8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. K.J. STACK POLE, Prts't & EJilor-in-Chitf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not other wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office, Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas BuHdlng, Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a 4 week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. . .TUESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1917 There are people tcho do not knoto how to waste their time alone, and hence become the scourge of busy people. — DE BONALD. AX IMPRESSIVE GATHERING THE dinner of the Chamber of Commerce last evening was an impressive event. Secretary Baker brought to the assembled business men the wonderful story of the 're sponse of American business to the needs of the nation, and Governor Brumbaugh tendered the Secretary, in the name of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania's mighty aid in the gi gantic task now confronting the country. The speeches were marked by red-blooded Americanism and an entire absence of political feeling or reference. The spirit manifest was "one for all and all for one." A clftiraeteristic of the Secretary's address was entire absence of doubt In the outcome and wholehearted confidence in the ability of the coun try to carry out successfully the work so well begun, and the response of the Governor was in full accord with the patriotic impulse of a State that has given to the country "the best National Guard in the world," which is sending the flower of its young manhood into the training camps, which has cheerfully shoul dered the great responsibility of pro viding one-tenth of the resources necessary to carry on the war and which must provide the bulk ot-arms and other supplies required by our armies and those of our Allies. Tho Chamber of Commerce has done an excellent thing in affording this opportunity for Harrisburgers to acquire first-hand information as to just what the government has done and is doing in the way of putting the country on a war footing, &nci to get a reflection of the spirit manifest in the undertaking. In presenting Spencer C. Gilbert as toastmaster of the banquet of the Chamber of Commerce last night, David E. Tracy, the president, took occasion to compliment Mr. Gilbert upon his service to Harrlsburg. It was a fine tribute to a citizen who stands out pre-eminently as the type of man who serves his fellow-men without hope 'or thought of reward other than the satisfaction which comes from doing that which is help ful and unselfish. All present approved the deserved compliment, and a storm of applause emphasized Mr. Tracy's sentiment. SIGNS OF THE TIMES THERE are very distinct indica tions that the period of pell mell business and tremendous profits for some lines of manufac ture and trade is nearing its end, if indeed it is not already there. How ever, this need cause no alarm, for all lines are assured of a steady run of orders with plants running to capacity for an indefinite period. Only they will havo to operate a lit tle more conservatively. All lines of expense must be curtailed. Expen ditures that may have been justified under former conditions cannot be tolerated this side of ruin with the -cost and selling price difference growing constantly less. These are consequences of the heavy taxes levied by the govern ment. and the fixing of prices by fed eral order. In the end the effect will be steadying and very likely highly beneficial during the readjustments following the war. THE WAR REVENUE ACT SINCE the adjournment of Con -gress the business community and the people generally are be ginning to find out more about tltc great war revenue act than they were permitted to learn during the con sideration of that measure. One of the things which is arous ing widespread criticism is the para graph taxing salaries and earnings of professional and business men eight per cent, over and above $6,000 a year. Next to the outrageous Im position upon the newspaper Indus try this paragraph is about the limit. It Is understood that Claude Kit chin. the southern gentleman who happened to be chairman of the Jiquse committee on ways and means was responsible for Inserting this "excessive profits" tax, and as ho has maintained throughout his whole course in the House a spirit of an tagonism to the Industry at tho TUESDAY EVENING, United States, It Is not surprising that he managed to slip In a final sting through the medium of the confer ence report. Mr. Kltchln, however, saw to It that the salaries of con gressmen were not included In this tax. THE SEASON' FAST CLOSING THE falling leaves and the frost on the pumpkin most admonish our city officials of the Import ance of completing as rapidly as pos sible all outside work. There is no time to be lost In putting the streets In first-class shape, doing all the planting necessary in the park areas, and giving attention in every way to the things which are important from tho standpoint of protection and conservation. It should Vlso be remembered that any additional fa cilities for the water department ought to be supplied without any delay. GIRARD AND THE LOAN ELSEWHERE In the Telegraph to-day appears one of Herman L. Collins' (Girardt excellent Liberty Loan primer. This primer Is of special value to the hundreds of Harrlsburg school children who are Interested in tho forthcoming contest in which winners in a short essay contest will be given cash prizes. Prospective entrants should clip Mr. Collins' primer. And the fathers and mothers of these en trants should read it, too. So should the small investor. ALL SIGNS AGREE ALL the time-honored signs point to a long, hard winter. The wild geese are flying south much earlier than usual, the leaves are falling from tho trees In that occult manner which portends cold weather, the squirrels are hoarding nuts more greedily than ever. The goose's wishbone has not yet been uncovered—but it doubtless will tell the same story. In addition, tho ad ministration has fixed a price for coal which Ms higher than that of last year, the food conservators tell us to cut down on tho eats, Mr. Mc- Adoo warns us to get ready fo? higher taxation. Thus man rein forces tho precepts of nature. NO REWARD FOR HALE MATTHEW HALE, of Boston, who poses ns the national head of the Progressive party and who sponsored the abortive con ference at St. Louis last spring when the only tangible result was a de cision to flirt with the Prohibition ists, has been nominated for Lieu tenant Governor by the Democrats of Massachusetts. He will not be elected, of course, and his nomina tion has put him beyond being re warded, as Victor Murdock and Balnbrldge Colby have been, through appointment as a minority member of a government commission. MR. HERSHEY'S GIFT THE presence of M. S. Hershey at the Chamber of Commerce din ner last night serves as a re minder of the shameful manner in which the city of Harrisburg has treated his gift of the Donato statu ary. Isn't it about time that Council gives some attention to the placing of this work of art? Or is it to con fess that it cares nothing for the beautiful and would rather pay stor age on the fountain than have It on free exhibition in one of our public places? THE RAILROAD'S PART SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER testified In his Chamber of Com merce address last evening to the efficiency of the American rail roads In handling the vast quantities of supplies and materials loaded upon them by the government in the preparation of the great canton ments for the National Army, and those who know the facts will agree that the tribute was well deserved. But the Secretary did not tell the whole story. Figures Issued by the Railroad's War Board recently show that about 2,500 carloads of food and other necessities are being delivered dally by the railroads at these canton ments and the camps where the Na tional Guard is being trained for service abroad, according to reports Just received by the Board. Accurate - figures ns to the extent to which the supplying of food and necessities for the soldiers at the training camps will Intensify the transportation problem will not be available until all of the camps have received their full quota of men. As the Secretary Intimated, the task which the railroads have been asked to perform Is difficult. It In volves the supplying of all the necessities of life for sixteen nqp-pro ductlve cities of a population of 40,- 000 each, and fifty-six smaller cities ranging In population from 300 to 3,000. Altogether, more than a mil lion men gathered at the various cantonments must have their dally necessities brought to them by the railroads. As It takes at least five pounds of food per day for each sol dier, in addition tcC the food, cloth ing, fuel and other supplies that are constantly needed, the railroads have their work cut out for them. Our railroad men. from the Atter burys and the Kennedys, who have gone to France, down to the hum blest trackhand, all have their parts to play In the successful prosecu tion of the war. and they are quite as Important In the general scheme of things as the men In uniform who carry the guns and get the cheers. The superintendents, the trainmas ters, the engineers, the firemen, the conductors and the trainmen who get tho freight over the road In the least possible time and without ac cident, are mighty big factors In the war preparations now under way. Never was there a time when the railroads of the country were oper ated under suoh difficulties or so efficiently. T>o(a4 u By the ' ■' Steps to Inaugurate a new test of the judicial nonpartisan election law so that the clause relative to what shall be necessary to make a candi date the sole nominee may be re viewed again will be taken before to-day Is over in opinion of people at the State Capitol. Resting upon the decision of Judge S. J. M. Mc- Carrell in the Drake case from Phil adelphia, decided four years ago. Sec retary of the Commonwealth Woods last night ordered certified to the commissioners of Philadelphia and Schuylkill counties the ntv#nes of the candidates receiving the four high est votes for the judicial nomina tions in the courts for which there are contests. "I am of the opinion that tho mat ter is ruled by the decision in the Drake case and If I am wrong the matter can be further tested in tho courts" said Mr. Woods. The Secretary's decision was reach ed after a prolonged discussion last night with Attorney General Brown and his deputies. Mr. Woods there upon sent word to the four highest men in each of the Philadelphia court contests and to the four candi dates in Schuylkill county. This de cision was not to the liking of friends of some candidates, but represented Mr. Woods' opinio*! and he stood on ft to-day. Under the law no mention will be made of the vote received. The names will be merely certified. It Is believed that either one of the Schtiylkill or Philadelphia candidates will file the papers in the test 3. A . TOUCH " HAVE. BEEN UNABLE f~ 1 „ , To secure a V°Sa.'"4t U .t[ see. ire) WORLDS SER>e.5 \ AkJD VOU J I L iKE This GANie TICKET WHENJ H& : HANOS YOU QH H-H • B/\BY!! AINT 'T D.GS INTO HIS INSIDE PeBFECTUY GoeDTicKerr v GR _f,. R . RAND , AND J rx * . To The oOx- i. Pocket - game - for nothimg AMERICANISMS! God grant that we soon may have this tranquilizing peace of which philosophers have dreamed and poets have sung, hut peace when it comes must mean the crushing of militar ism for all time to come. —Samuel Gompers. AVe will stand with the world against militarism. We are not in this fight because we love war. We aro fighting because we love peace. We know that this world is not big enough for place and Prussian militarism. Militarism, all militar ism, must be destroyed no matter what the cost.—Clarence Darrow. This war is the supreme struggle of democracy against autocracy. Do away with democracy and achieve ment ends. Take whatsoever you will in securing better conditions, better hours, better pay, in emanci pation of labor, better division of world's wealth for labor —how will you secure any one of these things except through democracy?— Charles Edward Russell. We cannot acquiesce in a cow ardly peace. We cannot fail to strug gle against despotism and militarism that would dominate the world. We cannot surrender that democracy we have inherited after so great a strug gle.—John Spargo. The true meaning of democracy . It is something that links the last the least man with the throne or the eternal meaning of existence and gives that humblest itian the divine enfranchisement. —J. Stitt Wilson. I see in the American Labor move ment the greatest champion of an industrial democracy of a free state and of a happy and contented peo ple.—Frank P. Walsh. SAVE THE FODDER There is one product of most farms that is not conserved as it should be and that is the corn fodder. Tne purt of the cow. crop which is not put into silos would provide more, valuable feed lf)an it does If farmers would endeavor store and use the fodder of the huskeH corn more care ,l'ully. Analyses show rsat dry, well preserved corn fodder contains only slightly less protein and kat, and more carbohydrates than afces tim othy hay. Practical experience shows that such roughage, i when shredded and fed, produces Ijetter results with milk cows than titfnothy hay. * „ In order to have fodder of great est food value, the corn must .|e cut before it is dead ripe, or whlire the stalk and leaves are quite p,r,-en. I cut at this stage, v/ell shocked promptly husked, and the foduer put under shelter or well "ricked , the nutritive elements may be nearly all retained. If, however, it is left ex posed to the weather for any length of time the loss is great, The ele ments of nutrition in corn stover are very soluble and it has heen found that it depreciates rapidly, the loss amounting to 60 per cent or more, when subjected to alternate rains and dl When shredded at the proper time it will futnish a great deal of val uable feed, and the refuse, or the part not eaten, makes the best kind of bedding and absorbent. —Pennsyl- vania Farmer. HERE IS A PUNCH The most reliable authorities deny that France is "bled Svhlte." France has had a ghastly ordeal, but she is stronger in national energy than <% ln 1914 her shots, for all field guns, averaged 1,300 a day. She now sends into the enemy s face 350,000 shots a day. In the beginning of the war she had 300 guns of heavy ar tillery. To-day she has 6,000 pieces. Her casualties at the Battle of the Marno were 5.41 per cent. To-day they average 1.28 per cent. France has a million more men in the field than she had at the be ginning. And hore Is a punch: Germany was whipped at the Battle of the Marne. but the square-necks don t know it, and it Is this stubborn, bull necked ignoranco that is putting the finishing touch on the Teutons. —The Silent Partner. JOHN BULL'S WAY In Great Britain live men run the war. There the stolidity of con servatism and of caste has been melted In the crucible of all-compell ing time and need. The energies of Great Britain have been fused Into one great and single effort, that of projecting its fighting armies fed and equipped into France. !• jch a fu sion and concentration of spirit must be the experience of America. Thus only will It "exert all its power and employ all Its resources to bring tne Government of the German empire to terms and end the war.—Phila delphia Ledger, Soldier Boy's Brave Farewell As an illustration of the lofty sentiments possessed by men who die on the Kuropean battlefield in the war for democracy, and a re minder for Americans who may he backward in contributing to the Sec ond Liberty Loan for the same great cause the Liberty Loan Committee has made public the last letter by Captain V. G. Tupper, of the Cana dian Scottish Sixteenth Battalion, to his father. Sir Charles Hibbert Tup per, before his death at the battle of Vimy Kidge last April. The soldier wrote: "My Dear Father —I am writing one of these "in case' letters for the third time, and, of course, I hope you will never have to read it. If you are reading it now, you will know that your youngest son 'went under' as proud as Punch on the most glorious day of his life. I am taking my company 'over the top' for a mile in the biggest push that has ever been launched in the world, and I trust that it is going to be the greatest factor toward peace. "Dad, you can't imagine the won derful feeling; a man thinks some thing like this: Well, if 1 am going THE CHOSEN ONES Why not call It the "chosen" army? Why not call its members the "chosen" soldiers? There seems to be a general de sire to get away from the word "drafted," and this is justified. ' What term could better describe this great new army of men who have been selected to help make the world safe for democracy than "chosen?" Literally, they are chosen men. Chosen from their fellows to fight for freedom in the greatest struggle of the ages. Chosen to measure the strength of their ideals against the brute force (of might. Chosen for a really sacred purpose. Aod in a true way carrying out tJte Master's words, "For many j called but few are chosen. If you will turn to the book from wMch these words are quoted you wf.l find in the gospel of John other wcrds from the same lips—words wtych seem marvelously fitted to the rj./feing up of this chosen army: I have chosen you and or dained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. No better or truer statement of the situation could be made. They are chosen to bring forth the fruit of victory. In this instance the fruit of victory is freedom. And they are offering themselves in order that this freedom shall remain.— Eeigh Mitchell Hoopes in the Phila delphia North American. BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS The deportations occurred near fhe end of Ihe period of our stay in Belgium. They were the final and the fully sufficient exhibit, prepared by the great German machine, .to convince absolutely any one of us who might still have been clinging to his original desperately main tained attitude of neutrality that it was high time that we were some where else —on the other side of the trench line, by preference. There could be no neutrality in the face of the deportations; you are for that kind of thing or you are against it. We are against It; America is against it; most of the civilized nations are against it. That is the hope of the world. —Vernon Kellogg In the At lantic Monthly. WANTED—FACTS Navy officials were quoted by the Associated Press yesterday as depre cating the publication of report# that the submarines have been beat en. While they have confidence In the final outcome, they say that the drain on the Allied shipping re sources Is heavy. This sort of frankness Is far bet ter than any attempt to lull the pub lic Into a false sense of security. Tho nation wants to know the facts, no matter how discouraging they may be. A country that can't stand up under discouragement has no business trying to maintain its po sition In the world.—Kansas City Journal. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH They are of the world; therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them. We are of God; he that knoweth Ood heareth us; he that Is not of God heareth UB not. Hereby know we the eplrlt of truth, and the spirit of error.— I John IV, 16 and 6, to die, this is worth it a thousand times. "I have 'been over' two or three times before, but never with a com pany of my own. Think of it —a hun dred and fifty officers and men who will follow you to Hell, if need be! "I don't want any of you dear peo ple to be sorry for me, although, of course, you will, in a way. You will miss me. but you will be proud of me. Mind you, I know what I am up against and that the odds are against me. 1 am not going in the way I dtd the first time, just for sheer devil ment and curiosity. I have seen this game for two years, and I still like it and feel that my place Is here. "So much for that. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your loving kindness to me. This war has done wonders to me and makes me realize lots of things I would not have done' otherwise. I could write a book about It, but you know what I mean. "Good-by, dear father and mother, and all of you. Again I say that I am proud to be where I am now. "(Signed), "GORDIE." NO FAVORS FOR RICH Camp Dix, Wrlghtstown, N. J.— There will be no tailormade uniforms for wealthy rookies at Camp Dix. This announcement was made fol lowing the call of a fashionable Phil adelphia tailor upon Kingdon Gould, millionaire recruit from Lakewood, now a private in the Three Hundred and Eleventh Infantry. The tailor, with an assistant, lo cated Gould at his barracks and an nounced to that surprised young sol-, dier that he had called to measure him for his uniform. It happened that Uncle Sam. in the guise of a supply sergeant, had issued a com plete private s uniform to Gould a few minutes earlier. Gould told the tailor that one uniform was about all he could wear, but the tailor in sisted that lie must measure the young millionaire for two expensive I suits, and said that a relative of Gould's had placed the order. Pri vate Gould replied that the govern ment was looking out for all his needs. He fairly had to shoo awav the much chagrined tailor and his as sistant. There are reports that Gould is to have a commission in an engineering regiment. At the headquarters of the Three Hundred and Eleventh Regiment it was declared that the personnel board had not considered Gould's qualifications for promotion. "Wealth or social position cuts no Ice with the modern army," said an officer. "Uncle Sam gives commis sions only for services that can be rendered."—From the Philadelphia Record. • KNITTING This war has brought a custom back that seems to be most fitting. It was the vogue in grandma's time; it is the art of knitting. Our women spend most of their time At knitting socks; they say it's fine They meet in groups of eight or nine. Knitting, Knitting, Knitting. This knitting game was something new to nearly every girl; She had to learn to cast a stitch, to make a seam and nurl. But now they say It's simply rich, It isn't hard to cast a stitch, The work goes on without a hitch, Knitting, Knitting, Knitting. Our women are a loyal crowd, their work Is not for show; Our soldier boys will sing their praise, wherever they may go. This knitting's made an awful hltj For everybody's doing; It; You can't persuade the girls to quit Knitting. Knitting, Knitting. Our soldier boys will wear the socks our girls so kindly knit. Here's hoping, girls, that you will try to make a perfect fit. An awful thing 'twould be, you see, A misfit sock is misery; The soldiers all, we fear, would be Quitting, Quitting, Quitting. ■ —Frank L. Armstrong in the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times. , OCTOBER 9, 1917. PICKS BLOND BABIES Blond children are most suscept ible to attacks of infantile paralysis, the Chicago Public Health Associa tion declares. Tho baby malady, which is engag ing the attention of the health au thorities at the present time, eleven new cases being reported in one re cent day, was discussed by Dr. Arch ibald L,. Hoyne, of the city health department. "Blond children appear to be es pecially susceptible," l3r. Hoyne said, "more than 90 per cent, of the Chi cago cases having been of fair com plexion. Negro children are rarely attacked. "While it is not common to find more than one child in a family of several, a victim of this disease, still second and even third cases ilo oc cur. In Chicago in recent months there have been two instances whAre more than one child in a family has been afflicted. "The mortality for infantile pa ralysis in Chicago last year was about 15 per cent. This year it is a little m6re than doubled, being approxi mately 3 2 1-3 per cent, for the month of (September. Out of twelve cases at home eight died, a mortality rate of 66 2-3 per cent. Of 172 cases treated at the Cook County Hospital from July to September there were thirty-five deaths or a mortality rate of 20 per cent."—From the Chicago Herald. OUR DAILY LAUGH SOMETHING SHORT. Wlfey—X Just can't And words to dc-scrlbe my new bathing suit. Hubby—TUn wy not try soma bbro"jatlrns f A MERE YOUNGSTER. Duck: You say you're over flffc, /ears old. chl "Why you're not cut of your shell yet I „ A JUNGLE JOKE. Ist Monk: My brother went to America and secured a position &3 a cashier! 2nd Monk: A cashier to whatT Ist Monk: To an organ grinder. THE NATIONAL, GAME. "I see in the paper that somebody found a fan four old." "I didn't know they played base ball to long ago."- ichnttnq fflljat To what base uses a red and gold patrol wagon can come with the march of years. The first patro wagon that Harrlsburg ever had, old Xo - that used to dash along the street with a bang-up clatter not ap proached by either a brewery wagoft or a fire engine, is now an object of street repairing l utility. Seeing it standing in Court street not fal from the prison where it was wont to be a frequent caller o' nights one ha* to stop and think of the time when the glory of the "cop pers" and "de wagon" to which Sib letown, Castle Garden, Cinder .Row and the Hob Nail drunks and braw lers aspired as the proper ending to their debauches or their fights. Th< wagon came to town back In 1891 and John Carberry, later \ith the \\ ater Department and the man who Insisted in putting the Water Depart ment wagon into tho first "movie" *e\er taken of tho Harrisburg fire de partment at full gallop, was the tlrsl driver so tradition says. Later on Charlie Yowler, the ex-Regular Armj soldier who was the heavy weight ot rear of C thi a V on iV rl^ cn U was ln the the relnJ# %£° Chlel ,10tc1 ' handled of drivers' nn 'tk® Was a succ' ani other old-timers use,l to send in the Kautz nr qU w 1° r ( ' ,llrfs -Anderson, ™ tz Weston started out on a nol,„ „ S. W w KO " hn - s l,el Mr. Reitinger has reported every onfl of the big world's series baseball games for years, with a score or so of intercollegiate football games thrown In and thousands of Harris burgers have read his stories without knowing that the well-known news paperman who comes here to "cov er" the State Senate when in sessior was the field expert. Rut it happen; that Mr. Reitinger has also beer handling the news reports of the sensational Philadelphia politica hearing. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Chairman Alney, of the Publii Service commission, lias been invitee to deliver an address at Scranton or American diplomacy in the East. —Senator William E. Crow, th< State Chairman, has been spendinj several days visiting eastern citlei and declaring that he will let poli tics drift for awhile. —Secretary of Internal Affairi Houck was at the seashore over th< week-end. —Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgl is out making Liberty Loan speeches —Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis son, of Erie, is taking a big in organizing the Erie homo dofens league. —Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chair man of the State Game commission is going hunting this fall in spit of his recent Injury to his leg. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg Is rolling steol plates for Pacific coast shipltu-nta? HISTORIC HARRISntTRO. Harrlsburg forges made munition for the American Army in the Wa of 1812.