8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THK TELGT.HAFII PRINTING CO., Tclecraph Bulldinc, Federal Square. E.J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't & EditorinChitf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise 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 gg| g jjjjjj j9 Eastern office, 153 if Avenue Building, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris wurg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a CK&xit ; s*%> week; by mail. >5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917 Qcid adulterates one thing only— the human heart. — MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. Y. M. C. A.'S GREAT WORK AMERICANS may be pardone4 for taking a justifiable pride in the fact that in the present world-crisis, the moral atmosphere surrounding the boys in camp was given first consideration. While cer tain leaders were grappling with financial, shipping and industrial problems, other leaders were plan ning a campaign for the conserva tion of American youth and ideals upon a scale that has never been equaled in the world. "Vastly more important that finan cial consideration, or shipping, or the making of guns and muni tions," says Dr. John R. Mott, execu tive secretary of the International Y. M. C. A., "is this consideration: > How can we best promote the con- | tentment, ideals and morality of the' multitudes who are going to "the other side' to represent us?" When it Is remembered that there 1 are approximately 38,000,000 men l under arms at this time, that millions are confined in prison camps, the proposition of promoting the "con tentment. ideal and moralty" of these men is indeed a matter of first im portance. The Y. M. C. A. is doing a trreat work among soldiers, and the world will be its debtor in future genera tions. WHY WE ARE AT WAR TIE most convincing array of evi dence that the Kaiser planned and deliberately precipitated the world war presented since the en trance of the United States into the conflict is set' forth in a recently published article from the pen of Henry Morganthau, former Amer ican Ambassador to Russia, who has had more opportunity to peep behind the scenes in Europe than possibly any other American, not excepting former Ambassador Gerard. It should be read by any person who doubts that the United States was forced into the war to protect Its own honor and its people from the Iron heel of the Prussian oppressor. The murder of the Austrian Crown Prince has been given by Germany as excuse for the war, but Mr. Morgan thau makes the new point that while this, assassination did not%take place until June 28, yet in May the Aus trian Emperor Franz-Josef had told his Ambassador to Turkey that war was inevitable. This Mr. Morgan thau has first hand from the Am bassador himself. In support of this Mr. Morganthau quotes a conversa tion he had with the German Am bassador to Turkey, who told him that a secret conference had been helUvQl{tcCUVUi, By the Ex-Committeeman What may seem like a purely local revolt, but which is likely 'o have state-wide consequences in tho end occurred in a Philadelphia Hepub. lican ward committee last ni?ht und Is the talk of the day where men conversant with Penasylvanl.. poli tics are to be found. Whether it is a pc-il of a general plan or will be adopitd by men whe think tie samo v. ay is tho big question. Th? re suits may have tremendous bearing upon this year's municipal election in Philadelphia and affect the elec tions in other counties where the N ares and their allies are endeavor ing to elect county officials, city of ficers and committeemen. This is tho Philadelphia In qmrer's version of the occurrence: "A bolt from the Thirty-seventh Wj.rd Republican Executive Com mittee to the newly-organized Town Meeting party last night is declared to bo but the beginning of a series of sensational defections from tho Smith-Varo controlled party organ- Isaition in favor of an independent ticket for the city, county and ward offices. Oscar E. Noll, for years tho Penrose leader of this ward, and Edward Haws, the member of Select Council from this bailiwick., headed a list of eighteen members —regu- larly elected members of tho Repub lican Executive Committee of the ward who appended their signatures to a letter addressed to the chair man c.f the ward committee, teader ing their resignations as members of that bodj\" —Almost the full voting strength of the local organized labor will be given to tho support of the Phila delphia Town Meeting candidates at thj" November election if the stand taken last night by one of their strongest leaders. Magistrate Wil liam J. Tracy, is followed, savs the Philadelphia Press. At the primar ies the labor vote almost enabled tho Magistrate to defeat one of the slated candidates having the sup port of the Vare Republican organ ization. —The platform of the Town Meeting Committee is being much discussed not only in Philadelphia, but in the state. State Senator Ed win H. Vare made the following statement yestri-day afternoon re garding tho Town Meeting party platform: "I have read the platform of tho Town Meeting party, "and, like all such documents, it was drawn with the intention of fooling the people without the slightest foundation in facts. Those who drew this plutform are neither in touch nor in sympathy with the plain people ot Philadelphia, whose sup port they have so clumsily invited by tluir poorly constructed docu ment. It was written for. the pur pose "of attracting votes for candi dates for office who have no author ity from tho public to ask for votes. Tho Uniform Primary law was placed upon our statute books by a Republican Legislature at the re quest of these same reformers who are now seeking to repudiate it —lt is not believed at the Capitol that Governor Brumbaugh will delay very long in appointing judges to fill the places of Judge Dallett, of the Philadelphia Orphans Court, and Judge Staples, of the Monroe-Pike District Courts, now that the Su preme Court has ruled that he has authority to appoint and that the places are not to be filled at the November election this year. Attor ney General Brown was in conference with the Governor on tho matter to day.- —Governor Brumbaugh is having' lists niacy? of all men mentioned for the varifeus vacancies in the state government and on all commissions and boards which are In existence. He will clear up the appointment of commissions provided by the legisla ture to-day or to-morrow. —Men connected with the state government and living in Harris burg are a- aiting the next moves in the effort * men active in adminis tration circles to get support for can didates it favors. Lists have been made up of attaches who are to be given "suggestions" as to what they should do between now and election day, but that is as far as it has gone. —The political barometer is fall ing in Pittsburgh and there are signs of a storm. Candidates Magee and Babcock appeared before the Min isterial Association together and made statements and answered ques tions. Incidentally Mr. Babcock said that he would clean up Pittsburgh and Mr. Magee promised to make the city one which could not be criticised. During the discussion Mr. Magee de clared he had never promised, to support Dr. J. P. Kerr for Mayor. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, which is supporting Mr. babcock, declares Mr. Babcock made an excellent im pression, especially when ho said that as a father he could appreciate what good moral conditions meant in a city. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch says that Mr. Magee has challenged Mr. Babcock to a joint debate on the is sues of the day in one or a series of campaign talks. —The Scranton Republican and the Scranton Times are having a lovely fight over the Mayoralty of that city. Tho Republican takes the Times to task for some statements about John Durkan, who is a Demo crat, and says that A. .F. Connell, who is a Republican, should and will be elected. —The experience of the State Poor Directors as brought out at their convention in Johnstown Is that there Is need of still further codifica tion statutes. There.are 700 laws relative to the poor board adminis tration. —George Wentworth Carr, Identi fied with the management of the Home Defense in Philadelphia, and claimed by the Vares as in sympathy with them, has resigned his place. A Philadelphia newspaper jirints the following: "Asserting that Mayor Smith continually litfa failed to at tend to matters pertaining to the or ganization of the Home Defense Re serve, George Wenworth Carr yes terday resigned as secretary of'the Home Defense Committee. Accord ing to Mr. Carr, although he tried repeatedly to see Mayor Smith in connection with the organization of the local force the Mayor studiously avoided meeting hin* in conference." —Col. Austin Beach, managing editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch and well known throughout the state. Is dead. - —Governor Brumbaugh picked D. Lloyd Hartman. theMifllintown cashier, of chief of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics himself. There were many men after the $5,000 place and the contentions of rival leaders, to say nothing of demand* # HAmIBBURG TFXEGRAPH from Philadelphia, were so great that the Governor selected a per sonal friend, who is said to have the poods. The choice seemed to meet with general favor among men who know Mr. Hartman, who. by the way, has never been active in politics. —ln addition to Millard Phillips, son of the Clearfield legislator, the i State Insurance Department has on its rolls James H. Howarth, brother | of a Pittsburgh legislator. —Pennsylvania is in the third zone of the national Democratic machine, according to an announcement. One would have thoHght with all the jobs corralled by Pennsylvantans and the promises to make It Democratic it would be at least in the second. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THANKS FIBEMKX To the Ea'itor of the Telegraph: October 15. 1917. We want to tljank the Fire Chief and his assistant, and all the firemen of Harrlsburg, for the very able way in which they handled our disas trous tire of Friday at our automo bile garage, Susquehanna and Ham ilton streets. It was through their very prompt response to the alarm, and their ef liclent work after they arrived at the scene of the lire, that prevented the bui'dlng from being completely de stroyed as well as the surrounding property. We want also to thank most kind ly our numerous friends who assist ed in getting the cars out from the first floor that belonged to our stor age customers, as well as those In for repairs. It is very unfortunate that our cus tomers should be subjected to the loss of their automobiles, as well as the loss which we sustained, from a lire that did not originate in our building, nor which we were not In any way responsible for; but such Is life. We are pleased to say that we are again established, ready for bxislness, in the Kelker street markethouse, corner of Fourth p.n'd Kelker streets, and are in shape to take care of our Keo owners. A number of carloads of new au tomobiles and trucks have reached IH since the fire. a#rd we are at the pi-esent time ready to deliver prac tically any model of Reo trucks and pleasure cars, and Duplex and Hurl burt trucks that the public may want. Harrlsburg Automobile Co. LABOR NOTES The steady rise in the price of ne ; cessltles of life In Japan is calling | forth protests from many quarters. especially from the ranks of the sal- I aried workers. In many cases prl | vatc employers have raised wages to ! meet the new conditions and the ; government is considering some measures of advancing salaries. The giving of bonuses already has begun. During the three years of war there has been an Increase in the number of women workers of 3 2.7 in England. If the war should last three years more, and the same pro portion of women In the United States would engage In Industries, we must expect to have at the end of that time an army of women em ployes aggregating 3,500,000, Before China joined in the war against Germany and Austria she had already supplied more than 100,- 000 laborers to France, England and Russia. Coolies for agricultural work and dock work have been going to Western Europe for nearly two years. Russia has also been draw ing from China's Inexhaustible sup ply of labor for Siberian mines and Siberian farms. There are in Mexico some 2,000 Japanese, of whom about 300 are women and children. Of 1,700 male adults the majority, or about 800, are mining laborers, 400 are farmers | and farm laborers, 200 are domestic servants and the remaining 300 in clude storekeepers, physicians, car penters, tailors, fishermen and mis cellaneous laborers. England's co-operative movement owns its own tea gardens in India and Ceylon, palm oil plantations In West Africa and wheat fields In Can ada. Farms, flour mills, soap fac tories and ships are owned by it, and it has also a banking business, which may rival even the Postoflice Savings Bank in the number of branches and exceed it in the volume of busi ness, for it is not limited as is the government institution. FRENCH MORALITY The English have always had a vague idea that France is an im moral country. To the eye of a mere visitor France is the most moral of the four great powers—France, Rus sia, England, Germany; has the strongest family life and the most seemly streets. Young men and maidens are never seen walking or lying about, half embraced, as in puritanical England. Fire is not played with—openly, at least. The slow fly amorousness of the British working classes evidently does not suit the quicker blood of France. There is just enough of the South in the French to keep demon stration of affection away from day light A certain school of French novelist, with high colored tales of Parisian life, is responsible for the reputation of his country. Whatever the Frenchman about town may be, hte seems by no means typical of the many millions of Frenchmen who are not about town. And if French women, as I have heard Frenchmen say, are >#gre, they are the beet mothers in the world, and their "lightness" is not vulgarly obtruded. They say that many domestic trag edies will be played at the conclusion of the war. If so, they will not be played in France alone; and com pared with th'e tragedies of fidelity played all these dreadful years, they will be as black rabbits to brown for numbers. For the truth on morality in France we must go back, I expect, to that general conclusion about the French character —the swift passage from head to heart and back again, which, prohibiting extremes of Puri tanism and of license, preserves a sort of balance. —John Galworthy in the Atlantic Monthly. DEMOCRACY, AUTOCRACY Mr. Hoover puts the situation plainly when he warns the people of the l'niteS UP TH E< TVERYBOOY \ BONOS- I \ | PUZZLE- WH™ 1 ' 0 Fieui,e ' „ !Br rr- a ==^ Our Enemies WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST Dully Article* During the Liberty I.onn Campaign By NEWELL DWIGIIT HILLIS No. 111. GERMAN efficiency was chiefly manifest in her plans of fright- I fulness and terrorism. Nine teen centuries of Christian morals. had developed conscience in Mart- > in Luther's decendants and in-] stilled certain moral principles in: the minds of young men. But the' conquest of Belgium, France, Eng-| land and Russia, was not possible j with soldiers who were embarrassed j by remorse or the Ten Command-) ments. Conquering Belgium and France meant the breaking-down of i the intellect and the will until tle j people were cowed. In his war manual given to every, German soldier. General von Hart- 1 mann, the author, distinctly says the soldier must stamp out all humani tarianism from his own heart and: that considerations of pity for hu man life or proper* - must be wholly; eradicated from the soldier's mind. [ The great problem, therefore, was how to release the soldier from any j fear of future punishment in connec- i tion with God and the Day of Judg-j ment. Finally the Kaiser and his warl staff thought of "the German token" i This is of aluminum, about the size of a silver dollar. At the top is a! portrait of the Kaiser's God—a mon-j strous being, holding a sword in his right hand. Beneath, the the words "Strike him dead. Tlihase of the question Is debatable, vhether the Senators find cause for listing their colleague or not, or •vhether they content themselves by ensuring htm for his indiscreet and •'octrinaire, if not seditious and trea onable. utterances -!,ff that have only one note to their whistle and that is "capitalism"—are ut a very small minority of the 100,000,000 who represent America ind for the most part to a man are ■lieerfully carrying on the war .igalnst autocracy.—Harvey M. Watts in Philadelphia Ledger.* sea;" by this token the- Kaiser an swers: "The Day of Judgment will ask you no questions." The token also explains the Kaiser's charge to his soldiers, starting to China: "You will take no prisoners. You will give no quarter." It is this that explains the devastated regions of Belgium, western and eastern France. In the face of all their treaties with France, Great Britain, and. the United States, the Germans took this soldier's token as their example and guide. From the moment they cross ed the Belgian and the French lines the German advance became an or gy of crime, arson and lust. Neither the ancient rfuns, nor the Spanish Inquisitors, nor the Sioux Indians with their sealpingKnives, ever were guilty of such atrocities! This is evidenced by the inquests held after the various German retreats by prop erly constituted legal commissions, taking testimony, photographing the bodies and preserving the affidavits. As one of the thousands, I men tion affidavits by twenty-live witness es establishing one atrocity—namely eight drunken German soldiers marched out of a village they had ruined carrying a naked baby skew ered on a bayonet with all the sol diers singing songs as they marched. The mere catalog of their crimes fills the heart with anguish. A young man crucified upon a door, —Captain Fallon and his Australian associates making the affidavits thereof. Girls violated and mutijated. Old men and women murdered in ways that only devils could conceive. This token explains the diary of a Ger man soldier taken from his dead body. "Burned Harte today. We killed all the inhabitants. We live gorgeously. Three bottles of cham pagne at each meal. Plenty of girls too. It is great sport." Our Ameri can \)oys are going out to war against a mad dog, let floose in the world's schoolroom. | MUSICAL LAKE IN JAPAN As Japan consists of rather small volcanic islands there are no large lakes within her borders, inland waters being small and of no groat depth. The lakes are, ho waver, lich in variety of scenery and those lo cated in the mountains hatf * a cer tain degree of mystery for the Jap anese because they appear lonely and fairylike. Lake Haruna is regarded as one of the most mysterious in the Fm pire. This body of water is on >n elevation about five miles from the famous hot springs of Ikao. In this lake a singular phenomenon ap pears when the water begins to freeze. Strange sounds can be heard at night proceeding from the surface of the water. The noise H not unlike the report of muskets or the beating of a drum, the re port* coming In a rhythm'c il ca dence. Of course the Japanese know that the sounds ara orodueed by ihe straining of the ice as >t swell* with the frost but in th* ca<>) the sound is so musical that U produces a singular impressioi t on all hearers. —Exchange. UCT0 1 8 , E"R , T7, T9T2. BEAUTY You bid me stay; I go Whither no man may know I am the rose's soul; The breast of the oriole. I am the rainbow's arc; The star on the bosom of dark. Sever me. I am still The wonder on the hill. Part me and I am yet The heart of the. violet. With the first flush of the morn I am each day deborn. —Clinton ScolJard in Contempor ary verse. fOUR DAILY LAUGH] IT"" 1 1 NO WONDER, if Henry, how \ old are you? Surely you haven't forgot ten how old V */ * your husband ,I_~ Well, I've been fibbing / Vvvfi about my age so / I long that I can't / V • rust myself, \/* ' —s. REVERSED. When we were Ifirst married I (a // gave my wife a MjU regular allow- And now? jJb Now, she WlVi takes all my I lij salary and lets , I 'l/jii me have the al \ l|| loWaaCa - , want to go to (j Ik France and I will be over by mother, they all W b say tlicy are go- & 3 (j lng to ftrht to _/S" AN INNOCENT SUPPOSITION. Mamma, Is papa's feet No. why dar- L I saw him go lng up stairs ' las' night with V h' s shoes In his ikff Jfc. \ hand after we \ had gone to Ebnttitg fflljat Shirley Watts, who has been keep-, lng aa eye on the "war gardens" about Harrlsburg the last six months, Is of the opinion that nine tenths of the persons having such gardens this year will work them "® xt , year and work them harder. He thinks that the times may even In crease the number. "We had almost thirty acres in charge and about 425 persons had gardens on them. I think at least 400 will garden again next year," said he. "There were some persons who lost as a result of their work. Some of them did not work hard enough; others were hit by bugs and worms and some lost because of thefts, but the latter In stances wore rare. The fact is that the 'war gardens' played an impor tant part in the food supply this fall and they should bo encouraged." Mr. Watt's comments apply to maiiy people who did some gardening this year on their own account. The bulk of gardens were not under the aus pices of the Chamber of Commerce, but were private matters and cov ered many more acres. They were farmed assiduously and the products were worth many thousands of dol lars. Many of them were sources of annoyance because not a few persons went into the gardening business without knowledge of *what was re quired and lost a part of the fruits of their labor because they did not cultivate enough, did not fertilize enough or did not light the bugs and worms. Eternal vigilance is the price of a successful "war garden." However, the number of persons who are to be seen covering up their tracts of land for the winter or tear ing up the cabbage stumps and clear ing away the corn Indicates that gar dening is going to be a serious busi ness next summer as well as a means of heathful exercise. An expert in farming has -written the following for the State Depart ment of Agriculture for advice for farmers In this section of the state as to late planting: "At this time it is entirely too late to sow either crimson clover or hairy vetch, but a cover crop of rye will still do very well. In much of the state a cover crop of rye can be sown during all of October and in some sections No vember seeding will givp good re sults. There are thousands of acres of truck gardens and corn stubble fields In Pennsylvania at present that with a little disking could be put in good shape for the souring of a cov er crop of rye. Seed the rye at the rate of two bushels per acre, turn it down next spring when it reaches a height of not more than two feet and you will be agreeably surprised at the benefits secured. The rye not only stores up much available fartility that would back away, but at the same time it increases the organic content and improves the physical condition of the soil." Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, of the State Department, to-day con tributed to thfe Liberty Loan slogans by a clipping from a letter sent from McMlnnville, Oregon. That place must be a live one because this is what the letter had stamped across It in red ink: "Liberty wheat liberally sow. Liberty peace from it will grow • • • Organization of the Volunteer Po lice under the Sproul act is to bo given considerable attention by peo ple in this section of the state now that the Cumberland county unit hus been appointed. The Cumberland unit was formed by Lewis S. Sadler, who picked most of the men himself g and personally outlined to almost ev ery one the work to be done in emer gencies. The Cumberland distribu tion is declared by men who have observed the arrangement to be al most ideal and to be well worth copying. The movement for forming the Volunteer Police in this county is in charge of Frank Payne. The idea is to have men in every ward of Harrisburg and in the boroughs as well lis in the townships ready to respond to emergency calls. Dr. Cherrick Westbrook has decid ed to go fishing. The Doctor is one of I-larrisburg's famous fishermen and knows where to find them and how to make them bite. However, he has Ween busy lately and has not had time to go after the salmon. The other day he heard about that Kiant fish pulled out by Shelley and then some one told him that there had been fishermen at work on his old grounds around Dauphin. It was enough. The Doctor is going fishing. • • * Some one was commenting yester day upon the way things went with men who got increases of salary in the State Department of Labor and Industry. There have been a num ber of instances wherein within the last few years heads of bureaus or men of high rank in the department were accorded larger pay or given more duties. . "There were Dr. Price. A 1 Houclc and Paddy Gilday," said the man dis cussing things. "They ail got in creases of pay." "Well, what of that?" "They died soon after." However, even such a fatality is not likely to decrease the number of applicants for places on the Hill. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —Superintendent of Printing Long has been writing a series of articles on the beauties of the South Moun tain for his newspaper. —E. J. •Cattell, the Philadelphia city statistician, is making three speeches a day for the Liberty Loan. —Attorney General Brown says that the toughest luck is to hear that ducks are abroad on the Elk river and then not be able to get at them. —Carl M. Spatz, son of the Boyer town editor, has just been appointed a lieutenant colonel in the aviation service. I IX) YOU KNOW "I —Thnt Harrisburg will linve 4 to hustle to beat some smaller cities In Liberty Loan subscrip tions? HISTORIC HAHRISIU'RG Beacons were placed on the moun tains of Rockville'Gap to warn folks at Harris' Ferry of approach of In dians 170 years ago. WM. DEAN HOWELLS Not squirrels in the park alon* His love and winter-kindness ovt-tu When literary fledgling* try Their wings, in first attempt to fly. They flutter down to Franklin Square, Where Howells ip. his "Easy Chair" Like good Saint Francis scatters crumbs Of hope, to each small bird that comes. And since bread, cast upon the main, Must to the giver .come again, I tender now, long overtime, This humble crumb of grateful rhyme. —From Oliver Herford's "Confess ■ions of a Caricaturist."