8 IARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME > Founded IS3I published evening* except Sunday by TUB TEI,BGRAI*II PRINTING CO, Telesrapli Building, Federal Square. an. J. STACK POLE.PWI Sr Ediior-in-C hirf IP. R. OTSTER, Busingjs lianatrr. BUS M. STEINMETZ. Mafating Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press la exclusively en titled to the use for republication of an 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. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Avenue Building, Finley, Entered at the Post Office in ITarrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. flTiyiftr Bv carriers, ten cents a nfim"week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance, •THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918 By my tasks of every day, By the little words I say, My allegiance I proclaim, Prove my right to bear His name. — George Klinqle. HOW LONG? THE immense outpouring of peo ple at Chestnut Street Auditor ium Monday night probably the greatest In the history of the city —shows how earnestly Harrisburg Is taking its part in the war and the frequent outbursts of approval dur ing Mr. Heinz's appeal for conser vation of food clearly indicated that the people of this city mean to do their full share In saving provisions, that our soldiers and our allies may —•have enough to eat. We are a patriotic people, willing to go as far as any to help win the war and passionately desirous of per forming our full measure of duty to the Government. But many of us have been wondering why, with a grain famine In prospect and the ration card more than a probability. President Wilson .continues to per mit millions of bushels of grain to be wasted in the manufacture of beer. Buy a single stroke of the pen he oould save all this food for the hun gry people of the world, for Con gress at his own request has placed that authority in his hands. How long are we to see our dinner tables robbed? It is passing strange that the restaurant keeper who is lim ited in the amount of grain prod ucts he may serve a customer may dole out to the same man unlimit ed quantities of beer, in the making Of which grain is the principal in gredient, and which has little or no food value. Smallpox, quarantine and vaccina tion, and there are those of us be nighted enough to feel that the worst of these Is vaccination. THE $2,000 DRIVE +1 "\HK Kiwanis club having under jJL written the $2,000 which the Salvation Army is seeking to mise in Harrisburg for war work there la no question about the mon ey being subscribed. The object is ■worthy and the club was justified in fathering it. The Salvation-Army is doing very much the same kind of work in Franco for the English Army as the Y. M. C. A is doing for Americans. Jt is BO well established there that Jts officers rank with the army offi cers, mess with them and are quar tered with them, and the men and •women in the ranks are under gov ernment orders and are part and parcel of the military establishment. The Army can and is prepared to do Just as Important work for the United States, although of a little different character. The sum asked la modest, in comparison with other war service demands, but it 1B all "the Army leaders believe Is needed at this time, BO they have limited their requests. Three years from now we shall be pondering how we ever for a moment doubted that Germany would be Whipped out of her boots. ' A GREAT~RAIJLY TIE appearance hero, March 8, of the English Labor Commis sioners, under the direction of the Harrisburg Central Labor Union, promises to be a notable event. It should be. These English commis sioners come to this country as kin# for our support and sympathy, and to tell us that no matter what Ger man propagandists may tell us, Eng lish labor la solidly behind the gov ernment and determined that the war shall not end until German ■militarism has been laid low. The English labor leaders have "been at crips with this autocracy ever since the war started. They know that if the allied line breaks there will be no place in the allied world for a labor union—the Kaiser Vill see to that. They also know thwX labor's one great chance for .Advancement Ilea in a victory for •democracy. There English leaders have gone {through their days of uncertainty THURSDAY EVENING. and cfoubt, but they have decided right, for they have come to realize that If they stand fast and help win the war they will be in position to reap their share of the benefits that will come to humanity from the vic tory. They are looking to a new order of things in Europe after the war, in which labor and capital will work side by side as partners, not as bitter rivals. This Is the message the English visitors will bring. It will be worth any man's time to hear it from their own lips. And if those who are ar ranging for the meeting succeed in bringing to the city Howard Heinz for an address from the same plat form, the rally will be a remarkable gathering, indeed. These Englishmen are far from the "peace-at-any-price" stripe of delegates who have been misrep resenting labor here and elsewhere. They are of the Gompers type, and Gompers it was who sent this mes sage to the German element who re cently wanted him to meet them in an international conference: "You can't talk peace with us now. You can't talk international conferences with us now. Either you smash your autocracy, or, by the gods, we will smash it for you. Before you talk peace terms, get back from France,' get back from Belgium, In to Germany, and then we will talk peace." This is the voice of American 'labor, which is standing loyal and sturdy in the trying times through which we are passing. But any man is the stronger for being told by competent authorities that his course is right and patriotic, and American workmen wherever these Englishmen speak will be the better for their visit. l-iieutenant Sutton says "the Turks fought like civilized beings," but it's just possible this was before they met up with any Germans. THE SOUTHERN SLAVS ELSEWHERE on this page ap pears the letter of a Steelton Croatian, explaining why the Southern Slavs, the Slovenes, the Croats and the Serbs are hoping for an allied victory that will free Austria from the dominion of Ger many, and givo them the freedom to which they are entitled. The position is not without justification. According to the official statistics of 1910, which are said to have been touched up very considerably to the detriment of the Slavs, more than 45 per cent, of the population of Aus tria-Hungary are -Slavs, numerically exceeding the Germans and Mag yars put together; but in spite of this, the Dual Monarchy has as signed a dominant position to the Germans and Magyars. The South ern Slavs number seven and one half millions and inhabit a contin uous block of territory stretching from the Istrian shores to the Drina, and they have absolutely nothing in common with German imperial as pirations and long for the day when they shall be fre# and independent to decide their own fate in theit tiUti way. So they are hoping and fight ing, tpo, where opportunity offers, for the allies and many of them have joined the American army. The Croatians, as we have known them in Steelton, have always been proud, prosperous and thoroughly desirable neighbors, ready to serve in all manner of neighborhood and national movements for the better ment of conditions, and they are as one with American people when they stand for liberty and a free government. We ought to be endeavoring to make these people understand that we appreciate their feelings and sym pathize with them. They are in no sense "alien enemies" and should not be treated as such. They are first class material for American citizenship and we should set about showing them that we want them as such. Too often we think of the new comer from Europe as a "foreign workman," a cog in the big indus trial machine, and let it go at that, forgetful of the fact that our own ancestors were in his place not so many generations back that their coming has been lost in the anti quities of history. The foreigner in general, and the Croatian in parti ciflar, is an American citizen In the making. All that he requires is at tention, direction along proper chan nels, sympathy and a carefully cul tivated feeling that he is a part of this big country, and that we want him to be one of us, not merely one amongst us. Americanization of the ! newcomers from Europe is one of 1 the biggest services any community I ran render the nation. THE Y. M. C. A. CAREFUL perusal of the annual report of the Harrisburg Y. M C. A. indicate that it will not | be very long before the association ! building will be too small to meet I the demands of a rapidly-growing Under the direction of General Secretary Reeves the or ganization has enjoyed wonderful prosperity and as the members have increased the plant has been im proved and made more attractive. But there is a limit to what can be done In this direction and after the war, when the return of the sol diers will take hundreds into the association, big additions will have to be made to the present structure. It must have a new gymnasium, a new boys' department and a swim ming pool, at least I These enlargements are for the moment out of the question. . But they are matters for the manage ment to consider md no doubt the new president, Arthur D. Bacon, will see to It that steps are taken when the time is ripe. After noting the thickness of the ice coming down the river, we are ready to admit that the "old-fashioned winter" was no mere local affair. £k By the Ex-Commltteeman "It is just barely possible that old man Berry may get it into his head that he has been called this year and in spite of the comfortable federal Job he holds as collecfor of the port of Philadelphia, decide to run for the Democratic nomination for governor" was the rather sur prising statement made here this morning by one of the best-posted men on the currents that run and run into the Pennsylvania Democ racy. "You see this is a peculiar year. The Democrats are split up the back over the liquor issue, and Berry has never yet gotten away from the idea that he should be gov ernor of Pennsylvania. McCormick was one of his chief backers in 1910 and Berry thinks this is his year again. Whether he will buck Mc- Cormick is what is Interesting the folks." —The Denjocracy of Pennsylvania Is split and the reorganization crowd seems to have a subdivision. The machine elements want Acting State Chairman and Petroleum Admini strator, Joseph F. Guffey, Pittsburgh gas magnate in private life, for gubernational nomination, but some of the fellows who run the machine have misgivings about what the act ing chairman thinks of the prohibi tion amendment and would prefer to have an out and out "dry" man as their choice. This- division of opin ion prevented any decided action at the week-end powwow in Philadel phia. Men like DeWalt and Sarig, who hail from anti-prohibition dis tricts, shid that the question of pro hibition had to be met and the voci ferous "dry" man began to shout. There must bo considered, too, the Old Guard element with such men as Col. "Jim" Guffey. uncle of the acting chairman; Judge John M. Garman, of Wilkes-Barre; Charles P. Donnelly, of Philadelphia, and other skillful men of another day who have seen many changes and been changed and short changed. They have been on the outside grind ing their teetli for some years; but are reported to be grinding axes now. —Berry is said to hope that he will be loudly called by the "dry" people. He is strong with some elements and his friends are saying that he can make better combinations than Guf fey and that he is an old and ex perienced campaigner, better known and has his own organization to supplement that of the state ma chine. The bosses want Guffey, but fear to make Berry lukewarm, and they certainly don't want to get thei Old Guard out again. ■ —The contest for the vacancy in the prothonotaryshop in York county has narrowed down to McClean Stock and Ffx-Representatlve Robert S. Frey. The appointee will serve three years. J. J. Gerry, deputy prothonotary, is not a candidate and there does not appear to be much support for Jacob Hay. Banking Commissioner Lafean will name the man to get the plum. —Things are going to be interest ing in Montgomery county this spring. With Representative James S. Boyd and Insurance Commis sioner Ambler, contending for the senatorial nomination, the 'county will be pretty nearly a storm cen ter of state-wide interest and Charles Johnson's organization will be put to the test. The entrance of Representative F. W. Stites into the contest for Congress against Con gressman H. W. Watson, means an other battle royal. Mr. Johnson said this week that he expected a very lively spring and was ready for it. —in Lebanon there -are rumors that E. E. McCordy, former district attorney of Lebanon and noted "dry" advocate man, enter a legisla tive contest. He has long been a "dry" man and his friends would like to see him in the battle in the great year. Prof. H. H. Shenk, is also talked of, but it is hard to be lieve he would forsake his congenial place on the Hill. I. S. Zimmerman and Representative I. H. Urich are candidates already. There is some interest in Asa A. Winer's prohi bition attitude. —The coming primaries will de termine whether the Old Guard or the Brumbaugh forces are to hold control of the Republican organiza tion in Luzerne county, and it prom ises to be an open battle between the forces led by County Chairman Clarence D. Coughlin and the lead ers of the Penrose people. Since Coughlin was named chairman three years ago, there has never been a very friendly feeling between his fol lowers and the organization men. Coughlin was at one time a Roosevelt follower and he joined the reform forces in Luzerne and made a cam paign for Congress some years back. When he was placed in the chair manship the purpose was to bring all forces together in a spirit of har mony, but that went the way of an other celebrated harmony place. —The appropriation resolution providing for a salary of $6,000 an nually for a Councilmanic investi gator" became a law in Pittsburgh when six members of Council, in cluding Maj. J. P. Kerr, voted to override the Mayor's veto on j this particular measure. City Soli citor Stephen Stone, in an In terview yesterday, said he had as signed an assistant city solicitor to the task of ascertaining whether or not Major Kerr was eligible to vote at yesterday's session in view of his enrollment on Saturday as an officer in the United States Army. COUNTRY AND MOTHER Patriotism and pathos, love of country and of kin are appealing ly manifested in an extract from the letter of ' a young soldier that is given in the Galesville, Wis., Re publican. Writing to his younger brother, who had stayed at home with their widowed mother, he said: "Don't think I enlisted because I did not want to help you in caring for mother. You "Know both of us have the spirit that every loyal American should have—our country first. While I am in the army, learn ing to do my bit, you fere doing Just as much as I, and you will be bless ed for it. "It's just like this: I am fighting for our country and you are taking care of mother, and the twq impor tant things are our country and our mother. So it is up to us to do it. By this I don't mean that you are to bear all the expense, for I airi going to send you all I can. You stay close to mother now, and. If the good Lord wills it, I will come back, and then you can go out into the world, and I will stay at home with mother until the end."—From the Youth's Companion. Tools and the Man The proper epic of this world is not now "Arms and the Man;" how much less, "Shirt Frills and the Man;" no, it is now "Tools and the Man;" that henceforth to all time is now our epic.—Carlyle. HXRR.ISBURG tgSQs£& TELEGRAPH A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE BY BRIGGS AFTER LOOKING Foßujard all AND 0Y AFTERNOOM —AND'Vou FINALLY AV h/srDe r THftM EVER- AND You E r -g £D MeA otMG ALL AT HOME VAJITM Vouß PERFECTLY CET(CsI>4 TmaT Al-L C T - p TerbißlE MAU' HUS6ANJI>-ArOD OM [t 4-JV St.l ROADS ARE TIED UP SORTS SATURDAY A BLIZZARD T"he R V know THAT ~O / ABOUT 4**3o H6ARIKJG, __ 'HUBBV" DOYUNJ THERE >"*• ' r I /[ AN AWFUL NOivSE '==~r O sbtdUr e>OYt^£ BRIGHTEN THE CORNER I ■Do not wait until some deed of great ness you may do. Do not wait to shed your light afar. To the many duties ever near you now be true, Brighten the corner where you are. CHORUS. Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you! are, Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar, Brighten the corner where you are. Just above are clouded skies that you may help to clear, Let not narrow self your way debar, Tho' Into one heart alone may fall your song of cheer, Brighten the corner where you are. • f LABOR NOTES The servant question in England has become very acute, owing to the I fact that over 300,000 female domes tics have turned their attention to munition work. Officers of the Retail Clerks' In ternational Protective Association! report that eighty charters have been issued during the last twelve months. The Bricklayers', Plasterers' and Masons' International Union at its bi ennial convention selected Akron, Ohio, as the next convention city. Members of the United Mine Work ers must raise SBOO,OOO for bonds to appeal a $600,000 verdict against them in an Arkansas federal court. At Toronto, Canada, all retail gro cery, butcher and fruit stores will close at 7 p. m. on weekdays, except I Saturdays and evenings preceding public holidays. The shipbuilding industry of Can ada is growing rapidly, and with It the growth of organization and a demand for an Increase of wages and for better conditions. Dr. John Dewey, of Columbia Uni versity, New York City, urges com pulsory vocational education for all persons between the ages of 18 and 20, together with military training. Who Wakes the Bugler? Philosophers who piped in rosy peace days on "Which arrived first, the egg or the chicken?" might well train all their wits, now that war is about us, upon the cantonment mystery: Who wakes the bugler? Have you considered the problems wjhich his job entails? He isn't even allowed an alarm clock. His only harbor is the guard. And the guard is human. What if he should forget the bugler! It Is more hor rible to contemplate than what would have happened had there ■been no one around when the stars and the suns and earths were wait ing in the wings for the call boy to warn them when their act was due. And, too. If you wish to push the discussion back and back beyond stars and suns, who wakes the guard!— From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Song of the Pantry Shelf "Who'll win the war?" "I" said the wheait, "I'll put men on their feet." 'T'said the wheat. "Who'll win the waV?" "I"sald the corn "If man will not me scorn." "If said the corn. "Who'll win the war?" "I" said the rye, "Just eat me and try," 'T'said the rye. "Who'll win the war?" "I" said the rice, "Wheat's not half as nlcs!" "I" said the rice. "Who'll win the war?" 'T'said the fruit, "Would you my worth dispute?" "I"said the fruit. All the cereals on the shelf. Sent a song In the air. When they heard that the wheat would be shipped "over there" And they all rattled their bags and cried "Billy! Beware!" —Edna Groft Delhi, Paxtangr, pa. THE PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY SINGING To the Editor of the Telegraph: The gradual petering out, the slow lingering death of choral societies and of formal choral organizations over all the country has caused much discussion and has brought forward many conjectures as to the reasons for the lethargy and decay of these singing societies. Frank Damrosch, America's most prom inent director, gave the writer a few days ago as his opinion, the re markable circulation among all classes, of music making machines. The having at all times "ready made" music on tap, so to speak, obviating the necessity of making it! However much opinions may differ, the essential thing is that choral organizations of the old type are dying or are dead and from their remains, arises the more democratic community singing. May I lend my voice in the appeal to Harrisburg to organize choruses of this kind? Opinions of their artistic merit may and do differ, but the necessity for expression In humans finds a legitimate'and line means in these so called "sings." The appointment of specialists to train and direct the vocal efforts of the men in army cantonments is significant in that it is a recognition by the government of the value of mass singing as a means of creating < unity and solidarity. The meeting together of people in all walks of life and their co-opera tion in song, causes a condition of mind well known to students of "mob" psychology which can be made a most potent force in civic life. According to Emerson, one of the offices of this age is to annul the divorce between the lovers of truth and the lovers of goodness. Let us hope that it will also succeed in ana nulling the divorce between all th* higher interests of life, and make us vividly realize that they belong together; that they are at their best only when they function together; and that wo can neither do without them, nor with any one of them alone. An art that is only for art's sake isolates itself, becomes unin telligible, fantastic, irrele% - ant and repellant. Community singing is a step In these divorce proceedings and anything which will make music part of the life of the average individual ia assuredly worth try ing. NEWELL ALBRIGHT. WAR ON DINNER PAIL To the Editor cf the Telegraph: I listened with deen concern to the addresses delivered at the great mass meeting In the Chestnut street auditorium. I sincerely trust and pray that the vast assembly may have its con science incited as was its consciou ness, and that the speeches may be come living flesh and pure red blood to every one who was present. My soul was thrilled to its very tender spot; but not nearly so deep ly as it was yesterday morning while listening to an humble employe . of one of the iron industries of Harris burg. He said, "I get angry when I see the awful waste of food in the place I work. At lunch time many of the employes eat their meals in a hurry. Some take a bite or two of a sand wich and then throw the rest away, and some throw under the benches whole huns, rolls, sandwiches and slices of bread. What is thrown away would feed many hungry ones." No doubt, what many so wantonly waste what Is so desperately needed do so without thinking what it means to starving thousands. Those who have charge of the great movement to fight in this war this side of the trenches should at once begin war against tho willful waste of the contents of the dinner pail. Wives and boardlnghouse mis tresses should consult the men con cerning the food, and ask whether less wheat food and meat food would suffice. If they had more than was absolutely necessary not to waste it, but leave It in the pail, or to share it to other men whose pails may have a deplorable lacking. C. D. RISHEL, Pastor, Beal Avenue Church ot God. Enola, Pa., February 26, 1918. Precautionary "My!" said Mrs. Cornier, Inspect ing her friend's house, "why do you have such a high bed for your little boy?" "So we can hear him if he falls out," replied Mrs. Housler. "You have no Idea what heavy sleepers my I husband and I are."—From Truth. WHERE CROATIANS STAND To the Editor of the Telegraph: Recent developments in Austria- Hungary as brought to light by the press of this country have again proved the fact that that nation can not much longer endure In its pres ent form of tyrannous ruling over a multitude of Slavs, who compose the bulk of her population. AVe find in these brief news items, which happen to "slide by" the offi cial censor that the entire Slav pop ulation is not merely asking, but de manding liberation from the dual monarchy. There is a people ruled by Aus tria-Hungary, which now sufllers, unknown to the world, such perse cutions and extermination as have never yet been found in the civilized world. These are not common, every day persecutions and imprisonments such as are daily perpetuated upon other Slavic people In the Austria- Hungarian monarchy. They are systematic and ruthless extermina tions, carried out according to a specific plan upon a gifted race. These unknown sufferers are the Southern Slavs, of Austria, the Croatians, Serbs and Slovenians, whose only crime in the eyes of the Austro-Hungarian administration is that they desire justice, freedom, I progress and civilization, and that they love their own national lang uage and their own national tradi tions. The hopes of the Southern Slavs are that the end of this great war will find them united in a country of their own desire, that never again shall a known foe rule upon them. The history of the Southern Slavs from the most ancient times prove the fact that they are one and the same people, that their desires are • one, that the downfall of one would be the ruination of the other. Those of the Southern Slavs who are at present in Austria are unable to express their wishes in regard to their unity, but there is no doubt this wish Is in their hearts, and for this they are enduring every imagin able outrage at the hands of the Austro-Hungarian authorities. They are being robbed, hanged, shot and thrust into the forefront of the bat tle against the brothers of their own 1 race. This unparalleled suffering of the whole Southern Slav nation has done more than anything else to create the moral unity of all the Southern Slavs. And, therefore, all of the South ern Slavs hope and trust that when the day of victory dawns for the Allies over the Central powers, it will also be the moment of victory for all that they most ardently de sire for the Southern Slav unity will be realized and the Southern Slav state created, and this has been their dearest dream for many cen turies. I am writing this message to the people of Harrisburg so they can easily see where the Croatlons stand in the war. A STEELTON CROATIAN. THANKS THE TELEGRAPH To the Editor of the Telegraph: Permit me to express our deepest appreciation for the generous way in which you have given your space in furtherance of the Jewish War Suf ferers Campaign in Harrisburg. American Jewry is under a great obligation to you for this noble serv ice. Cordially yours, LOUIS MARSHALL, Chairman. A Sneer I declare to you I think a sneer is the worst thing Ood has not made. —George Mac Donald. THE SOLDIERS Who is a soldier of Old Uncle Sam? Not the man in the trenches alone. But the boy and the girl who'll save the wheat bread, And fill up on good old corfc pone. Who is the fellow who's true to his flag. Not only the man wh