HARRISBUKG TELEGRAPH A \BWSPAPER POH THH I'OMB Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Squra. E. J. STACKPOLE.Pr*.r' (r Editor-in-Chief F, R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Tress—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise creditod In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m Member American Newspaper Pub- East er n office^ in,. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a CBffi;■ week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, MAY 28. 1918 Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. — FRANCIS BACON. FAKE REFORMERS AT last the secret Is out! . The self-appointed reform bosses of the Democratic party are reformers inly when it is con venient. How often have we heard from the lips of A. Mitchell Palmer or Na tional Chairman Vance C. McCor mick the charge that the strong hold of rym in Pennsylvania is in the Republican party. How often have the subsidized newspaper mouthpieces of the National Chair man made the same false accusa tion. And now what? Why, Judge Bonniwell, an out-and-out rum can didate, has been nominated by the Democrats, and Palmer, speaking for the machine, says: "Bonniweli's nomination simply means that the | Democratic party :n Pennsylvania is 'wet.' • • • 1 shall support Bonniwell." There you have it. The Palmer-McCormick organiza- : tion is going to urge the election of a "wet" candidate whom it has charged with being anything but good grubernatoriai material. The public is now getting a glimpse of these pure and saintly, holier than thou reformers in their true light, and the cloven hoof is showing from beneath the monk's cloak. 1 If you have flowers to spare, take them on Memorial Day to one of the Grand Army post rooms in time for use by the veterans. I PROHIBITION SOON PRESIDENT Wilson has signed 1 the Hiwaiian prohibition bill. ( Gradually he is* approaching ] the point when he must issue a de- ; cree against the manufacture and < sale of all intoxicating liquors in the • United States. , Thank heaven, the days are past '■ when It was considered the proper 1 thing to celebrate Memorial Day by , two games of baseball at Island Park. , "ASK HARRY BAKER!" i It the conduct of a military or ' I political campaign it frequently 1 happens that those largely re- ' sponsible for successful results ate so modest that their names seldom ] a?.pear in print In the recent im portant primary election W. Harry 1 Baker, of this city, secretary of the : Republican State Committee, had a 1 large part in the burdensome plan- * ning necessary for the launching and ' conduct of the campaign. Only those ' familiar with political organizations ( can understand the tremendous de- ' tail which must be looked after by ' tho secretary of the State organiza- ! tlon. Mr. Baker is a master of detail. He 1 has been thoroughly schooled ! through years of experience in dis- ' posing of the thousand and one 1 things that arise during a campaign ' and which demand a cool head and wide knowledge of the working ' forces of the party. 1 "Ask Harry Baker," is the invari- ' able response of leaders and workers when some perplexing problem bobs 1 up in any parliamentary session, a ' conference of party leaders, or the ' general management of the cam- 1 palgn. His services to the party have : been invaluable and his personal 1 popularity keeps pace with his ef ficiency. 1 i And now, Mr. Director General Mc- ' Adoo. having asked for Increases of : railroad tariffs to a surprising de gree. won't you please tell us aside ! from wage advances what you are 1 going to do with the money?: 1 PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS PRESIDENT WILSON voices the ' expressed conviction of the lead- ! ership of the Republican party, and doubtless of a majority of Dem- 1 ocrats in Congress when he asks for 1 immediate consideration of 1919 war revenue legislation. His address yesterday reflected the sentiment of Senatorial debate that preceded It and was to a large degree an ampll- , Bcatlon of the views of most of the j TUESDAY EVENING, I far-sighted Senators and members I of both parties. The President takes the correct | view. The war must be fought to a successful finish and money is as necessary to that end as men. The people are as one in their deter mination to continue on, no matter wfiat the cost In blood or treasure, until the German beast has been slain. As the President says, they know they must pay the bill and they are ready for the sacrifice, pro viding the taxation is Just and equitable. But they ought to be told thus year how much they must pay in taxes next year, in order that they may prepare to meet their obligations, as*wrell as to guide their investments in Liberty Bonds in the meantime. President Wilson never sensed the state of the public mind more ac curately nor interpreted it more clearly than when he said to Con gress yesterday: Have you not felt the spirit of the nation rise and its thought become a single and common thought since these eventful days same in which we have been send- i n * boys to the other side? I think you must read that thought, as I do. to mean this, that the people of this country are not only united in the resolute purpose to win this war. but are ready and willing to bear any burden and undergo any sacrifice that it may be necessary for them to bear in order to win it. We need not be afraid to tax them, if we lay taxes justly. They know that the war must be paid for and that it is they who must pay for it, and if the burden is justly distributed and the sacrifice made a common sacrifice from which none escapes who can bear it at all, they will carry it cheerfully and with a sort of solemn pride. I have always been proud to be an American, and was never more proud than now. when all that we have foreseen about our people is coming true. The great days have come when the only thing that they ask for or admire is duty. greatly and adequately done; when their only wish for America is that she may share the freedom she enjoys: when a great, compelling sympathy wells up in their hesrts for men everywhere who suffer and are oppressed and when they see at last the high uses for which their wealth has been piled up and their mighty power accumulated and. counting neither blood nor treas ure now that their final day of opportunity has come, rejoice to spend and to be spent through a long night of suffering and ter ror in order that they and men everywhere may see the dawn of a day of righteousness and Justice and peace. The people are ready. They ask only to be told in ample time the extent of the support required of them. It will be the duty of Con gress to remain in session until t.h£ financial program for the coming year has been decided upon. The nature of the taxation, as the President intimates, should be such as to appeal to the popular sense of fair play. The burden must be placed where it can be most easily borne, but the levy must touch the pocketbook of even the humblest to some extent. This is everybody's war and everybody must help pay for it. "Politics adjourned." says the President- "We hope he's right, but we doubt it. LIVING MEMORIALS • SEVERAL times the Telegraph has suggested the dedication of trees throughout the city as living memorials to our soldiers. It is gratifying to note that a consider able number of trees already have been planted as a result of this sug gestion. A current magazine refers to a similar memorial p'an now In vogue at Newburgh, N. Y., where citizens, combining with the city government, have arranged for the purchasing, planting and labeling of a tree for every Newburgh man who has re sponded or who does respond to the call to the colors. The city buys the trees, mostly of the ornamental shade variety, and individuals or or ganizations do the planting and the marking, providing silver or other metal name-plates for the latter. More than 1,100 trees have already been planted in this way. In some cases fraternal organizations have provided these living memorials for their drafted or enlisted members. If the Harrisburg City Council would create immediately a Shade Tree Commission, as should have been done long ago. such an organi zation could put into effect the tree planting suggestion outlined here and there would be Wide-spread co operation on the part of the people of Harrisburg. Recent storms have emphasized the importance and the absolute need of something being; done to protect the trees we have and to increase their number. It is creditable to the owner of the property at State and Second streets, where a large tree was re cently blown down, that immediately two fine young trees were planted to fill the gap. Many thousands of trees woyld be set out in Harrisburg should this me morial plan be adopted and the hun dreds of Harrisburg boys in the ser vice would feel that in addition to all the other things that are being done to support them at the front, the folks back home were also main taining a beautiful city to which they may return after the victorious peace shall have come. Will not Park Commissioner Gross take the lead in this work and be assured that the community get back of him and make the tree plan a great success? As the annual Memorial Day will be observed during the present week now would be an appropriate time to start the tree planting movement Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady will doubtless be greeted by a great audi ence at the Chestnut Street Audi torium this evening. As an author, soldier, sailor and clergyman and a student of international affairs he is peculiarly equal to discuss the sub ject "Why God Doesn't Stop the War." Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Taft have shaken hands and are good friends again. And both are bigger, better , men for the reconciliation. I'Po&ttC* CK "PtKKOIftIKUUa I the Kx-Commltteemaa I • It commences to look as though the Democratic party in Pennsylva nia was getting ready for anothor I of its periodical changes of bosses and this time the men who rode in to power on a demand for purifica tion of their party would furnish the reorganizing material. It is seven years since A. Mitchell Palmer and the coterie lined up with him got control of the party machinery on representation from a group of Dem ocratic congressmen who were afraid of getting defeated when the n&xt election came around and the meth ods they adopted furnished talk among the party leaders for many a : day. And now the same leaders have been repudiated at a primary election by the methods which aro recognized as final the world over. Prom all accounts partisans of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell are Just waiting until the returns are all tn on the nomination for lieutenant governor to start something and ail signs are that National Committee man Palmer, who "swore in" for Bonniwell on Sunday, is trying io head off something. The situation is that the reorganization bosses have control of the party machinery, Ihe state committee and the headquar ters, all of the things of which tliey dispossessed the old Guffey-Dewalt regime in 1911 anil to which they got title in the last Democratic state convention in 1912, but Judge Bon niwell is the party standard-bearer by virtue of a thorough trouncing by the Democratic rank and file of the candidate of the reorganizers, Jo seph F. GufTey. Under such condi tions a man chosen by the people na turally may insist upon the pavtj machinery being handled by men in sympathy with him. The Democratic state committee meets in June and it will be interest ing to see who follows Palmer into the Bonniwell triumphal procession. —The signs are that Judge Bonni well will inaugurate, his campaign tor purification of the Democracy by throwing out the present Phila delphia Democratic city committee bosses. He will probably ask that B. Gordon Bromley,, the old city chairman, who was so distasteful to the Palmer-McCormick regime, be put in charge of the organization again. The Philadelphia Record; the big Democratic organ of the state, has this to say about the matter: "The city situation, from a Democra tic point of view, is strikingly similar to the predicament in which the sc calied state leaders tind themselves. Xo effort was made to wrest control of the state committee from the Pul mer-McCormick outfit, but already Judge Bonniwell has been urged to also take up the Pennsylvania lead ership and procure the selection of an active state chairman who could lead a united party. Disgusted over the miserable 'showing made by the Palmer-McCormiek candidate, the rank and file of the party favors a Bonniwell man to succeed Joseph F. Guitey, acting chairman of the state committee. It is planned to open a state headquarters branch in this city and an active Democrat will be placed in charge. It is regarded as highly significant that hundreds of Democrats who supported Guffey last Tuesday are /low working in the interest of complete reorganizations of the city and state committees." The Democratic bosses are meet- I ing at Washington this week on a hunt for a convenient place to alight after soaring around with many promises to the President and much work by the Market Square wind mill calling attention to the wonder ful nature of their exploits—before the recent primary. The Philadel phia committee will meet next week. —°n the other hand the results of the Republican primary were so decisive in the majority of cases that very little is being heard. Senator Sproul is going away for a rest and the O'Neil committee is paying its bills. The Governor has not spoken and men aligned with his faction arc lining up for the ticket. —Sheriff H. C. Ransley will hea l the Republican committee in Phil adelphia again. —Fores', county went "dry" yes terday, making fourteen "dry" coun ties. —Representative "Bill" Davis, of Cambria county, one of the 'wet'*| leaders, not only srot Republican re-' nomination, but took a Democratic nomination as well. —Friends of Judge W. D. Porter say that he will have opposition on the Superior Court ticket unless Ste phen H. Huselton files a formal with drawal. Huselton\s vote in spite of his retirement from the race is so large due to failure to properly In form the people that he had quit, that Judge Porter may not be the sole nominee. In Perry county, for instance, Huselton carried the coun ty. Some nervousness is being mani fested on Capitol Hill over reports '.hat Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr., may be opposed for election to the Supreme Court for the full term in Xovember and this may cause Gov ernor Brumbaugh to find out how Democrats feel in regard to the suc cessor to Justice Mestrezat instead of naming a Western Pennsylvania Re publican. There have been reports persistent here that Judge George Kunkel, of Harrisburg, C. Laßue Munson, of Williamsport, and Judge Gustave A. Endlish, of Reading, are being urged by friends to run and Munson nomination papers are rum ored in circulation. What is also dis turbing the state administration men is the report that Superior Court Judge John W. Kephart will be a candidate. The Judge is keeping his own counsel and worrying Capitol Hill by doing it The hiladelphia Ledger to-day says: "olitical circles were eagerly debating yesterday a report that Wil liam J. McNichol, who was named at the primary election to succeed his father, the late Senator James P. McNichol, would withdraw and that Representative John R. K. Scott would be substituted to give the Vares a floor leader in the Senate. The nominee denied there was any thing to the story. He said he had heard nothing about it, and added: 'Mr. Vare has never spoken to me about anything of the sort. I don't think he will.' Senator Vare, when asked pointblank if the story was true, replied as follows: 'Say, why don't you newspaper fellows give us news any more. Here It is almost a week since the primaries and you haven't even found out who is nom inated for Congressma-at-Large.' " ' A GOOD APPOINTMENT The Philadelphia Ledger to-day says: "Political circles were eagerly vacancy In the Orphans' Court. The Governor Is to be congratulated upon his wise selectton. Mr. Henderson does not wear the tag of any politician. He owes hi 3 appointment to none of them. In every way he is hU own master. A most commendable and satisfactory choice.—Philadelphia Inquirer. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH j AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'? .. .. ... .... .... .... BY BRIGGS WH6IO THE PMowe RINGS ■ -AWD Horrors! MCGD • AMD V 0 O nuo IT MfceS^y AkID You (JET A SCRUMT(OUS MEWJ HAT To Go U||T v oUf> To SRAUJ ONJ Vouß BamK ACfOUNI < D'MMeff DAT£ PQR S*TURDAV Cray GeOR<3ET?e" AMD Go IM "TbIAJM To try om MICSWT 61 V/ARleT is -S or HATS- roR You MV<ST HAve A, MATT ?! AkJB eJ6fY OM6 You Tfc.Y ■ y OM LOOKS \AJOft.S(: 7HAiv / PReDecre^sc>R "AMD VAJITH ACHnJ6 HCarT And -AkjO IT'S A PEAD RIrJGGR FOR QH _ H H J All-i'T IT FTET You Go HOWS AWD FIMD "TUC- KimO-THSY- Your HAS REiURRECTED THIS- SUMRMER" AkjD You COOK (. YOUR, pavioritc LAST ii/MMeft'i Liws A X>OLL AR-S ,fvJ iT' A TUS Lid AIOD BR US HEC it AUC -y— 1 I \ Over tfwe Ik *~pe>v7uu The city council of Ellsworth set aside a "Dandelion Day," and paid the boys and girls twenty-five cents a bushel. One boy dug twenty seven bushels. A Keystone farmer writing to complain to the State Board of Agriculture about the war-girl farm hand sent him claims that she asked the first day what kind of scented soap to use in washing lettuce, and that her board does not pay for her help. Says a meditative Pennsylvania ed itor: "They'll keep on using the word ' 'morale' until pretty nearly every body will know what it means." The Conviction of Mrs. Stokes (Philadelphia Ledger.) The conviction of Rose Pastor Stokes for violating the espionage act is a salutary act that will meet with widespread approval. Mrs. Stokes is not a newly arrived alien of German birth or sympathies, but, on the contrary, is a young woman for whom America has done every-1 thing, as in the case of Mary Antin, one of her compatriots. She by mar- 1 riage acquired the responsibility that; comes from wealth, and also, by rea-; son of her opportunities and her public activities, was quite familiar! with the obligations of citizenship in] the land of her adoption. Instead of meeting the situation created by thel war with that nobility and humanity to which she and her fellow extreni-! ists are forever paying lip-service, inj a willful, perverse, fanatical and , wholly irresponsible manner shej threw over all the sub tance of social: and political life tor the shadow of [ a certain kind of socialistic govern-1 ment in preparation for which she i attacked all existing government; here, expecting through chaos to; realize all her social ideals. And; these ideals vaguely held, seldom | clearly stated, were promoted with a; bitterness and an untruthfulness bij the matter of the United States being; at war that quite rtghtly brought her; within the terms of the espionage acti and so led to her conviction. Disappearance of Shad , [Philadelphia Evening Telegraph] The transition of Gloucester's fa mous fishing shore into a shipbuild ing plant can hardly be considered in the light of a sacrificed industry, for the shad that cnce came so plen tifully come no more. Duilng the past two or three years only a few have been caught. A fine shad that formerly could be had in its entirety for tw'enty-five cents now costs five time that. Numerous are the causes given for the disappearance of shad from the Delaware. Some contend they have been driven away by the refuse of chemical plants dumped into the river; others say the young are de- j stroyed by German carp, while each town along the stream has its local oracle who gives everything from changed zodiac conditions to the noisy explosions cf motorboat gines as the real reason. None of them suggests an exhaust ed supply. For many years the. Dela ware has been fished over its entire length with mile-long nets and les*. and notwithstanding the efforts of the government to increase shad propagation, the extermination seems to be almost complete. Men Who Write Success Ads H. C. Witwer, the humorist, says in a funny story printed in the June American Magazine: "The nation is beln' flooded these days with advertisements clalmin' that any white man which works for less than forty thousand bucks a year is a hick. The best of 'em is wrote by a friend of mine, Joe Higgins, who gets all of twenty bucks every Saturday at six—one-thirty In July, August and September. "The ads that Joe tears off deal with inventions. He shows that Edison prob'ly wouldn't of made, a nickel over a million li he hadn't discovered everything but America and that Bell, Marconi, Fulton and that gang wouldn't of been any bet ter known to-day than ham and eggs if they hadn't used their brains for purposes of thinkln' and in vented somethln'. 'There's fortunes which would make the Vanderfciits and Astors look like public charges.' explains Joe. 'awa'.ttn' the bird which will quit piny in' Kelly pool some night and invent a new way to do anything.' " THE KAISER CONFRONTED BY CHRIST A CHRIST was offered all the king, doms of the world if he would fall down and worship. In this episode of his life, as The Com mercial and Financial Chronicle (New York) interprets, there was | offered him "the gift of physical i force which would promptly con j quer them all." This, then, "was lin line of temptations common to us all, to pay high for physical ! well-being and material advan j tage." But Jesus rejected the j temptation and gave the tempter his name in saying, "Get thee be hind me, Satan." The writer in this Wall street paper shows that the God of the Kaiser is the one who tempt ed Jesus, for "when any king or any state in the proud possession of conscious power to conquer another state claims divine suoport in the at tempt, the God he invokes is the 'God of this world." who tempted the Saviour, and only when finally defeated left him at the cross." This, it is shown, is the enemy "em bodied in those who claim that might makes right," against whom "the democracy of the world has to day to wage relentless war." The writer continues: "The Kingdom of God is at stake, for that is 'not of this world'; and civilization, which is the sum of man's attainments in his long strug gle toward his goal, is attacked, and, if defeated, is sure to be destroyed. "To secure the casting out by the nations, as an utter fallacy, of I the floctrine that might, either in i the man or in the state, makes right, and the rejection of the pur- I pose to conquer others that their property may be posssessed, and thus to open the way that peace as the Rift of God to 'men of good-wil" may be obtained, the nations are united to-day at any sacrifice or cost Stories of "Charlie" Schwab (Philadelphia Ledger.) Yesterday and to-day we find illus trated at Bethlehem another phase of Mr. Schwab's versatility, In llie music of the Bach choir of which he is patron saint. Opportunely there comes to me from various sources another crop of Schwab anecdotes While the steel magnate was tak ing a wheel-chair ride on the Board walk at Atlantic City he noticed a penny, which the negro lad who was propelling htm saw also. 'Why don't you pick it up?" asked Mr. Schwab. "Well, I didn't think it was worth while —it was only a penny." "You must never talk that way," answered the man of millions. "I saw it, too. and wondered why you passed It by. Always look out for the pennies aid the dollars will come] of themselves." He made the boy pick up and pocket the despise-l coin. When Schwab was a boy In the village of Loretto, Pa., the school master —an enthusiast for geology—• told each child to bring him a speci men t<s describe. When the pile was collected the teacher picked up the stones one by one and told the pupils about them. Young Schwab's contribution hap pened to be a jagged piece of brick. "Thts," said the schoolmaster, I holding up the first stone, "is a piece | of feldspar from the cros§ roads. "This," he added, "is a piece of marl from the meadow. "Here," he continued, "we have a piece of argillaceous sandstone from the quarry." Then, coming to Mr. Schwab's contribution, the bit of a brick, he said in tones of black anger, "And this is a piece of Impudence from Charlie Schwab!" No Kitchin Tax Bill This Time (New York Times.) The chairman of the ways and means committor talks as though he were the House of Representatives. Also, he talks us though he wished to punish the entire country for the defects of the legislation which he was allowed to impose upon It. Fur thermore, he talks like a contortion ist who walks ahead and looks back ward. On Thursday he Was sure that there would be no difficulty about passing a tax bill between the holidays and the 4th of March. On Friday he is sure that no tax bill ever has been or can be passed in leas than half a year. What he may have said on Saturday, or may say here after, is not yet known, but it is sure that there will be no such tax bill as he talks about. to defeat Germany and destroy her power of aggression. The lives that are declared to this cause are offer ed both to God and to humanity in a service that is above all. "When this is accomplished it may well be said that 'it was more stupid than criminal to imagine at the opening of the twentieth century that a nation has for its mission th subjection of another people, and, if they do not submit, to put them to the edge of the sword. When they discovered that violence and false hood are forces, it was sheer stu pidity to believe that these forces dominate men, and that one can by a blow from the shoulder lift hu manity to the level of Christ and of Cain. Cain was stronger than Abel, since he killed him; it is, however, the race of Abel which has civilized the earth. The Pharisees were stronger than Christ, since they crucified Him. It is, however, the Galilean who has conquered. It is he who is to conquer on our fields of battle. The soldiers of the Re public are the soldiers of God. for God is above all.' That, for to-mor row. To-day we may say with the young soldier, Rupert Brooke, giv ing his life before Gallipoll: Honor has come back as a King to to earth. And paid Mis subjects with a royal wage; And nobleness walks in our ways again. And we have come into our heritage. "The \ictory is already won in the sacrifice; and the men and the women of the years to come will have the peace." Two of the principles for which al! of Germany's enemies are now fighting are the right of the weak to exist Independent of the strong, and the denial of the right, of pos session as a reward of conque#. GENERAL TO HIS SON Discipline, like charity, begins at home, and you must see that you yourself possess what you try to In culcate. If you, consider that you have been unjustly treated, and that another, less competent than you, has received the promotion which you yourself expected, keep your feelings to yourself. Refuse to be embittered and do your duty as cheerily as ever. This war is not being fought in order that you may get advancement. . . . No man is infallible, and it may well happen that your immediate superior has not tackled the problem in front of him in the best manner, but what ever his orders are, back him up heart and soul and remember that a fairly sound plan energetically carried out will generally succeed, but that a perfect one is doomed to failure if not properly supported." This is the advice which one of "A General's Letters to his Son" (Houghton Miffln Company) gives and which might well be taken by every young officer. GOOD-BY, GERMAN (From the Evening Ledger.) The Board of Public Education has responded to an undoubted public demand in ordering that the teach ing of German in the schools be stopped. There is a feeling that the lan guage cannot be studied without sub jecting the pupils to some subtle sort of German propaganda. And there is also a feeling that even If there were no danger of misleading the young people, the. language of the Germans does not deserve the at tention of free-born Americans. The school board evidently believes that this feeling is entertained by a ma jority of the people In the city or it would not have acted. We assume, however, that the War Department will not /eject office!s who understand the German lan guage, nor discharge fiom the army soldiers who can talk with German prisoners and can understand what Is said in the trenches of the enemy when they approach them through No Man's Land. While German may not be necessary here. It is of the first importance that there be In our army in France a generous number of men who understand tha lan guage. Judah Takes Jerusalem Now the chi'-'ren of Judah had ! fought against .lerusalem, and had | taken It, and smitten it with the ! edge of the sword, and set fire to the I fiity.—Judges, i, 8. MAY 28, 1918. ' 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT" The lepers of Molokai bought $5,- 000 worth of Liberty Bonds, wishing: to guard against the possibility of having to associate with Germans. —Louisville Courier-Journal. German army is frantically eager to get out of the low, damp valley it is in—you see, the German soldiers are now wearing paper pants.—Chi cago Daily New'j. An American newspaper man in France has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The office car ries no salary.—Dallas News. Some idea of how Finland's "in dependence" is turning out may be formed from the information that a Prussian duke ia running for king on the Hohenzollern ticket. —Kan- sas City Star. If Messrs. Willard and Fulton can't find any place to fight in this country, they might be reminded that there are no laws restricting fighting in Flanders and Picardy.— Nashville Southern Lumberlan. Professor William Herbert Hobbs blames the intellectuals of allied countries for not having duly waraed the people of the German menace. As a matter of fact such warnings were sounded, but coming from the intellectuals no one paid any at tention to, them. San Francisco Chronicle. OUR DAILY LAUGH HABIT. "Why <ii<J your wife leave you?" "Force of 'haibiit, I guess. She was a cook before I married her." THE ONLY WAT. Disgusted Boy Doll (in back ground)— Gee, I guess if I want to popular with those girls I'll have LOOKED THE PART. Bat —Ha, ha, those fool buffs thlni I'm thfc uevil' BY THE SAD SEA WAVES. "Hey, Whait's the idea Polly?" "Oh, juat balancing myself on my [ petchl" iEbpttittg GMfat Every tlnrfe any one of the older residents wants to make any ex pression Indicative of high prices, reference Is made to the figures whlcn had to be paid "during the war." This reference is to the Civil War, of course, and the prices for wheat, potatoes and fruits as well as materials have long been con sidered the last word la altitude. Yet, if things keep on In this war the Civil War economic situation will look like a mere flurry. We are eJK familiar with prices for coal ana potatoes last winter and how prices have gone up and down, mainly up, this spring. Now we face raises In | railroad fares, probably to keep people from traveling as much as anything else. Just for the sake of keeping the record straight and in order to make mention of some of the sources of complaint it may be said that the prices of certain fruits can be taken as indicative of what prices really are. These prices are quoted on fruits which are not es sential except in cases of sickness and then occasionally, but they are commonly used and are fair samples. Grape fruit cost fifteen to twenty five cents, according to into what Philistine's hands you fall. Oranges have previous prices beaten a mile and now here comes a chance when bananas may cost a nickel apiece. They sell for from forty to fifty cents a dozen and are going up. Of course, this is not a good season for such fruits and transportation is limited, but the prices are something to talk about. • • • All litigation for properties In the Capitol park extension zone was ended yesterday in the Supreme Court when settlements were affected without presentation to the bench of th& appeals in the cases of Helen M. Lee and the Cooper Foundry In terests and the Commonwealth will now proceed to take possession of the last of the 542 properties in the district. There is only one parcel in which an agreement has not been reached and It is that of H. Homer Matter, who owned a place called the Matterhorn, a concrete struc ture, and who refuses to take the money allowed him by the courts. The building is vacant and it will disappear before many days whether Matter accepts the money or not. The settlements were effected In the case of the Lee properties in Walnui street, in which a question of eject ment arose, the upshot being that the state will remove the buildings at once. In the Cooper case, wherein a $55,000 verdict was given against the state settlement was effected for almost that sum. This building has been removed. To-day men be gan removing the last of the build ings remaining in Fourth street ex cept that occupied by the state and the old Kesher Israel Synagogue, which will be vacated in a fortnight. The state removed the first building in 1912 under purchase made ac cording to the act of 1911 and se cured about twenty-seven acres of ground of which the cKfc' gave four acres as highways. • • • F. R. Stevens, the agricultural di rector of the State Chamber of Com merce. was to-day drafted by the Pennsylvania Public Safety Com mittee to, as he put it last night "to see that men who know how to farm and don't need to are induced to help out the men who have to farm and who need help." Mr. Stevens was long agricultural expert for Lehigh Valley railroad and will be assistant state director of the Fed eral Public Service Reserve in charge of the agricultural labor division. "The proposition will be to get Tim Leahy, who lives a short dis tance from "Tom" Kline, in the Lau rel Hill section of Bradford county and who is fat and well-to-do and ■forty and knows how to work on-a farm to go and help out Kline who only has his wife," said Mr. Stevens. "It will be good for both and for Uncle Sam. The idea is to obtain the unoccupied hours of businessmen and vacation periods for farm work and to secure the labor which may be released from non-essential indus tries. It is the ,idea to have meet ings of Chambers of Commerce and business associations all over Penn sylvania to get this help for the farmer organized." * • • The session of the Supreme Court held here yesterday was not only the shortest on record here in years, but the first in a long time during which some decisions were not hand ed down. As a rule the court hands down a couple of dozens of opinions and the decision to hold the session In Philadelphia for the May deliv erances was a surprise to many law yers who had expected announce ments here. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. R. E. Johnson has pledged the support of the Dry Fed eration of Philadelphia to Senator William C. Sproul. —Judge F. M. Trexler was among .the speakers at the big naturaliza tion meeting at the Army camp at Allentown. —The Rev. C. M. Nicholas, who comes from this section, preached the Memorial Day sermon to Potts ville Spanish War veterans. —Bishop Rhinelander, of Phila delphia. is delivering sermons at the series of meetings on the parkway. —Congressman W. W. Griest, of Lancaster, is at Atlantic City. —Stephen B. Luce, of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania Museum, has been made a lieutenant in the Navy. He is a grandson of an admiral. —L. Saylor Zimmerman will be Memorial Day speaker at Schaeffers town. He Is one of the legislative candidates. DO YOU KNOW —That H&rrisburg tin plate Is boing nswi for much govern ment work Just as arc our steel plates? Hisrroßrc HARRISBURG Early Harrisburgers used to go to Paxton and Coxestown for church) services. \ "WE KNOW A JUST CAUSE" "Although you raised us to be too proud to fight, we know a Just cause when we see it, and if you could the French women as I see them you would be proud that you had two boys to give." "If I die I want to know that I have died as every man ought to die, fighting for what is right. I do not feel that I am fighting for France alone, but for the cause of all humanity, which is the gt-eatest of all causes." Extracts from the letters of Kiffln Rockwell, Amoricau aviator, to hi* i mother.
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