16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded tSjl ' Published evenings except Sunday by , THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Untitling, Federal Square. •E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTKR, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ atod Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a OOOO9O Train Going \ PUTS , Lies sxwsj Picket, Lles *^* A/r "- E z LETTERS TO THE EDITOR That Camp Hill Complaint To the Editor of the Telegraph: J. B.'s letter in tl.e TELEGRAPH Wednesday evening complaining of Camp Hill's lack of a proper system of garbage disposal cannot go un answered. Depend upon it, Mr. Edi tor, you can always get a rise from Camp Hill citizens when Harris burg's best suburb is unjustly critl sised. Camp Hill should have an ade quate system of garbage disposal. The matter has time and again been discussed by the borough council. J. B. is either a newcomer, or does not keep in touch with public af fairs in the borough. Otherwise he would know this. It is true that some physicians and sanitary experts of the State Department of Health sojourn In Camp Hill; it is also true that they know a great deal about the dan gers that lurk in garbage: but it Is also true that they know no more about municipal affairs in Camp Hill than we untrained laymen. Camp Hill has been particularly free from epidemics. For that we are thankful. We have had no infantile paralysis, and for that reason are unable to aid the medical profes sion In its search for why, how, when and where it is. We have some flies, but not more than other places, and not nearly as many as some. J. B. can do his bit. Let him study Camp Hill's assessed valuation, its tax rate, its street problem, its lighting problem, and other matters under municipal contrpl. After he has these matters well in mind, the borough council, no doubt, will very seriously and deliberately consider any plans for garbage disposal he may submit. Yours truly, M. E. H. The Liberty Loan To the Editor of the Telegraph: Knowing your interest in the Lib erty Loan, I am sure that you will be glad to learn that the Aetna Com panies, whih have become so vital a part of Harrisburg affairs, have sub scribed $1,500,000 to the Liberty Loan. This sum is divided as follows: Aetna Life Insurance Company $1,000,000 Aetna Casualty & Surety ■ Company 250,000 The Automobile Insur ance Company of Hart ford 250,000 A very great part of the above will be taken care of by local agents of the companies, under a liberal agreement made at the home office. I give you this information as it may be an incentive for other com panies to do likewise. Yours very truly. WM. S. ESSICK, General Agent. "We Are to End This War" Is this liberty of ours, this Land of the Free, without price? And will those hold it dear whom it has cost nothing? Yet. so great is my faith in this great nation, so sur* am I that the principles on which it is built are enduring, that I believe a'll these things will be set right in time. The one thing that matters now is to do our part, to show to the world that America still believes that there is such a thing as honor, and such a word as right. For—and this I believe as I do in my country—we are to end this war. And that is the greatest privilege a nation of the world may have. We have sat by, through such horrors as have turned the world to blood. But now we can come in our strength, and mighty strength it will be. So rich we are! So strong! So young! And the enemy is old—jaded and crafty and old; as old as cruelty Is old. We are young and tireless and unafraid. —Mary Roberts Rlnehart In "Tho Altar of Freedom." Charles M. Schwab saytj:— It is a grave mistake to think that all the great American fortunes have been made; that all the country's re sources have been developed. Men make opportunity. Every great In dustrial achievement has been the re sult of individual effort—the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual. MODERN WARAND PRO By Major General William Harding Carter, U. S. A. WITH the declaration of war Germany, and the enactment of the selective draft law, we have assumed obligations whose ulti mate ends no man can foresee. Pri marily we have now become respon sible for the preparation of hundreds of thousands of young men for the stern duties and hardships of war, and, in the natural order of things, they will constitute the human ele ment available for the nation's de fense for many years to come. The nation owes it to the young men who are selected for military train ing and service that, from the very first they shall know that tho train ing will be carried on under circum stances above reproach. The development of minds and bodies to meet the demands of mili tary service in war requires not only the most modern hygienic surround ings but the absence of every form of personal dissipation. Any one who sells or gives intoxicants or drugs of any kind to young men undergoing training for the nation')- defense, not only commits a crime against the in dividual - but a treasonable act against the nation. The experience of European na tions has made it clear that to main tain a modern army in the field there must be organized industry at home. Anything that militates against this, by depriving the human element of its normal energy, work ing under war pressure, must be combatted and if need be destroyed. The public is >far better advised to day than ever before, concerning the effects' of the habitual use of intoxi cants in producing criminal, insane and untrustworthy men and women and degenerate children. Prisons, asylums and public reformatories furnish continuous and abundant evi dence along these lines. The in creasing undisclpline ot Americans has been observed and noted by in vestigators and students for many years. This is evidenced in lack of respect for parents, for the aged, for the officers of the law and for the law itself. It has also been a uni form observation that these condi tions become aggravated whenever and wherever intoxicating liquors are habitually used. (Confronted with these facts we are about to under take the creation of a large the people, and to prepare it for par ticipation in the most gigantic struggle in the history of wars. When the army was reorganized in 1901, following the war with Spain, there was introduced in the act, prohibitory legislation regarding the sale of wines and beers upon miytary reservations. There was much resentment on the part of the army at this discriminatory legisla tion, for while it introduced prohi bition on reservations it encouraged border line saloons in surrounding territory. The aggravation was grave in States like Kansas where prohibi tion was a sham and a public dan ger, the laws being ignored in the most open and flagrant manner. Retire Hohenzollerns [From the New Republic] The abdication or the overthrow of the Hohenzollerns would remove the most serious existing obstacle to a scienttiic and equitable treaty of peace. We are not prepared to say that it should be maae a condition of peace negotiations, and in any event It would be far preferable to have the retirement of the Hohen icllerns forced by the Germans themselves than by their enemies. But however It comes about Us ben eficial effects can scarcely be exag gerated. It would symbolize the rejection of those feudal survival? In the. Ger man political and social organiza tion without which Germany could never have embarked upon such a desperate and abortive adventure; and it would make' the enemies of Germany far more disposed to ireat her with confidence and to aban don any idea of discriminating against her in their economic and political arrangements for the fu ture. In the course of time following the abolition of the sale of beer and wines—alcoholic liquors were previously barred—on military vatlons, the naval regulations ban ished intoxicating drinks frdm war vessels. Modern battleships, destroy ers and submarines had become too complicated to be entrusted in any part to minds beclouded with drink. Efficiency and safety of operation alike demanded the exclusion of liquors from war vessels and it is certain that if tho restoration of the wine mess for the period of the war were put to a vote of naval officers it would be overwhelmingly de feated. Observing the operations of the so-called anti-canteen law, which stopped the sale of wine and beer at post exchanges or canteens, it was found that for a time the offenses involving drunkenness increased at army posts located in territory where saloons were permitted to exist. This was credited to the fact that men went to considerable distances from barracks for liquor, and, not ex pecting to repeat the trip soon, in dulged in too much for their own good. The statistics of disciplinary action through a number of years seemed to establish that more than fifty per cent .of the cases of deser tion and absence without leave were due to drunkenness. While the current returns of the internal revenue bureau of the treas ury make it appear that the income from the manufacture of beer and liquors has steadily increased, there can be no question that the temper ance and total abstinence campaigns of the past few years have brought about a marked change in American lifT it is no longer fashionable to serve wines and liquors in the lavish way which obtained in former years. That temperance has won a lasting victory is attested by the large in crease in territory covered by pro hibition laws !jnd In the drastic reg ulations governing the employment of men In dangerous occupations, when individuals may be and often are responsible for the lives of oth ers. If this applies in the operation of railroads and great industrial establishments, how much more should it apply in the cases of the officers and men called to the colors to uphold the honor of the nation and to defend its material interests. Of course it is absurd to inaugu rate complete prohibition until, as a nation, we are prepared to aban don taxation of manufactured intox icants After many years observation oi the effects of drink upon our sol diers it is the unhesitating opinion of the writer thiit the proceeds of governmental taxation of stills and breweries is, to say the least, 110 compensation for the misspent li\cs and stunted brains of those who are addicted to drunkenness. If it requires war time prohibition to in sure an absolutely sober and nble army we should have it, and the sooner the better. Labor Notes During 1916, 9,295,538 ounces of gold were taken from mines In the Transvaal. This -♦' ' 'ishes a new record for the R. Members of the Amalgamated As sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers are receiving the highest wages In any period of the world'.* Iron-making history. During 1916 2,500,000 pounds of butter were manufactured by the Canadian government co-operative creameries in Saskatchewan. In 1907 the total output was only 66,000 pounds. A number of the young ladles in Queen's University, Canada, have signified their intention of aiding In the work of harvesting the fruit In the western part of the provlence during the summer. . It is predicted that within a short 'lmo Fresno, Cal., wll have more wage-earners of foreign birth orgun- Ized into unions than any oiher city of Its size in the United States and Canada. EDITORIAL COMMENT Prepare at leisure, repent in haste.—Brooklyn Eagle. Four hundred men in one section in Texas have agreed to go barefoot this summer "to save shoes." It would be far more patriotic to enlist and let Uncle Sam furnish the shoes. —Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. Those five hundred American rail way experts, who are going to Rus sia to restore order out of the rail road chaos there may get sufficient experience to perform a similar ser vice in this country.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. When the Stars and Stripes were flung to the breeze from the peak of Parliament House, London papers commented that it was the first tin.e a fcreign flag had ever flown over Westminster. Excepting, of course, theflags on those German Zeppelins. -—Nashville Southern Lumberman. Help from the United States is needed, therefore, not a year from now, but at once. The Roosevelt volunteers can be made ready in a few weeks. We repeat that this is no time to indulge in hair splitting. Send them!— Philadelphia In quirer. Hard Hit Timothy O'Krien, while passing down Main street one morning, was hit on the head by & brick which tell from a building in process of construction. Ho was taken to the hospital in an unconscious condition, but was soon revived sufficiently to send for a lawyer. Some days later he received a call from his lawyer who informed him that he had set tled tyie case, whereupon he peeled off seven crisp, new SIOO bills. "How much did you get!" questioned Tim feebly. I "Twenty-five hundred dollars," re plied the lawyer, complacently. "Twinty-five hundred dollars an' you give me siven hundred?" scream ed Tim. "Say, who got hit. by that brick, you or me?" —Philadelphia Star. OUR DMLY LAUGH \|| )V. 1)0 you ever XS SlLjl S l forget to mail \ the letters your A gives you? o \2 Not any °f ■y 1 " 1 tenor than she fM H ' A foreets to take n| /I the studs out of IS fflmy dress shirt fIW I fx before sending _3 H it to the lauo _J dry • THETIC. Hodge and J Dodge are J friends, aren't Yes. they have common. They / were both Jilted /jjfpKu by tho same wm SHE HAD MANY. B~ Sister is you fiance coming tonight? Not exactly, If I \ \\_l-jJI Just A fiance 1 Stoning QUjat The touch of war time Is com mencing to be felt in a good many , i^ i i neßS anc * industrial lines and wmie we are a long, long ways from ueing forced to do as has been done in other countries, yet the number of new faces looking after certain work is commencing to be noted. A man gone here and a man gon there rather impresses itself upon re " l °' us. For instance, men connected with the National Guard iblfi s ! a r. te(l ',° bre ak in others for their jobs, although in every in stance heard of the men who are go ing to the colors in July are assured of places when they return. In ?^r„ p,aces men have B h 'en notice M are golng lnto the militia organizations and men are being trained to fill the gaps they hava 1 < there have been a lot of husky young fellows who have gone from mills, stores, factories, of fices, banks and other places Into the army or navy or marine corps, not waiting to be drafted, but early in answering the call to service, going away with the best wishes of a whole city and its environs for their safety in trying duty and certainty of a joyous welcome home. Then thre are the men from offices and from the Capitol and from schools and colleges who have entered the train ing camps. It is a pretty impressive list that Harrisburg is able to show and the spirit that the city is dem onstrating is the reason why the line that Pennsylvania leads In recruiting appears over Washington dispatches day after day. * • • • Just as an illustration of how the call to the National Guardsmen to mobilize strikes in unexpected places . saif l that a dozen or so 01 the State policemen will leave the force to don khaki in July. These men were on the reserve of the Na tional Guard when they enlisted in Major Groome's crack force. Last summer when the Guardsmen were summoned to go to the border the .State police had to give men fur loughs. Hereafter there will be few men in either army or guard reserve to get into the police for a while at least. • * Sessions of (he Legislature are n? n £i to attract the attention or the public. Ordinarily, the ses sions of the General Assembly draw " la ' ly P eople to the Capitol, but as a f y ? re , maln, y of persons in- u", le eislation of matter which is before the lawmakers. As the sessions draw to a close there ? e nMl? re ., PC ?, ple ln th 6 galleries out TWv J nat any other time. 4 s . ee . m tl to come here about the hnmo h.t h 6 Lcßislature is on the home stietcli to see how they do it and in the hope that they may be ?iiJ. an K so ? le tlmo when a lively debate breaks out as is often the case in the final weeks. For the next month there will bo many peo ple in Harrisburg and as the bills commence to arouse contests on the floor the gallery crowds will in crease. ♦ * * The State Department of Forestry has issued a reprint of an article bv ■Samuel 1. Dana, of the Federal For est Service, printed in Munsey's Mag azine, on "A Forest Tragedy." It is the story of the rise of a prosper ous lumber town in Potter county, of its decay when the ax and mill had done their work and of the mel ancholy sight of a fine school house and other public buildings with few to occupy them and a township hardly able to pay the taxes to keep them up. • • ♦ Pe ?P' e connected with the Na tional Guard believe that ln spite of reports that the Pennsylavnla troops are going to a southern carnp for training that therei will be some-* thing doing at Mt. Gretna during the late summer and fall. When the Guard goes into Federal service it will probably be assembled for a time at Mt. Gretna as it will take months to get the southern canton ments in shape. Then the State camp site will be used for the preliminary training: and if it is necessary to es tablish reserve recruit camps they will probably be laid out in the Conewago hills. The State has ex pended several thousand dollars at Mt. Gretna in the last few months. • • * A good story is being told about how city police officials blocked the hold-up game of a foreigner who runs ( a roominghouse. The place was the refuge of some men used to better things during their occupancy oi a room something happened to the bed in one of the rooms. It fell apart because of something breaking or something else, but was easily repaired. When they were at the station with their train due in five minutes the proprietor and a police man hove in sight. The man de clared that he had paid $12.50 for the bed two weeks ago and wanted the money or arrests. The men de nied breaking the furniture and the policemen took the officer's choice of taking the whole party to the po lice station. There it developed that the man had not bought the bed within two weeks and that the price was not reliable either. The upshot was that when the man in charge at the station heard of the five-min utes-before-train-time demand he made some observation on holdups discharged the men brought in and ordered the roominghouse man to "scoot." But little else Is talked about by young men nowadays except the reg istration, and it is to the credit of the city that so much willingness is being shown to put down names. It commences to look as though the rush to "vote early" which often marks elections will be put into a baok place by the effort to "register early." Not a few liavo been heard to say that they were going to ba first to register in their districts. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —General W. G. Price, commandei of the Artillery brigade of the Na tional Guard, has been attending lec tures on artillery for years although an infantry officer. —Auditor General Snyder, who la a former National Guardsman, says that he will help out in registration work if it becomes necessary. —Ex-Speaker 11. P. Walton, reap, pointed a trustee of the Farview State Institution, was one of the members of the commission which built the establishment. —E. A. VanValkenburg, the Phil adelphia publisher, took an actlva part in the movement to free tha Lancaster plkt as ho lives in tha neighborhood and knows what it means. —R. L. Watts, State College ex pert, has been giving much time to the study qf the potato and will lec ture on it. DO YOU KNO\P That Harrisbnrir has acres and acres of gardens that arc being used for vegetable raising where there were weeds last year? HISTORIC HARRISRITRO State conventions of Democrat! were held here in the twenties t i boom Andrew Jackson. '