6 HAP.RISBURG TELEGRAPH A XBIVSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Tclcmfk Building, Federal Saare. IS. J. STACKPOLE.PW# 6- 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. . Member American A Newspaper Pub- Entered at the Post Office in Harrli burg, Pa., as second class matter. -rntprtwfr By carriers, ten cents a "week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance, SATURDAY, MARCH 10. 1018 Sorroic and silence are strong and patient endurance is'Godlike.—LONG rtixow. CO-OPERATION \ • "IDEALIZING the futility of try ing to conduct the war without the aid of everybody able to help and with the stinging rebukes -of Senator Chamberlain and other Congressional critics fresh In their memories, leaders of the administra tion have concluded to seek the co operation of both Senators and Con gressman. Much of the bickering and quarreling that have marked recent months at the Capitol might have been avoided If this course had been adopted earlier. Congress is worthy of the trust and confidence of the President and his cabinet. It has a very important part to play in the conduct of the war and it will be efficient only to the extent of its understanding of the general scope of the plans as they are formulated and the emergencies as they arise. No American wants to know any thing concerning the war that should be concealed for military reasons, but every American, Congressman aiKl Senators included, wants very rail to know what is being done anil what is in prospeyt. The pro- German propagandist and the rumor monger arc as prolific with stories of what Is not being done as the gov ernment has been reticent about what has been done. Congress has been almost as much In the dark as the country. But now that important committees of House and Senate have been called Into weekly consul tation with administration heads to discuss war plans, all parties and fac tions being represented, the public will feel easier in its mind and settle down to work harder than ever tot victory, firm in the conviction that all is going well, or. If mistakes are made, they are being quickly cor rected. A weekly newspaper statement fol lowing these newly-instituted confer ences would have a tremendously beneficial effect upon the people and would greatly hearten them for the grueling days ahead. We wonder why the war, having caused so many kinds of famine, didn't produce a scarcity of Easter hats. SCORE ONE FOR CREEL THE TELEGRAPH holds no brief for Mr. Creel, the administra tion's publicity agent, but he lias taken a most sensible course in protesting aauinst the "War Depart ment's decision not to give to news papers the addresses as well as the names of men killed or wounded in France. The names are of small value, except in isolated cases, for they may be and likely will be du plicated and cause all manner of uncalled-for fear and apprehension. The War Department withholds t!:ia information for the reason that the Germans may learn something from these printed lists concerning the numerals of the American regi ments or divisions in front of them. The Idea is little less than absurd. In the first place, the Regular Army is not sectional. Its membership comes from all parts of the United States. Neither is the Rainbow Di vision, which embraces troops from every State. . The new National Army is almost as diverse in its make up, and the p ld National Guard has been so torn up and put together again that little could be learned of Its identity by a perusal of casualty lists. Jfo American wants to know any thing that would givo aid to the enemy, but every American insists upon being informed upon every question that can be answered with out endangering our troops. The lay mind can think of no good rea son for withholding these addresses and it is to be hoped that Mr. Creel ""'lll win his fight for intelligent pub licity. Harrisburg's draft of twenty-two men marks the first who have gone into military service from this city other than as volunteers. This is a record of which the community may well be proud. Rut it is no disgrace to awaited tbo call of the draft. SATURDAY .EVENING, HAXtRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 16, 1918. The men who are about to leave for training: camp served their country equally well during the period of waiting In shop or office. They will go out with the good wishes of all their townspeople for the "best of luck" and a safe return. "Coal operator found guilty- of murder." Some of them have done worse than that. PIGS AND CHICKENS RAISE a pig and be patriotic!" "Keep chickens in your backyard and help lick the Kaiser:" How circumstances do alter cases, to be sure! Unless we err greatly, it was only a short time ago that the Board of Health would have been hot on the trail of anybody who even hinted at "keeping- a pig." Hogpens and porlc diet occupied front page places as joint horrors in the bright lexicons of the professional "up-lifters." And the man who fed his table scraps to a half dozen hens that occupied a small section of the backyard was only pne stratum higher than his benighted neighbor who insisted upon raisins his own hams and ba con. And now we are told that bacon is one of the most nutritious of foods and must be considered, the raiser of pigs and chickens is look ed up to as a model member of tho community. There was a time when the suburban rear lot not decorated with a pig-sty was the mark of a shiftless resident. This was during the period of our national life when the chickencoop was as much a part of the household furniture as the cook stove, and almost as Important. It looks as though history might be about to repeat itself. I Von Hindenburg is "prepared to I lose 300,000 men." Some of those I American gunners will have to re- I duce their percentage of hits if the I number is not to be increased. F 00 DEVALUES F 1 OOD COMMISSIONER JAMES FOUST sizes up the food situa tion pretty accurately In a re cent issue of the monthly bulletin of the Pennsylvania Department of) Agriculture. Says Commissioner Foust: People engaged in Belgian re lief work say that one of the hardest things they had to over come was the fixed habit of eat ing certain kinds of food. The Belgian people had to be taught to eat cornmeal flour. They ob jected to corn in any form. It was new to them and they considered it hog- feed—unfit for human con sumption. They would not eat it until driven by necessity, and this feelins made it very hard to feed the hungry. The same thing has been observed in other countries, and in our large cities. People form the habit of eating certain < foods and will not change, even j though it is easy to prove that the new ration is "balanced" and cheaper. In Germany the neces sities of war and the stern na tional discipline have made it pos sible to substitute new forms of food but, in general, people will demand the kind of food they un derstand and like. There are many families who consider such food as cornmeal. beans and rice as fit only for "Chinamen and slaves," as one of them put it. Most people eat with their mind and eyes, and "bread riots" start not so much from scarcity of nourishing food as because peo ple cannot get the kind of food they like. That man is happy and wise who knows the prdtein in baked beans will keep him going as well as the similar sub stance in terrapin or roast duck. Atl men will not admit that, and thus the food distributor has his problems. Mr. Hoover Is authority for the statement that this country cannot be starred out and that we can con tinue to supply ourselves and our allies with food for fifteen years or more. But he is careful to say, also, that -we cannot do this and eat the quantities of wheat, beef and bacon we formerly consumed. We have got to change our diet. We must accept cornmeal and rice and other sub stitutes for wheat and cut down our meat consumption. We are already doing these things, but we must in crease our efforts. No, we are not going to starve, but, as Mr. Foust says, we ara. about to learn a few things about food values we never before knew or thought about. A CALITTO PRAYER THE Methodist Bishops have Is sued a formal call to prayer throughout the church during the Easter season. In the trying days of the Revolution Washington, it is recorded, frequently invoked divine aid. During the critical per iods of the Civil War Lincoln Is pic tured as laying his trials and trou bles before God in humble supplica tion. "In God We Trust" is a na tional motto. If ever there was a time -when divine aid was needed In guiding the hands of those in whose trust the fatjß of the nation reposes, it is the present. Prayer Is a weapon the Kaiser does not know how to wield and against which such has he have no defense. Prayer, earnest, .believing, consistent prayer, was part and parcel of the war programs of Washington and Lincoln. It ought to be good enough for us. LET THE JAPS GO IN RUSSIA having demonstrated that It is a willing party to the kind of peaco Germany pro poses for those upon whom it can force its will, the time has come when the interests of tho entente demand that Japan be permitted to enter Siberia. We have the choice of Russian domination or Japanese occupation, and of the two the latter Is by far the more desirable. Japan has every thing to gain and nothing to lose by standing to her agreement with the Allies and In fighting to bring Qor many to her knees. A victorious Germany would crowd her out of Asia entirely. A beaten Germany' will, not be in position to contend with the Island" Empire vigorously for the Far Eastern trade without which Japan cannot continue her ambltiouH program of power and In fluence. Wc must choose between Japan anJ Germany in China and Siberia. All our interests demand that the Japs be permitted to take a hand In; shaping affairs over which Russia herself appears to be entirely too much engrossed with playing sec ond fiddle to the Kaiser to care much about. The vast treasures of the Orient cannot long remain scatter ed about with a robber power abroad. Better let Japan become temporary custodian. 'PtKKOifftfCUUG, By the Ex-Committeeman Seldom, even In the last half doz en strenuous years in Pennsylvania politics, has Philadelphia held as much attention among men vNio fol low the development of partisan and factional political affairs as just now. For weeks the Vare brothers have been keeping the state guessing as to what they Intend to do In the Re publican gubernatorial primary and the elements opposed to the South ; Philadelphia leaders have been mak ing life more or less stirring for them, especially lp regard 10 con tracts and conduct of municipal af fairs. The situation in the Quaker City is believed to bo on the point of developing and the next ten days will probably be as momentous in state politics as any In the last doz en years. Indeed, so serious has it become that national Republican leaders are now reported as about to take a hand and on orders from the highest Democratic leaders the Pennsylvania Democrats have held back all booms for Governor until it is seen what comes out of Philadel phia. In other words, the whole state campaign of all parties has been held up and even efforts oil behalf of the "dry" amendment retarded until some squabbles about politics In Philadel phia are either ironed out or given fresh animation. —What appears to have been a well-arranged assault upon Senator Van's neutrality position occurred yesterday when Governor Brum baugh and Attorney General Brown, recipients of the favor of Senator Vare and the leading advocates of Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil as the successor of Dr. Brum baugh, joined Mr. O'Neil in pleading with the Senator to come out for O'Neil. Attorney General Brown Is personal counsel for Senator Vare, but even that fact and the presence of Congressman John R. K. Scott at the conference with Mr. O'Neil failed to result in any change that was announced or even intimated to the throng of officials and minor of ficeholders of the state administra tion who appeared to have business in Philadelphia yesterday. The move on Vare was evidently expected to bring forth something definite be cause the Capitol was on tiptoe with expectancy last night and Mr. O'Neil was in hopes when he left th city that he would have something by which to steer. —While .the administration blg ; chiefs were at Varo's tepee and the 1 braves were wandering about hotels and sitting in "movies," State Chair- , man William E. Crow was discuss- j ing the situation with the Penrose I leaders from all parts of the state j and Senator William C. Sproul was i meeting men and lining up his cam paign which will become active about April 1. , —Democratic leaders and scouts were pussyfooting it all over Phila delphia and th'e wires to Washington buzzed with reports of inability to get a line on things. —The whole thing is now resolved down to the meeting of the Repub lican city committee of Philadelphia, which is to be made the vehicle of the Vare declaration. The commit tee is controlled by the Vares who will have the mayor, district attor ney and other officials sit with it in making up tne choice. Some of the state administration men are jubi lant at this plan after ruminating over it for a week. It Is generally suspected that Senator Sproul has Senator Vare's promise. Vare is a wise general. He gets the drift of sentiment and gets ahead of it. Now. if through the efforts of the Attorney General and others, enough Vare leaders, who are more or less willing, should declare that O'Neil should be the man Vare might come out for the man from McKeesport. the other hand, Sproul men claim that the majority of the Philadel phia ward leaders are for Sproul and that they realize that the state administration can not put m more appointments in Philadelphia •without upsetting the balance in the' rest of the state. They also argue, these friends of Sproul, that Hie Brumbaugh administration will end in nine months and that the Vases j may have to fight to held their con trol in Philadelphia again, to say nothing of facing a demand in the state when the General Assembly meets for legislation that will cure Philadelphia's political distemper. Speaker Richard J. Baldwin, of the last House, will probably be a candidate for re-nomination in Dela ware county's second district, ac cording to friends. The speaker had been sawing wood and contemplat ing the historic spots along the Brandy wine,, but as he rejoices in a record of seven sessions, he will probably run again. —Another veteran who may re turn is Thomas F. McNlchol. floor leader of the administration in the last House, clever, witty and genial, with friends in every party and fac tion. McNichol's ambitions lie to ward the bench, but in Philadelphia many people are anxious to have him bnclc in the House and he may yield. —-Clem Chestnut, tho Fulton county member, has sent word to the folks here that the Democrats and 'most everybody else are for him In his baiywick and that he is coming back to the Legislature, but does not intend to s!t in any back row seat next time. Chestnut, however, can individualize any seat which may be bestowed upon him In legislative halls. —An interesting piece of political gossip from W'estern Pennsylvania Is that George Plunimer Baker, one of the Washington county delega tion. Is thinking of trying for the Re publican senatorial nomination in the Greene-Washington district. Dr. J. C/ McKay, of Waynesburg, and T. B. H. Brownlee, of Washington, also have aspirations. They are both "dry." but Mr. Baker has not de clared himself. —John A. Bolard, an attorney of Cambridge Springs, twice defeated for the Legislature from Crawford, says a Meadvllle dispatch, U willing to try his luck again on the Repub lican ticket. Ex-Representative L. O. MoLane,' of Wnesville. is leaning toward the race course as a Repub lican, and Fred J. Shattuck, of the same place, present assemblyman, will probably be In the field for re nomlnatlon. The Hon. John P. Wil liams. of Meade, tl|e ot'.uer as semblyman from Crawfprd county, does not expect to try for renotnlna tlon. Both 'Shattuck oiid Williams voted against the proposed prohibi tion amendment. On the Democra tic side for assemblyman, William L. MeUenbacher, who was defeated for re-election in 1916, .and J. C. McKay, who had the same fate, are expect ed to be in line for renomination on the Democratic ticket THE CONVALESCENT . fry |Jpy i where, im -■"" " OK DOCTOR * WJELL - BLANK 1 • are ** y r ~ I weviGß. W>OicW IRRITABLE FOR GOLF CLUBS- WHERE 5 * SuCmVofame - A Pew ALL THOSE Re-PAt(vJT£3> '/ '.'> ' lAM./$/'/ /m i e AN K j SotdUr ©>o PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and Smile—Smile—Smile. If you've a luclfer to light your fag- Smile—Boys, that's the style. What's the use of worrying. It never was worth while, So—pack up your troubles in your old kit bag And smile—smile—smile. THE STATE PRESS Germany never yet beaten the aJlies when she has gone (ip against anything like equal numbers and equal aquipment. The French beat the Germans on the Marne with In ferior forces. The French and Eng lish whipped them on the Somme. For three years they have been steadily beaten back on the western front. And it is the western front that is going to count in the end. These successes of the enemy else where are Irritating, but they are not of first importance.-—York Ga zette. Some of our people who celebrate German victories are the sons of the men who came to this country to escape from German military serv ice.—Reading News-Times. The war has taught us much. It has taught that youthful energy Is essential to some things. But it has also taught that maturity brings with it an equilibrium, a poise, which likewise has its advantages.— Johnstown Democrat. The insult of woman's suffrage In New York neither disappointed or displeased anyone. The women vot ed with their husbands and fathers The usual Democratic results were given in usual Democratic strong holds. True there was nothing emo tional In the issue. There was no religious or sectarian or conflsca tional movement to call forth the frenzies of sensationalism, so noth ing can be said as to what would bo done when such are injected, as they will be later.—Hagerstown Mail. When we consider the enormous frauds which were perpetrated on the federal government In the mak ing and execution of all kinds of contracts for supplies during the Civil War, and which were contin uous from the beginning of that war to the end, we should not feel dis mayed at the disclosure of the plot to rob the government of millions for which clothing manufacturers, their employes and a clerk in the quarter muster's department have been in dicted. By comparison, we are en titled to be surprised and to con gratulate ourselves that there has been so little of this kind of dis honesty in connection with this war. —Lancaster New Era. Verne Not Far Wrong Dr. C. H. Bedell, who has had over twenty years' experience with sub marines. observes, in the Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. that as far as the hand ling of a submarine is concerned, the boats of the present day are as per feet as the Nautilus of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." They make his fancy fact. We may even, if we so desire, make our boat so that when It Is at rest submerged a man with a diving helmet may pass from it into the sea and, entirely disconnected from the Submarine or the surface, ex plore the ocean lioor for an hour or more, as Captain Nemo of the Nauti lus did. That such construction is not used Is due to the fact that there seems to be no material need for such operations. The Nautilus was driven by elec tricity. We also use electricity when running submerged, but we obtain our electricity from storage batteries whereas Captain Nemo obtained his from the sea. The great difference between Action and reality in this case is that the Nautilus was able to go around the world with one supply of energy, while we are ob liged to come to the surface after one or two hundred miles for the purpose of recharging our storage batteries. The men on the Nautilus are sup posed to have bpen able, to see ob jects at up to one-half'or three-quarters of a mile by the light of the sun or by powerful electric lamps. While we at this time prob ably have more powerful electric lamps. It Is Impossible for us to see any great distance through water, no matter what method of lighting I Is used. The Religious Side of the War, By FRANK 0. LOW DEN. Governor of Illinois. FOR half a century before the war we heard many impossible claims made by the universities and statesmen of the German Em pire. We did not realize that these universities and these professors were a part of the state, established by tho state, receiving their appoint ments from the state, and therefore not members of free educational in stitutions as we know them In Amer ica. Not only were they made servants j of this conspiracy, but as time went on we found that the German clergy, as well, lent themselves to this mon strous doctrine that might makes right, that the cannon and the sword are the only argument as between nations, and that whatever is for the material benefit of the Nation itself, it is her duty to seize and hold if she can. I quote here a statement bearing upon this question, made by a long time resident of Germany, one who had in the past loved Germany well. This testimony is contained in a re cent issue of the Atlantic Monthly, j and it quotes from a leading German divine: "The German God —the God of the Old Testament; a God that dealt In realities, stern, severe, uncompromis ing; the God of the warrior, favor ing Zabadiah, the Son of Ishmael, Joshua and Judas Maccabaeus." Think of such language coming from the pulpit of a great nation in the twentieth century. When 1 re flect upon this, I also reflect that these ministers of Germany receive their appointment, too, from the state, and I thank God that in my land, church and state are absolute ly divorced." I quote from the same authority the oath of fidelity, which all who seek to enter the German minis try must take: "I will be submissive, faithful and obedient to His Royal Majesty—and his lawful successors in the govern ment —as my most gracious King and Sovereign; promote his welfare according to my ability; prevent in jury and detriment to him; and particularly endeavor carefully to cultivate in the minds of the people under my care a sense of reverence and fidelity toward the King, love for the fatherland, obeditence to the laws, and all those virtues which in a Christian denote a good citizen; and I will not suffer any man to teach or act in a contrary spirit. In particular, 1 vow that I will not support any society or association, either at home or abroad, which might endanger the public security, and will inform ills Majesty of any proposals made, either in my dio cese oi; elsewhere, which might prove injurious to the state. I will preach the Word as His Gracious Majesty dictates." That is the oath which the ministers of religion of this Imperial State must take if I they would preach the Word of God. No wonder that for half a cen tury, In pursuance of this conspiracy by the military autocracy to become the master of the world, the church from day to day has coupled the name of Deity with the name of the German Kaiser, until to-day the Kaiser himself speaks of Deity as though He were upon the same level as himself. The German God Is not the God of the Old Testament. The God of Joshua a God that believed In law, believed In keeping the Com mandments, and Joshua spent his last years in trying to bring his peo ple back to a realization of and obe dience to the law as It had been writ ten. Some one has said that this Ger man God was the God of the pagans. He was not, because even the pagan THE INCOME TAX • Price Paid For Stocks or Bonds Is Tax Basis We will say that In 1916 you bought certain stocks and .bonds for $5,000, and in 1917 the value of these securities dropped to $4,000. You cannot claim the difference of SI,OOO as a loss In computing your income tax liability. Under the provisions of the law only such losses as have actu ally been sustained during the year can be claimed; that is, the loss must have resulted from a completed and closed transaction. In your case, you still own the securities. They may go up In value dur ing 1918, and until they are sold on otherwise disposed of you are unable to determine whether you will .suffer a loss or derive a gain from your Investment. In words, no account is to be taken, for incomo*tax purposes, of fluctuations in the market value or arbi trary changes In the book value of securities.or other property. NOTE —This .ruling has been modified In the case of securi ties owned by brokers or others regularly engaged in buying and sell ing securities. See Treasury Decision 2609. gods had qualities of mercy, of jus tice, of gentleness. The Gorman God is that old savage god called Woden, who, it was supposed, was dethroned In the German forests 2,000 years ago. Across the brow of that German God should be written in letters of flaming light, "Made in Germany," because he has no existence any where else. And so 1 say that while It is a war of democracy, a war for liberty, a war for righteousness, a war for mercy, it is more than all this. It Is a war between the hosts of Heaven and tho evil powers that have al ways threatened righteousness since the first dawning of time. In the old wars, the defeated pa triot, the defeated lover of liberty, che defeated Christian could seek some land somewhere else—maybe our own beloved land—where liberty of conscience reigned supreme, and where he could find an exile from tyranny and oppression. But if this war goes against us there will be no nook or cranny in all the world big enough for the .defeated lover of lib erty, big enough for the defeated lover of justice and gentleness and right. Do you realize that Germany, the home of the divinest music which has ever entranced the ear, has not written any beautiful music of late years'.' Do you realize that when hate enters the human heart and dominates the human life there are no notes in all the gamut with which lo weave divine harmony? Do you realize that years ago beautiful, ex alted and inspiring poetry came in volumes from the German pen? But of fete years the only German poem of which X know that has gain ed fame is a poem called "The Hymn of Hate." And the German Emperor decorated its author! If there ever was a war in which the clergy should be united and should be vigilant, it is this war in which we are engaged. Every boy who is wearing the American uni form, whether he be in camp in our own country or in the trenches on the other side, or on the high seas, is your comrade, my friends, because he is helping you to win an everlast ing victory for the forces of right eousness. which are involved more than aught else in this war. They are your comrades. They are the comrades of all who believe that there is a God above, who holds this old planet in the hollow of fI Is hand, and who has said "Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a re proach to any people." LABOR NOTES Negotiations with ,the Foundry men's Club has resulted in wages for Philadelphia iron molders being in creased $1 a day. Nearly 2.000 or ganized employes are affected. Birmingham (Ala.) trade union ists are orgt'nlzing negro workers and predict that they will establish the largest union of these workers in Alabama. Utah State Free Employment Bu reau reports that during the first half of January 502 persons made application for work and 264 se cured employment. San Francisco Laundry. Wagon Drivers' Union has secured a two year union shop agreement, which provides for wage increases and im proved working conditions. | Quebec's compensation law has I been amended. Compensation Is to be paid monthly instead of every three months. Over tfwe MV 'pMUUU The highest prices ever paid, in the neighborhood of Lebanon for mules were realised at a recent sa'.e by Harry Shearer, near I