10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO* Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E.J. STACK POLE, Prfx'f <5- Editor-in-Chirf 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 reserved. t Member American Eastern office, Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second rlass matter. ■ayrr-a By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1018 As to the burden, be content to bear it, until thou come to the place of deliverance; for there it will fall from thy back of itself. —Bunyan. BETTER THAN GERMANS THE manner in which American troops, the first time under fire, met and repulsed with great loss the German "shock" troops sent against them sends a glow of pride and a feeling of confidence throughout the nation. It is true that we lost brave soldiers, but no war has ever been conducted with out casualties on both sides and we' must expect greater and greater losses as the action develops on our front. All indications are that a picked body of the very best German troops available were thrown at the American trenches, the aim being to clean them out and strike terror to the remaining Americans. The re sult must have something of the opposite effect, lor the Germans who escaped the murderous fire of the Americans left their accoutrements and weapons for the most part In the trenches they had Invaded and scurried back like frightened rab bits. The American soldier has proved his superiority over the German even under circumstances greatly favoring the latter. Mayor Keister has scored another popular hit. He can do nothing more practically beneficial than to make the coming summer a recordbreaker for War Gardens in Harrisburg. ENGLISH LABOR'S AIMS HARRISBURG people win learn a lot about English war aims and after-the-war program at the meeting in Chestnut street au ditorium next Saturday evening at which British Labor Commissioners to America will speak. This gath ering should be attended not alone by laboring people. Men and wo ment of every walk of life should be present. Issues that will reach far beyond the war will be discussed. English labor is standing loyally be hind its government. English labor sends a message to American labor, urging it to back up President Wil sbn in this crisis. But the English commissioners bring to American workmen more than that. They come with a thought for the im provement of the working people of Great Britain when the war shall have ended in an allied victory, with the hope and belief that {t will find an echo on this side of the Atlantic. The promise is held out every where of a new world after the war —a world in which the masses shall have a greater share In the world's goods and better opportunity for well-being and happiness than ever before. The workers of the world— iboth those who labor with their hands and those who work with their brains—are going to save the world, and very properly they will demand a larger part in the administration of its affairs, after the victory shall have been won. This need not mean Socialism, but it will mean just that if intelligent employment methods are not made universal. Industrial leaders must put their houses in order, and it is for them as well as for laboring people that the English commissioners bring a word of in struction, for England Is much far tner along with a most remarkable after-the-war labor program than most people in this country know. Granted that the proposed radical reconstruction program of the Brit ish Labor Party is in some respects experimental and in others perhaps impossible of realization, there are many points of simlllarlty between it and the ideas advanced thinkers in this country have in mind for the United States, when the world has been made "safe for democracy." This need cause the ultra-conserva tlsts no alarm. There is nothing in it approaching the ideas of either the 1. W. W. or the Bolshevlki. It was Charles M. Schwab, ex plaining what he meant when he de clared that after the war the world TUESDAY EVENING, • HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 5, 1918. will be ruled by ita workers, who said to an audience in South Bethle hem, the other day: The aristocracy of the future is not going to be made up of people born to position and con trol through purple lineage and wealth, but bf people who work. And I here want to correct the misquotations of my remarks that I have been made on this subject i before and to correct impressions formed. I meant by "the people who work" not only those who work with tools and machines, but those who work with hearts, brains and their energies in any form. I regard myself as a work er. It will not conform with the standards of the future to have the enterprises of the world directed by any others than those who work. Justly should such people rule. And no theory of mine could be so ably expounded us by the people of this commu nity who have supplied the men, not one of them born with a sil ver spoon in his mouth, who are to-day responsible for the Beth lehem Steel Company. When the war is over capital and labor will be much nearer than be fore the war was started. Brain workers and manual laborers will have a more equal voice In affairs. There will be plenty of opportunity for Individual advancement, but not quite so much chance of the exploi tation of one class by another. If all of us conduct ourselves properly and are liberal and tolerant in our views, there will arise in America a true democracy, a country in which all shall really have an equal chance, and where happiness and well-being shall be a universal guarantee for the citizen who does his part honest ly, manfully and well. England has been in the war longer and has thought more along this line than we in this country have. That is why-it is important for workers of all kind to hear what the labor com missioners from Great Britain have to tell us. Coal is to be reduced fifty cents a ton April 1, but we're not so much interested in the price as in whether or not there is going to be enough to meet demands. EDUCATING BOARDS THAT school boards generally do not fully understand the ob jects of a democratized educa tion, that they are too busy with politics and with details of business administration to pay proper atten tion to the higher duties of directors, is the indictment of a commit tee of which Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Pennsylva nia, is the ranking member. The striking report of this com mittee was the feature of last week's conference of educators in Atlantic City, gathered there to dis cuss war work and the revision of the school system to meet the high est ideals of the nation following the war. Says the committee: In many localities a fine spirit of co-operation between the offi cial representatives of the people and the active members of the teaching profession has always existed, but there has been as yet no national movement to or ganize the lay leadership consti tuted by the membership of Boards of Education the country over for the purpose of studying the great objectives of public education in a broad way and for the purpose of co-operating with the professional forces so organized. Attempts to organize associa tions of members of Boards of Education have frequently been made upon a State basis; in fact, some dozen or more organiza tions of this kind are now in ex istence either as sections of the Ftate associations or as separate organizations. The history of these organiza tions shows that they have been short lived; that they have been animated by no great common, all pervading purpose, and that their efforts have been directed along the lines of detail of school administration. This committee does not minimize In the least the good that has .been done by these organizations, nor does it fail to recognize them as the be ginnings of a movement that may have great possibilities. But there can be no question of the seriousness of the crisis facing the public education sys tem of tile country; even the im minence of revolution in its gen eral aims and objectives and its relation to a permanent victory for the democracy of this great standard-making nationality of f'urs. This crisis—this revolution is even now upon us and this committee believes an intelligent lay leadership of public opinion can be a potent factor in recon structing the public school sys tem of the country to meet the great needs that are every day more and more apparent to the professional forces engaged in education. An organization of Boards of Education upon a rational basis with such an end in view, ani mated by such a vision of useful ness and of service, and Insti tuted as a co-operative parallel with the reorganized National Education Association—as pro posed by the Committee on Re. organization—could be of im measurable service to the Nation and to civilization. Generally speaking, these criti cisms are fair, although of • course, there are notable excefitions. But, if school directors do not measure up to the ideals of trained educa tors who give their entire time to study and practice of the subject, the fault Is not entirely theirs. The public has been all too prone to put the school director at the bottom of the election ticket, along with ward constables, precinct assessors and judges of elections. Too often the candidates have been mere pawns upon the political chessboard. Not infrequently they have been the creatures of school furniture or textbook representatives. More fre quently they have been just plain office seekers, intent upon making the school board a stepping stone to something higher. Occasionally there i? a director who Is well quali fied to serve and is doing so for pure love of the school system. Harris burg has had such and it also has had the other kind. And for these latter the voters and the taxpayers have themselves solely to blame. If the public were as much inter ested in the election of high-type men to the school board as it is in seeing men of big caliber chosen as superintendents, supervisors and teachers, there would be no such criticism as this special committee has offered. In the long run, public office ad ministration is just as good, and never any better, than the public lt self insists upon it being, and if school boards the country over are not up to the mark, the fault lies with the fact that the voters have not recognized the importance of the office, or, realizing It, have b*u careless. fMUctU "~P(h.K3l|v up a -s\ f ~ \ Keep That \ I GENUIHF CA"ZaiUS)j YE.s_awD WHAT DO RACKAGS AVJAY AH- IT S "fa' 3 MORN/N6 IKJ 1/y OO der advice to owners of orchards which have been affected, so that trees may be treated and made to produce. • • "The biggest service the Arkansas Food Commission has been able to render the people of that state," said Walter M. Ebel. publicity direc tor for that body, during a visit to his old home in this city yesterday, "was to teach the farmers of the Northern part of the state how to make cornbread. We believe we have devised the best recipe for this dainty there is in the country. Hun dreds of people who never knew what cornbread tasted like, are now eating it every day of their lives in Arkansas," he continued. "If any of my old friends in Harris burg would like to have a copy of the recipe I would be glad to for ward it to them from my office in Little Rock." Mr. Ebel brought from Washing ton, a most encouraging message from Food Administrator Hoover, for timid persons who may fear the war will lead to starvation. "No, such thing as starvation for us," Mr. Hoover, told the food delegates gathered, "We are good for fifteen years of the war. But," and the ad ministrator laid stress on the point. ' our people will have to re-construct their ideas as to what constitutes a square meal and they will have to use less of wheat and more of corn and other meals. It is not at all a question of going hungry, but of making the demand for any one kind of food meet the supply." An eatless day was almost a cer tainty on Train 25, westbound on the "Pennsy" Saturday. Trainmen came to the rescue, and with other volunteers, passengers enroute to Pittsburgh and other points west, were prevented from going hungry. When this popular train pulled out of Philadelphia, behind schedule time, it was found that four dining car waiters were not aboard. The cooks were there; also the steward and one waiter. Travelers on the train that day appeared to be un usually hungry and there were early demands for a noonday meal. The "eats" were ready, but the rush was so great that passengers who were to leave the train at Harrisburg, were in danger of losing. The stew ard became a waiter and trainmen helped him out in his regular duties, one taking the orders and delivering them to the kitchen. Later another waiter was secured. Those who were bound for Harrisburg and Altoona were accommodated first. Then came the Pittsburgh passengers. On the arrival of the train in this city, local waiters were sent west with the train. • * • State Librarian Thomas Lvnch Montgomery, who had a birthday yesterday, had a number of very pleasant experiences. However, one telephone message gave him a jolt. "Hello," sang a voice, "This is a newspaper reporter, I want the State Librarian's office." "This is it," answered Dr. Mont gomery, in his blandest, birthday tone. "What's in this story that the State Librarian is dead?" , "Dead?" remarked Dr; Mont gomery. "You don't mean it. Well. I'll tell. It's true. I have known it for some time, but I don't want it to get out." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Leonard Replogle, the former Johnstown man who is in charge of steel purchase for the government, is a great believer in looking up things himself and the terror of clerks and others who make inper fect statements. —Major John O. Kinter, of the Medical Corps of the United States Army, has been placed in charge of the army hospital at Markleton. —The Rev. Dr. John Royal Har ris, active spirit in the Dry Federa tion. ti making a series of speeches in Western Pennsylvania. —The Rev. Kark Grannon, new auxiliary bishop of Erie, was for years rector at Meadville. —George R. Wallace, prominent Pittsburgh lawyer, is making dally speeches for War Savings. | DO YOU KNOW "] —That Harrisburg Is furnish ing sausage for army camps? HISTORIC HARRTSnUBG Paxton creek used to be lined wit brick and wood yards 100 years ago. Almost everyone owned a yard of some kind in that section. The Stamp of Success He bought a little thrift stamp, then He bought a little bond. And next he bought a house and lot Beside a lily pond. He bought a pianola and He bought a diamond pin. A flivver and a portable Garage to keep it in. He also bought a city block. A yacht, a limousine. With two twin chauffeurs up in front Dolled up in Russian green; A railroad and a factory And steamship line, for so Do fortunes in the U. S. A. From little thrift stamps grow. —Minna Irving, in New York Sun,