6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VBWSPAPBR POR THE HOUS Poundtd Jtjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE] TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E. J. STACK POLE, Prti't 6r Bditor^n-Chirf F. R. OTSTER, Businus Manager. GUS M. STEINMI3TZ, Managing 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. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern office, Story. Brooks & Avenue Building, Western office. Story, Brooks & Flnley, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. , oTTn _ By carriers, ten cenU a week; by mail. 16.00 year In advance. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17. 1918 Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. — Pope. OUR CITY'S JEWEL OF ALL the attractive features which make living In Harris burg so pleasant, even in the midsummer days, nothing is so full of charm as the Susquehanna basin. Like the man who is always seeking the jewel which he Imagines was to be found at some remote corner of the earth and who overlooked the diamonds In his own backyard, we of Harrisburg are disposed to accept as a matter of course and in a -meas ure slight, the splendid things which contribute so much to our comfort and happiness as a community. For years the improvement of the river frontage was a matter of dis cussion. Then one day it was de cided that we should get rid of the miasmatic odors and the disreputable conditions which prevailed, along the river from one end of the city to the other, endangering the health of the people and disgusting all who came this way. Now there are few who do not tell with pride of the beauti ful river front and the pleasure de rived from its park strips and its "Front Steps." You who do not realize what an asset the Susquehanna basin is to the city should walk along the shore line one of these fine July mornings and gather for yourself the in spiration that comes from a beauti ful >and ever-changing picture. But it is not only the river and its beauty which appeal to the lovers of nature. We have hundreds of acres of parks which at this season of the year attract thpusands of our people and teach them value of open air in God's own temples. It should be the pleasure of every citizen of Harrisburg to co-operate in every proper way for the main tenance of these things which mean so much in the development of a wholesome community. Much is be ing done to improve what nature has so lavishly bestowed upon us, but it is with regret that many interested in the maintenance of a well-paved city see the gradual breaking down of our smooth and well-kept high ways by excessively laden trucks of *ll sorts. Surely, the people have a right to protest against the inevitable destruction of miles of expansive paving because corporations and in dividuals find it more profitable for themselves to utilize enormous trucks that should not be permitted upon the paved streets. Harrisburg has expended hun dreds of thousands of dollars for street paving and it is only reason able that traffic should be regulated. Any tourist or citizen who will drive over Market street from Front to Market Square will realize for himself Just what will be the condi tion of miles of our paved highways unless something definite and prac tical is done without further delay to reduce the weight of trucks which may use the city streets. The Fuel Administrator decides that coal Is coal, whether pumped or mined, but to many of us coal Is only coal when It is in our own family bins. ADJOURNING POLITICS WILLIAM POTTER, fuel ad ministrator for Pennsylvania and former United States Minister to Italy, is out in a state ment favoring the re-election of President Wilson by all political parties. Mr. Potter seems to have been overwhelmed by the President's sug gestion of an "adjournment" of poli tics, but he has apparently over looked the very Important fact that the adjournment of politics was meant to apply to Republicans only; that the administration wan not to be Included In this halcyon and orig inal Idea of partisan perpetuity. Many peculiar and unusual Ideas hftve found expression in recent - ly to the present national adminis tration. , ALL ARE INTERESTED THE Telegraph yesterday pre sented the views of Harrlsburg manufacturer of war materials as to how the lack of housing In Harrlsburg affects them. The whole trend of their experience Is that the labor turn-over here cannot be greatly lessened until the city pro vides houses for the workmen who come here, but who will not remain because of inability to And quarters for their families. This has a di rect effect on our war preparations. We have criticized the War De partment at times for not speeding up, but the department can move no more rapidly than the Industries of the country, and the industries can not operate to capacity while their* working forces are constantly changing, with resultant vacancies to be filled and the training of green men. By building 100 or more good houses to rent for reasonable figures Harrlsburg would be helping to win the war. That Is the reason why the Cham ber of Commerce has felt the need of government aid. t Prices of materials arfe high now and labor is mostly engaged in war work. The Federal authorities have frov/ned upon unnecessary building enterprises. But they long since realized the necessity of adequate housing facilities with relation to the increase of manufactured prod uct. The Government has spent scores of millions of dollars In the erection of dwellings for men who have responded to the call of duty in our ship yards and munition fac tories. It Is proper that they Jhould. The workman engaged in war work is as much entitled to healthful sur roundings as the soldier, whose health Is so Jealously guarded. It is not right that he 'should he made to sacrifice his family and himself In unsanitary and unpleasant sur roundings, and being able to procuVe work where conditions are better, it is to be expected that he will take of the opportunity. This is what has driven the Gov ernment into the house building business, at a time when it has placed restrictions on many forms of buildings. Secretary McAdoo, in a recent letter to Senator Calder on the subject, says, that "the situation will be difficult in a short time and we should get ready for it," and Sen ator Calder, discussing this com munication on the floor of the Sen ate, says that he has letters from brick manufacturers saying they have 300,000,000 bricks in their yards ready for use in necessary housing developments, while ce ment companies and lumbermen have assured him of their ability to care for any construction which the Government may approve. Most of the big Government con tracts are now well along toward completion and builders and the building trades will have little to do shortly, unless some work is pro vided for them. It would seem that the time Is propitious for such an effort ELS Harrisburg plans to make, even in the face of present high prices, for, war or no war, houses must be built sooner or later, and there is no indication of cost reces sation in any direction. THE NEW TAX LAW rCOST twelve million dollars to collect the 1918 Income tax, and it could have been done for half that sum if the law had not been so complex as to require a large group of legal advisers to interpret its meaning. This was the cost to the Government. The cost to business men in making out the tax and fig uring what in Heaven's name was meant by this or that proviso can never be reduced to figures. The new revenue measure should escape the of the gentleman from Tennessee, since it was his Intricate diction which raised th? hullabaloo. 1 VOLUN-T. R.'S rIS proposed to raise a legion for our armies abroad to be com posed of members of races which have been subjugated by either Ger many or Russia. The legion la to be raised by volunteer enlistment; and the idea is an excellent one. But we cannot help recalling that when Theodore Roose"elt offered to raise a division of volunteer troops for foreign service at the outbreuk of the war he was sternly told to go | way back and sit down. * tK By the Ex-Commlttecman Men throughout the state are commencing to remark upon the fact that lately Governor Martin O. Brumbaugh's appointments have been of a character which Indicates tnat the executive is thinking about the future tenure of office of his ap pointees. The McClure appointment has proved so generally satisfactory that It is much commented upon and confirmation of the Lewlsburg man Is considered probable. The Phila delphia Public Ledger says: "It is admitted that even Governor Brum baugh's Judicial appointments have | bec-n in the main excellent." which leads some newspapers to believe that the Governor is not going to listen to certain old political advisers and it is predicted that a high class man will be named for the vaaancy on the Westmoreland bench. Sim ilarly the appointment of George G. Paxton, of Washington county, is regarded as a selection of a man without many political considera tions. Most of the members of the State Commission of Agriculture have not been in sympathy with the Governor's political moves in the last year and some of the Commis sioners have long been friends of Senator Wlliam C. Sproul. It would surprise few people to see E. B. Dorsett, of Tioga county, re-elected chief of the Bureau of Markets, to morrow. Capitol Hill people have long con sidered Senator Sproul, through his brains and long legislative experi ence, to be one of the best posted men In Pennsylvania's government, although it has not been politic for them to say so, and not much which would arouse resentment is likely except in one or two quarters where actions have been of a type well nigh incomprehensible. The Gov ernor, personally, seems to -have a policy in the matter of appointments for the rest of his term which will not keep his appointees awake at night and his recentdisregard of sug gestions of several men for Public Service Commissioner and selection of his own friend has caused much favorable talk all over the state. —Things are getting strenuous in the three big cities of the state. In Philadelphia Mayor Smith has ask ed three members of the Board of Recreation, who opposed election of a Vare man to a place, to quit; in Pittsburgh firemen threaten to re sign in a fuss over salaries and other things and a drive against Mayor Babccck's expense account is threat ened anew and in Scranton Mayor Connell is having his own troubles to clean up the town. —The Philadelphia situation In volves a man well known here, ex- Senator Ernst L. Tustin. Concerning the matter the Inquirer to-day says: "Defeated in his effort to control the Board of Recreation, in the appoint ment as supervisor in charge of the city's playgrounds of a former sec retary of Senator Edwin H. Vare, Mayor Smith, to prove his abject subservience to the Vare political organization, yesterday demanded the resignation of three members of the board. The members of the Board of Recreation, under whose direction the playgrounds of Phila delphit have been so capably admin istered as to call forth laudation and commendation from virtually every city in the country, are Ernest L. Tustin, president of the board; Miss Sophia L. ROSS and the Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, of the Rodeph Shalom congregation, Broad and Mount Vernon streets. Mr. .Tustin declared that he had referred the question of the legality of the Mayor's demand for his resignation to his attorney, George Wharton Pepper." —Hazleton's mayor has sat down on the idea of policemen accepting rewards for any service they may render citizens. —H. M. Good, New Castle post master and well-known Democrat, is suffering from an infected foot, due to tramping on a nail. —Mpyor Connell, of Scranton, wants action on wages of city em ployes in his city. He is tired of the dispute and has asked that flie controversy be settled at once. —Senator Sproul will be given a great welcome when he visits the Shade Gap region of Huntingdon county next month. It is the only invitation he has accepted and the Huntingdon county leaders say there will be a record crowd. —Senator Edward E. Beidleman, nominee for lieutenant-governor, is still receiving congratulations on his birthday. It was last week, but that does not seem to matter. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch Is go ing after the police force of that city and thinks there should be a radical change. In the course of an article it says: "Council should seize this opportunity to properly organize the police bureau in ac cordance with the needs of the com munity and the new ideas of fur nishing protection to the citizens of community* We don't need 'more men on the Pittsburgh police force. We need fewer. While we had a full quota it was impossible to reduce the number on the pay roll, but now that we do not have them, it is high time that advantage be taken of the situation to install a new system of affording the neces sary protection to the people against criminals." —The Republican situation in the Clearfield-McKean district has been affected by a decision in one small district. In deciding in the Clear field county courts Judge S. G. Bell refused to throw out the vote of the Helvetia district simply because the polling place had been changed without legal procedure. There was no fraud or error uncovered. By this decision Evan J. Jones, of Brad ford, retains the Republican con gressional nomination in the twenty first district, and Sweeney is Re publican county chairman of Clear field. SHALL RUSSIABE SAVED? [From the New York Times] Confirmation of the report that the Supreme at Ver sailles recommended recently that fstntos join its allies in employing military as well as eco toin with a view to rescu ing the helpless Russian people from subjugation "fcy Germany is said to have been received in Washing ton. No official statement Is forth coming, however. France. Great Britain, Italy, and Japan are wait ing for President Wilson to decide what the American policy shall be. While they wait, hoping for the best, the Germans are losing no time, not an hour, in exploiting with ruthless -energy the Russian people. Conservation of Conversation The fuel administration has warn ings to burn. Why doesn't it mine a little coal aad save its conversation until next winter? From The Knickerbocker Press. H.AJRRISBURG TELEGRAPH! <■- 11 1 1 - - OH, MAN! BY BRIGGS —\ \l WANT_A TiCK"£T, ( j / Sen H= I HAv/E l OoUAR-J FOR WESTPort \ BID T i ( Je CH^ce / Herb's a —; \ ■ { *? nfvy ??i Q^^-SL I NicKet- AMO i HCRE A] //TicKex "n/VN v *• * y O&iiL I MGRE'S AMonrvief I P et, J* v '~ / /. \ I — v ——lß H Only Answer to Hertling TFrom the New York Times] The dispatch of British reinforce ments to Vladivostok to "assist the Russians and Czecho-Slovaks guard ing the allied stores from Bolshe viki acting with German prisoners," the northward march of the victor ious Italians in Albania, the sending of 90,000 American soldiers to Prance during the last week—these are the best possible answer to Chancellor von Hertling's declara tion before the Reichstag Main Com mittee that "we have no intention of ' keeping Belgium in any form what ever." In this form the answer of the Allies is direct and straightfor ward, it is not double-tongued. It has the merit of meeting von Kuehl mann's requirement that communi cations between the enemy Govern ments should be entirely sincere. In order that the receiver may have no doubt of the sender's meaning and good faith. In that respect, the Allies have a remarkable advantage over the Imperial Chancellor. His words do not mean what he would like to have us think they mean— that Germany has abandoned any of | her main designs. Germany's as surance that she does not intend to 'keep Belgium is of no possible in terest or importance; the Allies are going to drive her out of Belgium, out of France, in all the territory she now possesses thf re will be nothing left of the German occupy ing troops but their bones. The de vastation they have wrought, to be sure, will remain as a symbol of the German spirit, as a warning during the coming years of what German dominance would mean for the world. OVERWORKED CLERKS A correspondent of the New York Sun writes that paper from New Hampshire thusly: 'lt seems to be an amazing principle put forth by the President that the war must not bring to government clerks and other workers in government em ploy any greater hardship in the way of longer hours or speedier action than was permissible before war was declared. To the plain, common citizen it would appear that longer hours and harder work to win the war should be expected and welcomed. And yet the President has vetoed an appro priation bill because it contained a clause increasing "the work day of government clerks from seven hours to eight hours. An eight-hour day as government clerks usually work would not seem to be any particular hardship. "What about our soldier boys In France. Is their day, risking their lives every minute, confined to seven hours? Doesn't it often happen that they work more than twice as long? What will our men In the trenches or on the firing line think of the ten der solicitude for pampered govern-1 ment employes? This veto seems to me to have been most unwise. If government clerks work only seven hours, why should not all clerks in all lines and other employes work only seven hours or even six hours or not at all?" GOD THE COMFORTER Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all com fort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are In any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we are comforted of God.—ll Co rinthians 1, 3 and 4, Pity the Drum Major Our sympathy always goes to a man who is a' drum major. How does he ever live up to the job when he Isn't parading? Watertown Sentinel. LABOR NOTES Membership In British trade un ions at the close of 1916 was 4,399,- 696. A local of sheet metal workers has been organized at Algiers, La. Electrical workers at Halifax, N. S., will get 65 cents aft hour Decem ber 1. Sacramento (Cal.) Building Trades Unions claim a 100 per cent, organi zation. Canada has 227 chaplains servthg with the expedltlbnary forces over seas. , St. Louis (Mo.) aldermen have In creased the pay of city workmen to conform with union scale*. > ■ ■ '• •• .. I "A Guy From New York" William Slavens McNutt In Collier's Weekly. WE stepped down into a shallow ditch floored with duck tooards. The ditch grew deep er. We dodged to pass under a roof of barbed wire and came to a trench running at right angles to the one by which we had entered. A knot of ragged, muddy men with rifles slung over their shoulders stared at me curiously. "Welcome to our home," said one grinning. "You bet your life, you're welcome to it," another added fervently. "I'm the most hospitable guy in the world up here. Anybody who wants my part of this home any hour o' the day or night I'll get right out an' give it to him. Yeh! My room here's for rent free to anybody that wants to occupy it!" "Well, what do you think o' the front line trenches?" "I haven't been here long enough to find out." "That's why I asked you what you think of 'em," my questioner ex plained. "I know what you'd think of "em if you were here long enough." "Say, you're from Collier's, ain't you?" asked another. "Yes." "When d'you leave New York?" ; "March 30," I told this questioner. "Oh, Boche, come get me now! A. E. F. Mail Service Bad [George Pattullo In the Saturday Evening Post.] Just received a batch of mall, Young H— got a letter from his grandmother telling him to be sure t6 weap the woolen pajamas she sent him, and also the bed socks. And that kid hasn't had his pants off in a month! Some letters from Paris were nineteen days in reaching me. Sev eral letters I wrote to Paris months ago from a camp within one hun dred and fifty miles of the capital were delivered there three weeks ,later. Talk about quartermasters' gait. They're speed maniacs compared to the Arrterlcan postal service over here. No other army would stand for it a week. Were I to drop a leter into the French mail, addressed to Paris, It would be delivered within two days. In the American mail, which 1 am compelled to use, It would take two weeks, or It might take a month; the same ratio in mail coming from there. I mention this because the postal service always has an alibi on de lays of American mp.il—submarines, and such. How about the long de- I lays after the arrival of the mall from America? The submarine ex cuse won't do for that! I've heard a batch of windy explanations; but if the French can do it in two days, why should we take two weeks? Nobody at home can appreciate one-tenth of the value a soldier places on his letters. He worries more over the non-arrival of that letter from his girl than I do over my bank account—and that's going some! When he doesn't hear he frets—he begins to figure that some thing must be wrong at home. Reg- , ult-r mall deliveries mean as much to his well being as regular meals and proper food when he's up front. If I had supreme command of this man's army—if J. J. Pershing put it up to me—l'd round up the whole crowd of those P. S. guys over here and put them to work out in the wire In broad (Jayllght. SHUTTING OFF BOOZE [Kansas City Times] It has been long evident that the government could not ask the public to make the sacrifices that have been necessary for the war, without fi nally putting an end to the business of the manufacture and sale of liquor. People have cheerfully met every requirement. But It hasn't set well that schools should be forced to close for lack of coal, while brew eries continued in operation, and that nimcVoui Industrial plants should be curtailed while the booze business went on almost as usual. The existing situation has led in evitably to the action taken by. the Senate committee yesterday In Its provision for war time prohibition. Booze and an efficient nation don't mix. f. , I . ■ ..... I •Hey, fellows, here's a guy was in New York only last month." A man apparently asleep on. the fire step rolled over on his back and stretched. "New York?" he repeated remini scently, blinking up at the sun. "New York. Name sounds familiar. I think I drank one once. Or was it a show I saw, or something?" "Listen, mister, was the town still there when you came away?" an other demanded, grasping me tight ly by the arm. "Sure was." "Right alongside the Hudson?" "Yep." "Just across from Brooklyn?" "Right there." "You know what? When I get back I'm going to kick me loose a slab o' curbstone oft Broadway—an' eat it. That's me!" "Well, when I get back, the first thing I'm goin' to do I'm goin' to liuy me a great big heavy chain, an' I'm goin' to. put one end around my ankle an' the other end I'm goin' to put around the Times building an' fasten it tight, an' then I'm going to say to my feet, I'll say: 'Feet, you got me into a lot o' trouble, but you ain't never goin' to fool me again. You can step up an' down in one spot if you get restless an' must move, but you afn't goin' to take me no place no more!" Penrose Wants to Know [From the Johnstown Tribune.] In his blunt way Senator Pen rose questioned the propriety of further'extending the Presidential prerogatives in the direction of ad ditional power in producing- admin istrators, commissions and agen cies for attending to other people's business. The Senator pointed out some of the absurdities committed in the name of "winning the war" and alleged that rare discrimination' and profound wisdom have not marked the methods of selecting men for new positions carrying ab solute power over the ordinary cus toms and occupations of the people. The American people have been very patient under all the circum stances. Mediocrity and inexperience have been thrust into important places. It is true the Administra tion has been compelled to partial ly rectify errors in some of the se lections, notably in the ship-build ing business and in handling the | steel question. Senator Penroaa voices a large public sentiment in his J protest against conferring additional and unprecedented powers and au thorities until that already achieved has been demonstrated to be for the public good. Righteous Hymn of Hate [Prom the Kansas' City Star.] "I hate the German Government with a consuming hatred because she has made the people qf my blood and kindred the outcasts of the world, the Ishmaelltes of civili zation," P. W. Goebel, Kansas Chair man of the War Savings Stamp cam paign, is quoted to have said before a recent convention of bankers at Hutchinson. Mr. Goebel was born in Germany, but is a American citizen now. I "As a fad of fourteen," continued Mr. Goebel, "I lived in a German garrison city. There I have seen little, insignificant sergeants and sublieutenants strike in thei face strong men privates in the ranks. I have seen them spit in their faces. I have heard them call these soldiers the most yile epithets, and these men were forced by the iron disci pline of to stand and endure these insults. That is why lam en listed in the war with every energy I possess, with every dollar I own, to the end that the world and my kindreji may be forever rid of the foulest tyranny tjiat ever disgraced and blackened the pages of history.", THE SINGLE SIN He walked for year* In ways of righteousness Good deeds unnumbered dropping from his hand; Then, lo! a single sin he must con fess, That bruited fa rup and down the land. And all the people drew a solemn face. And called him trickster, whispered his disgrace. —Richard BJ. Burton. , JULY 17, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT "] The Blue Danube must be a melan cholic indigo by this time.—New ark News. Much as thg kaiser dislikes It, he has got to "see America first." — Columbia State. Whatever Mr. Hoover orders done, we notice there is always -enough to eat.—St. Louis GlObe-Democrat. The kaiser's crack units are begin ning to crack. —Chicago Tribune. The thrift stamp gives you a chance to do your bjt with two bits. —Nashville Southern Lumberman. There is no stopping the Austrlans when they start a retreat. They mean business. —Brooklyn Kagle. America's vital need is fewer lynchings and more launchings.— Springfield Republican. Hindenburg and Belgium Field Marshal von Hindenburg may be ill, insane or dead, as has been variously reported several times of late, but the fact in itself, whatever It may be, will have little influence upon conditions in Ger many until the military situation changes. The terrorism for which he has stood has not died and it is not yet incapacitated.—From the New York World. , OUR DAILY LAUGH THE HUNTING fGIRL. L/i Hero's to the pjis maiden who loveth rat Who with her repeater can do a good stunt; ' May she always fay aim true, ir. L and never lm m know fear, I m And never mls- !/ take her *~m