8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH F . A newspaper por thb houe Pounded iljt Published •▼•nlnffa except Sunday by THE TBLKGRAPH FRINTINO CO, Telccrifh Bulldlnc, Federal Siure. E.J. STACK POLK, Pres"t Sr EdUorin-CMtf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managini Editor. Ij- Member of the Associated Press—Tha 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. Al'. rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. j. Member American (T 1 Newspaper Pub- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. . est J "fTp . By carriers. ten canta a rmffrfweek; by mail. $5.00 * year in advanca. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1018 O Love Divine, that stooped to share Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear, On Thee we cast each earth-born care, We smile at pain while Thou art near! . —OLIVEB WENDELL HOLMES. I LIBERTY BOND VALUES AX owner of Liberty Bonds asks the Telegraph how it happens that Liberty Bonds, for which he paid par value of SSO, are selling on New York Exchange at less than that figure and he warjts to know if 1 the tfld bonds will not "bring face value now, why the new issues should be worth par. The answer is simple. Owners of > the two former issues of Liberty Bonds sold their holdings to the amount of about $700,000,000. So many were offered that the effect ■was to reduce slightly the present market value. But a Liberty' Bond is like an apple tree. The farmer sets out an orchard to apples and is content to wait ten years for his first crop. The Liberty Bond that sells for slightly below par now will be in full fruit age in ten years, or less. For when the war is over, and with greatly in creased revenues, the United States government begins to call in its •bonds in vast quantities, the effect ■will be to greatly enhance the value of the securities, and it would not be surprising if, within a decade, lJberty Bonds with a par value of 50, sold as high as 60. Civil War bonds and the Panama Canal bonds are examples. The value of the hond is there, but, as in the case of the apple tree, you must wait a period for the fruit. The ten-year old oschard is worth vastly more than the newly-planted orchard, ipd It is so with the bonds. * However, the bonds have this ad vantage as an investment, that from the very first they yield their owner a fair return in the way of interest cn the face value of the security. There is no better Investment than a Liberty Bond. It is as good as gold and better, and, in addition, it •will Insure liberty for you and your children. Don't sell your bonds. Stow them away and let them grow in value with the years. Tha Kaiser recently purchased $5,000,000 worth more of Krupp se curities. Maybe that was what was hack of the recent drive. The more munitions used the bigger the divl and the future holds not a siiytle irainbow for a single German editor. Added to this are the almost hru tally frank Austrian criticisms con cerning the conduct of the war and | tall things of German origin. For ex- L*' j ample, a Budapest telegram to the WEDNESDAY EVENING, Frankfurter Zoitung shows that the Hungarians are still distrustful of the much-discussed economic union of the Central Powers. The Hungarian Manufacturers' Association declares .that any such union must be absolutely conditional upon Hungary preserving unre stricted her economic independence, while the existence of her national industries must be in "no way en dangered, as only the development of these industries after the war can bring about an improvement in the financial situation and make good the economic damage caused by the war. The association further in sists that the negotiations now pro ceeding between the Hungarian and German governments should be only of an informative character, and no definite or binding agreements should be entered into as long as the economic results of the tonclusion of peace can not be known. And so it goes, item after item, column after column. Life in the Central Empires, as reflected In the newspapers, is about as gay and carefree as the central figure at a lynching bee and with prospects not much more promising. By compari son, we in America are just now liv ing in the millenium. Again the Crown Prince's Paris din ner has been postponed. If somebody doesn't hurry His Royal Highness may get peevish. DON'T BE FOOLED DON't me fooled by all manner of sensational rumors set afloat by pro-Germans to ex cite the American people and lower their morale. For the past two weeks there have been persistent re ports of grave disasters to the allies and of serious defeats for American troops In France. Each Sunday re cently, when all the news wires arc closed, rumors that the "Germans have broken through." This shows that there are pro-Ger | mans In Harrlsburg and that the lie I was deliberately fostered here and spread. It could not have come from out of town because, ordinar-1 ily, there is no out-of-town news service on Sundays. The newspaper offices are closed and the operators are given a day of rest. One of the ununderstandable pe culiarities of the human mind is that it is ready to accept as gospel any wild rumor that comes to the ears. No matter how improbable or im possible it may be, without stopping to consider or deliberate, the hearer is prone to believe it and his spirits go up and down, according to the import of the news. Then comes the reaction, when he learns the truth, and it is for this reaction that! the pro-German plan. Don't believe j anything of a sensational nature re garding the progress of the war un- I | till it is verified by a reliable news- j paper. I For SIB,OOO l if Liberty Bonds you lean equin an Infantry battalion with j I rifles. I FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY j IRISH members of Parliament j have taken a mistaken view of' conscription in Ireland. Unless! this war is won. Ireland's hopes for I home rule and full self-government, i now apparently about to be realized, I will never come to pass. The Kaiser' will take good care of that. Unless : conscription prevails in all allied | countries the war may be lost. Thou- i sands of the bravest of the brave of Ireland's brawny sons are fighting' in the trenches. Those who will' not go to their aid should be made j to do so. America, with a universal i conscription law on Its books, does not look with any too much favor I on government representatives who | oppose such a measure. Having weathered the Easter egg season successfully, young America is already looking forward to the joys of •summer vacation. RURAL SCHOOLS' PLIGHT IF THE reports coming to the State Capitol regarding condi tions in some of the rural school districts, especially the remote sec tions of Pennsylvania, where there are not many resources and revenue by taxation is limited, are correct, possibly dozens of school houses will have to shut their doors In advance of the time when the term generally ends In spring. In many instances the children can help on farm or garden, and in a measure alleviate the labor situation arising out of the war. But there are others where suspension of educational work is un fair to the pupils. Altogether! It Is deplorable that Pennsylvania, which has prided itself upon the advantages it gives to young folks, should have school houses close ahead of time for lack of funds. The State Board of Education last week called attention of the federal government to the need of some ac tion to help the States maintain teachers at their desks in the face of the considerably higher pay offered In industries and business. That is all very good, but what is needed In Pennsylvania Is to have the way so prepared that when the next Legis lature meets, one of the first things It can do is provide funds so that next spring conditions will not be repeated. Da. Nathan C. Schaeffer, the State's veteran Superintendent of Public Instruction, has for several years called for reapportioning our State's magnificent grants for educa tion and the State ißoard of Educa tion has made recommendations. The trouble has been that when the legislators have met there has been so much fuss over factionalism, pat ronage and the like that things im portant to the country folks have been passed by. The next Legisla tive program should not be delimited to enactment of laws for benefit of any class, municipalities or interests, but a broad, well-rounded, compre hensive scheme that will remedy ur ban as well as rural conditions and distribute the funds which are so abundantly poured into the State Treasury on an equitable and at the same time business bases. Not even war must interfere with education in Pennsylvania. We suspect Mr.- Demaln looked at last winter's calendar when he mase his forecast for to-day. Lk By the Kx-Committer man The time for filing nominating pe titions for the May primary will ex pire to-morrow and practically ev eryone interested in politics in Penn sylvania is just now engaged In rush ing papers to the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth or sitting around watching what the others are doing. The filing of pa pers is in accord with the very best traditions of the elventh-hour rush and the clerks in the department are working at the rate of twenty hours a day, as each petition has to be gone over. About one in every fifty is rejected. The plan of the department is to close the receiving of petitions with office hours to-morrow, if pos sible, although generally the depart ment has to be kept open to receive the papers from Philadelphia. Most of the state ticket papers are gener ally filed on the last day, there being a fiction that it is highly important to hold them as long as possible. What strategic position is gained by such moves It is hard to determine when candidates have been heralded over the state. —The Sproul petitions will be brought here late to-day or to-mor row. Only a small .part of the bale of signed petitions will be filed. The Beidleman papers are being made up to file to-day. There has been a very gratifying demand to sign pa pers for the Dauphin Senator. —At the O'Neli headquarters it was said to-day that nominating petitions in behalf of the Highway Commis sioner's boom for Governor signed by almost 90,000 persons were in hand. At least 10,000 more are ex pected. The petitions have been coming into the Third*street head quarters in bundles and the morn ing mail to-day almost filled a sack. Every person who circulates an O'Neil petition, whether a Capitol attache acting on orders or not, re ceives a handsome card of thanks from the headquarters. In all prob ability the O'Neil papers will be filed l_ate to-day or to-morrow and about 5,000 signers will be on the papers to be entered. —The filing of 'papers to run for fongress-at-Large on the Republican tjeket has created no end o specula tion about the Capitol, both factions being involved. The three Congress men-at-Large now sitting who are candidates for renomination have all filed papers and the O'Neil people have prepared papers for Aaron, Atherton and Burke. Lex N. Mitchell is looking after his o*n papers. Both sides are flirting with Thomas Rob- Inn, of Philadelphia, who filed papers late yesterday, as a means to get the Progressive vote. Anderson H. Wal ters, the Johnstown editor, another Progressive, has also filed. If the Penrose people take up Robins the Vares and O'Neil people will go along, but if Penrose backs Walters the other side will play to Robins. —The Philadelphia Record to-dav says: "The forces back of O'Neil, it Is understood, will not make a formal endorsement of the Scott candidacy, but will carry It along quietly. As neither Scott nor Beidleman can be considered "dry," the O'Neil forces apparently have made some sort of a deal with the Vares in deciding to carry along Scott rather than rush a straightaway "dry" candidate into the field for second place on their ticket. The disposition of the third place on the O'Neil ticket has not been settled, although it Is expected that Governor Brumbaugh will suc ceed in having Paul W. Houck slated for the nomination to succeed him self as Secretary of Internal Affairs. —Much interest is being shown in the filing of nominating petitions for Congress as practically all of the members now sitting have entered papers. Congressman Aaron S. Kreider filed his papers yesterday and Benjamin K. Focht, of the Sev enteenth, sent along a bundle of 3,- 000 signers and remarked that the fight was on and that he proposed to enjoy it. Congressmen Griest, Farr, Watson, Steele, Dewalt, Lesher, Rose and others have also filed. —According to the Pittsburgh Ga isette-Tiines Acting Democratic State Chairman Joseph F. Guffey said with emphasis that filing on Demo cratic tickets by Republicans woul-1 not be stood for. What aroused his ire was the fact that in Pittsburgh Max Leslie, who has senatorial spl rations, raided the Democracy's ranks. It seems to be the fashion to file on as many tickets as possible in the anthracite region. It also seems to be spreading. —Fred W. Scott, former burgess of Duquesne, will be a candidate far Congress against Congressman Guy E. Campbell, one of the accidental Democratic congressmen front Alle gheny county. —The settlement of the Schuylkill county senatorial rumps, which was outlined in the Ilarrisburg Telegraph yesterday, Came as a great surprise and has removed one fight that promised to be of state-wide inter est. Confirming what was said a Pottsville dispatch to the Phila delphia Press says: "Congressman Robert D. Jleaton, who is serving his second term, and who was an aspirant for re-election, has agreed to step Out and make room for John Reber, of this city, who was an aspirant for the Republican nomina tion for state senator. Heaton is to be the candidate for that office and Cyrus M. Palmer, of this city, who has been contesting with Reber for the state Senate nomination, has agreed to remain a candidate for H renomination for the Legislature from this district. The changes wrought are intended to bring peace between the Republican triumvirate of Schuylkill county. Petitions are being circulated for each of the can didates. It is believed Palmer's am bition to become district attorney is greater than that to become state senator and caused him to remain a candidate for the Legislature. Reoer and Heaton have the fields to then selves by this move." —Mayor Smith and the Vnres were scored by George W. Coles, chair man of the Town Meeting party, and ex-Director Porter, at a meeting held last night by the antl-Vare forces in Philadelphia. The meeting was a part of the drive for a bier registra tion next Wednesday. The Va-es were charged by Coles with trying to fool the church voters. HiRRISBURG