. Incidentally, he has had more youngsters named after him than fall often to the lot of a Presi dential candidate." Bow to Glory Qf Jesus Wherefore God also hath highly ex alted Him. and Riven Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaveni and things In earth, and things under the earth: and that every tongue should confess that Jesuß Christ is Lord, the glory of God the Father.—Phlllpptens ii. 9 to 11. The Zebra of Peace [From the New York World.] If they paint up an American ship that way to win the privilege of creep ing Into and out of Falmouth once a week, the dove of peace will have re signed in favor of the zebra. By BRIGGS the battle fleet steams out of our har bors we may conclude that operations on American soil can begin after about four weeks, and it cannot be doubted that the United States will not be able to oppose to us within that time an army equivalent to our own. Ilcld Our Army Cheaply "At present the regular army of the United States amounts to 65,000 men, of whom about 30,000 could be dis posed of. Of these at least 10,000 are required for watching the Indian ter ritories and for guarding the fortifica tions on the sea coast. Therefore, only about 20,000 men of the regular army are ready for war. Besides, about 100,000 militia are in existence, of whom the larger part did not come up when they were called out during the last war. Lastly, the militia is.not efficient; it is partly armed with muz-, zle loaders and its training is worse than its armament. "The Americans will not feel in clined to conclude peace because one or two provinces are occupied by an army of invasion, but because of the enormous material losses which the whole country will suffer if the Atlan tic harbor towns, in which the threads of the whole prosperity of the United States are concentrated, are torn away from them one after the other. Would Levy Tribute "Therefore, the task of the fleet would be to undertake a series of large landing operations, through which we are able to take several of these important and wealthy towns wiihin a brief space of time. By in terrupting their communications, by destroying all buildings „ serving tho state, commerce and the defense, by taking away all for war and transport, and, lastly, by levying heavy contributions, we should be able to inflict damage on the United States. "With the coast cities and the capi tal occupied, the republic would crumble. We should have no need to occupy the country as a whole; that would be too large a task and would give us no advantage. Our purpose would be accomplished when we had secured a dominating control over the policy of the United States." OUR DAILY LAUGH ar fe LOSES HIS 0? /""VO APPETITE. B How's your i if&Jmi lts a " r| £ h ® i till Igo to buy ' £°° - Then IJ get nervous and! Ly- , A NUISANCE. Giraffe: Con- T found those aeroplanes, al- j A ways knocking |j MJ peoples' hats oft. B WELCOME boat -was chased 11 by a submarine. Were the pao> sengera frlght- Oh, no, on tha contrary they i I I were hoping a 1 I torpedo would I hit the ahlp. It r I was very rough was seasick. Ebmng CCtyat Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, who will speak to-morrow at Pittsburgh befoi the schoolmasters on industrial edui cation, has Just finished a tour of huU< a dozen cities for study of their lnctlij ods of industrial education antj Americanization. Dr. Becht has been giving special attention to the lattex subject in an effort to secure aom system whereby the employers and the educators can work together to inculcate citizenship ideas in aliens. Dr. Becht in the course of his tour ▼ visited Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis and then went to Gary, where ho made special investigation into the industrial education system, but found out that Pennsylvania was ap plying systems practically the same to its industrial and educational prob lems. However, few of the cities of fered any new plan for Americaniza tion and the secretary is getting round to the point where he thinks that it will be up to the employer to develop Individuality of the worker to a greater extent. "To my mind," said he. "we have not yet gotten to the point where we have a practical Americanization plan. It lias to be worked out with regard to environ ment, employment, racial and other traits. Some very Intensive study must be given to the foreigner to lind out how to get him genuinely inter ested in American institutions." The State Board of Education lias been making a study of Americanization problems for months and it is the hope to launch some new ideas in places to be selected because of local conditions and also to observe the working out of plans in various places where the enterprise of employers has been exerted to give the foreign ers attractive places in which to live. In tHis connection it is interesting: to note what the bulletin of the Stato Department of Agriculture lias to say: "Garden plots for employes of largo corporations is to bo ono of the chief factors this summer in helping to keep down the cost of living for the working classes, according to in formation which has reached this de partment. one of the largest cor porations in Kaston is planning to turn over to its employes sixty acres of land laid out in garden plots and has asked the services of one of the tarm advisers of the Department of Agriculture to make an analysis of the soils, recommend the proper fer tilizer to use, the method of cultivat ing it, and also to advise what are tho best vegetables to plant. There are over 700 employes and if each man should attempt to try his hand at gardening about one-eighth of an acre will be allotted, plenty of room for a vegetable garden. In many sec tions of the State available plots of ground are being sought for gardens this summer and there will be mora home growing so that there will not be so much dependence 011 shipped and canned produce." Major S. McP. Rutherford, of the Eleventh cavalry, who was here for a short furlough, left yesterday for Chi cago, where he will be assistant to tho adjutant general of the Central De partment with headquarters in Chi cago. Major Rutherford recently re turned from Mexico, where his regi ment was part of the expedition. Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew art has written a good many orders and been the author of considerable military literature, but the fact is not generally known that the chief of staff of the Pennsylvania militia has been a consulting editor to a poet. It seems that Captain Jack Crawford, ' the poet-scout who died a short time ago, was a great friend of the Adju tant General. They came from the same part of the State and had been friends for years. When Captain Jack came this way he always visited tho General and the two would sit up un til all hours-of the night talking over things and discussing affairs all over the land. When the Captain would evolve one of his poems he would send a copy to the General with a note about like this: "Dear Tom: Look this over." The General relig iously rertd all the poetry and it is suspected tired some of it back. Every time Crawford issued a volume he al ways sent a presentation copy to his HaWisburg friend. 'Francis J. Torrance, president of the State Board of Public Charities, liaa stirred up the animals in several sec tions of the State by his advocacy of the, bill to place county prisons in charge of boards of prison inspectors instead of sheriffs as is the case in many counties. It seems that the de sire in a number of counties is to have the sheriff continue his tradi tional duty as keeper of prisoners and instead of men not desiring- to live in prisons they rather covet the Job. The bill Is now pending in the Legis lature and would provide that Courta of common pleas appoint inspectors and the inspectors would then name wardens as is the case in Dauphin and a number of other counties. It seems from statements made rocently tliatfthe warden plan has worked very satisfactorily .in most counties where tried. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —W. E. Wolfram, long head of the projectile department of the Bethle hem works, has resigned.' His em ployes gave him a wath. —The Rev. w. H. Lindemuth, prominent Wilkes-Barre pastor, haa refused to accept a call to a larger charge In Philadelphia. —Charles L. Huston, the Coates ville manufacturer, led the fight to make that city dry. Judge M. B. Stephens, of the Cam bria courts, saya lawyers must be in court on time or take the chances of having cases go over. —George S. Webster, Philadelphia's director of Wharves, docks and ferries, has returned from a visit to New Or leans, where he inspected docks and belt lines. —Francis B. Reeves, Philadelphia banker, has written a book on Rus sia, where he traveled several year") !<SO. —Judge H. C. Quigley, of the Cen ter County courts, used to be an en thusiastic National Guardsman. -—-General A. J. Logan, of Pitts burgh, who went south for his health, after returning from the border, has improved rapidly and will bo hero next week. —C. H. Forster, formerly of thia city and Lebanon, has been mad , treasurer of the Superior Steel Corpo ration. DO YOU KNOW Tliat Harrisburg sells big quau* titles of knit goods to the West? HISTORIC HARRISBURG One hundred years ago Harrisburg had a dozen taverns and was a leather trado center. A Puzzling Question Well, if nothing else happen*, the seizure of the Appain by American customs officers has at last aroused cu riosity as to why the Navy Department ever named a revenue cutter Yamv !craw. —Indianapolis News
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