6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEIiSPAPER FOR THE HOME FiMndtd itjl Published evenisgs except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E. J. STACK POLE, Prts't tr Editar-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. yl American } n E st Bte . r B ofniv ; Oas ButlJtng. ■ Chicago, 111. Entered at the l'ost Office in Harris burg, Pa., a& s 'cond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a '•VPJtgiSSis5U> \/eek; by mall. tb. oo a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 16 And ye shall know the truth, and i the truth shall make you free. —JOHN I 8:32. HOE: HOE: HOE: NOW are the days when the lit tle tardens all over the land are hanging in the balance. Their fate depends upon the skill of their owners in trench warfare. Get your plants out of the trenches arid fortify them in hills. Hoe! Hoe! Hoe! That is the answer. Almost every crop of vegetables can be ma terially increased by hoeing. In deed, most vegetables will fail un less they are lioed regularly and vigorously. TIP TO THE KAISER AND now come the German news papers with stories denying that the Kaiser owns immense cattle ranches in America. It had been said these investments were so profit able that Wilhelm delayed making nar on America lest he lose his divi dends and po&sibly bis property. If the Kaiser has any loose change cry in.c for investment, we can give him a friendly tip as to the best invest ment in the world —even better than American cattle ranches, high as is the price of sirloin steak. Buy Lib erty bonds. The only difference between Har risburg and other cities of the coun try is that Harrisburg got Its Liberty Loan oversubscribed first. MONSIEUR'S SOCK FRENCH willingness to expend in this country all the money which we loan to that govern ment is entirely consistent. For years France lias been the banker for much of the world. Out of the woolen stocking, the bas dc laine, of the thrifty French peasant have come the millions of; francs which have been loaned to! nearly every nation, most of them | with the distinct stipulation that a large part, if not all, of the money should be spent in France. To these expenditures France owes the splendid development of her great gun shops, like the Schneider establishment—for these loans were chiefly, as France herself Is now bor rowing from us, for war purposes. The Government has issued in structions as to how to make straw berry jelly. But who wants to com mit a crime like that? WAR SHOWS UP SOCIALISM J i'HN SPARGO, the most high minded of American Socip"sts, has iiuit the party becaut he finds it now entirely pro-Germa. in lis attitude. He remains a **-' list, Intellectually speaking, Lu. ur prac, tlcal purposes he will have none of It. Socialism, in fact, should be noth ing more than an intellectual diver sion, anyway. Reasoning upon the aims of socialism, like reasoning tipon the fourth dimension, for In stance, provides some mental stim ulus- —but it can never be usefully ap plied. There are too many practical obstables in the way. One good result of the war, so far as this country is concerned, will be that socialistic schemes will be looked upon rather askance for some time to come. The muddy condition ot the river has saved the reputation of many bass fishermen this week. THANKS TO THE PRESS THE percentage of opposition to registration preliminary to the draft was surprisingly small. It was hardly larger, in proportion, than the number of kickers who may be found in any town when anything affirmative is proposed. The support which the press of the country hae afforded to the con acriptlon plan from its inception and the amount of free advertising which newspapers have given to everything connected with the movement are the chief factors—next to the essential patriotism of the country—in making the registration successful and un eventful. By this alone the press has earned its exemption from censorship. GOOD INVESTMENT PEOPLE who subscribed for Lib erty Loan bonds will live to see the day they will thank those who Induced them to Invest. With theae securities selling at a premium in the New York stock exchange be fore one of them actually has been delivered augers well for the fu ture. Liberty Loan bonds are going SATURDAY EVENING, i to become at once a certificate of i patriotism and a splendid invest | ment. i THE LIBERTY LOAN WHEN the old Liberty Bell rang out its sharp call to duty the other day it at the same mo- Kent tolled the requiem of Kaiser ism in the world. The success of the Liberty Loan by a vast oversubscription will be re ceived with gloom in Berlin. It spells absolute defeat for Germany. ;It is a guarantee of victory for America. It means money in unlim ited quantities for swift prosecution ot the war. It means the building of merchant ships more rapidly than German submarines can sink them, j It means the construction of a vast j fleet of U-boat destroyers. It means j n fleet of aeroplanes over the western | front as numerous as homing swal lows at sunset. It means a vast, well armed, well-supported American army In France. But. better than all that, It means that the great American people have volunteered to see this war through. They are back of the President and back of the army and they will re main back of them until despotism shall be spurned beneath the heel of democracy and the world made a safe place for free peoples. The news is that "Washington is greatly rejoiced." And well it mas be. If we knew the truth in Berlin it would be that the imperial govern ment is much depressed. The em peror and his fellow plotters for world dominion have deluded them selves with the notion that America would not fight, that our people are divided, that this is "'Wilson's war," and that the public is not back of the President.* In reply, the great voice of the American people swells forth In a chorus that echoes around the world: "We are with you, Mr. Wilson, and here aro a few extra billions as a guarantee of good faith. When you have spent that, ask for more." The first fight for democracy is over, and honors are with America. The Liberty Bonds are "scraps of paper" that the Kaiser will have to respect whether he wants to or not. GIBBONS AND AMERICA THE New York Times discusses the Immense service Cardinal Gibbons rendered the nation when he won his fight against the Europeanlzing of the Catholic Church in America. The plan which the cardinal successfully opposed, after a long and bitter fight, was to have all European immigrants maintain their church connectionsin Europe through what amounted to branch churches in this country, that their native tongues be used in the church and that their home ties remain un broken. The cardinal saw that this would mean disaster to the United Slates and would bui'.a up a vast number of what amounted to small European colonies in this country. In his protest to this blow at Ameri canization he said: Woe to him. my brethren, who would destroy or impair the blessed harmony that reigns among us! Woe to him who would sow tares of discord in the fair field of the Church of America! Woe to him who would breed dissensions among the lead ers of Israel by introducing a spirit of nationalism into the ramps of th Lord! Brothers we are and brothers we shall remain. • "God and our country!" This be our watchword. Next to love of God should be love of country. 1-et us glory in the title of Ameri can citizen. To one country we owe allegiance, and that country is America. We must he in har mony with its political institu tions. It matters not whether this is the land of our birth or adop tion. It is the land of our des tiny! With the nation facing such a crisis as now confronts it It is not difficult to see in what sore straits we would have been had our vast foreign population been divided up Into sectional, factional and national units. Cardinal Glbobns robbed the Kaiser of his power In America when he killed the Cahensly movement. BRUSILOFF AS CHTF.F ONE little item seeped out of Bussia the other day, obtained a trifling notice In the news papers and then dropped from sight. But it may have more bearing on the Russian situation than anything since the deposition of the czar. It was the announcement that General Brusiloff has accepted appointment as commander-in-chief of the Rus sian armies, after having resigned his post as sectional commander when It appeared that Bussia might yield to a separate peace with Ger many. Bruslloff Is the ablest federal In the Russian service. He It was who last slimmer well nigh wrecked the whole Austrian military strength and executed the greatest drive of the whole war. More than a million prisoners and a great quantity of munitions fell before his terrific sweep. Bruailoff has everything to i lose and nothing to gain. He mujt be pretty well convinced of the gov ernment's Intention to wage war on Germany In real earnest or he would not have reconsidered his resigna tion and have made himself respon sible for the success or failure of the campaign on the East front. This acceptance of Brusiloff is a most en couraging sign from the allied view point. ot By the Ex-Committecman Some final determination about the legislative program for the last twp weeks of the session, which is now expected to end on June 28, will be reached in Philadelphia over the week-end. Senator Penrose and his friends will have a talk on the situation in the General Assembly and Governor Brumbaugh and his friends will decide what to do about the direct inheritance tax bill, which is the bone of contention. The Governor has refused to talk about the direct tax bill, but his friends have said very freely that he objects to the provision giving the Auditor General the appointments of attorneys in each county. The Leg islature has not been liberal with the Governor on new places and the plans of the Department of Labor and Industry for expansion have been manhandled. Nothing can be learned as yet as to the effect the latest difference may have on the harmony scheme to let practically all of the Governor's re cess and new appointees be con firmed. —Philadelphia legislation occupies a peculiar position on the House cal endar. The Heffernan bill to take policemen and firemen out of poli tics was defeated last week and it is figured out that fourteen men who have been classed as Penrose sup porters voted against it. Whether an effort to reconsider will be made j next week is problematical. The Philadelphia small council bill and the elective school board bill for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, both likely to start fights, are between 225 and 240 on a third-reading list of 300 bills. With the close of the session in sight many bills are going to be slaughtered. —The contending Philadelphia fac tions referred their differences to a special committee yesterday at a long meeting of the Republican city com mittee. Senator McNichol gave the committee a very plain talk about what might happen. —Ex-City Treasurer Jones and the York city council are going to fight out their battles in court. —District Attorney Slattery, of Luzerne county, and Mayor Kosek, of Wilkes-Barre, are having an in teresting interchange of opinions about moral conditions in the cap ital of Luzerne. —An interesting story is going the rounds to the effect that Governor Brumbaugh has been admonishing some of his officials not to be "sassy" in their dealings with legislators, especially at this time. One of the stories is that W. J. Roney, manager of the State Insurance Fund, when asked by Chairman Buckman. of the Senate appropriation committee, to prepare an amenndment, told the Bucks Senator to go to another clime. —Butler county has been made 1 "wet" again. The licenses held up have been granted for the most part. I —Dr. H. A. Surface, former State I Zoologist, seems to be amusing him self again. The doctor does not like ] some of the Governor's ideas on ag- ! riculture and he thinks the Agricul tural Department authorities should ! be more active. —Governor Brumbaugh has writ ten to Johnstown authorities, accord-! ing to Johnstown newspaners, giving hearty support to the proposition for consolidation of municipalities in that section. —According to stories which are going the rounds members of the l House are considering sending a j committee to the Governor to see! if he would regard it as an affront to pass over his veto the bill raising palaries of legislators after this ses sion from $1,500 to $2,500. The theory is that the Governor, having vetoed the measure, may not feel badly if the lawmakers made provi sion for the future. The Mitchell bill episode is the foundation for the plan. The Governor has not been heard from. —Mayor Smith has shortened his hours in Philadelphia and 3 o'clock Is the official closing time. This is stated to bg because of the pressure on his office force, which has to work hours after time because of the many visitors received during the regular hours. Nineteen associate judges, the "side judges" of the rural counties, will be elected in Pennsylvania this tall, provided the constitutionality of the act erecting Clinton county into a separate district stands. This is now being tested out in the Dauphin county court and will probably be appealed. There are about a score of counties which have these lay judges. The judges whose terms ex pire are: S. W. Bernhelsel, Perry; Zenas W. Gilson and W. E. Harley, Juniata; William R. Stigers, Fulton: Gottlob Rowe and A. K. Diefen derfer, Union; John S. Hershberger, Bedford; Charles E. Hauch, Colum bia; Harry R. Hyde, Eik; Joseph M. Morgan, Forest: George J. Leßar. Clarion; R. E. Westlake, Wyoming; John Siggins, Warren; J. Roller McCoy, Miffiln; George H. Metzger, Monroe: G. E. Swartwood, Pike; James L. Brennan and Martin H. Schram, Montour; James P. Miller and Dennis Keefe, Sullivan. —Governor Martin G.Brumbaugh's message to the Legislature yesterday vetoing the Siggins bill, providing that the State should build roads in the Cornplanter Indian reservation in Warren county, was intended as notice to the legislators that it would not be worth while to pass any bills providing for additions to the State highway system. There are about flfty-flve bills with this object on the third reading calendar in the House and over a score In the Senate roads committee. The plan is to pass them. The Governor in his veto of the Sig gins bill said. "We do not receive for the Department of Highways from the Assembly enough funds to im prove and maintain the excessive mileage now by law placed under Slate control. Unless there Is a com manding reason for It. no roads should be added to an already over burdened system. If the people want good roads, they must lessen the present mileage or appropriate more money." Governor Brumbaugh has exactly forty-six bills in his hands to be dis posed of within the next ten days. The Governor disposed of nine this week. There are more bills awaiting HAKRISBURG TELiAiRAPH "\ The Days of Real Sport. . B v BRIGGS j • fil action now than on any Saturday since the session began with one ex ception. During the coming week many appropriation hills will reach the Governor, the appropriation com mittees of the two houses having practically completed action on the bills sent to them. Including yes terday's approvals the Governor has approved 304 bills and vetoed sixty flve. The calendars of both houses for next week are laden with bills, that of the House having over 275 on third reading alone. There are a large number of Senate bills on the House list. Next week each branch will clear up its own bills and there will be much activity on the part of committees. Let Every Man Register Why not a registration for every man in the United States? Let Uncle Sam complete the job of taking stock of himself. The recent registration of men between the ages of 21 and 31 fur nishes the government with direct, specific and authentic information as to its resources In young men. Witlv out that Uncle Sam would have been entirely helpless and inefficient in his war preparations. Now the gov ernment knows precisely its first fighting strength. But wnat or its reserve fighting force? What of its resources in men, not only for the second fighting army, but to serve the country in every capacity—in war service at home, in public affairs, and in the private business of the country? A day appointed In which every man in the United States would be compelled to appear in person and register; to State his name, age, business, place of residence and con dition in life, would give the gov ernment a complete and itemized statement of its assets in man power. It was absolutely necessary for Uncle Sam to have this knowledge as to his fighting force. It is just as necessary for him to have the In formation as to the civil life of the Nation, both for war and for peace. Not all the available men for war are between the ages of 21 and 31; not all the slackers are numbered among those who merely try to avoid war. Uncle Sam ought to know all about everybody—the man who can fight and the man who can work. And particularly he ought to know about the man who could fight and does not, and the man who could work and does not. The gov ernment should know how many de pendents there are who can neither fight nor work, and It ought to know where it could use every able-bodied man in the country to the best ad vantage. Every city and every community should have the Information that a general registration would bring out as a matter, not only of community service to the Nation, but as a mat ter of self-protection against the so cial. civil and military slacker who expects to live upon the sacrifice and toil of others. From every viewpoint the general registration Is so commendable and so necessary that one wonders why it was not done in the beginning. Why not have full knowledge of the country's human resources, instead of having only a partial inventory of the Nation's asset in men?— Kansas City Times. "Slacker" "Slacker"—the word has an alien sound. It comes to us over seas; Let us translate it to native speech, To good Americanese. "Slacker" means "quitter," you know the breed; His blood runs yellow—not red; His backbone is stiff (like the tail of a fish, A fish that's been some time dead.) A slacker's a "bum" who always "stalls" When there's man-sized work to do: Who "falls down cold" on every job And never sees it through. A slacker's "a tripe," "a lemon," "a cheese," He's all of them rolled In one: He's a parasite, microbe, incubus — A "noise" when the work is done. He's slack in his heart, his soul, his mind, And his "feet, are always cold." He's n "mush," a human Jelly-flsh— He is selfishness untold. A slacker's a sneak thief sort of "yegg" His heart (?) he has only a gall! A slacker's a TRAITOR, In language plain, The meanest and vilest of all. —Robert Trotter, in New Castle News. Mr. Trotter was formerly a resident of Harrlsburg. PATRIOTISM BEG ■ THE following are a few extracts from an editorial under this heading in Pictorial Review for July: "Fanatical patriotism is a pitfall that American women would do well to guard against. In the, first six months of the European war, when women rushed in, infant mortality jumped in six months to the high est rate in years, and a well-known writer said, 'Unless drastic steps are taken to remedy this evil, posterity will have harsh things to say of a generation that allowed its women to do men's work to the neglect of duties which nature and the nation's Interest called upon them to per form. "From such experiences as these American women can learn valuable lessons, and they must not be stam peded by a false sense of patriotism and shrill cries of impending disas ter. The first call on woman is for woman's work, and in doing war service 3he should neither attempt to do what men can do better, nor neg lect the work that none but women can do. It is for every woman to realize that she has some definite national duty to perform, and to consider, with intelligence and de liberation. what that duty is. "Almost simultaneously with the call to serve came the command to conserve—a command that every woman, no matter what her station or her limitations, can obey. The problem of the uation'3 food supply is a vital one, and the woman who helps to solve it is serving her coun try well. Women know the cost of bringing lives Into the world, and they know the effect of the shortage of the food supply on the health of their children, therefore, however much they may be interested in ter ritoriality or sovereignty, to them the economic aspects of the war loom large. The home, and all that goes with It. calls for the first and best attention of our women, and patriotism may be expressed by the use of the diet that is best adapted I to produce healthy Americans." "Never before, perhaps, in the historv of the world, has a nation so definitely recognized its children as one of its most valued and cher ished assets. The children of Amer ican mother need look long for an i Mistakes of Allies I The capital mistakes made by the I Allies are as follows: They believed I that a friendly agreement with Bul garia was possible, although that country was treaty bounnto prime be thnw and thG ° nly troubl will creased acreages of 6 "t° W ' th the like thaf potatoes ' c °m and getting cherries'tcT'marlcet. filled''' The" f h " PCarh ,rees eo weU^ rsiiS'v™ ftS X.":: ta -rasa ers to increase iT„ ? the farm- In this county NotwffhV 0 /""• K? ssu","te M '*,*, planting® and "S £ p ° ,a '° wv tho potatoes were P in '°orto^ra^ e g k c b r a 0 c p K. and thB^ sssirS.®s has had a hie ft?r? ln . s ? me fi elds attention is necessary immedlat ® "corn ke fid" L dpm^ a8 1 i POpu,ar,zed ths resident of fo deitl ° l "l | e, and now a Posos putting th°o U " ,f, rket street pro on the man nl m * k - fed "P un >Pkln 25x4Q lo™ hanL H 006 0f the beneficent Chamber of° W £ by the A quarter of hi, , Commerce, planted. Ws plot ls as yet un. yesterday 8 by* 'anotV * ft " a,ked j^-aSSJK&E the Rev. George Rent, of the Mar® ket Square Presbyterian Church and rebuked." m,ron - a nd ot : SO '" said the first farmer I *°, ln * t° milk-feed a pumpkin to f ii,l t * 1 ' 000 'n prize monev at select th aBt lL f S lr \ 1 Hm to then ml *?! Pumpkin, and , en. some distance between the I P win sHco th ff bo * lnn, ng Of the stalk. 'LTiJ i " a rurtne r and put the mUk TW R t TM 1 J lOll1 ® of swe et H3 shall do everv morn ami nnnfn Vt n f , V "A tak ® Up the nil,k result U wm l t . ,nto the Pumpkin. The = 7 be a Bur P r,s e- I will have lo B n% Cl r&lF™ n * forty ° r fifty "Why not stir allspice into the m i, " a " yo,, ' n need for pie other y ° Ur crust? " Interrupted the t , JVif stufT has arouse* the latent talent of quite a few falrlP good liars. • • • ™ e , R ev. Br. M. D. Uchlelter of' A°JrinnH f the State Department or Agriculture, leaves to-dav for Ashevllle. X. C where he will attend the meetings of the National Council of the Jr. O. U. A. M.. of which he is the national chaplain. Dr. Lich leiter has attended every session of the National Council since 1897 a m ember of the legislative committee or an officer. • ♦ * T r n H n i or C4 K , d * ar T - Collins, of the united States army, who has just been named to the general staff, is a brother of Emerson Collins, Deputv Attorney General, and of Herman L. Collins, of the Philadelphia Public I-edger. Major Collins was in com mand at Plattsburg part of last year and has had a notable career of ser vice in the army. It is interesting to note that he was born in the Incom ing county township adjoining Gen eral George H. Dodd. the man who chased \ ilia into the mountains. Captain Raymond W. Briggs, an other Pennsylvania officer to go up the ladder, has a number of friends here. He is now In France with Pershing and can be expected to do something worth while. He is a son of Prof. J. S. Briggs. of Norristown, and served in the Philippines, being in charge of Agulnaldo after the short lived Insurrection. He was also stationed for a time at Nagasaki and was then on the Mexican border. Captain Briggs accompanied Chair man W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commission, on the latter's trip across Siberia to Petrograd dur ing the early days of the war. When he left Mr. Ainey he went to Bel gium and traveled all through it during the German occupation and was in Antwerp and Brussels after their capture. He observed the Ger man army under conditions which fell to the lot of few men. • • People who have been prone to stroll along the river front in the evenings have found that it is differ ent in war time. The alert young guardsmen at the bridges are very polite, but you can not get within sixty feet of the structures on any condition, and If you stop to admire the view you are asked to move on. War and strolling do not fit well together. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —W. W. Comfort, the new presi dent of Haverford, is well known to a number of Harrisburgers. Register of Wills William Con ner, of Pittsburgh, who was her* this week, is an expert on horses. —Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, head of the State Firemen's Association has offered the services of the thou> sands of men in the organization to help in the state in any way. —Dr. A. R. Roblnsoon. of burgh, is the new head of Westmtn? ster College. —Judge Robert W. Irvln, of Wash ington county, made the address for Flag Day at TTnlontown. —General A. J. T,ogan, commander of the Second Brigade, was her* yesterday, 1 DO YOU KNOW That Hnrrlsburg machinery la | being used In Atlantic shipyards? HISTORIC HARRISBtTRO This county raised fourteen com panies for the War of 111 J,