6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published eveniaga except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Dulldlu*, Federal Square. •E.J. STACK POLE, Prts't & Editor-in-Chief K. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Mm bar American Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1917 God nothing does nor suffers to be done But what thou xcould'st thyself— could'st thou but see Through all events of things as well as He. - — AXON. -MARVELOUS MECHANISM THE marvelous mechanism of j the news gathering associations of the country and the vast op erations of the telegraphic compan ies were never more brilliantly dem onstrated than by the draft draw ings in progress the past two days in Washington. Take the HARRISBURG TELE GRAPH, for example. When yes terday's edition went to press it car ried every number drawn at Wash ington up to an hour previous. Al most as soon as the numbers were known they were flashed by wire in to the TELEGRAPH office. When the extra editions of the paper were printed at $ and 10 p. m. all the names drawn up to those hours were included in the lists, this being made possible by concentration of all the mechanical forces of the office to that end. In thousands of newspaper offices all over the country the progress of the great lottery was recorded as it was by the TELEGRAPH. The achievement is all in the work-a-day routine of the newspaper office. Every day. In some manner o? an other, it is duplicated. Nevertheless, it is a marvel of facility and enter prise made possible only by the re markable development of the tele graph and the vast improvements of recent years in printing machinery and news gathering. OUR VOLUNTEERS HE volunteer system is not a failure so far as Harrisburg is concerned. If men had volun teered the country over in the num-1 bers they have in Harrisburg since war was declared there would have' been no need of a conscription law; to raise the first National Army j which was called to the colors yes terday. Harrisburg was one of four| districts In the State to have the honor of a full quota before tht-.j draft was begun. The honor is great and it belongs entirely to the men ■whose patriotism summoned them to duty even before the federal author ities in their wisdom deemed the time ripe for calling out the hun-' dreds of thousands who will go to l make up the first great citizens army. This response of the men of tho; city to the need of the hour is heart thrtlllng to those of us who wit ness it and a proud heritage to hand down to future generations. It proves that here, at least, the spirit of the ' fathers lives in the sons. This Is in deed a red letter day in the history Of Harrisburg. But the fact that the first draft j leaves the city untouched has a value not merely sentimental. The re-ad-! Justment of Industrial forces made necessary by the enlistment of large numbers of men Into the Regular service, the Marines and the Navy] has been so gradual that it created little or no disturbance. The call- 1 ing of the National Guard had been discounted for months, and so created little or no hardship. But the draft was quite another matter. Nobody knew where or who It would hit Every employer found himself liable to the loss of a large percent age of valuable workmen, but not one of them, pending announcement of the drawings, could take a step to protect the business at stake. Ail men liable to draft were In similar quandary. They were not able to plan * week ahead. Then, on day of SATURDAY EVENING. the draft, came the news that not one man would be drafted from the city and only a handful from the. | county at large, and with it as- j ! surance that for three or four I | months more industry may go fof -1 ward uninterrupted until the second I call for troops shall be made. This is a big thing for a com munity so clearly allied with many of the line* of trade and transporta tion upon which the nation relies for the speedy prosecution of a success ful war. It means there will be no let-up in the railroad service and that the munition and steel mills can continue with capacity unabated and with skilled workmen guiding the whirling wheels. But though Harrisburg may re joice that Its men have volunteered to the number required as its quota, it has no thought of reproach for other communities where the young men have awaited the draft. Ever since the passage of the conscrip tion ljiw the citizens of enlistment age have gone about their business, doing a full day's work and carry ing on as cheerfully as may be their usual every day activities, fully realizing that any time they might be called upon to lay aside their tools or their pens for the accouter ments of the soldier. "They also serve who only stand and wait," and jome times It is harder to linger on the sidelines awaiting the call to go into the game than It is to rush in' where the contest is hottest. All honor to the thousands who will re jpond to the call of the government > : for men to make up the first Na- 1 1 tional Army. It will consist of the flower of the youth of the land, : ( Years hence Its veterans will have a ' place In affections of the people siml- 1 lar to that which the venerable men ' j of the Grand Army enjoy to-day. : They may hold up their heads as < Americans chosen for the glorious 1 task of making the world safe for 1 democracy. To them has been ex tended the enviable privilege of < 1 knocking kaiserlsm Into a cocked hat 1 and of putting the perpetrators of 1 the Lusltanla outrage where decent I men may mete out proper punish- : ment for them. All hail the men of the First Na- ' tional Army! Hats off as the heroes of 1917 1 rally to the Stars and Stripes! 1 1 PENNA'S. PROUD PLACE PENNSYLVANIA occupies the J j proud position of leader* in the recruiting of a great national j 1 army. Up to and including July 18 | ! this State had enlisted 17,184 men j s since the first of April for the Regu- 1 lars. I This is a fine showing for this j grand old Commonwealth, and the j figures stand out luminously, repre- j senling more enlistments than the! combined total of eleven other States j as follows: ' Pennsylvania, 17184 Alabama ....1539 ' Arkansas .... 885 I Florida 1219 Georgia 3725] Kentucky .. . 2651 Louisiana .. .1565 Maryland ...1161 Mississippi .. 881 I N. Carolina .. 127 | , Tenessee ... .2019 Virginia 1165). 16937 j These figures do not include the | National Guard of the State nor the j many men who are in the officers' | 1 training camps, the Navy, the Marine ' Corps and other branches of the! service. FIRE COMPANIES MOVE THERE doubtless will be entire harmony between the four fire companies of Harrisburg which will double up as a result of the re movals from the Capitol Park zone. One will find a welcome at the Friendship headquarters and the other at the Hope house. The Mount Vernon Hook and Lad-1 der u.nd the Citizen fire companies are two of the older organizations of the city and it is undersoood there will be no change in their relation to the department, each maintaining its separate identity. It would seem that there might be some little demonstration upon the retirement of these two companies from their own quarters and their reception under the hospitable roof trees of their friendly neighbors, the Friendship and the Hope. MUNICIPAL SINGING HARRISBURG is lagging behind other progressive cities of the country in the matter of mu- , nicipal singing. Here and there over the land cities are organizing their singers Into choruses of mighty di mensions for outdoor choral concerts during the summer and for festal oc casions the year around. The slopes of Reservoir Park or the "Front Steps" along the river would afford an excellent setting for community singers. The organiza tion of such a chorus would be with out expense. It would do much for the life of the city. Nothing makes for contentnuuu and physical and mental well-being more than song. I People who sing together are the' better for the experience. They be- j j come better citizens and better neighbors. Some patriotic Harris burger with a talent for organiza tion and ability as a musician could do a wonderful service for the city by popularizing such a movement here. ""Po&ttco- UV By the Ex-Committerman Less than two score bills of gen eral character and about 450 appro priation bills remain in the ' ands of the Governor at the start of iho final week of the period in which he must dispose of measures passed by the recent Legislature. When the law makers adjourned they left 096 bills on the Governor's desk, one of the largest lists in years. The Governor has beenViaving in formation obtained on the appro priation measures and the lists are being made up for scanning. It is expected that over $2,000,000 will be cut off these bills. Up to date the Governor has taken over $2,750,000 off bills carrying appropriations. Thus far 354 bills of general char acter have ben approved, together with forty-six carrying appropria tions, not Including any acted upon to-day. The Governor has vetoed 157 measures, exclusive of any which may be acted upon to-day. When the Governor finishes his work next Saturday a proclamation will be read in the rotunda of the State Capitol announcing what has been done to every bill and the rec ords will then be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Common wealth, who has charge of the print ing of the various acts. —The thousand blank forms for nominating petitions ordered by the Secretary of the Commonwealth's Department for the judicial nomi nations this year would have been exhausted several times if requests for blanks had been granted. One re quest was for 250 forms, each capable of holding over 100 names and addresses with other data. Only 200 names are required to nomi nate any candidates under State i auspices this fall. Only two candi dates for common pleas or orphans' I court judgeships have (lied papers, but there are a score seeking nomi nations for associate judge. Most of those who have filed are from Juni- ■ ata, Mifflin or Union counties. -—The Tare Construction Company 1 yesterday got the contract for the i construction of sewage treatment . works in Philadelphia at $919,000. The McXtchol firm was the only 1 other bidder. —Mayor Smith has shaken up the 1 vice squad in Philadelphia as a re- | suit of tho government charges. —The borough council of Hanover has passed a stringent curfew law ' which is attracting much attention. , —Capitol Hill does not expect the Governor to give any hearings on any bills. He will probably dispose (I of the bill to suspend the full crew i law without a hearing. —The decision of Justice Brown declaring the act erecting Clinton county into a separate judicial dis trict to be unconstitutional was cer tified to Secretary of the Common wealth Woods yesterday. Clinton will elect its associate judges again. Jus- ■ tlce Brown will hand down his opin ion shortly. It is expected to be an important declaration on apportion- ' ment law. —Ex-State Treasurer Young con tinues to improve in the Blossburg ' Hospital. His operation was a sue- j cess. —Secretary of Internal Affairs Houck has let it be known in his I ' department that he does not con template many changes. 1 —Talk of changes in the State In surance Fund Board is again rife. —Auditor General Snyder will re turn here on Monday and will prob* ably have a conference with Attor ney General Brown, who has been - spending the week since Tuesday at ' Elkton, whero he goes out and works on his farm to forget such things as 1 State governmental problems. Mr. ■ Brown is said to be more interested 1 in big tomatoes and prize shoats at " this moment than the legacies of the ' late Legislature. New Ambassador to Japan j 1 For the second time during the Wilson administration Pennsylvania has had the distinction of furnish-j ing an Ambassador to Japan. Thej' appointment of Mr. Roland S. Morris j to that important post is not a sur prise, and it is generally understood j that it was made upon the recom- J mendation of National Chairman . Vance McCormick, to whom the post! was originally offered. j , The appointee is a man of educa- | tion and standing, although he has: . never had diplomatic training or ex perience, unless the chairmanship of the Democratic State committee is to ! be placed In the category. Probablv ' one who is able to emerge from that position with a whole head and an! uninjured reputation may be con-1 sidered sufficiently dexterous in mind I and body to fill the most difficult diplomatic position. Our relations! with Japan at present are apparently agreeable, and it is quite likely that they will remain so, but we are living ' in strange times and it may be that Tokyo will suddenly assume immense importance in the world's affairs. | When Mr. Gerard was sent to Berlin everyone assumed that his most ini- ; portant duties would be in attending ' State dinners, but unexpectedly he I found himself in the whirlpool of a! great war. However, he met the sit-! uation very well, and there is no! reason for supposing that Mr. Morris | would not do likewise under stren-1 uous circumstances. j From the standpoint of State poll- ' tics the selection is likel" to cau3e ! some heartburnings, none the less in- , tense, because they may be borne in silence. From the time Mr. Wilson! assumed office he has given the pat ronage of Pennsylvania to a select coterie. A few men have taken all of the choice plums, while the rank and file of the party, famishing for the want of a few crumbs, have been permitted to do most of the hard work. When nominations or appoint ments are to be made they go to Mr. McCormick, Mr. Palmer or Mr. Mor ris, or to some close personal friend of these three receivers of the Dem ocratic party in Pennsylvania, for as everyone knows that party in this State is bankrupt and its only assets I are the places that are given out j from time to time by the President. /The very scarcity of the loaves and! fishes would suggest a more equit- ( able division. The "Old Guard"! Democrats get nothing, and, as some j wit has suggested, very little of that. The three favored ones have BUNCH OF dkt ©ftßV V LEAVJE. IT IN GOOD j; OQK |SPORTS- AT A. ALL CHeeR UP CAM DROP IT BILL- DOM.T/ face..* -c rnTTA L MAVBE Voi/LL CHARLIE '5 ) TAKE J) AMV HE'S AS , J GOTTA <-" \AJ(M THE \ ITS.CRA l r r u AN/ce ,s -T SORE AS / SAV- -A- / , DOUBLE rf\ BALL CHAN/ , S O ABOIL'/' 7 \ HEADER -7=rTl A Ni| ,7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thanks the TELEGRAPH To the Editor of the Telegraph : I want to think you for the very fine co-operation you are giving our i nation-wide drive for the canning! and drying of fruits and vegetables! and that you have given the garden! planting campaign as we see from j the clippings from your paper that came to-day. We appreciate this very much anil' trust you are getting our dying and! canning lessons regularly for by! printing them we can imagine no.| greater service you can do your| reader and your country at this time. l ' Yours very truly P. S. RIDSDALE, Secretary National Food Garden Commission. Our Honest People To the Editor of the Telegraph: I take it as a tribute to the hon esty of our people that the hundreds of home gardens all about Harris burg have been so free from moles tation. With vegetables ripe and ripening there has been little or no vandalism and so little theft that it) is not worthy of the name. It is a pretty good old town where so many valuable things can be left "lying around loose" without being ap propriated by somebody not their; rightful owner. HARRISBURGER. | . President and Pickets To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dr. Anna Shaw in a telegram to the President mentions the army of suffragists who deplored the picket ing of the White House. But there' was a greater army of suffragists who applauded such work and' who have failed to see the courtesy and patience on the part of the Presi dent that Doctor Shaw talks about. Those splendid women who have braved inclemency of weather, fatigue of body and endured the jeers and insults of creatures called men, would have still been In the Virginia workhouse had it not been for the splendid work of such men at Malone, Hopkins and Colby and the great protest which arose all over the country against the lack of jus tice and shameful Indignity of the whole affair. Further along in her message to the President Doctor Shaw speaks of the sacrifice, courage and persist ency of women that have labored for seventy-five years for their enfranch isement. Yes, Doctor Shaw, and they would have kept on laboring and sacrificing for seventy-five years longer if real women would not have been willing to go to prison for the principles they hold so dear. RYERSON W. JENNINGS. East St. Louis Riots East St. Louis, though a suburb of of the great Missouri city, is itself in Illinois. In that State tha Chicago Tribune, which, as it reminds us, "has flailed the evil of lynching and especially reproached its countrymen of the south for their failure to stamp it out, does not propose to offer any palliation of this outrage in Illinois." It continues: 'The blood of victims spatters the State. The riot will burn as an un forgetable dishonor in our memories. We do\iot propose to talk now about face hatred or economic rivalry or any other learned aspect of the of fense. There is just one truth, one sickening, shameful truth—in an American city, in a city of Illinois, there has been a loathsome irruption of the brute, and neither civilized public sentiment nor constituted authority was capable of arresting It. . . . "The East St. Louis riot is nothing to be covered with official white wash. Illinois stands shamed before the world. Her authority has been proved futile. Her name will be a byword If she does not establish that authority, so it will never be de fied again." A leader of the negro race, Booker T. Washington's successor at Tus kegee, expresses his pain, chagrin, nnd discouragement at these riots on the eve of Independence day, at a time when the nation is calling upon negroes as well as whites to Join in the war for "democracy" and the "square deal." for weak peoples. Major Moton adds, In a letter to tho New York World: "There Is room In America for the various racial groups to work out their valvation. Killing and maiming men because they are seeking eco nomic salvation is not, in my opinion, a credit to our civilization or to our boasted doctrine of fair play. With all her faults, the south, at least, can not be criticized for killing men seek ing employment and a better eco nomic status." THE ARMY IN FRANCE THE War Department'has not an nounced the numerical strength of the regulars and marines now in France. Nor will it announce the size of the force in the very near future, if this guess is guided by sane military precepts. Whether there are 25,000 or .75,000 cannot be said. But we know American troops are in France, and we know they are moving slowly but surely toward that elastic, almost invisible line north of Paris that is the front. Even now most if not all, of them are in their permanent camp, where they will learn those now methods of warfare developed by the master minds of Europe and not taught for patrol along the Mexican border rfor in gar rison in the Philippines. And they will learn within sound of the mon ster guns that soon will be at their backs. They will throw grenades, build machinegun emplacements, man trench mortars in all the at mosphere of battle except for the lack of an enemy at the bayonet's point. The people of the United States have been reading about the great war for nearly three years. They have read millions of words of and about it. But they know nothing about it after all. That is only natural, for the reason that it has been more or less impersonal. The average man and woman have fol- j lowed the developments In the, newspapers as they would the un folding of the plot In a Tolstoy trag- j edy, with the feeling that it was, horrible and glorious, ghastly and heroic—simply a kaleidoscopic pic ture in the panorama of life to be gazed on and be thrilled or de pressed, enthused or subdued, ac cording to the shifting of the scenes. Now our men have gone! More and still more of our men will go; They will leave American ports be tween night and day, as they for safety must. They will be here to day and engulfed by distance tomor row; without a goodby, without a wave of a friendly hand or a "God speed your crossing!" They go Into that maelstrom that has swallowed 20,000,000 other men since August 1914, but they go Into battle for the same cause that our fathers fought for in 1776, in 1812, in 1848, in 1861 and in 1898. They have a heritage—they have a tradition be hind them. Their heritage is liberty: their tradition is courage. And they go with a song in their hearts and a cheer on their lips! All they ask is the sustaining sense of support and sympathy and encouragement at home. The men I saw at a French port nearly three weeks ago, coming m orderly file down the gangways from great gray transports Into a mist and drizzle that would have dimmed any but the most rock-bottomed ardor, knew "the folks back home" were with them. When they went aboard their transports they knew 500,000 and still another 500,000 of their fellows would follow them; that they were simply the vanguard of a mighty host that would lift a part of her burdens from France. The men were happy. Don't think for a moment, how ever, "Pershing's army" is actuated solely by exalted patriotism. Sol diers do not parade their patriot- Ism. It Is taken for granted. They have an abiding faith in their coun try's and the allied cause; they are willing to die if need be for it, but they are not shouting it from the housetops. Adventure, as more than one of the men has confessed to me, was some small factor of inducement to sign up in the first place. Re cruiting posters for several years ad- CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist CHERRY LEAF DISEASE ONE-HALF of Pennsylvania's sour cherry crop is lost each year, because of a leaf dis ease commonly known as "shot hole" fungus," which causes pre mature yellowing and dropping of foliage, so necessary to de velopment of fruit buds for the next year. Few growers appreciate the absolute necessity of holding foliage on fruit trees to furnish the sugars and starches, so im portant in tree growth and pro duction of fruit. Spray cherry trees at once af ter picking the fruit, with Bor deaux mixture, 3-4-50 formula, or with self-boiled lime-sulphur solution. Plum trees should be sprayed in similar manner. Ful ler instructions on request. vertised "a chance to see the world." That was another inducement. The opportunity to get into the greatest conflict in the world's history, to play an active part in the epoch making drama, counted in the scales for or against enlistment. Then there was one big, broad shouldered chap from Nebraska. He probably summed it up when he said tlieso words: "You see, these poor devils have been having a pretty tough time, and I guessed it was up to me to give 'em a hand if I could. So here I am." And the Yankees are going to "give 'em a hand." Where will the Americans "hit the front"? General Pershing knows and the General Staff in Washington. It is a question that was thoioughly discussed when Marshal Joffre and Lieutenant General Bridges, of Eng land, were here with the French and British commissions. They know just where the entire American or ganization will be used. The War Department, however, has requested that there be no discussions of the disposition of the units along the front, and particularly that there be no references to individual regi ments. It may be said without infringing on the topics now taboo that France wants relief, and she wants It as soon as possible. Official circles in Paris say their older men must have rest. They must be withdrawn perma nently from the front and be re turned to their farms and their vine yards and their shops. Many of them, forty years and more of age, have been fighting incessantly for three years. It is these men America will re lieve. French man power is on its ebb. We must supply the deficiency. Not only must we meet this defi ciency but we must make certain that the allied numerical superiority over the Prussian organization in creases. That is the big task of the United States in the field. Labor Notes Minnesota newspapers will estab lish a papermill. Women operate taxicabs In Wash ington, D. C. Brazil contemplates a system of labor exchanges. Trunkmakers and Leather Novelty Workers at Frisco have organized. Iron molders at Brantford, Can., have secured an increase in pay. Twenty per cent, of the munition workers in France are women. Cobalt (Can.) miners demand an increase of 50 cents a day. There are about eighty operations in the manufacture of a gold pen. Street railway employes at Van couver, B. C., have received an in crease in wages. Trieste, in Austria, is a center of the meerschaum pipe industry. Engineering work is for the first time being offered to women in Eng land. Holland will establish a govern ment service for unemployment In surance and public employment. The Pullman Company Is the larg est single employer of colored labor in the United States. London (Eng.) Munitions Tribunal has decided to impose heavier fines on munitions smokers. Philadelphia Slate and Tile Roof ers' Union has raised wages from 56 >4 to 62 H cents an hour. Georgia will employ prisoners to work on the farms. Plumbers at St. John's, N. 8., de mand an increase in pay. Frisco Iron Trades Council has twenty-five affiliated local unions. Hendon (England) schoolteachers will receive an increase of |6O a year. Bethlehem, Pa., is constructing 2,500 new houses for workingmen. There are 700,000 female workers In Russia subject to factory laws. Boilermakers at Honolulu are ask ing for an increase in pay. There are 2,000 savings banks in the United States, JULY 21, 1917. Fighting Other Vermin An applicant who was described as an "insect exterminator" was granted conditional exemption by the Birmingham Military' Tribunal last week. He is a house dlsinfec tor, and it was stated that his serv ices were of the utmost importance to the health of the community.— From the Times, of London. OUR DAILY LAUGH * •*1 SOMB ETIQUETTE. Speaking o f /T etiquette the '•®N j'lj fiw'yjttL summer <,c^e^u ' a 13 now jlji jhr j yM/fWfi la departing m M I) (LI ill ear your faro bb Imm Pj/jjIII wells through Jot fa' l tho BCI- een door. Hi!" -U if Don't hold it J j °P cn - JUST M l n - —Crab How fortunate! Just fs}~l2r as * wish for a —^V~-= — bit more to eat, that obliging fisherman helps me to a Dice THE REASON Man Phllos. makes woman A yTTßSftfty!?) I hensiblo is that she acts on im- ,\V pulse and with- x out. motive. Girl Observer x queer things a fcf, woman does are \\jjh| in done to reduce mH Bjl the weight and Hffl Jm improve the &