8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A K EH'S PAPER POR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELECHAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't <5- Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- HIDBPWk lation and Penn |£i fij {SB H sylvania Assocl- Kjgjg|B ated Dallies. ® SOB 3 Eastern office, Ml § aSI Story. Brooks & JgfSSjjSW Avenue Building, Gas U> ' Bu!ld P ingl — Chicago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Hnrris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mail. So.oo a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENTING, MAY 2 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding.—Proverbs 4:7. I ; MAXIM'S LATEST INVENTION* f A NNOUNCEMENT by Hudson Maxim that he has perfected a device capable of rendering all vessels using it immune to tor-ji pedo attack is the beet rfiat has : como Oiri ot New York for months. 1 That Maxim has accomplished what 1 he says he has is much more easily j believed than that the Naval Board ] has created some marvelous machine for the wholesale destruction of un- i derseas craft. i Maxim is a practical Inventor of j world-wide renown. lie was first te ( make smokeless powder and is re- i sponsible for the service detonatins i fuse for high explosive armor pier- ] clng projectiles and Is an authority ] on explosives. He is an expert on torpedoes and has experimented ■ ■with them for many years. That he , is prepared to render the discharge | of torpedoes harmless against a , ship's side is of even greater import ance than that he should be able to . , make way with an occasional U-boat. ■, for if by the Maxim method the sub marine is robbed of its sting, ship- j ping will be able to sail the seas un harmed and Germany would have to Bend her under-ocean fleet to the scrap heap. We believe that Mayor Miller will not long endure the evidences of mu nicipal neglect which are to be seen In too many sections of the city. Streets and sidewalks littered with empty boxes- and other refuse, piles of dirt long waiting removal, and a general disregard of the ordinary safeguards of a clean and well ordered city. Instructions to the police department to make a personal inspection of every street and alley and a prompt report of every offense of this character, followed by per sonal direction to the offenders to cor rect these things, would soon over come what is now a cause of public complaint. THE DIFFERENCE THE Kaiser, according to the Chicago Tribune, Is deter mined to spell Russia with a "P." May be so. but Elihu Root is just as determined to spell Russia with an "R-U-S-H." Now that the flower season is upon ms It would be well to bring the big stick into play to prevent the activi ties of malicious boys who. In several sections of the city, have been de stroying plants without let or hind , ranee. In_ one case a boy was seen to deliberately whack down blooming tulips on Second street, and the same boy is said to have been responsible for similar conduct elsewhere in the same neighborhood. An example o two by the police department would Boon stop this sort of thing. YOUR PART IN THE WAR THE United States having deter mined in every way to co-op erate with France and England and their allies In the suppression of the German menace, it is the duty of the people in every walk of life to give the most earnest support to all measures for the strengthening of the fighting force which we shall place side by side with the other countries now at war against Prus- Blanlsm. This mobilization of a country's strength Involves muni tions, clothing, food, ships, railway materials and all the other slne'ws necessary to the prosecution of a successful war. There must.be no lack of anything that may help to bring to a prompt conclusion this world struggle. It Is no longer a question of whether we should go to war or not; It is now squarely and only a question of our active par ticipation In the plans for defeating the menace of world peace. As has been suggested from time to time, the flotation of the first big loan of $2,000,000,000 is the most important step at this time and the work of disposing of these bonds is now engaging the attention of pa triotic men all over the country. Un fortunately, there are still those who don't see the necessity of buying these bonds. They seem to think it is a matter of indifference whether they Invest their funds In this loan, never realizing that the first duty of the country is to supply the sin ews of war without a moment's de lay. It must be remembered, as we go along, that the United States has been greatly benefited during the war by reason of the enormous in- SATURDAY EVENING, crease of our exports of every char- | acter. The statement Is made that! since January 1, 1915, "when the dis organization of ocean transportation and International banking commu nications that followed the outbreak of the war was fairly over, and our exportation to Europe and to other parts of the world began to grow, we have sold Just short of $10,000,000,- 000 worth of American products for a little over $2,000,000,000 more than we would have obtuinod for them at prices which prevailed a month be fore the war. Expressed differently, on a greatly increased commerce, particularly export commerce, we have obtained prices twenty-live per cent, higher than our former prices. Of course, we did business before at a fair profit; there is no method of determining what average profit, per haps fifteen or twenty-five per cent. Eut whatever the gross receipts of the former foreign selling was. war time has added the si,oox),ooo,ooo.'* In short, our actual increase of profit through wartime exports has been at least the amount of the first United States loan of $2,000,000,000. This means that our- worklngmen have been steadily employed and while the cost of livms has enorm ously Increased, there has still been employment for all at wages far above those ever paid here or else where for labor. It Is earnestly hoped that the sur face indications of party harmony In the Legislature are significant of a real getting together of the Republi can factions. This unfortunate con troversy has already proceeded too far and Republicans all over the State are demanding a cessation of fac tional bitterness. BARUCH AND CENSORSHIP AX example of the evils of such censorship of .hs press as President "Wilson has demand- to bo had in the choice of Bar ney Baruch by the administration to be chief purchasing agent for the United States and the storm it has aroused ia Congress and the news papers. Baruch as the man to handle the war funds of the United States is not looked upon with favor either by Democrats or Republicans in Con gress. Baruch was one of those mentioned in connection with vast sums made by speculation as the result of being favored by leaks from high officials close to the White House. He has done nothing to warrant the vast trust which it is proposed to place In his hands. Mem bers of Congress have not been slow to give voice to their views Nevertheless, had the President's censorship been in force not a word of this criticism would have been permitted to appear in the newspa pers. The press of the country would have been forced to praise the President's selection or keep quiet. As George W. Wlckersham, formerly attorney general of the United States, said the other night In Philadelphia of this proposed cen sorship: It is a very sinister indication. > ■when every department head at i Washington is asking for broad ! powers such as the Czar had never i found it necessary to give to his [ bureaucratic leaders, while at the very same time the administration is making such a strong demand for a broad censorship bill which would prevent the newspapers from discussing the administra tion of these powers. We all realize that a democracy is at a great disadvantage in wag- I ing war, but it doesn't seem to me to be necessary at the first blast of the bugle to give up all the liberties for which democratic governments have been strug gling for the last three cen turies. Free speech and a free j firess are the most prized privi eges of a free people. We ought to look for a long time at the ad- | vantages we are to get on the i other side before giving them up. J GERMANY, TAKE NOTICE THE attention of any German spy who happens to "be in; our midst" Is respectfully called to the fact that the national! government is compelled to send into Pennsylvania 1,600,000 blanks in order to be sure of having enough to go around on registration day. One million six hundred thousand for Pennsylvania alone, mind you. and all the other States yet to hear from. Send that back to Mr. von Hinden burg, who thinks we have nothing 1 with which to fight, and let him! smoke it in his pipe. IX CASE OF ZEPPEI<INK APPARENTLY Harrlsburg is safe from Zeppelin The wide Atlantic and various other factors Intervene to prevent any such unwelcome visitations. But If they ever should come and drop bombs on this city we hope tfoey will confine their damage to the post office building. Not that we have anything against the government or have any spite at the contractors. Far from it. But the post office building has been torn up so long nobody would notice if a bomb or two happened to explode on the roof. A little more rubbish on the lawn wouldn't matter. MISERY LOVES COMPANY WE observe in the Philadelphia Ledger an editorial entitled: "Remake the School Board." •" In the Chicago Tribune we note another under the caption: "Why Is the Bchool Board?" From which we hastily conclude that Harrisburg is not entirely alone. •'Why Is the school board?" Dear Tribune, we don't know. But we can reply, in the language of the es teemed Ledger, that it is our pur poses to "remake It." Meanwhile we can be a little more cheerful over the local situation, for it Is true. Indeed, that misery loves company. ' HELP THE Y. M. C. A. HARRISBURG has always mani fested an active arid generous interest in every movement which has to do with the betterment of the young men of the community. This was strikingly shown in the recent campaign for the Hoy Scouts. There is now a strong appeal from the Y. M. C. A. of the nation to support In every way and especially with money the work of this great association In the military camps. Only those who have served with the army in the field are able to appre ciate fully the admirable work which has been done for years by the Y. M. C. A. Many a young man outside the influence of the home life has felt the strengthening power and support of this organization. It should be realized that those behind the lines and who cannot per sonally shoulder a gun or do other active service must provide the sinews of war and do their bit in the only way which is possible un der the circumstances. This Is a time of sacrifice and It must be In dividual sacrifice to bring home the meaning of the war. "f>oUUc* U Ry the Fi-Ommittermiin j George Wharton Pepper last night disposed of stories that he was about to give up the chairmanship of the State Committee of Public Safety by denying apy such intention and a declaration that he proposed to devote all of his time to his duties as chair man. Mr. Pepper Is said to have sent a letter to Governor Brumbaugh ask ing for more details as to the rela tion between the State Defense Com mission and the committee, which probably gave rise to the story that he intended to quit. _ Governor Brumbaugh denied that' he had any knowledge that Mr. Pep per was dissatisfied and asserted that he had no reason to expect that he would resign. The Governor left this morning for Marklesburg to spend the day at his boyhood home, and will go ito-morrow to State College. He will not be here until Monday and there will probably be a cessation of stories about the "W'nr Board" and the Safety Committee. —Warren Van Dyke. secretary of the Democratic State Committee. Is said to be paying fraternal visits to post masters throughout the state. Mr. VanDyke is the secretary of an or ganization which requires much aid from federal officeholders, especially postmasters, ascertain seasons of the year. It is interesting to note that for years Democratic newspapers and spouters denounced "assessment" of Republican officeholders for expenses of party organization and it used to be a dreadful thing to contemplate the accumulation of state committee debts. Now, in a year when there is no state campaign, there are reports that federal officeholders are being held up for five per cent. The Dem ocratic machine must have some notes out. —City Treasurer McCoach, of Phil adelphia. was charged before the Philadelphia city registration com missioners yesterday with trying to dictate nomination of Democratic reg istrars in that city. This fuss, how ever. was only one before the boartf as the feeling between the Vare and Trainer factions in ward politics broke out and caused the meeting toe be lively. —The bill to knock out the non partisan clause in the second-class city law which was recalled from the Governor by the Legislature will be amended In some typographical de tails Monday. It is another of the bills which has had a hard time be cause of faulty proofreading or print ing. —Hearings are being held in Phila delphia to-day on the bill- to mak school boards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh elective. There is oppo sition to the bill in that city. —lnsurance Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, who will appear before tne jcint appropriations committee of the Legislature to discuss appropriations, will make a statement of the opera tions of his department and what it has had to contend with in the way of insurance matters since he took office. —Changes in the State Treasury are not to be made until July at least and there will not be many, it is stated. Cashier Thomas A. Crich ton will remain and the names of Charles Johnson and J. Linn Harris are mentioned for the two new places provided in the pending bill. —Auditor General Charles A. Sny der will probably name stenogrqph ers to succeed those who have left his department to go to the registra tion bureau within a short time. The Auditor General says people will be named as needed for the work of tne department. —Chester County Grangers have in sisted that the state tax manufac turing capital, now exempt, at the rate of two mills on the dollar for road building revenue instead of pass ing the $50,000,000 bond Issue. The Grangers have also come out in favor of other tax laws and are against the proposed state land tax. They are asking that the Governor take im mediate action in regard to the Trl- State Milk Commission report. —Governor Hrumbaugh yesterday wired Schuylkill county people that the matter of having registration places in saloons was a question for the sheriff of each county to decide, adding that if it was left to him there would be no registration booths where liquor was sold. —The Governor's veto of Philadel phia salary raising bills yesterday ts being viewed with apprehension about the Capitol. There are salary raising bills calling for probably three mil lion dollars more a year on the bill files. —The Governor's approval of the bill to enable the two Bethlehcms to unite In a third-class city will prob ably be followed by prompt action. The Interesting thing is that the bor oughs are'in different counties and separated by a river. The sentiment in the towns is said to be in favor of granting a third-class city and for absorption of other boroughs. Auditor General Snyder was boom ed as a candidate for governor at the pilgrimage dinner of the Pottsville Republican Club to Reading. He was present and smiled, but said nothing. This Is the second bourn thut has been started for the Pottsville man. The Philadelphia Public ledger Is becoming inquisitive about the dinner to be tendered Senator W. C. Sproul on Tuesday by Senator E. H. Vare. The Ledger says: "(Senators and other political leaders said the Vare invitations seemed to prenage harmony between the Penrose and Vare factions over the gubernatorial nomination, which will be made next year, and to indicate that there might he gubernatorial developments at the Sproul dinner. Furthermore politic ians were interested because Senator Sproul led the light at the beginning of the session for an investigation or the Brumbaugh administration, ami Senator Vare led the opposition. All Indications, therefore, are that organ isation state leaders, anticipating the passing of the Brumbaugh adminis tration. are taking preliminary steps toward a general gettlng-together. Some of the politicians would not be lieve that the dinner was to be held under Vare auspices until they saw the invitations.'' HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS ~~~7~ct2 I Her ONOOY ! T~| ! Pick OUT MV/ ; j- EDITORIAL COMMENT Time works some peculiar changes. Back In "78 they started a war on account.of a tax on tea, and now they are putting a tax oti tea on ac count of a war.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. —Roosevelt biffed Mr. Wilson Justly and properly for allowing poll tics to enter into the rejection of the volunteer army for France. Mr. Roosevelt's retoVt was typical of the man, T. R. the tighter.—Erie Dis patch. —There is fitness in Governor Brumbaugh's request for a special and universal observance of Memor ial Day this year. Let it be a sincere token of love to the memory of the soldier dead among the people of Easton. —Easton Free Press. Labor Notes Germany is now working out a scheme to take over and nationalize all employment agencies in the coun try. at the same time working out a plan to put just those factories to work whose products are most needed. The San Francisco Labor Council will join with the Grand Army of the Republic in requesting the super visors to make an appropriation of $25,000 to a proposed fund of $50,000 for the erection of a suitable mem orial In the Civic Center to Abraham Lincoln. Organization of a company with a capital of $1,000,000 to erect homes for working people was decided upon at a meeting of directors of the Wil liamsport, Pa., Board of Trade re cently, A tract of 35 acres in the western part of the city has been purchased and a model village is planned. In Italy (and particularly in Southern Italy and Sicily) the "em ployment of women in munition fac tories has met with passive resistenee in some districts on the part of em ployers, in others on the part of workmen, or, owing to prejudice and traditional notions, on the part of the women themselves, whose aver sion has been unmistakable and per sistent. Mother and the Soldier Boy No woman has the right to hold her son back if he desires to go to war. It is the fruition of the years in which she sought to make him a man. It is the vindication of his manhood. It is the crystallization of those very ideals which she taught him with his prayers. I decline to believe that there are mothers who will not let their boys strike back when they are attacked. But it is hard. Always the relation between mother and son is very close. As the. boy grows up, the mother faces this, that he needs more than she can give him. He is still her world, but she is no longer his. Life calls, work and play and love, and sometimes battle. And the mother cannot hold him. Everywhere are mothers, women who have patched small garments and tied up little wounds, who have built up a house of life out of mil lions of loving services, whose world has been the four walls of home. To such women comes the call for their sons, who are still to them, though men grown, but the little boys of the stockings, and the small wounds, and Christmas trees, and* the Fourth of July. I do not fear for these women, but we cannot minimize what they do. They will send their sons, be cause they know thpt a nation is but a great home, consisting of many small ones. Homes are the units of a nation, as men are of an army. And these women knew that our homes are only safe so long as the country is. They know, too. that peace has fled from the earth and cannot be brought back but by God and the sword.—Mary Roberts Rine hart in "The Altar of Freedom." Individual Thinking The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment. • • * A man should learn to detect and foster that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within far more than the luster of the whole Armament with out. Yet be dismisses without notice his peculiar thought because it is peculiar. The time will come when he will postpone all acquired knowl edge to this spontaneous wisdom, and will watch for this Illumination more than those who watch for the morning.—Emerson. JE WISH REPUBLIC IN PA LESTINE THE adoption of a resolution by \ the Kehillah. the organization i which represents the sectarian and educational interests of three quarters of the 2,500.000 Jews of I Greater New York, expressing conti- j dence that the t'nited States, to- j gether with' its Allies, will use Its | best efforts toward the "realization . of the hope and aspiration of a Jew- j Ish people for the re-establishment ! of a free and publicly recognized I Homeland in Palestine" is, says the j Provisional Zionist committee, in- i dicative of the eagerness with Which ' the Jews throughout the whole j world are waiting for the word [ Iwhich may come from either Wash ington or London, or from both cap- I itals simultaneously, that their twen- I ty-century long aspiration has at I last been realized. So certain and | :;o imminent does this appear that j every day the Zionist movement j gains new and notable converts. I Israel Zangwill. the noted English j i writer, was the first of these. He had ! held aloof from the movement, ; doubting its practicability; then I Jacob H. Scliiff of the International j banking house of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., I came forward In advocacy of a Jew j ish spiritual center in Palestine: I Adolph Lewisohn. the copper mag | nate came next. And every day new names are added to the roster of ' those who are prepared to work for 'the upbuilding of a Jewish Repub lic in an Independent Holy Land, set free by General Sir Archibald Murray's army, which is fighting Its way through Palestine to the con quest of Jerusalem. Twenty years have rolled by since | the organization of the Zionist move- J ment with Its slogan "the establish | ment of a publicly recognized, le l gaily "secured homeland for the Jews in Palestine" —a movement bringing into the realm of the practical what for the past 2,000 years, from the ! very day that the overwhelming Ko- I man legions swept the Jewish Nation J oft' its native soil, has been a pious [ wish, a devout prayer. During these 1 two decades the movement has been | busy establishing colonies, schools, libraries and other institutions of a national character ii. the Holy Land. On Christmas Day of last year Gen eral Murray's army invaded Pales- I tine. Two months Uiter Norman I Hapgood, the gifted American jour nalist, proposed that the United States establish a protectorate over ' Palestine and Invite the Jews to es tablish themselves there on an I autonomous basis. Hardly has the interest in Mr. Hapgood's plan sub sided when again there came news from Palestine —that the British army had overwhelmed the Turks Henry S. Williamson Henry S. Williamson's sudden death has cast a great gloom o'er tills city, of which he had been a resident for more than forty years. Active in business for many years as the head of one of the city's largest mercantile establishments, he retired some years ago, since which time he had been active in philanthropic en deavors, contributing his time and fortune to bettering conditions and helping others. Mr. Williamson was a trustee of Franklin and Marshall College, a director of the Hamilton Watch Company, People's Trust Trust Company and the People's National Bank, president of the Ben ner Manufacturing Company, trustee of the Ann C. Witmer Home, the Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School, the Shippen School for Girls, the Millersville State Normal School and the Home for Friendless Children. He was president of the Ferncliff Club, at Denton, on the Susque hanna, prominent In the membership ot the Hamilton Club, and was the first president of the Chamber of Commerce, and an elder in the First Presbvterlan Church. He was the donor of Williamson Park, the father of the playground movement, and had recently given SIO,OOO for the building of a children's ward in the General Hospital. He had contrib uted liberally to the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Asso ciations, and to every worthy cause for the uplifting of humanity. He was a philanthropist In the truest sense, and was devoting his time to helping others. He was one of sev eral Lancastrians who determined some years ago that the garden spot of America must have a fair in keep ing with its great agricultural a # nd industrial Interests, and to his un tiring efforts much of the success that has attended the association Is largely due. His palatial residence. Upland Lawn, built upon the acres once owned by James Buchanan. Is one of the show places of suburban Lancaster, and has-been the scene at Zaza, were building a railroad and driving the Turks before them. The Jews began to see visions of the Union Jack floating over the Holy City. Then came the Russian revolu tion, making it possible for the Zion ists of that "country, for the ilrst time in history, to make a propa ganda for Zionism without fear of arrest and imprisonment. Within a week after the downfall of the auto cracy, the Russian Zionists had held their first convention. Hardly had the ink dried on the press reports of the first Zionist con vention ever held in Russia, when the first substantial token of the early realization of the great Jewish hope was given to the world In the semiofficial proclamation by Gen. Sir Archibald Murray of the Inten tion of Great Britain to establish a Jewish Republic in Palestine. 'What should we do with Pales tine, thus liberated from the cen tury-old Turkish gip?" General Murray asks this question and an swers: "There can be little doubt that we should revive the Jewish Palestine of old, and allow the Jews to realize their dreams of Zion In their homeland. All the Jews will not return to Palestine, but many will do so. The new Jewish State, under British or French aegis, would be come the spiritual and cultural cen ter of Jewry throughout the world. The Jews would at least have a homeland and a nationality of their own. The national dream that has sustained them for a score of cen turies and more will have been ful filled." Now tlie Yiddish daily newspapers in New York and Chicago broke out into "poster-type" headlines. At last a definite word had been spoken by one in authority to speak definitely. Sir Archibald Murray, it was felt, would not have uttered such mo mentous words unless the British government had sanctioned them— unless the establishment of an inde pendent Holy Land was part of the program of the Allies. This was ouicklv followed by an editorial in the "Manchester Guardian," the or gan of former Premier Asriuith, afso favoring the project, and an article by Sir Harry Johnston in the Lon don Evening News (a Northeliffe pa per'* in the game strain. The greatest cliniaS to date in the Jewish drama is the announcement that came from Washington, hard upon the arrival in this country of Britain's High Commission to the United State®, that President Wilson and Arthur Balfour had informally discussed this project. the realisation of which would be the fulfillment of prophecy. of many notable assemblages. Mr. Williamson was a nephew of Isaiah Williamson, who founded the Wil liamson Trade School in Delaware county.—"Down Lancaster Way," in Philadelphia North American. This is a better tribute to a useful citizen than anything n the way of indiscriminate and platitudinous praise. It is a setting forth of the usefulhess throughout his life of a thoroughly public-spirited and un selfish man. Mr. Williamson was once engaged in business in Harris burg and we are glad to have had him for even a short time as a citi zen of no mean city. He believed In doing things while he himself could direct what he had in mind. This is an example for all others who are able to provide for the betterment of the communities in which they live. Do it now and write your own epitaph in good deeds. Patriotism in Business Let every patriotic business man press sanely and resolutely forward. Let him continue along normal lines that the vast machinery of American industry bo not impaired. If the American people are to re main prosperous and progressive and strong they must continue to manu facture and buy and sell as they did before war was declared. The men who control the adver tising of the nation can do much to counteract the "hysterical econom ies" ugalnst which thfc council of na tional defense lias issued warning.— The Chicago Tribune. Charles M. Schwab says:— Not long ago a man was promoted in our works. "How did you happen to advance this fellow?" I asked his boss. "Well." he explained, "I noticed that when the day shift went off duty and the night shift came on, this man stayed on the Job until he had talked over the day's problems With his suc cessor. That's why!' MAY 26, 1917. ' BOOKS AND MAGAZINES | The Vegetable Garden—ldaD. Ben nett (A. IJ. Burt Co.) At a time when the country's attention is turn ed by a national appeal from the Pres ident to gardening, to lightering the burden of the country tliroiigh the means of increased production of foodstuffs; at such a time a little practical volume on gardening is a real necessity. To the inexperienced, when time used in gaining practical experience is almost time wasted (that is from the standpoint of re lieving immediate stress) a little vol ume such as this is a real service to the nation. Not only the planting of a garden but the planning, the fertil izing, the hundred and one little things which cause no end of trouble to the unacquainted, all are clearly explained in a language that leaves no room for asking further questions. Hence its wonderful practicability. "The Vegetable Garden" is a timely little volume from its information relative to the growing of food, and will, from the standpoint of scienti fically and economically preparing it. The volume will be .an excellent ad dition to the library of anyone who desires the most from their garden plot. • Open lioats Alfred Noyes. (Stokes, 50c net). So frequently within tlie past few terrible years of war have we read of boats being sunken by a German submarine that it has become almost a commonplace, a thing which is treated in one or two brief lines in our newspapers. But to Alfred Noyes has been opened every avenue of knowledge regard ing the aftermath of a sinking, those tragedies which have become so fre quent that, to quote the author, "it is obvious that if civilization is not to sink beneath the contempt of the ape, some foresight will have to be exercised by those who are responsi ble for the maintenance of interna tional law, and some action ought to be taken to bring the criminals to justice." "Open Boats" is a wonderfully graphic little book in its descriptions of the "open boat" with its load of humans to wrestle with the weather, the sea, with hardship of every con ceivable description. And in glow ing colors does it paint for us the great plea for humanity with which this country goes forth into battle. "Open Boats" is without question one of the real, vital war books. fpUR DAILY LAUGH NO CHANCE. [ jtf Be careful how !\J Do it, please, / You cannot Gate a sneeze. iMW? GLOBE TROT- Bugr: Well 1 declare. Just fanc y meeting 'f y you here; the lt .y world is a small Place after all. UNBEARABLE. As long as 4* there was an other boarder at I M the farm house, \\ . you had some *1 body to talk to. "'y Y But as there were only the -jf , '-*** two of us, there Iref was nobody to ||| Sbfuttig GUjat Arrival of the Italian govern mental war mission In this country lias been the means of stimulation of display of the flag of the king dom all over Harrisburg and it is now floating from almost as many buildings as the tricolor of the French republic. Owing to tho closer relationship betwen the British and French governments and the United States at the outset of American par ticipation and to the fact that their missions were tho lirst to come to this country their flags were more freely displayed than those of any country alongside of tho Stars Stripes. But now tho Italian flag is appearing all over tho city. Some of the homes of Italian residents have had the flag flying along side of the Star Spangled Banner for weeks, but tho business houses did not get the flags up until this week. But they have ben making up for lost time ever since. The display has im mensely pleased the big Italian ele ment in. this city and vicinity and the red. white and green will be as much seen as tho tricolor of France. More British flags are commencing to be shown more than ever here abouts. For many years a British flag has been a rarity In this city and the sight of the Union Jack, which a generation ago would have called forth protests, is now com mon. Speaking of flaps it is Interesting to see the displays on automobiles. Practically every motor vehicle snows the American Hag and a fa vorite decoration is to have them fore and aft. Some cars show the American Hag on top of the radiator with the British and French flags beside them. Occasionally the three are grouped with the Stars and Stripes in the center. In the last few days some cars have been ap pearing with a half dozen or se> fiag.\ all allied countries, set in a holder and making a gay appearance as they flutter along. It is an effective decoration and has attracted much comment. Wagons and locomotives, too, are displaying the colors and some of the yard engines of the Pennsylvania look like floats in an industrial parade. Adjutant General 1 Thomas J. Stewart, who gets about fifty in quiries a day about the details of the registration, said last evening that thd simplest answer to tlio whole series of Inquiries about regis tration under the selective draft act was to tell any male between 21 and 30 years, inclusive, to go and reg ister. General Stewart pointed out that the act called upon everyone, including even National Guardsmen who were not in Federal service at the time, to register. The govern ment will attend to all the select ing and naturally will handle all of the exemptions. Persons who are not physically fit or who have de pendents will be pretty quickly clear ed from the lists. Thus far there has not been any effort to dissuade men from regis tering under the draft such as have been undertaken, according to re ports, by some misguided persons in Reading and elsewhere, and it is to be hoped that there will not be. This city would not be a healthy place for any one to try It. Inci dentally, it might be remarked that the brunt would fall upon any one who would fail to respond. The law makes it an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment to fail to reg ister and as everyone in Harrlsburg who can vote is listed on the reg istration books with age and dencc detection would be pretty sur" to follow any attempt to evade. Agitators against registration should be reported to the police as a patriotic duty. One of the problems which a man connected with the registration boards says will be encountered on registration day will be to handle the foreigners. This city has men of every nationality in Europe and some in America and quite a few of them are between the ages called upon to register. Just how they are all going to be correctly listed with out interpreters is what is bothering registrars. No hanging back among the foreign element is expected as the bulk of the men who have come here from foreign countries in the last decade or two know what call ing to the colors means and thev are pretty quick to catch the thought of the people in American communi ties. In all probability the organi zation of the city for registration on the part of local committees will be so complete by the time the reg istration day rolls around that the foremen of gangs in which there are foreigners will have the men wear ing flags and waiting outside the polling places when the books are open. "I was glad to see that you said that the feeling among young men in Hnrrlsburg was not about getting out of registration for the draft but of seeing who could be first to get on the lists" said a man familiar with military affairs to-day. "I know that spirit is around town and unless I miss my guess there are go ing to be some high old times around the registration places on the morn ing of Tuesday. June 5, because I look for a rivalry to lead the lists. This city has almost fifty districts. I wonder who are going to be the first fifty?" State officials to-day called atten tion to the fact that there will be but one registration day for con scription. The impression seems to have gone out in this city that there will be two. There will be but one say the men at the Capitol. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —General C. M. Clement, com mander of the division of the Na tional Guard, who was here yester day on military matters, has been thirty years in the Guard. —Dr. C. J. Marshall, State veter inarian, who is an authority on anl mad diseases.has been at Washington co-operating with the defense com mittee. —J. L. Lyon, of Greensburg, whp will accompany the body of Ambas sador Guthrie to Pittsburgh, was formerly in the diplomatic service. —Col. Smedley D. Butler, of the marine corps, decorated for gallant ry, comes of a Chester county Quak-- er family. _ —William Draper Lewis, who lsr prominent in transit affairs, is said to be desired for mayor by some Phlladelphians. DO YOU KNOW I That Harrisburg shipments of tin plate have been immense the last year? HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG John Harris' warehouse stood on the Iliver Kront Just below where the graveyard is located and was the tlrsl stockaded place on the Susquehanna
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