8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjr (Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. •E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GU3 M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American office. Entered at the Poet Office In Harrls burg, Pa, as second class matter. . By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $6.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6 Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slaveryT Forbid it, Almighty God.' I know. not what course others may take, but as for me, give me lib erty or give me death! —Patrick Henhy. FlG'irnXG FOR OUR RIGHTS IN confronting the Prussian men ace it is well for. the people of the United States to realize that they are not only entering a war for human rights and world-wide dem ocracy, but also for the real pro tection of our own country. This is not a sentimental war. It is a t con flict involving in the first instance the inalienable rights of a free peo ple and the Berlin government hav ing trodden upon the most sacred heritage of American citizens we are now determined that this sort of thing shall cease, whether we shall have world democracy or not. We must not lose sight of the fact that the sinking of the Lusitania, the Impudent proposition that we could send one ship to England a week, and other like offenses against this country have justified the entrance of the United States into the war. We are not a milk-and-water people. While we have grown soft and In different through a long period of peace and prosperity, the essential elements of a free people are inher ent in our population and the enor mous enrollment of military ellgibles must demonstrate to the watching Imperialists at Berlin that they have misjudged the temper of Americans. Nor must it be forgotten that we have assimilated into our body poli tic millions of men and women of foreign birth who are patriotic and earnest defenders of our free insti tutions. Hundreds of thousands of men born under other flags will light in this war under the Stars and Stripes with a devotion as sin cere and deep-rooted as that of our native citizenry. We have been a lons time getting awake, but the gathering storm cloud of war has sprpad Its shadow over the whole country and to-day the people of the United States are aroused to their duty as never be fore. Slackers and anti-war busy bodies will find themselves in a woe ful minority from now on. It would be well for all such to bridle their tongues and conceal their lack of patriotism and cowardice under at lease a surface pretense of loyalty to the flag. Harrisburg as the center of a patriotic section of Pennsylvania has manifested its fealty to the govern ment In a way that Is exceedingly creditable and all the traditions of previous wars are being maintained in the present crisis. So let us realize that while world democracy is an ultimate goal, the United States has an obligation to defend those principles of freedom which have been handed down to us hy a sturdy and earnest and patriotic ancestry. Our rights have been in vaded by the European enemy not once but many times, and we would be less than men should we fail to defend these rights upon the sea and the land and with all the power and force of a prosperous and peace loving people. MEATLESS DAYS AHEAD THERE is pending in the House at Washington a bill which forbids, under severe penalty, Ihe slaughter of female cattle under Bix years of age and male cattle un der one year. This plan is the out come of a measure sponsored before the Council of National Defense by Secretary of Agriculture Houston, who declares that he has evidence that "meatless days" will be the lot of the whole country unless rigid .prohibition regarding the slaughter Of calves Is enforced. It is said that throughout the flch Cumberland Valley there are :few calves, as a result of the prac • tice of converting into veal the young stock upon the theory that the raising of cattle is too expen sive under present conditions to be (profitable. Some months ago this newspaper printed an interview with a railroad official of Missouri, then in Harris fcurg, In which he predicted that meat would be a luxury within the mext two years because the lncreas . Jng cost of feed was destroying the Seattle industry. Representative Britton. of Illinois, fWho introduced the bill forbidding * Ihe slaughter of calves, declares that, WEDNESDAY EVENING, with the decrease of cattle and calves. It is but a question of time when only the rich and the war tax dodger can enjoy beefsteak. He submitted figures based on govern ment tabulations showing there are 7,600,000 less beef calves in the United States to-day than there were ten years ago. Eight million calves were killed last .year. He pointed out that if these calves had been allowed to go into beef they would have produced 6,000,000 pounds of beef more than we have to-day. , . Whatever else we ma; learn from the war, It Is certain we shall know more about the importance of con serving our food and be prepared to take care of our resources as never before In the history of the country. Time was when the hillsides and valleys of Pennsylvania were dotted with herds of cattle. No farm was without a herd of yearlings and older, but these, like the sheep, have disappeared and we are now paying the price. THE POLICE SURVEY THERE is little of the sensational and very much of the practical, as was to have been expected, in the report of the rurvey of the Harrlsburg Police Department made by experts of the Bureau of Munici pal Research of New York at the instigation of the Chamber of Com merce. That the survey was well worth while has been demonstrated already by the immediate improve ments adopted and put into practice by the department at the suggestion of those who made the investigation. Little has been developed that the average citizen familiar with con ditions did not suspect, but suspicion having been confirmed as fact, it is now the part of Council, and the Chamber of Commerce as well, to follow the survey with action that eventually shall eliminate the exist ing evils. Aside from the vice suppression recommendations, the suggestion that saloons be closed at midnight and the elimination of politics from the police force, probably no recom mendation will receive, more general commendation than that for the passage of a State law abolishing the Mayor's police hearings and substi tuting therefor a police magistrate's court which would take over not only the police hearings of the city but the criminal suits of all alder men. It Is a mistake to require this police duty of the Mayor. As at present conducted, the hearings not only lower the dignity of the office, but take from the executive valuable time that well might be devoted to other uses. And as for the alder men, It Is a fact approaching scan dal that aldermen for years nave been living on criminal prosecutions that ought never to have been brought, or, if brought, quashed at the very outstart. This does not apply to all aldermen or even to a majority of Ihem, but the practice of "farming" the office has been frequent enough to call forth, the condemnation of the county authorities at times and to make criminal court muoh more costly every year than it would be under some such well-conducted po lice magistrate system as suggested by the" survey report. Police knowledge of the existence of commercialized vice in Harrlsburg is an open secret. Its suppression has been attempted from time to time, but only sporadically. Failure to reduce it to a minimum has re sulted In the expressed belief of some police officials that the evil is incur able; that when it is pu down one place it springs up another. But it is a fact, nevertheless, that Harris burg police never have tried seri ously to prevent this condition. Lax liquor regulation, all-night saloons and drinking places that cater to a. mixture of the sexes are all encour agements to commercialized vice. Close the saloons at 12 o'clock or put them out of business altogether and the disorderly house problem will be more than half solved. In the meantime, as the survey experts recommend, a vigorous and continu ous prosecution of the evil wherever it lifts its head will do as much to suppress It as prompt arrest .and punishment do to keep down rob bery, murder or other crimes. That Harrlsburg has a "real traffic problem" nobody who has occasion to use the downtown streets In the busy hours will deny. The survey recommends as a remedy proper po lice regulation and precisely what the TELEGRAPH brought about when last winter It published a series of editorials and articles which re sulted in the street railways com pany employing an expert to recom mend remedies for existing evils, which report is now in the process of formulation. Taken as a whole, the survey was worth the money it cost—or will be, if its recommendations in the main are put into effect, as they should be. UNFORTUNATE PATRIOTISM PRESIDENT WILSON Is unfor tunate in some of his frlepds. At a time when all political manipulation should be submerged in patriotic support of every nriovo ment for the successful prosecution of the war, certain of his indiscreet partisans are taking occasion to drag politics Into the discussion of great national measures. Senator Lewis, of Illinois, cam paigned in New Hampshire the other day in support of a Democratic can didate for Congress to fill a vacancy and had the nerve to charge that support o'f his opponent would be a stab at the President and a re pudiation of his policies. He asked the voters whether they "were for the President or the Kaiser." WAen called to account in the Sen ate this week for his indefensible speech Senator Lewis tried to Justify himself with the statement that "the man who presents himself as repre senting the President stands for the things for which the President Is fighting, and the man who Btands against the President stands against the things for which America is fighting. I made the issue. I deplore that the community could not accept it as such." Senator Harding, commenting on the statement of Senator Lewis, said: "In making the world safe for de mocracy, -we should make democracy safe for the American people by put ting patriotism ( above politics." In view of the sptendid way in which the Republicans at Washing ton have stood behind the President, the attitude of men like Lewis serves to draw attention to those who are sincerely supporting the Government and the rest who are taking advan tage of a crucial situation to pro mote partisan feeling and political ambition. "~PoCtttC4 CK Ilj the Ex-Commlttcemnn -JLJ.-: i- .. 1 ' Reports that the Legislature would close up Its work on June 21 and take a two weeks' recess were exploded to-day when men promi nent in both Houses expressed the belief that the lawmakers would be here until well into July. The two appropriation committees will get busy Immediately on the bills from the opposite Houses and it,is pos sible tht the next ten days will see all the appropriation bills except the general appropriation measure for the conduct of the state government in the hands of the Governor. This latest development in the po litical situation in the state is ap parently the result of inability of leaders to get together with the Governor in the matter of the ap pointments and from present indi cations the Governor will be requir ed to act on the appropriation bills while the Legislature is still in ses sion, the first state executive to be called upon to meet that task in years. <■ Governor Brumbaugh declined to day to comment on the legislative situation but showed interest in the reports that the session would run into July. —The biggest thing in state poll tics outside of the legislative situa tion to-djvy is the organization of the Philadelphia city committee. It will probably have an effect on the state at large, as a number of county or ganizations will have their annual meetings soon. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says that Mayor Smith is op posed to any more factional fighting in the Quaker City, the remarks of the mayor being very similar to those of the veteran city chairman, David H. Lane, who declared that with the Republicans of the state united there was no chance for a Democrat to do anything next year. Pitts burgh and up-state newspapers have been keeping quiet on the general situation, apparently waiting to see whether the Philadelphians, who started the trouble, will point the way by harmonizing. —The Inquirer's article says in i part: "Mayor Thomas B. Smith last night let it be known that he is not in favor of a factional fight for the nominations for office to be made by the Republican party next fall, and indicated that in his opinion, there will be no fight at the primaries. This declaration came in response to an inquiry as to the defeat of for mer Senator Ernest L. Tustin, the Penrose favorite, for city committee man in the Thirty-fourth ward, whom the Vare cohorts overthrew, notwithstanding declarations of friendship for Mr. Tustin from the mayor. In September next candi dates will be nominated to succeed District Attorney Samuel P. Rotari, Receiver of Taxes W- Preeland Ken drlck, Register of Wills James B. Sheehan and City Treasurer William McCoach and the judiciary and minor offices. All but Mr. McCoach are eligible for re-election. The opinion prevails among usually well Informed politicians that there is a strong probability of an agreement upon a ticket which will include Messrs. Rotan, Kendrick and Shee han, and that there will be named for city treasurer a candidate who will be acceptable to both factions in the Republican organization." —The Philadelphia Ledger is of the opinion that there will be a bitter factional fight in Philadelphia this fall. —The third-class city bills will be given an airing in the Senate committee to-morrow. The chances for changes in the laws relative to the third-class cities are not very bright unless the people interested get together. —lf the legislative program is not speeded up the chances are that there will be many bills slaughtered. The bills on the calendar and in committees run into the hundreds. —The first arrest to be made un der the Powell act making it a mis demeanor to tear up gardens has been made. Innocuous Frightfulness [Detroit Free Press.] According to an Amsterdam re port German frightfulness and ha tred are extending to include an art war on the United States. German singers in this country who contract for appearances before Americnn au diences are to be boycotted in their homeland for a period of five years; at least, they are not to be permitted admission to the stages of German theaters. This announcement is rather in teresting because it throws a certain amount of light on the Teutonic state of mind, although otherwise it is unimportant. The United States is not especially dependent on Ger man vocalists, and it is learning more and more to get along without them. Leave Italy, France and the United States available for recruiting purposes and we can manage very well for singers. So far as the more proficient vo calists of German axV'actton now in the United States are concerned, any ban placed on their activities across seas ought to cuuse them lit tle concern. Most, if not all of them, have to come to this country he cause they can make many times more money than they can in Ger many, where artists are commonly paid small fees. Those who succeed well in the United States generally stay here permanently, so far as their professional careers are con cerned, and trouble themselves little about their old business connections. Stimulating Trade True economy, healthy economy is the call of the hour. This can best be brought about by each and every one doing double duty—by conserv ing our resources. There is no extravagance in intel ligent buying at any time. But there is, at this particular time, an imperative, a national ne cessity for stimulating trade, in spiring Individual confidence, and helping to prevent the hoarding of cash.—Th Silent Partner. HAMISBURG TELEGRAPH if : I MOVIE OF A MAN PHONING UNDER TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES By BRIGGS HELLO peaches- i JUST You KKJooj I (HELLO DieKY— ) WAS Th< y local or ganizations when the National Guard ,s mobilized for service. It is pos sible that this work will be part ,°. ~® training of the new army as it will get men into good trim and teach them elements of control. The guarding of pifhllc works and indus tiial establishments is becoming more and more a duty which will develop on local or corporation po lice forces, many of which are being formed under direction of National Guardsmen or State police. • • * The State Board of Education In J™ 'atest bulletin calls attention to the presentation of two paintings tp th® State Board of Education In I lttshurgh by the organization of friends of art, of which William C. r ownes, of Pittsburgh, well known here, is chairman. This organiza tion was established to encourage in terest in American art in the schools of Pittsburgh. It set out to pur chase SI,OOO worth of paintings each year, the works to be a circulating art gallery for the schools. The com mission has been buying the work of local artists and has aroused not only great attention among the youngsters but stimulated gifts. * Announcement of the enlistment of Lane S. Hart, 111, and William B. Hart made yesterday calls attention to the fact that these two young soldiers are the grandsons of a noted State Treasurer of Pennsylvania. •They are sons of Lane S. Hart, Jr.. whose father was William B. Hart, who was elected treasurer right aft er the Civil War In which ho had taken-a brave fSart. The young sol diers are grandnephews of Major Lane S. Hart, for years one of the city's leading bankers and now re tired. • • • Motorcar owners and motor cyclists are sitting up and taking notice of the bill now pending In the State Senate to increase the li cense fees and to further regulate operation. If the proposed federal tax goes through and the Income "taxes are raised and the State raises t license fees, there will he fewer cars and cycles declare their present owners. • • • , A Capitol Park squirrel routed, a bulldog which had probably fatally wounded It yesterday afternoon near the State Library building. The bull dog caught the squirrel while It was going through some antics for some visitors and In spite of efforts to make him let go he bore off the struggling animal. Suddenly the squirrel made a last frantic effort and bit tile bulldog on the nose. The bulldog quickly let go to yelp and the squirrel crawled away. Then the dog made after the squirrel again but It made a dash at its tormentor, who ducked. Once more the squirrel evaded capture and a few minutes later the dog was running out of the park with people armed with umbrellas after him. The squirrel seemed to be in bad shape and If the dog comes around again he will get a warm reception from the policemen. ** ♦ • Yesterday afternoon's rain caused an unusual display of low hanging clouds along the First mountain. There appeared to be an exception ally strong current of air through the gap and the clouds were driven back along the mountain and then spread over Wildwood Park. They did not appear to be much over 100 feet above the ground and from a distance it looked as though there had been a big Are. * • • Governor Brumbaugh and several members of his staff together with some personal guests will go to Get tysburg on Friday to attend the dedication of the monument to Gen eral Robert E. Lee. It will be a notable gathering of veterans and officials. The Governor plans to make the trip by automobile. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. J. L. Elsenberg, the new head of the Slippery Rock State Normal School, used to be head of the Chester schools. —E. L. Bowman, one of the State supervisors of Industrial education, has been detailed to Franklin to make an Industrial survey of that city. —Dr. T. O. Glenn hart been ap pointed the government pension sur geon at Bradford. —Senator E. H. Vare was a speak er at the Philadelphia Civic Club meeting yesterday. —Mayor A. D. Newell, of New Castle, is puzzled about what to do over requests for permission to work in war gardens .on Sundays. —George D. Dixon, the Pennsyl vania railroad vice-president who Is arranging the new schedule to fa cilitate war movements, is one of the nation's experts on transporta tion. —Bishop Eugene A. Garvey, of Altoona, is raising money to estab lish an orphanage at Cresson on the mountain top. —Col. Daniel Ashworth, burgeps of Crafton and prominent veteran, has been named to a court position In Allegheny. DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg steel produc tion this year will be a record? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Units of a dozen commands were raised In and about the settlement known as Harris ferry during the revolution.