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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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EJ.J. ST ACKPOLE, Pros't &■ Editor-in-Chief
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OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
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TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8
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Pessimism is easier than optimism, as
tearing down is easier than building up;
therefore we should be the more on our
guard against it. — JAMES BRYCE.
WE SALUTE THEM
f A LL Harrisburg rejoices to-day
General Joffre and the dis
tinguished Frenchmen in his
party escaped injury in the railroad
wreck of last night. But all Har
risburg likewise regrets that the in
cident makes impossible their visit
to-day.
General Joffre Is second only to
Lafayette among Frenchmen in the
hearts of Americans* Had he found
It possible to pause for a moment
in this city he would have been ac
corded a welcoming reception quite
as warm as that with which the peo
ple of Harrisburg received the bril
liant young Lafayette, when he rode
horseback into town to pay his re
spects to the Governor of the State,
for whose freedom he had rendered
such heroic service.
It is a grievous disappointment
that General Joffre is not to add his
chapter to that of Lafayette in the
annals of Harrisburg. But in the
safe-deliverance of him and his
party from peril we are happy, and
In spirit we salute them.
The Ohio State Journal, discussing
bread, talks of "the standard loaf,"
but there ain't nft such thing.
BARLEYCORN MOST GO
STRONG pressure is being brought
1 to bear upon Congress to en
act a general prohibition law to
conserve millions of bushels of
wheat for food. A prominent busi
ness man of Maryland has used the
newspapers for an advertisement of
■Ltelegram which he sent to Presi
d\t Wilson on this subject as fol
lows* \
For dVd'a sake, for humanity's
sake, fortthe nation's welfare, I
earnestly al*d urgently appeal to
you to use yJliir influence to pro
hibit, during the war at least, the
manufacture and sale of intoxi
cating liquors throughout the na
tion, which traffic causes waste of
more than $2,000,000,000 yearly
and is destroying soul, mind and
body of drinker.
If the capital dry, why not the
nation?
This and other telegrams have
been falling upon the President and
the Congress as an avalanche of ap
peal. A week or two ago more than
a thousand leaders in all depart
ments of activity sent telegrams urg
ing the prohibition of the manufac
ture and sale of liquor for the period
of the war. In one of the leading
pulpits of Harrisburg Sunday it was
announced that the congregation
would be asked to consider a reso
lution providing for prohibition at
the services next Sunday.
Thus the great wave of sentiment
is rising all over the country and
what other nations in this way have
done we must do.
The ex-Czar, It is said, has taken up
play writing, which shows that he
Reeds a business manager. He could
make far more in the movies.
MUZZLING THE PRESS
SPEAKER CLARK and other
leaders of Congress have
taken firm ground against the
proposed espionage bill providing
a censorship of newspapers of the
United States. Congressmen of all
parties declare that the provision
in the pending act is in direct viola
tion of the constitutional guarantee
of free speech and a free press.
It is quite certain that the news
papers of the United States are as
patriotic as those who would muzzle
them with an alleged war regulation.
One of the chief troubles of the Brit
ish nation during the war has been
the failure of those in authority to
keep the people advised of the con
ditions and the requirements. Ameri
cans are accustomed to publicity of
their govermental activities and aside
from purely military information
there is no excuse whatever for put
ting on the lid through an alleged
war measure.
"ships that pass in the night" gen
erally are missed by the submarine.
FOOD SPECULATION
/""CERTAIN activities of food apeou
\ y latora Justify the most string
ent regulations within the dis
cretion of the President to prevent
unreasonable prices as the necessi
ties of the nation increase. Already
men are scouring Pennsylvania and
entering into contract with farmers
and others to purchase their pota
ftoea in the field at a price which
TUESDAY EVENING,
would be the basis of excessive
charges in the autumn. Plainly, some
regulations must be adopted to pre
vent the cornering of food products
—not only by speculators, but by in
dividuals so selfish that they pro
pose taking care of themselves at the
expense of all others.
Already the TELEGRAPH has
called attention, through an inter
view with one of the leading com
mission houses of Harrisburg, to the
practico which exists of purchasing
canned and other goods largely in
excess of present requirements in
order to Btock the larders of those
able to anticipate future needs. This
naturally results in an abnormal sit
uation and the jumping of prices to
meet a fictitious demand.
With the approval of the admin
istration at Washington, a bill has
been introduced in Congress author
izing the President whenever in his
opinion the national emergency may
require:
To fix maximum and minimum
prices for food, clothing, fuel and
other necessities, and the articles
required for their production;
To prescribe regulations to gov
ern the production of these com
modities, and, if necessary, to
requisition the producing fac
tories, mines or other establish
ments;
To compel holders of necessities
to release them in amounts in
suring equitable distribution;
To regulate exchanges in such
a way as to eliminate market ma
nipulation;
To compel railroads to give
preference to the movement of
necessities;
To levy such important duties
as he finds necessary to prevent
excessive "dumping" of foreign
products, and
To impose limitations or prohi
bitions upon the use of grain in
the manufacture of liquor.
These limitations and regulations
would be in force only during the
period of the war, but no one will
question the wisdom of some such
plan to prevent an unfair distribution
of foods as well as waste and ex
travagance.
What a perfectly grand summer
this is going to be for the potato bug.
CARING FOR DEFECTIVES
IN a recent leaflet issued by the
Charities Association of Penn
sylvania, it is urged that now
is the time to try the experiment
so strongly advocated by experts in
the care of dependent, defective and
delinquent men and women, of
utilizing their physical power a'nd
developing their mental and moral
strength, by permitting them to cul
tivate the land.
Owing to the great need of exten
sive food production those who make
this suggestion contend that these
defectives would thus contribute
something to their own support, thus
lessening the burden of their care
by the community; they would be
taken out of idleness, which can do
nothing but harm to them and the
community; they would, perhaps,
contribute something to the general
surplus stock of foodstuffs in the
present emergency; they would re
quire less of costly supervision and
restraint; they would regain, in some
part, their self-respect and normal
attitude toward society.
This interesting suggestion is re
ceiving more than usual attention
under present circumstances and the
recommendation goes further in
pointing out the importance of estab
lishing State industrial farms, the
development of agricultural indus
tries at State institutions and the
utilization to the fullest extent pos
sible of the farms connected with
county homes and almhouses.
It is right, of course, that the men
of the National Guard should have
their chance in the camps for the
training of officers. Should they have
been excluded it would have been
most unjust, for the National Guard,
especially of Pennsylvania, has made
good. •
PREPARING FOR PEACE
WHILE many of the most able
leaders of the country are
engaged in preparations for
war, others are just as deeply
immersed in preparations for the
peace that will follow the war.
Our international relations in com
merce have given these leaders
cause for thought and a strong
effort is being made to increase the
good feeling which now prevails
among the allied nations. One writer
says:
Our war time experiences ought
certainly to have brought home
to everybody the importance to
our domestic peace and prosperity
of having a strong position and
outlook In international affairs.
Everybody now knows that no
nation, however big and pacihc,
can keep out of war simply by a
sincere desire for being left alone.
Likewise, that no nation's bread
and butter is independent of in
ternational conditions. The rest
of the world has forced a hectic
prosparity upon us and at the
same time international commerce
has reached right up to our do
mestic hearthstones and raised
the cost of living to heights never
before known.
This same writer declares that
the war has brought opportunities
to this country, but with them new
responsibilities and new possibilities
of Berious character that we cannot
ignore. There is a very general con
sensus of opinion among those who
know much of international comity
that we must cultivate our new rela
tionships and take our proper place
In the family of nations.
Dauphin county will make a fine
showing in the returns of the extra
agricultural efforts of the year. Not
only are the Harrisburg girls and
boys joining in the work, but also
hundreds of old and young in the
country who have not heretofore par
ticipated in the raising of crops are
now cultivating the land in every di
rection.
We talk much of the autocracy of
the -Kaiser's realm where the people
must do and say just what the Kaiser
approves. We must be careful in the
United States that the effort to throt
tle the newspapers does not partake
of the same sort of dictatorship.
Sports generally arn going to be
hard hit by the war. Prizefighters
are already on the siding and so many
of the athletic young men are re
sponding to their country's call and
going into camp daily that the athletic
interests must b* maintained by. the
older men on the golf links and In the
less strenuous play where youth Is
not a prime factor.
The Department of Parks has given
orders that the stretches about the
new Cumberlaritl Valley railroad
bridge on Front street shall be re
stored by the contractors under the
provisions of their original agree
ment. When these stretches are put
in shape that section of the River
Park will be one of the most attrac
tive In the city.
tK
By the Ex-Committeeman
Members of both branches of the
Legislature appear to be favorable to
closing up the business of the ses
sion of 1917 on June 14, but the
question of how.to do it is what Is
stirring up discussion. Some of the
eastern senatorial leaders want to
take a recess on that day and come
back and review appropriations and
appointments, while western sen
ators and House leaders, backed by
many up-state members, desire the
whole thing settled by an adjourn
ment. It is believed by the rural
members that but little good can
be accomplished by a recess and
that as far as appointments go the
governor has the best of It.
Influential Republicans are urging
adjournment on June 14 as the best
way to ctose up the business. The
Philadelphia Record, which gives a
Democratic view, says: "In all prob
ability the adjournment question will
be threshed out finally at a week
end conference in Philadelphia,
where Penrose will be heard before
the decision is reached. A meeting
of all the House chairmen has been
called for to-morrow, at which the
matter of adjournment will he dis
cussed. Each chifirman will be ask
ed to report the number of bills
in his committee, the earliest date
on which they can be reported out
and the business whlcn his commit
tee has to transact. At the confer
ence a definite idea is expected to
be gained as to when the Legislature
can finish the work now before it."
—York county is getting to be as
bad in the matter of ventilating
partisan and factional politics as
Philadelphia. Last night the House
had another outbreak of York poli
tics over the poor board bill. This
measure, which amended a century
old law. was killed last week after
an attack on it by York Democrats,
who have been rowing over York s
old statutes most of the session. A
motion was made last night to re
consider the defeat of the bill which
was done and then the bill passed by
139 to 30. j j
—The York Democrats demanded
a verification of the roll call and
Mr. Laucks challenged some names.
He "got in bad" and Speaker Bald
win said that he would suggest that
members be sure they were right
before starting anything.
—To emphasize the situation
Messrs McNichol and Stern, leaders
of rival Republican Philadelphia
factions in the House, united in sup
port of a bill.
•—An organization known as tlie
Slate Committee on Industrial Af
fairs and comprising men interested
in the civil service reform, organized
labor and other lines bas entered
the lists in behalf of the appropria
tion for the State Department of
Labor and Industry, which it is the
announced intention of tlie legislat
ors to cut down. The committee
issued a three page defense of the
department.
t-Commissioner Jackson Is due to
continue his discussion of his re
quest's for appropriations before the
joint appropriation committee this
afternoon. When he finishes the
Public Service appropriation will be
taken up. „ .
—Woman Suffrage advocates have
Issued an interesting questionalre
regarding the proposed bill to give
vi omen the right to vote for presi
dent. It gives some questions and
answers that have attracted much
attention. „ . .
—The Philadelphia city adminis
tration has ousted Mrs. Edith W.
Pierce, the only woman street in
spector in the city. It was the re
sult of a shakeup In a bureau.
—Urging the support of the Re
publican organization to the condi
dacy of eight members of the Phila
delphia Judiciary whose terms of
office expire this fall. Congressman
John R. K. Scott yesterday told
members of the Philadelphia Re
publican City Committee that the
Legislature wrote Into the statutes
doubtful legislation when It passed
the act providing for the election of
Judges on a nonpartisan ballot. "Be
fore the act was passed," said Con
gressman Scott, "they had been en
dorsed by the Republican party, and
were frequently endorsed by other
parties, because of their honorable
services. In a degree the nonparti
san ballot has had the effect of forc
ing the members of the Judiciary
into politics." The committee will
back the judges.
—Archibald M. Hoagland, former
District Attorney of Lycoming coun
tv, was elected mayor of Williams
port. last night, to succeed Jonas
Fischer, resigned. He was chosen
by council by a vote of 3 to 1, at
the eleventh hour, to prevent an ap
pointment by the court, as prescrib
ed by the Reidleman act provid
ing for the filling of vacancies in
city commissions of third-class cities.
W. G. Von Neida was chosen by
the council three weens ago, but he
declined the honor. Since then the
council has been meeting nearly
every day in an effort to reach an
agreement on the mayoralty. Hoag
land's election came as a surprise
to Willlamsport. He was elected
dlrtrlct attorney by the Republicans
In 1911. Last spring he was an un
successful candidal* for the Re
publican nomination for Congress in
the Fifteenth district, against Con
gressman Edgar R. Kiess and W. W.
Champaign, of Wellshoro. Williams
port has been without a mayor since
January 2, when Fischer resigned
to stop quo warranto proceedings to
compel him to prove his citizenship.
Silly Class Distinctions
As a Southern man, I represent
equally rent, capital and wages,
which are all confounded in our es
tates —and I protest against attempts
to array, without cause, without a
color of pretext or plausibility, the
different classes of society against
one another, as if. in such a country
as this, there could be any natural
hostility, or any real distinction be
tween them —a country in which all
the rich, with hardly an exception,
have been poor, aiid all the poor may
be rich—a country in which banking
Institutions have been of immense
service, precisely because they have
been most needed by a people who all
hßd their fortunes to make by good
character and industrious habits.—
Hugh Swinton Legare.
Charles M. Schwab says:—
The mnn who attracts attention Is
the man who is thinking all the time,
and expressing himself in little ways.
It is not the man who tries to dazzle
his employer by doing the theatrical,
the spectacular. The man who at
tempts this ia bound to fail.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
If the German people by revolu
tion will not overthrow the House of
Hohenzollern, the armies of the
United States, of France, of Eng
land and the others of our allies
must do it. —Philadelphia Inquirer.
We seem to be in danger of an
acute attack of our old trouble of
asking for expert advice and then
deciding that we know better, if the
Joffre view of an American army in
France is criterion. —Kansas City
Star.
Labor Notes
Proprietors of mills in South Caro
line are spending J 1,000,000 a year
in the improvement of living and
working conditions. South Carolina
now has a well-enforced child-labor
law.
Cooks and Waiters' unions in
Springfield, Mass., and vicinity have
organized a district council to se
cure an equal wage scale and to ex
tend the principle of one dijy off
in seven.
A commission to investigate the
relations between the Dominion
Coal Company and VtS employes has
been appointed by the Canadian
Government under the provisions of
the enquiries act.
Union labor at Philadelphia has
dropped its opposition to nonunion
men and has appealed to them to
help the Government • mobilize all
available mechanics for work at thf
arsenals and navy yards.
Long hours have forced dentists'
assistants at Butte, Montana, to
realize the necessity for organiza
tion, and they have formed the
Dental Assistants' Union and will
apply to the A. F. of L. for a
charter. s,
Advertising Policy Changed
The Acme Tea Company, which'
was the first important concern to
abandon the use of trading stamps,
is one of the leading figures in the
$24,000,000 merger which was in
corporated as the American Stores
Company, In Delaware, last week. \
The other members of the combine |
are the Bell Company, Robinson and
Crawford, Chllds Grocery Company j
and George M. Dunlap Company. i
Chandler and Company, Inc., of
Philadelphia, who handled the fi-1
nancing state that in place of the
old method of house-to-house circu
lar advertising there will be largely
displays in the newspapers. Tho
new chief has announced that none
of the old employes will lose their
positions through the merger, since
it will be the policy of the company
to extend the territory and open
more stores in cities already occu
pied.—Editor and Publisher.
George Hensel on Fast Time
George W. Hensel, the Quarryville
philosopher, a brother of the late
Attorney General Hensel, tells this
good one:
"A picture was recently taken in
Germany in one-millionth part of a
second which recalls the story of a
drink that wasn't taken in Quarry
ville. In declining, the dutiful hus
band, with tremor borne of disap
pointment and pathos, murmuring
regret, uttered these words: "I would
be delighted to Join you, gents, but
if I was to take a drink to-morrow
that wife of mine would smell it to
day."
"This Is faster time than they
make at Havre de Grace."
Using Our Resources
[Kansas City Star]
*ln a big war the problem is to
utilize our resources to the fuyest
degree, and to put every man in the
position where he will do the most
good for the country.
Is there any question that Theo
dore Roosevelt's enormous Influence
and abilities could be put to better
use than in permitting him to raise
and lead a division to France?
The Press Gag Fails
[New York Tribune]
There never was any excuse for
the press muzzling section which
Attorney General Gregory Injected
into the espionage bill. That section
In its original form—and in every
other form in which It was offered
by spokesmen of the administration
—represented merely a crafty effort
to abridge the freedom of the press.
A Prevalent Idea
[Chester Times]
The Government is asking the
newspapers to advertise free of
charge all war advertising. And of
course the ammunition men and the
oil men and the bankers will be ex
pected to do their work for nothing.
Not so you can see, 1U
THE LIBERTY LOAN
\
THIS generation has no personal
experience of how a national debt
may be a national blessing, says
the New York Times. Neither are
there pleasant memories of the time
when some tew Americans bought
government bonds both at a discount
and at a sacrifice as a matter of
patriotism, and found their funds re
turned to them after years with &n
increase which would have aroused
suspicion if promised by a get-rlch
ciulck concern. Our previous national
loans which were floated in war time
were issued as a basis of national
currency, and were taken by banks
in great sums, although there was
also a popular appeal. The Liberty
loan now announced is to be differ
ent. Bank subscriptions are discour
aged. The appeal is to the million,
or rather to the several millions, it
is to be hoped, who wish to put their
cash in the field against Germany,
For that reason there Is need of a
campaign of education regarding the
manner in which the billions asked
for may be given in confidence that
they will return to thq giver after
having done a work of beneficence.
The loan is a means of making pa
triotism profitable, and of reducing
the burdens of war. Billions will
not be raised by taxation without
reaching every man's pocket. The
time if/ coming when rich and poor
alike will have to choose between
putting funds into the Liberty loai
Science to Catch U-Boats
[From the New York World]
Can a submarine be made to give
notice of its presence as It passes
through the water and register its
whereabouts to watchers on shore
far away? The intimation that Edi
son is working in conjunction with
French scientists to perfect an elec
trical device to locate U-boats at
sea stirs the imagination. Science Is
the great detective; it catches the
waves of motion set going by an
earthquake thousands of miles away
and has instruments to record the
thoughts that pass through the' hu
man mind. But certainly neither the
seismometer nor the sphygmometer
| can match a mechanism so delicate
and precise that it can note and reg
' ister the noiseless passing of an in
visible boat under the ocean's sur-j
face far off.
This is the very wizardry of
science. That the invention is within
the realms of possibility will appear
entirely credible to a generation
which has known the wireless and
knows Edison. Assuming that It Is
made practicable, a certain poetic
justice will attach to tne fact that the
country which gave the submarine to
the world should provide a scientific
defense against it.
Courier-Journal Loses an Idol
[From Loulsville-Courler Journal]
The closing debate in the Lower
House of Congress before It pnssed
the army bill by an overwhelming
majority Saturday was darkened by
the following vapid burst of un
meaning vulgarity from Speaker
Clark, who had all along predicted
the defeat of the bill:
"A lot of old skunkers all over the
country who think that nobody Is
going to be forced into this war ex
cept boys from 19 to 25," the Speak
er said, "and that their miserable,
cowardly hides will be safe, have
I been sending telegrams here. I know
them. I know every man in my dis
trict who has telegraphed me, and
I know who is at the bottom of It.
and I can take a double barreled
shotgun and run out of my district
every man who sent, me a telegram
to vote for conscription, and, if
school doesn't keep too long, I will
run a few out, too."
In his speech at the banquet of
the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association In New York the Hon.
James W. Gerard, lately United
States Ambassador to Germany, as
the report tells us, arraigned Speak
er Clark for his advocacy of the
volunteer system and expressed
thanks that "some beneflclent prov
idence which keeps the American
people from putting forward their
near-statesmen" Intervened In 1912
to prevent Mr. Clark from getting the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent. "I was one of the financial
supporters of Mr. Clark's campaign."
said Mr. Gerard, "and In the light
of events I am not sorry that he
was beaten."
The Courier-Journal desires to say
"ditto" to Mr. Gerard. It was one
among the foremost newspaper sup
porters of Mr. Clark in 1912. Un
der Its lead Kentucky Instructed for
him and lior delegates voted for him
to the last. The bare thought that
such a man might be President of
the United States Is little short of
appalling. Surely God has this coun
try In his holy keeping!
or wasting them. We have wasted
perhaps five billions annually In ways
more or less harmless, In indulgences
and amusements and careless man
agement of personal finances. The
people are to have the question put
to them whether they prefer the
ways of the slackers and wasters, or
whether they prefer that their sur
plus funds should buy instruments of
victory.
When the people are saving to buy
the Liberty loan, they are getting
behind the men behind the guns. A
dollar in the national loan is both a
dollar saved for the owner of the
bond and a dollar for the upkeep of
soldiers and sailors of the nations
fighting against ruthless warfare. Ev
ery dollar of the five billions yearly
wasted on indulgences makes other
people work for the spenders. Every
dollar spent for the Liberty loan
helps those working for the com
mon cause. Every dollar the nation
spends comes back with Interest to
those who enable the nation to spend
it. The money must be borrowed be
fore it can be spent. It Is borrowed
to spend. The spending means wages,
and prosperity for the thrifty. To
waste a dollar is to help Germany by
lessening your country's resources.
To save a dollar and lend it to your
country or our allies is to benefit
yourself equally and to provide the
i funds to ease life for those perhaps
tunable to lend to the country.
Commandeering Schwab
[Philadelphia Inquirer]
Charles M. Schwab has been for
some time at Washington in confer
ence with the military departments
and it is intimated that his services
are to be commandeered for the war.
No force is required. A few days ago
Mr. Schwab offered his Bethlehem
and other plants to the government
without any stipulations whatever.
It is well known that Mr. Schwab
now has armor plate, artillery and
munition plants which produce In ex
cess of the famed Krupp works at
Essen;. He has some of the largest
shipbuilding yards in the country
and turns out practically everything
that is needed in war except explo
sives. When the government decided
to build an armor-plate plant of its
own, Mr. Schwab protested that it
was unfair to those now making
armor plate, that this country got its
product cheaper than any other and
offered to let the government fix the
price at which he should furnish
armor-plate. This was refused.
Now Mr. Schwab Is almost the
right arm of the government. No
man In the world knows more of his
special subject than he and none is
prepared to do the Nation a greater
service. In the coming months Beth
lehem will be able to do for this
country an enormous amount of of
fensive and defensive work. A few
years ago there were those who
snered at Schwab as a dreamer. He
had a vision which has cJme true.
The grocer's clerk of the last genera
tion has become the Krupp of Amer
ica and on a patriotic basis.
Legal Tender
To the counting house we led him
and we showed him all our store.
And we said: "Here's gold In plenty.
Take your nil and take again!
Cover France with golden dollars!
Tell lis, what could we give
more?"
Like the blare of far-off bugles,
comes the Marshal's answer
"Men!"
"Here is steel to keep the cannon
belching death without a pause.
Here Is food and fat and fuel: here
are ships—supplies,—anil—then,
Many million hands to labor. What
could better serve our cause?"
Hark! "To arms! Form your bat
talions!" echoes through his an
swer: "Men!"
Men alone are legal tender! Men so
precious, men so dear.
That no other coin will answer.
Ther'B no specie half so high!
Ask of mothers who have paid It.
Ask of France if you would hear
What a darling wealth she squan
ders, Freedom's costly pearl to
buy.
This bg then our city's salvo to the
Hero of the Marne.
As with cheers and tears we greet
him:
"Marshal Joffre, we spurn the
'cant's'
And the 'wlll-we? won't-wc? must
we's'."
As you saved us at the Marne,
So a living wall of manhood do we
offer now to France!" ,
—Charlotte Holmes Crawford.
MAY 8,1917.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Women of Belgium Charlotte
Kellogg (Funk arid "Wapnalls SI.OO
net) —Here is another side of the
war—a side which no author has as
yet treated as a unit—a side just as
vitally interesting as that wliigh is
daily going on in the trenches —a
side which has a particular interest
to America. This country has sent
millions of dollars in cash and in
food and clothing collateral to Bel
gium. And in this volume is given to
us an inspiring word picture of what
has happened in a war-devastated
country because of our generosity,
plus. For the open hearts and hands
of America could have accomplished
but little had it not been for those
women of Belgium who so magnifi
cently turned tragedy to triumph.
"Women of Belgium" is a glowing
tribute to the Belgian women, who
being helped, helped themselves —
who, accepting gifts from us are
"honorably proud'' in being able to
consecrate these gifts not only to
bodily sustenance, but to the means
which shall bring a greater, more ef
ficient Belgium when freedom shall
come.
Charlotte Kellogg is the only
American woman member of the
commission for the relief of Belgium,
and she spent eight months there
seeing and studying the system
which is holding the bodies and in
dustries of Belgium together. Her
volume is a series of short sketches,
unconnected, but all combining in
drawing a graphic word study of a
work which described in the words
of Herbert C. Hoover, head of the
commission, who says "our task and
theirs has been to maintain , the
laughter of the children, not to dry
their tears."
The entire profits of this volume
so to the relief commission. In ad
dition to having published a volume
in such a worthy cause, the pub
lishers have published a book which
should And a place in the heart of
every American and especially
among the women, whose sisters In
Belgium are so heroically carrying
on a task of stupendous proportions
that life might be preserved, that
cheer and comfort might be dis
pensed, that Belgium after her
months of torture might rise a na
tion honored, respected and loved.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
CAN'T PLAY WITHOUT FOOD.
"Let's invite the Dobb's In to
night for a game of cards."
"Dear mo, no. I haven't got any*
thing to eat In the house."
SAFETY FIRST.
"What's the matter Mrs. White?"
"Why this young varmint 'as
•wallowed a cartridge and I can't
wallop 'im for fear It goes oft."
' A LADY KILLER,
; "I wonder what happened when
: the dish ran away with the spoon."
"I suppose It vaa a aad blow to
| the potato washer,"
Ebgtttttg (gfralfl
Under tho plan which seems to
be likely to be adopted for tho list
ing of the men for tho new army, tho
registration and enrollment of
V ?M 6 * 8 mae &lnery of Pennsylvania
will furnish the means of notifying
uncle Sam how many men aro to
be had for war. This machinery
nas been perfected by a decade of
service and Is conceded to be about
as good as that of any State In the
union. in the three largest cities
there are registration commissioners
havo charge of all registration
of voters and In the third-class cities
there are registrars under direction
of the county commissioners. In
other municipal divisions assessors,
also under the county commisslon
e£s' ,<•<> the work. if this system
should be adopted for Pennsylvania
be put Into operation with
little trouble. No one as yet knows
what the government will ask or
what the State will use to furnish
the information, but the presump
tion is that cards will be distributed
to all men between certain ages, say
19 to 45 years, and on a certain day
they would be required to assemble
at places to be designated by the
sheriff or some other officer, and en
rol! their names and hand in the
cards. It would be a sort of general
muster day, of which we used to
read in old times. Early records
show that Harrisburg, which was a
hotbed of patriotism in the Revolu
tion was a place for general muster
and that long after Harris Ferry be
came Harrisburg in 1785, the people
of the town and of the country
round about gathered once or twice
a year in Market Square, where to
the music of drums and fifes they
formed in lines, marched and an
swered rollcall, while new men and
those just of fighting age put down
their names. General muster day
was a great occasion in young Penn
sylvania and Harrisburg used to
make a gala occasion of it. And in
those days Harrisburg had anywhere
from three to five military companies
and everyone else who could bear
arms had to muster. We may be go
ing back to that old-time system
again for this year.
• • *
State Treasurer Robert K. Younfc,
who retired yesterday, first came to
Harrisburg with his father who was
a famous legislator years ago. He
was a member of the Legislature in
stormy days and a man of much
force. Twenty years ago Robert K.
Young was elected to the 1807
House and served in some of the
liveliest sessions, his independent
stand attracting to him the attention
which made him a State figure and
caused his election as Auditor Gen
eral, which office he took just ten
years ago. it is an interesting co
incidence that it was twenty years
ago that lie entered the legislature
and ten years ago that he entered
his first State office.
*
Major Genera'l Charles M. Clem
ent. commander of the Pennsylvania
division of the National Guard, was
here yesterday In connection with
National Guard matters. The general
said that like the guard ho waa
ready for service.
♦ • *
Dauphin county's potato acreage
will probably be the largest ever
j Known in the history of the county
when the potatoes are all planted
and everything Is in readiness to
count the area. Tho demand for
seed potatoes has been very heavy,
say the dealers and farmers, and the
number of persons out preparing
ground or planting is greater than
the average person knows. Indeed,
it is a case of going out to dig gar
den and plant in the evening lnste:#l
of playing baseball with the "kids"
and the people to be seen on vacant
plots about the city are men .with
the hoc who work until It is too
dark to work any longer.
♦ • *
Soldiers and watchmen on duty
about bridges, water plants and
other places in this city and vicin
ity have become so familiar with
people living here that the average
man probably does not realize that,
the guardsmen are on business and
that it is not safe to disobey. The
i orders to the guardsmen are to fire
when orders to halt are disregarded
and the fate of men in other places
should be a warning, say officers. The
■ chief difficulty is that the people
are on such good terms with the
; stalwart fellows on guard that' they
i aro apt to forget and cross some
: point where they should not go and
■ to disregard commands.
• * *
It might be remarked in passing
that this is the only county through
which the mission will pass which
| bears an offiial French title. Dau
phin was named in honor of the
I Dauphin of France, a tribute to
French aid in the Revolution.
•
Just when the rain was pouring
the hardest Saturday afternoon a
little boy not more than eight camo
slowly wending his way down Sec
ond street. A large touring roadster
was standing along the curb with a
very much bedraggled American flag
drooping over the rear end. The lit
tle fellow paused a moment, turned
and picked up the folds of the flag
and reverently pressed it to his lips,
and then let it fall. An observer no
ticing the little patriot, remarked
the home that had given him his
training was the type of homes that
have furnished the country with tho
patriots who have aided her when
she needed them most, and the type
•: of teaching that has an incalcuable
influence for good at any time.
' ] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Colonel Richard Coulter, Jr.,
commander of the Tenth Infantry, la
quietly getting some of his compan
ies up to full war strength.
—Bishops Franklin Hamilton and
John Hamilton, who are brothers,
spoke yesterday at the big Methodist
celebration in Pittsburgh.
-—Judge Hell, of the Clearfield
courts, who Is one of tho men elected
two years ago, has warned saloon
keepers' getting licenses that IW'
must check all disloyal convene**
tion In their places or take ooniu.
quences.
—D. S. Kless, prominent Tyrone
man, has been chosen as the hea>*
of the new Blair Chamber of'o*&
merce.
—Dr. Henry S. Pratt, who has
1 just returned from Belgium, is a
member of the Haverford faculty.
—Bishop McCloskey, who was
consecrated a few days ago in Phil
adelphia to go to a Philippine
cese, celebrated mass yesterday at
his former church in Media, con
firming seventy children.
—Judge C. F. (iummey, of Phila
delphia, is back at his home in tho
country where he goes as soon aa
May comes around.
DO YOU KNOW
■ .
—That Harrisburg had one of
the biggest parades In Its history
in honor of General Grant?
| tUSTORIC HAIUUBBURO
Thirteen companies are credited
to this community 1a the War of
ma <-r j.r,
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