12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB ITOItfE Founded Jtjl Published evenings except Strnday by THE! TEUC4JUAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Biilldlngv Federnl Square. "B. J. STACK POLE, Prvsr't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. CUS M. STEINMETZ-, Mancgi*z 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- Ushers' Associa- Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Pehn l|jjjfsi || K .astern office, tin* Wl Story, Brooks A m-2 SSS *0 Flnley, Fifth Bulld^ingj IsJy Ga"' ' ' Rutl do with the results in the Keystone State next yean Senator Penrose makes it plain that his move la to purge the Re publican organization In Philadel phia, as was done in other years, and Senator Vare contends that men who vote the Town Meeting ticket ca not take part In the Republican pri mary in 118, However, there have been so many returns to the party In the last four or five years that the Vare position probably sounds better now than It will next April, , • on the Philadel phia ticket between the Town Meet ing party and the Democratic party, with the district attorneyship re garded as assured In the re-election of Samuel P. Rotan, was accomplish ed yesterday with the withdrawal of all of the nominees of the Demo cratic party excepting that for dis trict attorney, and the substitution of the names of the candidates of the Town Meeting party for the men who were named at the Democratic primorles, The fusion city nominees of the Town Meeting party and the Demo cratic party are as follows: City Treasurer WILLIAM R. NICHOLSON. Receiver of Taxes —THOMAS F. ARMSTRONG. Register of Wills WALTER GEORGE SMITH. Magistrates—E. K. BORIE, JOHN J. GRELIS, WILLIAM EISEN BROWN and JOSEPH S. BOYLE. Samuel P. Rotan carried out Ills pledge and declined to run on any other than the Republican ticket, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. He yesterday afternoon, a short time be fore what was then regarded as the last minute for withdrawal, sent af fidavits to the county commissioners' office, which automatically took his name from both the Town Meeting party and the Prohibition party col umns on the official ballot. In a three line statement, Mr. Rotan said he adhered to his original position. —Other developments of the day in addition to the Vare statement ■tfere a aeries of Town Meeting party speeches in which the Vares were bitterly attacked: refusal of Richard McSorley, Democratic candidate for district attorney, to withdraw: state ments by Mayor Smith that Senator Penrose can not boss Phiadelphta and that he was often offered chances to make money improperly, but declined, together with an as sault on Walter George Smith; threats of more arrests by Rotan and an alleged offer of a city job to a Town Meeting worker. —Senator McNichol will probably not be able to testify in the Phila delphia cases until late In Novem ber. His recovery is very slo%V and there is a disposition to let him alone. He has made no declaration in regard to the Town Meeting ticket. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says editorially that Senator Vare tried to reply with "bird shot" to the "explosion bomb" of Senator Penrose. The Ledger says: "Sena tor Vare's rejoinder to the Penrose pronunciamento is a confession in effect of every indictment that has been drawn against him and his faction. It is no valid defense to call your opponent 'another,' and that is all the Vare statement amounts to." The Press declares, "The Republican ticket with Senator Penrose asks the people of Philadelphia to oppose represents no Republican principle. The New York gunmen brought to its aid have made it represent gov ernment by violence and murder. All good Republicans should refuse to support it. An excellent ticket of high class men, all of them well known and highly esteemed citizens of Philadelphia, is presented for the approval of the people. Its success wil! place the administration of city affairs in the best possible hands and rebuke and condemn at the same time the attempted "government by murder." —The Pittsburgh Dispatch gives William A. Magee credit of having forced _u general town meeting in Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Ga zette-Times ilays the Magee parti sans' charges against Babcock. The Dispatch says: "A 'trade meeting,' at which not only the two candidates for mayor, but the nine of the can didates for council will speak from the same platform, will l>e held at the Sclienley High school, to-night under the auspices of the Allied Hoard of Trade. Councilman John 11. Dailey, in the hospital with pneu monia, cannot appear. It will be the first and possibly the only occa sion on which all the other candi dates will appear at the same place on the same evening. It will be the second time the two candidates for mayor have spoken from the same platform on the same night, the other occasion being the meeting of the Pittsburgh Board of Trade a week ago iMonday night." —Commenting upon the decision of Judge Kunkel in the "sole nom inee" case, the Philadelphia Bulletin says the nonpartisan judicial elec tion law is a "misfit." —Reading's councilmanic election is attracting national attention be cause of the effort to down the So cialists. —Speaker R. J. Baldwin, who was here yesterday, says Delaware coun ty is furnishing enough excitement for him in Its judgeship battle. —lt is regarded as very improb able that any test of constitutionality of the half pay for state attaches in war service will be made. Audi tor General Snyder and Attorney General Brown say they have no idea of doing It. —Reports that plain and definite orders are to go out to Harrisburg men in employ of various depart ments of the state government un der Governor Brumbaugh on the sub ject of the mayoralty were heard about the Capitol again to-day. —Auditor General Snyder said to day that "in due season" he would be ready to take his appeal in the ap pointments case. The Auditor Gen eral to-day reiterated that he thought It up to him to get the law on the subject. ONE THING CERTAIN At least It Is certain that the French aviators didn't Inconvenience any Germans at Baden-Baden who were taking the cure there for gout. —New York Evening Post. HARHISBURG liSffc TEEEGRXPH! WHAT GOLF DOES TO A MAN BY BRIGGS I [TTdwllY pum f . May pr-gres t // 3HURg \l i Ihemrv a I J^c Bg.-.vx m 1 irS' uh) r: - ~ ZH .—. I I henry ! vwhat s i baby , r iS\r- s - I see PA?A JM AH-H-M \ LaSTHE Trouble?/ ; y-">,-.- A LESSON IN LOYALTY To some persons it may be surpris ing: that there are men in Milwaukee who do not realize that this country is the United States, not Germany; who do not understand that, the United States • being at war with Germany, Milwaukee stands and must stand with the United States, and who do not comprehend the sim ple, obvious facts that they cannot and not oppose the United States by endeavoring to advance by word or act the cause and interests .of Germany. However, the action of the postal authorities in barring from the mails a Socialist newspaper published in Milwaukee did not surprise intelli gent men who know what war means, who know what a nation's duties and powers are when it is waging war. American Socialists, who have shown a true sense of loy alty to their country, have with drawn from the Socialist party and have, repudiated its organ, because party and paper have shown them selves to be pro-German, even as against Socialism itself. Many who have read what the paper has said against the nation's cause and the prosecution of the war are some what at a loss as to why the Govern ment did not proceed against it sooner. The explanation, of course, is that the Government has a million or more urgent things on its hands and cannot do all at once. When it takes action, however, it takes ade quate action. The, Government talks little, but it works' overtime and it Is keenly on the trail. Men known to be disloyal are under constant scrutiny. Much is known about them and more is he re learned. Exposure of them only a matter of time. —From the Milwaukee Journal. SAVE THE CORN CROP There is more waste in the corn crop through careless harvesting than in any other crop grown in the east. A drive through almost any farming community in the late fall or early winter will show shocked corn or shocked fodder standing in the fields. Wheat and oats are carefully housed or stacked for early thresh ing. because injury to both grain and straw is rapid and complete. Fruits and vegetables are carefully stored for the same reasons. Corn will stand well into the winter without complete loss of the fodder and with comparatively little external evidence of injury to the grain. But both corn and fodder must suffer when long exposed in the field. Both suf fer in feeding quality and any undue exposure means loss to the grower. Labor Is scarce on the farms this fall, and there will be many cold fin gers before the corn crop Is husked and stored. But a corn crop was never more precious than this fall. It never paid better in the markets of the country than it promises to pay through the coming winter, and It was never so much needed in the diet of the world as it will be through the coming year. It will cost an ef fort to get It safely under cover, but it will be an effort worth while where labor can be secured at any thing like a reasonable price.—Penn sylvania Farmer. VALUE OF EDUCATION The American Boy, a periodical whose title indicates its purpose, makes an effort to warn the youth who is in a hurry to leave school and go to work. It Is pointed out that the untrained boy will make $8 a week his first year, $lO the second year, sl2 the third, sls the fourth and fifth, $lB the sixth, seventh and eighth years, S2O from the eighth to the thirteenth year and thereafter $25 a week will be the maximum. The total earn ings for 23 years are figured at $24,- 388. For the trained boy who finishes his high school course these figures are given: Three years the boy draws nothing, as he Is finishing his school work. But he starts at sls a week, where the untralhed lad got but SB. Ten years later he Is drawing SIOO a week, having stepped up on the salary list from sls to $lB, from $22 to $25, from S3O to $35, from S4O to SSO and from $75 to SIOQ. From his fourteenth to his twenty-third working years he Is rated at $l5O a week. His total earnings In the 23 years amount to $99,320, a difference In favor of the trained over the untrained of $74,- 932.—Loulsvllle Courier-Journal. GLAD TO HAVE 'EM Congress has passed a bill the President will doubtless sign tB re patriate Americans now serving in the Allied armies upon their appli cation after the war. They are the sort of citizens Uncle Sam will be glad to get back.—From the Boston Traveler. THE PEOPLE'S * MINISTERS IX POLITICS. To te I. Jit 01 of the Telegraph: "The Prince of this world" is wise and cunning and always ready to adapt himself to the conditions he finds surrounding him. When our forefathers came across the seas to secure for themselves the right to worship God according to the dic tates of their own consciences as enlightened by the open Bible, and when in the course of the erection of a new government for a people of diverse practices in the evangelical religious world they found it neces sary to give voice to the fundamental principle of separation of the church (ecclesiastical forms of government) trom the state, he was not slow to put forth his efforts to make the people believe that in our country religion and politics must be abso lutely divorced. Senator Ingalls at his suggestion openly declared that "the moral law and the decalogue have no place in politics," but this was a case of overreaching himself. Some have gone so far as to say that the individual voter has no right to take a man's religious convictions into consideration in determining whether that man shall receive his vote, and that to do so was to do an unconstitutional thing. More than once in the history of our nation has this prince of evil been given backset in his endeavors to establish this false basis of action, which fails to distinguish between "the church" as a human organization and religion as a Divine regulation for men in everything. During the Civil War the "preach ing of politics," which was almost synonymous with denunciation of the iniquity of human slavery, was a burning; problem in many congrega tions. At the time it was the great est of "moral" questions before tho people and at the same time the greatest political problem. To-day it is the liquor traffic that assumes this role. Can any man tell me how any professed follower of the Lord Jesus Christ can be indifferent or neutral on this problem? Or be guiltless if he use not his whole In fluence and power for its over throw? And if so with every Chris tian man, lidw much more must it be so of the man who is called to be the direct leader of men by liis Master! It would seem that the minister is especially called to enter every field where he can wield in fluence against the foe. But what is "politics?" The word comes from the Greek word for "citizen." Politics, then, is that which has to do with the welfare of the citizen, or at least that is what ought to be the aim of every politi cian. Unfortunately, the average "politician" is so much taken up with seeking ways and means to line his own pocket with sold or his pathway with power, and scruples so little, if at all, over the means to be employed to attain his aim, that the term "politician" has come to have a sort of stench about it, and the aver age man has come to look upon poli tics as "a necessary evil;" and, un fortunately, the people who ought to be taking prime interest in politics are usually too busy with their own little Sordid enterprises to spend time on these more important things. "Politician" ought to be one of the most honorable terms to be applied to a man, a Wrm on a par with "statesmen," but it will never bo come so by keeping the men who are supposed to be leaders in the uplift of the citizenship of the na tion out of that which primarily deals with the welfare of its citizens. If politics are of the right kind, what harm can come to the preach er more than to any other man from taking part in them? If they are not of the right stamp, why should not the man whose business is to lift up humanity not take a hand in making them right? Of course-this J has reference to questions that are moral as well as political. Questions that do not have a moral side he may well let be, but how can he let be any Question that Involves morality and be guiltless? Some one may answer, as has often been done, "But moral questions have no place in politics." Such a statement shows lack of penetration. Recurring to our definition of politics ns that which has to do with the welfare of the citizen, we readily see that moral questions have to do with this, and that In so far as they are of greater Importance to tho welfare of the citizen than any other, they are of first, place. Indeed all parties ought to be on the same side of all moral questions; and It Is Just because they are not that the obligation lies upon the minister to give forth no uncer tain Bound when their settlement Is brought Into the political arena. It Is by those who are chosen at the ballot box that all laws relating to moral as well as every ottyer problem are both made and executed. It is a sad commentary upon the Christian ministry that during the period of our national life those who ought to have led have so often fol lowed instead, when such Questions were to the fore. If it were a mat ter of taking part in the kind of poli tics the average politician practices, the man who objects to the minis ter's taking part in politics might have valid ground for his objection; but the very fact that his taking part in such politics would put a stigma upon his office only emphasizes the importance of his putting forth his best efforts in advancing the kind of politics that will be in harmony with his still greater work of fitting' men for eternity. To do less would j seem to be disloyalty to the King of] Kings, who has taught to pray "Thv | kingdom come. Thy will be done on; earth as it is in Heaven." In the fight for the destruction of the liquor traffic, the servant of Jesus Christ should keep everlastingly at it, and may more of the leaders of men come to see the necessity of living up to the highest obligation of the patriotic citizen of both this world and the next. B. E. P. PRUGH. HAD MA XT FRIENDS HERE To l' - H I>tor of the Telcgruph: Dear Sir: News that will sadden many hearts comes from Greene, New York, telling of the death there last Tuesday of Mrs. Anne Willard Connely, mother of Mrs. John Oen slager of this city, of Mrs. Howard B. Rathbone of New York, and of Wil lard Connely of the United States Navy, now stationed at Minneapolis. For many year 3 Mrs. Connely spent her winters with her daughter in this city, and a wide circle of friends will feel genuine sorrow at the news of her passing. A lovely, gracious, magnetic personality, she possessed a force of character, a rlear judgment, and a fine intellect that elicited ad miration and affection. The world is poorer to-day because of her ab sonee from us. M. C. J. Harrisburg, Oct. 23, 1317. HUNKA TIN The late Charles Battell Loomis was the author of a side-splitting parody upon Tennyson's "Lady j Clare." George Moore, the haughty novelist, after hearing Loomis recite : it, wiped the tears of mirth from his I eyes and remarked: "After all. Ten nyson did not live in vain. I've al ways sneered at his work, but it's something to have provoked this parody." Kipling's "Gunga Din" rises a notch or two with us because of this, from the American Field Service Bulletin, published in Paris: You may talk about your voltures When you're sitting round the quar ters, But when It comes to getting blesses In, Take a little tip from me, Let those heavy motors be. Pin your faith to Henry F.'s old Hunka Tin. Give her essence and l'eau. Crank her up and let her go, You baek-firin', spark-plug-foulln' Hunka Tin. The paint is not so good. And no doubt you'll find the hood Will rattle like a boiler shop en route; The cooler's sure to boll, And perhaps she leak the oil. Then oftentimes the horn declines to toot. But when the night is black, And there's blesses to take back, And they hardly give you time to take a smoke. It's mighty good to feel. When you're sitting at the wheel, She'll be running when the bigger cars are broke. After all the wars are past, And we're taken home at last. To our reward of which the preacher sings, When these ukulele sharps Will bo strumming golden harps, And the aviators all have reg'lar wings, When the Kaiser la in hell. With the furnace drawing well. Paying for his million different kinds of sin, If they're running short of coal. Show me how to reach the hole, And I'll cast a few loads down with Hunka Tin. Yes, Tin, Tin, Tin, You exasperating puzzle, Hunka Tin, I've abused you and I've flayed you, But, by Henry Ford who made you, You are better than a Packard, Hun ka Tin. OCTOBER 23, 1917; LABOR NOTES •Since the Washington State Indus trial Commission started its compen sation benefits a total of $8,297,888 lias been collected in premiums and $5,401,111 has been paid out in claims while $-,636,929 is held in reserve. Scarcity of homes in many indus trial localities can only be remedied ty Government action, was the dec laration of a conference called by President Gompers to discuss the question of housing workers. Following favorable action by the recent Dallas convention of the Na tional Association of Letter Carriers, tho Americafi Federation of Labor has issued a charter to this organiza tion, which is now enrolled !n the trade union family. Montana State Industrial Accident Board reports that during the last two years there were 443 fatal acci dents in Montana, 13 were totally disabled and 273 partially disabled. The grand total fcf all sorts of acci dents on this industrial battletield is 15,127. Fourteen thousand telegraphers, telephone operators, station agents and signalmen employed by the Erie and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Companies will re ceive an IS per cent, increase In wages. Plans to unionize all city employes are being arranged by Boston union ists. A mass meet ng will be held on Sunday, November 4, in the larg est hall that can be secured to devise ways and means to interest all mu nicipal workers. OUR DAILY LAUGH! I (TTfk LOOK'j IvfiJl I |tu GAME OF LIFE. Pleasure bals in manner tame, Kuns a base or two and quits. Trouble most wins tho game; Trouble plays io bunch its hltn. VviWAX 1 Mown •wiTMOj.n \\MMfaUWCNT V A LUCKY MAN. §Wifey —I can't find words to express my con tempt for you. Hubby—Good! Now perhaps I shall h a v • AS TO BORES. He—Do you f believe in the HKjßy nurvival of the When several HjELgjrT W,' men call on the MbH\ 77 same evening, if /jjp th e greatest J W bore is .always j ft v / j the last to go 1 f 1 \ ' f | OlMl. OLD SLOGAN BOBS UP. •'I don't see what he aaw In her to marry," "Don't yon understand? She kept bltn out ot war,** Bxntbig QUfttt People who have been coming lnttf J"® fc'ty on automobile trips and rolks who have been out on the main highways that radiate from Harris burg; like spokes from a wheel de clare that seldom have they known the mountains and hills in the Ju niata, and Cumberland val leys to be so beautiful and those who have gone down the Susquehanna on the western bank and observed the York hilla are enthusiastic in their delight at the coloring. One has only to go to Reservoir Park or climb old Fort Washington or take ?■ ? al to a P o ' n t above th<* city limits in Riverside or out arouncP Progress to get views of the Blue Ridge that will long l>e remembered. } ! rst Mountain is covered with a patchwork of autumnal tints, rus set, brown, yellow, red, light green and green. The real yellow of late October is commencing to predomi "ate - but there are still enough of' the other colors left in the foliage tjy make that marvelous color scheme' which seems to be accentuated by the haze of Indian summer in the Blue Ridge country. Some of the hardy trees are just commencing to turn and thero are places where red and yellow have commenced to run up the branches like flames, while the evergreens stand out as in pro test. at the activities of Jack Frost. This is the time of the year to make trips up through Wildwood park or' if you have the time to take tho ride out Linglestown road to see First Mountain or to go along the road that, skirts the mountain from near Knola. Fishing Creek, Stony Creek and Clark's Creek valleys are in all their glory now and the valley of Sherman's creek, up in Ferry Coun ty, is well worth rambling. It may be said that the value of making Wildwood park a natural park, where the wildwood would re main wild, is commencing to be ap preciated now even by those mate rialists who wanted to turn the park into tracks or bone factory sites.- Wildwood is declared to contain most of the trees indigenous to' Pennsylvania with a few exceptions which were singled out by boys or tramps for burning down before the city authorities got the tract. There' are some oaks, in that reservation which Warren 11. Manning says were there when Columbus started to interview King Ferdinand. A couplo of hemlocks and cypress trees used to be in the park years ago, but were ruined. The fruit trees survive in a few places and may amount to some thing again as in Monroe County they have cut back thirty-year-old apple trees and have them bearing agaiti. However, a municipal or chard would require a special police force just as watchful eyes have to be kept on the chestnut and walnut trees in public domains. When ft comes down to pretty stretches of way to walk or to drive the city's two parkways offer tho place for a delightful hour or two, if one cjyes to take the whole ram ble. Starting in at Lochiel, which seems to be regaining its old indus trial prominence and which borders a pretty residential suburb, the Cam eron parkway is bright with the fall hues of the trees anil shrubbery of the Spring Creek valley. Mid-after noon is the time for this walk for then the air is warm and tho foliage has the autumn odors and rabbits and squirrels are to be seen back in the trees. The new roadway winds around Paxtang park after passing the almshouse and municipal hospi tal and crossing the histv...ic Cham bers hill road and then dips down be side the big spring at Paxtang park where the first Rutherford settli •{ almost 175 years ago, going througn the subway to the William Penn highway to Reading and New York, some times called the Derry Street! pike. If one can survive the bountj ing of a badly maintained borough street in Paxtang the Paxtang parkJ way is reached and It twists beside the old Rutherford Ice dam up through the hollow by the Dull and Hale farms to. Paxtang. Most of the time you are beside the beginnings of Spring creek and trees on the sides af the ravine almost meet over head. Quail call to you from the brush, rabbits duck into the tali grass and squirrels chatter annoy ance at the disturbance of the glade. Fortunately, the city has extended its rules to this parkway and hunt ing is forbidden within the stretch as is the spoiling of trees or shrub bery. A few hundred yards beyond the ravine you are out where Harris burg is going to be before long and shooting up an easy grade you are in Reservoir park overlooking Pen brook and with the Rockville gap before you. B. F. Umberger, well-known attor-j ney, and former councilman and former member of the City Planning Commission, is also founder of the Order of the Pig Potato. As a con servationist Mr. Umberger differs with Mr. Hoover and Mr. Umberger! lias all the better of the argument.] Whereas Hoover believes in eating less, Mr. Umberger believes in rais ing more, and thereby putting one self in the satisfying and satisfactory position of being able to eat more. Last year he went to live in his, new country home near Duncannon' and as a starter he proceeded to astound the natives by raising a potato crop nuch us Perry county never had known before. "How does he do it?" asked one of the aforesaid native.-!. And others replied: "Oh, just lucl;." Therefore it became the bounden duty of the former Harrisburger to demonstrate again this year, lie has done so. His potato crop yielded 220 bushels to the acre—oh, honest it did —and as for size, well, the judges at the Perry county fair gave the Um berger potatoes the blue ribbon and their owner a handsome bonus in cash. Therefore the Order of th Big Potato* Yes, anybody can join Ten dollars Initiation and no dues, Place, the Umberger farm any after noon; time, any afternoon aftei 4.30. if you happen to have twe hours spare time to talk potatoes Now don't push, take your turn. on at a time please, don't crowd th< ticket office man. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"* —Judge H. <\ Qutgley. of Centei County, who fs a former Guard offi cer, is helping along the recruiting movement tn his county. Judge James C, Work, of Fay •** Orphans Court, who is a can didate for re-election. Is one of th authorities in the state on sue] court affairs. —Judge F. B, Moser. of Northum berland courts, likes to hunt, bu does not get much time, —Judge Charles E. Berger, o Schuylkill, was for years one of th most ardent workers to clean u' ballot frauds in that county ani helped materially to bring about bet ter conditions. f DO YOU KNOW That the number of visitor* attracted to Harrisburg h v State Capitol is steadily increas ing every month? HISTORIC HARRISBITRO The first landscape work wm AC% t* In Capitol Park in 1827.