12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. ~E. J. ST ACKPOLB, Pres"l & Editor-inChirf F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager. GUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of ail 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 Ushers' Assocla l&tion and Penn- Eastern office. Avenue Building, Entered kit the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. . nfTTtr By carriers, ten cents a 4T|ulpg?MygSair> week; by mail, J5.00 a year in advance, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918 Our deeds determine us as well ns vce determine our deeds. — GEORGE ELIOT. THE COMING CAMPAIGN GOVERNOR Brumbaugh's pub lic statement on the guberna torial succession is the first gun in the big campaign which is about to open. He indicates clearly that there has been misrepresenta tion of his administration acts and policies in certain quarters and that under no circumstances will he sup port candidates brought forward by certain political interests. This doesn't presage party harmony in the primaries, at least, but may mean a red-hot scramble of diverse elements in the Republican party for control. Whatever it may mean, however, it should be understood by all fac tional leaders that the Republican voters expect harmony of action after the primaries shall have de clared the party nominees. There Is no objection to any man or group of men supporting candidates of their own choice in the primary contest, but under no circumstances should the heated controversies of the usual primary extend into the main campaign. Republicans have a right to ex pect and will demand co-operation of all the elements of the party after the nominations shall have been made next May. Of course, there will be personal rivalries, and dif ferences of opinion will arise on ev ery hand, but when the standard of the party shall have been placed in the hands of the successful guber natorial candidate it will be the duty of all factions to rally to the party colors and give earnest sup port to the men who have been fair ly chosen as the Republican nomi nees. It is not fair to involve the party in an unnecessary and hopeless factional quarrel beyond the date of the primary. To-day the Demo cratic party is in power at Wash ington through Republican division and it is the hope of the Democratic bosses in Pennsylvania, through the aid of this same national adminis tration, to also take control of the government in this State. But their only hope of achieving this result is through a division of the Republi can hosts and woe to the leader or leaders of that faith who may be responsible for a defeat of the Re publican party this year in the Key stone State. There are signs of sanity here and the symposium of editorial opin ion from Republican publishers throughout the State, as presented in the columns of the Telegraph re cently, Indicated the general desire of the Republican forces to get to gether and fight the common foe Instead of fighting each other. Within the last twenty-four hours the Republicans in Congress have Indicated a purpose to reorganize in eome effective way so as to main tain a strong alignment against the encroachment of the party in pow er. There is an insistent demand for a restatement of party princi ples. Straight talk is necessary from now on and nowhere is the mainte nance of the principles which have made the Republican party great so ' Absolutely necessary as in Pennsyl vania. With the prospect of eggs going to $1.25 a dozen operating an Incubator the coming spring may prove a less costly form of sport for million aires than running their steam yachts. Those Southern planters appear to tie finding cotton to be a very soft thing. CHILD'S PLAY WE wonder whether the gentle men of 'City Council realize how m6st of their fellow citi zens regard their backing and filling ovef - the choice of a City Treasurer. Surely the business of Harrisburg is quite as important as the per sonal ambitions or political interests of Individuals or parties. Several names have been canvassed for this Important municipal position, but there has been no agreement upon any one of the aspirants. Isn't It • • ,'. . " * * ''' * . , >*•' • •• ;• . v"v ,; FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG I TELEGRAPH JANUARY 11, 1918. about time to qujt the • playing of checkers and giving the matter the serious consideration It deserves? Perhaps when the next Legisla ture, as it should have done long ago, places the City Treasurer on a salary basis instead of under a fee arrangement, there will not be AT HA6TIUY PULLi WOMD6RS \ali KPetf'tte ° ro2SV? THERE could Comty /x" £V c u .T„ ei J. J) WweM f// , m^Mia HLL.— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ADDED WEIGHT To the Editor of the Telegraph: Has any retailer the legal right or authority to charge consumers of food products the added weight of the retainers at the same price as the commodity itself? It is said that a store has a notice posted, stat ing that the actual gross weight would be the base for the charge when goods were placed in wooden containers. The habit of including the weight of wrapping paper, whether heavy or light, in moderate or excessive quantity, has already prevailed too long. This special source of profits should not be toler ated In this era of inflated values. CONSUMER. Jan. 8, 1918. LABOR NOTES The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad now pays women who sort scrap Iron 22 cents an hour. In the famous town of Coventry, England, the 140,000 Inhabitants now include 40,000 girl and women workers. The working classes in the cities of Russia are earning enormous wages, ranging from 600 to 1,000 per cent, over their earnings in nor mal times. In Germany, in certain industries the proportion of total work done by women has risen from slightly un der 18 per cent. In 1914 to practi cally 60 per cent, in 1917. In England the number of textile workers. shows a marked decrease. DIVIDENDS NOT INCOME The Supreme Court adopts the homely analogy of Mr. Hughes in his argument against the taxation of a stock dividend as income. Mr. Hughes said that the recapitalization process was like changing a $2 bill for two $1 bills. The property rep resented was not changed by the words on the bills. Justice Holmes' way of stating the same thing is this: "A stock dividend really takes nothing from the property of the corporation and adds nothing to the interest of the shareholders. Its property is not diminished and their interests are not increased. In short, the corporation is no poorer and the stockholder is no richer than they were before." That is Important regarding the tax payment, but Is more important In other relations. Some $100,000,- 000 of capital Is freed from the tax, but that concerns nobody with in come below $20,000, the minimum paying the tax. The broader appli cation of the decision lies in its bear ing upon prlcemaking. It ought to end the notion held by many people and some officials that printing shares of stock gives power of ex tortion to corporations.—New York Times. TIIE SERVICE FLAG Border of red for a courage high— Courage that's stanch and true. With a field of white for purity, Where the name-stars glimmer blue— Blue for the man who lives and serves, Where echo the fierce war cries, But gold for the one who gives his life And dies as a hero die's. In windows of shops whence the men went out. The signal is flung to fate. In windows of homes whence the sons went forth. And the mothers who gave them wait— Sired of the nation's Stars and Stripes, It tells how a man may flght And give his blood and his life, per chance. For the things that are true and right. Border of red for a courage high— Courage that's sta,nch and true, With a field of white for purify— Where the name-stars glimmer blue God grant that our men come home again Out of war's furious hold: God grant that the blue stars on the _ flag Change not to the stars of gold! —By Sara Buaumont Kennedy. What Is a Pro-German? By Herbert Quick, United States Farm Loan Commissioner. A 1 PRO-GERMAN is a man who, by private or public utterances, stands in the way of a whole hearted prosecution of this war and the defeat of the German will to con quer. He may do it by impracticable peace arguments. He may do it through a mistaken policy. ' He may do it because he has been befooled and bamboozled by those who are in Germany's pay. The German 'Will to expansion by conquest must be broken by defeat. If that rapacious will be not broken, the war will not give us peace. In all the history of the world there never existed a conquering nation less fit to rule others than are the Germans. This is true because the Ger man policy is so brutal, so cruel, so scientifically exterminating. In the streets of every town in German Po land children are falling and dying of starvation. Children S to 12 years of age are being carried through the streets by their parents because they are too weak to walk—because of starvation. The Poles are being ex terminated as fast as possible by the Germans just as the Armenians—the oldest Christian nation in the world —are being exterminated by the Ger mans and Turks. Why? Because Germany wants' the property of the Poles for Germans after the war; and because they want the property of the Armenians for the Turks and Germans after the war. Their will can and must be broken by defeat. It is not the will of the individual German. It is the bloody, brutal, cruel, devilish will of the Ger man government and the German rul ing clasS, miseducated in the school which believes that war is the sum mation of human good. A pro-German is anyone who stands in the way of our successful prosecution of the war. Every word that falls from the tongue of any American or is written by him car ried with it a responsibility greater than ever existed in the hißtory of this nation. Look well to what you say or do. .% Germany has in this country hun dreds of papers printed in the Ger man tongue. Whether this ought to be or not is a grave question. If any of these papers are loyal, I do not know of them. Some of them may be, but I have not heard of them. These and other papers and many individuals say they are for Amer ica, but none of them say they are against Germany. ENGLAND ON RATIONS (Kansas City Times) Some persons think they are aslcod to be really self-sacrificing when they are called on to observe one wheatless day a week, one meatless day, one porkless day, and to save | fats and sugar. And yet they have plenty to eat. The observance ofj the suggestions of the Food Ad-1 ministration is merely a matter of bookkeeping, of buying this thing instead of that. Oatmeal bread and corn bread are Just as good as wheat bread, and as nourishing. Fish offers a substitute for meat, and so does skim milk, for that matter. Molasses and honey can be substituted for sugar, and if a person is famishing for candy she can fall back on molasses taffy. But now England is going on ra tions—not a simple little game of substitution like ours, but real ra tions. So much of this, so much of that, can be bad per person, and no more America is in the same boat with England. But America hasn't yet begun to feel the pinch. Under the circumstances the Am erican who refuses to live up to the requests of the Food Administration is a slacker and a cad. According to Thy Way 0 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will re compense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are In the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth. —Ezekiel, vtl, 9. He who is for us is against Ger many. He who is not against Ger many, tooth and nail, in this war is not for America. You can tell the pro-German by another test; If he is against France, or against Italy, or against Russia, he Is pro-German. The armies and navies of these powers are fighting our fight. They are dying by thousands every day to make the world safe for democracy. If we win, we must win because they do most of the fighting and dying, while we only do some of it. The enemy of Great Britain is pro- German. The enemy of Russia is pro-German and antidemocratic. The enemy of Italy is against America. The enemy of France is lost to every claim of patriotism. Do not let these pro-Germans poi son the atmosphere in your locality by slandering our allies without chal lenge. It is time to call down the man who fights against our armies with tongue or pen, no matter what those armies are fighting under. Words are things. In such a crisis they are dreadful things, portentous things, things which cannot be al lowed to pass as of no account. Germany is penetrating every coun try of the world with her hired spies and traitors. She disorganized the Russian Army through traitors after the revolution. She know the plan of Russian battle beforehand through traitors. She has filled this country with spies and traitors. She has financed the I. W. W., without a doubt. She has destroyed property and debauched our citizens. Is there any American who does not long for peace? Not one! Neither is there a Briton or Frenchman or Italian or Russian. But it must not be a German peace, leaving the great spider in the center of hip web wait ing for another chance. It must be a real peace. It must be made with the German people or with a ruined Hohenzollern—one or the other. Hut he who talks peace as if he only longs for it, as if he only were com missioned to make peace, must want a different sort of peace from the scrt we must have. Distrust him. He may be sincere, but he may not be. The world has In the past been con quered by traitors—oftener than It Mexican people fought each other into slavery to Spain. Let us not was ever conquered by arms. The b e bought by German gold Into slav ery to Germany. NONE GENUINE, UNLESS— "The report that the next Issue of Liberty Bonds will bo $8,000,000,000 at four and one-half per cent, and on March 16, 1918, is wholly un founded," says Secretary McAdoo. "When a decision has been reached about the next Liberty loan it will be officially announced." The Government is embarrassed by the dissemination of unauthoriz ed information in reference to the next issue of popular war bonds. It asks the public not to accept any statement in relation to such an is sue as authentic unless it is made officially. It will be readily perceived that the dates and amounts of future Liberty Bond issues have an impor tant influence on other financing, private and public. The Govern ment has sought in the past, and will continue to seek, to make its appeals for war funds at such times as least to interfere with other le gitimate .financial and business ac tivities. It is, therefore, important from the standpoint both of the Government and of other private and public enterprises not to have false reports circulated relative to future Liberty loans. Cleveland Plain Dealer. He'd Better Say It (From the Ohio State Journal) Tlie latest kind of war soup with which we have had anything to do personally is made x>f one potato, one onion, one pinch of salt and a vaat volume of water, but under such circumstances a man who tries to be pleasant and cheerful around the house can always say: Well, this is rood and hot t i, Otfer the, ""peiviuu v_ > A prize porker from the George J. Leyner ranch in Perry Park brought more than a dollar for each of its 133 pounds when auctioned off for the Red Cross during the recent Christmas membership drive in Lit tleton. Littleton was alloted S4OO to raise by its drive. The village raised S6OO, the surplus being largely brought in by the patriotic pig. * • Kutztown.—A significant feature of the coal shortage in this borough is the step taken by local dealers in refusing coal to farmers. Even those asking for but 300 to 400 pounds of fuel are turned away. The position taken by the dealers is that there is plenty of wood avail able in the rural districts; therefore they must supply coal to the town folks who cannot get wood. OUR DAILY LAUGH UNDERSEA HUMOR. "Our new baby weighs two pounds." "How did you weigh him?" "On my scales!" ■ 5 *— J *>''* HORRORS. Bug—Run for your life. It's one of hose insect-eating hedgehogs. REVERSAL OF MENU. Hungry Man —What's on the nenu. Walter —Well, ft few articles of food are mentioned. But most of the space is taken up with govern ment Instructions on what not to tat. 1 ~ PATRIOTIC. "Is your wife conserving food?" "I should say. so. You could feed a regiment on the food she isn't let ting me have." lEbntituj (ttljat Some of the big truck trains that are moving: across Pennsylvania from the motor vehicle manufactur ing centers to the seaboard can be routed so that they will pass through Harrlsburg. There are scores of trucks now on thu move through Pennsylvania, part of a formidable army of transportation men who are to form cogs In the great military machine to down the Kaiser. They enter this State above Pittsburgh and proceed over the Lincoln highway to Chambersburg where they are diverted to the vari ous points on the seaboard where they are wanted. Some find their way to cantonments and Some to supply centers. Word came to this city a few days ago that another big squadron of trucks was about to start. It is said that on one day twelve trains of thirty trucks eacil started for the seaboard, all pass ing through Pennsylvania. These trains are manned by sixty men each and are loaded with militarv stores, including parts of trucks themselves. They serve a triple purpose in their trip. They relievo congestion by hauling some freight, give chance to get into running order or be broken in, as tho phrase goes, and they give the men in charge practice in moving in com panies. What is more they are a visible part of what this nation is doing to build a great war machine and the very appearance of the great dun-colored wagons is some thing to thrill the man or woman who sees them go by. And that is why some people thinK that truck trains should be routed through Marrisburg. Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, whose work to keep the roads open for this truck traffic, has been officially com mended from Washington, said yes terday "There is no reason why some of these truck trains could not be routed through Harrlsburg. If your Chamber of Commerce gets busy I think that you can see somo of these trains passing through your city on the way to the coast. I can tell you it is a great sight, these long trains of trucks, going day and night, all forming part of the supply system of a great army." * • Who killed the wild cat in Dau phin county? The records of the State Game Commission show that one wild cat was killed in this coun ty last year, but the name of the man who has the honor is not given out. And it is interesting to note that sixty-one gray foxes and twelve of the red variety were killed in this county. Big Chief of the Pelts Cleary, of the Game Commission, says that there are numerous gray foxes all through this country. They are chiefly in the sections close to the farming country and are a nuis ance to the farmers. But few peo ple would imagine that sixty-one would be killed in this county. The Harrisburg Reserves, who will resume drills after the holidays and the coal shortage, will under take training in guard duty. The drills will be held by the two com panies drilling Tuesdays and Fri day nights at the same time instead of an hour apart. This will be done so that they can get the advantage of training by platoons of a slzo more nearly approximating those in the regular service. . * * • Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, Secretary of the State Game Commission, will be the speaker at the January meeting of the Harrisburg Natural History Society meeting at Technical High School to-night. Dr. Kalbfus will talk on "American frontier days be tween 1869 and 1875. "It is not generally known that the state game protector was a frontier man and hui>ted all through the Colorado section and beyond in those lively days. And it may be added that he was known as "Antelope Joe." The lecture should be one worth hear ing. • • Captain William A. Moore, sur veyor of the State Department of Internal Affairs, detailed by Secre tary Horck to make an investigation of the lines about Hog Island in the Delaware which are in dispute, is home after some interesting experi ences along the river in winter time. When Captain Moore reached the Delaware there was a mild spell and in going along the shore he went into mud up to his shoe tops. The next day he went out in a boat to determine some lines and when the day's work ended he had to break a passageway for the boat to the shore. Next day the boat was frozen in. The idea is to determine the lines as soon as possible so that any questions about ownership of places where ships are to be built will be cleared up. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Thomas Robins, who was Col onel Roosevelt's host in Philadelphia on Wednesday, was one of the prominent men in the Progressive party. —Judge Laird H. Barber, who has been creating terror by revoking licenses in Carbon county, has been on the bench just two years and has visited every part of the county to observe conditions. —The Rev. John Baer Stout, the first president of the Pennsylvania Huguenot Society, is a minister in Northampton county. —Frank W. McAdam, new Are chief of Lebanon, has been a fireman most of his life. He is head of the hook and ladder company. —Allen P. Perley, prominent Willlamsport man and well known here, has been made treasurer of the Willlamsport Red Cross. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~ —That ITarrishurg In spite of its coal shortage lias not Ix-eu as hard hit as some cities closer to the coal fields? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Juniata valley grain used to bo floated to this city on flats as lato as 1845. THE INCOME TAX DELAY It is said that the blanks neces sary for making income tax returns will be ready "next week." Half of the first month of the period for making the returns will have passed by then before a single return is made, and the period was none too long at best. Millions of tax money is tied up until this uncertainty is past, and the labors oT taxpayers and taxcollectors are Increased in inten sity. None of the various explana tions are convincing. It is said that the blanks were pre pared, and were recalled to correct errors, and that the work Is all to be done over again. The suggestion that ,the errors were in tMfc blanks Is less likely than that they were In the law. Daily Interpretations are announced for which there is no basis in the words of the statute, but without which the law could neither be worked nor commend ltaelf to the taxpayers.—N. T, XUbm.