8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISJI (Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELGGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Untitling, Federal Square. •E. J. STACK POLE, Fres't Sr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member American 6 Newspaper Pub lation and Penn- Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth -Avenue Building, —— a? °' Bunding* • —■——. Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. ====================== MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21 Remember, gentlemen, that when you meet with a diffi culty you are onjhe eve of a discovery.—Lord Kelvin. SELLING THE LIBERTY B©NDS OFFICIALS of the Clearing House Association are naturally pleas ed to accept the proffer of the bond agencies and salesmen of their services for the sale of liberty bonds in this city. Harrisburg people are never slow to find a way to accomplish any. task that may present itself. In this in stance the men whose business it is to sell bonds offer to give their own time and energies to putting the! difty of buying liberty bonds direct ly up to the people. • There is noth ing like personal contact in sales manship. Newspaper advertising has paved th 6 way. The people now understand just what these bonds are and the terms under which they are to be sold. They know, too, how important it is that the issue be fully subscribed in the time set. They will have no excuse, therefore, to offer when the salesmen call. The bond agents are volunteering thus to "do their bit." Treat them courteously when they call and buy as many bonds as your pocketbook will permit—or, better still, be pre pared to tell the salesman thaf you already have subscribed your full share. In Philadelphia, the other night, a Guardsman shot and killed a man who attempted to take a gun from another soldier. And, of course, the victim's friends think the slayer should be tried for murder. BUSINESS AND THE WAR CONSIDERING the great wealth I of the allfes with the assurance, that they cannot be beaten, j and with strong possibilities of com plete victory, depending upon how' far we jcare to push the advantage, that is now ours, it would seem un-1 questionable in any event that the! credit of France and England j should be perfectly good, but backed j as they are by the guarantee of the j United States their bonds absorbed i in this country will be a source of j the greatest prosperity for the American people. The future of the country is bright, from the view- j point of wealth widely divided, among the people; that Is, if the people themselves are wise enough to seize the opportunity offered. Following the Civil War govern ment bonds were common forms of credit and exchange and they form- i ed the basis of many a modest in come. They were often reckoned better than gold as they sold above} face value and the man or woman j who invested in them never had I cause to deplore the fact. We are! offered now the chance that our fathers had in the Civil War. It is! for us to economize here and there and lay ba:k something for a rainy day in the way of government fconds. This and the substantial taxation that is now proposed by the Government should have a tend ency, along with that of advancing costs, to produce thrift and economy that was the general rule of the American people two generations ago, and the lack of which was a considerable factor for poor business and slight financial stringency some years before the war. The large government loan would oeem to vastly stimulate the produc tion of this country as a whole, and at the same time decrease the buy ing power of the dollar, though the latter process has been in effect for some time. It would seem there has been- considerable depreclaUon in money values abroad, as exhibited in foreign exchange, besides the variation due to their Imports large ly exceeding the exports. . In an effort to maintain the value of their money, Germany has fixed prices for foodstuffs, but it has been necessary to vigorously restrict the amount that could be purchased by any one person. While the value of the dollar had been decreasing even before the war, and will probably decrease more rapidly now, there is reason to believe that there will be ■ome factors that should later act In the direction of eventually in creasing its purchasing power. As the price of food and other commodiUes increases, will con sume a smaller amount and receive a greater value for that which we export, giving us a splendid oppor tunity to save individually and col- lectlvely. As the chief executive of this country has expressed our lack MONDAY EVENING, of desire for conquest, the latter will probably be our compensating: fac tor for the expenditures we are mak ing. The Immediate effect of our large government loan should not produce a panic or great stringency, as the money will be deposited largely In the districts from which the sub scriptions are derived. It Is a trite saying that "Money is simply a medium of exchange." IJ would not seem a time to specu late, but a splendid one for pure and particularly long time invest ment. The men (also business con cerns and institutions) that can save and invest in the government, rail road, public utility and corporation issues, will render a service to the country, and will bo later well re paid for their thrift, far beyond the sacrifice of luxuries and waste that can be well dispensed with. Business promises not only to bo "as \isual" during the war, but "bet ter than usual." If we buy what we need, avoiding both extravagance and waste, all will be well and we shall have something to save beside. The country seems to be getting along very well with the grain ex changes closed. CHANGING ON TARIFF ris a remarkable and important fact that many newspapers and periodicals which until recently made light of protective tariff agita tion are now discussing the question seriously and admitting the probable need of a restoration of duties on the basis of the protective principle. Those Republicans who have stead fastly adhered to time-tried funda mentals will find some satisfaction in observing the capitulation of their opponents. "After the war" will not bo a proper time to take up the tariff j question. To leave the question un- • til peace has been declared would very likely involve us In embarrass ment In dealing with the terms of peace. It has long been apparent that at the close of the war the allies will endeavor to frame commercial policies among themselves to their mutual advantage and to the disad vantage o£ Germany. If, at the close of the war, we have still a low tariff policy with a multitude of commodities on the free list, we shall take up commer cial questions on an equality with Great Britain, whose normal policy | has been one of free trade. If, on the other hand, the close of the war finds lis with a protective law on the statute books, ( we shall have an ad vantage, for we should then be oper ating under our normal system and j could not be expected to make any! concessions. We could retain our I normal import rates more easily than we could impose them at the time we were participating in the establishment of peace and the new relations which we shall sustain to ward all the rest of the worluV We might be able to make some "con cessions" from high protective rates, but we would have nothing upon which to base concession if we were operating under a free trade policy. We should lose no time, therefore, in getting back to our normal "Am erica First" policy, so that we shall have that advantage when we nego tiate with the other warring nations j concerning future peace relations, j "The British perfect woman has been discovered —she is -to ;w\d the mother of five children," says a news item. That being the standard. Har- j risburg ought to be able to furnish at j least a half dozen for every block in ! the city. SETTING IDLERS TO WORK THE Mayor of Findlay, Ohio, has issued a noticj to the idle men of his city that they must work or subject themselves to forced labor. According lo the Morning Republican of that city, the Mayor j "has the support of every citizen in : his efforts to rid the streets and loaf ing centers of their parasitic groups and transform them into laborers for the nation's weal." Just how the Mayor expects to en force his order is not apparent. Per haps the vagrancy law of Findlay will govern the case. However that may be. it is altogether probable that the publicity given the Mayor's notice will create a public sentiment which will in itself drive the idler into use ful occupation. RAILROAD PATRIOTISM RAILROAD corporations and their millions of employes through out the United States are now on their mettle and will have an un usual opportunity to show what they can do for their country in a great emergency. This is the conclusion of a prominent railroad official and It Is reinforced by statements of other railroad managers. Efforts are being made upon ev ery hand to increase the railroad fa cilities and to assure the country of the highest type of efficiency in the operation of the 262,000 miles of lines. It is understood that without largely increased railroad equipment 1a cars and locomotives there will be a hampering of the mobilization of the nation's armies and the trans portation of the needed supplies. For tunately for the country, the rail road men —officials and emnloves— are patriotic and are determined to do their utmost to meet the emer gency. In a recent bulletin of the Amer ican Railway Association, through its special committee 4>n national defense, the need of co-operation In every department of the railroad service Is emphasized. Employes are urged to do theli- level best to achieve the highest efficiency in the operation of the roads under exist ing conditions. This co-operation is also Invited on the part of shippers and all who arc in any way inter ested in railway service. Among other things It has been suggested that the railroad officers ' and employes get together at dl vision points and consider the na tional situation In ail Its aspects, so that those immediately concerned may be fully acquainted with the need of the transportation facilities of the country at this time. There will also be conferences between railroad managers and commercial bodies, shippers and consignees, so os to enlist their aid in attaining the desired efficiency. It is a time when all must pull together for the safety and welfare of a great people. It certainly is a line thing to have several boys who Insist on seeing the circus. CH. f i KitO if&rcuvca fiy the Ex-Commlttecmnn Members of the Pennsylvania Leg islature may take a recess over next week because of Memorial Day and then come back and work until the last Thursday in June, when they may either adjourn or take a fur ther recess. The latter plan seems to be the most likely. For several days there has been gossip among the legislators here about a proposition to take a recess over Memorial Day and to-day It took form when several members de cided to suggest to the rules com mittee of the House that the lower branch work until Friday noon of this week and then adjourn until I Monday evening, June 4. It was pointed out by some of these men that the appropriation bills and oth er important House bills will l>e out of the way by Friday and that if they went home over the week-end and came back it would be for prob ably only two days' sessions. Members of the Senate are said to be favorable to the recess idea. By .the end of the week. If the House keeps the Friday program the Senate will have all of the important bills and the framing of a program for the last lap of the Legislature, as far as business goes, can then be taken up. The recess proposition is regarded .as ending all hopes of the Legisla ture winding up before the end of June and makes it reasonably cer tain that the appropriation bills will go to the Governor for action while the Legislature is in session. —Conservationists in various parts I of the State hare been writing here j for information as to the occasion for the Salus bill to provide for sale or lease of natural resources of the State and inquiring whether it would not interfere with the general plan of conservation of forests, water and other natural advantages of Penn sylvania, as well as the state forest reserves, to which the state adminis trations for the last decade have been committed. The bill sponsored by the Philadelphia senator would give the State Board of Property wide powers over coal under streams and timber on top of forest reserves. —Philadelphia bids fair to pre sent some new cases of entertain ment to the House this week as the Penrose people will make an effort to get the single barrelled Philadel phia council bill before the lower branch. This is one of the reform measures to which the Vare people are violently opposed. The opposi tion to the bill to keep policemen and firemen out of politics appears to have been appeased by some amendments. —After a lot of fuss the Phila delphia transit hearing set for to morrow and called off has been ar ranged again. Senator Kline, chair man of the committee in charge, wants to postpone the hearing be cause of some engagements, but pro tests were made in Philadelphia and checked it. —Hazleton is threatening to start enforcement of the old blue laws. Altoona has been enforcing them and creating more or less stir every Sunday. —The bill to repeal second class city nonpartisan act wnll be in the Legislature to-night and the re sult is being awaited with interest because it will indicate state-wide feeling. —Governor Brumbaugh spoke in a church in Philadelphia last night on the war and its problems for citizens. The Governor again re ferred to his intention to call upon members of the public safety units to act as watchers during the regis tration on June 5. —Judge Charles D. Copeland, of j the Westmoreland county court, is! in battle already. The Judge raised his stenographer's salary to $3,000 and when it was made an issue de clared that he not only stood for it but that he would be a candidate in 1919 whether his enemies liked it or not. —Democratic bosses are having trouble with York county postmast ers. They insist on more pay and the congressman has a large mall these days. —Joseph R. Grundy has given some very practical aid to his home borough of Bristol. There was senti ment in the town in favor of a bor ough manager to get things into a new business system and Mr. Grundy who had already been a substantial benefactor of the town, offered to pay the salary for three years, amounting to $6,000. The pouncil accepted the offer with a suitable expression of thanks for the gift. —C. P. Greenwood, former Ches ter county legislator, died suddenly in Philadelphia last night. He was. well known here. Frost Should Use Judgment Frost on the pumpkin at the right time is poetic. Frost on the tender tomato plant Is pathetic.—Toledo Blade. Retroactiveness Too Limited The trouble about a retroactive ilcome tax is that the thing it falls on won't retroact worth a cent.— Chicago Herald. Monkeying With the Buzz Saw The,head of the German Reich stag defies America, hut he should remember that defying America Is what, got the Kaiser a new enemy. —Atchison Globe. Hope [From. New Haven Evening Union] While Maximilian Harden lives, Germany will not be wholly without a vision of truth. The Watchful Spud [From the Boston Transcript] Remember that the eyes of tho potato are upon you. When Greek Meets Greek [From the New York Sun] When Frenchman meets American then comes the hug of war. * HARRISBURG TKLEGRAPH BUYING ONE OF THE POPULAR MODELS By BRIGGS jHf 'S GotJ |COMf I I'M VCRY <3I_AD T B I I THIS IS fuff?. 1 """—— >— A ITo BJV A y Rt lin MR. ' - ' >SpSS WE / , \PuRCHASiMC \ )1 \ ' lf£p S> MUST y-f (sjOT A I ' \ jML jQI j|§jp (Q CHftNCT I=l ^ P / 11 | 50R£ D amp In Rgality ==^==^ PLSAPPOIIVJTGJS IT WAS / j ' MORE ' < _ L>K£ This BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" 1 , "War Flames"'—John Curtis Un derwood, (Macmlllan $1.35). Rarely is one given the opportunity to get a truly vivid insight into a war it is being waged, but in "War Flames" one receives a conception that grips and appeals as no other war volume has yet done. Mr. Under wood's verse is indeed a marvel of fact, coupled with a true imagina tive power that places his work in the front ranks of tlie true artist. Notable, in tlie opinion of the writer, are his groups of verse written around Belgium and Austria the most appealing, but that does not detract from the other groups, groups written around every nation now at war. For every line portrays with brilliant, vivid colors an inci dent of this war, that now, with our own country in the melee comes home to us with additional forc&. And "Our Share," the envoi of the volume, speaks to America in clarion tones our weakness, our waste, our Godlessness. "War Flames" is writ ten with a wealth of inspiration gathered from a variety of sources, each inspiration touched by a mas ter hand with sublime imagination which carries the reader to a level from which he perceives a new per spective in the.tangled skeins of this great world war. "In the Claws of tlie German Eagle" By Albert Rhys Williams, special war correspondent for The Outlook. Some winced and cried aloud, oth ers turned white with terror, still others laughed defiant to thQ_ end. Caught in the Claws . the author shared with these fellow prisoners the torments of trial as a spy by the German Military Court in Brussels. Humor brightens the book where is described the faking of war pho tographs, and eternal romance lifts you above the red reek in the tale of the American girl the author aid ed in her search for her officer lover. Net $1.50. E. P. Dutton &■ Com panv, 681 Fifth avenue, New York City. Central Called Him She was a telephone girl, he a telegraph clerk, and they were con templating matrimony. They were sitting by the Are discussing the biissful time when they would have a little home of their own. The conversation drifted to the topic of tire lighting and he ventured the opinion that no man should get up and light fires in the morning. He should lie in bed and rest for the day's work. The girl stared at him IU silence for a minute, and then very sweetly, but with great firmness, said: "Dear man, ring off, please; You're on the wrong number!' —Ex- change. ■ ■ • Ex Patria May God forgive you Germany, For you know not what you do. • A loyal son, I can not keep The faith with such as you, I have a mother waiting Out there beyond the Rhine- May God -forgive you, Germany, Fatherland of mine! I said you were attacked, I lied; The ties of blood held fact But now the truth —those dreadful days Of doubt are safely past. I have a little sweetheart Somewhere beyond the Rhine— May God forgive you, Germany, Fatherland of mine! Belgium! Dusitanla! A friendly nation mourns! Sharp as a Uhlan's lance is Th' eternal crown of thorn* Ere you regain your reasons. Your foes must cross the Rhine— May God forgive you, Germany, Fatherland of mine! L'KNVOI. The call has come across the seas, I, too, must fall in line — May God forgive you. Germany, Fatherland of mine! —New York 'Times. ..St'' Charles M. Schwab says:— There are a good many things to be considered in selecting men for im portant positions. One of the things that I always take Into acount is their family relations. If a man's wife takes the part of a discreet helper, co-director with him, he is that much the more valuable to us. It Is a common enough saying that it is harder to save money than to earn it. The women of the United States have more to learn about their husband's money than the .men have to learn about getting it. ' That is. men are getting more out of thoir earning' capacities than their wives are getting out of managing the money which their husbands provide for them. f : \\ | THE NEW LOAN AND OTHERS \ MOST Americans Remember from their school days that the cost of the Civil war to the North was $3,000,000 a day. The sum seem ed tremendous, and indeed it was for those times. Very likely in pro portion to the population and the wealth of the day, it was as great as the sums expended by the Euro pean governments in the present world war. Still It sounds small In comparison with the $30,000,000 or more expended by the British gov ernment every day. And now comes the American gov ernment with plans.to raise $5,000,- 000.000 as/a long-time loan, besides $2,000,000,000 more in the form of treasury certificates for a short period. To this is to be added an other large sum raised by new tax- How long these sums will last no one can say. Should they all be expended within one year it would represent over $2 5,000,000 a day, SumlAys included. The wealth of the United States has been estimated as in the neigh borhood of $200,000,000,000, or roughly speaking, thirty times the amount of this loan. Germany, with a population of about two-thirds that of the United States, and with a wealth considerably less than one half that of the United States, has now floated six different lorfns ag gregating approximately $17,000,- 000,000. One cannot help wondering how soon her ability to raise ad ditional sums will end. What makes the contrast between the American government and the German government the more strik ing is that up to the present time Germany has done practically noth ing to raise by taxation the money needed to pay the interest on her huge loans. Not far from one-fourth of the last loan must have - been used to pay interest on the sums al ready borrowed. An interesting feature about the national indebtedness of nations is brought out by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is pointed out that the only two countries on the face Labor Notes Magnetized plates, to be fastened to a finger with clips, have been invented to save carpenters' time picking up nails. The Chilean Government will send an agent to study the paper-making industry and processes in the United States and Canada. The first farm paper was printed in England in 1081. and dignified it self with the title Collection of let ters for the Improvement of Hus bandry pnd Trade. In addition to improved conditions, Toronto brewery workers receive an increase in wages of from $1.50 to $3 p.er week. The present scdle of wages is sl6 and $2.5 a week. Twenty-four women are studying wireless telegraphy preparatory to their replacing the men operators employed at the navy short stations. The fishermen of the Gold Coast of Africa devote each Tuesday to the sea god, doing no fishing but utiliz ing the time to mend their nets. Legislation passed by the last Ten nessee State Assembly will go far toward regulating the evils of pri vate employment agencies. Connecticut State Senate has passed a bill that would prohibit the attachment of the body of a union man in a court action grow ing out of strikes. Southern Pacific R&ilroad officials estimate that the recent eight-hour settlement with train service em ployes will cost the company "be tween $1,750,000 and $2,000,000 a year." Secretary-Treasurer Persion of the International Hod Carriers Building and Common laborers' Union re ports that twenty-five locals have been organized during the past quar ter. A Greek sponsre fisherman's dive tc a depth of 262 feet In the sea Is believed to be the world's record for a man unprotected by any sort of diving apparatus. The warden of the Kansas State penitentiary favors a liberal use of the parole system In these war times and would release inmates in the State penitentiary for farm purposes. Conditions on the Atlantic Coast have compelled vessel owners to raise wages of able seamen and fire men to S6O a month; oilers and pumpmen, $65; boatswains, S7O, and carpenters, $75 of the globe which have made a practice of paying in the piping days of peace the indebtedness incurred in times of stress are the United States and Great Britain. When our Civil war ended the government's debt was $2,700,000,- 000. Twenty-five years later $2,- 000,000,000 had been wiped out, leaving inly the $70,000,000. When the Napoleonic war in IS]2, ended, the British debt was $4,400,000,000. Eighty-live years later it was $3,- 100,000,000, and that, too, in spite of the fact that in the interim sl,- 8000.000,000 had been borrowed. The real total reduction, there fore. during that period was $3,100,- 000,000. While. Great Britain and the United States were redeeming their obligations on this tremendous scale, all the other great countries of the world were piling up new debt. When the present war broke out, France had a larger debt th.*n any other country. Her credit, however, was excellent and the debt was owed entirely to her own people, from whom she was able to borrow at a low rate of interest. And well might her credit have been good. In the 125 years from the time of the French Revolution to the outbreak of the war, she had had no less than nine different changes of government—consulate, empire, monarchy, empire. Bourbon, monarchy, Orleanist monarchy, re public, empire, republic. But no single one of these governments, whether republic, 'consulate, empire or kingdom, ever for a minute thought of repudiating the debt of its predecessor, even though that debt was incurred in an endeavor to prevent the new government from coming into existence. This record of the American gov ernment, of the British government and the French Republic, is one of which every believer in democratic government can be proud, for it shows that democracies pay their debts with greater faithfulness and greater promptness than have mon archlal countries or empires. EDITORIAL COMMENT Is the late spring a result of closer relations with Canada?— New York Telegraph. Those who take no stock in war are invited to take a bond. —Wall i Street Journal. "Buy baby bunting" has become the most popular nursery-song.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Kaiser is piling up a terrible handicap for that slogan "Made in Germany" to carry hereafter. —De- troit Free Press. There was a little Kaiser and his name was Bill; he got in the world's way and then stood still. Teut! Teut! —Wichita Beacon. The Kaiser has thanked the Crown Prince for holding the Hlndenburg line. This will amuse Hindenburg.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Even the man who does not favor prohibition will admit that the linuor Industry goes agairtst the grain.— Philadelphia North American. The size of that war-loan may convince Europe that all Americans are millionaires. Future tourists may have to pay for this war.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Bendemeer's Stream There's a bower of roses by Bende meer's stream. And the nightingale sings round .it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bow'r and its music I never forget; But oft when alone In the bloom of the year. I think; is the nightingale singing there yet? Are the roses still bright by. the calm Bendemeer? No, the roses soon withered that hung o'er the wave. But some blossoms were gathered while freshly they shone. And a dew was distilled from the flowers that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone! Thus memory draws from delight ere it dies 'An m;sence that breathes of It many a year: Thus, bright to my soul as 'twas then to my eyes, Is that bow'r on the banks of the culm Bendemeer. Thomas Moore. MAY 21, 1917. Jesus Foretells Resurrection Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But he spake of the temple of his body. When, therefore, n trance upon active military duty will work the least hardship. Speaking about the matter yesterday a man who has studied the proposition and who knows the ins and outs of the defense scheme said that he thought there should be some provision made for certifying that a person who happens to be rejected on physical grounds had responded to the call. There is nothing meaner than calling a man a slacker ahd in the language of the citizen who made the sug gestion "ability to flash a certificate" would be of value. Perhaps, some thing may be done along this line as has been done in Kngli^rtd. • ♦ • Weather conditions hereabouts, which have been the cause of so much comment, seem to be general over the country. Traveling men who have been in other States tell of backward seasons, lack of rain and of unusual winds. The latter condi tions has been generally noted and is rather discouraging to farmers be cause what rains have come have been followed by so much wind that much of the moisture has been taken up without penetrating the ground. The weather conditions have caused many freshly planted fields to be dry and folks who have set out young tomato and cabbage plants would