6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAFBX. rOK THB HOUM list Published evening! except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTINGS CO, Telegraph Building, Federal liura E.J. STACK POLE,/••✓ Sr BJUrr-in-CMrf F. R. OTSTER, Butintit Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of •11 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 Ea st e office. Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. iffpyt, By carriers, ten cenU a week; by mall, 5;00 a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, JT7I.Y 15 Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. — BURNS. STARTING RIGHT THE example of the men who have had to confront the town development problems that at tend the construction and operation of shipyards. Iron and steel works, collieries and other industries where housing facilities are lacking should commend Itself to every man who is interested in business which calls fbr expansion or creation of towns. Hundreds and hundreds of houses have had to be constructed as a nec essary accompaniment of the great shipbuilding enterprises at Bristol, Chester and other places on river and lake In Pennsylvania and as part of the means of providing labor tor mines in Washington. Greene, Alle * gheny and other counties in the soft coal field. In some instances they! called for buildings which would be J permanent instead of the old shack! style of building. The attractive! home was demanded to take the place of the barracks and the sleep ing shed. And these men met the situation by going rjght to the State experts. They have asked State engineers to prescribe what should be done to make model towns and settlements. They asked the Commonwealth's technical men to say what kind of houses should be jftit up; to super vise plans for the water supply and to pass upon the sewers and tho dis posal. In other words, they saw what the older communities, which "just grew" about some industry or trans portation center, had to meet when they expanded and they wanted to start right. "How to keep Judges out of poli ties" is the title of a Philadelphia Public Ledger editorial. Up here in Dauphin county we elect the kind of men who. know enough to sfay out of politics without the necessity of being kept out PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW UNTIL the Washington adminis tration recovers from the ob session that it owes the people no explanation of its official acts the increasing protests will grow in volume and energy. Recently out breaks in the United States Senate have been frequent and bitter as the result of indifference to requests for explanations from department heads of unusual usurpation of legislative powers. Nor will the treatment of Major General Leonard Wood down. He is believed to be the victim of the President's personal resentment and, despite the protests of distinguished members of the Senate, not a word of justification is offered for the heartless sidetracking of a brave sol dier. His chief fault seems to lie in the fact that he favored prepared ness fbr war when his partisan crit ics at Washington were ridiculing such appeals as hysteria. President Wlson's insistence upon government control of the telegraph line is another case in point. No rea son has been given the lawmakers at the National Capital for this be stowal of still greater power and they naturally hesitate in the ab sence of justification. Power and more power seems to be the constant demand of an administration that Is directing a war to make the world safe for democracy. The peopje have a right to expect that Congress will assume its full share of responsibil ity in this great crisis and weakness in either houso will be properly con demned. Again, Postmaster General Burle son'* Incompetent direction of the postal service has been responsible for much of the doubt that is preva lent throughout the business world es to the fitness of the administra tion to manage the public utilities that are now under its control. Drastic changes are constantly be- Inn made without the slightest ex planation of the reasons therefor and the people are not going to pas sively submit to autocratic rule with out a kick. They are ready to back the President and his advisers to the limit la everything having to do with MONDAY EVENING," the winning of the war, but they wnt to know whether what la pro posed Is a military necessity or merely an experiment of govern ment • Can you ret away from your Job for six months or more? The T. M. C. A. needs war workers in France. OUR HOUSING PROBLEM SINCE March 8 of this year, when the Telegraph drew the atten- tion of the people of Harrlsburg to the seriousness of the city's hous ing problem and the necessity of Im provement, this newspaper has given serious study to the question and to day begins the publication of a ser ies of articles which it is hoped may point the way to a solution, Andrew S. Patterson, president of the Cham ber of Commerce, awake to the con ditions, proposes to take the matter up with the federal government's housing experts; Dr. Royer, acting State Health Commissioner, offers to co-operate with State aid; while tho State Bureau of Municipalities, which has gathered much data as to what other cities are doing, offers to place its services at the disposal of Harrlsburg. The stage is set for a successful campaign, but those who have in terested themselves in the movement must realize that they face what | may, and very likely will, prove a ! long, hard task. The need is appar ent beyond tho necessity of demon stration, and it may not be very dif ficult to reach a satisfactory method of correcting the evil, even though the United States Government should decline to give the city the assistance which those who have given thought to the situation believe It deserves. But to de- vise a means of putting Into op eration any plan Involving the in vestment of large sums of private capital will require tact, skill and perseverance of a high order. The leaders may well take a les son from the public Improvement campaign of 1901, when all manner of obstacles were thrown in the way of those who were making the .fight for filtered water, paved streets, parks, sewers and those other !ih provements in which Harrisburgers now take so much pride. There will be those with axes to grind and land to sell. There will be others who will want to protect their own 'rent profiteering by endeavoring to block the new enterprise. There will be ultra-practical souls who will de clare that the time is not opportune that the money cannot be raised or that we "had better let well enough alone." There will be those who should invest who will hold back. These and other discouragements there will be. But back of it all th campaigners will know that tliey have the support of the best-think ing people of the city, that they are engaged In a most important civic work and that success will crown their efforts if they persevere. The project is big and the prob lem not to be solved in a day. If the next six months, or even the next year, brings with it concrete results we shall be fortunate. The first logical move Is to do what Mr. Patterson proposes—ask the federal gcvernment to help us in our difficulties, since war industry has been largely responsible for our present overcrowded condition since prompt relief is necessary if we are to find means of keeping In Harrisburg the hundreds of workers who are being brought here to keep the war material and munition mills 100 per cent, efficient. No time should be lost in ascertaining what Washington will do. After that we shall know better where we are headed. There are American readers of country newspapers who used to think the Bastile was only another name for the county Jail. AS TO THE HOME FIRES THERE are many persons in every community singing vig orously the popular war ballad "Keep the Home Fires Burning," who are not putting much fuel on the flame in the way of personal ef fort or contribution of funds to the things which are necessary to main tain those things which are essential to the happiness and prosperity of the home life. It la quite necessary to keejf the fires burning, to the end that the home institutions, the welfare of the community, the maintenance of the activities which are a part of the life of every community, may be con tinued in the way that will meet the approval of the boys who have gone away to flght our battles and the battles of the world. Let us remember when we show indifference to these things at home that our vocal efforts are out of tune with our real interest. We must do our part here at home while the boys are doing their part In the great theater of %ar. The Chinese are'said to have de vised a new method of preserving eggs in powdered form, but who wants powdered egg poached on toast or fried with bacont , *J > oUUc4. LK "PfcKKOl fjUcOila, By the Ex-Commltteeman Politics has certainly not been ad journed among the Democrats of Pennsylvania. While Judge Eugene C. Bonniweil, the candidate for ir<*v ernor who refuses to recognize the sincerity of the men who got control of the machine through reorganiza tion some seven years ago, is going about the state muking speeches, some of the Federal officeholders have been gumshoeing and each side has scouts watching the other. And to add to (he interest there are a number of argent spirits who be lieve that they can bring peace ami who are trying to frame u pa work ing agreement that will bring Bonni weil and his friends and State Chair man George R. McLean and his friends together for a discussion of the platform and the plans for the campaign. It is safe to assume that there will be nothing in that line for a while as the feelings of both sides seem to be rather on edge. —Judge Bonniweil was in the Ta maqua region Saturday and yester day making addresses and his friends In tfie northern part of the state were speculating on what business had taken United States District Attor ney E. Lowry Humes, Joseph F. Guf fey, ex-state chairman, and other westorn Pennsylvania leaderq Into Elk, Potter and other counties. —Hugh S. Andrews, Scranton at torney, has been named to succeed H. A. Hubsler as associate counsel for the compensation board in the Scranton district The appointment is commended by the Scranton Re publican and it is intimated that it will be acceptable to organization leaders. —Plans for carrying Into every county in the state the campaign of Edward J. Pox, of Easton, for elec tion of the Supreme Court bench, were laid at a largely attended meet ing-. of Northampton county law yers, says the Philadelphia Record. The committee in charge of this work will consist of former Attorney General "William S. Kirkpatrlck, ' President Judge Russell C. Stewart, Judge William M. McKeen, Jennel C. Evans, Aaron Goldsmith, James W. Fox, George F. Coffin, Asher Seip and Herbert F. Laub. Mr. Kirk patrick was named as chairman and Laub as secretary. The committee is nonpartisan, five of the members being Republicans and four Demo crats. Mr. Fox, who is a Demo crat, was recently appointed to the bench by Governor Brumbaugh. —The Insider, writing in the Philadelphia Press, says: "Draft ir regularities have been dragged into local politics and it is entirely within the possibility that some of our ac tive and influential ward and divi sion leaders will be called upon to explain their connection with deci sions rendered by the local boards. I have known for some time that in vestigators of the Department of Justice have been studying the con nection of the draft boards with Philadelphia politicians. Especially keen has been the study of these in vestigators of the activities of cer tain lawyers whose political pull has been stronger than their knowledge j of legal principles. The newspapers have been giving prominence to the draft irregularities downtown but I am informed that the investigators have not confined their probe to that section. The office of the United States District Attorney in Philadel phia has been demanding exact proof in these cases and the rigidity of its rules has not been conducive of publicity up to this time. There is a probability, however, of an ex posure one of these fine days that will make a political sensation." —Congressman John R. Farr. in a speech at Scranton, urged that Gen eral Leonard Wood be sent to Rus sia. —Hazleton officials declare 4 .hat city Is cleaned up and that there need be no fears about it. —A Wilkes-Barre dispatch says: "All kinds of fiseworks are promised by the defense In the graft cases when the official probe of the police department starts Thursday. It was strongly intimated to-day that coun ter charges will be hurled back at some of the Chamber of Commerce officials. Captain of Detectives Adam Hergert and Police Clerk Patrick Nolan were with their counsel the greater part of the day and they de clared they will be ready to face any charge the detectives may make. Each side is promising all corts of sensations." —The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin suggests that it would do some people good to read the school reports. Not enough is known of what schools are doing. —Notwithstanding denials of ap pointments at the State Highway "•Department, a Pottsville dispatch says: "Frank C. Reese, field agent and investigator for the Anthracite Consumers' League, has been ap pointed as auditor in the offices of the State Highway Department at Harrisburg. Reese is one of the lead ers of the independent Republicans in this vicinity and is an expert ac countant. He served a term as county register and also as deputy controller and was a member of the Legislature five years ago." —Governor Brumbaugh has ac cepted an invitation to speak at the Typographical convention at Scran ton on August 11. —Pittsburgh newspapers say that Mayor Babcock found a man with a SSOO wharf lease and a pull clean ing up $5,000 a year. —Johnstown council authorized the Civil Service Commission to ex ercise its judgment as to the rules in tho police vacancy emergency, which, counctlmen snid, meant thnt they may employ men not resldonts of the city or some who are past the maximum age limit of 40 years. Fol lowing the conference official an nouncement was made also that tho City Council will establish a police pension fund to provide for officers retired after certain terms of service, with part salary continuing. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times In discussing the Prohibition guber natorial candidate's plans jays: "Think what you like about the Pro hibition candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania who considers 5,44 4 votes In the primary an Indication that he can win in November." No more fitting action was taken by the great conference of prominent men in New York In the Interest of war work of the Y. M. C. A. than the decision to co-operate with the Y. W. C. A. in all future movements having to do with the care of our men In all branches of the service. In the great campaign for funds a year ago Har rlsburg set the pace by an Immediate arrangement with the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. for a combination drive, and the results were so satis factory that other districts adopted the same plan. Punishing the profiteer Is all right, but prevention of profiteering would be much better. HAJtRIBBUKG TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS /%} * • A ''// / ' th°^ aM rCAR ' S, j \ ® 9^yrlht ' 1918 by Tha Tribune AnocUtfan I gave him a . nickel for car- Mil -nf T"" fare so that he jU" •ould go home and get It . What delayed bt \ /'(St £5 you ' or your ' dlnner7 The \ ntrir baseball season WTll ~7) 1 over. ' Sir w vrvflfT" 8h! wife doesn't know that * M yet * JULY 15, 1918. AS A GERMAN SEES IT The Lokal Anzelger, of Berlin pro tests against the German govern ment's proposal to billet the German soldiers in private families following demobilization at the end of war as one that has "sent a shudder through Germany," and publishes the fol lowing letter: I hope as a father and husband that your paper will agitate rest lessly against this unheard of scheme to thrust the demobilized soldiers Into our private homes. .What can our government* be thinking of to devise such an intol fiVo ' n t rus lon on German family "le. I cannot Imagine the official lesponsible for the idea can be the husband of a young wife or the rather' of grown-up daughters. The whole enterprise is too horrible to contemplate. -®< It is something which threatens thb very foundations of the German n?i and lt ™ust not' be allowed. Ihey seem to know one another over there pretty well, after all.— Col. Harvey's War Weekly. THE ENLISTED MEN | [By Ella Wheeler Wilcox] There are many splendid soldiers, I With insignias on their shoulders; j >hen I meet them on the street up : goes my hand. And with military motion, j I express my sincere devotion: Both my homage and respect these men command. But I somehow have a feeling. Alt too earnest for concealing. When I meet the private soldiers day by day. And my heart leaps up saluting. Those who quite beyond disputing, Are the men who must go deepest in the fray. Theirs the duties unremitting. Theirs the pleasure brief and fitting; Theirs the hard and dull routine work in the rear; Theirs to march on uncomplaining, Be it hot or be It raining; Theirs to plunge into the fight when foes are near. Theirs to make a lowly station Shed great glory on the nation. And If need be theirs to die to save the land. So, dear fellows I salute you. Ana I know Death will transmute you Everyone Into a general in God's land. THE RUSSIAN SITUATION The public ln the Allied countries ls beginning to inquire at whose door this paralysis of Entente diplo macy lies. If it should be at America's, the fact, in the event of an undue prolongation of the war, will detract seriously from the merit of her splendid co-opcration with men and material. If Japan alone hesitates, some of her own people will be the first to charge her with a half-hearted adoption of the Allied cause that stopped short of any real sacrifice. The case for Allied actiof ln Russia Is overwhelming. Naturally it must not be a blundering intw-verttlon, which would achieve nothing for without good will of the Siberian population it will be impos sible for the Japanere army to approach Europe within a given time. There can be little doubt that Colonel Semenoft would have wel comed support at any moment during the last four months, and any con spicuous success on his part in Eastern Siberia might well galvan ize true Russian opinion into action against the German and Bolshevism from one end of Russia to another. —From the Near East. COTTON IS IMMUNE Amid all the talk about profiteer ing and the activity in regard to price-fixing at Washington, one pro duct of the country remains immune from attack and action, and that is cotton. This state of thing is a very significant commentary upon the pres ent political control of the country. The more the case of cotton is con sidered, the more interesting it be comes. Before the war it was a drug upon the market. There still echoes in the ears of the country the "buy a bale" cry that went up from the South when first the European struggle put an end to normal trade conditions. But tho price of raw cotton has gone up five hundred per cent since the war began. The cotton raisers boast of their ability to prevent limitation of the price of their product and in face of the fact that the price of wool and wheat and many other commod ities have been regulated by law. The cost of raising cotton has not even been doubled, yet It is bring ing five times the price that It did before. Is the cotton raiser a pro fiteer? What would be said in Con gress of the manufacturer who had Increased the price of his products to five hundred per cent? Loud and long would be the denunciation from the majority side of Congress, and bills would be rushed through to punish the offenders.—Phlla. Press. HOW THEY LOVE How does a woman love? Once, no more, Though life forever Its loss de plore; Deep in sorrow or deep in sift, One king rcigneth her heart within; . One alone, by night and day Moves her spirit to curse or pray. One voice only can call her soul Back from the grasp of Death's control; Though love has beset her, or friends deride — Tea, when she smileth another's bride. Still for her Master her life makes moan Once is forever, and once alone. How does a man love? Once for all, The sweetest voices of life may call, Sorrow daunt him or Death dismay, Joy's red roses bedeck his way; Fortune smile, or jest or frown, The cruel thumb of the world turn down. Loss betray him or Love delight Through storm or sunshine, by day or night: Wandering, totting, asleep, awake, Though souls may madden or weak hearts break. Better than wife, or child or pelf Once and forever he loves—Him self. —Rose Terry Cooke. * - Jonah Swallowed by a Fish The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the SOB of Amlttal, saying, arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against It. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshlsh, and went down to Joppa; and found a ship going to Tarshlsh. But the Lord sent a great wind Into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest. Then the mariners were afraid. So they took up Jonah and cast him forth Into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. Now the Lord had pre pared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the flsh three days and three nlihta. —Jonah 1, 1 to 7, Etofttittg (ttljal nr2 Vh,le th# f olks in Harrisburg ultZ™Tr in to notlce the gaps mills anH m" 18 made ,n offl <=es. stores, the fitr a rt^ any . other placea through K seivice of ihifv ' lnto ">ta% Wfi rtM o „ young men more than Guard.m n Rgo when the National e a " d 'S were mobilizing and the cruitint 8 wer f thronging the re walk bf t ceSl J 1 ,a only when a residential sections or a ride to sur zalion of tOW , nß tha t*thore is a reali zation of what manpower means and t d h eparluro of the Guardsmen and the men who went out in the first half year of war left a good Nnw y th° /' Ut We Bhif ted around. >. ow the draft calls and the enlist ments and the moving of men to es ?? n is a hi ndUSt^ leS ar maWng more: store ™ star that tells the story. There are streets in Harris burg where the service flags gleam ® other house and when we starred aDd three even four " we feel "ke raising ind in th 11 OUt ln the country a " dth ® small towns is where the service star carries its appeal. Up near Rockville there is a small house which flies two stars. Near hnitli * V* , ls an °ther isolated house which also flies two and near Hummelstown three shine. Just v. th ,® sorvic © means to these households we can imagine. But Ef°! ,ably one of the most striking Illustrations of the way the young men in the small towns responded ia gi\en in Wormleysburg where there is a iblock of four houses, each showing a star, one of them two • • * Pennsylvania trout fishermen'nre enjoying bettor trout fishing in July than ever known before and have not only been making record catches, but have been finding trout where they bavo. not been seen for years. This ls one of the oddities in fishing produced by the unusual weather conditions of 1918, Reports coming to ihe State Department of 1' isherics have shown, morever, in spite of the war that there are fully as many fishermen this year as be fore and that many women have been enjoying the angling. The trout season was retarded this year, it will be recalled, by a snowstorm which swept the state on the first day and brought in its train such I cold weather that it was May before streams were in any sort of condi tion for fishing. Recurrent storms and periods of cold weather for sum mertime spoiled much of the Mav and June fishing, but the last twent'v days reports indicate that the best trout fishing in a long time is being enjoyed. Thanks to the systematic able to take care of themselves, both brook and brown trout, have been seen and caught over a wide area. The western county reports are all very favorable to a good, if late, trout season. This year for the first time the basa and wall-eyed pike or Susquehanna salmon seasons began with July and the weather which favored trout fishing spoiled much good general bass fishing. Northern and western counties have reported to Commis sioner Nathim R. Buller that very - little good bass fishing has been en- W joyed, athough there are apparenty plenty of fish. In the Susquehanna's lower reaches some salmon have been taken, but the best of the ba.s fishing thus far has been in the large creeks ir the southern part of the state. Some fine catches haw come from s-treams stocked a few years ago with the small-mouthed black bass. The end of the trout season on July 31 should find the bass fishing in full swing and (he shifting of the weather may not in terfere with the sport so much afte all. • • • The army construction truck does not seem to know the days of the ,T h . ey are in motion most of the daylight hours during the week and yesterday a number were to bo observed getting up rush supplies for some of the construction near the y i J h e army tt-uck takes up a room and is often oper ated by a young man who disregards speed limits, traffic cops, cut-out or ders and the public, but it has suc ceeded in getting some improvement to the roads between Harrisburg and Cumberland, an improvement fi! u ,P 6 anc * ln galvanizing the borough fathers of Paxtang and Lemoyne into a realization that some of their highways look like solidified sea waves. • * * r-JJu ® trlke ? me that the new State Capitol park policemen, of whom I observed a number, should be put heer*™V < ! f \ drlU - If th ° y are not better posted in regard to dogs the squirrel population of the state do main will bo thinned out," remarked a man who has considerable busi ness at the State House. "For a while the dogs were pretty well trained and avoided the park. Latelv there has been a relaxation and I have noticed some fine dogs racing around in the park, innocently chas ing squirrels and scattering the Die eons that the children love to feed Just write that dogs are all right! but not in Capitol Park. • • • People in this city will be inter ested to know that the directors of the Susquehanna Trail Association which was formed to develop the great North and South state high way, will meet this week in Sun bury to arrange to make the road a national affair. The meeting will bo i^ u £. 1 e plan to have it made a highway from Buffalo to Washing ton, passing right through Harris burg. The new road section at Clark s Ferry will be part of this road. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Stacy B. Lloyd, of tho legal de partment of the Pennsylvania rail road, who has frequently appeared here in hearings, has been commis sioned a major in tho judge advo cate's branch of the Army. —C. L. Malone, well-known Sha mokin physician, has been appointedT a captain in the medical corps of the ' Army. —George S. Oliver, of Pittsburgh, chairman of tho State War Indus tries Board, will be a speaker at the Johnstown meeting. —E> r - H. A. Garfield is expected to speak at Altoona's big meeting of coal operators to-morrow. —A. R. Hamilton, who presented the situation in regard to coal and liquor in the western part of the state at the Washington conference, is a Pittsburgher, formerly in tho newspaper business. —W. F. Detzel, the vice-president or the State Association of Chiefs o' Police, has been long connected with the Erie police. DO YOU KNOW ~~ —That every week thousands or dollars are paid on Llbeity Ronds in Harrisburg banks? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harris Ferry used to be a for warding point to southwestern coun , ties of Lebanon and Lancaster coun ty pig iron.