12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings oxcept Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PIIIXTIXG CO., TeleisMiph Building, Federal Square, E. J. STACKPOLE, Prcs't and Editor-in-Cliief !•'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- Sl*Pg? 'a If® lation and Penn fi|fi sylvania Assoclat- SE Ss ABE M Eastern office, UHn *i kSS H Story, Brooks & SSS a USB Kg Finley, Fifth Ave- IQB 0 nue B u "dlng, New Brooks & Finley. fO*'' People's Gas Build ing, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVEXIXG, MARCH 22 Our ivants have all been felt our errors made before. —MATTHEW ARNOLD. ALL FOR OXE: OXE FOR ALL AMERICANS are prone to family quarrels. We have our differ ences political, industrial and personal, and we Some times come to blows. But let anybody from the out side threaten to get into our own pri vate little melee and 10, what a re markable change comes instantly to pass. At once the fighting neighbors separate and all set upon the out sider with a vehemence most astonish ing. In an instant it becomes a ques tion of one for all and all for one; America for Americans and all of us brothers of the blood to death. Erst while enemies become bosom friends and hostile fists are unbent to work for the common good, or bent even tighter to meet the common enemy. No better illustration of this very admirable national trait may be found than the appointment yesterday by Governor Brumbaugh of a 'committee of prominent Pcnnsylvanians to mobilize the industries and resources of Pennsylvania for the defense of the nation. Scanning the list of names, one cannot be other than deeply im pressed with the liberal views of the executive in his selections and the willingness of those he chose to as sume the important duties designated, for it is not to be supposed for a moment that a single one of them will not serve. It goes without saying that they will feel honored to have been chosen and will give their time, energies and talents freely to the great task involved. In the committee are political rivals and business competi tors, figures prominent socially and not a few who may be suspected of far better acquaintance with the factory than the ball room and others who In private life are scarcely on speaking terms one with another. But all of them stand on the common ground of patriotism and all of them may be counted upon to do their part, as the Governor well knew when he named them. UNIVERSAL TRAINING MUCH has been said for and against universal military train ing—mostly for—in the series of interviews and letters now running in the TELEGRAPH. One or two of tlrose who have opposed the proposed Cham berlain bill have displayed a woeful lack of knowledge of its provisions. In the first place, there has been ex pressed the fear that this measure would result in tho raising of a great army that might be used to put down labor troubles. The bill distinctly says that men trained under its provisions cannot be called for strike duty. "The reserve citizen army or tho reserve citizen navy shall not be used in cases of strikes or other industrial disputes" is the exact wording of the measure. Another objection that has been raised is that such an army might be rushed into war at the behest of any hot-headed President so minded. This would be impossible under the terms of the Chamberlain bill, which stipu lates that the reserve army and navy so created could be called to the colors only in case of a defensive war; that is, if some other nation attempted to land troops on United States soil. These are practically the only ob jections that have been raised. They are easily answered. With them out of the way the citizen who shrinks from preparing to defend his home and family in time of national peril will have some difficulty in defining his peculiar type of patriotism. PIFFLE! OF all the piffle that has come out of Europe since the beginning of the great war—and there has been enough and to spare—the press agent story from Berlin with which some newspapers decorated their first pages yesterday is the worst. The German retreat was a great vic tory. Von Hindenburg gave up all the territory he had fought to retain for nearly three years in order to "sweep forward and drive the allied French and English back to Paris." He fell back toward the Rhine so tjhat he THURSDAY EVENING, might the more easily go forward to Paris. The tale Is preposterous: just how much so is shown by to-day's dis patches showing that the French have forced the Germans to what they have long avoided—open field fighting. The Germans might have had this had they chosen at any time to come out of the trenches on the Somme. The Berlin dispatches may do all very well for German consumption arid they may bolster up the hopes of Ger man sympathizers here and elsewhere, but they are so far from the facts that they scarcely deserve a place in the news, except as illustrating the desperate folly to which the German propagandists have been prompted. SOME ACTION AT LAST f> THE proclamation of the Presi dent advancing the special ses sion of Congress to April 2 is a step in the right direction. The only fault to find is that it was not taken previously and that the date named is not Monday, March 26. The decision of the President to get Congress together earlier than was intended looks very much like a sop to popular clamor. Wisely or un wisely, the executive has been much slower than the country to respond to the intolerable conditions brought about by German disregard for Amer ican rights on the sea. The whole na tion is aroused to the rteeessity of quick action and while the President may be moving behind closed doors to the defense of the realm in a manner commensurate with the importance of the occasion, the public would feel much more content with his deliber ateness of procedure if it were given some hint as to what is going forward. Congress never should have been permitted to leave Washington. The unfortunate filibuster ->vhlch resulted in many vital emergency measures falling by the way made it imperative that prompt measures be taken to cor rect the grave error committed by the little band of self-seekers who stood in the way of their country's measures to protect itself from foreign aggres sion. But there is no good in fault finding, except as newspaper criticism unquestionably has had a largo part in spurring President Wilson to hasten somewhat his dilatory preparations for war. What is needed when Congress does assemble is that men of all i parties shall lay aside their political interests and devote their • energies solely to patriotic consideration of measures necessary in the crisis that now impends. Nor win the people hold the President blameless if he in sists entirely upon his own way. Wise compromise of views is vitally im portant to action that will hurry the mobilization of our tremendous re sources to meet any demand that may be made upon them. Two heads are better than one any day and the President tacitly admits his de pendence upon Congressional co operation when he declines to assume responsibility for acting in the absence of approval by House and Senate. Aside from the declaration that a state of war exists—a mere formality to give national recognition to a con dition that even now exists—Congress in extra session will be called upon to decide questions of even more far reaching importance than armed con flict with Germany. To Congress the people must look for such effective re organization and enlargement of the army and the navy as will place them in position to make successful war upon the mightiest military machine the world has ever known. Congress faces also the great question of uni versal training and the raising of a citizen army, and whether or not this is to be used for national defense only or for foreign service in case the need arise in Europe. These things cannot be decided in a day. There will be many differences of opinion. Debate is to be expected. Snap Judgment is not to be counten anced. The country must be con vinced that the program decided upon by Congress and the President is the best that could be devised. It Is for these reasons, and in no spirit of cap tious criticism, that newspapers the country over have been urging insist ently a little more vim, energy and promptness at the White House. HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS m / ti>*- JUST I ———————— £ RAce y OO AMO cjim MUST) ifs2flTlflß7 // come OVER hsx.t b m, li v Labor Notes Toronto ciou* cutter* are 97 per cent, organized. Union painters in Chicago get 70 cents uu nour. Ureece has enacted civil service re tirement legislation. Tunnel workers in Arizona have 1 tie eignt-nour aay. increased pay has been granted To ronto (uauaua) policemen. Kansas had 04 coal mine fatalities iasi year. Canadian munulaeturers have agreed to give preference to returned boiuiera in lining vacancies. A West Virginia law provides that checkweiglimen shall be placed at mine tippies. The purpose of tills leg islation is to assure miners pay tor all coal mined and prohibit operators trom robbing their employes. President William D. Mahon, of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, has been selected by the executive council of the A. F. of L. as successor to the late Dennis A. Hayes. Kansas City (Mo.) local central body favors the principles of trade unionism being taught in the puolic schools and has asked every member of organized labor to petition the board of education to this effect. A bill has been introduced in the California .Legislature that would in crease wages of compositors, press men and bookbinders employed in the State Printing Office from $5 to $5.50 a day. The International executive board of the United Mine Workers' Union has Inaugurated a vigorous organiz ing campaign In nonunion coal fields, and has placed tills work in charge of a permanent committee on organiza tion. Tho United States produced 477,- 000,000 tons of coal In 1912 .though employing only 723,000 men In the In dustry, while Britain, with 1,069,000 coal miners, brought only 260,000,000 tens te the surface, In Arabia the pay of cooks and house servants runs from $8.30 to $13.20 per month. Other dally wages are as follows! Carpenters, 60 to 58 centsj masons, 85 to 60 cents! coal coolies, 25 centsj day laborers, 10 to 16 centsi Officials ef the New York State Fed eration of Labor are arousing trade unionists to the danger of a constabu lary bill being passed at this session of the State Legislatures The Locomotive Engineers' Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Associa tion, conducted by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, • protects its members at a less cost than bld-llne companies: For An April Inauguration Every four years an agitation is started for changing the date of in auguration, without result. Nothing is more unpleasant to endure or more easy to forget than !iad weather. It seldom happens that March 4 or 5 is suitable for outdoor ceremonies, and generally the conditions are as bad as the winter affords. Who will soon for get the blizzard which "flared back" when Taft was inducted into office? There is no reason whatever for con tinuing the present date, and there are plenty of good ones for a change to April 30, when Washington was first inaugurated. That March 4 was selected in the first place was a mere hazard. When the Congress under the Confederation learned that eleven States had ratified the Constitution it passed legislation to carry it into ef fect. The first Wednesday in January was named for casting the electoral votes by the legislatures, the first Wednesday in February for counting them and the first Wednesday In March for the Inauguration. However, Washington took his time and was more than a month late in reaching New York. —From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Failure Has success your pathway dogged, Everywhere you turned, Never left your heart in doubt. Never left you spurned? Has good fortune tracked you down, Followed on your drift, Poured the gold into your lap As a Midas gift? Has fulfillment close pursued, Over-brimmed your glass, Left you naught for which to yearn. Naught to come to pass? Then you liave been fobbed of much Strengthening for men: If at first you do not fall, Try, try again. —McLandburgh Wilson in Life, uv By the Ex-Committecman ■' 11.. —llll 'J Stories that in spite of the apparent "harmony" existing between potential State senators, and the intimation from Senator Penrose that he is going to await developments, some quiet in vestigations are under way on Capitol Hill, have excited more than one man active in the politics of the State and Democratic leaders are reported to be tearing their hair because they fear someone is going to turn up something which they would like to employ for campaign thunder. The general "probe" is on the table in the Senate, where it went when the Governor sent in his veto message, and no action has apparently been taken by standing committees to make in quiries into the conduct of any of the departments. The legislators have been letting out their feelings in re gard to factional politics in debates on bills, such as that 011 the Philadel phia measure to take the police apd firemen out of politics, while the lead ers have been going around arm in arm. —Late last night it leaked out that one of the reasons for the feverish night work in some of the departments was because the appropriations com mittees had adopted John R. K. Scott's famous method in the session of 1915 when he demanded information on how every dollar of each contingent fund was spent. It was a rare occa sion for Scott, who was then off the reservation, but his plan has been put on rubber tires and worked behind closed doors this winter. —Some time ago it was openly de clared by Penrose men that they were going to cut contingent appropriations down to the bones. Having the power in committees, they could do so with out much trouble, but administration men promptly came back with the as sertion that they would interfere with the public business if they persisted in punitive measures. —The latest information is that the pruners and cutters of contingent funds have been seeking justification and from some reports have turned up very interesting matters which will be made public one of these days. The Economy and Efficiency Commission in making up the budget has been careful In dealing with contingent funds, too. —Governor Brumbaugh is still sit ting tight on his appointments and although he has been in conference with senators on the situation in re gard to recess selections not sent to the Senate he has not indicated what he will do. The senators, however, have said what they are going to do. The Governor would like to get his appointments confirmed soon, but dis likes to have them embarked upon an uncertain sea. • —Auditor General-elect Snyder, who was inclined to be belligerent some time ago over the failure to send in appointments, has decided to wait until he is the man on the watch tower. It is possible that something may happen between now and that first Monday in May when Snyder will succeed A. \V. Powell. The Legislature will not ad journ until after Snyder takes his new office. —Auditor General Powell says he will make his report to the Senate and House on the employment of experts in his office and that he will show all there is to show. It is said that SIO,OOO of the $29,000 secured by Powell in the deficiency bill will be spent for the exports. The Copperhead His name is lost to history, but he deserves a monument. 1 mean the man who first nailed the word copperhead to a traitorous act. The word came In during the Civil War, and, as everybody knows, was applied In the North to Southern sym pathizers. The word has slept for thirty years or more, since reconstruc tion days. Now copperhead bobs up again in type and cartoon. It is the most bitter political epithet used any whero In the world. The copperhead is one of the three fatally poisonous snakes in all North America. It is especially prevalent In parts of Pennsylvania. Early settlers called It the pilot snake. They insisted that the pilot or copperhead always traveled ahead of tho rattlesnake, and hence the name pilot. But the woodsman has a particular reason for loathing the copperhead a little more than he does the rattler. The latter sounds his venomous and ringing alarm before he strikes, hut the coppearhead attacks in stealth. One is an open foe and the other, which is quite as deadly, a hidden and so moro treacherous foe. To be a human copperhead thus signifies a degree of loathsomeness never contained in the name Tory of Revolutionary times.—Girard, In the Philadelphia Ledger, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM MUSICAL HARRISBURG To the Editor of the Telegraph: As a loyal Harrisburger, I was shocked recently to overhear a con versation of two men sitting behind me on a train to Philadelphia. They were evidently musicians, possibly im presarios, and were discussing the drawing qualities of various great artists. Finally, one of them said, "Kreisler! he'd pack his houses any where. He's such a wizard." "Except in Harrisburg!" replied his companion. "Harrisburg!"—and the tone made me wince. "You never can tell what that town will do. I'd rather take chances with places half its size when it comes to making good music pay. Blank (naming a famous impresario), says he'll blacklist them soon." J indignantly entered the conver sation and told them a few home truths on the audiences we had given Gluck, Paderewski, Gogorza and Eames, Nordica, and other great artists, but I fear I left them uncon vinced of the real musical apprecia tion of Harrisburg. This comment so often heard has become a reproach to us. We stand for such big things in civics and phil anthropy that we cannot afford to fall behind in musical afti educational lines. I, therefore, aft the TELE GRAPH to help in a crusade to re verse this judgment. There is an opportunity at hand this week. We have the privilege of ihearing three of the most popular and pleasing grand operas, "lligoletto," "Tales of Hoffman" and "II Trova tore," presented by the San Carlo Grand Opera Company, an organiza tion which has had tho unique ex perience of being the one traveling grand opera company that has not failed lamentably, in one, or at most two, seasons. When the immense cost of produc ing grand opera is considered, also the increasing intolerance of any but the best music, the fact that the San Carlo company grows in favor each season is surest proof Of the kind of opera it gives. Owing to the European war the cast this year is stronger than ever before. There is no question of the merit of the opera to be given; the only 'ques tion is: "How will Harrisburg wel come it?" With such crowds as in Washington after six days of the San Carlo repertoire, compelled an extra performance last Sunday night at the Belasco Theater? With such eager ness as in Pittsburgh, turned eight hundred disappointed music lovers from the doors when Rigoletto was played? With the packed houses that in York, Altoona, Johnstown showed the appreciation of the people for high-class opera? I hope so. We do not want the dis tinguished singers who form this com pany to feel that our city is musically unresponsive—or as our critics of the train put it: "Just another Harris burg frost!" We want the opportunity to hear good operas well sung; and we want those opportunities to be recurrent. I "Boche" The proclamation by a Munich newspaper of the German purpose to murder American sailors serving as gun crews on American ships Is inter esting and educational. It is interest ing as it discloses the German mind anew, and educational as it explains much in the European point of view that has puzzled many Americans. The war has enriched the vocab ularies of civilized nations with a new word. The adjective "boche" means in French and in English alike a char acteristic German thing done in a typically German way. Byway of example, one might speak of the destruction of Louvain the atrocities committed upon Belgian and French women and children as deeds essentially "boche." The Lusl tania was a "boche" performance in the most unmistakable degree. The appellation "Hun" claimed for the German people by the Kaiser and temporarily adopted by some English men tends to become obsolete. Lon don, like Paris, now invariably refers to the German as "boche." Evidently there is a desire on the part of Ger mans to establish the term In America. This will not be difficult. A few more murders, a little more barbarism, and "boche" will be as well established In the United States as in Western Europe, it will be for us, as it has been flfc the French and the Brit ish, a new word made necessary by the appearance of a phenomenon un known to recent generations. C'est boche, the French say of certain things otherwise Indescribable. As usual, they have found tho necessary word. —The New York Tribune. MARCH 22, 1917. appeal to your paper, always alive to the musical advancement of our city, to make plain to the music-loving people of Harrisburg, not alone what they will miss in not hearing "Rigo letto," "Tales of Hoffman" and "II Trovatot-e" this week; but what they may miss in future seasons by indif ference now. A. HARRISBURG OFERA LOVER. DOLLARS AX I) TIIE DAIRYMAN To the Editor of the Telegraph: It is interesting and amusing how our State is getting after the common class of people's dollars; when the hunters' license started and we were required to pay a dollar for a license, people seemed fairly well satisfied. We hear rumors to increase that fee to $2, but it seems quiet at pres ent. Now they are aiming for a State fisherman's license which is merely fifty cents to start on. As a rule the farmers' sons go hunting on Novem ber 1 and go fishing on Ascension Day, which relates mostly to the poor class of people who are absolutely not able to pay. That bill is in committee now and seems to have died. We are having a tax at present on agricultural lime, and a tax at present on fertilizer, and a bill introduced In the Legislature to tax cats. The gen tleman that introduced that bill should be the tax assessor and catch the cats and put bands around their necks. Then you would certainly see the cats spit and scratch and the poor fellow would have to be doubly pro tected by our State Compensation Board. Wc notice in the latest newspaper reports of the Interstate Milk Com mission appointed by the different governors in their reports recently to have the farmers pay $1 for a permit to sell their milk and urge dairy in spection which seems in my opinion to give a great many jobs for some State College students. It is claimed that there are 250,- 000 farmers in the State of Pennsyl vania; in a rough estimate there are 200,000 either dairying or selling but ter, which would mean another $200,000- out of the farmers' and dairymen's pockets. Why should we pay a pre mium to sell our product in a free country? A case of beer costs but $1 for 24 pint bottles; the food value of a quart of beer is considered less than three per cent, and still costs ten cents at the bar for a pint bottle of beer. While 1 am no friend of local option, it is merely an illustration. A quart ol four per cent, butter-fat milk is con sidered forty-three per cent, food value. Take the average quart of milk which is less than ten cents per quart retail, why should there be a kick when you buy a quart of good milk for ten cents and pay ten cents for a pint bottle of beer? Is it not time that the public in gen eral looks into the above matter and sees that the dairymen are protected by urging the different members of the Legislature and Senators to see that the dollars stay in the dairymen's pockets? FROM ONE WHO KNOJVS. OUR DAILY LAUGH SECOND I MOP Xtti CHOICE. | L P \$!T Is your iLm&\ band interested in aJ SW JggVt the war news? Vj JwSBL Yes, indeed. He J always reads It i'f ilm the very first >*(lf .V KB |Jf| thing after the llfj LJ if Iff baseball scores. w'wf r-* PLATING SAFE. /&£>/1 jPJL 14 isn t easy to iky 1 talk to a pretty Mm y i B ' rl ln leap year Yi" say something VI ■*>£.•. ! ' tender and at the II I same time non- J I committal. NEUTRAL. as the unit. Two years ago the sug gestion that prohibition either in the form of a general law for the State or l>y districts or an amendment to the constitution was not well received. Everyone was then lor local option by counties. Yesterday speakers openly declared that prohibition was the so. lutlon and some of the speakers saiu it was coming within a few years, it sounded rather strange to hear local option advocates saying that. There were Intimations from some ol" the speakers against the bill that the.v recognized the spread of prohibition and that they considered such an Issue one which should be fought out rather than local option. The arguments heard yesterday were different from those with which advocates of local option have regaled legislators for years. To begin with the Anti-Saloon League, for the tlrst time in years, had no conspicuous place in the list of speakers. The ad dresses of Secretary Landls, of the State Sunday school association, the biggest and most effective organiza tion of its kind in the country and of Governor Brumbaugh were most ef fective. The Governor took occasion to pay his regards to those who have hinted that he has grown lukewarm and his 'declaration of advocacy of local option was about all that any one could ask for earnestness. That vigorous churchman, the Uev. A. G. Kynett, who is well known to many here, was also an effective speaker and his blunt declaration that the church people were coming here year after year until they got what they wanted made more impression than was ap parent In the hall of the House. Charles P. O'Malley, the Scranton lawyer, who closed for the opponents of the bill, made the best of the wrong side of the argument as Harrisburg people familiar with his legislative and legal career expected him to do. It was unfortunate that the feelings of the advocates of .local option got away with them when Mr. O'Malley was speaking and they hissed, but his rebuke made even the speakers and leaders of the temperance movement smilev He said that oeople who hissed put themselves on the level of those creatures who were given the hiss us a means of making themselves heard —the snake and the goose. Local option will bo fought out about Tuesday. It is the plan to make the fight on it on second reading 111 the House and the "wet" element In sists that Its fate is certain. Local option has not been the feature this session that it was last year when it was the big thing about the Legisla ture until child labor and workmen's compensation bills got under way. This is largely due to the result of the legis lative elections. The advocates of the bill awaited developments and when none came decided to have a hearing. The hearing was really more to start things moving for next year's cam paign and some legislators sat up an# took notice when J. Denny O'Neil an nounced the other evening that he proposed to get every candidate on record before the primary election waa held next spring. * * • When the local option bill is oul of the way legislators and those who follow the Legislature know that the turn in the session has been reached. For years the advocates of local option have kept it up in the air and at tracted attention there for popu lar interest and in some cases pressure on legislators. The bill has generally been allowed to slumber for a few weeks and then a hearing has been held. Local option will be out of the way soon and the business of the present session ought to start to shape itself, for which many will be thank ful. * • • In connection with local option it is interesting to note that one of the speakers on the measure was John A McParran, master of the Stall Grange. McSparran spoko on three bills hero this week and two last week. He has been an advocate of locaj option for years and is the Grangers' representative here, "t have to keen posted on most half of the bills intro duced and be ready to speak on al most anything at the drop of a hat, said he. "This week I spoke on dairs inspection and local option withlu twenty-four hours." * • One of the funniest Capitol Hill stories came out yesterday. A mat met a deaf and dumb man in thi corridor. The man wrote down where he wanted to go. The man took him around and when he struck the office found that the man in charge had poor eyesight and not having the glasses he needed with him could not read what the deaf and dumb man wrote ln the form of a request for in formation. So the man who had volunteered to act as escort had to take what the mute wrote and read it to the man eyes. Search of old law books shows that restrictive measures on liquor have appeared in the Legislatures regular ly for fifty years. Ever since the Civil war there has been a gradual move tc check liquor sales and this State ha! had a varied amount of legislation. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Nathan T. Folwell, promineni manufacturer of Philadelphia, is be ing congratulated upon his birthday. S. p. Kcr, head of the new West. ern Pennsylvania and Ohio steel com bine, is an enthusiastic golfer. W 11. Conner, the steel manu facturer, is planning big things for one of his .plants near Buffalo. —Ralph M. Campbell, of New Ca ; tie, is being boomed for preside?.* •- the State organization of the Sons