14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER I'OK THB HOMB Pounded itjt Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square, - ,* J?TACKPOLB,Prwr' tr Bditor-in-Ckiff T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. JUS M. STEINMETO, 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 Newspaper Pub^ Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. gTiTTTt By carriers, ten cent* a CMSI!W> week; by mall. *6.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918 i greater man than is the sceptered • king And greater than the richest I shall be If I can learn to do some honest thing So well no man may come replac ing me. —S. E. KISER. PRIMARY ALIGNMENTS THE lining up of J. Denny O'Neil, candidate for Governor, with John R. K. Scott, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, by the very nature of things tends to merge the campaign interests of Senator Sproul for Governor and Senator Beidleman for Lieutenant Governor. Neither Senator Sproul nor Senator Beidleman will lose by that. As be tween Mr. Scott and Senator Beidle man for second place on the ticket there should be no hesitancy in the selection of the Dauphin county Senator. Senator Beidleman repre sents the State-at-large. Scott is a Philadelphia politician, associated with those largely responsible for the factional differences and party bickerings that have been spread from Philadelphia to all parts of the State, and himself doing much to keep animosity alive within the party. Scott has been using the cus tomary Philadelphia tactics of mud throwing at previous incumbents — alleging that Lieutenant Governors Reynolds and McClain did not fulfill their duties of presiding over the Senato as they should, regardless of the fact that both made records for faithful performances of that duty, and notwithstanding that he—Scott himself —was at that very moment an absentee member of Congress out making a political canvass while important national questions were under debate. Senator Beidleman was prompt to take up the challenge and his dignified reply is in marked contrast to the outbreak of his op ponent. So much of hypocrisy and disap pointed ambition are Involved in the fight against Senator Sproul and Senator Beidleman that a formid able revolt among those once favor able to State Highway Commissioner O'Neil is entirely proibable, es pecially in view of the Commission er's failure to declare his purpose to accept the result and support the Republican nominee in the event of his own defeat in the primary con test. Republicans generally are not go ing to give support to any aspirant for public office who enters a pri mary contest and trifles with the voters on a matter of party prin ciple. Central Pennsylvania Repub licans have very definite convictions with respect to party rules, and they will not be induced in any great number to support a candidate who sidesteps so important a matter as an open declaration on primary de cision. Senator Beidleman Is right in con < eluding that the people do not want to hear one candidate make charges against another and he will win far more votes by an outline of his own platform, as he Is doing, than by following Scott's example and call ing his opponent hard names. Sena tor Sproul also is to be congratulated upon his manly attitude in face of those arrayed against him. He will not fall to gain in popular esteem by ignoring personalities and devot ing himself to constructive policies. As he has declared repeatedly, the people are more interested in win ning the war than in political con v-oversy, and ha might have added •liut tlie washing of soiled political -tfnen does not appeal to them in the least. It is rather to be suspected that the superheated denunciation of Senator Sproul Is a significant de velopment of the week. Indicating the realization of his opponents of their own blundering in the prelim inary round of the contest. The War Department has reached the opinion that everybody else enter tained. long ago, which I* that the list Ol addresses oi killed and wounded 'f•''. . ' * * . / •• ' '. • • • . . ' * J "•> -". . ' V•• ' .. • • - . ; ' 'l,/tjfe y, . , • ,t V .. t ■ FRIDAY EVENING. HAKRISBURG Hffijftj TELEGRXPHI MAY 3, 1918. American soldiers shall be made pub lic with their names. No good and much harm is caused by withholding Information which may cause friends at home needless worry> The "dry" campaigners are going about the thing in a proper way. They are planning a whirlwind campaign In favor of the nomination of legisla tive candidates who are pledged to vote for the prohibition amendment. NOT ONE-SIDED NEWS from the allied front In France may not be of the best, but think not that It Is one sided. At all events, the allied armies do not have a foe In front and a threatened revolution In the rear. It becomes more and more apparent that the German command is willing to sacrifice tremendously to gain a really decisive victory only because by so doing It hopes to calm the rising tide of dissatisfaction and growing discontent in Germany. This is no longer mere conjecture. There are leaks In the German wall that are letting through whispers of the true state of affairs In Germany and Austria that cannot be other than most threatening to the militaristic aims of the ruling classes, If not to the dynasty Itself. When & former director of the great Krupp steel and munition works of Germany turns upon his one-time Imperial masters and bids the people of the country throw them out if they hope ever to regain the respect and confidence of the world at large, matters have reached' a stage when anything may happen. Even though Dr. Wilhelm Muhlon, i the former Krupp expert quoted, has' thrown in his lot with the revolu tionary element he would not have dared go the length to which he did in the following statement given out at Berne, Switzerland, had the feel ing in Germany against the military party not reached an acute stage: I Since the first days of 1917 I have abandoned all hope as re gards the present directors of Germany. Our offer of peace without indication of our war aims, the accentuation of the sub marine war, the deportations of Belgians, the systematic destruc tion in France and the torpedoing of English hospital ships have so degraded the governors of the German Empire that I am pro foundly convinced that they are disqualified forever for the ela-bor ration and conclusion of a sincere and just agreement. The person alities may change, but they can not remain the representatives of the German cause. The German people will not be able to repair the grievous crimes committed against its own pres ent and future, and against that of Europe and the whole human race until it is represented by dif ferent men with a different men tality. To tell the truth. It is mere justice that its reputation throughout the whole world is as bad as it is. The triumph of its methods —the methods by which it has hitherto conducted the war, both militarily and politically— would constitute a defeat for the ideas and the supreme hopes of mankind. One has only to im agine that a people exhausted, de moralized, or hating violence, should consent to a peace with a Government which has conducted such a war, in order to understand how the general level and the chances of life of the peoples would remain black and deceptive. As a man and as a German who desires nothing but the welfare of the deceived and tortured German, people. I turn away definitely from the present representatives of the German regime. And I have only one wish—that all In dependent men may do the same, and that many Germans may un derstand and act. It may even be that the loss of the channel ports by the British, severe a blow as that would be to allied communication, would be a blessing in disguise. "Give us the channel ports or Paris and the war is won; then will come peace," Hinden burg told the Socialist leaders before the present drive started. But peace won't come even though Paris and the channel ports should both fall. Such an event would merely result in speeding up America's war program and as Lord George has said: "No matter what may happen, we shall continue to prosecute th war with utmost vigor." Then what? 'Will the Germans and the Austrians continue to permit themselves to be driven to the slaughter? Perhaps, for a time, but scarcely after Americans have got ten to France in numbers sufficient to make themselves felt and have achieved a number of successes against German arms, as unquestion ably they will do within the year. It would not be surprising if a great American victory in France —and who can believe we shall not achieve it?—will be followed by revolution in Germany and the end of the war from within and without at the same time. It is a large, hard game we are facing, but one fjill of hope for the future of democracy in the world. The proposed Moose band of 100 pieces ought to prove a great suc cess. The Moose have done many worthy things in Harrisburg and the organisation of a band would help to promote the musical Intersets of the community, a subject that is Just now occupying the attention of many people. When the Hun fails to beat his ad versaries by the sword he tries the pen; thereby admitting that the pen really is mightier than the sword. But the sword has not been cast nor the pen made that will make a German peace while an America lives. With wages, materials and taxes all advanced, rents are bound to go up, but there Is no reason for increasing rents four or five dollars a month to cover expenditures of half that amount. "Plr#.e your coal order now" is a very commendable bit of advice,.but to induce the dealer to induce the railroad to induce the mine operator to fill it is quite another matter. The Government plans to "put a curb on hide hoarders," and then why not hide the hoarders? Our idea of the Pope's peace proffers Is that they will be "politely but firmly declined." The best rent regulator Harrisburg could devise is a larger number of houses built at reasonable figures. T>o(£KCJK ""PIKKOIFTAAXXA By the Ex-Committee man While It will take a couple of days to complete the official figures it looks as though tne third class cities of the state had much the same ex perience in the May 1 registration as Harrlsburg. For weeks and weeks the people of Pennsylvania have ibeen hearing about an army of un registered men, sufficient in force of numbers to decide f.he Governorship and from what has been said about some headquarters and by some can didates these people were just burn ing to be registered. Harrlsburg, which was reported as having 6,000 unregistered men eager to get on the rolls, registered about 1,425, and went on with its business on regis tration day as though such an official time had not been reached on the calendar. In various, other cities the regis tration was even less and in some of them no effort was made to register men, it being assumed that if voters are sufficiently Interested in politics this year of war they would go and put down their names without being urged. In Allentown, for instance, less than 400 registered. In Lancas ter about 300 and in Erie about 500. —Senator Sproul left Williamsport yesterday afternoon following an impromptu reception and arrived last night at Pittsburgh where In spite of the lateness of the hour, he was given a warm greeting by many of his friends. The Senator will swing about the Pittsburgh district for the next few days. He remarked on leav ing Williamsport that he had enjoy ed his visit and felt much encourag ed. About the time the Senator was j arriving in Pittsburgh J. Denny i O'Neil was leaving for the tour of the anthracite region which he will make to-day and to-morrow and gave utterance to charges that his opponents were endeavoring to de ceive the puiblic in the make-up of the Sproul committee for Allegheny county. Said Mr. O'Neil: "More than 50 per cent, of the names included in the committee announced by Sprout's lieutenants are my friends and are working in my interests. They did not know that their names were to be used in this connection, and it was all a piece of trickery." Mr. O'Neil added: "Since the Penrose leaders held their meeting here and found it necessary to deceive the voters by naming my friends as members of their committee, I predict that I will carry Allegheny. county by at least 40,000 votes, instead of my original estimate of 20,000." —O'Neil partisans and state ad ministration men attach much im portance to the vfsit to be paid to Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and other coal region cities the next two days by Mr. O'Neil, Governor Brum baugh, Attorney General Brown and Congressman John R. K. Scott. It is announced that they will all flay Senator Penrose and the Governor and Mr. Brown are expected to at tack Senator Sproul. The style of campaign will be materially different from that of Senator Sproul in that section and there are some folks sit ting back and waiting to see whether the people are going to get stirred up- over political history in a year ot war. —The Philadelphia Record ap pears to be getting considerable en tertainment out of the linking up of the candidacies of John R. K. Scott and J. Denny O'Neil and does not attach much importance to it as in dicating what the Vares will do. The Record says: "Now that he has linked his political fortunes with Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil. candidate for Governor, who is vigorous in his support for the prohibition amendment, what will be the stand of Congressman John R. K. Scott, candidate for the Re publican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, on the liquor issue?" —The Democratic organ also says: "While supporters of Scott are busy claiming his nomination, Senator Edward E. Beidleman is conducting a still-hunt for votes through the state. Independent Republicans are confident Beidleman will be return ed the winner and that the Dau phin county Senator will poll a big vote even in this city. Steott will accompany the Governor, Attorney General Brown and O'Neil to Lu zerne county to-day, and the open ing gun of the unique political alli ance will be fired. Later the party will split, but Scott and O'Neil will pair together in the drive for votes. —Things are getting into a tur moil again in Philadelphia and Di rector Wilson and Superintendent Mills are at odds over police ap pointments and transfers. It looks as though the Federal government would make another move because of speakeasies. —Ferdinand Baumgartel, a Vare leader, yesterday went over to the anti-Vare forces, saying he could no longer work with them. —Scranton is having quite a time over the efforts of Mayor Connell to clean up the city because Army of ficers want things bettered. Wilkes- Barre is looking on with interest as it has been experiencing some clean ups. —Democratic state headquarters yesterday denounced the story from Pittsburgh that "Jim" Wakefield had charge of the Bonnlwell head quarters. It declared that he was for Guffey. —Senator Sproul's visit to Pitts burgh will likely be extended to Erie as there has been a request that he go to that city. —Mayor Connell will preside at tho O'Nell meeting In Scranton to morrow. Next week Mr. O'Neil will tour Chester and Northumberland county. —Reading registered only 625 vot ers, less than half the number in Harrisburg. And yet there are men who insist that the people are inter ested in what one candidate' thinks of another. —Senator Sproul yesterday told Williamsport men that they would have work to do after the war n readjustment as well as in helping to win the war. On Historic Ground The division headquarters at Camp Lee is within a stone's throw of the spot where the house stood that housed Grant and his staff during tl*e seige of Petersburg. Last fall there was a Confederate reunion at Peters burg, and the old soldiers visited the cantonment The man who had served as General Lee's cook during the siege was there; and In that camp, so appropriately named for the gyeat military leader of the South, he met the grandson of the famous general, an officer in the American Army, training Americans to fight for America.—William Slav ens McNutt In Collier's Weekly. Realty Preferred He —I would give lots to make ;you happy, dear. She —That sounds good to riie. , Are the lots vacant or Improved? I—Baltimore American. WHAT'S THE ANSWER? BYBRIGGS *Tb U TRY'' 1! ' Continuous Thb °v vmvsf" assess? — j Yoo BJST l*J WITH Tm6M vow R6SOLVC 7b M ONE or Ybw A score Go B*Ck To Vouh LAST >, go rNI MS*. cL.es. V, l 6 _ Vbars • "/ ANSWER ? . ___ _ ' * (ckvekiemcc OF R.w.Bgyee^ Utah Wants a Gun Factory Although Utah boasts the greatest inventor of firearms In the world, we have no firearms factory in the state. Why is it that, with the mightiest of wars in r progress, a government factory has not been es tablished here ? The light and heavy Browning machine guns have been pronounced by experts far and away ahead of any similar weapons in existence. And not only the Browning machine guns, but other Browning weapons could be made in the Utah factory. It is, perhaps, not. out of place to suggest that the commercial clubs of Salt Lake and Ogden, which is Mr. Browning's home town, should investigate the feasibility of such a factory. Few of the machine guns have yet been made. Let the Commercial clubs begin an active inquiry, for there is no time to spare if we are to ob tain a factory.—From Salt Lake City Tribune. WINNING ITS WAY (From Christian Science Monitor) Prohibition, like ijny other good thing, is winning its own way. New York newspapers have recently pub lished figures showing the great de crease in crimes in that city during the five winter Mondays on which the saloons were closed; it begins to look as if Great Britain had at last partially awakened to the reali zation, that barley is more needed for food than for drink; and now comes news from Yucatan, Mexico, that the State-Legislature has invit ed the rest of the Mexican republic to a congress which is to discuss and adopt laws "toward the total prohi bition of the sale of alcoholic and i intoxicating beverages throughout the entire country." Yucatan is en thusiastic over the improvement of her people since she adopted prohi bition. Foolhardy, Anyhow A Joe Millerism about the dan ger of long whiskers and lighted candles in combination has just come true in England. As a re spectable stonemason of the London neighborhood was going upstairs with a lighted candle, the flame caught his whiskers and he was burned to death. The coroner's jury 1 decided that it was an accidental < death, but we should call it suicide. —From the Hartford Courant. A Call to the Hyphenate When you were poor and friendless Uncle Sammy took you in. He met you with a friendly hand, a broad and genial grin. He didn't question what you were out there across the foam. He simply said, "Come in, old top just make yourself at home." You liked that homely greeting. You likeh its artless style. You said, "This chap Is warm of •heart; he's free from cant and guile." His land you found productive, his laws you found were just. You learned to live his simple life —to labor, love and trust. And year by year you prospered and year by year you grew To sense the holy meaning of that banner starry-blue, You lost that haunted look acquired where monarchs made com mand. And felt your soul begin to glow and blossom and expand. You learned the pride a freeman knows where every man is king, You learned the sturdy self-respect, the freeman's stride and swing. You learned to know life's better side, to ponder, love and dream, To lift your eyes to greet the blue and sense its glow and gleam. < And now—well, now —the chance Is yours to show just where you stand. The chance is yours to meet the test —to extend a helping hand. Your Uncle Sam is battling might in freedom's name beyond. He needs your help. He was your ' friend. He asks yau—buy a bond. . • Oh, ye that sought this land of light to escape a tyrant's greed, Can you refuse to do your bit to crush that odious creed ? I'll not believe it. It's a He. 'Twould sear your soul and damn. Oet out your savings. Show your faith. Stand true to Uncle Sam IRVING DILLON. Two Boys in SISTER, what are you going to do?" Two little boys just home from school stood in the door way of their sister's room. The sister, a beautiful girl with dark, wavy hair, and deep brown eyes, knelt before a chest baneath the window. It was a handsomely carved chest, with curious figures! all o"er it. The open lid disclosed a heap of delicately embroidered linens, duinty squares and oblongs, filmy lace work, handsomely colored pieces of silk—the work and the saving of many years. The chest it self had been the girl's great grand mother's dower chest, used next by the grandmother and mother and now ever since the sister of the boys could sew daintely, had been her "dower chest" in which she deposit ed things for her future home as every girl in Turkey does. The 'boys had never seen inside the chest before and now they stood in the doorway, awe stricken as tney saw their sister lift the things out end by one, and sorting out six, wrap them in a paper parcel. It was the sister's first sale —the beginning of the raids upon the dower chest that shortly left it empty. The two little boys who watched her, tiptoed into the next room where the mother lay ill, then down stairs for something to satisfy their appetites before they went out into the yard to play ball. As yet the pressing need at home meant little to them. They knew that a message had come for their father weeks before and that he had closed his office and bid • them a solemn good-by, with many admonitions to care for their mother who was ill. What had happened to the father they never knew. Tw6 weeks after the day in which the sister sold her trousseau the iboys came home from school another afternoon to find the streets full of many people, hastily tied bundles of clothing, women with little children in their arms, and in the doorway of their own home they found their mother, leaning on their sister's arm. ZEEBRUGGE AND AMIENS Behind the British attempt against Zeebrugge and Ostend lie considerations, military and moral, which relate themselves intimately to the war in its latest and broadest aspect. For the attainment of a decision on the western front it has now become a race of re-enforce ments. Germany is piling in divi sions from the eastern front and from her new classes, and in case of need will borrow men from her al lies. The Entente is looking, prin cipally to America. Vital as the command of the sea has at all times been to the Allies, today every de gree of improvement in the security of the ocean link with America will count on the western battlefield. It is not enough now to think of the U-boat problem as being ulti mately mastered. Every U-boat put out of commission today means so many foot-pounds of additional Al lied force in front of Amiens or Ypres. The permanent blockading of a U-boat harbor by such means as were employed in the Zeebrugge en terprise may not be attainable, but even a fortnight's handicap on sub marine operations may be translat ed into tens of thousands of tonnage rendered more secure for the trans portation of our troops. This Is the point to be kept in mind when we read of the heavy losses suffered by the British raiders against the Belgian ports. British tonnage sunk in Zeebrugge harbor and British lives lost may be more than com pensated by tonnage and lives saved on the Atlantic —From the New York Eevening Post. Our Help Is Needed We must help. England has call ed to arms her last men. Men of the age of 50 are now being con scripted. This tells the truth of what the need of Europe is today. Why try console ourselves with fragments of hope that because a German drive is repulsed or because the Germans rest a day or two that the tide has changed and at last we are on the eve of the great offensive that will decide this war in the in terest of humanity. Such hopes are false. The grim faofc remains. We are not winning. We are doing miraculously well to keep our enemy at bay and wo must lose and will lose unless we send the timely aid for which England and France are praying.—From Memphis Appeal. All of the people—the boys, their mother and sister and neighbors, were driven out of the city along the country road. The mother too weak to walk far, soon fainted in her daughter's arms and the little fam ily group stopped, drooping behind the others. "Move on," came the immediate order from an officer in charge. "We cannot. The mother is too weak," the sister answered. "Leave her behind. She won't live long," the man responded harshly, "and you come with me," he added, coming up closer. The sister jerked away from him and lifted the mother's head upon her lap again. "Run, brothers, do not wait for us. Go with the others and make your escape as soon as you can. Flee to the north and into Rus sia. It is a long way. God bless you. Go now!" The two little boys of ten and twelve .did as their sister bid them, running with the crowd until night fell. Then in the darkness they crept away from the others, hiding be hind a rock the next day, and run ning again by night. They kept this up for many days living upon roots and berries and even dried grasses, sleeping at night under the stUrs with a rock for a pillow. The weather grew colder as they climbed up through the Caucasus Mountains. All danger from pursuit was now passed. The boys did not know where they were going. Two missionaries found the fooys one day living in a dug-out on the mountain side where they had lived alone for many weeks.. Both of them were badly hurt and torn from their rough journey, and neither bf them had touched cooked food since they left home. They were taken to the mission station and then sent to an orphanage to join five hundred other refugees. (From stories told to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, No. 1, Madison avenue, by a missionary who has just returned from tha field). O'NEIL'S DUTY [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] Times.) J. Denny O'Neil, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, should consider carefully the implications of his hesitancy to declare whether or not he will abide by the decision of the party voters in the May Primaries. They are sin ister. He should not be content to rest under them. Republican voters assuredly will not be satisfied with a state of uncertainty as to ' the intentions of one who asks for their suffrages in so Important a connec tion as the election of an executive of Pennsylvania. The personal honor of the candi date is Involved. There can be no questioning that a man who submits his candidacy to a party primary is in honor bound to abide by the de cision there made. Tha* is not de batable at all. It is a matter of per sonal honor, not something to be de termined by a campaign committee, despite Mr. O'Neil's statement to the contrary. But, If it were, who constitute this committee which is tne keeper of the conscience of Can didate O'Neil? And are the gov ernmental policies which he has an nounced the campaign committee's or his own ? Further, if Mr- O'Neil Is nominated and elected will his campaign committee be governor or will he ? These are fair questions. Republican voters have a right to straightforward answers. They have a right to inquire If a candidate is equally as honorable as themselves. For practically every man who has enrolled as a Republican assumes the obligation of supporting U>' the election the party choice as deter mined in the primary. It is a point of honor with them. They need no coaching on so elemental a question of honesty. They would disdain to take orders from a committee. Nat urally they expect the candidate of their selection to be as sorupulous as themselves. And they are absolute ly right in that attitude. Tf Mr. O'Nell does not propose to abide by the result of the primary election, should he fall of nomina tion, he should not have becbme a candidate. He owes it to the party and to himself to make his posi tion clear without delay. STATE POLICE MODELS While there is a fair presumption that the State police had full legal justification for shooting the mur derer whom they had very efficient ly hunted to his hiding place in Warren county, this week, such an ending of their chase hardly comes up to the high standards set by the members of the like force in Penn sylvania, and, though not a basis for criticism, this killing will cause something like disappointment among their friends. For it is the expectation that the State Constabulary shall rise to heights of skill and prowess unat tainable by common, or even by un common, policemen—that in deal ing with the criminal classes they shall overcome all odds as a matter of course and custom, and that al ways, when they go after an offend er of any grade, they shall scorn to do anything else or less than to get him and turn him over to the courts, alive—not to the undertak er, dead. That the culprit resists arrest or attempts to escape when cornered is a good excuse for shoot ing, but not one quite good enough for State Police. Perhaps these expectations are unreasonable —perhaps they are founded on too faithful reading of magazine chronicles of exploits achieved by the Pennsylvania mar vels of perfection. Nevertheless, they exist and are firmly fixed in most minds, and it will be hard to give them up. It will be necessary at least to mitigate them if our constables fail to cow even the most desperate villain by a glance of the eye and a few quietly spoken words. Their mission in life is to arrest, not to kill or even to wound, in any case.—From the New York Times. They Face Interment Internment of all the alieh ene mies may become necessary to their own safety.—From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT SO SERI- My wife is al- J ST' ways threaten ing to go home $ 4M to her mother. . f Um. That's Ij serious. s Not so serious Y\ I In our case. Her V mother lives In a flat across the ) ] 1 AN EXPENS <§? WJ&L Ive loan * lK\y