- ••* "_'_^"- y " ' " * ' / ' • MONDAY EVENING, HXItRISBURG (jfH(s* TELEQRXPH! JAWUARY 21 ! , 1914 8 fIARRISBDRG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPER POR THB HOMB Pounded IS3I ——— Published evening* except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building. Federal Square. B. J. BTA CKPOL.E, Pres't £• Editor-in-Ckirf 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 resecved. I Member American llshers' Assocla latlon and Penn- EMtirD °k fIC & Avenue P.ulldlng, FlnUjr, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, as second class matter. gflTT"h _ carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. $5.00 a year In advance. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1018 Higher titan fear and stronger than fate Are love and faith that patiently wait. — ANON. A GREAT BATTLE CRY IT WAS a happy thought which prompted the Pennsylvania sol diers at Camp Lee to Invite the House and Senate of Virginia to help celebrate the birthday of Gen eral Robert E. Lee. In the first' place, it is remarkable that Pennsyl vania men should have so far for-1 frotten the trying days of Gettysburg as to rejoice in the fact that their camp ia named for the commander of the forces that onco threatened to split their State in twain, and, j secondly, it is worth comment that the Southern solons so readily] should have understood the feelings of the Northern boys and joined with them ip. the observance. It all goes to prove the strength of the bonds that bind us. We have had our misunderstandings, but like most family jars they have been soon forgotten and certain gentry some 3,000 miles from here are about to learn that the rrtel yell and the union cheer combined form a battle cry that will make the Hun's most bloodcurdling hymn of hate sound like the children's chorus at a Sunday School picnic. . Yes, we know it's getting around toward Ground Hog Day, but it's a foregone conclusion he's going to see his shadow. AGRICULTURAL WEEK THE State Capital Is host this week to the representatives of the State's agricultural and al lied interests who have been coming here for their annual meetings for more than a decade and it is glad to extend its greetings at a time when Pennsylvania needs the best thought of its farmers and what help the economists and scientific men can give. The Keystone Sta'te is going to need more food than ever before next winter. It is a! state marvelously fertile in spite of I the fact that its wealth is in the) products of the mine, the mill and the well. It is being called upon| to increase its acreage in grain and I its yield of vegetables. And it willj respond. As in almost every line labor Is the great factor. The draft, the cities, the Industries, the railroads have drawn heavily from the youth I of the farm and the pre-eminent | problem of the week's gathering will I be to find a way to replace the hands when sowing and reaping times come around. Harrisburgr, as ihe center of a big agricultural dis trict and an industrial and trans portation city In the bargain, is keen- ! ly Interested in the solution of this! question and bespeaks its interest | and support for the plans which! may be evolved. In the mid-winter exhibition of farm products and the display of I the farm tractor, which ploughs by day or night, this community has a big Interest. Many of the things to be shown were raised in sight of >our Capitol's dome and the trac-j lors fi.ro those of firms which have offices and branches here. We want this exhibition to be an annual af fair and of the greatest possible use to our people. • It would have been a fine thing for the flsh story crop If this vacation had occurred next July. PRICEPUBLICATIONS THE public will approve Donald McCormick's plan for the pub lication of food prices in Har risburg. The local food administra tor is about to inaugurate a prac tice recommended for every com munity in tjie State and which is designed to give the public the bene fit of what are believed to be fair prices for provision staples on the ' cash and carry" plan. Of course, charge accounts and deliveries will cost the consumer more. The deal er who simply turns his goods into cash over the counter can and should sell for less than his coro potitor across the way who gives credit and delivers the purchases. The biggest benefit to be derived from the price publications Is the advance Information the consumer will be given as t,o general condi tions. Any grocer who overcharges will be known to the trade at once, but any dealer who so desires may undersell and so increase his sales. Prices will range, of course, just ns quality of goods varies. All ap ples, for example, are not of one grade and the best will bring more than the poorer, as is always the case. The same applies to all other lines. Price publication will not necessarily be followed by sharp re duction in the cost of living, but carefully studied the lists should prevent the consumer from being victimized by profiteers, and that is all they are designed to do. "Fight or go under," says Lloyd George, which is equivalent to an order to "go over." ALL SIQNS FAIL IT'S an "Sid adage that "all signs fail in dry weather," and the same might be said of hard win ters. It usually happens, in this latitude and longitude, that a thaw follows a snowstorm. This has oc curred so frequently in recent years that the sound of slelghbells became almost as rare as that ancient form of social pleasure known as the "sleighing party." Even in the old en days of New England, if we are to believe Mr. Whittier's observa tions in "Snowbound," a moderation of temperature and bright sunshiny days followed in the wake of a storm. But not so in Central Penn sylvania this year of our Lord 1918. Our lot Is zero weather, snow, zero weather, and then more snow, with the mercury scarcely as much raising Its eyebrows between times. Not that we object so much to snow, as such. It was all very well for the family of the aforesaid John Greenleaf Whittier, for example, to "sit the clean-winged hearth about, content to let the north wind roar in baffled rage at pane and door." If that's the kind of thing a bliz zard meant in these days we would pray on bended knees for a bliz zard every night. Bpt, as the poet also wrote, times have changed, and now what does a blizzard mean? A "day with the family around the fire, listening to the "wintry blast shake beam and rafter as it passed," or to make merry over the "mug of cider simmering low, the apples rputtering in a row," or to toast our feet before a glowing log while, as the snow-laden gale swept by, the ■ "merrier up its roaring draught the j great throat of the chimney laugh- j ed?" Any such ideally cozy lot for j us poor mortals of a modern day j when the blizzard descends and the j weatherman begins to "strafe" us?) Not much! Here's what happens. We crawl out of bed two hours earlier than usual, after repeated proddings of conscience—and our wives—to make the rounds of the water spigots, test ing 'em for freeze-ups and, alas, too often finding "em. We cuss the coal shortage experts at Washington be cause we dare put on only a table spoonful of coal at a time when the temperature demands a bushel, and we shovel a path so that the milk man —if he ever comes—may deign to pause long enough before our door to leave a quart of six cent milk for which he collects twelve cents. And after a breakfast snatched In a hurry In a cold kitch en, what? Why, a sharp run for the 7 o'clock trolley, which on snowy days usually comes piking along, somewhat after the manner of the dillar-a-dollar scholar of Mother Goose, somewhere between 10 o'clock and noon. Of course, we know that the car won't be there, but—again using the language of our poet friend upon a somewhat different but no less tragic occasion "hope will dream and faith will trust, that, somehow, some where, meet we must," and so we go rushing away for the car which doesn't come and we get down to work mad clean through an hour late and the boss gives us a look like you imagine Mr. Wilson would pass to the Kaiser should the two meet on the boulevard, and the whole poetic efTect of the "snow, the snow, the beautiful snow" is lost upon us. Besides, by that time the falling mercury has turned our thoughts back again to that dwindling coal pile. We shudder for the reputa tion of the good Quaker poet had he tried to write his "Snowbound" to the meter of modern conditions. "Lack of coal shuts theaters in Ger many." fajjs a headline, and too much coal on the railroads shuts 'em up In America. CHICKENS COME HOME THE hearing of the threo can didates for city treasurer be fore council on the charge of having gone "too far" in soliciting the support of Commissioner Gross for the office named, turned out as anticipated. Mr. Gross admitted there was no Intent to bribe or to offer other illegal Inducement. This is gratifying to those who have the good name of at heart and who are indignant that even the suspicion of scandal should attach to any public official or transatlon in Harrisburg. But while the men Involved are to be congratulated, the legret must be expressed that the Incident ever should have hap pened. There appears to have been absolutely no excuse lor it, and th? good names of not only the three men under Are have been Injured, but the commissioner himself does not come off unscathed, while the city itself is a helpless sufferer. Mr. Gross, no doubt, will guard his tongue very carefully in the future. By a strange coincidence he himself the past week was the victim of Just su'ch another tem pest in # a teapot as he stirred up In the treasurershlp . contest. There was absolutely no ground whatever for the charge brought against htm before Alderman Landls of having violated the election laws with re spect to reporting his campaign ex penses. The accusation was based upon a triviality that had no stand ing in law. The suit never should have been brought. Mr. Gross was unnecessarily brought into public notice In an unfavorable light, but he knows now how It feels to be unjustly accused. 'f otitic* Ck By the Kx-Committeeman Aside from demands for party harmony and that the ghost of fac tionalism in Philadelphia be no longer permitted to stalk abroad in the state west of the city line, the Republican newspapers of the state appear to have paid very lit tle editorial attention to the booms launched by any of the men talk ed of for the gubernatorial nomi nation. Senator Sproul and Com missioner O'Neil have had a few nice things said about them, but the general disposition appears ro be to wait until things become set tled, there being a belief in many parts of the state that a compro mise that will make victory certain is possible. That such a view is held at the Capitol is well known and thought ful men in Philadelphia and Pitts burgh have the same id<;a. Demo cratic newspapers are so fearful of such an agreement being reached that they are helping on the quar rel, quite overlooking the jars in their own household. The Democratic slate making con ference Has again been postponed. It was to have been held this week, but it is off until further notice. —Mayor Smith is now having his troubles in Philadelphia from his own people, while in Pittsburgh Mayor Babcock is engaged in rath er strenuous matters with the Ma gee faction. The Philadelphia mayor has been unable to get some per sonal appointments in his police bureau and he has been taken into court on the two-platoon system by friends of the policemen. —Democratic state leaders are commencing to get scared over tho congressional lights. There are - now four men wanting to be Democratic candidate for Congress in Berks alone; three in the York-Adams district; two in the Northumberland district and half a dozen in the Seventeenth where Congressman B. IC. Focht is going to be re-elected. Even Warren Worth Bailey will have opposition if he tries to run again in the Cambria-Blair satrapy. —J. G. McCloskey, of Pittsburgh, has been added to the Democrats from Pennsylvania being made coun sel in Palmer's alien property bu reau. Palmer is looking after hts own. —The Philadelphia Press prints this rather unusual declaration for a Philadelphia newspaper: "It would surprise many Philadelphlans if they knew the strength of the anti-Philadelphia feeling in politics throughout the State, that is, the feeling that the factional strife in Philadelphia is getting so bitter that it is bending the interests of the party in the state to its purposes beyond legitimate bounds. Up state politicians will insist with all the strength they can command, it is safe to say, that the Republican party be committed to harmony in the state campaign. If none of the candidates now in the field can com mand the support of both Penrose and the Vares, up-state will do the best it can to force an agreement on a new candidate. Nothing that has reached public notice within the last week has caused the insiders to lose their belief that when a show down comes the Vares will be found accepting Senator Sproul as their candidate." —Concerning developments In the gubernatorial situation tho Sun day edition of the Philadelphia In quirer says: "There was a throng of callers at the offices of Senator Penrose yesterday, most of them from interior counties. While they got no official tip as to the next Governor from the senior Senator, among themselves they practically all agreed that Senator Sproul is the logical man to meet present political conditions. Among the Vare lieutenants it is known that some of the most potential factors in the Vare organization do not hes itate to say that they believe Sen ator Sproul to be the one man upon whom their forces can unite with the assurance that every Republican can be confident of getting fair treatment under the next state ad ministration." —A Wilkes-Barre dispatch has this interesting northeast view to present: "The Ainey boom develop ed quickly in view of the fact that party leaders here were able to sea that the situation in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia offered splendid op portunity for a compromise thereby opening the way for northeastern Pennsylvania to get political recog nition that has been denied it since the days of the late Governor Hoyt. In it has been the fact that whenever Luzerne boomed a candi date for state office, Lackawanna leaders refused to go along. Luzerne leaders too were not anxious to go along whenever Lackawanna devel oped a candidate. There has been political jealousy for many years. The situation has now suddenly changed, for with neither Luzerne nor with a strong can didate to ofter, the surrounding ter ritory was looked and Alney sentiment was found." —Ex-Judge A. A. Vasburg, who Is generally credited to be close to Senator Penrose has spoken at Scranton for a re-classiflcatlon of the cities of Pennsylvania. He says that under the law. Scranton is a city of the second class, and is be ing over-burdened with legislation that was really intended for a mun icipality the size of Pittsburgh. According to Mr. Vosburg's plan, Philadelphia would be a city of the first class, Pittsburgh in tho second class, and Scranton In the third class. The cities having a rating as third class would be dropped to fourth. —Schuylkill and Delaware coun ties have joined In endorsing Supe rior Court Porter. —Ex-Representative Jonathan Currier, of Clearfield County, wants to run for Congress. —lsadore Sobel, of Erie, has a boom for Congress at large as has Evan Jones, of McKean. —Chester City Democrats think they c.in win that city's legislative seat with James L. Rankin, a young lawyer. Over in ""pfcKIUU Lock Haven young people are having the time of their llf'" dancing on the ice. "Ice hops' aro all the rage. To the music of skilled or chestras they dance until dawn, kindling big fires with slab wood to warm up occasionally. The government is to forbid the manufacture of left hand plows. What will be next left handed waste baskets? A Pennsylvania mother, Mrs. Sarah Faust, of Hyde Park, has been allowed $6,000 insurance by the United States Government for the death of her son, William L. Faust, who was killed when a German sub marine sank the steamship Antilles on Oct. 17, 1917. Mrs. James R. Gerard, of Read ing, was walkipg down the main thoroughfare the other day when: "O, mercy!" Instantly a crowd gath ered as Mrs. Gerard, recognizing her fur coat and muff, which had been lost one years ago, seized them from another woman who was sport ing the finery. The coat is valued at and the muff at JIOO. A bullet covers about two miles in five seconds, and sound travels the same distance in a little over 9 Vfe seconds. No one has ever esti mated the speed of gossip. "Potsdamnatlon" has' been coined by a New York man to describe the disease which afflicts the world. FIGHT THE PESTS According to C. R. Orton, of the botany department of the Pennsyl vania State College, now is the time for every orchardist aud farmer to plan his next season's campaign against plant diseases, which annu ally destroy from ten to twenty-five per cent, of his crops. It is too late to do anything for the wheat crop now, but those who grow oats and barley should get their formaldehyde and treat their seed for smut at any time when the weather is not too cold. Care should be taken to disinfect sacks in which the treated grain is stored. Potato growers should buy a sup ply of the same chemical for the disinfection of their tubers next spring to prevent scab diseases and blackleg. It would also be well to lay in a supply of copper sulphate to spray the potato crop later on. Orchardists should be getting their lime sulphur and other spray materials before the spring drive, when the market is rushed and the supply may be low. This is the slack time of the year and many of these preparations may be made now with great^pVoflt.—The Pennsylvania Farmer. THE WAR /.V SOCIETY "Henry, I don't like Mrs. Jenkins "No?" "She's so—abreast." "So what, Clara?" "Abreast. So up on the war." "Not a defect, is it?" "Yes, because she doesn't really know. When I give up a whole day to the Red Cross and have to get the children oft to Aunt Emma's and all, I don't have time to read the morning paper, and she bursts in on us and says. 'O isn't it awful about Kaledines,' or, 'O Isn't it grand about Cambrai,' and it makes me pretty hot to think we none of us have the time to read a little and show her up! Now she's going around and telling everybody that what we need to win the war is un ity. ' "She already has four knitting bags; her new one opens down the front and cost $9. And she has one of these new knitting desks—ma hogany with compartments for everything. She always has the very latest 'War novelties' she calls them. She enjoys the war, Henry." "The reverse of taking your pleasures sadly?" "Yes. WTien there's a gap in the conversation and somebody has to fill it up. she sighs and says, O, isn't the war terrible? but she told me the other day that she didn't know what we'd all have done for lunch eons and entertainments if the war hadn't come along and given us some new Ideas. She served five different kinds of war bread at her Relief for Starving Armenians Lun cheon. That's the wav she Is." From the Katonah (N. Y.) Villag er. The Si niter's Last Chance Jill the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.—Amos, Ix, 10. ALAN SEEGER Somewhere in France where crosses lean Above bo many graves to-day; Where faded lilies place their screen And summer winds kneel down to pray— You who first ventured overseas To watch, at last, tho light grow dim, • ** God must have sent his gentlest breeze To bring your spirit back to him. Somewhere in France, dust unto dust, Yot( wait beyond the Inn of Life, Where through lone nights the guarding crust Shuts out the clamor of the strife; But far above the crimson sod No barrier your soul might stop. When from the great white throne of God You see the Legion cross tho top. A year ago to-day you knew The endless melody of song; You saw that summer skies were blue — That drifting summer days were long; You waited, while the twilight's breath Came crooning some old serenade. To hold your "rendezvous wifh Death At soihe disputed barricade." To-day the Legion holds the Upe Unbroken by the driving mass. Where you have helped to write the . sign In dripping bloOd—"They Shall Not Pass!" And now beyond the far divide You see the starry flag advance Among the millions who have died For love of liberty—and France. The eagle's wings at last are spread Above a never beaten shield, "Where still among the deathless dead , Tour spector haunts the clotted field; And borne afar on summer's breath Vou send this message hurtling through— "l had a rendezvous with Death— I did not fall that rendezvous!" —Urantland Rice, "Bongs of the Stalwart" (Applaton's). WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND 1 DIDN'T 'WAMT! HER 1 PRECIOUS LIL SVAjeCT- J POG.SN HEART* to CATCH COLD AND/ f/ofc WANT HER PRECIOUS pie- EITHER- WHV DON'T I Eg? LITTLE iii At what would be fun if we took the right view. Try shoveling snow in the true sporting spirit— You'll And It a game to arouse ■yoif all through • • And then, if you need further proof of its merit, 9 . After cleaning your walk you may clean mine off too. , JOSHUA LOTT. LABOR NOTES Engineers in the lumber mills of Vancouver Island, B. C., have noti fied employers that they want the ten-hour day reduced to one of eight hours and that they demand a readjustment of the wage scale and double time for all overtime. The. "railroad strike" bugaboo is discounted in a report by the Fed eral Board of Mediation and Con ciliation. which says that Interrup tion of interstate railroad service by labor disputes has been almost negligible since the board was or ganized four years ago. Congressman Keating, chairman of the House Labor group, asks Con gress to increase the wages of all Federal employes. The proposed in creases range from S3OO a year for workers receiving less than $1,200 a year to S6O increases between sl.- 800 and $2,000. The State Industrial Welfare Commission has ordered that no ex perienced woman er minor employ ed in a California laundry or dry cleaning establishment shall be paid less than $lO a week. Hours of la bor are limited to eight a day and 48 a week. Batting Gttpt Few men In Harriaburg ar< blessed with more evenness of tem per than Rosa A. Hlekok, the fuel boss of Dauphin county, and It is a very fortunate thing that he was selected, because there are many angles to the coal problem In this community which, bluntly speakln?, would tend to make a man mad. f r '. I ? lcltok has been running the fuel situation here for several weeks and observation of him under the stress of the acute condition of the last four or five days shows the same old disposition to get results without hurting feelings or using a brass band, but to get the result*, nevertheless. Mr. Hlekok has a temper which he runs and which does not run him, which circum stance comes in handy when he gets the 312 th telephone call for a rul ing on the fuel order. Considering the fact that his services are vol untary and that Uncle Sam does not even give him a telephone, hlB cheer ful assumption of the Job is worth something to the general public. Mr. Hickok's administration of the coal situation and his enforcement of the Garfield order have been almost along military lines, so to speak. He has made his friends stand around and the dodgers come across. From what has been learned he has punctured more hard luck empty bin stories than a novelist could think up in a week and the irate, the cranky, the liars and the needy will probably be able to get the same result when they compare notes when it is all over. Mr. Hickok served in the Army and in City Council, but what he Is gojng through Just now must make those previous experiences seem rather tame. • • • There .were a lot of peopl* in clined to consider the first of the Monday holidays a real blue Mon day to-day as they rubbed shaveless chins. The average man goes clean faced theso days and those who ■% can't ahave themselves make a late Saturday shave last over Sunday. Hence they are ready for the minis trations of the barber Monday morn ings. The advent of the smooth face has Increased business, say the bar bers, who add that far fewer peo ple shave themselves than is gen erally known. Judging from to day's sights and scenes, the bar bers are correct. It's a safe bet that barber shops will be on the ex empted list before the fuel order runs many weeks. A man can shine his own shoes, but when It comes down to shaving faces with trenches cut in them or hlrsuto entangle ments forty-eight hours old are elo quent of general inability to use a razor. All the same, the talk that one hears In the trolley cars and in places people gather is mighty creditable to Harrisburg. There have been disturbances of life, in dustry, business and affairs which we can not enumerate as the result of the drastic fuel order, but the dis position is to first get out of the affected class and then, if it is not possible, to make the best of It. The average Harrisburg man seems to like to "beef," as we say in this country, but he is always ready to laugh at the other fellow when he starts to growl. One of the staunch est examples of going along that one could ask was given last night in a Steelton car when a man with a good old Pennsylvania German ac cent rolled out a young fellow who was basting everyone because of the way the fuel order had hit him. He said that he was getting colder ev- jk ery day. "Veil, save de hot air you t be wasting here," was the Pennsyl vania German's recipe. In another instance a businessman tore the at mosphere with protests and denunci ations and a wearied friend asked, "What are you goring to do about it. anyway?" The answer he got was typical: "The only damned thing left —go along." "You can have one satisfaction in the weather we are having, tough as it may seem," says L. H. Dennis, chief of the agricultural education work, "and that is that the snows are protecting the ground. It is something to know that the intense cold Is being warded oft by snow, even if we do suffer." Some of the people who have to celebrate Monday holidays until the people running- the railroads can move the loaded cars of coal stand ing on the sidings might put in the time profitably by visiting the Btat Capitol or the State Museum. There are between eight and nine people in every ten in Harrlsburg and Steel ton and the girdle of boroughs round about who have very little knowl edge of the beauties or the art works or the interesting things In the two buildings on the Hill. And about three In every ten have never been in the building, in opinion of an ob server. They are always Intending to go through the buildings. The Capitol and Museum are open and there is more to be learned about Pennsylvania than in any other place In the whole state except Philadel phia. WaL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —G. Howard Bright, Reading d fuel administrator, seized coal for Reading mills and sold It to people- It wns soft coal and they did not know how to use It properly. —Witmer Lightner, the Pennsyl vania student, is making a study of the Sicilian people. —Governor Brumbaugh Is to make the address to Luzerne county Slov aks at Wilkes-Barre this week. —The Rev. M. J. Canolo has been appointed chaplain of the Home De fense organization at Altoona~ —Alba Johnson, the head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, says Russia's first disasters came because the nation was shy of engines. DO YOU KNOW —That the other cities of the state are watching to see how Harrlsburg works ont Its sew age disposal problem? HISTORIC HARRISBCHG This city was a repair point for locomotives and cars of all kinds in Civil War days. WOOD SONG I heard a wood thrush In the dusk Twirl three notes and make a star— My heart that walked with bitter ness 'Came back from very far. Three shining notes were all he had, And yet they made a starry call — I caught life back against my breast And kissed it, scars and all. 1 —By Sara Teasdale. m They're Plainly Luxuries Among other things we feel WP could do without Just now are the new Arctic Islands discovered by Mr. Stefansson. —Kansas City Times.