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 MVR "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