8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME founded ISJJ (Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO* Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 00. J. STACKPOLE.Prw't 6r Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager, OUS 1L BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Pesn. sylvanla Assocl ated Dallies, Eastern office, Finley Brook * & Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooka & Finley. People's Ga? Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa, as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a t=E3T week; by mall, 15.00 a year iu advance. WEDNX-SDAY ITVENTNGjAPRJXi 25 Prune thou thy words, The thoughts control That o'er thee swell and throng; They will condense within the soul 'And change to purpose strong; But he who lets his feelings run In soft luxurious flow, Shrinks when hard service must be done, And faints at every foe. —J. H. Newman. "DAYLIGHT SATING" THE "daylight saving" bill is again before Congress. It ought to pass as a war emergency 'Measure, if for no other reason. ' The President has urged the peo ple to take up home-gardening. Day light is essential for that purpose. Gardens do not grow of themselves. They must be cultivated. Evening Is the only time the working man has for that purpose. He will need every hour possible for that work the com ing summer. An additional hour of daylight would be of Inestimable value. European countries which had adopted the "daylight saving" prac tice emphasize the value of the plan in stimulating home-gardening and theieby Increasing the food produc tion. In England and Germany the additional hour was used to a large extent for this purpose. But however used it would be well ■worth while. During the present season tourists have spent about $27,000,000 in Cali fornia. It is estimated that the aver age first-class tourist spends S2O a day while in' California and that he stays for thirty days. About 45,000 visitors contributed to the prosperity of the State during the last Ave months. Some time ago Governor Brumbaugh suggested sending an of ficial invitation to the motorists of the United States to tour Pennsylva nia this year, and no funds of the Commonwealth could bo better ex pended than in issuing such Invita tions right now. GARDENING ACTIVITIES GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH HAS struck a popular chord In his appeal to the school children of the State to get busy In increasing the food supply. For several years the thoughtful men in the agricul tural and stock-raising districts of the United States have realized that the population of the country was fast outstripping the Increase in food production. E. T. Meredith, publisher of a fcuccesgful farm periodical in lowa, calls attention to the fact that the meat supply in particular is falling behind, and ho suggests as a stimu lant to Increase meat production and dairying "that few things could be more effective than to Interest and encourage our junior farm helpers In livestock farming." This periodi cal Is strongly supporting the Boys' and Girls' Club movement and favors loans to the young people to en courage Increased production. It believes that by interesting the farm boy and girl in individual effort, farm life Is made more attractive find profitable as well. Governor Brumbaugh is on the right road In his efforts to arouse the people to the necessity of making every acre of ground In Pennsyl vania yield something this year In the way of food. There has never fceen a time In our history when the farming Industry promised so much la tho way of return. Millions of men will be employed In the Indus trial and munition plants. These must be fed and likewise the armies of the Republic and their allies on the other side of the Atlantic. Farm people are unusually prosper ous and there Is nothing In the situ ation to discourage an expansion of farming activities. Capital Is abundant and banks patronized by farmers throughout the country are full of money. Their deposits have been Increasing constantly during the past two years. Crops for the coming season will find an Imme diate and high-priced market. It's the farmer's day. But In addition to the regular tiller- of the soil, the volunteers In town and city must Join the forces for the feeding of A nation. No time is to be lost and the "loafing hillsides," as the Governor chw- WEDNESDAY EVENING, acterlzes the unused farm areas, should burnt forth In tatness with i the coming of the harvest. Right here in Harrisburg the I vacant lot Is already disappearing under the busy cultivation of the amateur farmer. Potatoes and corn, and beans and peas and other vege tables are being planted and every bushel will count In the grand total of food production. There Is an enormous trade bal ance in favor of the United States which has been piling up since the beginning of the war. This balance now approximates $6,000,000,000, and with the Increased expenditures of this country to finance Its share of the war the effect In holding steady business conditions Is regard ed as favorable. Whatever lull re sulted from the declaration of war is expected to be followed by renew ed Industrial and business activity. Merchants and others are already figuring on how to obtain the mer chandise that will b'e needed rather than upon the disturbance of trade. Whether the war ends soon or not, the conditions are believed to be favorable on a long period of in dustrial and commercial activity In this country and this fact is likely to give a tremendous Impetus to farming activities. Also, the selec tion of soldiers for .our armies from ail classes will not seriously affect the industrial situation. So it follows as night the day, that the outlook of the farmer, and the farmer's boy and his girl. Is not at all gloomy. With a big demand for all crops farming and business, the experts declare, will proceed with in creased vigor. The Intolerable hotel conditions, which now bring the blush of shame to every public-spirited citizen, justify those who are making- possible the Penn-Harrls In urging upon all who have manifested no real interest in the big enterprise their personal re sponsibility to the community. Owing to the rising cost of all materials the splendid hotel, which has been de signed for the Opera House site, will probably exceed the original esti mates and It will depend upon those who have thus far taken no substan tial part in the hotel movement whether any essential feature shall be eliminated. ARE YOU A MEMBER? i TIE Red Cross membership cam paign Is nearly two weeks old. Hundreds of Harrisburg peo ple have enrolled. The committees are now making a house to house canvass. Treat them kindly when they come. They are on a mission of mercy. The dollars they collect will be used entirely for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers in the field or for the relief of the families of needy soldiers at home. Have you Joined the Red Cross? If not, why not? Have your answer and your dollar ready when the campaigners ring your door hell. Council is absolutely and eternally right in going after the smoke nuisance. And while about it the sift ing of river coal all over the paved streets should be stopped. There are carts that do not leak like a sieve. UP TO HARRISBURG IT is distinctly "up to Harris burg" to prove itself in a class with New Bedford. When Lewis Buddy, the National Boy Scout organizer, was in that city recently the men back of the Scout movement there decided to raise $12,000 for the purpose. They not only succeed ed, but Increased the contributions to more than $16,000. The citizens' committee which has charge of the Scout campaign here haa decided to procure a like amount. Will Harrisburg be con tent to lag behind New Bedford? We think not. When those Rotarians get behind any good movement and shove there's no stopping the avalanche. That's why the Boy Scout campaign is going j to be a hummer. "OM> GIiORY BREAD" THE food situation has come to an acute stage indeed when New Tork hotels begin to prac tice economy of foods. "War time bread" Is an item now appearing on some of the menus, and the Mar tinique thinks so much of it that it has sent It broadcast to news papers all over the land. It sounds so good that the Telegraph is glad to co-operate by passing the word along. Here's how: Four ounces of Vye flour, twelve ounces of whole wheat flour, three pounds of white flour, one quart of water, one-half ounce of yeast, one ounce of salt; mixed and baked in the usual way. There was a time when "home made bread" was the main stand-by at meal time In millions of homes. Today it Is almost unknown. Per haps It would not be so great a hardship If the present crisis brought the home loaf back to Its own and reintroduced again the art —for art It was—of bread-making in the home. To President Tracy and the directors of the Chamber of Commerce: You have done many admirable things. Why not go still further in pushing the claims of Harrisburg upon all tourists. Meanwhile and notwithstanding, the colleotlon of ashes need not wait a survey. PATRIOTS ALIJ THE most Impressive feature of Saturday's great demonstration was not a part of the parade and only those In line caught the full significance of it. All along the route veterans of the .Civil War clad in ( full uniform of the 'Sixties stood In front of their homes, erect and at attention, saluting the standards and the heads of divisions as they passed. Too well along In years to march, these men could not refrain from playing their part. Without con certed action, but moved by a com mon impulse, they put on their worn blue coats and their campaign caps and took their places on porches and along the curb to show their colors and to remind those who paraded that they,too, had once been young; that they, too, had heard the clarion call to arms and had re sponded, freely risking their lives for the flag that means so much to all of us. They would do as much to-day. The flesh may be weak, but the spirit Is as strong and as loyal as ever. They are patriots all, whose records prove that they have been as ready to follow the flag when the bullets are flying as when the bands are playing. School officials and all others who fail to lead the youth under their charge in every patriotic movement are falling short of a duty. Students who are not led should themselves turn leaders. It should be said for the school teachers of Harrisburg that they have always met public expec tation in this regard and the excep tion only proves the rule. TolCUct Ck By the Kx-Committeeman Representative George W. Williams' declaration in the House yesterday that the people of the State and the legislators are sick and tired of hav ing Philadelphia factional rows ven tilated in the halls of the General As sembly and that the members desire to work on bills and not to talk has found strong support among legisla tors and among newspapers of the State. There was much talk to-day about the Capitol over the possibili ties of adjournment and while the decision of the House not to receive bills after May 1 was not regarded as indicating adjournment would take place very soon it was plain notice that the members of the lower branch desired to close up. One prominent official said to-day that the people were getting tired of having legislators play checkers while the tire-alarm was ringing, and this brought out the retort from a prominent legislator that the Are chief could bring about a better feel ing if he complied with the terms of the constitution and sent his nom inations to the Senate. Some of the country legislators were threatening to-day to move to drop Philadelphia bills from the cal endar as there is not much chance of getting them through and men from Western Pennsylvania were re marking that in all the years that Pittsburgh was accused of bringing its factional fights to the Legislature for settlement it had not produced such a crop as Philadelphia had dumped on the present General As sembly. Nothing has come from the Gover nor about when he will send in his appointments and the lawmakers say that if the session is strung out into July the responsibility will be as much on the Governor as on the law makers. —Commissioner of Labor Jacksoar has furnished not only the Capitol but the State an interesting example of what he considers loyalty. The Com missioner yesterday told the joint committee on appropriations that he expected the men under hin) to be as loyal to him as he was to the Governor. The evidence given by him showed that he dismissed people without regard to experience or serv ice when directed to do so and named in their places men who were given to him to appoint. The Commission er's view brought out some sarcastic comments from Senators about whether there should not be loyalty' to the public and the State as well as to the Governor, and Dr. Jackson said that if he could not be loyal to the Governor he would resign and that was all there was to it. —Approval of the bill to make Clinton county a separate judicial dis trict will mean that Judge Harry Alvan Hall will have Elk and Cam eron as his district. Clinton will elect its first judge this fall. —The story that Senator Charles A. Snyder does not plan to take office as Auditor General on May 1, was pronounced baseless to-day. —Auditor General Powell Is at work on the closing up of the work fn his department. Ho will bo pre pared to turn over everything on Tuesday. It is said that a number of men in the department will tender resignations when Powell's term ends, but will serve until successors are named. —Civil service had another inning at the Capitol yesterday afternoon, although in the House the bills plan ned by the men active in such affairs in Philadelphia have been getting short shrift. The Wallace bill was advocated before the judiciary local committee and will be reported out to-- s/oice - hold tw "HELUoV' WROmO - hello - li this- t \ voice- " IS number.'. C RN^,T" ' HUM IfPko - *™ TH,S 4577 / '•☆!!? UA W ' CE " EDITORIAL COMMENT THIS IS A GOOD PROGRAM [Chicago Herald.] Our national financial program must be based on the idea of dis turbing Germany as much and busi ness as little as possible. ALARM TEMPORARILY ALLAYED [Houston Post] In order to keep our readers ac curately informed, we take pleasure in announcing that up to this time no German raider or submarine has been sighted in the Texas panhan dle or in the Kansas wheat fields. IT 'HAD TO BE SOMETHING [Springfield Republican] Influenza is no respecter of per sons, but it is an odd chance that it should have struck the premier of Austria just as another resignation, by the usual timetable, was due. The Bible and War When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hat'n taken. Deuteronomy 24-5. And Mosats said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?— Nu mbers 32-6. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: There Is a noise of war in the camp.—Exodus 32-17. He maketh w'ars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burnetii the chariot in the lire.— Psalms 46-9. Every purpose is established by course; and with good advice make war.—Proverbs 20-18. It Was an American Bull Some of us went over to the Juarez bull ring the first Sunday in March. A decree promulgated by Venustiano Carranza stood in the way of a gen uine contest; so certain dauntless, in domitable and skilled hotnbres of local renown were billed to put on a grand,' extraordinary and most noble combat with live fierce bulls from the celebrated Santa Clara ranch. The gates were thrown open again and in trotted a big, dark red Here ford. His markings were excellent; he was unquestionably of the Amer ican breed. They jabbed a banderilla into his shoulder as he entered from the chute and he kicked one hind foot to shake off the sting. Then the padded chulos went at him with their cloaks and tricKs; the picadors poked him with blunt lances; they rode their horses almost on top of his horns to tempt him to gore. Hut that bull possessed a wonderful dis position. He would not lose his tem per. He would not show fight. He could not be coaxed Into a fight. The flaunted red capes and other Insults under his very nose. They thrust at him with wooden swords; they even slapped him between the horns with their hands. One tried to leap on his back; another danced tauntingly in front of him, inviting a charge. The Hereford evaded their every effort. There was a worried expres sion on his massive, kindly face, but he would not get angry. He turned from his enemeis and trotted around the arena. Coming to a pile of straw that had leaked from a picador who had come undone, he paus-ed to eat. They exhausted every means known to the gentle art, but that bull would not tight. And suddenly a great yell went up from the Mexican crowd. "Toro Americano!" they shrilled gleefully. "American bull! Amer ican bull!" Gales of laughter went crackling round the ring. They whooped and huzzaed, and in tho midst of the merriment the big Hereford was driven ignominlously from the arena. The incident is not important, but It Is highly significant; for In those shouts of derision was reflected tho Mexican opinion of us. And that opinion Is directly responsible for their attitude to-day and for their receptivity to every influence hostile to the United States and American interests. They are firmly persuaded that nothing could Induce us to fight. In their estimation we rank with the Chinese. The bulk of them believe that the United States would fall an easy prey to their veterans. — George Pattullo In the Saturday Evening Post, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Petitions the Court To the Editor of (he Telegraph: Deai- Sir —In reading your valu able and patriotic paper last evening, I chanced to read the item enclosed herewith. It certainly is very, true that the cost of living is higher now than it has been in the last flfty years, and' the shortage of food is greater than I have ever known. Now dear editor, I want to ask a question. We who are able to to care for our families and have work, have a hard time to get food, but what about the poor mother of five children whose husband is in jail and she is with out help; and what about other mothers of 2, 3, 4 and 5 children whose husbands are in jail? What are these poor wives and children to do for a living? I know of a case in my neighborhood of a family of four children, the youngest two months old and the oldest fourteen years. The father of this poor family is a good and willing workingman, but through a little misfortune he is in jail for four months, and must stay three or four months more, and the mother is in a sickly condition. What shall these poor people do for a living? Our city is doing every thing possible to show her patriotism and I am proud to be a resident of a city that shows its patriotic heart like Harrisburg is doing, and has done in the past. Dear Editor, Harrisburg can do a very great act of patriotism in help ing these poor families whose hus bands and fathers are in jail. Could not our honorable court put these fathers on parole or arrange some other way to send them home to help their families? Could not the keeper of the prison give the names of the men that have families in need, to our honorable court and ar range some way to send these men home to help their poor families? I know there are some that it is im possible to let go, but there are some that have a part of their time served and could be sent home to help their families. This would be a very pa triotic act. It would save lots of little children from suffering, and would save the county the expense of feed ing these men and at the same time these men would give their services to our shops and mills where their services are needed right now. I hope Harrisburg will show the same patriotic spirit along these lines as she has shown along all other lines. As a daily reader of your paper, I hope you will publish this letter and devise some way to start such a move. Will some of the other readers please give their views on this mat ter? Again asking you to please pub lish this letter, I remain, Sincerely yours, A HARD WORKING MAN, and a Faithful Taxpayer. Baby Between the Trenches A day was dawning on a battle tleld in Northern France through a fog so thick that none could see more than a few yards from the trenches. In the niglft the Germans had drawn back their lines a little and the French had closely ad vanced, but between the two posi tions a lone farmhouse was still standing. As the sun rose and the fog cleared and the gunners found their ranges, heavy guns began to boom and answer back. Thus began again the old, old, wearisome story of day after day of desolation an