HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Jil SPAPBR POti THh KOf. j Founded :$U Publiihad evening* except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telecraph Building, Federal Srt. E. J. STACK POLE, Pn/i r Edilor-tn-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managxnt 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. t Member American Eastern office, F'.nley, s "" _ ChfcagoPl'iV. lnS ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burr, Pa., as second class matter. rTI "ir*n By carriers, ten cent* "> nte'r.'Men week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, JUNE 27, >l9lß If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. — EMILY DICKINSON. AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM ONE of the largest employers of labor in Dauphin county makes the statement that his chief difficulty now is the rum prob lem. He declares that his working forces are demoralized constantly by King Alcohol; and that it is im possible to keep them steadily at work. "I shall not only vote for the members of the Legislature who favor the prohibition amendment, but I shall use my best endeavors to get others to vote the same way" was the conclusion of hi 3 conversa tion. Yet we have important govern ment officials insisting that it would demoralize the working forces of the government to deprive them of booze. If they should declare that it might interfere with some po litical plans, they would be coming nearer the truth. Much is done in the name of patriotism that is a re flection upon the good sense of the people, but when It is contended that efficiency will be destroyed by elimi nation of liquor, the height of "foolishness has been attained. Nothing that the dispensers of in toxicating drinks in Harrisburg could do to win public commendation would be more effective than a decision to close all such places on the Fourth of July. FUEL ECONOMY IN a recent summing up of the fuel situation, Professor Garfield reached the conclusion that there will be a shortage next winter, and his only remedy was stated in the sentence, "It is, therefore, ap parent that the full requiremnts of coal cannot be filled, and the differ ence must be made up by voluntary or enforced curtailment in the use of fuel." In view of the sad experience of last winter, when the productive in dustries of the country curtailed their output after the fuel adminis tration had discouraged early buy ing of coal, it is well that we look further than the fuel administration for advice for the coming season of fuel consumption. It is not necessarily true that the shortage of coal "must be made up by voluntary or enforced curtail ment In the use of fuel." While there is a limit to the practicable coal production, it is possible and practicable to largely increase pro duction of coal substitutes. By adapt ing stoves and furnaces to the burn ing of wood, and by largely increas ing the cutting of wood for fuel, much coal can be saved without in jurious "curtailment in the use of fuel." It is safe to say that waste of fuel is now extremely small. Economy * should, of course, be practiced in every respect. But instead of plan ning a repetition of the coalless and heatless and workless days of last winter, the fuel administration should be bending all its energies to the utmost production, distribu tion and storage not only of coal, but of cord wood, slabwood. corn cobs and anything else that will serve as a saver of coal. We cannot speed up this war by planning to curtail productive in dustry. Fortunately for Harrisburg and this section the Susquehanna river is a great coal producer. A Norwegian, who was once the Kaiser's pilot. Is reported to have sent back a jeweled decoration to Bill the Butcher. Probably rhinestones. WOMEN AS MAYORS NO doubt woman suffragists will receive with delight the news which comes from Philadel phia that arch%ologlsts delving among the prehistoric tablets of the Hittites and the Cappadoclana have discovered that women mayors were [ regularly constituted public officials I in Asia Minor 5,000 years ago. But THURSDAY EVENING, a cheering note Is added to the ef fect that there was a male mayor also and that the female mayor had a status quite independent .of the male head of the municipality. Most of us believe in woman hav ing the right to vote, If they so de sire. They do about everything else men do these days, including going to war and smoking cigarets, so why not vote? But quite a few of us are still provincial enough to shrink from the thought of women as police captains, mayors, street commissioners and heads of fire de partments. May be we'll get over it In time, but at present It seems that we are so "sot in our ways" that we shall never be able to har monize such jobs with womanly character. But even \though we should come to full understanding of the wisdom of having women in all the jobs we have been accustomed to look upon as exclusively belong ing to the masculine gender, how would we be able ever to face our friends as the "husband of the mayor of Harrisburg," for example? Masculinity shudders at the thought. The Hittites were a mighty people in their day, but they went down be fore more powerful neighbors. May be we have here hit upon one of the reasons for their decadence. Stranger theories have been advanced. With the "Blue Devils of France" and the "Black Devils of America" fighting together, there will certainly be some thousands of "black and blue" Germans. SHOULD BE REVISED CAPTAIN George F. Lumb, super intendent of the State Police, has warned automobilists that he has been instructed to cause the arrest of persons speeding on the highways of the State. Now it hap pens that "speeding," within the terms of the act under which we are operating, means anything above 24 miles an hour, which is the legal limit fixed by the Legislature. Con sequently, anybody running his car beyond that speed on a State road is liable to arrest. This is no fault of th'e State Police. They have been instructed to enforce the law and they have nothing else to do. Of course, it is a silly regu lation. There are places on State highways where 24 miles an hour is too fast for safety, but on the open road, with machines as easily con trolled as they now are, 3 5 or 40 miles an hour may be maintained with little or no risk to anybody. The law should be amended so as to prescribe varying speeds to suit conditions. But until this is done the legal limit is 24 miles and the driver who exceeds it can blame nobody but himself if arrested. June bride, please take notice: If the cooking is not up to standard, blame it on war substitutes. SAVE THE GROUSE ALL true sportsmen will rejoice that Dauphin county has joined many other counties in asking the State Game Commission to close its woods to the shooting of ruffed grouse for such a period of years as will enable this king of all game birds to Increase is rapidly dwindling numbers. There was a time when nearly every thicket had its grouse and not so many years ago there was very good hunting within easy reach of the city. Recently, however, hard hunting and unfavorable win ters have combined to almost ex terminate both quail and pheasants and some form of protection is necessary if they are not to be wholly wiped out. Far better a few years of closed season than no more ruffed grouse forever. Not even the wild turkey is more beloved by # the gunner than the ruffed grouse. The beautiful bird affords the "sportiest" kind of shoot- 1 ing and as a table delicacy is sec ond to none. It is pleasing to thou sands to know that it is to be saved, and more gratifying still to observe that instead of letting down the bars on fish and game, as has been foolishly advocated by some persons as a means of replenishing tjie food supply during the war, the regula tions are to be made more strict than ever. At all events, the Democratic State Committee appears to have been left high as well as "dry." THE FOURTH OF JULY THE spirit with which the for eign-born residents of Harris burg and vicinity have fallen in with the Americanization parade idea was illustrated Tuesday even ing when at a meeting of their rep resentatives with the local commit tee they offered to hire bands and turn out in numbers that will make the parade the biggest in the his tory of the town. Fully 30,000 marchers all told are expected. If nothing more is accomplished than to make the foreign-born element feel that it is welcome here, that its war services are appreciated and that its members are looked upon by native-born Americans as their fellow citizens insofar as they con duct themselves as such, the parade will have been well worth while. There has been some criticism of the expenditure of SIO,OOO for a celebration at this time, with so manv calls for money from other sources, and the sum is large. But those who are in charge point out that in former years Hirrlsburg spent as mttch as $25,000 for ex plosives and fireworks to noisily celebrate the nation's birthday, and that this year, with all fireworks forbidden, SIO,OOO is not too much to expend in a great welcome to the foreign-born who are doing so much to help us win the war for world democracy. These people have been so long ignored in the hurly-burly of everyday life that they have many times doubted their status In the community. Their loyalty ia needed now as never before. They must be made to understand that they are part and parcel of us all. If the Kaiser could welcome some 10,000 or more Americans into his fold and make them feel at home in Ger many Just now, don't you think he would regard the expenditure of any sum necessary as reasonable? toUtCc* U "PtiuioifCecuua *7 ttw IT I Hi Little question exists in the minds of men active In politics in Pennsyl vania but that there will be a great measure ol" popular support for an improvement of the laws of Penn sylvania relative to the election of judges when the next General As sembly begins its sessions here and the incidents connected with the coming election of two Supreme Court justices and one Superior Courtf judge will probably be of such a character as to win even ad vocates of the nonpartisan act to the idea of a radical change. The la3t three elections of members of the appellate courts hav.e been marked by some occurrences which have caused many men to win for the old system, while the actions in court over Philadelphia common pleas elections are still fresh in the minds of many people. The State Bar Association has very properly started the movement tor a substantial change and yesterday its committee on law reform was in structed to prepare a bill to be placed before the next Legislature asking for a return to the old party con vention form of selecting candidates for judgeship. Thef action was taken upon the suggestion of Hampton L. Carson, former attorney general. The committee had submitted a pro posed act to provide a method to de termine, in case of vacancies in a court, what names of nominees to fill said vacancies should be printed on the official ballot following the primary election. Recent court de cisions, it was said, made the present nonpartisan judicial primary act most unsatisfactory to the profes-1 sion and to the public. —The Philadelphia Record con tinues to indicate the feeling held by miin.v Democrats toward the ma chine. It now says; "Friends of Judge Bonniwell view with suspi cion the course to be pursued by the Donnelly-Palmer packed resolution committee, selected at Harrisburg by State Chairman George R. McLean. Although the committee was in structed to "report back" at a meet ing of the state body to be held "not later than September 1," the Bonni well leaders recall the breach of faith taken by a similar committee four years ago when Vance McCor mick was the Democratic candidate for governor. At that time a com mittee of nine was appointed to draw up the platform and it was also instructed to 'report back' to the large committee. After the meeting, however. Palmer and the other lead ers contended that the resolutions committee was clothed with full powers and consequently the plat form was prepared and never sub mitted to the state committee. It is understood that Judge Bonniwell has no intentions of conferring with the resolutions committee, of which Charles P. Donnelly is a member. The Democratic nominee has al ready announced his platform, and it is practically certain that he will not permit the Donnelly-Palmer wrecking crew to tamper with it." —The Philadelphia North Ameri can to-day says that the Bonnlwell faction has won some ground for a contest against the oraganizatton of the Philadelphia City Democratic Committee by the Donnelly people because a Philadelphia city attache took part in the meeting. Other newspapers look for a spirited con test on the subject in Philadelphia. —The Bonniwell people yesterday made claim that the Democratic City Committee was riot reorganized last Monday night according to the rules governing the body. Several com mitteemen charged that because the Forty-sixth ward contest was not settled, the committee was powerless to organize. It was also learned yes terday that within a few days com plaint will be made to Mayor Smith over the presence of Civil Service Commissioner Nicholas Albrecht in the Democratic City Committee. On May 3 last, the Committee of Sev enty called upon Mayor Smith to dis miss from th£ employ of the city, eighty-five men who violated the law by offering themselves as candidates for the office of ward committeemen. It was pointed out that under the act of June 1, 1885, persons holding office in any political organization are not eligible for employment by the city. —The State Department of Agri culture to-day announced that the meeting of the State Commission of Agriculture would not be held until the middle of July and It has caus ed no end of speculation about the Capitol aS there were reports that the commission proposed to come here this week or next and to thresh out its differences with Governor Brumbaugh. The Governor left for Bedford to-day and to-morrow will be in Pittsburgh most of the week. —Democratic State Chairman George R. McLean is disposed to al low events to develop and will not be precipitate in announcing any policy tor the campaign. Mr. Mc- Lean has postponed his coming to the state headquarters until next week and will not designate any time for the meeting of the candidates to select the campaign committee. —Reports of the com'ng appoint ment of ex-District Attorney John Fox Weiss, of this city as assistant counsel of the Public Service Com mission at SSOOO a year have not evoked much enthusiasm among the Dauphin county Republican leaders. It is understood that Mayor Daniel L Keister and not Senator E. E. Beidleman, the nominee for lieuten ant governor, was asked by the Gov ernor's office for approval of the ap pointment. The chief speculation Is about what attitude will be taken on Capitol Hill next February, for instance. —As the result of an announce ment by District Attorney Rotan re cently that he would drop the prose cution against John M. Nobre, whom the Vares charge with criminal libel, as the result of statements concern ing Senator Vare's claim for $160,- 000 for work done on League Island Park, William T. Connor, counsel for the complainant, yesterday furnished evidence to support the presentation of indictments to the Grand Jury, says the Ledger. —Mayor Babcock. of Pittsburgh, and members of Pittsburgh city council are openly at odds over sev eral ordinances, and a new record of passing measures over'a veto is likely. The Power of Love God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of eound mind.—ll Timothy 1.1. HAITRDSBURG TELEGTTXPH A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE •> By Brigg, R U T MV L/K5 T,. T *FFI ~i — v (OH - AULLE! WES'S ■* I/"" EOUT UJO*Y ME *U*V £&/ I- - ~ V RE svsr* Iww"-'*" J • J U sw Nl "2®'wGiiSSv. e* V~"TFT M,MOTE ""FVTL T7ERTCNIU* /RUJ T——^ / / (SOT EMOOSH T (43JFI \ P ° "™°VT THAT -J 0 FIH /THCPE. YOU AE) SAR T . G TL V 1 71 .—R "LUIEF^L NFFIW ;\V tj// | 5-^^ r v A Fanless Summer? Among other things affected by the war is the palm leaf fan in dustry. The leaves from which the fans are made come from China, but cargo space is in such demand and freight rates are so high that lew of the leaves now reach this country. In 1915 China exported 16,571 packages of palm leaves to the United States; in 1917 only 157 packages were sent. This means that the business is suspended. Should the war continue the old fashioned palm-leaf fan may become valuable as a curio. Meanwhile the | electric fan, which has grown rap-1 idly in American favor, is likely tol enjoy a boom. Troy Times. j Of First Concern Director McAdaa is going to I "humanize the science of railroad-j ing and negative the idea that cor-; 1 porations have no souls." Also, we j hope he will get them to carry some I coal.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Movie Pest At the movies Larry Lpudvoice' could be found most any day; j As a pest he had no equal, folks thatj sat near by would say. For he thought it was his duty to play teacher to the crowd. And he'd read each movie title in a voice both harsh and loud. Years went by, still Larry labored; every title he would bawl, j Practice took him into Congress, \ where he out-talks one and all. —Film Fun. I Modesty of Jeremiah Then said I, Ah, Lord God! be-' hold I cannot speak; for I am aj child.—Jeremiah i, 6. RUINS They sat at supper in a shadowy room, "But you," she said, "you are an artist! You Deplore this tearing down of all our dreams! You know that War is shattering the world, And Beauty falls in ashes at our feet." He looked at her, full-blown and glorious With flaming eyes and tossed, abundant hair. "How I abhor this hour!" he softly said. "I never thought the world could come to this. Yet always through the years, the flame of War, Like a fong crimson serpent, has crept and crept. And poisoned all the beauty that we built. The Parthenon was stricken by the blast Of cruel cannon in disastrous days; Yet in the moonlight it is wonder ful; • In a strange way the mind can never name. And strong barbarian hordes tore down that dream, The Colosseum; and manly Romans wept. , Yet it is lovelier on soft Summer nights Than ever it must have been In the young years. And Rheims it shall be doubly beautiful With a new meaning through the centuries. Hushed with its memories of this dark hour." Her face grew grave. "You dare to tell me this!— You say a ruin is more wonderful Than the pure dream the architect once dreamed?" "I cannot answer. But one thing I know; Men rush across the seas to catch one glimpse Of fallen fanes and tottering col umns. Yes, They fare through desolate places that their eyes May rest at last on crumbling mar ble. See! Those men and women rise and we must rise To pay our tribute to that noble man Who has come back, a ruin from the War." She turned. There was a soldier at the door: And one sleeve of his uniform hung limp. And there were many scars upon his cheeks. "A ruin!" the artist whispered "Yet he seems The only whole and perfect man I know!" —Charles Hanson Towne In the Outlook. Germany and (From the New York Times) THE statesmen of the Entente Powers will not quarrel at all with the leading affirmations of Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann in his latest speech to the Reichstag. ] Nobody asks or expects Germany to | "bind herself to any pledges in re-| gard to Belgium." It would be aj vain thing to exact pledges from a 1 false and perjured Government. They would be worthless. But Ger many is going to set Belgium free, Germany is going to keep her hands off Belgium. Good behavior toward the Belgian people whom she has so foully wronged will be enforced upon her by commands that she will respect and obey. How in the world could the Foreign Secretary look the Reichstag in the face and talk about pledges to Belgium? England, France, Italy, and the United States will accept without reservation Dr. von Kuehlman's as pirations for the future of Germany and her allies. "We wish for the German people and our allies," he says, "a free, strong, independent ex istence within the boundaries drawn for us by history." He has in mind history as it was written at Brest- Litovsk; history that rent and par celed Russia, and delivered the frag ments into German control; history that robbed Rumania for the bene fit of Bulgaria, that delivered over to the Turks for administration in their peculiarly gentle manner new BRYAN AND BOOZE In a letter to the New York Times, W. H. Anderson, State Super intendent of the Anti-Saloon League in New York, says: "Augustus T. Hutchins in a let ter in The Times indulges in certain strictures upon William J. Bryan i and his suggestion of tapering oft on the production of beer and wine. "The Anti-Saloon League of New York has previously repudiated Mr. I Bryan's leadership. I was person ally present and heard this taper | ing-off suggestion of Mr. Bryan's, j which was a decided shock to his radical prohibition friends, who crit icised what we in New York have said about Mr. Bryan's leadership on the prohibition question. "In view of the fact that Mr. Ran dall, the only Prohibition Party rad ical member of Congress, in lan guage which cannot be interpreted any other way, accuses Mr. Byran of collusion with the Democrats to defer action on war prohibition until after the election in the fall, It would seem that our suggestion, for which The Times, "more in sorrow than in anger." slapped us on the wrist, to the effect 'hat Mr. Bryan's prohi bition activities were not divorced from partisan purposes, has been amply justified by Mr. Bryan's own actions and utterances." Lloyd George and Peace "The future must be a democratic one. The future of this land and of the British Enhpire has been com mitted to democracy already. There fore the responsibility is the respon sibility of democracy. Last year's franchise measure meant that the future of the British Empire is to | be decided by the men and women ; of this land without any distinction of class. "Everybody has contributed to the sum of sacrifice. The liberty of the world has been fousht for by men of all ranks. They have come from palace and mansion. They have come from humble cottages. They have come from middle-class homes. All classes and ranks, all stages of life, have contributed to the making of a new world. Let them each and all of them have a fair share In It. "You cannot have the world as it was. It was a libel on Jesus Christ. It was a shame upon His name. "This is a land that boasts that it ts Christian. It was not Christian to see men rotting, women and children rotting in poverty without any sin on their souls except that they were children of the same fath er. That was a libel on Jesus of Nazareth. We must not have that again. Millions of men have not died for a world of that kind."—Ex change. Fishworms and Pacifists Don't be ashamed, little flshie worm, But open wide your doors, For the cowardly man who won't help Uncle Sam Has a spine just as weak as yours. Polo (Mo.) News-Herald. , territory to the east of the Black Sea; history that, it was hoped, | would assure the power and domin-i ance of the Prussian monster, no| matter what might happen to him in | the west. History, we must remind ] the German Foreign Secretary, isl the world's chief example of per-i petual motion. Brest-Litovsk was but a grotesque episode. The treat-j ies Germany has made with Russia] and with Rumania are not deter-1 minations, they are mere notes scrib bled upon the moving scroll. A firmer hand and a truer, and with a mightier sanction, will soon write the chapter of history which will draw the boundaries within which Germany and her allies will have to live, move, and have their being, if they are to live at all. They are not going to have an "inde pendent existence" in the sense that a, Hohenzollern or any other auto crat will have the power to marshal their forces for war upon peaceful peoples, in the sense that they are to be left free to seek power and dominance through the subjection of other nations, through the slavery of men who have the right to be free. Within a reasonable time Dr. von Kuehlmann and his imperial mas ter and the Reichstag and all Ger mans are going to be made to see that this world was not made for exploitation by Germany. The book of history yet to be written will not be to their taste, but it will be one they must accept. SEEING THE LIGHT (From the Kansas City Star) What a contrast between the dis illusioned statement in the Frank furter Zeltung, quoted from Wash ington this morning, and the state ments in the German newspapers at the beginning of the war. Then they all accepted the government's assertion that the war was forced on them by unscrupulous enemies. Now the Frankfurter Zeitung says that the kaiser had "purposely hid den from the people at the begin ning the real aims of the war," and that "the kaiser has made war and is continuing it for the sole purpose of enforcing German supremacy on the world." This newspaper represents Central and Southern German radicalism and is strongly supported by the Jewish financiers of FVankfort, Ber lin and other important cities. Un fortunately its views are not those of the dominant party. But the fact that the Frankfurter Zeitung dares to tell the real mean ing and purpose of the war indicates that a clearness of vision is spread ing through Germany that may slacken the effort to back the kais er's war conquest. THE SONG OF THE BROOK Oh the day is hazy, the sky is gray, The air is lazy, so come away; Oh leave your digging, put down your hoe, You warft to catch sunnies I know, I know! * Fill your old tin can. My dear little man. With worms that wriggle. I am calling, "Oh O!" "Come down to the brook, In a qu'et shady nook, And the hours will fly, as your flsh line you throw." Oh the path is winding, the grass Is green, And no one is minding If you're dirty or clean. So come in your bare feet, and don't wash your face. To fish when you're dirty is no great disgrace! Fill your old tin can, My dear little man, Let the other kids wrestle and jump and race! Come down to the brook, In the quiet shady nook, I am waiting the smile on your brave little face! Oh the fish are many, the water is clear, I'll bet you a penny you'll catch sotno this year! So get out your flsh line and get out your rod, And follow the path that last sum mer your trod, Fill your old tin can, My dear little man, The worms are there waiting, under the sod. Come down to the brook, In the quiet shady nook, And together we'll flsh for sunnies and nod! EDNA GROFF DIEHL, Paxtang, Pa. *P LETTERS TO THE EDITOR GENESIS OF GERMAN KMPIRE To the Editor of the Telegraph: It seems that the German empire was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. How so? Well, the original Prussian states of which there was a large number made up simply a confederation. This didn't suit Wil liam I or his Prime Minister Bis mark. The rulers of the several states objected to the formation of an organic union. Bismark deter mined to make an empire by force. Manipulations of the most dastard ly character were set in motion. Three wars seemed to be necessary to accomplish his purpose. The first one was inaugurated against Den mark resulting in a victory and by which he secured Schleswig and Holstein. The second was with Austria, another victory, resulting in the capture of five states. The third was with France in 1870, bringing in Alsace and Loraine rich provinces. Whilst the Prus sian army occupied Paris, William I was proclaimed Emperor of Ger many. All three are simple his torical facts. When the emperor died the present Kaiser came to the throne. For some cause Bismark was dismissed. The climax was quickly reached, the putting of the whole nation upon a military basis —the tyranny and brutality which have marked the nation to this hour. What did this student of Frederick the Great and of Na poleon say to the army and navy at his coronation? "I swear to re member that the eyes of my ances tors look down on me from the oth er world and that X shall one day have to render an account to them for the glory and honor of the army." Who can sound the depth of the perfidy and murderous regime which has been and is now in pro cess. Surely the stars in their courses have taken up action against him and the end is drawing near. H. C. P. OUR DAILY LAUGH fl Jf .POLISHED. jj>| Jones is very "• polished, isn't he? Very. Every thing he says ro fleets on some HIS WEAK- mZI NESS. ( I married Jack to reform him. 4 \ of what? JlwmM Of telling other s 'JXA . • girls that he tT, I - -* —' loved them. Mm* NO STRAIN. / I She believe. =/ everything h c 7 \ "tells her. *y. / Ki/ Yes, but 1 un \ 1 oMT deratand he \ \ doesn't tell her J / ~JT very much, A NAVAL FIGHT. ***- They had a fierce quarrel the other day, sort of a naval battle. Each side was badly damaged *nd yet each claims to have been victorious. NO TACT. C I say, Hodge, m / Bill's jailed for (/lift stealing an auto- Tfi Serves him right. Why didn't