10
HARRISBIiRG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Founded iSjt
Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEtiR VI'H PRINTING CO.,
Telcffriiph BullillnflTt Federal Square.
■E.J. STACK POLE, Prat Sr Editor-in-Chief
P. R. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GL'S M. STEIXMKTZ. Managing Editor.
/Member American
Newspaper Pub
jfVr'STf Ushers' Associa
tion. the Audit
Hureau of Clrcu-
BBjgfl lation and Penn-
HBfiflß h sylvania Associ
{filisij[ atod D""eg
flfll! 556 SR Eastern office.
g| Story, Brooks &
fi&fiSSltOl Finley. F|f th
SSS.I. M Avenue Building.
SLsUaB W New York City;
Western office.
Story. Brooks &
jliS Finley, People's
- Gas Building.
—_ Chicago. 111.
Entered at the Post Office in Harris
burg. Pa., o;. second class matter.
By carriers, ten cents a
week: by mail. $5.00
a year in advance.
THURSDAY EVEXIXG, APRIL 26.
Watch ye. stand fast in the'
faith, quit you like men, be \
strong—l Cor. 16:13.
' I
THE DONATO STATUARY
IT must be remembered that the (
placing of the Donato statuary j
or the failure to place it will!
play an important part in the cam- |
paign for members of the City Coun- j
oil this year. This tine group of stat
uary, the gift of Mr. Hershey, foun- j
der of the great chocolate industry ;
in our eastern suburbs, has been re
posing in a warehouse for a year or|
two without reason or excuse save j
petty difference of opinion as to i
where the group should be located.
Harrisburg is not going to take ■
any backward step through supine- 1
ness or indifference or neglect of any j
official or officials. The people are'
not so blind as they sometimes seem !
and there is bound to be a reckon-
ing of the stewardship of those who !
have been chosen to serve in public j
places. , j
It is a disgrace to the ci 6' that this J
splendid gift should have been so
long neglected ;tnd the generous don-1
or has reason to feel that there was
mighty little appreciation of his do-1
nation. If the city will not set up
this statuary in some suitable place,
then it is due the citizens of Harris- j
burg that the municipal authorities
wash their bands of the whole mat- j
ter and place responsibility for do
ing the right thing upon the com-1
•mumtyat large.
Few Harrisburg people are idle
with respect to war preparedness.
Their activities do not all run in one j
direction, but the industry manifested j
means a creditable showing for a pa
triotic community. While some are !
interested in the Red Cross move- ]
ment. other.- are engaged in boosting I
the planting campaign and still others
are giving thfir time to the Commit
tee of Safety and the work of prepa
ration which involves head and hand.
MEAT AND CLOTHING
IN view of the urgency of the sit
uation regarding food produc-,
tion in the United States, the '
subject of sheep raising has again j
come to the front Time was when
thousands of flocks of sheep cover
ed the hills of Pennsylvania and
there would seem to be serious oc
casion for a return to this industry.
No effort should be neglected for the
production of food for the armies
of the country and for those who
will continue the industrial activities
so necessary for a nation.
One of the serious drawbacks to
the sheep industry of this State has
been the ravages of dogs which have
made sheep growing almost impos
sible in certain districts. One dog
will frequently destroy a whole
flock of sheep in a single night. There
is now pending in the Legislature a
bill which restricts the keeping of
dogs for the benefit of growing of
sheep and cattle and making in a'
large measure the owner of the dog
responsible.
At a meeting before the House
Committee on Agriculture this week
the difficulties which confront the
sheep raiser were developed, especial
ly with reference to the menace of
unrestrained dogs. During the hear
ing the great problem of food pro
duction was uppermost and as the
State Department of Agriculture is
supporting the bill it is believed that
It will become a law at the present
session.
Elsewhere in the TELEGRAPH
this evening is reproduced interesting!
Information regarding wool produc- i
tion and the plight of the United
States as a result of reduction in
the amount of wool raised for tex
tile manufacture. The war has cut
oft to a larse degree the supply from
the rest of the world and the raising
of sheep in America and elsewhere
is bound to receive increasing at-,
tention. The dog has been the worst
enemy of the sheep industry in the
Eastern States and flocks have been
scattered and strewn in heaps of
dead. It is stated that in some coun
ties the industry has been entirely
wiped out and in others badly crip
pled. 'Washington county, In this
State, was once the banner wool pro
ducing county in the world. The
writer of the article from which ex
tracts are printed in this paper to
day says 5,808 sheep were killed in
Pennsylvania last year and In
one county of Michigan 192 head
were killed in night by two dogs.
There is no more timid animal than
the sheep and the dog is a real men
ace to the Industry. This same au
thority states that dog-proof fences
THURSDAY EVENING,
can be erected without great cost
and in this way sheep could be
saved.
Our soldiers must be protected
through proper clothing and wool
will play a large part In our war
preparatlohs.
Germany is already feeling the Im
pulse of regeneration through sacri
fice. The people are demanding re
forms in government and it seems
hardly possible that the Kaiser and
those associated with him can long
resist the pressure from within and
without.
COMMUNITY TREES
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH'S
suggestion for community trees
in the new Capitol Park ex
tension is a happy thought. Every
municipality and community in the
State is to be permitted to plant
and own its particular tree.
Nothing would do more to give
the whole of Pennsylvania a feeling
of personal interest and ownership
;in Capitol park than this planting
iof community trees. What a pleas
ant thing it would be to have dele
gations from Altoona, Williamsport,
Reading and the other cities and
towns of the Commonwealth coming
to Harrisburg to celebrate the set
ting out of their trees on the lawns
of the Capitol park extension.
The first thing that the Legisla
ture has to do is to provide money ]
for the preliminaries, the grading
and the planting. That will occupy
at least two years. By that time
the scheme of decoration will have
been so well established and so defi
nitely outlined that there will be no
difficulty in having the Legislature
appropriate the necessary money, j
There is ' every disposition in the I
present session to set aside as much
as is necessary to give the project
a proper start, so that as early as
next Fall or Spring, at the latest, ;
the planting pilgrimages may begin. )
FOR A STATE FAIR
IN a booklet issued by the Spring- ,
field, Mass., Board of Trade, i
much attention is given to the >
launching of the Eastern States'
Agricultural and Industrial Exposi- j
tion which has "provided an instru-)
mentality for the regeneration of j
New England agriculture." It is set ;
forth that the impelling motive of
this undertaking is service and not
self advantage—helpful loyalty to
New England, not greed for Spring
field's glorification.
The purpose of the Springfield ex
position is to promote agriculture
and industry in the Eastern States.
Additional buildings are to be pro- j
vided this year and already the en
terprise is attracting much atten
tion.
All this is quite interesting, in view
of the effort locally to estabish the!
Keystone State Fair and Industrial
Exposition on the fine site between
this city and Middletcwn Owing to
the war and other complications the
proposition here has not been pushed
to fruition, . ut those interested are
understood to be quite hopeful of
success. It is said eighty-cftght citi
zens of Springfield gave over $400,-
000 to the exposition in that city and
there is widespread interest in the
undertaking.
The capital stock of the Massa
chusetts corporation is $753,000,
divided into 30,000 share; all of one
class of a par value of J25. Theodore
N*. Vait, the great leader of the Bell
Telephone Company, is one of the
vice presidents and many of the
prominent manufacturers and busi
ness people of Springfield are direct
ly interested.
The racetrack at Springfield was
dedicated last July with a three
day meeting. There is also a lagoon
of ten acres for ice and water sports.
Many of the necessary buildings have
been provided and still others will
be constructed this year.
It is believed by those who are in
terested in the Keystone State Fair
and Industrial Exposition that no
site in the United States is superior
to the tract now being developed east
of Highspire. Many stockholders are
scattered over the State and it is
believed there will be general inter
est in the enterprise once the plans
are fully matured.
Speaking of the Springfield Expo
sition, the Secretary of the Massachu
setts State Board of Agriculture in
his annual report for 1916, says:
Seldom in the history of the
agriculture of this country lias
i such an achievement as that un
dertaken by the business men of
i Springfield been aocomplinhed.
Less than one year ago. guided by
' a group of business men. hpring
' field undertook to establish a
I large agricultural and industrial
exposition in that city. Too much
credit cannot be given to those
men who have given freely of
their time and money in further
ing this enterprise.
Pennsylvania is now without a
State fair and it would seem that
•the time is ripe for the placing of
the exposition here on a permanent
basis, especially in view of the great
and increasing interest in food pro
duction and stock raising.
Our ~ distinguished guests from
France and Great Britain are certain
to receive a lasting Impression of the
cordial co-operation of the United
States in the effort to suppress Prus
sianism and to extend a wider measure
of freedom to the peoples of the
world.
Couldn't some of the corner loafer
boys be impressed for farm work?
By the Ex-Commlttpcman
The Senate resolution requesting
the Governor to make appointments
to fill long standing vacancies and to
send names to the Senate for confir
mation is not likely to force the Gov
ernor's hand. At the executive
offices to-day it was stated that no
appointments were likely seen and
that there was no Intention of send
ing names to the Senate for the
present. The Governor has refused
to make any comments upon the ac
tion of the Senate or the valedictory
of Senator Charles A. Snyder.
The explosion in the Senate has
not improved the general situation
at the Capitol and it was openly de
clared to-day that it looked as
though the session would be pro
longed and the inquiry of the appro
priations committee into depart
mental appropriation requests would
go on down the line. Thus far the
inquiry has not been productive of
important results.
Members of the rural legislators'
organization who forced the fixing
of May 1 as the last day upon which
bills could be presented are planning
to make a determined tight to get a
May date set for final adjournment.
They may change their plan to call
for May 24 and make it May 31.
They are opposed to a June date.
—Auditor General-elect Snyder is
planning to take charge of the Audi
tor General's Department at noon
next Tuesday. State Treasurer-elect
Harmon M. Kephart will take his
office the following Monday. Sena
tor Snyder has refused to make any
statement regarding his probable ap
pointments of what his policy will
be.
—Ex-Senator Ben Jarrett, of Shar
on. is declared by the Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times. to be leading in the race
for the Republican nomination for
Congress in the Twenty-eighth dis
trict, for which Governor Brum
baugh is expected to call a special
election within a few days. Jarrett
is a former Bull Mooser and was one
of the leaders of the independent ele
ment in the Senate. Lately he has
been hand in glove with the regulars.
The names of Representatives Dan
iel B. Goodwin and T. \V. McKinney,
of Venango: Ex-Senator J. M. Camp
bell. of Mercer, and Representative
John Siggins, of Warren, have been
mentioned. The Governor will give
thirty names notice of the election
and in the meantime conferrees will
meet and make the nominations.
—This special election will be the
second the Governor has called. The
first was called for the Twenty
fourth district, where ex-Lieutenant
Governor William M. Brown died
befotje he could assume office and
Congressman Henry W. Temple was
re-elected.
—Attorney General Brown holds
that the Governor does not have to
accept the resignation of Congress
man O. D. Bleakely, but that Mr.
Bleakley ceased to be a congressman
when he filed his resignation.
—Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is
still indignant over the refusal of
Auditor General A. W. Powell to pay
the Philadelphia primary bills, but
will hold back on the proposed court
action to recover the money until the
fate of the Patton bill to make the
appropriation is decided.
—Webster Grim, former State sen
ator and former Democratic candi
date for Governor, was at the Capi
tol yesterday to watch the Legisla
ture. The old leader and Judge E.
C. Bonniwell, of Philadelphia, took
considerable interest in watching the
Democrats perform yesterday.
—The rural legislators will have a
meeting next week to outline further
plans on legislation. They are mak
ing up a list of bills to tight and it is
possible that they may declare war
on all Philadelphia bills which have
a political tinge. The Democrats are
taking advantage of the formation of
the league to get in some whacks.
—The House has been making
quite a record for industry even if it
is not getting very far with the tre
mendous mass of bills before it.
many of which go to the Senate and
are not heard of again. Yesterday
afternoon it cleared up over forty
bills.
—Rumors of retaliatory changes
to be made in various departments
on Capitol Hill in the event that Au
ditor General-elect Snyder starts a
violent housecleaning were heard
about the Capitol to-day.
—Approach of the expiration of
the term of State Treasurer Young
has revived the report that he may
become public service commissioner.
Governor Brumbaugh is understood
to regard Mr. Young very highly.
—Democratic State Chairman Mc-
Lean is understood to have decided
to let Joe Guffey, the acting chair
man, run things a little longer as Mr.
McLean expects to be called into the
federal service soon. Perhaps Mc-
Lean thinks the task of handling the
Democratic legislators is hopeless
and that Guffey, who started a lot
of things, may as well take the
blame for the failure to make a
showing.
War For Lasting Peace
[Chicago Times.]
In the circumstances it is not
strange that the trustees of the Car
negie endowment tor international
peace should have declared their be
lief that the most effectual means
of promoting durable peace is to
prosecute the war against Germany
to a final victory for democracy.
There can be no lasting peace so
long as any one nation or any par
ticular group of nations is in a po
sition to subject the rest of the
world, or considerable parts of it, to
the danger of conquest. Peace main
tained by force of arms; over subject
peoples is worse than war. Nations
who seek to enlarge their boundaries
at the expense of other nations are
not deterred by mere pacifist talk.
Just as order within a nation rests
in part upon the existence of an or
ganized police system, prepared to
use force against lawbreakers, so in
ternational peace must be guaran
teed by a properly organized inter
national agency strong enough to
curb anv disturbing nation.
After this war is over the world
should be guarded by international
agreement against new outbreaks of
armed aggression.
Garrison Recalled
In the satisfaction which the na
tion feels over the belated activities
in certain directions, it must not
forget the splendid service of those
who at one time labored and warned
in vain, only to be ridiculed and
misunderstood by many now so ac
tive.
The New York Herald recognizes
this in reminding the people that
if the advice of Lindley Garrison
had been taken two years ago we
would be in far better shape to meet
the present situation, which every
keen observer knew would come if
the war lasted long enough.
Former Secretary of War Garrison
was one of the big men who saw the
country's needs when all others in
power were denouncing as unwise
alarmists those who had the percep
tion of Garrison. The Herald is right
In Insisting that the splendid Judg
ment of Mr. Garrison must now lie
recognized. From the Bridgeport
Post.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
— . —— x
The Days of Real Sport b v briggs
v '
Uniforms Should Be Worn I
[Washington Post]
The officers of the army and navy,
without exception, should wear their
uniforms. The officers of the depart
ment of the East are in uniform, but
others have not been required to
wear them. The officers in the de
partments,' although performing war
duties, are still in civilian clothes.
It is not an idle and negligible
custom that requires the defenders
of this nation to wear a distinctive
garb. In time of war the matter be
comes important. An army or navy
officer should appear as such here
after wherever he may be. His
identity should he known, his rank
made plain and his work facilitated
by prompt recognition of his author
ity, so far as it extends.
The uniform is the visible re
minder of the government and the
flag. It calls for respect. The pub
lic is proud of the army and navy,
and will show its respect whenever
it can. The wearers of the uniform
are set apart for special service
which can best be performed by
courteous and ready co-operation by
the public. An officer in uniform
cannot forget his martial character
and duty, nor can the public be ig
norant of" the attitude it should take
toward him.
"National Potato Day"
A "national potato day" is urged
by Captain G. M. von Schrader, of
the Missouri State committee of the
Navy league of the Cnited States, to
meet the world shortage of the po->
tato crop. Captain von Schrader, a
former naval officer, has purchased
a farm in Missouri. After careful
investigation of conditions, he said:
"The necessity of increasing the
food supply in our country is evi
denced by the appeal of the govern
ment to the farmers to increase their
crops. To bring the present war to
a successful issue, the necessity of
food is as important as ammunition
and fighting men. No greater aid can
be given by the people at large to
our country nor more patriotic deeds
accomplished, than to assist in cor
recting this deficit.
"The potato is one of the greatest
staples of life. Owins to their high
price, the average farmer has been
forced to decrease his acreage, be
ing unable to buy seed, selling to
day in the neighborhood of $3 a
bushel. To assist the farmer in pro
curing this seed, I propose to have
a national potato day, on which ev
erybody in the country will donate
either potatoes or money. Let the
poor man or the child give one po
tato and the rich man a hundred
bushels—each according to his
means."
Acme of Tact
A lady in the suburbs was consid
erably annoyed to find her neighbor's
fowls continually overrunning her
garden and nlaying havoc with the
geraniums. "Go round to the next
door, Jane," she said to her new
English maid, "and point out to Mrs.
Jones that her fowls bother us a
good deal, and ask if she'll kindly j
try to keep them at home."
The girl returned with a satisfied
look on her face. "I don't fancy we
shall 'ave 'em around 'ere again in a
'urry, ma'am," she replied.
"1 hope you wete polite, Jane,"
remarked her mistress.
"Oh, yes, ma'am," came the re
ply.
" "Missus respects,' I ses, 'and if
your fowls ain't kept at 'ome you
won't be gettin' so many eggs of a
morning", and we shell be eatln'
poultry.' " —Christian Register.
It's a Home Job
[Kansas City Star]
Whether this country meets its
obligations in supplying food to the
world in this emergency must de
pend, not on the federal govern
ment or on the States, but on the
individual communities. These out
side agencies can help. But the real
responsibility lies at bome.
The job before the Nation is to
see that there are no slacker acres.
This can be managed only if every
farm community and every town
takes a hand. Local conferences can
call attention to the waste lands, can
arrange for cultivating them, can see
that necessary financial help is pro
vided, and often can get the extra
labor needed by forming volunteer
farm squads of boys. -
The State commissions undoubt
edly can accomplish much. But
communities need not wait for these
commissions to tell them what to do.
They can go ahead on their own
initiative. m
Americans are used to home rule.
They accept responsibility without
waiting for a central government to
direct them. Now, is the chance to
put home rule into effect to increase
the food supply.
THE EPIC
"The production of wool in the
United States is falling off at such a
rapid rate that, unless the devasta
tion of our flocks should be arrested,
it will b%only a question of time un
til we shall be without wool for our
clothing. The sheep has been shab
bily treated by us. Now he is return
ing that treatment in kind, *and per
sons with a taste for figures warn
us that if we had to depend on the
50,000,000 sheep in the United
States for our wool, each one of us
would get a new suit of clothes only
once in four years, or a new garment
each year if we would be contented
with one reaching from the waist
band to the knees.
"Our plight is worse than that of
the Achaians after the flight of the
golden ram. All of us are suffering
from the wool shortage, and we will
suffer more and more, because we
refuse to grow the wool that would
keep us in comfort and security. We
ought to have 100,000,000 sheep of
shearing age to provide the 600,000,-
000 pounds of wool required each
year to make our clothing, one sheep
for each person. For each Baby
Bunting there should be a lamb to
furnish the tleece to wrap the Baby
Bunting in. We now import more
than half the wool we use, the world
supply is dwindling and no one can
say what the price six months from
now will be.
"Baby Bunting looks to the busi
ness man to provide his Teddy Bear |
suit and mittens, and thijt is why it]
is the nation's business to pay atten-|
tion to our wool supply and that
quickly, for the situation is critical.
That is why there is a lesson in the
world romance of sheep for the
American merchant and manufac
turer. They cannot have an adequate
understanding of our markets with
out a knowledge of the industry In
the countries whose product! play
such an important part among our]
people.
"Women are learning what the I
shortage means. The largest stores j
find it more difficult day by day to
get woolen piece-goods and dresses, I
and some makers of women's spe-1
cialties who formerly produced noth
ing but all-wool garments now con- j
tine themselves to those made of
cotton and wool. Our carpet manu
facturers, who used to depend upon
Asia, Turkey and Russia, see these
markets closing to them as our own
output of carpet wool reaches the
vanishing point.
Thus it comes that we are forced
to scour every nook and cranny of
the earth, every out-of-the-way and
barbarous spot, to get the wool we
need for our clothing, carpets and
felt goods. Faraway Thibet, China
and Persia, distracted Mexico, New
Zealand and Australia. storied
Egypt, the Cape of Good Hope, ltus
sia, Turkey and Argentina—all are
laid under tribute.
"But the foreign markets on
which we have depended are begin
ning to fail us. Changing fashions
here, expansion of agriculture there,
Checking Food Prices
[Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
Lord Devonport, Great Britain's;
food controller, after consultation ,
with Herbert C. Hoover, suggested, |
because of his experience in Belgium, ]
for the same position in this coun- j
try, approves the American's pro-1
posal that the feeding of the Allies
should be entrusted to a small inter-
Allied committee or bureau through
which all food supplies from Ameri
ca would be bought. .This, he says,
would avoid competitive buying j
among the Allies and the different
departments in the Allied govern-1
ments which, to a considerable de
gree, he declares, has been respon-1
sible for the high prices which Amer
ican consumers have to pay for their
foodstuffs.
It has been understood that some
such co-opeVation had been arrang
ed among the Allies some time ago,
and that it had worked so successful
ly in thwarting speculative holdups
that the Allies themselves had been
able now and then to manipulate
the market to their own advantage,
but if that were so the American
consumer has not noticed any bene
fit and Baron Devonport's own state
ment implies that It was not. Mr.
Hoover's energy and efficiency may
now be trusted to systematize the
business, if given the proper govern
mental support in this country, and,
in view of our admitted obligations
to feed our allies, that can hardly
be doubted.
Preferred Performances
Personally we don't care so much
about the physicians' healing them
selves, but we should like to see the
reformers reform themselves. —Ohio
State Journal,
decreasing flocks everywhere, make
it harder and harder for us to get
wool enough to clothe our people.
Some of the difficulties in which we
find ourselves are due to the war
and will in the main, pass away with
it. The peril that threatens us, the
peril that will not pass away with
the war. has its roots in our shiftless
disregard of things on which rest
soire of our most vital interests.
"The problem touches every man,
woman and child. It is not only an
American problem but a world prob
lem. not only a clothing problem but
a food problem, not only a peace
problem but a war problem. The
output of wool, in order to clothe
us, ought to keep pace with popula
tion, but in this case the world has
| lost its economic balance. Production
not only fails to increase with the
: children of men, but shows an alarnt
| ins decrease. As man grows, his
i clothes supply shrinks, and he must
| piece it out more and more with
; shoddy. The world's wool clip in
' 1916 was 2,700,000,000 pounds—
] more than 156,000,000 pounds less
i than in the preceding year. In some
I parts of the world, as the United
! States, there is a steady decline.
| Some countries seem to be at a
[standstill. Australia, on the other
I hand, gives promise of maintaining
I her position as a wool-producing
| country, unless more profitable use
i should be found for the land.
"The sheep must come back into
his own on the farms of the East
and the Middle West. The Depart
ment of Agriculture says he will
bring profit to tfie farmers with him.
For one thing, sheep are the scaven
gers of the farm, and do the work
at least as well as men with scythes
and grubbing tools. Then, at the
present prices of wool and muttqn—
and there is no reason to suppose
that high prices will not prevail for
a long time to come—a substantial
revenue can be derived from the
sale of lambs and wool. There are
cases on record to show that net re
turns as high as eight and nine dol
lars a head are being realized. The
greatest fortunes of Australia, and
some big ones In our Western Stales,
rest on sheep. Millions of sheep could
be raised on farms east of the Mis
sissippi that do not now know them,
and the poorest land need not be
given over to them either. Within
fifty miles of London, for instance,
farmers find.it good business to de
vote productive ground to the rais
ing of sheep.
"Manufacturers are praying for
sheep, more sheep. The marauding
dog has been doomed to death. It
may be the turning point in the life
of the sheep in the United States.
Barely more than tolerated before.
It is now sought for on every hand.
Only a few days ago a Wyoming
cattleman heard of a flock of 8,000
for sale in Montana and bought them
'sight unseen.' Within 4 8 hours he
had sold them at a profit of $10,000."
—By Anselm Chomel, in "The
Nation's Business."
Torpedoing Hospital Ships
[New York World.]
If it is the German desire to de
stroy whatever shreds of sympathy
for the cause of autocracy may still
linger in odd corners of civilization,
the deliberate sinking of hospital
ships should serve.
In a Hague treaty signed by Ger
many the safety of such ships is
guaranteed. To mark a sacred char
acter which until now has always
been respected they are conspicuously
painted and well lighted at night and
fly the Red Cross Hag. These lawful
precautions have not safeguarded
British hospital ships from subma
rine attack, but have made it easier,
more certain and more deadly.
In their purposed and avowed tor
pedoing of vessels bearing helpless
and suffering men the Germans
have sunk one which bore not only
234 British wounded but 107 of their
own men. Accustomed to the rutli
lessness of their officers;- these Ger
mans became panic-stricken, evi
dently fearing that they might be
abandoned. This made rescue diffi
cult, but the valor with which Brit
ish seamen have ever worked to save
life did not fail. All but 15 of the
Germans were saved; of the British
wounded and the crew 19 perished.
The murder of hostages, the de
portation of French and Belgian
workmen, and even girls of tender
years, to work as slaves, the name
less offenses against humanity and
decency in occupied lands, had well
j defined German kultur. But'lt has
won fresh laurels now; hereafter
hospital ships must gd unmarked,
and at night, unllghted. The wound
ed, Germans and British together,
are safer so than under the flag of
mercy the world has been taught to
honor.
APRIL 26, 1017.
I BOOKS "AND MAGAZINES']
Books and Magazines
Miss Florence Converse, who is
doing an interesting and valuable
kind of general-editor work in her
supervision of the little Schoolmate
Series of E. P. Dutton & Co., has
been for nearly ten years a member
of the staff of the Atlantic Monthly.
She is the author of half a dozen
books, novels and others, of which
one, "Long Will," has been put into
Everyman's library. Her work as
editor of the Little Schoolmate
Series is distinguished by the espe
cial preface, full of suggestive ideas
and vivid outining of backgrounds,
which shcj writes for each volume.
"The Call of the Republic," by
Col. Jennings C. Wise, of Richmond,
Va., which E. P. Dutton & Co., are
bringing out this week, comes at an
opportune moment, for it deals with
the question of universal military
training, upholding that measure,
showing its necessity and setting
forth the benefits that will result to
the nation as a whole, to communi
ties. to the body of the people and
finaly to the individual himself. It
has an introduction by General
Leonard Wood.
"He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are
stored," is the line of the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic," from which
Boyd i'able got the title for his new
war book, "Grapes of Wrath," which
is ready for immediate publication
by E. P. Dutton & Co.
No Doubt of It
In all probability a man caught
stealing chickens these days would
be indicted for grand larceny—Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
OUR DAILY~LAUGH
DOES A GOOD JOB.
"They say that lightning never
strikes twice on the same place."
"Well. It doesn't need to."
"You and Grunp seem to get along
pretty well."
"Yes, you see ho never borrows
anything hut trouble, and that's the
only thing I ever have to lend."
EVDEKSS
PROCESSION.
""(Cl ~" TT*" We've conquer
-51 ed germs,
yet as we
The microbe
/ JHN yielding to
A new one
_ comes and
—fij i | iHlrr proves to bo
I / I *** l Far more
m y sterlous
'• ™-*T L . than the
r*t.
th * idea - $L
The Preacher
you take a vaca- ? Jjfj
jthe football sea-
Stoning Gttfat
- •-T T '■ II —J
Formation of an organization
among the members of the House of
Representatives from Interior coun
ties which occurred yesterday at
the Capitol recalls the days of the
session of 1907 when 8. Taylor
North, of Punxsutawney. afterwards
chalnman of tho appropriations com
mute and later a Congressman, or
ganized the members outside of the
big cities and made a tremendous
fuss for a time. The organization
formed yesterday Is to be known
as the Rural Members League. In
3 907 the followers of North, who
made a fight against what he styled
"city domination," objected to any
identiiication with rural counties
and were dubbed members of the
"Country Club." The organization
effected this session was promptly
nicknamed the "Farmers' Alliance."
However, it contains members from
districts which are not rural by any
means and if handled right, can
come pretty near forcing various
things in the liouse. The balance of
power in the lower branch is some
thing interesting to watch and the
League may cause some decidedly
entertaining features. One of the
chief matters against which the new
organization has taken a stand is
the proposition to secure a new basis
for legislative apportionment. This
would have to-be done by constitu
tional amendment and it is already
in hand in the form of a resolution
which would make the House con
sist of 100 members. The rural leg
islators say that if this went through
it would mean that the centers of
population would have the members
and that the country would have
very little. Now, under the present
constitution, each county has a mem
ber of the House and big rural coun
ties like York and Lancaster have
four and five. The rural members
contend that if a change is made and
the membership reduced they will
get the worst of it.
Announcement of the plans for the
improvement of the Capitol Park
Extension zone made to the mem
bers of legislative committees on
Tuesday night by Governor Brum
baugh and Arnold W. Brunner,
creator of Cleveland's civic center,
have attracted much attention and
the lawmakers are studying the
proposition. The plan of making a
great central court just east of the
Capitol meets with general favor
and so does the proposition for four
rows of red oaks.
Mayor Miles B. Kitts, of Erie, who
was here yesterday to attend the
hearing on the Beidleman third
class city bill, is firmly of the opinion
that home rule is the solution for
the governmental system of the mu
nicipalities of the third class. "When
you consider," said he, "that this
State has communities representing
more diversified industries than any
other Commonwealth you can see
very readily that each should have
the government suited to it. Now
start in with Chester on the Dela
ware and you have a port and manu
facturing town. Then you go to
Heading and Coatesvllle, which are
different. Here is Harrisburg and in
the next county York which is a
town of many industries. Then you
go into the hard coal regions, then
to Altoona and Williamsport. Then
you have soft coal, coke, iron and
steel and oil towns and then a lake
port. There is no collection of cities
in any State like it and my point is
Uiat each one should have a gov
ernment suited to its local conditions
nnd under a general State regula
tion."
Banking Commissioner Daniel F.
Eafean tells a good story about a
campaign of a. couple of years ago
when he was campaigning with t'on
gressman M. M. Garland, of Pitts
burgh. Mr. Garland had a story and
from what Mr. Lafean says he work
ed it hard. The exigencies of'cam
paigning once brought about a situa
tion where a colleague of Mr. Lafean
was called upon to address an over
flow meeting while Mr. Garland was
speaking at the main meeting. This
colleague told the special Garland
story. Soon after Mr. Garland and
Mr. hafcan went to the overflow and
when the Pittsburgh man started to
tell his story, which was a good one
by the way, he did not get a smile,
lie put all of his ginger into it and
never a laugh was heard. He re-
I marked to Mr. Lafean that the audi
ence was cold and the York man
I sympathized with him. A day or so
later Mr. Garland was asking the
man from York a few questions
about who set up a scheme on him.
* • •
Thomas Henry Redmond, a resi
dent of West Philadelphia, and
father of Andrew Redmond, of this
city, has the joke on the officers of
the United States army recruiting
service in Philadelphia. Mr. Red
mond is 81 and appeared at the office
to see how things were going. He
asked to enlist and the officers at
once said'that they would take him,
his apparent age causing them to re-
Hard the offer lightly. But the tabid?
were turned when it was found that
Mr. Redmond met every test except
that of age. He was complimented
upon his splendid physical strength.
• * •
John D. Herr, former assistant
State zoologist, has written an inter
esting article in the Pennsylvania
Farmer on weeds. Mr. Herr says
that the direct loss to farmers
through weeds is much greater than
the average man realizes and that
weeds allowed to go unchecked on
one man's land make trouble for
many more because the winds take
the weeds for miles. Mr. Heir's sug
gestion to people at this time when
everyone is gardening is to kill the
weeds before they blossom and go
to seed.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Cyrus D. Foss,. the Philadel
phian,' hero to urge civil service, was
private secretary to Mayor Blank
en burg, of Philadelphia.
—Henry Cooper, Sr., former Sen
ator from Allepheny county, came
here this week to see his colleagues
in action. ■ ;
Stato Zoologist Sanders, who is
Just now lining up against the fruit
tree peHts, used to play football when
at college and keeps in prime condi
tion by hard exercise.
Governor Brumbaugh is some
what inclined to feel down on hl
luck. Pressure of business has kept
him from even one-half day's trout
tlshing this spring.
The Rev. John H. Spenee, of
Gaston the new head of the Bap
tists of the Reading districts, is a
clergyman well-known In this sec
tion.
1 DO YOU KNOW ]
That Harrlsburg has a num
licr of skilled trtit makers who
can help turn out munitions?
HISTORIC HAKRISBtIRG
The Harris Ferry Company of In
fantry was the first to be raised IB
this section la the Revolution.