8 HARRtSBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOM# Founded /Jjr Published evenings except bund&y by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTIJ|Q COM THemph Building* Federal Nqann>i 13. J. ST ACKPOLE, Prts't 6- Editor-in-Chief Pi R OYSTER, Business Manager, OTJS M. BTEINMETZ, Managua Kdttr> Member of the Associated Press—Th Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not f the Job, solving Indi vidual problems, straightening out tangled family skeins, the giving of a loaf where needed—ln short, the mobilisation of the resources of Har rlsburg In the interest of those who stand in need of aid. The society is encountering Just how what it* secretary is pleased to term "genteel poverty"'—persons in distress for tho first time, soroly in need of assistance and too proud to ask for it. To thoso the society wishes to bring homo the fact that It standq as tho expert adviser for the man or woman who cannot make ends meot or who has troubles of a family nature he or Bhe as an individual does not know how to overcome. Tho society would like to %e approached tn tills spirit. It would have peoplo .4n general understand that no stigma attaches to such applications for assistance. Jpst as the troubled city official goes for advice to the city solicitor, so- the distressed cltlzeM Is invited to lay his problem before the sociological experts in charge of the Associated Aids. The society Is simply an in strument for the use of the com munity and the more frequently it is used- the better for those who neod its kindly guiding hand. TOBACCO FOR SOLDIERS nn HE Telegraph to-day opens a campaign to raise funds for the purchase of tobacco for Our Bdys in France. Nearly every mfh who goes into the Army is a smoker. Those who do not smoke when they enlist al most invariably become smokers in a short time. There is something in the sedative influence of tobacco fumes and the chumminess of a well seasoned pipe that appeals mightily to the man who spends most of his time in hard exercise outdoors and for whom %, smoke betimes is an otaly luxury. Physicians who have been at the front recommend the use of to bacco by soldiers. Nothing, they say, so quiets the nerves under the stress of trench life as tobacco. Nothing the soldier does byway of diversion is so harmless under the circum stances. The Red Cross, whose chief aim is to provide for the health and comfort of the soldier, backs up the doctors in this and endorses the to bacco fund which the Telegraph has undertaken to sponsor in Harris burg. An outdoor man may smoke much without injury to his health, but there is no danger that the soldier in France will overstep in his use of tobacco—he does not get enough. There is nothing a smoker craves 0 so much as a "pipeful" or "the mak ings" after a hard day's toll. Our Boys in France must look to their smoker friends in America to meet this need —for French tobacco is al most as bad as none to American taste. The Telegraph fund offers the public a means of making every penny contributed count almost double. For every quarter dollar contributed the Telegraph guaran tees that a package of the very finest grade tobacco, retailing at forty-five cents the country over, will be sent to an American soldier in France. In each package will be a stamped postcard addressed to the donor which the soldier receiving the pack age will sign and mail back to him. This will be at once a souvenir of the war, a sign that you are doing your bit and an assurance that your gift has reached Its intended destina tion. The Telegraph has never asked in vain for contributions. Who will be the first to buy a smoke for Our Boys in France? HIGH OCEAN FREIGHTS High ocean freights account for the enormous amount of ship building that is going on, and that shipbuilding is about the most important single element in the conduct of the' war against Germany. If the Shipping Hoard is going to reduce freight charges 75 per cent., It will destroy the stimulus to private enterprise In replacing the vessels destroyed by the submarines, and it. will leave the shipowners with property that cost them abnormal amounts, but on whieh they can earn only normal sums.—Philadelphia Record. • That's precisely what some people are beginning to the fixing of coal prices. If the estab lishing of a certain price means an increase in retail prices as in Har risburg, and a reduction of the out put at the mines as Indicated, then there Is something wrong in the whole soheme. fot£Kc U ""pttotoi^aiua By the Fx-Committeeman Registration in Philadelphia, Pitts burgh and Scranton yesterday Jumped with a vigor that surprised everyone when It was taken Into ac count that it was only the second registration day. In some wards of the cities the figures wore far beyond expectations and indicate the man ner ' n which the campaigns are be ing waged for municipal honors. The Pittsburgh figures will not be complete until to-day because of the heavy listing, while in some sec- o{ Philadelphia to workers re ported high llgures. Scrdnton'a mayoralty contest stimulated regis tration in every ward. Saturday will be the last regis, tration in all cities. ■ —The Pittsburgh mayoralty con test lias gotten down to as many meetings and speecnes a day as in the closing week of a November campaign. Not In years has the city been as stirred up and the whole state is watching the result. The contest of four years ago between Armstrong and Porter was mere play compared to this battle. —Governor Brumbaugh will be home in time to vote at the Phila delphia primary. He will meet a number of friends in Philadelphia early next week and come here later. —Senator Vare says that the Jump ii? registration shows that people are taking a big interest in politics. They certainly are. —lnsurance Commissioner O'Neil has written a letter to the Governor pledging him his best efforts in the time at his disposal to make the Highway Department a credit to the state In every way. —State suffragists and antlsuffrag ists have passed up the Maine elec tion. No ono seems to want to com ment upon it. —Garrett B. Cochran, one of the Willlamsport guardsmen. Is being boomed to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. He is a son of the late Senator J. Henry Cochran. —Representative Thomas F. McNlchol is in line for the next Judicial vacancy in Philadelphia after his term as a legislator expires. —Chester courtty's three-cornered county controller fight is said to be anyone's battle now. In Mont gomery Prothonotary Fredericks la now assured of a clear field. —Owing to the absence of Major C. N. Bernthelzel, who is judge ad vocate ol the Pennsylvania division, the Lancaster county court has named Sumner V. Hosterman to be distr:ci attorney ad interim. Mr. lierntneizel is the district attorney and must personally pass on all in dictments. —Senator Boies Penrose has been aslied by Senator McNich(l to start an investigation into alleged draft frands in Philadelphia, which are said to have been uncovered by the v/urd fights in Philadelphia. An other thing interesting about the sit uation in Philadelphia is that ex-Judge James Gay Gordon has gotten into the prosecutions and is after some men "higher up." —Wilkea-Barre's city council yes terday voted money to pay for a demonstration on September 19 in honor of the drafted men from that section of the state. This is the first city to take such action officially, as all other demonstrations have been met by contributions or private ex pense, as in this city. —The hearing on the mandamus proceedings brought by the four State officials against Auditor General Sny der will be called up in the Dauphin county court on Monday and will be the first round. The Auditor Gen eral's motion t!rquash will be argued. PIONEER GOLD MINER On his way to Livingston, Mont., to attend a meeting of the Society of Mountain Pioneers, David B. Weaver, seventy-eight years old, of Saxton, Bedford county, paid Altoona a visit. Ho is one of the two survivors of the prosperous who discovered the first placer gold mines in Montana. He was one of threo men who discovered the placer mines in the Yellowstone Valley, August 30, 18U4, and later he un covered the rich fields of Emigrant Gulch, out of which millions of dollars were taken. He was born in Hopewell, Huntingdon county and was twenty-three years old when he went west. FUNDS IN SLIPPERS That every woman can do her own little "bit" in her own particular way is asserted, by Tom L. Johnson, Spanish-American war veteran, who proves it with an incident that oc curred on the train speeding to Camp Douglas from Milwaukee the other night. A soldier found himself entirely without funds to pay his fare and faced removal from the train and consequent report as "absent with out leave," when a young married v oman, on iter way to visit her hus band at the camp, realizing his po sition, removed a dainty white slip per from lier foot and passed it through the car amid the applause of the passengers. When the slipper had made the rounds it contained }3.15. —Milwaukee Sentinel. WHOLE DUTY OF KINGS Kings are not responsible to God, but to their people, whose will keeps them on their thrones. We want kings who, bowing to this principle, are willing to give an account of their actions in this world and not in the next. If they also have special accounts to erttle with God, they can do so after their deaths if they reach Heaven. If kings, are to succeed In remaining and reigning after the present maelstrom that is visiting the world has passed they will do so only If they respect and meekly sub mit to the will of the people over whom they reign. Kings nowadays are but presidents of republics who, instead of being elected every four or five years, receive their offices hereditarily. From a speech of Elentherios Venizelos In the Athens Hestia. A TRIBUTE TO WOMAN I have observed among all nations that the woman ornament them selves more >han the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to pe gay and cheerful, timorous and n\odest. They do not hesitate, like men, to perform a hospitable or generous action; not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society; In dustrious. economical. Ingenious; more liable in general, to err, than man, but In general also, more vir tuous, and- performing more good actions than he.—John Ledyard. A GREAT LIGHT SEEN The people that walked in dark ness have seen a great light; they dwell In the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shlned.—lsaiah lx, 2. EDITORIAL COMMENT Beyond thtf Alps leaps Italy.—New York Sun, We might stand for a peace with out victory, but not for a war with out victory.—Boston Transcript. Pacifists always have to live In a land where other men will fight or they would be wiped out.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Young lady, how would you like to bo a bride in Germany and go to Jail every time you spoiled the biscuits': —Kansas City Star. No American is against this war. If anybody opposes it that opposition is sufficient proof of that person's un-Americanlsm. Chicago Dally News. A German navy officer said the other day that "God has called us by name." Now, we're curlouto know by what name.—Atlanta Constitu tion. "Mike," says the Kaiser, "take the reins, will yez?" "Bill," says Mike, "I can't drive." Never mind," says Bill, "I'm here."—Columbia' When the Russians read about the riot at Camp Logan they will be tempted to despair' of the stability of our republic.—Chicago Tribune. CRIME OF CARELESSNESS Sup'pose that when we get well In to the war there should be in ono year thirty-five thousand of our soldiers killed; seven hundred thous and seriously wounded; and 2 mil lion slightly Injured in battle, what a pall of mourning wodld hang over this country! But that many deaths and casu alties occur by accident to workmen in the industries of the United States each year, end we scarcely hear It mentioned. The worst of it is that tho great majority of all these deaths and injuries are the results of care lessness. They are preventable ac cidents. Three-fourths of thoae thirty-five thousand dekd might Just as well be alive, earning a living for their families. A workman tosses a burning cig aret stub into a pile of scrap material in a shirtwaist factory in New York and one hundred and forty-live em ployes are burned to death. "Taking a short* cut through the railroad yards to 'get home, John Jones was struck by a switch engino and killed,' says a news item; and there were five thousand deaths from that cause alone in this country last year. A workman cuts his finger and goes on working. Germs infect the wound, blood poison sets in, he dies. There are thousands of deaths eaen year from that cause alone. A wash ing of the wounds and then a dash of iodine upon each one would have prevented all those deaths. And so it goes; nearly 3 million casualities-a year through careless ness. "Do people fall over this precipice often?" asked a woman passenger as the stage coach careened toward the edge of a 30t)-foot cliff. "No ma'm, they never fall but once," answer the driver. Carelessness is one crime whore punishment is swift and sure.—Kan sas City Times. MR. HOOVER OH MEATS Food Administrator Hoover's ad dress to the National Livestock Con ference oj* the subject of meat sup ply and prices must have surprised his hearers, as It undoubtedly will startle consumers. Food control as recommended and to some exteut practiced has contemplated the sus pension of customary business meth ods and even of economic law. If government was not actually to fix prices it was to regulate production and distribution as to pr.event extor tion. V Now Mr. Hoover says that in view of the\ world-wide shortage of food animals and the insistent demand for meats, prices must continue to soar, and that the only remedy, aside from selfdenial, is to increase production. Prlcefixing is not pos sible and seizure of the packing houses will not do, he says. Stock growers must have prices that will stimulate their Industry. Wherein, then, does that program differ from the usages responsible for the conditions as to food which the government's elaborate plan of was designed to correct? The first principle of economic law is that scarcity expresses itself in high prices, and that high prices in turn not only restrict consumption and prevent waste but encourage pro duction so that normal relations be tween producers and consumers may be restored. Voluntary agreements as to prices to be paid stockgrowers have been entered into by the Dig packers fo? many years and have been the basis of more than one Federal prosecution. If Mr. Hoover means that he can do nothing more than this, his ad dress was less a dissertation on food control than a panegyric on the im mutability of the law of supply and demand.—New York World. SON OF THE SEA I was born for deep-sea faring; I was bred # to put to sea; Stories of my father's daring s Filled me at my mother's knee I was sired among the surges; I was cubbed beside the foam; All my heart is in its verges, of those engaged. This ilgure includes also those Who died subsequently, some times eren long after, from battle wounds. In splto of another prevalent im pression to the contrary, carefully fostered In some quarters, the mor tality of recent months is not high er than it was at the beginning of the war, Dut much lower. It was the first million men from France and the first hundred thousand from England who had to bear the brunt Of German preparedness and their own comparative unreadiness. TUe lesson of war has been learned. The mortality of British and French forces now is not much more than one-filth what it was at the Marne and in Flanders. APPEALS FROM WEST Two appeals from the West were made to Senator La Follette this week. One came from a former mem ber of the Socialist party, Charles Edward Russell, who pleaded, or rather demanded, La Follette's resignation. That was vain. Bob has five years and five months to server more than MO, OOO and mileage to draw from the Treasury. It he con serves his health by refusing to walk In patriotic processions he will con tinue to gum up the Senate until March. 1923, unless his colleagues kick him out. The other message to the Prune of Primrose, was sent by a seditious Socialist: "The Hon. Robert La Follette, United State Senator, Wisconsin, Wash ington, D. C.: "United States Marshals are In office now with warrants to seize property. "ADOLPH GERMER," The German creature has been one of the most venomous of the pro- German publicists. When at last the machinery of the law nipped nlm it was natural that he should turn to the Senator from Wisconsin. We shall be Interested to see what j stepa La Follette takes to protect Herr Adolph Germer, who evidently believes that his hero has some pow ers the law.— New York. Sua. J | are not stated in the newspaper re | ports, they can easily be Inferred. It is hardly likely that they will carry j any weight with the Red Cross au thorities. The intense nervous strain I itn P9 He( * by conditions at the front in the present war requires I that everything possible should be done to allay nervous Irritation. "Amusements for the men when | relieved of duty at the inimldlate front are recognized as an important factor in preventing neurosis. Many of the men In the army are con firmed smokers, and to deny these men tobacco is to induce a degree of nervous Irritation which will ma terially militate against their ef ficiency. "It would be the height of folly, both from a medical and a military standpoint, to deny tobacco to the men at the front. Much to their credit, the women of Los Angeles who are prominent in relief work practically unanimously favor pro viding tobacco along with other com forts for men at the front." JUST PLAIN CURS To those misguided persons, largely of foreign birth, who in this hour of the nation's peril seek to stab it in the back by resisting its laws and giving aid and comfort to the enemy we commend a few words spoken before the American Bar Association by Andrew Alex ander Bruce, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Da kota. This gentleman, a native of India, came to this country as an English alien and received his edu cation here. In his new home he ha# prospered and made an honor able name for himself. He expresses his loyalty to the United States in these words: "I and millions of others like me came to this country alone and with out friends. We sponged on all that America had, her free lands, her free schools, and above all, her spirit of openhearted comradeship. She owed us nothing, but she gave us all. We should bo ingrates, wo should be curs, if In this hour of her need we counseled with her enemies or were disloyal to her cause." • Contrast this utterance with that of the wretched creatures who caine to America from Russia, found an asylum from oppression here and prospered, but who have since gftne back to their native land to slander the United States and spread demor alization and anarchy among the people and the army. Many of these ingrates still linger here #nd strive to scatter sedition and distrust. In the language of Justicp Bruce, they are curs. Fortunately, their number is few as compared with the grate ful millions who share the views of the North Dakota Judge as to their duty to the country that has given them everything. Philadelphia Record. HEROISM No truer patrotlsm, no loftier heroism can be found than that which is often • displayed on a sliip's deck, and to my mind there is scarcely any other position which is so manly and grand, and which makes such demands on the noble quaytles of a true man, as the com mand of a Urge vessel. Selfcontrol, fortitude, quickness of perception, knowledge of men. enterprise, presence of mind In action and ex alted courage and fidelity to trust are but a few of the qualities' re quisite to the good seaman and ship piaster, and they are qualities which are often displayed at sea, not only in the navy In the time of war, but In the ordinary merchant service. Nor are the great deeds of seamen the less, noble and valuable, as ex amples of what man Is capable of in the hour of trial, because eo often unrecorded, or rewarded at most by a few obscure lines in the marine columns of the dally newspapers, or by a gold chronometer or service of silver. —8. G. W. Benjamin. DUST TO DUST All ko unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth tho spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that poeth downward to thu jaaxUj.?—JEcclealaates 11L 20 and. 21, LABOR NOTES A strike of Scotland dressmakers was successfully arbi trated. Over 30.000 of the half-million working: girls in Japan are under ZA years of age. Six hundred young women carpen ters are at work building army huts for the British soldiers. There was a slight decrease in the cost of living in Canada in July, as compared with June last. Hundreds of women are being trained for telegraph service by the Santa Fe Railroad Company. Henry L. Slobodln, chairman of the New York State Socialist party, sails on labor to support the war. Nine thousand miners in Tredegar Valley, Monmouthshire. Wales, struck owing to several alleged grievances. Railway employes of Leeds, Eng land. are asking for double the pay they were receiving before the war. South Wales steel and tinplate op eratives demand 100 per cent, bonus, They now get 37% to 57% per cent. The 141 savings banks In New Tork State show a gain of over $100,000,000 in resources during the past year. Special series of courses have been organized in Columbia University for training women for banking positions. Pennsylvania's mining laws require to mule to be gi\#n 700 cubic feet of air a minute and a miner 200 cubic feet. A call has come from France for a volunteer unit of 100 women workers to be recruited immediately and sent to France for service in cAnteen sta tions. OUR DAILY LAUGH | HIS REASON. | "Why do you call Da Short a bad ! egg?" "Oh, It's so unpleasant to have him ! around when |ie's broke/' COMPLIMENT FOR COMPLI MENT. She—Alas, we never see m2 Ilka those the novellet deecribes. He—Alas, no—nor glrla like thoqe the Illustrators draw. THE BEST stON. "In he honest ?" "I think he muat be. I haven I heard, him brajglajr (Pusut IC*. lEbnthtg Ctp From all accounts Pennsyl' peaches seem to have been apj ated In Ohio. The new burea markets, which has been stu< supply and demand nd their 1 maiden, the railroads, succeed! doing better than. expected, bureau started out on the theory it could get markets for carUa* and that every peach could be p good use and the growers get prices. It did well. It seems tha bureau located some peach gr( who had peaches "to burn and got Into touch with some cars, it started out to get markets large lots. Some of tTie peaches ■old-up In New England where know what fine peaches what fine apples, Pennsylvania duces. They*brought some fine i and in the northern part of the •some markets were also found. Youngstown woke up. Youngs is a steel city and money is abun They paid $3 a basket for the I sylvania peaches and wanted m * * Death of Adjutant General Th J. Stewart has caused a post] ment of consideration of pla take the votes of the Pennsyl soldiers in November and will ably retard the formation o Pennsylvania Reserve Militia which the general had been WOT Attorney General Brown, who w the Capitol on Monday night to first time after an illness of o month, planned to take up wit' Adjutant General the problem tending the .taking of the sol votes this week and had been paring some data on the su Just what will be done about th dier votes is not known at the •to', but It is possible that \ there are Pennsylvania organlzt intact and not scattered by batti through other divisions commii ers may be sent to take their vo was done at El Paso last year, what wjll be done about orgs tions abroad or about the men i National Army camps and scat through the various branches c military service no one is able t at the Capitol. Pennsylvania furnished so many men to the ular Army that the mere listii them would be a big task. The tion will be taken up after th turn *>f Governor Brumbaugh month. • • • Some Interesting fiction fs received at the Harrisburg I • Library for the soldiers' cantor libraries, which the Red Cross International Y. M. C. A. and organizations are undertakin provide with the American LI Association in direct charge, library is the central point foi district and the books are mat into bundles here preparatory t ing shipped. The committei charge is making an appeal for live, up-to-date books, not shelf-worn books unless they 1 standard fiction or classics. * People who have marched ov streets of Harrisburg in the ,well demonstrations the last days have opinions of their ow garding the various highways up for new mains and other tl Some of the work under way i central part of the city is in ; the same shape as It was a n ago and members of bands say t to their horns when they strik spots. The approach of the r period for the paved streets is eagerly awaited. * • • The guidons of the Harrlsburi serves .have' been deposited a Harrisßurg Public Library v they will be displayed until the comes for them to be used lr rades and for special drills, are the first Harrlsbur.T flags i placed in the library. • • The Harrisburg Rifle Club, v moving spirit is Cassius A. Duni executive- officer, is arranging to a shoot for beginners only on urday. The marksman course, \ is 200 yards, will be used, am man making 150 points or bette have scores certified to Washin This club ts moving to boost shooting and defense game in lisburg and has been increasir membership. Considerable interest has aroused here by the moves taken by insurance comp throughout the state to run autoVnobile thieves. Harrisburj suffered from the depredatlor such gentry and the insurance p and police have been getting tog to "spot" (he men who have n property'on wheels. The meeting of the Dai County Historical Society to-mc night will be the annual au home coming, an occasion whei members gather after the sun and it is always an Interesting e The paper of the evening will be by Dr. Hugh Hamilton on J Peacock, a native of Dauphin co former postmaster of Harris president of one of the early p libraries here and long iden with the newspaper enterprisi the state. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPI —The Rev. Daniel I. McDer Philadelphia priest, who has after Mayor Smith over certain ditlons, has frequently crusadi that city. —Dr. J. P. Kerr and E. V. cock, two of the candidate) Mayor of Pittsburgh, are sa have developed Into real or since tho campaign started. —lsadore Stern, who was pi nent in thfe last Legislature, li with serious charges about ex tions in Philadelphia. —Franklin Spencer Edm Philadelphia lawyer well k here, is taking an active part ii formation of tho school moblltz movement. —Col. L. A. Watres, former : tenant Governor, is head •ol Home Guard at Scranton. | DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrisbur* will n send detachments to sanlt and signal troops? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Sixty years ago Harrisburg I holding State fairs. SEEKS LOST GRAVE In search of the graves of he ther and mother, who were killi the Scott Indian massacre. Mr Kitchen, of Walla Walla, Wasl tn Baker county, Oregon, but s has had no success. She was a at the time of her parents' dee The massacre was In the 'Bos timers tell how Scott and his were ambushed and shot on ] Creek, when they were retui from a dance. Tho father wai stantly killed and two shots pli Mrs. Scott's bocjy. Their children, a boy of 8. a baby girl, were asleep In the ho of the wagon and escaped. Th< was Mrs. Kltcbo> —Portland gonlan, ■ t i