8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded igji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO„ Telegraph Building, Federal Square. ;E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Flnley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office! Flnley, - s Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as s scond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a ■ week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUUE 1* I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. — Ruskin. WEST SHORE ANNEXATION THE leaders of the West Shore Firemen's Union are men of vision. That has been demon strated almost from the day the union was organized. It is illustrated anew by the movement to bring Wormleysburg, Camp Hill and Le moyne into Harrlsburg. Some years ago there was talk of thls and a bill was presented in the Legislature giv ing permission for cities to annex territory in adjoining counties, but It failed of passage. The L T nion now comes forward to press for this merging of the suburbs with the city proper. The leaders who urge this under stand that Harrisburg should em brace all territory immediately ad jacent. Pittsburgh and Allegheny are points for comparison. The Bethlehems are about to Join forces under a recent act of Assembly. The logical thing for adjoining: communities to do is to come under] one municipal government. Concen tration of authority makes for effic iency and economy. Big cities are served better and more cheaply than small towns. The larger the city the more it is able to do for its people In the way of parks, fire protection, po lice, lights, schools and all those other things that the modern munici pality is called upon to provide in some measure for its residents. Some day Harrlsburg will extend t south as far at least as the lower end of Highspire, taking in Steelton; east to Rutherford, and annexing as well Penbrook and Progress, and north as far as the mountains. Its growth west should not be bounded by the river. Hundreds of men and women who work in Harrisburg re side along the West Shore in one or another of the thriving suburbs that have grown up there. These places should be a part of the city, and eventually will be. No harm and much good can come from such movements as that start ed by the West Shore Firemen's Union. LEGISLATORS AND LEGISLATION FINAL adjournment of the Legis lature June 28 seems assured. Any one familiar with the usual course of the sessions of the General Assembly understands that the bulk of the work Is done during the last two or three weeks and the calendars of the Senate and House are now In such shape as make easily possible finishing the real work of the session within the present month. From the Republican standpoint it is hardly necessary to suggest that the piffle of political dissension which has engaged the attention of so many of the members of both branches during the last few months should no longer be premitted to in terfere with the orderly procedure of the two bodies and the conclusion of the serious business for which tho Legislature was convened. Governor Brumbaugh has vetoed a considerable number of measures and many others have fallen by the wayside in their passage through the legislative mill. These are not re grettable incidents inasmuch as the average Legislature is too prone to increase the number of laws and to disturb all classes of people with en actments that are unnecessary and burdensome in their operation. As the present Governor and Lieu tenant Governor have said on more than one occasion, the best thing that could happen the Common wealth would be a general repeal of hundreds of statutes which cumber the records and embarrass a patient people. Too many lawyers have run riot in the Senate and House for years with all sorts of panaceas and worse. Their minds are obsessed with a desire to increase statutory regulations for one purpose or an other. A body of legislators compris ing experienced businessmen and others who have given particular at tention to the practical things of life might be a good thing for the State. Too long the hamstringing of busi ness has engaged the attention of the legislative body and the turn of the tide is about at hand. In these war times we have learn ed that the constant baiting of cor porations and manufacturer* and business generally has resulted in a serious condition which is a real menace to the public welfare. In stead of the railroads, for Instance, being prepared for the enormous traffic resulting from war prepara WEDNESDAY EVENING, tlons they are hampered In every di rection through insufficient rolling stock and other necessary equipment. The same thing applies to other ac tivities %nd the men who make our laws ought to understand that there Is a limit to all this regulation busi ness, much of It Impractical and most of It unnecessary. Under all the circumstances an early adjournment of the Legislature will be generally approved by the people. Let the necessary things be done and done quickly. FLAG DAY —O-MORROW will be Flag Day. I In a sense every day Is flag day, but to-morrow has set aside especially as an occasion upon J which to do honor to Old Glory. Har rlsburg's celebration will be simple, dlgnlflcd and altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times. Led by Harrlsburg Lodge of Elks the vari ous organizations of the city will march to Reservoir Park, where ex ercises will be held. It is worthy of note that the program has been ar ranged for the evening, so that the men who participate may not be taken from their work and the out put of office, factory and mill de creased to that extent. Never within the history of the anniversary has Flag Day meant so much. More than ever the Stars and Stripes stand for the hope of man kind and the liberty of the world. Old Glory is the flag of freedom and the emblem of democracy. It is more than a national banner: it is the standard of freedom the world around and the rallying center for millions dedicated to the perpetua tion of liberty and the overthrow of autocracy. Show your colors. Let everybody know where you stand. Put out a flag to-morrow, if it is no larger than your hand. MEN WORTH WHILE THE first commencement of the Harrisburg branch of the Whar ton School of the University of Pennsylvania was held last night. Fifty-three young men were awarded diplomas. The graduates are men worth while. For three years they have at tended school four evenings a week, studied nightly and worked during the day, most of them winning pro motions in the interval. It requires stamina of the kind that wins big things in the world to make such sacrifices. Nobody but those who have tried will understand the gruel ling labor to which these students submitted themselves. Their reward is as certain as though they had already laid hands on it. Advance ment simply cannot be denied men of their caliber. And that they are as patriotic as they are industrious and enterprising is shown by the fact that eleven members of the graduat ing class, four members of the Ju niors, and one first-year man have volunteered for various branches of the military service for the period of the war. WHALE STEAKS IF the storied visitor from the Wild and Woolly West who used to de mand "rattlesnake on toast" of the startled waiter in a New York restaurant were alive to-day the waiter might come back with the polite reply. "None to-day, sir, but we can give you a nice piece of broiler! whale steak." Wha'e steaks, we are informed, are to become a part of our war diet. We are assured that the Japanese have been living on whale meat re cently to the exclusion of beef, but then It must be remembered also that the Japs prefer rice to pota toes, and if whale Is to beef as rice Is to potatoes, then we humbly beg that we be permitted to take flank roast and brisket and let the tender, succulent whale steak go to others whose teeth are not so strong. Not that we would discourage the use of rice and whale. Far from it. But most of us are "set In our ways" and prefer broiled sirloin and potatoes even to turkey and cranberries. However, that Is no reason why whale steak should not become pop ular. There was a time when even potatoes were looked upon with sus picion and when tomatoes were gar den ornaments, masquerading under the high-sounding name of Jerusa lem apples and regarded as rank poison. So, also, there was a period when people thought they had to "learn" to like bananas and when grapefruit was regarded as utterly impossible. Indeed, reflecting further upon the dietary peculiarities of the people of the United States, one cannot doubt for a moment that In a land where sauerkraut, snlts and knep, dried apple pie, pigs' feet souse, liver sau sage and Llmburger cheese are re garded as rare tidbits of epicurean delight, whale steaks and pot roasts eventually will find their place, es pecially if the introductory price of 10 cent* a pound is maintained. ""pc&tCca UV | By the Ex-Oommlttceman Action of senatorial leaders in se lecting June 28 as the date for final adjournment and the prompt and en thusiastic manner in which the House of Representatives accepted the day is generally taken on Capitol Hill to mean differences between Governor Brumbaugh and the Pen rose people In regard to appoint ments and legislation are at least on •a way to be Ironed out. As yet no protocol has been signed, but the fact that there has been an agree ment to close up and evident- inten tion not to hamper the Governor with a mass of bills to be disposed of while the Legislature Is In session is very significant. It has been well known on Capitol Hill for some 'time that efforts were being made to secure a truce so that the Governor's appointees would be confirmed, the Penrose people be given some consideration and legis lation and appropriations arranged. The sudden change from plans to put all of the appropriation bills before the- Governor ten days before the Legislature quits and then to recess indicates that something has been oone to soothe injured feelings or else that it is not considered that the game is worth the candle. " was the intention to crowd the appropriation bills on the Gov er,n°r so that he would have to act while the legislature was in session, they would have been started out on Monday, and this fact, together with , e . Allure to make war on vetoes which have been reposing on the • able shows that some men have been coming to their senses. --There were some prophets to day who said that the Governor would not send In any appointments until the very last day of the session in spite of all expectations to the contrary. The Governor insists on 0.l of his appointments being con firmed. The Penrose people would like to have the Public Service Com missioner and Secretary of Internal Affairs. —When the resolution to adjourn on June 28 reached the House it was acted upon amid singing. The song was "Ho7ic, Sweet Home." ' The Smith resolution proposing the prohibition amendment to the state Constitution, which was re- ' ported out of committee last night, will be the biggest thing in the re mainder of the session. When the Legislature met it was said that a prohibition amendment resolution . would be passed, the idea being to have the people vote on it in 1919, but the plans were changed. Now, since local option is out of the way and "dry" sentiment is mounting, the amendment is assuming such propor tions that it is understood some of the liquor people are in favor of sending the question to the voters, fearing drastic popular movements ■ if they oppose such a proposition. —Colleagues of Senator C. W. Sones, of Willlamsport. were boost ing him to-day as a possible candi date for Governor at the Democratic primary. The senator smiled and did not say very much. Over on the House side the Central Pennsylvania Democrats were sitting up and tak ing notice of the Lycoming man as a possibility. —Philadelphia's transit hills, which have several times threatened to be come a state issue, advanced yester day following a hearing at which Mayor Smith and other men ap peared. The judiciary general com mittee of the Senate reported out the bills to the Senate and the mayor was much pleased. Senator McNlchol says he will support the bills, but does not think they will solve the problem. —Representative John M. Flynn, ranking Democratic member of the House, presided yesterday afternoon ir the Houso and received quite a hand from the members. —The Democratic "trust buster," which bears the name of Representa tive Wilson G. Sarig. the Demo cratic floorwalker in the House, is still not regarded seriously by the members, many of whom sav that they think the Fowler bill Is prefer able. However, the Democrats will roar and bo troubled over the Sarig bill and blame all the future ills of Pennsylvania on the failure to treat the handiwork of E. Lowry Humes under the name of Mr. Sarig with any degree of seriousness. —Attorney A. J. Mehring, of this city, has succeeded Edward G. Moore, of' Fayette county, as the Legislative Reference Bureau clerk in the House. Mr. Moore, who has been connected with the bureau for several years, will enter the blast furnace depart ment of the Central Iron and Steel Company of this city. He has been one of the most accommodating of officials on Capitol Hill and his many friends will wish him success. —Ex-Representative A. B. Duns more, of Tioga county, was at the Capitol yesterday to see the lesis. lators at work. Mr. Dunsmore was the sponsor fot- the State Railroad Commission bill in 1907. —One of the most significant things about the sessions of the House yesterday was the manner in which Speaker Baldwin had to call the members to attention. Once the Speaker said that he did not wish to be a pedagogue, but that owing to inattention bills were being lost and then t'me taken up In reconsidering them. The Speaker declared that listlessness was out of place when men were insisting that they wanted to finish up and go home. —The Philadelphia Ledger is of the opinion that the small council bill for Philadelphia will have a hard time as a result of the Heffernan bill's defeat yesterday. The Phila delphia Inquirer says that "no seri ous attempt" was made to get a clear line-up on the bill to take Philadel phia police and firemen out of poli tics. The Ship of State Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years. Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel. What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Who made each mast, and sail, and rope. What anvils rang, what hammers beat. In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tls of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Pail on. nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee; Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. Are all with three —are all with thee! —Longfellow, In "The Building of the Ship." , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH [" r n The Days of Real Spor By BRIGGS I "all ~ Any rtP tfT~~w^RK ■ —' SUCH REMARKS" L -^f S———— -—*.—. PA S"r SQUg/M-Y ~" .. , . AMO 6TRWSHT |M r , JsS&\ Auj. w . Tmiase \ You't-u GIT , rH,a Mouie - Vou jSlfe/ X>Awe© OLD V TH A£YTH.,?Gickcr^ [ EDITORIAL COMMENT ] ! i Spain appears to be about fed upj on innocent bystandjng.—Macon Tel- j | egraph. Germany, according to reports, at- j taches no importance to our entry! into the war; many of our Congress-1 men seem to feel the same way about it.—Philadelphia Press. Lloyd George advises all the Irish factions to get together behind closed doors and decide Home Rule. Tho man who comes out will write tho constitution and be king.—Chicago Tribune. The New Russia From my window above the har bor of Vladivostock I can see, as I write, a half-billion dollars' worth of materials lying on the ground. Scores of huge godowns were filled j many months ago, end the torrent of | supplies pouring Into Vladivostok had to be emptied out along the harbor streets, in waste places, and over all the surrounding hills. The vastness of the congestion is, I sup pose, unique in the history of com merce, for from my window only a small part of the stores lying here is visible. Only eleven days have passed since the Tsar abdicated more than six thousand miles away in distance and ten days by fastest express in point of time. Perhaps a dozen Chinese watchmen are sitting sleep ily about within sight. A block away, at the corner of Vladivostok's prin cipal street, stands a slender Rus sian youth of about nineteen. I know by his uniform he is a student. He is unarmed, but about his left arm is a broad white linen band with three crimson Cyrillic characters upon It, showing him to be a mem ber of the citizens' committee. He is all that is left of Russia's notorious gendarmes find secret service sys tem. Less than a fortnight ago this student and his colleagues, evolving secretly political ideas they dared not openly express, lived in daily ap prehension of those spies and gen darmes. At any hour, without any real trial, he was in danger of being exiled for life to a place a thousand miles from a railway in the depths of the forest primeval, where the average winter temperature is the lowest in the world, not excepting the poles. To-day he is conqueror. Thefe Is a grim humor in it. He is the only officer there. —Fortier Jones in the Ju'y Metropolitan. Heinz on Food Supply The necess'.ty of personal and im mediate attention of each individual being given to the promotion of food conservation was emphasized in a warning Issued by Director He'.nz of the rood Supply Department of the Committee of Public Safety. Chair men of the local committees were urged 'o make pla'n the Individual resoonsibl'.ity wh'ch the food situa tion has o-eated. Mr. Heinz in his warning said: "Wise food ecenomy does not mean parr'mony. It dees not mean, the cutting off of food luxuries by those ' who csn afford them. On the con trary. the liberal consumption of ; food luxuries by those who can pay their price and the corresponding saving of plainer food staples, for the use of the less affluent at home and for our allies abroad, is a most intelligent kind of economy. For it is the great staple foods like wheat, for example, for which the world 1 is starving to-day. Thus, 1 "We should each personally re duce our consumption of those food commodities that are vital to the sit uation—wheat, potatoes, beef, but ter. sugar, meat. "We should moderate the use of or abstain entirely from Immature meat foods —veal. suckling pigs, squab chickens, youn lamb. etc. • "We should substitute for a part of our cereal diet in place of wheat bread; corn bread, rye bread, oat meal and rice. "We may be rationally free in the use of sea foods of all kinds, j "We should make the most lib eral use possible of the perishable [ foods—summer vegetables, fruits, etc. , "We must learn to avoid the waste that to-day makes the American garbage can a reproach to the Amer . lean family." i fce Careful Not to Hate Hate not the sinner, but the sin, The- > I doctors would I? 4/ ; ■ prescribe Jurt /fjj J r about half the Ug-ASM'xl j juantlty they e HOW SHE i Didn't Jack ' What! Did °W' I y° u hear me BC,eam ' 1 No " 1 heard I* i \I y ° U Utt6r * Cry P~y ! sCW *1 , /i is money. '/jSaPMj Gentleman of :^ f Leisure—l shall /. f| be happy to 4m3B* take It in that ifIBSL form, air. ] £b?ntitg Gttptllj „„ Pen l sy,vanla railroad baseball :?™ s ,? av ® taken to the east side of crnimi °? o,' or their diamonds. The nMr Slx . th and Division streets, tho on . an ' B Woods, which were have hofw v Son 2° very hot contests, JinrffJ , abandoned to the coming road m n i lO arena and the ral1 " mondniotH ha y e taken to two dla- Thesn °V l neftr W.lldwood Park, games K a n nrc weU adapted for being near thl* the advantage of and thiw.Jf..' company property dkmnrfd h SP k rk system. Another Cumber nnd ," een lald ° u near creek in c .?® 1 and the Paxton creeK. in South Harrlsburcr thr are not as many baseball grounds as lnz thT£J\ hC - ,he 'arge![ now b" tng the old Susquehanna field The used'to "h A i aßcha " Itamonds which used to bo so nunieroun alonir ("am saw amf' '! av