8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A HBWSPAPBR FOR THS HOU3 Pottndtd tlji Published evenings except Sunday by THB TKLBXIRAPH PRINTING CO* Telegraph Building, Federal Square. B. J. STACK POLE, Prift & Editor-tn-Chirf V. R. OYSTER, Bmintss Manager. OUS &. STEINMETZ, Mattering Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American (q Newspaper Fub- I Ushers' Assocla- latlon and Penn- IrK Eastern office, jji W Avenue F>ulldlng, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class rrrhtter. . By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance, TUESDAY, JTJNE 11, 1918 And the Spirit of Jehovah shall ret upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of coun sel and might, the spirit of knowl edge and of the fear of Jehovah.— ISA. 11: 2. A FRONT IN RUSSIA THERE is good sense in what former President Taft says about the situation in Russia. Either we must create a "front" in the East or we must be content to permit Germany to concentrate all her forces in the West, while she gradu ally takes over Russia and makes It a part of the great Central 'Empire to which she aspires. , Furthermore, 500,000 American and allied troops in Russia would be worth a million on the west front, for Germany would have to withdraw at least that number of troops from the west line to guard the numerous approaches and the long border which the Russians themselves in the early days so con stantly threatened. We must do something in Rus sia. Instead of coddling the Bol shevik! of that country we must un dertake their overthrow. They are not popular at home and they are steadily playing into the hands of Germany. They preach liberty and they practice serfdom. They talk of making their country free and they sell it into slavery. For the sake of the Russians themselves, as well as for our own interests, we must take a hand in affairs in the East. The English recognized the im portance of the eastern theater of wat much more quickly than did any other of the allies, and but for the victories of General Maude and the capture of Bagdad, the German Berlin to Bagdad railway would be an accomplished fact, carrying steadily to Germany countless cars of grains and giving that country another outlet for its submarine warfare through the Persian gulf. Park Commissioner Gross is doing the wise thing in permitting the fill ing out of the river frontage north of Maclay street, but the dumping should be done under supervision of a park employe, who will see to it that gar bage and waste paper are not thrown over the embankment, only to be blown back upon the lawns In that section. Furthermore, the line of the fill from the curb westward should be established so that hereafter it will not be necessary to remove thousands of yards of dirt to extend the steps northward. SCHOOL LIRRARIES IT would be most regrettable If, through shortage of funds, the Harrlsburg Public Library \frould be unable to expand its work in the State Capital district this fall. Ac cording to the reports which have ibeen submitted, the registration for the privilege of taking out books, which does not cost a cent to the patrons of the Library, amounts to atbout one-fourth of the population of Harrisburg. In other words, one person in every four takes out books from this institution. The circulation some months last winter ran as high as 12,000. Ten thousand is re ported as not uncommon. And in the midst of all this circulation there is notable work being done to make Americans out of adult and Juvenile residents of the city. The books taken to homes of children of for eign-born parents constitute a no table part of the educational system of tlio city. This has been recognized by one resident of Harrlsburg, who was so much' impressed with what was beins done along this line that he made a donation for purchase of books orf American history and an other stipulated that Pennsylvania should l o given attention In selec tions for children ot v>, '> nntlve city. Tlie more direct rift, -er' i-i which a?. Library is rea'.liln- e children r.iro.igh Its seven ' branch ■.,>rarlfl3. There are requeue *hat six . 'hi''- ! e crlabl'she \ tills f.:.'l. To th- pupils of the y "oLo IRA-JAnM h*s -oeeiO *c.tw \ ////, , s//- 1 recv u* ei ! -Ao ~ fi TM'Cj "/ A. IF YOU'LL, £XCO6G ME MR. T>fsKJVM / ////'/ More Watchful Waiting , [New York Post.] "It is time to act in Russia," says ex-President Taft, writing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. It is rather more than time. It was timei to act in Kussia long ago. The ques tion is whether there is still time to act in Russia, and, if there is, how long there will continue to be time to act in Russia. Germany is eating the country up in great mouthfuls. To Germany it was "time to act in Russia" the moment the Czar was overthrown, and Germany began act ing then with immense skill and en ergy and has not lost a minute or a second since. "For want of a definite policy," says a writer the London Times, "we day by day are losing the chance even to rebuild upon the ashes of Russia." • • "We must intervene now," says Mr. Taft. "We should at once con fer with our allies, including Japan, and agree upon a plan." The Bol sheviki will disapprove, no doubt, but are we to murder Russia to avoid offending the Bolshevikl? Are we to give up the future of the world — and its past, the democratic past, it has slowly created out of the cen turies—to protect the sacred Bol shevlki from annoyance? Is history to say that the democratic hope of the ages was slain by Germany and the Allies; by Germany with a award in her hand, and by the Allies with a fat, Micawberesque complacency that eternally hoped something would turn up and therefore did nothing at all? Is Germany to kill democracy with the sword and rhe Allies to kill it with watchful wait ing? rfever Knew Luxuries ([Girard in Philadelphia Evening Telegraph]. Shakespeare neVer drank a cup of tea, never tasted coffee, never sipped a glass of cocoa, never ate a potato and never smoked a cigar. Yet he managed to lead a variegated life and write plays that y'ou still go to see. * Napoleon, who died ninety-seven years ago, never saw a steamboat nor a railroad train, nor even a gas light, but he ruled all Europe. Lincoln never saw an electric light nor talked through a telephone, but he freed 4 million slaves. I doubt if William McKlnley ever rode In a motor car. Certainly U. S. Grant never knew of the wireless. They both rose to fame and went to the White House. The finest piece of known archi tecture on earth was created at Athens by men who never saw a newspaper. St. Peter's Cathedral was the prod uct of Michael Angelo's brain, but he never read a book that came from a printing press or saw a mechani cally typed page. Baphael painted his Immortal Madonnas, but he never ate a corn muffln. Cleopatra never wore a velvet gown, and even if Helen of Troy was so beautiful that she caused a 10- year war she never owned a pair of leather shoes. George Eliot never beheld a movie, but she wrote "Adam Bede," which is a somewhat more import ant thing to have done. I presume that of all the women who ever lived in the world nijt five of them contributed more to the' pleasure of a greater number of other women and men than the wife of a Chinese emperor. Forty-six centuries ago that empress discov ered that a worm could make silk and she started the silk Industry for this entire world. Manpower Will Decide [Kansas City Times.] The June drafts which bring the army up to two million men and more, will help us to understand still more clearly the nature of the great contest we are engaged In with the Germanic powers. It is a contest of manpower. Premier Clemenceau said In the French chamber: "The Americans are staking the game on the help, of the Americans." His words had a literal meaning. They meant that the manpower of France and England was not equal to the manpower of the central powers and that only the manpower of America could turn the scale against them. The Germans have the summer before them. Operating on inside lines and able therefore to make huge concentrations against the points selected for attack, they may be able with these superior numbers to make continued gains of territory, paying, of course, what price the stubborn resistance of the Allies can exact. This process must, in all like lihood, go on until American man power brought into the field swings the balance in favor of the Allies, , Allied Mastery of the Blue [From the Literary Digest] A FORTUNATE feature of the gigantic battle in France is that the mastery of the sky in contestably lies with the Allied avia tors through superior men and ma chines, according to European re ports and dispatches, which cheer various editors who see in such su premacy one of the chief, if not the chief, elements of victory. They note that the western drive was inter rupted and delayed by the terribly destructive bombing offensive of the Allied airmen on the enemy ammu nition supplies and lines of com munication. In one week in May Allied airmen accounted for 252 Ger man planes on the western front alone, and, the Newark Times notes, "one thousand German planes have been brought down or driven out of control in two months since, the Kaiser's battle was begun." Alliedi THE WORLD BULLY , [New York Times.] Captain Lieutenant Franz Rin telen, German naval officer, some time a banker, one of the most active and dangerous of German spies in the United States, Is now serving a term In a New Jersey penitentiary for conspiring with "Wolf" Lamar and others to cause strikes in mu nition factories. At the expiration of this sentence he will have two others to serve, one for getting a fraudulent passport from the State Department, one for conspiracy to destroy Entente food and munition ships. He hajs been mixed up in and the purse-bearer of many German plots. He is an arrant spy, and would be shot as a spy were he now to commit the crimes which he has committed. • • Secretary Lansing's answer to this bullying note is sharp, strong, a blow In the face. Courage and patriotism, resolute Americanism, ring from It. He refuses absolutely even to con sider release or exchange or "any In terference with the due process of law In this case." He reminds Wll helmstras.se that, while the United States does not acknowledge the legitimacy or necessity of "reprisals occasioning physical suffering," "to enforce demands from one belliger ent, to another," "if Germany acts upon that principle it will Inevitably be understood to Invite similar re ciprocal action on the part of the United States with respect to the great numbers of German subjects in this country." Germany can put that in her pipe and smoke it. So ingrained and inveterate Is her belief in frightfulness, her habit of bull dozing other nations, that she cannot glve-lt up. It will be wiser for her to bully only little nations in future. | The United States, after a long pa-] tience, is protecting her rights and the rights of free civilization with all her might of men and resources. Is It to gull "honest Michael," worried over the steady lnpour of American troops into France, that Germany makes this Impudent demand and threat? LIFE IN ARKANSAS [Quoted from the DeWitt Enterprise by B. L. T.] Miss Katie Reed and West Wad kins were seen riding around in this burg Sunday. | Ask Bantle Gilbert how he likes his girl he was sporting around Sun day afternoon. Say, Martha, what got the matter with you and Jim, that he pushed you out of the buggy Sunday? Wonder why some boys can sport two girls around and some can't sport any? It may be the Saxon. Come on. Buster. Hello! Eva, what has been the matter with you and Harry? We haven't seen you In a long time. A certain little girl has the blues because It rained. Wonder why? Come on. Sassafras, with some more of your good Items. Wesley White was seen trying to I climb a fence with his new Ford. Lute, you had better get busy, for a little Forks of LaGrue guy Is going to beat your time. The Birth of Nehemiah's Idea The words of Nehemiah the son oI "Hachallah, And It came to pass, as I was in Shushan the palace, that Ha nanl, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I aisked themi concerning the Jews that had escaped, which werajeft of the captivity, and concerning Jeru salem. And they said unto me. The t remnant that are left are In great affliction: the wall of Jerusalem also I Is broken down.—Nehemiah i, 1 to S. losses have been heavy, of course, but daily reports show that the Ger mans have suffered more severely. A London correspondent of the New York Tribune speaks of the attacks of German aviators on a British hospital camp as proof of their sheer desperation, for each day the advantage of the Allied airmen, in which Americans share, is growing. German fliers are active and daring, he concedes, but slowly and surely they are being driven to earth. The British are carrying out their bomb ing expeditions on a scale which makes previous efforts insignificant, and this writer observes that no leader can estimate the value of bomging ,for "it may foe that this great weapon will revolutionize the whole system of land fighting and prove a decisive factor in ending the war." ' LABOR NOTES Dublin, Ireland, tramway strike is over, as the men have accepted the company's offer of $1 a week increase in wages. Power has been given to i the Agri cultural Boards of Ireland to take possession of unoccupied lands and lands not properly cultivated. Winhlpeg, Canada, was practically without a fire department recently, 160 firemen having struck because the council refused the demands of the electricians and waterworks men. The Pere Marquette railroad is making preparations to bring in a large number of Southern United States negroes to train for the duties of firemen. British women of Shanghai, China, have sent $5,000 to the Veterans' As sociation toward the fund for estab lishing a national memorial for Brit ish soldiers and sailors. A protest was sent to the Cana dian minister of labor by-Vancouver Trades' and Labor Council against the bringing of negroes from the United States by the C. P. R. for service on its dining cars. Partially disabled Canadian sol diers who have had previous experi ence in farm work are filing applica tions at London, Ontario, for leave of absence to assist the farmers in seeding operations. Increased wages are asked by the motormen and conductors of Brant ford, Canada. First and second year men ask for a st-cent per hour In crease, and the third year men want 10 cents per hour increase, with 17 of the former and 16 of the latter. No less than 2,500 American women doctors have applied for overseas service to aid the stricken women and children of the war zone. Mayo county, Ireland, council clerks have been on a strike for a war bonus of $1.25 a week. Derbyshire, England, Mines' Asso ciation has invested $200,000 with Rotherham Corporation, and $9,000 In War Loan. Quarrymen of Bethesda, Eng., have applied for an extra allowance of sugar, owing to the arduous na ture of their work. Typefounders of England and Scotland have, made a further in crease in prices owing to the increas ed cost of production. The London and Northwestern Railway of England, has offered spare land by the side of its Une for food plots. One hundred and fifty women have passed through the London, Eng., county council courses as inspectors of army canteens. Derry, Ireland, war hospital sup ply depot, formerly a ladles' school, has been acquired as a hotel for ship yard workers. The pay of the school teachers un- I der control of the London, Eng., county council, will be almost $2,- 000,000 more during the coming year. The production of* coal In the Netherlands, negligible before the present century, has Increased yearly until the 1917 production was 3,019,- 000 metric tons. JUNE 11, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT Probably the Kaiser would con sent to pick out a king for Ireland along- with the rest.—Npw York World. Germany won't say she's licked as long- as there's a church left stand ing In Belgium or France.—Savannah Press. In view of the success of the first concrete ship, Faith, they might call the sjecond one Works.—Providence Journal. Every time Germany says the U-boats will win the war her voice gets a little weaker.—Memphis Com mercial Appeal. "Our whole struggle is In God's hands," says the Kaiser. And if he only knew what that means!— Wall Street Journal. There are two countries that will never forget the Americans. One is France and the other is Germany.— Kansas City Star. The Germans have one claim to renown; they're the only folk in his tory the Irish have declined to fight. —Philadelphia North American. Sixteen sheep are grazing on the White House lawn. The White House goats are penned in the Senate chamber.—Peoria Transcript. Ballad of Bards and Aces I wonder in what star-flowered nook Young Alan Seeger sings his song— In what Elysium Rupert Brooke Breathes forth his music alt day long. Far from a world that fights with Wrong Does Byron dream of Freedom's sway, And Keats and Shelley join the throng; Where sings each bard of yester day? Say where does brave Resnati soar Above the haunts of earthly men; Or where, beyond the cannon's roar, Great Guynemer rides forth again? Docs Lufbery sweep some heavenly glen Like Phaeton of ancient day, And Vernon Castle meet them then; Where flies each ace of yesterday? —John H. McGough. I OUR DAILY LAUGH A PUZZLE. I say, old man. that dog of mine is a perfect won der. I raised him /S from & puppy, and he's got Jf most human in- '' "1(0)1 You don't say so! I wondor where he learned fINHARMONT- How are thlngi at the wife'i AIL right. Every thing they under take is thorough' ly misunderstood and disagreed TIME FOR PEACE. rjf- Little boy, little K-, boy, you should not fight that Hold off with] your peace talk, | 4st lsdy. One moro JBE punch on the nose from me and I'll : have this kid ready to listen to you. NO WIND-UP. What's happen. \ed to Mugsy'a j|j®' ( I pitching staff? ' Ift iJsßri J club own cr \ hired an efflclen ' ' 1 mRI 1' cy e *P° rt an( * he's I flflj made them ellnil nate all waste fEhnting (Wjal The East End seems now to be the t section of the city wherein the circus exhibits. Somehow or other all cir cuses are "the" circus and they are spoken of collectively. In any event Twenty-lirst street is now the point where the circus crowds converge and where the cars head along: about l and 7 o'clock in the afternoon when the lemonade la commencing to u°°i an( * Peanuts to get heated up. For many years uptown was the local habitat of the circus. It showod so continuously in that part of the city that when anyone spoke of the various mammoth ag gregations and' most stupendous shows on earth, etc., coming to town the thought was naturaHy of Sixth and Maclay or some point up Sixth. Hut it is interesting to trace the mi grations of the circus in Harrisburg. Captain Charles P. Meek, who never missed a circus when ho was a boy and for some years thereafter, says that the first circus he remembers coming to Harrisburg was the world famous Dan Rice shows and It spread its tent In the old Eby coal yard sec tion not far from the present Phila delphia and Reading Railway sta tion. There are not so many about town who recall attending that show, but the .captain says that there was some great bareback riding and the clowns were clowns. Then the circus for a time held forth on the old "cot °n lot," which to the memory or old I-larrisburgers means a plot near where the Harrisburg Silk Mills stan,J - From that vicinity—and it's odd to think of a circus showing on i rashionable Front street—the circus moved out to Seventh street and held forth until the Brelsford plant was punt. It was a f?reat occasion when the circus went over there and Hickok, "Hot Pot" and railroad shopmen took the whole day off. ;Lhe march of building forced the cir- CU f. j°,. moVG up t0 what we then called the stockyard district." That was Sixth and Maclay and the shows were forced up bit by bit to Camp street, then to Curtin, to Seneca and finally to a point above Reel's lane. Once or twice Wild West shows dis played on the island, but the island was never popular for such shows, albeit a great baseball center for many years after bricks and mortar crowded it from North Sixth. Once the circus went out on the Calder farm, near the Reservoir, but there it did not take well either. Of late it seems to be at home around Twenty-first and Greenwood. And we 11 stop now because we've got to catch a car. • • One of the most energetic and will ing to serve of Harrisburg's men of affairs' is C. Linford Scott, superin tendent of the Harrisburg Boiler and Manufacturing Company's plants where big government orders are now being turned out. The other day he was ordered to report to a large government plant near Balti more, where Important inspection work was under way. He drove nearly all one night, to get there, worked all day, spent the next night on the road getting home, spent the day catching up with his work in , the mill and then cheerfully ac cepted the request of the Rotary club committee to lead the com munity singing at the recruiting committee In Market Square Friday night. And after it was all over hip, was the most chipper man in the whole bunch.. • • • Ehrman B. Mitchell, who when hi Is not Indulging in Boy Scout work, hejping sell Liberty Bonds, gather ing money for the Y. M. C. A. war service, collecting for the Red Cross or attending Rotary Club duties, looks after the management of over 1,000 acres of farm land along the mountain east of Rockville, is turn ing the acres his father cultivated for pleasure and recreation into a real business enterprise. Returning from college he determined to make farming a busineas and went to Rut gers and Columbia to get the tech nical side of it. Speaking of his ex periences the other night before the Rotary Club he said that he soon learned that scientific farming means applying the principles of successful business to agriculture. Mr. Mitchell's office is as well kept as that of the average business firm and he knows down to the smallest detail Just where every penny goes'and whence his profits come. His farms are well organized under competent heads on salary and profit-sharing basis and every one of the employes is a Red Cross member and an owner of Lib erty Bonds or War Stamps. The French "Blue Devils." who had such a great reception here and whose visit to Harrisburg was one of the events of the war year, seem to have captured Pittsburgh. They were given a welcome in that city which was strenuous even for the iron and steel city. One of the funny incidents was that one of the fore most engineers of that city, Paul Didier, was so entranced by the chance to talk to men in his native tongue that he went around with them all day and clean forgot a com mittee of noted experts who had come to the city to discuss war work with him. • • Judge 8. J. M. McOarrell, who was presented with a beautiful loving cup by Market Square Church people In recognition of his forty years of service as superintendent of the Sun day school, has received a number of congratulatory messages from friends about the state. Judge McCarrell was for years one of the most prominent men In Sunday school work In the state, and Mar ket Square, which was first in this part of the country to organize a Sunday school, has been long an ob ject of great interest in the Synod of Pennsylvania. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Dr. F. P. Mayser, Lan caster clergyman known here, is celebrating his fiftieth year as a minister. —Emerson Collins, Deputy Attor ney General, has been invited to bo Flag Day orator at Lock Haven. —Judge John Faber Miller, of the Montgomery county courts, was one of the speakers at the dedication of the Swenkfelders' memorial at Clay ton Sunday. —William Decker, senatorial can- dldate in the Williamsport district, who Is in a dispute over his expense account, Is a wealthy furniture man ufacturer at Montgomery. ■—Rollin H. Wilbur, Lehigh coal chief, will spend part of the summer at Thousand Iskinds. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsburg furnished many riflemen for the American armies in the Wnr of 1812? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In early days Harrlsburg got the bulk of Its coal from the Lykena Val ley by barges.