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TUESDAY, >UY 7, 1918
Practise in life tchat you pray for,
and God will give it to you more
abundantly. —PCSEY.
BOY SCOUTS, ATTENTION!
BOY SCOUTS of Central Pennsyl
vania, have you heard what the
Germans did to a French Boy
Scout a few days ago?
They stood him up in front of a
telegraph post and shot him.
Killed him in cold blood because
he would not betray the hiding
place of a detachment of French
soldiers.
The little lad went to his death
with a smile on his lips.
They could kill his body, and did.
but they could not kill his brave, 1
loyal spirit.
Boy Scouts of Central Pennsylva-|
nia, does this mean anything to!
you ?
Docs it not inimate you with a
fierce desire to avenge the death of
jour fellow Scout in France ?
Does it not arouse in your hearts
a renewal of your pledge to do
your part toward providing Ameri
can soldiers with rifle and ball,
with food and clothing, with bomb
and machine gun and all those other
things which are necessary if they
are to slay these brutes, who would
do to America what they have done
to Belgium and France, and so free
the earth from the terror of German
frightfulness ?
Every Liberty Bond you sell,
every Thrift Stamp you buy, every
Ked Cross donation you procure,
every Y. M. C. A., Knights of Colum
bus or other war work gift you so
licit, every war garden you cultivate,
every farmer you help increase the
food supply, is a bit —your bit—to
ward victory.
Put your shoulders to the wheel
whenever the chance offers and so
help avenge the little French Boy'
Scout the wretched beasts In Ger
man helmets, who masquerade as'
men. shot to death in far-off France.
Get ready for the Rose Show and
prove that the Pacific coast Isn't the
only place where roses grow in pro
fusion.
THE PRIMARY FINAL
THE Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
publishes a list of candidates
who have declined to say
whether or not they are willing to
stand by the results of the uniform
primaries in May, and deducts from |
their silence that they do not intend!
to submit to the decision of the
voters if they are defeated. The
candidates so named are given by
the Gazette-Times as follows:
J. Denny O'Neil, McKeesport, I
for Governor.
Asa A. W'eimer, Lebanon, for
Governor.
John R. K. Scott, Phlladel- ]
phia. for Lieutenant Governor.
William J. Burke. Pittsburgh, i
for Congressman-at-Large.
Lex N. Mitchell, Punxsutawney,
for Congressman-at-Large.
Joseph N. McGarrity, Philadel
phia. for Congressman-at-Large.
C. M. Miller, Bellevue. for Con
gress, Twenty-ninth District.
M. Clyde Kelly, North Brad
dock, for Congress, Thirtieth Dis
trict.
John M. Morin, Pittsburgh, for
e Congress, Thirty-first District.
John Heinz, Pittsburgh, for
Coneress, Thirty-second District.
William J. Howarth, Pittsburgh,
for Congress. Thirty-second Dis
trict.
The man who seeks nomination
on the Republican or Democratic
. ticket in a free and open primary
tacitly agrees to abide by the deci
sion of that primary and he is in
honor bound to give his successful
opponent Just as hearty and sincere
support at the general elections as
he himself would have expected
had he been the winner. This is
the principle of majority rule. It is
the method by which parties choose
their candidates. It is tVe basis up
on which the uniform primary is
founded. Without it parties could
not exist and nominations would .be
merely the decision of two or a Hun
dred men to run for the same office
with resulting confusion and tur
moil in an extreme degree and the
chances very good for an entirely
unqualified man getting enough
votes to win.
t If Mr. O'Neil, or Mr. Scott, or Mr.
)Burke or any of the others named
do not mean to be governed by the
decision of the May primaries they
should say so now, ao that the voters
TUESDAY EVENING, KARRISBWRG TELEGRAPH MAY 7, 1918.
I may govern themselves accordingly.
Surely, the candidates mentioned
cannot be ashamed of the position
they have assumed and certainly
they do not have It in their hearts
= to deceive trusting supporters by
f their silence. . They owe it to them
selves and to all loyal Republicans
> to speak out. This Is no time for
z | concealment, particularly on the
I part of men who insist that they
j are leaders of great governmental
reforms.
If the men named by the Gazette
• Times do not mean to abide by the
' primaries then they no longer merit
r the consideration of Republican vot
r ers, for. with that admission, it
1 would be evident that they meant
( only to carry their petty personal
quarrels into the general election in
- an effort to defeat others for the of
i flees they could not then hope to
i win for themselves, and so disrupt
t the Republican party in the State at
- a time when it is extremely impor
• tant that Pennsylvania be kept at
her Republican moorings. Silence
on this point is not strengthening
any of the candidates on the O'Neil
t slate. Rather, it is destined to rob
I them of votes they otherwise might
j receive, for above all the voters at
• the comng primaries want straight
i forward, open and honest methods
• of campaigning. They are distrust
ful of anything else and are in no
mood to tolerate hedging or dodg
ing on any issue.
; THE ANNIVERSARY
11 , HRKK years ago to-day beastly
I I Germans sent the Lusitania,
; with her load of men. women'
j and babies, to the bottom of the At
lantic, and thereby sealed the doom
J of the empire.
■ I For three years the bodies of the
! innocent victims of the bloodthirsty
! Wilhelm have been tossed in their,
uneasy graves in the currents of the
Atlantic, and yet with flaming swords
■ in hand they fight, a mighty host,
on the blood-stained fields of France.
The remembrance of that dastardly
deed kindles the minds of American
soldiers as they sail the broad At
' lantic to meet the foe on the West-
I I ern Front. It goes with them into
i battle and steadies their nerves and
. strengthens their arms as they poise
j themselves for the blows that shall
j continue in a never-ending rain until
| Kaiserism is no more and all the
j Lusitanias in all the world may sail
j the seas without fear of the cowardly
I hand of the submarine assassin.
Somebody has suggested as our'
battle cry in this war —"Remember
i the Lusitania." But is unnecessary,
i We have no need to remember, be
cause we cannot forget. Like the shot
at Concord that was heard around
the world, the blast that sank the
Lusitania circled the globe and roused i
I the fighting spirit of men every- j
' where whose hearts are tuned to
things higher than the aggrandize
ment of a bloodthirsty and ambitious
monarch.
When the history of the war shall
have been written it will be found
that the downfall of the German mil-1
itary power began the moment all |
America was aroused by the torpedo-1
ing of the Lusitania.
NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESS
NATURALLY, because of the!
delicate problems and balances j
involved, the government is i
approaching with great caution I
! the problem of differentiating be
i tween essential and non-essential
j business. The great need of in
creased war materials produc
tion, the decreasing man-power
! in the industries of the country as
I the calls of the draft increase in
i number and size and the determina
i| tion of the whole nation to make the i
I winning of the war our first bu.si-!
,|ness, all combine to hasten the dayj
i when some government regulation I
; j of industry is bound to be necessary. i
1! The government control of all steel!
ij production is a big step in that di
. rection and automatically will make j
■ itself felt in the curtailment of!
, many lines of trade not identified
I with the war. But it is important l
! that in planning for the war we.
| shall do nothing which would leave'
' us as unprepared for peace as v. e'
were for war. There is danger, if;
we simply close this, that and the j
other industry as unessential for the;
period of the war, we shall ruin
them financially and they will not
be able to resume when we most de
sire them to help uphold our world'
supremacy in both home and for
eign trade when peace comes again.
This has given government offi
cials and economists much food for
thought and has kept bankers and
businessmen in a perspiration of
1 doubt and uncertainty as to the fu
'■ ture. Edward A. Filene, well
known financial writer of Boston,
' comes forward with the suggestion
1 that nonessential business banned >
' by decree as unessential be compen- I
' sated for its imposed sacrifices by I
i the government. He says:
When it is shown that any • I
, business is depriving the coun
try of materials, supplies, .labor, I
i or transportation needed for win
ning the war, then the Govern
ment should stop that business.
But justice demands that in
, such cases fair compensation
should be made to the owners,
1 who ought not to be made to
i bear alone the burden of an un
foreseeable governmental require
ment which is needed to win the
i war and which Is therefore of the
utmost use to all our people.
However costly such compensa
! tion may be, careful analysis and
r experience will show that it will
result in a net gain to alt con
i cerned.
There Is material for considera
. tion in Mr. Filene's plan. While it
I Is obvious that some steps to stim
> ulate war activities by cutting down
' unessential production must be de
i vised. It would be a happy solution
.| of the problem that would leave
• j these closed mills and factories fl
i: nanced and ready to resume opera
>' | tlons In full at the bidding ol the
s government when the war ends.
■ f©title* Lk
"PeivKOij&rtuua
By ttte Ex-Committeeman 11
? j Twenty-three candidates in the
t forthcoming primary election of
. May 21, have assured the Pittsburgh
t Gazette-Times that they will abide
by the Republican primary result;
t and if defeated will support the win
-1 ning candidates. "Eleven men asking
, the Republicans of the state or of
congressional districts to nominate
them for office," says the Gazette
>■ Times, "have indicated by their si
tjlence that they are not prepared to
t answer the question affirmatively,
thus giving the impression that it
" is not their intention to abide by
t the decision of the primaries if de
; feated. although they would expect
„ all Republicans to rally to their sup
' port if they are nominated."
1 The Gazette-Times prints the
> following list of candidates who re
t fused to answer, under the caption,
"Their Silence Speaks for Them:" |
c J. Denny O'Neil, McKeesport, for;
■ governor; Asa A. Weimer, Leba-!
j non, for governor; John R. K. Scott.
. Philadelphia, for lieutenant gover-j
nor; William J. Burke, Pittsburgh,'
' for congressman-at-large; Lex M.
• Mitchell, Punxsutawney. for Con
gressman-at-Large; C. M. Miller,
Bellevue. congress. 29th district; M.
Clyde Kelly. North Braddock. con
gress, 30tli district; John M. Morin, 1
Pittsburgh, congress, 31st district;,
John Heinz, Pittsburgh, congress,!
32nd district: William J. Howarth.!
i Pittsburgh, congress, 32nd district.
, The Republican candidates who
said they would abide by the deci
sion of the Republican primaries in
clude the following:
William C. Sproul, Chester, for
governor; Robert P. Habgood. Brad
ford, for governor; Edward E. Beid
leman, Harrisburg. lieutenant gov
ernor; E. D. Powell, lieutenant gov
ernor; James F. Woodward, Mc-J
Keesport, secretary of internal af-j
fairs; Paul W. Houck, Shenandoah,
secretary of internal affairs; Thorn-1
as S, Crago, >l. M. Garland. Joseph,
McLaughlin. Anderson H, Walters.
W. S. Aaron. Charles M. Clement
and Thomas H. Atherton, for con
gressman-at-large; M. B. Rich,
Thomas Robins and Guy B. Flyte,
for congressman-at-large.
Referring to the O'Neil-Scott slate
the Gazette-Times says of Paul W.
Houck. William S. Aaron. Thomas j
H. Atherton and Gen. Charles Clem-1
ent:
"While Mr. O'Neil. Mr. Scott and!
Mr. Burke, declined to say whether |
or not thev would abide by the de
cision of the primaries or bolt the
ticket if defeated, the Messrs.
Houck. Aaron. Atherton and Clem
ent, candidates on the same slate
with them, refused to allow", any
stain to stand on their records." ,
Senator Penrose renewed his drive j
on John R. K. Scott yesterday when
he referred to the .candidate for ■
Lieutenant Governor as the "un- i
speakable Scott" and in a short state
ment announced that Senator "Wil
liam C. Sproul. candidate for Gov
ernor. and Senator Edward E.
Beidleman. seeking the Republican
nomination for Lieutenant Gover
nor, would be victorious at the
primaries. After reading Scott's at
-1 tack yesterday. Senator Penrose
I made the following statement:
I "I have no disposition to dignify
, the utterances of a recognized ten
derloin lawyer and poltlclan by get
ting into a discussion with him. par
ticularly concerning statements that
are garbled, insincere and calculated
to misrepresent and mislead.
"I have a right to criticise the 1
candidacy of anyone running for of- j
flee in Pennsylvania, when I con- j
! aider him unfit for the place by
I reason of his unsavory character. |
I In so expressing my opinion for those ;
j citizens of the state who are dis- j
j posed to listen to what I have to j
1 say. neither Scott nor otftvrs of this i
. kind need hope that they can ac- i
| quire any importance for themselves '
Iby becoming a party to a discus- )
I sion with me. I shall continue to j
I express my views during this cam- !
I paign, folly and freely."
"Senator Sproul and State Senator :
Beidleman will win." Senator Pen- !
rose continued. "The size of their;
majorities depends upon the inter- '
est which can be aroused in Repub- I
lican leaders, workers and voters
during the remainder of the cam- ]
paign. They will, however, win and ]
win with ease."
"Congressman Scott was not pre- I
pared yesterday for another blast j
i against Penrose and was unwilling j
• also to discuss his stand on the!
liquor issue. When for aj
denite answer as to whether he Is j
for or against the national prohibl- j
! tion amendment, Congressman Scott I
isaid: "Later I will come out with
| a statement on the issues of the!
I campaign."
1 With only two weeks to go until
I the primaries, the Sproul people
are ready to take the offensive, and !
i vigorous attacks against Highway
j Commissioner O'Neil and Congress
man Scott will be made.
j Following the visit here of Judge
j John J. Kelly, of Lackawanna I
! county, it was rumored that he had j
been offered a place on the Supreme '
Court bench. Governor Brumbaugh
and Attorney General Brown re- !
fused to discuss the report. Judge I
Kelly is a Democrat, but he has rep- j
resented the Attorney General's de- i
partment in important litigation in !
Lackawanna county.
Another jurist whose name has
been mentioned for one of the two
vacancies on the Supreme Court
bench is Judge John W. Kephart of
the Superior Court. He was elected
in 1913, and is a brother of State
Treasurer Harmon M. Kephart.
The names of Congressman Vare,
I ? e H ato £ and Congressman
i 'i ohn Scott, a candidate for
| Republican nomination for lieuten-
I ant governor, were brought out as
parties interested in the effort to
have> the name of George Woodward
| chauffeur, 1938 Bonitz street, Phil
adelphia, appear on the Republican
and Democratic ballots as a can
didate for nomination for state
senator from the Sixth district, op
posing Dr. George Woodward in
court here late yesterday. Testi
mony showing that they called up
the Secretary of the Commonwealth's
office and asked for information
about the nomination petitions of
Woodward, the chauffeur, and asked
whether supplemental petitions
could be filed was given by Deputy
Secretary Frtd W. Godcharles, when
called to the witness stand before
Judge S. J. M. McCarrell. Mr. God
charles also said the Vares declared
the papers containing sufficient sig
natures to have Woodward's name
on the primary ballot had been lost
in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth but he denied the
i charge. George D. Thorn, chlof
I clerk in the secretary's office, was
called to the stand to tell of Con
i gressman Scott's inquiry about the
• petition. Objections by Mr .Geyer
; were sustained by Judge McCarrell
! and Thorn's only testimony was that
j "Mr. Scott came to me and asked
! for general information about the
Woodward petitions. He did not
| state what interest he had in the
matter." Among the witnesses
from Philadelphia, who were called
; today was George Woodward, the
chauffeur, who told the court he had
been asked to run for the office and
was told all his expenses would be
i met.
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"It's wonderful to see the trans
formation of an American soldier,"
! says a Pennsylvania veteran officer
j who has been with the British forces
j two years. "In camp he is out for
horseplay. But when he gets across
i here he seems to feel that the entire
i responsibility of the war is on his
j phoulders.
| The Bloomsburg School Board
I unanimously decided to eliminate
j German from the High school at the
| close of the term. It would appear
that the capital of the state is
| mighty slow in not doing likewise.
Surgeons at the Allentown hos
pital have been able to save the life
of Florence Mayberry, hurt by being
run down by a trolley car, through
a skin-grafting operation, the girl's
mother furnishing the skin.
We thought that the Yellow
Breeches Creek was the crookedest
stream in the world, but the U. S.
Survey says the Humboldt, in Ne
vada. wins out. At one place the
river flows eight miles between two
points two and a half miles apart,
its course being north twenty-five
times, east eighteen times, south
thiity times and west forty-one
times. At thirty-three different
points it is within 150 feet of itself,
the current flowing in opposite di
rections. And it ends its course by
fading away into the desert.
Lancaster's biggest man, Baukson
Smith, six feet six inches tall and
weighing 400 pounds, a former po
liceman and hotel proprietor, is
dead at the age of 60.
OUR INSECT ENEMIES
[From the New York Journal]
There are four hundred thousand
described species of insects against
the single human species. The
human species has less than 2.000
million individuals in the whole!
world: while a single housefly may
in the course of a summer have
6.000 million descendants, fighting
for existence against every kind of
competitor, including themselves.
It is true that the life of an in
sect is brief, but the fact is more
than counterbalanced by the effect
of numbers. A hundred thousand
ants, or perhaps only ten thousand,
could kill a man. A swarm of bees |
guided by a fixed common purpose.!
could disable and probably kill a
man or several men. Explorers have !
been routed by mosquitoes. Great I
areas of fertile country have been |
rendered uninhabitable by the in
cessant attacks of bloodsucking in
sects.
But the warfare between man and
his insect competitors is only to a
small degree waged at the point of
the bayonet; it is generally a struggle
for the means of subsistence. Man
has many times been beaten by
locusts devouring his pastures,
meadows and grain. Crawlers on
the ground and buzzers in the air,
moths with wings like silver down
and caterpillars with brilliant regi
mental stripes flutter about the
gardens and orchards and march up
and down the trees and shrubs,
either devouring as they go or plant
ing eggs from which future devour
ers will spring.
1 have seen an estimate of the
annual damage to food crops in the
United States, done by insects,
amounting to 1 % million dollars,
and I do not think it exaggerated.
The insect is a most efficient ally of
the disease germ. It is his poison
gas with which he undermines the
strength of his chief enemy, the
only one intelligent enough to com
prehend him and effectively to com
bat him.
Fight the fly this summer as you
have never fought him, and begin
at once.
THE NATION~FIRST
[From the Johnstown Tribune]
The Federal Government is ap
pealing to the States for the main
tenance of "war roads," indicating
those highways which afford the
best route for carrying the im
mense traffic composed of war
trucks loaded with war material for
delivery from Western factories and
shpps to seaboard. The road bu
reau of the War Industries Board is
asking civic organizations to sustain
this policy and demand from the
State governments that the cross-
State highways be kept in such con
dition as to facilitate the business
of the War Department. So impor
tant a feature of our war business
has truck transportation become
{hat a separate division has been
created to care for it. It is vitally
important that such routes as the
Lincoln and William Penn High
ways be properly maintained.
Much criticism is offered of the
Pennsylvania Highway Department
because notwithstanding Commis
sioner O'Neil's assertion that no
more "patchwork" would be done,
advertising has been printed for the
construction of at least a dozen
small patches of road and contracts
have been let for a number of
patches in boroughs, averaging less
than one mile in length. Political
critics of Commissioner O'Neil assert
that the restoration of the "patch
work" policy is due to politics and it
might as well be said that it is unfor
tunate at a time when the state
should be rendering the utmost as
sistance to the War Department,
that politics apparently rules in the
Highway Department.
Keen as are the people of Penn
sylvania for good roads and natur
ally desirous of securing State ap-l
propriations and State aid for their,
own localities, they will be patriot-!
ic enough to condemn politics in thej
Highway Department and will sure-]
ly repudiate efforts to gain votes byi
dribbling out small appropriations]
for improved "islands" in great
stretches of dirt roads. Pennsyl
vania must stand back of the gov
ernment and the War Department,
even If some of its politicians are
deprived of the political benefit of
manipulations in its Highway De
partment. The Nation's cause is of
more importance than the perpetu
ation of any dynasty at Harrisburg.
John and Jesus
Ye yourselvta bear me witness that
I said, I am not the Christ, hut that
I am sent before him. This my Joy
therelV'e is fulfilled. He must In
crease, but X must decrease.—John
Ui, 28 to 30.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS
YPRES IN FLANDERS
Translated From the French of Moisel Wyseur in Captain
Pollard's "The Story of Ypres"
By j7m ILTON^ARR
ONCE upon a time, in the coun
try of Flanders, there was a
city, loveliest among the many
lovely cities of Flanders; an hun
dred belfries watched over her, an
hundred villages grouped in her
shadow.
In summer her golden harvest for
leagues around waved in shining
distances, and it seemed that voic
es from the unseen carried upon
the breeze whispered to us of her
beauty.
Alas ! today she is dead, heroic
and martyred, and no more in Flan
ders are seen the many belfries, the
shining fields, the quiet villages as
of old. The wind passing abroad
lias heard the sound of her weeping
and carried it to the ends of the
earth, and a sigh passed over the
whole world.
The stars that pave the sky have
seen with their bright and fright
ened eyes the demented rage of flre
and blood, the writhing poor tortur
ed bodies, and the stars paled in af
fright and closed their eyes that
they might see no more.
But when Ypres fell breathing out
her soul in those last red embers—
the land of Flanders shook with
trembling and the bones in her an
cient cemeteries stirred with fear
and reproach as if the hour had
sounded for the last great Judg
ment.
It was in Flanders some time
since you did me the honor, my
dear Captain Pollard, to ask me for
a few notes for your historic study
of Ypres. and you saw that I was
much embarrassed !
REVISION OF TAXES
We are already raising more mon
ey by war taxation in relation to
war loans, and vastly more, than
any other belligerent. We are do
ing vastly better in this respect than
we have ever done before in any
other war. Our present revenues
from war taxes would pay the in
terest and provide a generous sink
ing fund for about ten times the
war debt as it will stand to our own
account at the conclusion of the
Third Liberty Loan.
Nevertheless, Secretary McAdoo
believes that taxes should bear a
larger proportion to loans even thnn
they do. In his Liberty Loan speech
es at Rochester he expressed the
view that heavier taxes are not on'.y
necessary but would be found the
most certain meens of preventing
the waste which still goes on in ac
cordance with rbo great American
habit of prodigality In living.
The Secretary may be right about
this. But it is clear from his own
statement that existing war taxes,
much the heaviest ever imposed on
the American people, have not prov
ed very effective for that popular
economy which he seeks.
It accordingly becomes evident
that any campaign for higher war
tuxes must begin at the bottom of
the present schedules and not at
their top. Its field of action mi'St
be Congress. It must first put Intel
ligibility and. clarity and certainty
into the war taxation we already
have, before undertaking to extend
the levies. Neither Individual nor
corporate economy is stimulated by
the confusion and uncertainty which
characterize the existing Income and
excess-profits taxes. —From the New
York World.
Eat All You Can
"Eat 'em up!" is said to have been
the war cry of the American troops
in France. Go to it! There are no
food conservation regulations on the
I battle front to prevent it.—From the
New York Hotel Review,
I have bought a copy of your
work so interesting and at the same
time so true to fact, and I find that
you have said all that could be
said and in a manner far better than
I would have been able to do.
While our "Jasses" at the other
end of the line struggle and die he
roically at the Yser, you were there
with your chivalrous and noble
"Tommies" who struggle and die
superbly to defend what is left at
our poor little Belgium.
You have personally seen the
death of Ypres, with the breeze you
have heard, with the stars you have
seen and poignant horror has shaken
your very bones and ' entered into
your life.
You did not know perhaps that
Flanders which you have so heroic
ally defended, was such a distant
far-away land, but at the voice of
her suffering you have loved her
and her whole soul has entered Into
your soul. That deed has throbbed
in your arteries, that hate has
lifted her mutilated arms in * su
preme appeal.
You have had the marvelous vis
ion of a past yet more marvelous
surging mid these ruins, and the his
tory of Flanders is for you marvel
ously perpetuated.
Your generous blood has flowed
upon her fields and the soil ha 9
drunk your blood with the blood of
our other noble defenders. Today
she is impregnated with it, and
when again the new grain shall
shine in our fields that grain will
be rich with a common comming
ling, for your dead and our dead
sleep together in one long fraternal
embrace.
Germany Needs Officers
Evidence accumulates that the
German Army is beginning to feel
the drain upon its officer personnel.
In this respect Prussian militarism
is seen to have its defects, as well
as its elements of strength. For
the difference between the system
under which officers are made :n
Germany and in the countries of the
Entente is a wide one, and in a
long war the democratic idea is be
ing proved to be the better.
There is a chasm between the
comrrion soldier of Germany—the
mere "cannon fodder" —and his
commissioned superiors that is al
most incapable ox being bridged.
The aristocracy of rank does not
encourage promotion from the
ranks. The German private does
not carry a marshal's baton in his
knapsack. He is lucky to get a de
cent treatment and to come out
alive. He knows better than eCen
to cherish ambition to become a
gieat military leader.
It is different in France, England,
and the United States, and even in
Italy. When .he final battles are
fought this may rrove a decisive
factcr. The recent offensive of the
Germans is proving especially disas
trous to its officers who cannot he
it-placed. In the armies of the Al
lies, on the other hand, there is
no lack of potential leadership. Men
arc rising from the ranks as rapid
ly na they prove themselves woilhy.
—From the Portland Oreganian.
No Golden Mean
If the newspapers denounce the
air craft delays, they encourage the
Germans, and If they don't denounce
them and the delays keep on, they
also encourage the Germans.—From
the Newark Advocate.
And Avoid Party Line
The next time Emperor Charles
wishes to communicate with Prinze
Sixtus he will *piobably ÜBe th e
jaiiona.—Marlon Star.
LABOR'S LOYALTY
With the exception of two or
three wholly local walkouts, which
promise to be easily settled, May
Day passed without interruption of
industry throughout the United
States. The threatened strikes of
the paper-workers and telegraphers
weer abadoned at the mediation of
federal representatives, and even the
I. W. W. element, which had plan
ned a demonstration of sympathy
with Mooney, the California agita
tor, under conviction for a bomb
plot realized that the nation was
not in a mood to be tolerant of
such action, and abandoned its pur
pose, Mooney himself recognizing its
clash with the spirit of the times.
There was 'ess reason for strikes
on this May Day than in any pre\i
ous year within memory. Labor is
more generally employed, at higher
wages, and is commanding better
conditions than ever before. In the
broad average it is enjoying its full
share, with employing capital, of
the apparent prosperity resulting
from war industry. But beyond this
consideration, there is a definite, pa
triotic stand of organized labor
against the abuse of its own pow
er.—From the Philadelphia Bulle
tin.
OUR DAILY LAUGH"
TO BE EN- m
COURAGED.
Nearly all of my wf"iS
admirers think,
1 should be able fjjßj&J •'
to get tips from /
you on the mar-
Encourage them
in the idea, my
dear. It won't fcy/
be long before £r\ t &
I'll be ready to i * lij
unload the 13
stock I'm carry- *'l=4 I _
lnflt.
PLATING
! Mr. Jones
mus '- *> e * n trow
He put sli Ms
\/ property In Ms
f ) wife's name.
r-iB-j ■
CRUSHED HIS ■
He—On the
street today a
very handsome
young lady
smiled at me. |
She I 'WMriB
wouldn't feel
badly about It. ,
There are some ]
men who look , I Yjf
even funnier IMP * nvS
than you do. If*}!- \ *0
TAK I N '<S HIM
- LITERALLY.
He's an ener
getic officer. He
flies from
one place to an-
*vlatlon.
BitttUtg Ottfat
An entirely new door haa opened
for women, owing to the exigencies
of the great war. Large corporations
and mills and factories throughout
the country are demanding women
chemists. Men who have formerly
done this work have been called to
the front, or else put on govern
mental jobs. Dye factories are open
ing now throughout the country and
many new factories of various kinds
are taking up the work that has
formerly been done in Germany.
These mills are now greatly handi
capped owing to the lack of trained
chemists for research and experi
mental work. State College at State
College, Pa., haa been asked by many
of these concerns to give the train
ing that will enable women to t&kel
these positions for which they are
eminently fitted, and which need
them so badly to-day.
State College will give special
training to such women as will take
the work, Mr. Vorse, of the college
force told a Telegraph representative
to-day. College graduates are special
ly needed, as they have already the
broad foundation for special train
ing, and could secure the expert
work in six months or a year of In
tensive work. Special courses will be
given during the summer also. Then
| too large colleges throughout the
country have to-day fellowships that
are going begging—the men who
would have been eager to secure
them having gone to the front.
Women will be given these fellow
ships, even by universities that here
tofore have accorded them only to
men.
"Miss Margaret M. Ma-cDonald, of
State College, State College, Pa., will
give information regarding these
fellowships and also regarding the
specializing along lines of chemical
research work," said Mr. Vorse.
"Work along these lines is to-day
real patriotic work for it will enable
important industries to keep In mo
tion, and will facilitate the govern
ment in many ways. The corporations
state that women need not fear be
ing displaced after the declaration of
peace, for there will bo work for all.
Many of the men will still be needed
abroad in the great reconstruction
period there, and in the building of
railways and the opening of new in
dustrial and commercial fields."
"I've got an idea that people are
becoming better educated in regard
to catching fish, especially trout,"
said Commissioner of Fisheries
Nathan R. Buller in talking about
the fact that comparatively few ar
rests have been made for violation
of the troxit laws, except for short
fish. "We do not have as many arrests
as we used to have. The majority of
trout fishermen are true sportsmen;
they go for the fun and they are as
much interested in maintaining the
supply of fish as any one and they
often round up 'fish hogs.' The fel
low who used to go out and flsh and
fish until he had more than he could
carry seems to growing rare. The
questions which have arisen over
what shall constitute the legal limit
of trout in day will likely be settled
in court soon. Just now we are warn
ing people to be careful. And they
are taking it well."
William M. Donaldson Is a pretty
busy man, one of the busiest In Har-
I risburg, but if there is one sufoject
on which he will give up his time It
is the Thrift Stamp. Mr. Donaldson
took the chairmanship of the com
mittee in charge for this county and
has been working at it right alons
in spite of the various drives and
campaigns and his faith and work
are commencing to show. Some of
the biggest men in the community
have been waking up to what the
Thrift Stamp means and the Don-,
aldson telephone is an active one.
Mr. Donaldson was remarking tlio
other day on the way people sud
denly realized how easy it is to save
by the stamp. "One man asked me
about the system," said he. "And
a few days later he said, say, just
look at the quarters I've saved!"
* • •
Francis J. Hall, vice-president of
the Central Iron and Steel Company,
who is one of the businessmen of
the state who are giving time and
brains to helping Uncle Sam In re
turn for nothing. Is putting in a good
bit of work at Washington where he
is on the committee on steel plates,
just now one of the most important.
Mr. Hall says that every time he
comes to Harrisburg for a week-end
sleep he finds a new drive of some
kind on. He remarks that he has
gotten into the habit of subscribing
before he goes to the national cap
ital, so as to 'be on the safe side
• • •
A dozen years ago grocers used to
sell oleo only when anyone asked
for it ahd the oleo licenses were kept
where no one would think of look
ing. The display was a good bit
like the average compliance with
the cold storage law provision for a
sign to be posted. The sign may be
around, but you need a diagram of
the store to find it. Now, say the
grocers, things have gotten to a pass
where they have to boom butter.
"The average man does not know
the difference between oleo and but
ter. and many don't care," said he.
"It's getting so that people who
would have thrown things at the
suggestion of using a substitute
some years ago, are developing a
discriminating taste in trying the
new things."
• • •
One of the zealous young men in
terested in the Thrift Stamp cam
paign conceived the idea of going
to one of the city markets and
getting the farmers to buy the
stamps. He figured out that the
farmers came once or twice a week
to Harrisburg and that he could get
some of them to buying so many
stamps each week and that maybe
the fanners' wives, who are sup
posed to get the proceeds from gar
dens and chickens and other things,
like rrinisters' wives are presumed
to get the marriage fees, would put
their profits into Thrift Stamps. The
greatest objection he found was that
they, men and women, would have
to go to the post office to buy the
Ralby Bonds or to register them.
There is a fertile field for the Thrift
Stamp people among the country
folks.
• • •
One of the prettiest of the dis
plays of flowers along Front street
Is the row of .boxes of pansiea at the
executive mansion. They are of all
colors and the blooms are bewllder
ingly numerous. The pansy la one
of the most effective of spring deco
rations and the mansion row Is at
tracting much attention and praise.
Family Out of Luck **
There Is a olot on, we learn, to
make Alexis Romanoff emperor of
Russia, and just when that unfortu
nate kid had hoped to join the Boy
Scouts.—Grand Rapids Presa.
Real Titles
A good many American girls who
used to think they were cut out to
be wives of foreign titled men are
now coming to reaVze that the titled
fellow they want to marry Is lome
corporal In the American Arm*.-
Wilmington Mmmm,