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TUESDAY, APRIL t. 1918
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life Jess difficult to othersf
—Geo. ELIOT.
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LEND—NOT SPEND
LEND your money to the United j
States government and let!
Uncle Sam do the spending, j
In that way you will save money;
for the Inevitable "rainy day" *hat'
comes into every man's life and you
will provide tlie country with onej
of the essentials of force which the
President has promised shall be
used unstintingly for the overthrow
of the German autocracy. One of |
the elements of military force is
men; he have them. Another is
material; we have them. A third
is money, and the only way that
can be made available in sufficient
quantities is by YOUR subscriptions
to Liberty Loans.
If you lend your money to the gov- j
ernment, you may be quite sure that
it is going to be used for some na-]
tlonal purpose—to prosecute the war
successfully, to care for, equip, arm
and supply our soldiers In France:
to be used by our Navy in ridding
the seas of the murderous U-boats.
But if you spend your money even
with the belief that by putting it
Into the channels of trade others
into whose hands it comes will lend
it to the government, you will have!
done something the patriotism of
which may be very questionable.
First, you have withdrawn from
the supply of material of the nation
something to replace which in the
market will require labor and ma
terial which should be devoted to
war purposes.
Second, the person to whom you
pay your money may also use It to |
purchase things requiring material
and labor which should be devoted
to war purposes. And the person
to whom he pays it may repeat the
operation.
But when you lend your money
to the government instead of spend
ing it, you will at once lessen the
drain to a certain extent on our
country's resources, Its materials, its
labor and its transportation facili
ties, and in addition you supply your
government with money to be used
in winning the war.
Every purchase of a Liberty Loan
Bond is an individual act toward
bringing victory to America and her
allies.
The badge of honor for the next six
months will be the new Liberty Loan
, button —a border of red, a field of
blue and a Liberty Bell with the
words. "Third Liberty Loan," in white.
See to It that you wear one.
M'ADOO, A TYPE
WE used to know McAdoo, now
Secretary of the Treasury, as
one of the "Big Business"
crowd and the yellow magazines and
the yellow newspapers warned us as
to what we might expect from such
as he. We shuddered, yes Indeed
we did, when he was elevated to the
Secretaryship of the Treasury. Here
was one from the very citadel of the
"Financial Forces," the very center
of Wall Street, with all the wealth
and treasure of the nation placed at
his disposal.
We had been taught to look jvith
suspicion upon McAdoo. It was in
ferred, if not directly charged, ihat
he was not to be trusted; that he
was a man of much wealth and !ar?e
financial connections, and, therefore,
must be hand in glove with the w
ful trusts and their unscrupulous
manipulators.
Now we know that Mr. McAdoo is
neither worse nor better than the
average run of Americans. He is
just as patriotic and Just as honest
as the people whose servant he is
and he Is unquestionably serving the
nation to the very best of his ability
The Telegraph holds no brief for
Mr. McAdoo. His political views
and those of this newspaper are dia
metrically different. But McAdoo Is
a type of American man
wrongly held up to public suspicion
and censure. lie is a conspicuous
example of the great services "big
business" men aae rendering the na
tion In this crisis. Fpr the* reason
his case is worth mention.
As Richard D. Leonard, himself
well known In mercantile circles,
pointed out in a recent article on
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TUESDAY EVENING,
business and the wax, It "Is quite evi
dent that the one big Important]
(actor In bringing victory will be the'
genius of our big business organiza
tions in handling efficiently and
economically the necessary resources
of the country," and It Is refreshing
to observe thut the nation apparently
is awakening to the serious effects
of hampering the normal develop
ment of our industries by unjustifi
able criticism and by restrictive and
injurious legislation.
Along this line, Charles E. Hughes,
himself as vigorous an opponent of
dishonesty in business as the coun
try has ever known, in an address
before tha New York Bar associa
tion, had this to say:
Is It too much to expect that
we shall have a saner attitude
toward business, toward the
necessary activities which afford
the basis of progress, toward or
ganization of industry, of trans
portation, of labor? Now that we
have a real fight on our hands,
demanding tlio organization and
direction of all our resources of
men and things, can we not learn
to distinguish the real evils from
the bogies of the imagination? I
hope that the days devoted to the
application of the uncertainties
of such statutes as the Sherman
act are numbered. May we not
hope for a better appreciation
and a more precise definition of
wrongs. What an absurdity it is
to find that the very co-operation
which the nation finds necessary
for its own economic salvation
under the strain of war is de
nounced as a crime In time of
reace.
It is no nearer the truth to say
that nil big business men are dis
honest than it is to say that all small
business men are honest. We can
not afford to flout big business, for
to Its representatives must be left
the problem of handling the re
sources of the country during the
war. It would be folly to take that
task from men who have built our
industries to their present efficient;
form and entrust it to mere tyros. l
If the war is to be prosecuted snc- j
cessfully there must not only be no
shortage In production, but rather i
an increase. By the skill and pa-!
triotism of big business men the j
world will be made safe for demo-'
cracy and industry and in the period;
of reconstruction that follows the j
war big business must as certainly i
come in for its fair consideration at
the hands of the national govern-1
ment, as labor and small industry!
undoubtedly will, for a share of the!
benefits that peace and prosperity)
will bring.
Congress will vote sso,o(ft>.ooo for j
cement ships; a concrete example of ;
common sense, so to speak.
IN MASSACHUSETTS
THE favorite plea of those who;
sell liquor is for regulation in-!
stead of prohibition. They are|
ready enough to admit, in the facej
of growing anti-liquor sentiment!
largely brought about by abuses of'
the liquor-selling privilege, that re
forms in the trade are worth consid
eration, but that more harm than
good would result from total elimi
nation of the traffic. Massachusetts,
which has just ratified the prohibi
tion amendment, takes a different
view.
In that State the sale of liquor is ,
regulated as wisely and as effectively j'
as is possible anywhere, perhaps. j 1
For a longer time it has had a ['
oughly workable local option law, ;
and, according to , the New York <
Times: "Each municipality . having !
1,000 inhabitants decides by popu- \
lar vote whether the sale of liquor <
shall be allowed within its bounds. ;
Towns with fewer than 1,000 inhab
itants are not permitted to have li
censed drinking places. In the larger <
communities the number of drink- 1
ing places is restricted. The hours ]
in which they may be open are j,
fixed by the State and obedience to 1 '
the statute is enforced generally l>yj ;
capable local police, whose conduct j|
is closely checked by the State po-.,
lice. The fees charged for licenses [
are high, the revenue from this ;
source being the important consid-'
eration with the taxpayers. Finally,!
it the municipal authorities consider
it inexpedient to issue licenses,
I even after an affirmative vote on the
! question at the polls, they cannot be
! compelled so to do."
Here we have a State in which the
people have had ample opportunity
to observe the results of effective
regulation. If the arguments of the
liquor advocates worked out in prac
tice Massachusetts would have hesi
tated long about registering their
approval of a change so radical as'
the adoption of the federal amend
ment proposes. The only poncluslon
Is that purely regulative measures
are only make-shtfts and that total
elimination of the liquor trade is the
sole remedy of the evil.
The Times, commenting upon the
situation in Massachusetts, observes
that the legislature there declined to
consider for a moment the "dishon
est plan" of postponement worked
so cleverly in New York, and by re
ferring the amendment to a popular
vote, and this will be an argument
that will not be valid in Pennsyl
vania next year, for the reason that
every legislative candidate's attitude
on the liquor question will be sub
ject to the closest scrutiny at the
cor/iing primaries and afterward at
the general elections. But in an
other way tho situation in Masia
cliusetts docs somewhat resemble
that In Pennsylvania in that the for
eign element of both States consti
tutes no mean proportion of the to
tal population. No great protest
was raised in Massachusetts againsti
the amendment by these aliens and
and none will be in Pennsylvania next
i year, the German drinking clubs.
which used to march through the
i Capitol grounds every time an antl
, liquor bill was up for vote, being
! now beyond the pale of popular con
i sideration and the other organiza
tions of foreigners apparently <-ar
. Ing little how the question Is decided.
If "Pat" O'Brien, after his experi
ence, Is willing to go bark to fight the
Hun, how much more willing ought
you to be to put S3O Into a Liberty
Bond.
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By ttM Ex-OomtttHflMi
The Philadelphia City Rapublican
Committee yesterday did the azpecU
ed and passed up endorsement* (or
any candidates for state ticket*. Ex
cept for a bouquet thrown at Con
gressman John It. K. Scott, there
was no reference to state candidate*
and only congressional, senatorial
and legislative candidates were en
dorsed. The lack of action on a
state ticket was all the more signifi
cant because Senator Vare dominated
the meeting and made a speech in
which be declared that men who
wanted to be "dry" could be so and
that It was the part of wisdom to
line up what he termed the "church
vote."
It Is now said that the Philadel
phia City Committee will not meet
again for more than a fortnight. The
meeting yesterday seated the suc
cessor to Magistrate "Billy" Camp
bell and completed details for nom
inating petitions to bo tiled here to
morrow. The fact that there were
no endorsements is taken to mean
that the Vares Intend to await de
velopments.
•—Senator Sproul and his friends
! are conlldent that the Vares will en.
1 dorse the man from Delaware county
| notwithstanding any light which may
develop on lieutenant Governor. The
I Vares are insisting that it shall be
j or a light and there are iutlma
j tlons that the state administration,
| in an effort to force the Vares' hand,
| may bring out a candidate for Lleu-
I tenant Governor who would he en
dorsed along with J. I)enny U'Nell
| for Governor and thus he run against
both Scott and Beldleman.
■ —Meanwhile O'Nell is getting
j-eady his platform. This will be
a document which will enable him
to have what Is hoped to be last Bay.
O'Nell hhs mude frequent announce
ments and statements of his po
sition, but the platform will be the
final statement. Gilford Plnchot. who
came here last night, will remain a
day or two to draft some planks,
while Governor Brumbaugh and At
torney General Brown will see that
the administration Is well cared for,
while the Commissioner and his al
lies will attend to state prohibition
at once and other burning issues
which O'Nell men havo been raising
the last few days.
—Action of the O'Nell men in
making up their slate for Congress
man-&.t-L,arge recalls the slate for
presidential delegates for the Gov
ernor two years ago. At that time
the administration placed W. S.
Aaron, Altoona merchant, at the
head of the list, going on the as
sumption that A is a vote getter. The
latest slate with Aaron, Atherton and
Burke seems playing close to the
top.
—Pinchot's presence here started
reports that he would be named as
a commissioner of agriculture very
promptly, but he refused to discuss
the matter and the Governor's office
was silem.
—Robert P. Habgood is first of the
Republican candidates for Governor
to lilc papers, lie entered an impos
ing bale of petitions last evening.
—State political sharps are now
sitting back watching the filing of
nominating petitions at the Capitol
and there is many a strategic move
being made.
—All the members of the present
Congressional delegation en
dorsed for renomination by the Phil
adelphia city committee yesterday.
The State Senators endorsed for re
nomination are: Salus, of the Second
district; Patton, of the Fourth, and
Jenkins, of the Sixth. 'William J. Mc-
Nichol was endorsed to fill the Third
district vacancy caused by the death
of his father, the late James P. Mc-
Nichol, and in the Eighth Senatorial
district George Gray, a manufactur
er, living in the Twenty-third ward,
was endorsed for the seat held by the
late Senator 'William Wallace Smith.
—The Town Meeting party open
ed its drive for a big registration
of independent voters at a meeting
last night in Philadelphia. Chair
man George W. Coles, who was the
principal speaker, attacked the can
didacy of Congressman John R. K.
Scott, which he said would make the
Issue clear at the May primary, be
cause it related "directly to the city
and its welfare."
—The York county court ordered
an inquiry into the fees received by
Sheriff William Haas for victualizing
prisoners in the county jail and a
decision will be rendered later
whether the sum of forty-five cents
per day for each prisoner Is exces
sive. A petition was recently filed
by A. M. Grove, of Muddy Creek
Forks, and other citizens of the
county, praying for the investigation
of this question, as well as of certain
I alleged cruelties practiced by the
1 Sheriff upon prisoners under his
care. The Judges rendered an opin
ion that the cruelty charges are sub
jects either for prosecution by the
party injured or by the District At
torney.
—Efforts to bring out a large reg
istration of Independent voters was
begun yesterday by an organization
known as the joint committee on
political registration, says the North
American. The committee is com
posed of representatives from fifteen
of Philadelphia's civic and religious
organizations and is making a con
certed and non-partisan effort to
secure the fullest possible registra
tion on April 17. It is estimated by
the committee that 137,000 voters in
Philadelphia failed to register last
September and thus could not vote
at the election. The committee ex
pects to place In the hands of every
voter a "voter's calendar," advising
each one as to his ward and election
division. -
—E. J. Martin, city clerk, and
Robert Clark, assistant city clerk,
were re-elected by Pittsburgh's coun
cil for another three-year term by
a unanimous vote. Mr. Martin has
been attached to the city clerk's of
fice since 1883, when he entered it
as messenger and page. In 1890 he
became assistant city clerk and three
years later he was elected city clerk,
having served continuously since
then, except a period of three years.
Robert Clark entered the office 25
years a*o. Both clerks receive the
same salary, $2,000 a year.
They Never Will Be Missed
An addition of SJI German pris
oners to the internment camp at Fort
McPherson makes the total number
of war prisoners there 1,373. This is a
population increase which will be
viewed with satisfaction, and not
least by the communities whose own
population is thereby depleted.—New
York World.
Judas Didn't Last
Comparisons of profiteers to Judas
are hardly fair, as the latter even
tually developed symptoms of re
morse and bumped off.— Washington
Post
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LETT±RS TO THE EDITOR^
POIJCE KEEP DRY
7'e the lSditor of tht Ttlegraplt:
Sir: Please give mo space to com
ment upon the police arrangements
at the Chestnut Street Auditorium
last night. The committee In charge
! took steps to request that there be
plenty of officers on hand, but the
police authorities sent them the hot
house variety. Hundreds of people
had to stand In the rain while the
officers were nice .and warm Inside
tho vestibule. Shortly before 8
o'clock scores of ticket-holders were
marooned in the crowd outside the
doors, unable to get through, while
half a dozen policemen were Inside
looking out. And when the doors
were open Instead of the officers be
ing outside to prevent crowding,
there was a terrific rush with \lie
policemen again Inside looking out
SUFFERER.
UNFAIR
[New York Tlmeal
The government officially makes
known the fact that the Army has
more than 100,000 Smiths, of whom
1,500 are 'William Smith*, 1.000 are
John Smiths, and 200 are .Tohn A.
Smiths. There are 1,000 John
Browns, 1,200 John Johnstons, 1,-
040 George Mllers, and 262 John J.
O'Briens, "of whom fifty have wives
named Mary."
The government cites this as a
reason why applicants for govern
ment soldiers' Insurance should sign
their full names.
But It will strike almost every
body else that it is also a reason why
the "War Department should not per
sist in Its foolish and unintention
ally cruel policy of announcing only
the name of a killed or wounded
soldier, without giving the place of
his enlistment.
Of these, 1,500 William Smiths it
is reasonably sure that at least one
will be killed or wounded or die of
disease before the war Is over. His
family will be grief-stricken by the
news when it comes.
Why should the families of the
other 1,499 William Smiths also suf
fer the tortures of anxierty and
doubt because the War Department
refuses to give the place of the dead
or injured William Smith's enlist
ment?
The War Department replies that
they will not suffer these tortures,
because they will have perfect con
fidence that the infallible bureau of
the War Department would have
notified thpm if it had been their
William Smith, and that the infal
lible Post Office or the infallible
telesrraph office would have forward
ed the notification. But this Is not
true. .
Human beings are not made that
way; and it Is with human beings
the War Department is dealing, not
with Martians or Inhabitants of the
moon.
Liberty Speaks For the Loan
Raise your hammers. O my people.
Let your blows descend like hall.
Every bond you buy's a rivet
In your country's coat of mail.
Tou have sent her to my battles
Young and untried in her might,
Drive your rivets, O my people,
Clamp her plates of armor tight.
Drive your rivets quick and firmly,
Let your blows descend like bail.
Help the lads across the ocean!
It's with you to win or fail.
It's with you in home, and shipyard.
Shop, or factory, or farm.
Shop, and factory, and shipyard
Swing your hammer like one arm.
JCow's the time to rise and do it,
All at once, lest Freedom fail;
All together, O my people,
Let your blows descend like hail.
Phoebe Hoffman.
Restrictions
The Kaiser's latest ruling is that
his friendly neighbors may occupy
a little land but they must keep off
his ocean.—From the New York
World.
STATE PRESS
W deprecate the tarring and
feathering of anybody, no matter
what he does. But if a man Infatu
ated with his own voice should at
tempt to hold a meeting in the rear
of the British line for the purpose
of urging non-resistance to Germany,
it would be evident that something
summary ajid permanent should be
done to him. It is little if any bet
ter, when the nation is at war, to
hold meetings in the interest of
seeking terms from Germany. The
pacifists had their chance before we
got into the war: they were out
voted; now it is time for them to
keep still, and if they won't they
must be silenced. —Philadelphia
Record.
The Cleveland council has expelled
two Socialist members by formal
vote and the act should carry a les
son to every legislative body in the
country—municipal, state and na
tional. The Socialist party, as it
stands to-day, is simply an annex to
Prussianism, and, as we are fighting
Prussianism in Europe, there is no
| reason apparent why we should tol
erate it at home.—Altoona Mirror.
The new rule of the Senate to pre
vent conference committees from
undoing legislation which has been
passed in both Houses of Congress
and to prevent the insertion of legis
lation which neither House has sanc
tioned, found prompt application In
opposition to the provision of the
railroad bill —inserted by the con
ferees—which would inhibit the
states from increasing railroad val
uations for purposes of taxation.
The amount of money thereby saved
to the various states can hardly be
computed.—Allentown Chronicle.
THEOPENBOA T
■
"When this war is done," says Dan,
"and all the fightin' *s through,
There's some'U pal with Fritz again
as they was used to do;
But no.t me," says Dan the sallor
ma'n, "not me," says he; /
"Lord knows It's nippy in an open
boat on winter nights at sea.
"When the last battle's lost an' won
an' won an' lost the game,
There's some'U think no 'arm to
drink with squareheads Just the
same;
But not me," says Dan the sailor
man, "an' If you ask me why—
Lord knows It's thirsty In an open
boat when the water breaker's
dry.
"When all the bloomin' mines is
swep' an' ships are sunk no
more,
There's some'U set them down to eat
with Germans as before;
But not me, say Dan the sailor
man, not roe, for one—
Lord knows It's hungry in an open
boat when the last biscuit's
done.
"When Beace is signed and treaties
m made an' trade begins again.
There's some'H shake a German's
hand an* never see the stain;
But not me," says- Dan the sailor
man, "not me, as God's on
high—
Txjrd knows It's bitter In an open
boat to see your shipmates die."
—From London Punoh.
WHEN A FELLER HEEDS -> .> By Briggt
Now That the Kaiser Is Here-
How Do You Like Him?
By Jonx M. SIDDAXJIJ in the American Maguzinc
TAKE another look at Emperor
William. We are beginning
to seo a good deal of him. It
seems to mc that I run into him
everywhere I go. And whenever I
aee him I And that be has a lot of
new instructions to give me—orders
to hand out—things that I shall or
shall not do.
"Last Saturday I thought I would
go up to the golf club and get a little
exercise. When I got there I found
that this bird had preceded me and
closed up the place. The clubhouse
looked like Belgium, cold and deso
late. No more coal until further
notice—by order of German Willie.
"It's the same way at home —heat
turned off, lights turned down, sugar
nearly gone. And the Emperor at
the bottom of it all. If it weren't
for his ambitions, things would be
back where they were.
"At the restaurant where I eat my
lunch William has taken charge of
the kitchen, and the. dining-room.
He tells me what I can have and
what I can't have —mostly what I
can't have. He has lowered the
quality of the food, raised the prices,
and fixed it so that I have to yell my
head off to get anything at all. Aside
from that, he's a perfect host.
"The old boy follows me to the of
fice. Say, William, have a heart! It
would require a couple of hundred
thousand words to describe the help
he is to me in my business—with all
that he is doing to upset the mails,
the railroads and the processes of
manufacture and delivery. On the
whole, it is more fun these days to
| HERO OF THE STOKEHOLD
"[From the Youth's Companion]
In the fall of 1916, when the
American liner St. Louis steamed
Into the danger zone off Nantucket
Island —where a German submarine
had recently been seen—a wireless
message warned her that a German
raider and probably German sub
marines were lying in her path. The
captain, on the bridge, immediately
signaled to the engineer and to the
fire hold for full speed ahead with |
forced draft.
The passengers and the crew on
deck had a chance to seo and gauge
the risks, but down in the stokehold
the signal was merely a message of
impending doom. If the vessel re
ceived a mortal injury the stokers
had little chance of escape, and they
knew it. For them it was a rush of
water or the bursting of a boiler,
scattering death and destruction in
a frightful form. But upon the fire
men rested the chance of the vessel
to escape her hidden foes: and so
they bravely fed the flres. The man
who faces and fights hie foe in the
open often forgets death in the heat
of battle, but the man who must
fight in the dark suffers agony of
mind.
William O'Hare was one of the
silent heroes of the stokehold. When
the signal came and the St. Louis
began to race through the passage
he and his comrades knew what it
meant. Straining every nerve nnd
muscle they shoveled coal into the
furnaces under the boilers, knowing
that the roar of the forced draft
might be a dirge for them. O'Hare
set the pace, and protested against
giving up when he became exhaust
ed. His comrades had to pull him
away from the furnauces, and a few
hours later he died of overexertion.
1 At noon on the following Sunday he
was burled at sea. Even If the im
pending danger was not great, he
' gave his life to save others as surely
as any hero ever did.
Want a Job?
i Uncle Sam wants a first-class
weather man for his Army In France,
i Applicants for the Job should send
'| samples of their work.—New Tork
World.
sit at home and shiver than to go
down to business and sweat.
"Yes, sir, the Emperor Is with us
every waking moment. It took quite
a long time for him to get over here,
but he has arrived, bag and baggage.
And he has established personal re
lations with each one of us. We
are having extensive dealings with
him, and we are not finding the rela
tionship very satisfactory. He's a
domineering, dictatorial nuisance.
He's also extravagant. His present
schemes have cost about seventy-five
billion dollars and four or five mil
lion lives. He is the bull-headed pro
moter type that gets in wrong—and
hang the expense! There's nothing to
be done but to get rid of him. If we
let him have his way now he will
go right on rocking the boat. He
loves authority, likes to boss. Give
him rope and there will be more
wars —and plenty of them. It will
be one big scrap after another.
"Uncle Sam lias set out to fire this
man. And we agree that the thing
must be done. So when they come
around to you this spring for contri
butions to the Liberty Loan or the
War Savings fund or the Red Cross
or the Y. M. C. A., rake and scrape
every penny you can find and put it
in toward finishing up the job.
"All join in the chorus—W-E |
P-O-N'-T W-A-N-T T-H-I-8 G-U-Y!
We have had a taste of him—and
we don't like his work. We may
have been monkeys once. The scien
tists tell us we were. But let's not
allow this kind of a specimen to
make monkeys of us again."
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YOURsLAD AND MY LAD
Your lad and my lad; can it be these
In dusty khaki and quaint puttees,
In sailor blouse and uniform,
In street and trolley, in sun and
storm,
Are tho boys we called ours but yes
terday.
Whom we thought but fit for school
and play? v
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I Your lad and my lad; whose are they,
then.
Who have heard the call for a na
tion's men.
Who have left the college and desk
and shop
And the seeded field for a grimmer
crop—
The belching forge and the dark
some mine—
Tell me, pray, are they my boys and
thine?
Your lad and my lad; at first they
took
Their strange new garb with a sheep
ish look.
Or a strut and a swagger that did
betray
They were only boys at soldier play.
But a light in the eye and a turn of
the head
I mark when I catch a Arm new
tread.
Your lad and my lad; whose did you
say?
Not yours and mine? New born In a
day,
With the chrism of love on each
young brow.
Ours, our country's, humanity's,
now?
The spirit has burst through the
crust of the clod
And their eyes have the shine of the
Sons of God.
Your lad and my lad; O Christ, my
King!
i We com* the richest oblation to
bring.
Not for death, but for the life and
the great TO-BE.
Our boys we offer as God gavo Thee.
At the foot of God's altar stalra we
i bow:
. Oh. take them and crown them with
1 victory now!
t ETIIELBERT D. WARFIELD.
Wltoon College, Chambersburg. Pa.
r " 'APRIL 9, 1918.
LABOR NOTES
Recommendations for increases to
Kitchener, Can., police salaries range
from SSO to |l5O a year.
The Anaconda Copper Mining
Company has created a labor de
partment, where employees can go
to secure the adjustment of minor
disputes.
St. Louis (Mo.) Cement Finishers
Union has secured a new wage agree
ment, effective April 1. Wages are
increased to 75 and 80 cents an hour.
An increase of $2 to $5 a week
has been secured by Cincinnati Ice
Men's Union. An additional |2 a
week will be paid on March 1 next
year.
Federated shop men have se-
I cured their first agreement with the
\ Grand Trunk Railroad. Wages are
increased to nearly S3OO a year for
each employe.
Officers of the International
Brotherhood of Bookbinders report
that for the month ended February
10, 147 men and 172 women were
admitted.
England has averted the threat
ened strike of 70,000 tramway and
bud employees by an increase of $5
in the weekly wage over the figure
that was paid before the war.
Brantford (Can.) Board of Edu
cation denied the request of 112
teachers for a war bonus. Instead,
the maximum for female assistants
was raised from SBSO to S9OO.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
FIRESIDE HUMOR.
"Sh! Don't make any noise."
"An 1 fehy?"
"Me fut's aahleep."
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SMALL ONES.
"This writer does his best work la
the small hours."
"Those kind of hours would suit
me."
THAT'S ALL.
"What do you think the bigges
factor !a making a genius?"
"Midnight oU X tkteftV*
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Ebmtuj (Eljat :j
From all aceounta Pennsylvania i
la long on aauer-kraut and the food i
people ar urging- that It b bought i
and eaten with the traditional trim- !
mings not only for the delicacy that I
It 18, but to prevent waste. In west
ern Pennsylvania there la & large |
amount of this delectable food in j
storage, fairly begging from what |
thd newspapers Bay, to be eaten ,
In the no-called "Dutch belt" there
is also more than usual and some or'
the farmers would like to sell it. !
Tlio large cities have plenty of tho!
dainty on hand. But the interesting i
thing about it all, is, that there are i
differences of opinion as to the rea
j son why so much Is on hand. The i
people in Berks and tiebanon and i
Lehigh counties say that there was a
large cabbage crop and the same ist
said in parts of York and Lancaster
counties. In the cities the grocers
say that they And it hard to move,
because of the prices they are com - •
pelled to ask. Year before last, be
cause of the foreign demand, cab-1
bage went away up in price. The
result was that every one raised
cabbage last year. When it wan
made Into kraut, it caught the In
fection of. the times and tho prices j
went up. Hence, sauer-kraut did
not receive the attention which it'
merited. But one of the funniest
things about the sauer-kraut situa
tion is that some people "knocked"
kraut, because it had a German
name. This got so noticeable that
in Pittsburgh, the federal authorities
took notice of It. This is what the
Gazette-Times says about it: "Mr.
George issued a statement that
sauer-kraut, notwithstanding the hy
phen, ought not to be considered an
unpatriotic food and that a great
deal of trouble might be eliminated
by giving it the wholesome Ameri
can name of "pickled cabbage." This
combination may be written and
printed without the hyphen. Tlio
food bureau explained that 'a rose
by any other name would smell Just
as sweet.* Sauer-kraut is therefore
to be sauer-kraut, or even sour-krout
no longer, but pickled cabbage, be
cause it is made of cabbage put in
pickle, or brine, and allowed to
ripen and mellow with age. It may
therefore be eaten by patriotic peo
ple without qualms of conscience."
The exhibit of war-time pouters
which has been made at the Harris
burg Public Library and which is
the finest of the kind ever known In
this part of the state, was made pos
sible by the aid of boys from Tech
nical High school. When assist
ance was wanted to hang them.
Principal Fager volunteered a squad.
The boys did the work in style.
• • •
Stopping over in Harrishurg by
drafted men, especially when the
visitor happens to stray into the
Eighth ward, is not very pleasant if
the experience of a drafted ma'i
from a western county is any Indi
cation. This man let his train get
away without him, so he says, in
any event, he turned up at the sta
tion some houra afterwards not
pleased with Harrisburg. He had a
portion of a jag. a black eye, some
torn clothes and his papers had
been stolen. From what he said he
had been up in the old Eighth ward.
"The ground is unusually dry,"
said & suburbanite this morning
when asked why the "garden bri
gade" had not shown much activity
along the trolley lines this spring.
"I believe that the earth has less wa
ter in it now than during any sprint"
of recent years," he continued. For
this reason and- because last year
many gardeners had unfortunate ex
periences due to a late cold snap
they are going slow this year. OP
course radishes, lettuce, peaa and
onions are already in the ground in
many gardens, but as a whole wo are
awaiting more favorable weather.
Speaking of onions, the man who
delayed his purchases of sets is now
at an advantage. I paid 25 cents
a quart for first class sets early in
the spring, fearing a shortage, and
at one place in the Chestnut street
market picked up the same kind on
Saturday for 15 cents a quart."
• •
"Wajning that many "war gar
deners" this year are going to suffer
I loss, unless they clear the ground of
remnants of last year's crops was
Issued to-day by Dr. J. G. Sanders,
the State Zoologist. According to
the records of the State Department
of Agriculture, there were thousands
of "war gardens" in Pennsylvania
last year and their owners and work
ers suffered losses running into
thousands of dollars, because of fail
ure to properly take care of soil and
plants. The winter came so early
last year, that many were unable to
clear their patches. Consequently,
declares Dr. Sanders "Excessive
numbers of insect pests and increas
ed plant diseases threaten our gar
deners and farmers this season."
He says that a uniformly cold win
ter is favorable to insects and that
as "war gardens were everywhere
left untouched after harvest with
remnants of cabbage stumps, beets,
spinach, radishes, turnips and other
vegetables" they will afford means
of insects to do much damage. Dr
Sanders says the soil should b
cleared and plowed and poisoned
brail mash scattered to kill cut
worms. Unless this is done, there
will lie heavy loss among "war gar
deners."
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
.—Dr. J. W. Mitchell, who aspires
to be the legislator from Mifflin
county, has been coroner of that
county and active In the Lewlstown
health board.
—Col. Frank G. Sweeney, waa
chief marshal of Chester's big lib
erty parade. He was formerly chief
draft officer.
—L. A. Sands, prominent Pitta
burgh banker, is home from a visit
to the Pittsburgh soldiers at Camp
Lee.
—Col. E. C. Shannon, of Colum
bia, formerly commander of the
Fourth Pennsylvania infantry, has
gone back to Camp Hancock from
Fort Sill.
—Charles M. Means, who will take
charge of Important distribution
work for the fuel administration. Is
one of the leading coal men of West
ern Pennsylvania.
—Ex-Senator Jere S. Hess, of Het
lertown, who Is 76 years otd. Is
celebrating half a century as a school
teacher.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsburjf has been a
military center In every war the
country has bad?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
It will be 127 years this week sinca
Harrisburg was first Incorporated.
Sheep As Pets
There is no lack of arguments
for raising more sheep in the United
States, but the man who says that
"a sheep is as good a pet as a dog"
probably never owned either one or
the other.—From Youth' Com
panion