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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A KEWSPAFER FOR THE HOME
Founded igjt
(Published evenings exeept Sunday by
THE TEIEGRArH PRINTING CO,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
'E.J. STACKPOLE, Pres't 6* Editor-in-Chief
F. H. OYSTER, Business Alanager,
GUS M. STEINJIETZ, Managing Editor.
I Member American
Newspaper Pub
lishers' Associa
tion, the Audit
Bureau of Circu
lation and Penn
sylvania Assocl
ated Dallies.
Eastern office.
Story, Brooks &
Finley, Fifth
Avenue Building,
Western office!
Entered at the Post Office in Harris
burg, Pa., as second class matter.
/<C ! "">s By carriers, ten cents a
week: by mall, J5.00
a year in advance.
TCESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5
What an inferior man seeks is In
others; ichat a superior man -seeks is
in Mmself. — BCHWEB LTTTON.
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NEWSPAPERS AND THE PEOPLE
IM a direct and forceful speech the
other day Congressman Benjamin
K. Focht, of the Lewlsburg dis
trict, made very clear the unfair
discrimination proposed In the war
levenue bill against the newspaper
Industry. Mr. Focht. himself a pub
lisher spoke with knowledge ot the
facts and declared that Instead of a
fair imposition of the burden of taxa
tion justified by the war necessities,
the levy proposed is one of exterr -
nation so far as the newspaper In
dustry is concerned. He *as pa -
tlcularly clear in his discussion of the
proposed increased postage rat
newspapers and pointed out: that; the
measure was absolutely out of bar
mony with all business sense and
reason and a menace to the publlsh-
ins; interests.
Among other illustrations Mr.
Focht referred to the Wllllamsport
Grit as a newspaper which had been
developed from a modest local
weekly <* a few thousand circulation
to a national publication. Alreadj
this particular publication was pay
ing $57,500 as an Increase on its
white paper account owing to war
conditions. With the war tax added
the increase would be $98,423.95. and
should the second class postage bil
he still further increased as sug
gested in the revenue measure the
total war tax upon this single pub
lishing plant would be $207,570.42.
Mr Focht emphasized the con
fiscatory character of the proposed
impositions on newspapers by declar
ing that instead of the government
getting $207,000 from the paper in
question it would not get anything
whatever because the Grit would be
forced to suspend.
What Congressman Focht out
lined in his remarks in the House
was simply a plain statement of the
conditions which now confront news
paper publishers all over the United
States. They have been burdened
heyond anything in the history of the
newspaper industry by the increased
cost of print paper and other ma
terials, the wage scale Justified by
the high cost of living and by exces
sive and rising costs In every direc
tion. Should the government now
impose taxes beyond the point of
reasonable levies, it will be impos
sible for many publications to exist.
It is generally understood that the
newspapers of the United States have
manifested a high type of patriotism
throughout the whole period of war
preparations. They have avoided
printing anything which would bp of
aid or comfort to the enemy. They
have given without charge countless
columns of spaco to the promotion
of recruiting, the sale of Liberty
Bonds and the general support of
the government in every direction.
Notwithstanding this attitude on
their part and a manifest desire to
aid in every way, the newspapers
have been hamstrung and misrepre
sented by the very persons who
should be best informed as to their
real usefulness in the present crisis.
Nothing more unfair or unjust has
developed than the persistent effort
to impose a governmental censorship
which would deprive newspapers of
independence in the discussion of
matters affecting the country during
the period of the war.
It Is time f*or the people to under
stand that any permanent injury to
the newspapers of the country will
react upon the people themselves.
Bad news ror the Democratic poli
ticians—the newspaper censorship
clause has failed.
) PRACTICAL AMERICANIZATION
AN interesting experiment in
practical Americanization In
an industrial community Is
now attracting attention through the
Chamber of Commerce ot Youngs
town, Ohio.
In a little over a month, nearly
every phase of the community life
has been imbued with the spirit of
the campaign. A night school has
been established for a common lan
guage and a united and loyal citizen
ship, $1,500 having been raised to es
tablish night classes for adults In the
public school buildings. Names of
non-English speaking persons were
obtained to determine the need of
night schools, through employers of
foreign labor, from organizations and
at meeting* All aliens so listed were
urged to classes by foremen In plants
and by personal solicitation of' or-
TUESDAY EVENING,
ganizatlon members, interestod citi
zens and clergymen and church
members. The keen Interest of the
students resulted in their voting to
eliminate the Spring vacation and
continue the evening until
June 30.
To allay unrest due to the war a
proclamation was issued by the
Mayor of Youngstown announcing
that the property of aliens would
not be confiscated * and individual
plants hav® announced that not one
foroign-bortt workman would be dis
charged simply because of national
ity.
Other important steps have been
taken by the Chamber of Commerce
of that city to encourage foreign
born residents to take advantage ot
efforts in their behalf. These Include
a logal aid bureau to foster amicable
adjustment of complaints and mis
understandings and to protect for
eigners against exploitation; also so
cial and civic agencies, including fra
ternal organization, social clubs and
other means of aiding the new com
ers and to show the economic and
social advantages of Americaniza
tion. Foreign groups are consulted
regarding plans for work and their
approval obtained.
Other cities of the country are en
gaged In similar work, to the end
that those who want to be Americans
in thought and purpose shall have
every encouragement possible.
The HARRIS BL'RQ TELEGRAPH
has frequently called attention to the
large number of excellent men and
women who have come to us from
other shores and who are earnestly
desirous of becoming citizens of the
United States in every sense the term
implies.
Perhaps no better way to bring.
about rapid headway in Americanl- '
zatlon could be evolved than the co
operation of the employers of labor
[ with a Joint committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce and the Rotary
Club. These organizations are doing
much for Harrisburg and would
doubtless Join efforts in a movement
to make real Americans of all who
have come here to better their con
ditions.
Buy an American bond and keep
clear of German bonds.
CITY MANAGER FOR X. Y.
THERE is much interest for Har
risburg and other cities of
Pennsylvania in the announce
ment by Mayor Mitchell of a plan
for the reorganization of the mu
nicipal government of New York!
City. It was drafted by Henry ,
Bruere, former city chamberlain.) !
who has given much study to city J
problems in America.
The report refers to the devasta- j
tlon of the great war in Europe and
the improved organization of the i
governments of the warring nations, |
which the pressure of war needs has j
compelled. The whole plan is in j
keeping with Mayor Mitchell's hard,!
but for the most part unsuccessful, I
fight for "home rule" legislation at |
Albany, which in many respects is j
analogous to the effort of Senator j
Beidleman in Pennsylvania. Speak
ing of it in relation to present war I
conditions, Mr. Bruere says;
England's governmental ma- I
chinerv has been rescued from I
red tape. Russia is setting out
toward efficient democracy.
America may rediscover her soul
in the effort which the war will
impose upon her.
New York in recent years has
led all America in destroying the
old pessimism regarding civic in
competency. Kor the last sev
eral years, with a better under
, standing of the problem of admin
istering New York City's busi
ness, it has become increasingly
clear that more effective adminis
trative organization is required
if the now popularly denied wider
usefulness of the city govern
ment is to be attained.
The report outlines two plans for
reorganizing the municipal govern
ment. The first plan, while central
izing much of the administrative re
sponsibility of the government un
der the Board of Estimate, to be
discharged through the office of a
"city manager," does not greatly dis
turb the present organizations of the
city departments. The second plan
Is more radical and Involves a sub
stantial change in the duties of the
five borough presidents, as well as
the development of more highly
specialized administrative machinery.
Summarizing the details of the
plan, Mr. Bruere urges that provision
be made In the charter for some of
ficial machinery analogous to that
of a general managership in a corpo
ration. He calls attention to the suc
cessful operation of the city man
ager plan in various cities. To date
there are approximately 100 mu
nicipalities in the United States
which have adopted this form of
government.
When such men as Mayor Mitchell
see virtues in city management for
such a city as New York it is time
for Harrisburg to think seriously
about a change In that direction.
The League to Enforce Peace, of
which ex-President William Howard
Taft is president, is now actively supi
porting the Government in its war ac
tivities, using its best endeavors to
recruit the moral preparedness of the
people for the war and for the or
ganization of a league of nations at
its close. This organization believes
war must result in some permanent
plan through which such international
tragedies shall be prevented. It ma#
mean the banding together of the na
tions of the world somewhat in the
nature of an international police
force which shall Suppress promptly
and efficiently any outbreak against
International peace.
Ifthere Is any doubt among Har
risburg people about the Importance
of supporting the Y. M. C. A. field
work in the military camps that doubt
has been dissipated since the remark
able address of Judge Joseph Buffing
ton ,a few days ago. Those who re
main at home must now realize the
Importance of throwing about the
young men in the service every safe
guard, to the end that their moral
and physical well being may be main
tained.
Now, then, everybody get together
to pan the pan-Germans.
I>o£tUc41 > o£tUc4 Lk
Bj the Ex-Commltteeman
Drastic cuts In the requests for
appropriations for various branches
of the State government, against
whose chiefs and attaches complaints
of political activity have been heard
in legislative chambers, are not like
ly to be made by the committee in
charge of the appropriations. The
preparation of the general appropri
ation bill is going forward rapidly,
Chairmen Buckman and Woodward
having spent yesterday on the meas
ure.
Most of the department chiefs
have had conferences with the
chairmen and explained the neces
sity for the requests they have made
and these meetings were continued
to-day. It is said that departmental
appropriations for existing places*
and work now in progress will go
through, but that there may be diffi
culty about launching new enterpris
es, especially those in the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry.
The appropriation chairmen will
have a talk with the Governor on
the general situation late in tho
week.
Both branches of the Legislature
face big calendars for the sessions
to-morrow afternoon. The appropri
ation bills will bo given right pf way
and it is probable that the Senate and
House committees will report out
bills rapidly in the next ten days.
Members of the State Senate are
commencing to get telegrams by the
ream protesting against the provi
sions in the Buckman automobile li
cense bill, motor clubs in various sec
tions of the State having become
aroused while men active in politics
have been enlisted against some of
its provisions. It is probable that
the bill will be amended so as to
include motorcycles In tho clause
| relative to use of cut-outs and muf
flers. The bill will be on the Senate
calendar when It convenes after the
recess to-morrow afternoon.
—S. C. Gernon Is the latest to en
ter the race for Mayor of Scranton.
There will be a strenuous contest In
that city this fall.
—Democratic county committees
which are reorganizing throughout
the State now are very strong in
their support of the State Democratic
organization.
—Floorwalker Sarig, of the Demo
cratic legislative caucus, is planning
to make a speech on his trust buster
bill when It comes along In the House
which may lie soon. It will be held
up as the relief for all Ills notwith
standing what the Federal govern
ment may be doing.
—George Hart was elected chair
man of the Lackawanna Prohibition
committee and steps are being taken
to woo the Washingtonians In that
section to join in.
—Gossip to-day was that if things
turned out all right in Philadelphia
at the city committee meeting that
the Legislature might quit on June
28. Everything is waiting for Phila
delphia to settle its troubles.
—Transfer of ex-Auditor General
Powell from the active list of the
National Guard to the reserve at
tracted much comment at the Capitol
as he has been long identified with
the Guard and had a fine record in
the Philippines.
—Henry J. Scott, Philadelphia
lawyer well known here, was cleared
yesterday in disbarment proceedings.
A witness against him was given
short shrift for misstatements.
—Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin was
re-elected chairman of the Philadel
phia recreation board.
—According to mosfrof the Phila
delphia newspapers the control of
the Philadelphia Republican city
committee remains with the Vare-
Martln-Lane alliance. Ernest L.
tin, Oscar Noll and a couple of other
Penrose-McNlchol men were defeat
ed. Senators Salus, McNlchol, Pat
ton and Vare; Congressman John R.
K. Scott and W. S. Vare and Repre
sentatives M. S. Bennett and Patrick
Connor; Appraiser F. J. Ryan, Com
pensation Chairman Mackey and
other men active in politics are mem
bers again.
—Constitutionality of the forma
tion of the new Clinton county judi
cial district under the Rich law, at
tacked in court yesterday, is similar
to the proceedings brought a year
ago.
Take Away the Subsidy !
The periodical publishers who ap
peared before the Senate Finance'
Committee on Saturday in a desper-l
ate effort to defeat an increase in
second class postal rates were un
usually frank in their arguments.
Their one fixed idea is to retain the
subsidy which the government now
grants them in the shape of un
dercharges on the carriage of second
class mail matter.
Thev admit that they want to go
on enjoying that subsidy, and they
realize that, once it has been with
drawn, the government will never re
store it. They are therefore anxious
to substitute for an equalization of
second class rates, which will be per
manent in character because justified
bv sound principles of postal admin
istration, a purely emergency tax on
the volume of newspaper and maga
zine advertising. They could ask for
a repeal of this tax when the war is
over. But they have no hope that a
scientific revision of second class
rates, through the Introduction of
the zone system created b# the
House bill, can ever be upset. It Is
obvious that a trial of such a
scheme for a year or two would vin
dicate it completely. There would
then be as little chance of a relapse
to the old flat rate undercharge on
second class matter for the benefit of
publishers unwilling to pay their
way as there would be of a revival
of the old parcel post flat rate sys
tem. with its ludicrous limitation on
weight, for the benefit of the once
all-powerful express companies.
A general tax on advertising, with
a retention of the discriminating and
inadequate flat rate on second class
matter, would simply continue the
glaring inequalities which every in
vestigating commission has found to
exist in the second class mall ser
vice. The government has been de
voting millions of dollars every yeir
to promoting the sale of periodicals
and newspapers which avail them
selves of the long haul privileges
granted under existing postal laws.
It carries bulky second class mail
from New York to San Francisco
for the same charge for which it
carries It from New York to Phila
delphia. The newspaper or magazine
sent 1,000 miles or 3,000 miles is de
livered at a heavy loss to the Post
office Department. Circulation fa
cilities are thus furnished at the
public expense and publications of
wide circulation are unfairly bene
fited. —New York Tribune.
Charles M. Schwab says:—
I have seen more men fall in busl
jnesa through the attitude taken by
their wives in their younger days than
from all the vices put together. A
nagging wife, or one who is not in
sympathy with a man's work, who
expects impossible things of him, and
Is Incapable of taking a general In
telligent Interest in his work, is one
of the worst handicaps he could have.
If a man works with his mind clogged
by domestic troubles he is no use to
himself, his employer or the world
at large. .
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Baseball Extras Cut Out (
Evening newspapers in many of (
the larger cities of the country are
discontinuing their baseball editions, j
This step has been necessary in
most recent cases where this has
been done to the printpaper situa- j
tion. The Buffalo evening papers re- 1
cently cut them out. If the baseball
clubs of this country could see the
wisdom of co-operating with the
newspapers by starting their games
sufficiently early to enable publish
ers to print the result of games in j
late editions they would still be able!
to get the publicity once enjoyed j
through baseball extras.
The morning papers no doubt j
welcome this retrenchment on the (
part of evening newspapers, but the j
public is fast losing interest in the
national game by being compelled to 1
wait until the following morning for j
the scores.
It's a hard thing to teach an old
dog new tricks, however, and until
baseball magnates can be convinced
that they are not the only ones in
terested In the games they will In
directly suffer, due to decreased at
tendance and lack of interest. The
pages of space once devoted to base
ball dope and results is a thing of
the past, and publishers have long
ago realized that they were wasting
thousands of dollars' worth of valu
able space each year for the bemefit
of private interests for which there
never has ben a shadow of an ex
cuse.
In many cities even the score
boards and tickers have been taken
out. Yet the circulation of these
newspapers goes steadily upward,
practically disproving the argument
many times advanced that baseball
extras were necessary to maintain
subscription list. —Newspaper Circu
lation Manager's Bulletin.
The New Indiana
[From the Cleveland Leader.]
In spirit and in deeds a new state
has come into being just across the
western boundary of Ohio. It Is
clear that in certain vital respects
Indiana has been born again.
state was the first ot- the
large members of the Union to fill
its entire quota of recruits needed
for the regular army. Out of the
whole list of forty-eight states only,
three in the Far West, all of them
'small, reached the goal ahead of In
diana. Yet for many years after the
war which saved the country from
dismemberment Indiana bore a taint
of copperheadism and was looked
upon by neighboring states as some
what lacking in the right sort of
patriotism.
Last fall, when the main issue of
the national campaign was militant
and thoroughgoing defense of Amer
ican rights and American honor, In
diana. long regarded as a common
wealth inclined strongly to the Dem
ocratic party, was stvept by the Re
publican tickets, national, state and
local. It showed plainly then the
same temper and high spirit which
recruiting for the army has abso
lutely demonstrated this spring. And
now Indiana is for woman suffrage
and prohibition. Many things have
changed utterly.
It is all a notable awakening of
stalwart and Inspiring Americanism
which is in entire harmony with the
great advances Indiana has made in
industries, commerce and general
prosperity. The new Indiana is
right in line with the most progres
sive states of the Union.
Liberia, Too
[From the Boston Herald.]
The latest recruit in the great
world war between democracy and
autocracy is the little republic of
Liberia.
Child and ward of tho United
States, with a constitution modeled
upon ours, Liberia has followed the
American example in breaking rela
tlons with Germanv. Of her total
population of perhaps 1,500,000 to
2,000,000, only 50,000 are reckoned
as civilized, and these live along the
coast on a strip of land about twen
ty miles broad. Of these 50,000
about 12,000 are American Liberians,
descendants of the former American
slaves who brought the little repub
lic into being.
Liberia will not figure prominently
In the activities of the war. Her navy
is limited to a single armed ravenue
cutter. Her militia, volunteers and
police number about 400, but every
citizen from sixteen to fifty years of
age capable of bearing arms is liable
to serve. Small as she is, she has
not been overlooked by the covetous
eyes of Germany. Her palm oil re
sources are rich and Germany would
like to control them. Before the war
.Germany was extending her Interests
in the little republic, and was using
the hardy Liberians for working her
ships up and down the coast. They
will figure no more in any such ser
vice. Instead, they can be mobilized
to advantage for war work in France
or upon British shlijp.
Will Be Complete
Our readiness for war will not be
complete until the lampposts are
decorated with a few peddlers of de
fective shells. —Boston Advertiser.
JOHNNY REBS WOULD MAKE
THE HOHENZOLLERN SCAMPER
Veteran Confederates, if They Could, Would Willingly Give Their
Lives, Says Henry Watterson. to Win Battle for World
Freedom Now Upon UnltedNgtates; New Rebel
Yell—"Rats, To Your Holes!"
The following editorial by Henry
Watterson appeared yesterday in the
Louisville Courier-Journal;
" 'On fame's eternal camping
ground,
Their silent tents are spread—
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.'
"In every national cemetery these
lines, written by* a Confederate sol
dier, appear either over the gateway
or upon the central monument. It
might be said in explanation of a cer
tain anomaly, rather seeming than
real, that they were written long be
fore the War of Sections to com
memorate the Kentucky soldiers fal
len in the Mexican war whose re
mains were brought home a year or
two later for reinterment in the
State cemetery at Frankfort. But the
circumstance that Theodore O'Hara,
their-author, served the Confederacy
as he had served tho Union points a
moral and adorns a tale of patriotic
valor outlasting political passion and
surmounting lines of battle.
Glorious History Written To-day
"The tinal chapter of the glorious
history born at Lexington, Bunker
Hill and Yorktown, continued across
the Plains of Chalmettc to lfalo Alto,
Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo, and
thence onward to Shiloh, Gettysburg
and Appomattox, is written to-day
by the unopposed capture of Wash
ington City by a thin, gray line of
Johnny Rcbs carrying beneath the
Stars and Stripes the tattered ban
ners of the Confederacy—symbols
both and alike of national unity and
American manhood —invited there
by the brave soldiers of the Grand
Army of the Republic to be welcom
ed and cheered as they totter along
tho Great Avenue by every American
who loves his country and has a
heart in his bosom.
"It is fitting that at this moment
such a reminder shtfuld be passed
among ourselves and such an exhibit
be given to the world.
"It took three foreign wars and
one war of sections —miscalled a civil
war —to make for us a nation and
to weld our divided States Into a
federal unit. Yet a more homogene
ous people occupying such an extent
of territory never existed anywhere
on earth. Puritan Massachusetts and
Cavalier Virginia—rather ldosely
named came from England.
But they did not bring their English
quarrels with them. The terms Puri
tan and Cavalier were afterthoughts,
one might even say affectations, of
our war of sections. That fine bell
i wether of secession, James Henry
Hammond, of South Carolina, sprang
directly from the Puritans of New-
England, while that first of Confed
erate soldiers. Albert Sidney John
ston —a Cavalier if ever there was a
Cavalier —had not a drop of South
ern blood in his veins, having been
born in Kentucky soon after his
father and mother arrived there
from Connecticut. What a rare old
i Puritan John Slidell, the Louisiana
! leader, was—born and reared in New
Mother Nature Smiles
In an interview published by "The
Nation's Business," discussing the
crop conditions and tho need for
more intelligent farming, F. D. Co
burn says:
"But in tho end we wait on
er Nature; and just now the old lady
is friendly. liCt me name two rea
sons why I think I see her smile:
First, farmers have known from the
beginning that when unkind condi
tions destroy the winter wheat the
corn crop is likely to be a record
breaker; Becond, we have had frost
and we have had insufficient rain.
Together these have ploughed and
opened up the deep, silent places of
the soil. And so I feel that there is
a brilliant promise ahead of us de
spite the apparent drawbacks we
have seemed to be encountering.
It is a promise for which we may
well feel profoundly grateful. It
brings with it an opportunity such
•is has come to no nation before In
the history of mankind. For surely
we can ask no nobler part and no
greater privilege than that America
may be permitted to pour out upon
the peoples in their need its wheat
and wine and oil—a Good Samaritan
among the nations of the earth."
Obvious
[Philadelphia North American.]
Even the man who does not favor
prohibition will admit that the liquor
industry goes against the grain.
York!—and who shall say that
Kearny, Custer and McPherson were
not Cavaliers?
Stonewall Jackson, Typical Puritan
"The list might be extended Inde
finitely. Indeed, the one typical
Puritan soldier of the war of sec
tions served not the Union but the
Confederacy—Stonewall Jackson. It
was truly a war of sections—the
North against The South and vice
versa—and except for the removal of
Abraham Lincoln from the scene the
popular coming together when it
was ended had been speedier, for the
men who on both sides had actually
fought Its battles were ready at once
to fraternize. They—may the Cour
ier-Journal not say we'.'—had had
quite enough of It. The generous
treatment of Lee by Grant had set
the pace as an example. , All of us
wanted to wipe off the slate and in
good faith to accept the invitation of
the martyred President fo 'come
back home and behave yourselves.'
"The period and process of recon
struction proved more disastrous to
tho South and sowed deeper differ
ences than the conflict of arms. They
were wholly political and partisan.
Yet even they could not drive out of
the hearts of the Southern people a
latent Americanism, which was
bound to spring into life and action
when touched'from without, so that,
preceded by many kindly words and
acts from McKinley and men like
McKinley, when the signal was flash
ed from Havana Harbor the answer
came as promptly from the South
as from the North. The first heroic
sacrifice, as chance would have it,
was a North Carolina lad of rebel
parentage.
South Prompt to Respond
"It is well for the whole country
at a time like this to recall and re
member these things. They are ac
centuated by the scenes which will
mark the day in the nation's capital.
Not one of the veteran confederates
arrayed there but would willingly
give his life to win the battle for
world freedom which is upon us;
most of them would gladly go to
the front if they could; while some
ol' them have the fancy that the
"rebel yell," if their old throats could"
deliver it loud enough, would make
the Hohenzollern scamper and sound
in the ears of the Hapsburg as if it
said: 'Rats, to your holes!"
"Nowhere in the land do the pulse
beats of the people respond more
promptly and firmly to the drum
beats of the nation than in the South,
for which those gray clad, gray heads
and gray beards fought four long,
heart breaking years, and he must
be a poor American who does not
warm to them —even as MacCallum
More, touched by the appeal of
Jeanie Deans, warmed to the tartan
—seeing them march, phantoms out
of the battle smoke of the Confeder
acy, but soldiers —men every inch of
them—singing "The Star Spangled
Banner" and exclaiming in holy
wrath, 'To hell with the Hohenzol
lern and the Hapsburg.' "
Keep On Agoing
Every man's duty to-day is to stick
to his last. Each one of us can do
his part most effectively by redou
bling his endeavors at the occupation
in which he finds himself—railroad
ing or farming, mining or advertis
ing, selling groceries or making
shoes, banking or lumbering. All of
our every-day occupations have their
great place in our industrial and
commercial structure, and this great
structure is the mighty force we
have thrown into the war.
Our job for th,e moment is to in
crease our production and to make
our facilities of distribution equal to
the burdens wo must place upon
them. In neither one of these Jobs
have we the tasks which all of the
countries earlier at war had to con
front in the second half of 1914, Al
though not in the war, Tn reality we
went through those days with the
belligerents. Byway of provision
against recurrence of such times, we
have since done a deal toward creat
ing tho nucleus of an organization
for war, and in preparing our struc
ture of finance, production and dis
tribution for exigencies of war we
made some real progress.
Our organization for war is
taking form. Finance and industry
are adjusting themselves to the new
national situation. This Is a period
of transition. In order that the end
of this period may find the country
puissant with confident vigor, every
man must bend to his present Job,
solve its new problems, and make
It more significant In his community.
Having don this, we can turn to the
direct tasks >f war In later months,
when they are ready for us.—The
Nation's Business.
JUNE 5, 1917.
Labor Notes
Plasterers at Pueblo, Colo., de
mand $7 for an eight-hour day.
On June 4 at Boston, Masa., Inter
national Fur Workers Union of the
United States and Canada will con
vene.
In the United States, In the year
just passed, 3 5,000 workers were
killed and 2,000,000 others Injured
by accidents that could have been
averted, to say nothing: of 3,000,000
persons incapacitated temporarily by
sickness due to occupational diseases.
Government contractors must not
exploit workers or destroy their liv
ing' standards under tho plea of war
necessity. Is the essence of resolu
tions adopted at a meeting of the
executive council of the metal trades
department, A. F. of I*., and tho
presidents of affiliated organizations.
The seventeenth convention of the
Stove Mounters' International Union
will be held In Detroit, Mich., begin
ning July 17. This is the first Inter
national conference these unionists
have held in three years. Officials
report nearly the. entire membership
has secured wage increases the last
year.
Approximately four times as many
persons are employed in the fac
tories of New York State as are em
ployed in building and construction
work, reports the State Industrial
Commission. Yet during the four
years, from October 1, 1910. to Sep
tember 30, 1914, more fatalities due
to accidents occurred in building and
construction work than In factories.
A report of the British Health of
Munition Workers' Committee states
that there is no productivity in over
time that continuous work "Is a pro
found mistake and does not pay,"
that night work is not to be regard
ed as a good thing, becuuse it is un
economical, and that exceslvely long
hours produce fatigue, Irritation and
sickness.
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Etoning (Efjat'
One of the most Interesting? of the
collection of relics preserved In the
rooms of the Dauphin County His
torical Society, and one which is of
significance to-day, is the old jury
wheel used in drafting men for ser
vice during the Civil war. When the
'•i t was instituted after the war
had gone to a stage when It was
hard to get men, the administration
was placed in tho hands of district
boards, much as In the present plap,
and backed by the provost marshal's
men they made their selections. In
setting up the drafting the board
borrowed tho old Jury wheel and
placed in it the names of men eligible
for service. Those drawn had the
privilege of sending substitutes and
°w5 e m ?u drawn sent two and
three. When the war ended there
were still names left in the wheel! As
the selection in the present war will
be.nthehands of the district boards
It is likely that some form of draft
ing those who are considered most
available from standpoints of de
pendants or the lack of them, occu
pations and other details.
The registration to-day seomed
to interest women as much as men
and there were many inquiries madi
during the day as to how the reg
istration was going. The day forms
an occasion which the youngsters will
long remember and some of tho
younger generation appeared to feel
disappointed that it was not made a
H day ftn,, the Schools
il ' . Ho , wever . they managed to get
[n a fair share of excitement over the
° f . tho men between the
nof/LeT t T enty - ono and thirty to the
names! 1 aces t0 P ut d 0*" their
month P of°r o n a tho ./ art that thls ls th
montn of roses there are manv car.
'inneaTn f r ° V IC 1)loorns have not yet
which ,'! ?i?, d many of ,he ramblers
ho.>n ,1 1 season have generallv
Med wHh r , U,i ? K „„P r are stlil
bepn n .i noso gardening has
resident.V "e occupation w ith manv
are somo Harrisburg and there
vards in VCry . ne specimens In
city whll. i?°fi CrOWd , ed part of t he
♦ hil , e ,n the outlying: districts
rive A°o W v"f ,°u f ro ® os iB ( iuite exten
fn >et they have not appeared
the onv n 'm , althoUßh Practically
In tho=V li K , ven much attention
with on t Y n all gardening ls
with an eye to food.
♦ • •
Dauphin county farmers have
commenced to cut rye, although Tn
£nrLT° S , the Btalks ha ve not ap"
fho ♦? very well and
bAlll nfT 1 look as well as URUaI
because of tho weather. Visits to
?.°v n \%° f 1G h , ont fl elds in the vlcln-
Harrisburg show how the
weather conditions have held back
iv f raln ' ln this section a general
effort was made to sow late so that
the Hessian fly could be checked and
some farmers waited until almost
frost time. This caused tho stalks to
be very late in appearing and as tho
winter was marked by alternate per
iods of hard freezes and snowstorms
and mild weather tho wheat had a
hard time even before the late cold
spring came around. Consequently
the yield in this county will not bo
up to the mark.
• • •
Although the Legislature ls In re
cess and the members have been
home over the week-end there have
been several who have been at their
desks looking over bills or discuss
ing the situation. Among them aro
Representatives Wood, Indiana; Mc-
Klnney, Venango; Slgglns, Warren;
Lby, Perry; Burnett, Cumberland,
and the philosopher of the House,*
Clem Chestnut, of Fulton. Clem says
that things go so fast when the
House is in session that he likes the
quiet so that he can study up.
• #
The "Buy a Bond" proposition is
certainly getting homo as an expres
sion. Even the youngsters are using
It and you hear it on all sides. It is
even being used as a means of
checking rant. The other eVenlng
people in a crowded car were being
regaled with information from a
citizen who knew all about tho war
and all about everything. He aired
himself until finally one dejected
head of a family growled from be
hind his paper, "Oh, go buy a bond."
As the converser was somewhat no
ted as "a tightwad," the shot struck
home; conversation lagged and
smiles roamed up and down the
car.
• • •
Lewis S. Sadler, of Carlisle, active
In the work of the State Public
Safety Committee, is performing
some notable public service these
days. In addition to having been
the mainstay in the organization and
carrying out of the agricultural
"speed up" propaganda movement In
the big agricultural county over the
river, he has been devoting two and
sometimes four days a week to the
organization of food supply work at
the offices of tho state cpmmlttee.
Mr. Sadler attended meetings in many
parts of Cumberland county to stim
ulate agriculture and his ideas have
been applied to other counties.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Cyrus G. Derr, the president of
the State Bar Association, is to de
liver an address at the opening on
"The Philosophy of Lawmaking."
—The Rev. Martin G. King, of
Scranton, has been named as moder
ator of the Lackawanna Total Ab
stinence organization. He Is attached
to the cathedral.
—The Rev. R. J. PUgram, of Pitts
burgh, has accepted a call to one of
the Reformed churches of Lancaster.
—The Rev. R. A. Honn, of Cali
fornia, has resigned his charge to
become a chaplain for the war.
—John D. Hltcliman, one of the
new officers of the Tenth Pennsylva
nia regiment, used to be Westmore
land county controller.
—Captain C. C. Gangloff, of Potts
vile, who was here yesterday, took
command f one engineer company
of the National Guard and then
formed another In the same place.
—Major A. M. Macßeynolds, Just
recommissloned an officer In the Na
tional Guard, ls a Doylestown editor
—Judge Josiah Cohen, of Pitts
burgh, opened the big Jewish Social
Conference In that city.
—Robert Garland has been re
elected president of the Pittsburgh
Chamber of Commerce.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg machine
shops arc turning out parts of
appliances to manufacture mu
nitions?
HISTORIC HARRISBITRG
Anthony Wayne and John SullU
van, two of the patriot generals,
were here to direct assembling of
stores for their campaigns.
To Distinguish Them
Senator Lewis has a plan for a
compulsory agricultural army. The
soldiers of the organization would
probably be called corhscripts to dis
tinguish them from the regular con
scripts.—Chicago Herald.