16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A SEUSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ißji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlnff. Federal Square. K. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GLS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. • Member American nue Building. New ing/chleago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a ** week: by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING? APRIL 6 2*ext to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely tcrong, because you will come out somewhere. —Huxley. i= = i GERARD AND TRAINING A MORE miserable day as to the weather could hardly have oc curred in the entire calendar year than that which marked the first public expression of the patriotism of Harrisburg since the declaration of j war with Germany. Notwithstanding a cold, driving rain thousands of peo- j pie stood along the sidewalks to greet j the former ambassador of the United States to Berlin and to extend him the greeting of a patriotic community. He was much impressed by the large concourse of people under such cir cumstances and yet Harrisburg is not different from the average American city at the present time. Even out of the Middle "West comes the informa tion that the people of that section of | the country are resenting the imputa- I tion that they are not in hearty accord [ with the government at Washington and ready to support to the last degree j the measures which shall be adopted 1 for upholding the national honor and i the integrity of the United States in j the great world conflict it has entered. I It was also observed during the re- j ception to Mr. Gerard that the men who have recently returned from the t border and who acted a3 the military i escort gave virile expression to the character of the American soldier the soldier of the people. These well set up young men have demonstrated the importance of universal military training and there are few now who do not believe that some reasonable system of military instruction should ; become a part of the life of every citi- ' zen of the United States. We should never again be placed in the position of unpreparedness which has given all • other governments a false impression ; of the real sentiments of our people, i CENSORSHIP THE word "censored" already Is | beginning to appear in the news. J The likelihood Is that its use will increase as the war progresses. Censorship in war is necessary, but there are censorships and censorships and it all depends upon the wisdom of the government with respect to the type that is to be imposed as to whether good or evil will result there from. If there Is to be an official govern- | ment censor, Frederick Palmer is the i man for the place. He knows what is or is not of military value. He knows, also, the vital error made by Great Britain at the outstart of the present war, when conditions that were fright ful were pictured in rosy light or concealed entirely. The nation was left in ignorance of what was happening at the front through the foolish notion of the government censorship that by withholding the news from the papers the Germans also could be kept in ignorance. The result was that enlist ment was slow, that errors of Judg ment on the part of the military au thorities were glossed over and the whole progress of the war delayed. The people of the United States have full confidence in the patriotism and ability of those who will have charge of the prosecution of the war, and they will be content to remain in ignorance of such things as might be of use to the enemy, and no loyal newspaper would for a moment con sider the publication of such informa tion. But the withholding of news In which the whole nation is interest ed and which it has a right to have is quite another matter and would work disastrously for the Bepublic in the conflict in which we are about to engage. Prussia and the United States are quite two different places, and what la all very well for Berlin will not work for Washington. The TELEGRAPH has been living up very consistently to the censorship requirements laid down a week ago and not until it was in receipt of a note to editors saying that there would be no objection to the publica tion of local military pictures and ar ticles relating to the same did this newspaper give even that Informa tion of minor importance room in its columns. It will continue to abide strictly by the rules laid down by the War Department, but it and all other newspapers would feel far more con tent did it know that' a man like Painter sat as chief of censor—for Palmer, as has been said, is both military authority and newspaper man, and his Judgment might be fairly relied upon aa to what is proper to orlnt and what ia not. It ia to be Bin- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL 6, 1917. cerely hoped that tho error England made at the outstart of the war will not be repeated here. t'ITY GOVERNMENT I.VIUS SO long as the city administration is conducted along political lines, as has been the case under the present commission form of govern ment, we may expect procrastination, indifference and incompetency in many quarters to check the real prog ress of the city. The alleged non partisan feature of the Clark act has been a delusion and snare from the beginning. It has pretended to elimi nate political logrolling while in fact promoting the very evils it professed to correct. Even now certain Indi viduals are thinking more about their re-election and are giving more thought to how to procure votes than they are to the proper conduct of their departments. • As a result, sentiment is becoming stronger every day for a city manager or some such arrangement as will give efficient direction to the important af fairs of Harrisburg and other cities of the third class. It is this very con dition which has given force and ef fect to the proposal of Senator Beidle man that a new law be enacted pro viding for a single council, consisting of one member from each ward. This would at least restore individual inter est in public affairs. But whatever the change, present conditions should not be allowed to continue one hour longer than is necessary to provide for some more effective conduct of the city's business. THIRD STREET CAR SERVICE THE business community which ia centered at Third and Verbeke streets has been urging for sev eral years a change of street railway conditions on Third street. It is set forth that a single track on this im portant highway is Inadequate and that there is no good reason for con tinuing the present belt line. While Third street is not a broad highway, it is the opinion of the business men in the section Indicated that it is suf ficiently wide for two tracks and that there ought to be no hesitation in pro viding facilities for the constantly in creasing traffic uptown. The present arrangement has not been satisfactory from the start and there has been constant controversy between the business community and the street railway officials. There is hope that the survey which is now being conducted by traffic experts will result in relief. It is understood that the officials of the Harrisburg Rail ways company are ready to make any changes that are feasible to meet the demand of the uptown business com munity. Until the survey now under way shall have been completed and conclusions reached regarding the best method of providing facilities for all sections of the city, it is not likely that any decision can be announced. There Is reason to believe, however, from the assurances of the officials of the electric railway system, that every thing will be done to meet public ex pectation with regard to improved service. Nothing is so important in any growtag community as adequate transportation and nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of pro viding it for Third street as soon as possible. THE BOY SCOI'T MOVEMENT THE proposed campaign of the Rotary Club to put the Boy Scout movement of Harrisburg on a permanent basis would be worthy of popular support at any time, but it is peculiarly appropriate to the cir cumstances of the moment. There never was a time when it was so im portant that the boys of the country be trained not only to take care of themselves under any and all circum stances, but to perform services for their own families and the community at large if need be. In England the Boy Scouts have been of inestimable value during the absence of millions of men in the army. They have proved themselves worthy and dependable. They have been ready and willing always, r.o matter what the call upon them. But what they have done for others has been of small moment, extensive though that service has been, com pared with what they have done for themselves. These boys are little men in everything that the name Implies. They have become self-reliant, capa ble, producing Individuals instead of the dependent, nambypamby young sters that pampered youths are apt to be. Before the Boy Scout movement came into being there was small op portunity for the town boy to indulge in that call of the wild and spirit of adventure to which all American boys worthy the name hearken before they are out of short trousers. Love of out doors and athletic sports and exercises is the natural and very excellent at tribute of the American boy. He loves to go "hiking" and camping. He dotes on a fishing pole, and a camping out fit is a source of never-ending deliglit. The Scout organization was especially designed to meet these youthful incli nations for decent living and recrea tion. that build manhood as well as muscle. To these essentials was add ed the thought of service. That the organization has not had as large a place In the activities of Harrisburg as it has had in many cities elsewhere is through no fault of the boys; their fathers and brothers have been re miss. Xow comes the Rotary Club with a plan to bring to the city one of the leaders of the Boy Scout movement In the United States who, with the club's aid, will undertake the task of educating the r-üblic to the need of supporting the Scout movement on an adequate basis and raising the neces sary funds for the purpose. Incident ally* it may be explained, Rotary clubs In many other cities have carried sim ilar projects to success and Boy Scout organization work will be one of the topics at the International Convention of Rotary Clubs In Atlanta next sum mer. The Harrisburg club Is recog nized as one of the meet active In the country and the fact that it has un der-wrltten the campaign In Harris burg is guarantee of. Its success before the opening gun Is fired. President Howard C. Fry has done nothing bet ter since his election to the head of the organization than this recognition of the responsibility of tho men of the city for the welfare and develop ment of the boys who must take their places with the passing of the years. City Commissioner Lynch realizes the job before him in the matter of placing the paved streets in flrst.clas condition and the community will sin cerely hope that the shortage of sand may not long defer active operations. iitico- Lk By the Ex -Committerman The policy to be pursued this year In regard to changes in the election laws will be settled within a few days at Philadelphia. Several prominent men have gone on record as opposed to making radical changes this year and the fact that Governor Brumbaugh, who had been conducting a general in quiry by mail among judges and others as to the election laws, did not make any recommendations Is regarded as significant on the part of the adminis tration. The belief is that within a few weeks the legislators will be on the home stretch with appropriation, revenue emergency legislation getting the right of way so that the election laws will be forgotten. Every time any changes in the election laws have been sug gested local objections %rise and the present hodge podge will stand until some Legislature makes it a matter of prime importance and studies the ef fect of the present laws and the many proposed changes. . —An increase of 500 men in the city | police force of Philadelphia has been asked by the city authorities. They I are wanted for emergency service. —The Philadelphia Press to-day says: "The House of Representatives wUI have the bills containing the bor Unions' proposed amendments to the Workmen's Compensation Law on its calendar next week as the result of the action of the Committee on Labor and Industry in reporting favor ably the bills Introduced by Repre sentative Woodward, of Allegheny County, who is chairman of the Ap propriations Committee. The labor men have been lobbying hard to get support for their amendments to the present law during the last fortnight but without much success. The bill may get to third reading in the House next week when the representatives of the manufacturers forecast defeat. The labor leaders arc using the state ment that Governor Brumbaugh ap proves the amendments though he will not personally support them actively, as an argument with the members." —The repealer to the Non-partisan law introduced by Senator Schantz, of Lehigh, is said to he doomed so far as the clause taking judicial elections out of the non-partisan column Is con cerned. Both Senator Vare and Sena tor McNichol, of Philadelphia, are. said to oppose any act which would throw the election of judges Into the political arena again. —The reporting out of the Urich bill providing for compensation for persons losing licenses has stirred up considerable excitement among people In political circles. Such a measure has been under discussion for years but the bill never got very far. This time it looks as though the House would give serious consideration to it. The temperance forces have been con sistently opposed to such a measure. —According to some reports cur rent in the coal country Representa tive Fred C. Ehrhardt, of Scranton, is being urged by friends to become a candidate for State senator. —Members of the Legislature from the counties in the 28th district, in which O. D. Blealtley was elected to Congress, are all home looking up the condition of the fences this week end. There Is a strong probability that a special election will be ordered pretty soon and any number of light ning rods will be put up. —The House has decided to give very prompt consideration to the Crow bills providing for a change in the period for filing nominating petitions in the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Under the proposed act such petitions would have to be filed in a period twenty days shorter than at present, the change having been made to permit the State authorities to have more time in which to certify the nominations to the counties. —A hearing will be held this com ing week on the bill to change the date of the fall primary. —The Philadelphia city councils are being urged to change the ar rangements for supervision of street cleaning so that the system which prevailed under Mayor Reyburn may be revived. | —Third class city legislation will have a series of hearings here in the next two weeks. The House commit tee will hold the hearings. Lackawanna's Plan [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Not everyone in the country can fight, but everyone beyond infancy uan accomplish something for the good of the Nation. Just now tne greatest need of the country is for more food. It has been proclaimed from the house tops. but only in a few instances have practical measures been taken which promise good returns. One of these is afforded by the Lackawanna Rail road and its constituent companies, which have thrown open all lands be longing to the corporations for cul tivation. primarily by employes, and otherwise by those who will apply. The right of way can produce many vpgetables and especially potatoes. The land around mines can be culti vated in small lots. In these day* of eight-hour labor j there will be plenty of time for men, i as well as women and children, to cul tivate small garden plots, and if only enough will engage in the work there will be plenty of food for this coun try and for exportation. Part Friends Play As you have heard, there are many ways to kill a cat besides shooting it with a sixteen-lnch shell. Friends are opposed to war. That's part of their religious faith. But the Friends are stanch believers in hu manity and a full stomach. Big crops are now as vital a ne | cessity as any other that faces our people. Hence it is peculiarly pleasant to hear that our friends, the Quakers ! propose to look out for the full din ner pail while their more warlike neighbors shoulder arms. And they have mighty good precedent for this little roundabout way toward contributing their portion to the Ken oral good. New England, as you mav have heard, was once sorely driven to pay for powder and shot wherewith to overwhelm a foe. What did the Friends of Pennsylvania do? Ajfpropriated money for the pur chase of •grains." and when those naughty New Englanders took the cash and bought grains of powder, why all was forgiven by their peaceful breth ren in Pennsylvania. So if all who have a scruple against going to battle will double their ef forts to grow potatoes there will be no cause for complaint.—CUrard, in the Public Ledger. When a Feller Need By BRIGGS I \ J -Si jS =• '1- 1 ■ • / ~ _ LOCKED # OUT "Conspiracies" and Things Now Senator Norrls has it. I mean that curious disease which makes him see conspiracies. Newspapers, he declares, have qn llsted in a propaganda to manufacture sentiment for war. And yet when as a correspondent I used to see the Sena tor in Washington—he was then a member of the House—he seemed like such a sane and wholesome fellow. But I repeat. This notion that newspapers want war so that they can print exciting news Is a disease. Ah well accuse men of setting their homes ablaze in order to see the flro engines work. Here Is the cold fact: War costs the newspapers more in real cash than it costs any other important In stitution. War news costs every live news paper a great deal more money than it can possibly get back from the sale of papers or in advertising. A tew years ago some valuable tes timony on this very subject was brought out in connection with Jo seph Pulitzer's estate. It was shown that one of his news papers had been earning a profit of about a million dollars a year before the Spanish War. So great were the expenses of that war that in 1898 the profits were actually reduced to zero. You can judge from that how badly Mr. Pulitzer wanted a war. And other papers suffered In like propor tion. The editor of the London Post told me his paper had twenty correspond ents in the Boer War. Cable tolls at that time were $1.20 a word from Cape Town to London. Perhaps Senator Norris also knows of a man who deliberately had him self convicted of murder merely to at tract a crowd to his own hanging.— Glrard in the Public Ledger. Guessing About Germany [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] Whether the disquiet among the mass of the German people since the Russian revolution and the most re cent speech of Chancellor Hollweg and criticisms of it and the government's course by the Socialists ol both wings is ominous or harmless is a matter of individual judgment of the German character. When these judgments are expressed in tile confident language of tile partisan, friend and foe. there is faint probability of a general agree ment. The political observers in the more unfriendly countries of Europe profess t tLw to the movies, /is play bridge or Ittßx stay home? Why not stay J'. \\ M home? We can /vf /ji\JLJ_JSr always go to Lj [lj I h * the movies or 7/IJ-T play bridge. I I SEEMS SO. [] Pa. what are the fortunes of 'J4 war? jti Stock dlvi dends, my boy. fl H Y,;^ y " o o BKUTE! Does he like to fasten his wife' (owns. Yes, he believes It Is the only way he can shut her '//NK I lommj tJug: 1 Why don't j | jj 1 i IVjJ * elevators stop for | Qll | a fellow l'va '/ UVj ftj'l bean standing I m,, ? P7j\ here for an hour. | The Readiness Is All [From the Philadelphia Press.] They didn't catch Senator Lodge on the watchful watting list and unpre fiared. He was recruited up to the ull strength, and recognized the overt [act invnadiatelr. Itottfttg (Efctt While the child labor law of 1915 aid work some hardships In causing some youngsters who '-ere bread-win ners to lose their jobs it unquestlon ably braced up the messenger service In Harrlsburg. It may seem Incon gruous to see a gray-haired man, old enough to be, and In somo cases actu ally, a grandfather, going along the streets wearing a messenger's cap, but the fact remains that they do things; Boys have always been more or less apt • to slide out of responsibility and to duck when certain things had to be done, but the "old boys" get through. .Some of the men who act as messen gers are not daunted by anything and they deliver the messages or do the errands. They are not easily shocked and when It comes down to inculcat~ lng a feeling that orders will be car ried out they are far better than the boys. People are not likely to jump on a man in a discussion of how :i message should be delivered and the directions are listened to, and as a rule carried out. Some of the men make fair wages as messengers. In the dav time they are on commission and pick up some tips which come in well at the end of the day. At night time they are on a salary, so much per hour. One man said that until he went on the "force" as a messenger he lacked ambition. It sounded queer coming from one well on in middle age, but he explained that he got out into the air and was naturally trying to make all he could. The chances that ' ,e ' 8 doing fairly well and if he is not speedy he is safe. Gus Catherman, who keeps watch and ward for the Western Union in Harrisburg, says that tlie messengers are called for all kinds of service that the average person never dreams of. He has made up a list of some of the things for which "boys" Imvc been called. Here are some of them: Moil ing an invalid's chair; waiting at box offices buying tickets; going after um brellas: going to men's houses for keys they left at home in the hurry of departing; acting as "sub" for tho regular office boy when ho is burying his grandmother Rt a "movie" house; delivering automobile parts to strand ed cars; acting as doorman at a church wedding; buying lunch for men tied up In their offices: going after baggage; lugging around com mercial men's sample cases; buying and delivering flowers or candy; going after forgotten eyo glasses; tending store at lunch hour; going to the pub lic library for books and taking them back and taking children to and from school when the older folks could not do it or the nurse was sick. Probably, if the messengers were qualified, they would be called in to run automobiles when the chauffeur got fired or tired and even to run an elevator. Requests have actually been made for messengers for such services when a pinch occurred. One of the best stories is told of a messenger wjio was called by a doctor and told to hustle his bones to get some oxygen for a patient who needed It badly. The man went to the drug store and found they were "just out." How ever, he found out that a shipment was expected next day and that it might be in the express office. He went to the express office and got tho oxygen tank out of the case. Then he carried it away up town to the homo of the sick man, where they probably jumped on him for not taking a taxi. But the man got well and the senger got experience. While none of the Harrisburg mes sengers probably ever had the experi ence of a New Jersey boy who was called to carry furniture out of a burning building, they have been sent to strike fire alarms. One man ha* the record of having been called one snowy morning and given a market basket, a five-dollar bill and a market list with a request to hustle and do the buying of food for a family. He did the marketing with rare discrimi nation and returned with change. What ho got out of it is not told. There are a few residents of Har risburg who do not know J. Augustus Beck, the distinguished artist who this week celebrated his 86tli birthday with his brother, who is 83, and who came from Lititz to spend a day with the famous painter. The writer of this paragraph has a vivid recollection of his first meeting with Mr. Beck years ago in the Juniata Valley where the artist obtained inspiration for many beautiful paintings. It was en tlio mill race back of McVeytown where the writer and several other boys watched the development on Mr. Beck's canvas of a fine bit of natural scenery. Mr. Beck and the TELEGRAPH began their careers in the same year and this newspaper is more than glad to extend congratulations and good wishes. • * • Harrisburg people were delighted last night to welcome Edward J. Oat tell, the city statistician of Philadel phia, who Is a son of one of the city's best loved ministers, the late Rev. William C. Cattell, who was pastor of Pine Street Church and later presi dent of Lafayette College. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania, likes to visit the country where he began to work for the Penn sylvania. —J. V. Thompson, the coal land owner. Is working harder than he ever did in his life to retrieve his for tunes. —J. W. B. Bausman, president of the State bankers, who is urging far mers to plant more, is a farm owner himself in Lancaster county. —Judge Aaron Swartz, of Mont gomery, has astonished the people of his county by going out and making some personal visits lo localities for which license was asked. DO YOU KNOW """" —That Harrisburg could snpply an army corps with footwear? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In old days recruiting parties used to take places in Market Square and stir up patriots with ("rums and fifes. -—— < Harrisburg, Pa.. April 4. 1917. Statement of the ownership, manage ment. circulation, etc.. of the Harrls burjj Teleitrnph, required by act of Con gress, August 24. 1912. Editor, E. J. Stackpole, Harrisburg, Pa.; managing editor. Gus M. Stelnmetz. Harrisburg, Fa.; business manager. Frank R. Oydter, Harrisburg, Pa.; pub lisher, The Telegraph Printing Com pany, Harrisburg, Pa., E. J. Stackpole. president. Stockholders; E. J. Stackpole, E. J. Stackpole, Jr., F. R. Oyster, Harrisburg, Pa. No bonds or mortgages. Average number of copies of each Issue sold or distributed through the malls or otherwise to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date of this statement, 24,320. F. R. Oyster, Business Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me thi ad day of April, 1917. (Signed) H. B. MTJMMA, Notary Fubllc. 1919> y comrn ' sfion March I,