HARRISBUKG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME \ Faundti lljt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Tclecraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE./V' 6r Editor in-Ckirf F. R. OYSTER, Bujintis Manatrr. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Matiaftng Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of •11 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. 4 . A Member American Newspaper Pub- I Bureau of Circu lation and Perin- office. Avenue Pulldtng, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. - itnyya . B v carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. 15.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1918 O Truth is easy, and the light shines clear In hearts kept open, honest and sin cere. • — ABRAHAM COLES. WASHINGTON HOWEVER his military fame may excite the wonder of mankind. It Is chiefly by his CITII magistracy f that Washington's example will ln l~ struct them. •..• . Such n chief magistrate as Washington appears like the pole star In a clear iky, to direct the sklllfal statesman. His presidency will form an epoch and be distinguished ns the age of Washing ton. Already It assumes Its high place In the political region. I.lke the Milky Way, It whitens along Its al lotted portion of the hemisphere. The latest generations of men will survey, through the telescope of history, the space whence so many virtue* blend their rays and delight to separate them Into groups and distinct vir tues. As the best Illustration of , them, the living monument to which • the first of patriots would hare chosen * to consign bis fame, It Is my earnest V prayer to bcaTen that our country may subsist, even In that late day, In the plenitude of Its liberty and happiness and mingle Its mild glory 9 r with Washington's.—Fisher Ames. 9 * Now. if Mr. Demain would only pro- claim a few winterless days. * y CLEARING THE WAY PROCEDURE of the Public Ser- Commission in calling for argu te ment on the proposition whether it has jurisdiction in de- V ciding complaints against increases * of trolley fare to six cents where ' there are franchise ordinances stipu- lating five cents is a step in the * right direction, notwithstanding criti- cisms leveled at it. The question * whether the Commission or the courts, or either, can decide con- j * tractual propositions such as fran-! * chise ordinances has been looming j I Mp for some time. Because the' * Commission passes upon such mat- j J ters as municipal contracts some * people have held that it has au thority to construe them and that I * under the general regulatory powers giova to the Legislature the Com- ■ natesion, created by the General As * sembly, can decide contract prob- j lems. Others hold that it is fori * the courts to determine contracts, i Counsel for municipalities at the. * hearing here Tuesday declined to ; * surrender the idea that the cities y and boroughs are supreme. *■ Thg argument brought together * some of the best legal talent special * izing in municipal and street rail way matters and the Commission * will soon have the benefit of the < pleadings and can then determine J upon its course. Many communities oppose six cent fares as unreason * able. These complaints, like those involving service, are distinct from ■ fare questions where ordinances es tablish five cents. By settling the question of jurisdiction the Com mission will clear the way for try . ing the biggest question in public service that has arisen this winter. < Scranton has a six-cent street car J fare. Another reason why we prefer to live in Harrisburg. t Y. M. C. A.'s OPPORTUNITY * Y. M. C. A. has justified itself as an institution worthy * of popular support since the * war started, in the eyes of thousands * of people who thought little or noth- J ing about the organizations previous * to the entry of the United States a into the conflict. The "Y" is the * biggest influence for good in the * soldier's life between the home and the trenches. It carries to him tr FRIDAY EVENING. comforts and conveniences and cheering. up-lifting surroundings that would be' impossible were Its ministering services absent. It "keeps the home fires burning" in the soldier's heart. It makes a bet ter fighting man of him and a better citizen. Not many soldiers were members of the Y. M. C. A., possibly, when they enlisted, but all of them will be Y. M. C. A. "boosters" when they come home and the livest kind of "prospects" for the associations in their respective towns. The return ing soldiers will look upon the Y. M. C. A. building as something pe culiarly their own. The Y. M. C. A. must stand ready to do for the home-coming soldier as much as it has done for the soldier In the field. It can be especially helpful In his period of readjustment to peaceful pursuits and domestic surroundings. It can be made to wield a tremend ous influence for good in all his after life. I To that end, those who are at the head of the organization work and the local secretaries and their boards of directors must work night and day to make the association in each , town ready for the influx ot new members that is bound to follow the war. They must be up and doing. They must see to it that their plants are sufficient in capacity to care for increased memberships. They must organize themselves for this new type of service. They must be as ready in peace as they have showed themselves in war. Very likely these matters will come before the State convention now in session here. It would not be like the Y. M. C. A. executives to miss such a splendid opportunity as is about to he presented to them. They must reverse the old adage and in time of war prepare for peace. Save food. This means YOU. HEAR THESE MEN ON'T fall to attend the great D patriotic rally at Chestnut Street auditorium Monday eve ning to hear George W harton Pep per, chairman of the State Public Safety Committee; Howard Heinz, Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, and Lieutenant Sutton, a veteran of the GaJlipoli campaign and later of Flanders, tell us what we must do to help win the war. Bach one at home must be a soldier for Uncle Sam, serving as truly and as courageously as the man in the front line trenches. To many of us the war has not been brought home with the seriousness with which we must come to regard it Our own part in it is not well de fined. We know that it is the duty of each of us to buy Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps and to give gen erously to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and the other war service funds. These things we have done. We have not withheld our money and many of us have worked in the various campaigns and are doing wonderfully good work in the Red Cross. We have been told that it is necessary to save flour and meats and to conserve all manner of food stuffs and fuel. But for some rea son or another this message has not reached us with full force. It has not been as personal as it ought to be. We have thought too much of it as applying to the other fellow rather than to ourselves. It is for the purpose of bringing the war service message home to each one of us that the meeting of Monday evening is to be held, and no speakers are better qualified for that duty than Mr. Pepper and Mr. Heinz, both of whom have given up practically all of their own affairs to work without salary to help win the war by making the home offensive against the Germans just as effective as we know the Army's will be when |it hurls itself against the Huns In France. Mr. Pepper is a noted law j yer and one of the best orators and patriotic speakers in America, while | the name of Heinz is a household word in the land and he is an un j questioned authority on food. To ; back up their message will be Lieu ; tenant Sutton, whose word picture iof conditions abroad as he knows them will add the final and clinch -1 ing argument to the need of saving, j conserving and in every way back | ing up at home our men on the : firing line and helping keep the wolf from the doors of our Allies in England, France and Italy. ASH REMOVALS T' HE condition in which Harris burg Councilmen on their in spection trip yesterday found the streets of the city shows the ut ter folly of putting the matter of ash removals up to the private citizen. The highways of town were never so dirty and bedraggled as they are at this time. The householder is not to blame so much as the system, or 'lack of it If there is nobody to col lect the ashes when they accumu late and no place to dump them ex cept the streets, why Into the streets they will go, regulation or no regu lation. This is by no means an apology or an excuse for those who litter the highways with filth, but it is a plea and a reason for the in auguration of a city-controlled sys tem of ash collections. These con ditions are bound to continue, to greater or less degree, until some such method is devised and enforced. Ck Bj the Ex-Committerman -I Between the gathering of the Democratic leaders at Philadelphia to-morrow to talk over a slate for the May primary and how to fish up anything worth while from troubled Republican waters; the uncertainty surrounding Governor Brumbaugh's ideas on an exta session of the leg islature and the Sproul appearance at the Pittsburgh dinner last night there is plenty to make Washing ton's birthday of interest to people who follow politics in Pennsylvania. The Democratic leaders are try ing their best to avoid a fight In their party. The "wets" and the "drys" have been getting ready to throw things at each other and bat tle between the Old Guard and the Reorganizes will be renewed in some form or other. The machine element and the uplifters and the "play safe" boys are all following their own lines and the Democratic situation looks like a spider web af ter a drive by wasps. —The Democratic conference will be vastly different from that held four years ago when the ticket was framed up by half a dozen men at Washington. This year resentment against having it done on the banks of the Potomac forced a change. —O'Xeil men were jubilant to day. They claimed the failure of Scott and Mackey to appear at the Pittsburgh dinner with Sproul was conclusive evidence that there was nothing doing in the reports that the Vares were for the Delaware man. —The highway commission will I he in Cambria county to-day and} to-morrow will have a round up in j Pittsburgh. In his Altoona speech j last night Mr. O'Neil attacked the present road law. —State Chairman Crow, who was at the Pittsburgh dinner, attracted much attention by conferences with William A. Magee, who Is with the state administration and commonly believed against O'Neil. Chairman Crow will be in Philadelphia to-night and spend the weekend in confer ence with friends on the Republican ticket. . —The North American charges that Yare men blocked a probe of Mayor Smith's bonding company in Philadelphia. —Newspaper comment is not gen erally favorable to the extra session proposition which has been so much talked of about the Capitol and men prominent in the state administration declare that there will be no re convening of the legislature. The extra session idea, however, is strong ly urged by many of the men active in the "dry" movement. —lt is aaid that some people have the impression that Governor Brum baugh has read in the Pennypacker biography how the governor of 1906 oktled the extra session that year In spite of protests by the politicians and his own friends and made a rec ord of legislation which was com mended by Roosevelt and may try to do likewise. Others say that if he has that idea conditions are differ ent this year and that men in his cabinet will tell him so when he re turns from the South. —The number of suggestions for inclusion in the call is growing and some of the up state administration leaders are nervous about chances that re-apportionment will subtract from rural counties and add to ur ban. —Quite a number of names are being talked of for the Republican nomination for state legislator from the Second Lackawanna district and many of them are based on the sup position that Hugh A. Dawson, who is now the representative from the district, will remain firm in his de cision to retire from politics for the j present. Prof. James R. Hughes has many friends working in his behalf, while John Wolfe, another Green Ridge man, is also mentioned as a possible candidate. Benjamin Jones, of North Scranton. and Nathan Je hu, who was defeated for alderman last fall, are also possibilities along with Virgil H. Crisman and William R. Sims, all kniwn here. —lt is pretty certain now that Charles F. Ditchey, of Shenandoah, who on the first Monday of January retired from the office of Sheriff of Schuylkill county, will not have the track to himself in the race for the Democratic nomination for the of fice of Congress. Efforts are mak ing to have James J. Moran, of Potts | ville, enter the field for that nom ination. Mr. Moran is a member of the Schuylkill County Bar and is the president of the Union Safe Deposit Bank of Pottsville, possessing much experience in the practice of the law and in finance. He served a term as County Auditor prior to the county coming under the Controller act. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch in a story from Philadelphia says that one of the things which is keeping the O'Neil men busy is the attitude of William A. Magee. former Public Service Commissioner, who has not indicated what he will do. Mr. Magee favored Chairman Ainey some time ago and although wooed by O'Neil men has remained silent. —Up in the northeastern corner of the state things are shaping them selves so that it looks as though Senator E. F. Warner would have a walKover for renomination on the Democratic ticket, although some ' Democratic leaders around here are making faces at him. Ex-Auditor General E. B. Hardenbergh, Sena tor from that district years ago, is reported as thinking seriously about running again. —Representative James G. Dell, of Huntingdon, may be agreed upon for renomination for the House. Dell was the leader of the "Farmers' al liance" in the House last season and kept things interesting because of the insistence with which he com batted city influences. —Scranton people seem to think that it may narrow down to E. B. Jermyn and Albert Davis for the Republican Senatorial honors in Lackawanna. Senator W. M. Lynch is said to be thinking more about his piace as head of Farview hos pital than of another term. Some people say it is safer. —Mayor Babcock has vetoed sev eral of the ordinances for new jobs which the majority of Councilmen in Pittsburgh put over on him. The Freight Truck Army freight trucks traveling on their own power from Detroit to the Atlantic seaboard in midwinter, demonstrate the possibility of using the motor vehicle on the public highway as an adjunct to rail trans portation. But the first essential is a hard surfaced road. In winter, freezing temperature supply the hard surface, but in summer only a well improved highway can be de pended upon. Just now, when we have such large quantities of army supplies to transport and so many soldiers to be moved, the desirability of permanently improved highways is impressed upon the country. HABRISBURGr t&SfHStfL TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS - —--s „ VAJHV UW- Ves- f~E •n,sCov/EeD ThE / H e wJAS "BORM I-p &yJAI?( . -Riv/ef? Aucl •ju u s;J 49l JucV 4-TH 177£ i \ 80/VT UH y __ v v5 ' - whV~ . GOT TO^ SI6MEO The \ ~Me FoUSh-t / EMANJCIPATIOM OF ] Tne OATTLC OF | | iwDePewDEMce AMD/ BULL RUM - AWD FREED THE SLAVES/ pLAVeT? A GOO£> JjJ/V \ WAS * Ybu Over "Jojo Lk "P&KIOU —— J ; No human mind can estimate the | various incidents and emotions of I this war. What instinct, for ex-j ample, prompted the Scotch flyer, Tarn, to risk his life by carrying a wreath to the grave of the German! aviator, Von Zeidlitz, whom he 1 brought down. The account says: I "The wreath in a tin box, firmly j corded and attached to a little para-I chute, was placed in the fusilage of i a small Morane —his own machine being in the hands of the mechanics! —and Tani climbed into the seat.! In five minutes he was pushing upj at the steep angle which represent-' ed the extreme angle at which a man can fly. Tam never employed a lesser one. "Evidently the enemy scout real ized the business of this lone British ! flyer and must have signaled his views to the earth for the anti-air-1 craft batteries suddenly ceased fire 1 and when approaching Ludezeel, Tam sighted an enemy squadron en gaged in a practice flight, they op ened out and made way for him, offering no molestation. "Tam began to plane down. He spotted the big white speckled ceme tery and saw a little procession making its way to the grounds. He i came down to a thousand feet and dropped his parachute. He saw it open and sail earthward and then someone on the ground waved a white handkerchief. "Guid," said Tam." Great Britain is to have a stand ard sl2 suit of clothes for all men. Zowie! If Pennsylvania follows the example we'll be sure that Sherman had the correct idea. A contributor to the Zenda Citizen i so confidently believes in optimism and cheerfulness that he takes the measure of the sourfaced in these lines: The dog gazed at the big round moon That was sailing through the sky. And he chewed on the bones of the big raccoon And winked his evil eye. Said the dog: "That moon thinks he is big. But he really makes me smile. So I guess I'll howl awhile. So he howled and he yowled. And he barked and he yelled. But the moon still stayed serene, And he sailed right on, till the break of dawn Brought the light and he couldn't be seen. And that's just the way with a lot of folks. When they see that others can smile. They say: "He's a fright To be happy's not right. So I guess I'll howl a while." So they howl and they yell, And they start raisenell. But the guy with the smile doesn't mind; They can argue and fuss, But he doesn't give a cuss From opinions from folks of that kind. LA BOR IN UNIFORM Sometimes, as I sit at my window at this cantonment, I think of the psychology of clothes. Put me into the rough-and-ready riding things of my Western trips, and I am a vagabond. Put almost any frivolous girl into a nurse's uniform and watch her very thoughts sober and change. And so I wonder about an army uniform. It makes a difference in a man. He develops the esprit de corps of the army. We have excellent ex amples of this in our police force and among our postal carriers. They wear the badges of great organiza tions. They are marked men. And they carry well the dignity of their positions. What of uniforming labor? Sure ly the man at home, in munition and shipbuilding plants, in all the other industries which are fighting this war as certainly as the soldiers at the front —surely that man de serves to wear a uniform showing what he is doing. And I venture to go further. Put labor into uniform, and many of our labor troubles will cease. It need not be the army uniform. It should not be. But by doing this the man himself will develop an esprit de corps—the conviction that he is of those chosen to help. He is, wher ever he goes, a marked man, a man given, as truly as any soldier, to the country's service. Think it over, employers of labor, lying awake j nights to hold your organizations together.—Mary Roberts Rinehart ! in the Saturday Evening Post. II Defeat Will Benefit the Germans I HAROLD BELL, WRIGHT, the famous author, says in the February American Magazine: "From our shores this gospel of the man of Galilee and this gospel of our national freedom have gone forth to every land. To our shores have come lives from every nation to bo here fused into one national life and to add thus to our ever growing strength against this day when, for all the peoples of earth, the divine cause of humanity Is to be won or lost. "In the ranks of those who carry our country's flag are men of every land and blood —English and French and German and Dutch and Spanish and Armenians and Chinese and Japanese and Africans and Indians. There is scarce a race on earth that is not represented in this army of liberty. . "Our army Is the army of this nation, but it is more: It is the army of the liberty-loving world. Its blood is the blood of humanity, the humanity of Jesus, the humanity for which Jesus lived and died. "But Jesus said, 'Love your ene mies." DON'T BE SENSITIVE In an article called "How I Cured Myself of Being Sensitive" a writer says in the March American Maga zine: " 'Wagner, you've got ability,' he cried, 'but you'll never get anywhere in this world until you quit tearing ourself to pieces! I've watched you for the past three years; twice I've had it in mind to push you up a notch in the office, and every time I've passed you and picked some one else, because I know you aren't fit to handle other men. No man is fit to handle other men until he has learned to control himself. You can't, you're too blamed sensitive. " 'Little setbacks break your heart. A letter of complaint comes in from some customers and >x>u take it as a personal critcism, and lose a day's work brooding over it. You see me in conference with some ot the other men, and you stab your self wondering why you weren't in vited, and imagine that I have turn ed against you. You hear about someone who is making more money | than you, and immediately all far fields look greener. You're a fairly useful cog in your present job, and it might put me to some annoyance to lose you. But you'll never hold a big job until you can forget your own petty self and learn to laugh when the world takes a crack at you. Hanged if I don't think some times it might be better if you were to get out and try your hand some where else.' " LABOR NOTES Experienced telephone operators selected by the government to go to France will receive a salary of from S6O to $125 a month and rations, the same as is received by Army nurses. In the northern and western states the average teachers' salaries paid for each child 6 to 14 years of age, range from $15.78 to $36.30 per an num for all pupils, and in the south ern states from $5.27 to $13.79 for white pupils and from $1.44 to $8.53 for colored pupils. After a three-year fight, New York Dock and Pier Carpenters' Union hassecured an eight-hour contract with the Dockbuilding Contractors' Association. Minimum wages shall be 62% cents an hour. Metal tradesmen in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, have increased wages 15 per cent, and reduced hours to 50 a week. This lessens the work week five hours, in many in stances. Colorado Springs (Col.) Typo graphical Union has signed a new agreement. Rates for (lay work tare S2B a week and for night work, S3O, with seven and one-half hours' work. Director General of Railroads Mc- Adoo has appointed a commission to recommend action on wage and labor questions before the Govern ment Railroads Administration, in cluding wage demands of the raif road brotherhoods. The Industrial Welfare Commis sion insists that if Washington wo men and child workers are to be maintained according to American standards of living, a much higher wage must be paid than the rate 3 which were .established in 1914-15. "Well, this nation sings no hymn of hate. The spirit of those who will carry the Stars and Stripes to Berlin is not the spirit of hatred. When the well-loved and faithful dog of the household goes mad and menaces the lives of friends and neighbors, it is not hatred that fires the bullet to end its madness. Be cause this 'mad dog of Europe' must be stopped in his career of death does not mean that hatred has rais ed the army that will accomplish that necessary end. " 'Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you,' said Jesus. "Well, the blessings of our cause in victory will be to those men who face our soldiers in battle, as well as to those brave ones in whose support our men are fighting. The good of liberty will be for the Ger man people as well as truly as for all other peoples of earth. No great er good could come to the people of Germany who are fighting now the battles of their kaiser than the de feat and utter annihilation of the spirit of that ruler who drives them to the battlefield." WHY WOMEN FOUGHT An American woman who spent over a fortnight with the Women's Battalion of Death in Russia tells in the March Woman's Home Com panion what led them to volunteer. She says: "Many had joined the regiment because they sincerely believed that the honor, and even the existence, of Russia were at stake and that nothing but a great human sacri fice could save her. "Some, like Bachkarova, in the days of the Siberian village, had simply come to the point where anything was better than the dreary drudgery and the drearier waitffig of life as they lived it. "Personal troubles had driven some of them out of their homes and on to the battleline. One girl, a Japanese, said tragically when X asked her reason for joining, 'My reasons are so many that X would rather not tell them.' "There was a Cossack girl from the XJral Mountain, fifteen years old, with soft, brown, questioning eyes and deep, rich color tinting her d