8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPBR FOR THE HOUB Fnniti iljl PuUlihtil evening* except Sunday bj THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Tetesrayh Balldla*, Federal Squint XL J. STACKPOLE./Wl A- BSUw+n-Chiti F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. QUB M. BTEIXiinTZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication ol *ll 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 llshers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Story,. Brooks A Altered at the Post Office In Harris i burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a 43BnxTLkJu week; by mall, JS.OC a year In advanc*. TUESDAY, JULY 2S, 1918 I J thank Thee that I learn 1 yot toil to tpvrn; ' Wtth aU beneath the sun * It makes me one; — ! For tears, %chereby I gain • Kinship t cith human pain; '■For Love, my comrade by the dusty toayt, ■1 ffive Thee praise. . —EMII.T REED JONES. AFTER THE WAR UNITED States Senator Reed Smoot is one of those Ameri can statesmen who Is looking •ahead to the period that will fol low the war. He doesn't believe in •waiting until tother nations shall have corralled the trade of the world before starting something that will be of beneflt to the United States. In an earnest and practical dis cussion of the conditions which are certain to ensue with the close of hostilities Senator Smoot declared that he would like to see our gov ernment pass laws to-day to take care of the situation we all know (sill come when thousands and mil lions of men will return from war seeking employment. "What are we providing byway of legislation," Inquired Senator fimoot, "that will take care of the treat industries and businesses of this country after the close of the war? We have not even 1 a com mission to examine into what changes will take place in the re construction. England has. France has. Italy has. Germany has. They are studying the future from every standpoint. The war will not have closed thirty days before the English Ehips and the German ships and the French ships will be plowing the teas for materials for the purpose of manufacturing goods with a view to controlling the commerce of the world, or as much of It as possible. A program Is being mapped out for the Immediate conversion of plants manufacturing munitions of war to factories to manufacture goods re quired in times of peace. We are doing nothing, and if something is not done along the line of prepara tion, just as surely as we live there will be millions of men walking the streets of this country without em ployment" This is precisely the thought that Ja engaging the attention of thou sands of practical common-sense citizens, who are less concerned with theories than they are with hard facts with which the country will be confronted at the close of the war. Winning the war is, or course, the chief business of the nation at the present time, but when other belli gerents whose interests are no great er—nor so great—are preparing for the future it is absurd for tlit people of the United States to go or dreaming of a solution without any plan or any definite purpose to meet 'the inevitable situation. England and France particularly have been engaged In the study of the after-war problems for more than a year, and with the' cessation of warfare these countries will be in position to immediately put into effect the plans which are now bing matured. Even Germany with its commerce and trade and industry shot to pteces tn many direction*. i s now formulating plana for a thorough reorganization of It* manufacturing and commercial activities. Surely this country has had enough In the way of practical dem onstration of the evils of non-pre paredness for war and it ought not to be necessary to urge upon the government the obvious necessity of at once arranging for the protec tion of the great interests which concern not only our business and commercial and Industrial organ izations, but millions of our work ing people. If we must plunge into / * commercial struggle at the ?nd of ■ the war, when the competition will b keener than ever before, let us be prepared In some substantial way for our part In that struggle. Some one haa suggested that there | should be a (Teat day set aside to ln- TUESDAY EVENING, elude the Fourth of July, the 14th of July and the deliverance of the world from militarism after the war. We have had our own Fourth, the French have had their Baatlle Day and in the day which will follow the winning of the War must be an international holl diy in which all the nations that •tand for Justice and humanity and liberty can participate alike. TIME TO ACT THE Child Welfare Committee's decision that It cannot do any thing for the bettertnent of child life in Harrisburg until the housing condition is Improved Is a finding of which every citizen of Harrisburg should be heartily ashamed. The committee wants re sults Immediately, and very properly so. It is not content to await the slow process of correction through legis lation and the erection of blocks of new houses of model types. Babies aro dying In the foul atmosphere of the shacks that so many of the l poorer people of Harrisburg are com pelled to call home and the time foi action has arrived. The housing law In Pennsylvania and our housing regulations in Har risburg are lax and permissive ol all manner of evils. They are of small assistance In the corrective work sc badly needed. But the Telegraph be lieves if Council will instruct Dr. Raunick, as Health Officer, and the building inspector as well, to close up every house in Harrisburg that is unfit for human habitation, the courts would stand by them In their effort to improve living conditions in this community. Certainly, the health laws are broad enough to permit a public health official to order fam ilies out of surroundings that not only threaten their own health, but the health of the whole city, by con tamination. The slum does not con fine its evils to itself; it reaches out Its slimy tentacles in every direction, into the homes of the prosperous and the respectable, and it slays innocent babies In the cradles of clean and well-conducted homes. Evtry dirty, unsafe house is not only a plague unto itself, but a running sore on the body of the city. Certainly, it would I seem, under such conditions as we have here and with these facts in view Council, ought not to stand upon i ceremony, but should promptly in struct the health board to warn care less and unscrupulous landlords either to put into first-class repair the houses they offer for rent or close them. Thus far the health board might go, and where its authority stops the building inspector might be called in to order the removal or abandonment of unsafe structures. Of course, such procedure would be but preliminary to the enactment of a proper housing code and the erection of flocks of good houses to rent at reasonable figures. It would afford temporary relief and would be notification to landlords that the day of the real estate blood-sucker is at an end in this city. If Council does not act of its own accord, it is to be hoped that the good women who make up the Welfare Commit tee will take up the cudgels them selves. The Telegraph promises them its heartiest support in such a ven ture. We like to make ourselves believe that we are a very practical, common sense people, and perhaps we are. But we are so full of sentiment that it oozes out of our pores. When senti ment sticks its head In the door prac ticability hides under the bed and horse-sense flies out of the window. We are so constituted, that we pause in the midst of a double-column ar ticle descriptive of the great battle in France, \o thrill over a brief item setting forth the gallantry of a lad of eleven who waved an American flag' in the faces of the German U-boat gunners firing at the barge on which he stood. GET RECORD COMPLETE THE chief reason why many men should be mining anthracite coal arc now in army camps is that either the operators or the miners failed to grasp the Import ance of having the procedure taken as required by law. The selective service act or the draft, as we know It best. Is carefully drawn. Realizing that it would strike every walk of life its framers provided for appeals. In the coal region, where things go sometimes without details being as carefully attended to as in other sections of the State, many men neglected to file appeals, many oper ators thought some one else was attending to It, some people got the idea that Washington would look after the miners and others never woke up until the local draft boards called them to go to war. Then there was an outcry; mahy meetings and a sudden understanding that appeals had to start with local boards, the best posted as to the need of the man in industry. And even with all this there are men telephoning here to State headquarters to ask aibout the exemption of coal miners. The Important thing is to follow the act. Appeals must start with a local board and in taking it to the district appeal board the record must be complete. The local board has the record. If the requirements are obeyed and the records complete there will be no further drafts on the men who actually get out the coal. foiCtic* u 'pe.iutou&jcuua. By the Kx-Committeeman President Judge H. O. Bechtel, tho liberal license granter of the Schuylkill county courts, has author ized the announcement that he is in the fight for a position on the Sj --i prcme Court bench. Bechtel says he ! 13 the fight to stay, despite state | ments circulated that ho has decid ed not to run. A campaign Is to be made in his behalf on the ground that the great interests of the an thracite region should be represented by a judge familiar with tho peculiar litigation arising from this region Judge Bechtel is tho son of former Judge Oliver P. Bechtel, who when he was on the bench of Schuylkill county was proposed for a Supreme Court judgeship and twico came close to getting the Democratic nomi nation for this office. 11. G Bech tel, son, is so very "wet" a judge that the liquor Interests are likely to make extra efforts in behalf of his candidacy, but. at that, it is not ex pected ho will make much of a dent in the total vote. i , -"A vigorous fight is to be made in behalf of the Republican Con gressional nominee against the pros t ent Representative. Arthur G. De walt, of Allentown. Suggestion that politics be adjourned and that the , national leaders of both parties get together and agree to eliminate con • test* in all Congressional districts except those classed as debatable ground does not appeal to the Re i publican rank and tile of Lehigh and Berks counties, who never yet have been able to land their candidate in Congress, but who are as full of fight to-day as they were whsn the Legislature created the Democratic Gibraltar a Congressional district nearly a generation ago. The ruth less manner in which the liquor crowd's steamroller, with Dewalt frantically climbing on the seat in the last hours of the recent primary campaign, rode over former Naval Officer Croll and Editor Spatz, of Boyertown, has not been conducive, it is believed, to greater harmony in the Democratic ranks and with the certainty that many of Croll's friends in Berksicounty will knife the Demo cratic nominee and the possibility that Spatz will run independent has caused hope to spring again in the Republican breast, hence there will be another real fight for the office. J. W ilmer Fisher, the Republican nominee, while a resident of Berks county, is not without experience in Congressional contests. He was a candidate some years ago when the chances of election asainst a mem bei of the Democratic party were about 1 to 1,000. The truth of the matter is that the average Lehigh Republican doesn't stop long to ask for the name and record of his Con gressional candidate —he votes for him because he is on the ticket of his party. Two years ago State Sen ator Horace W. Schantz, of Lehigh county, gave Dewalt the hardest battle of his political life in the Con gressional contest, ana it is believed that Fisher, who is said to be par ticularly strong in Berks, will give him even a worse scare. —The Coudersport Journal has odd reasons why Congressman Ed gar R. Kiess, Republican, should be let down in favor of the Demo cratic candidate, Charles E. Spotts, in the Tioga, Potter, Lycoming and Clinton districts. Says that newspa per: "Many, ingenious and diversi fied have been the arguments ad vanced why candidates should re ceive special consideration at the hands of those who wield Che bal lot, why one, rather than another, should be elected to office, but it has remained for Professor Charles E. Spotts, Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, to make fecundity the issue in a political campaign. While others are con tent to base their claims for polit ical preferment upon education, ex perience in public life, popularity among their neighbors, patriotism, military service and even on posses sion of a 'bar'l,' Professor Spotts presents a photograph of his family (an even dozen of Spotts, big and little) as proof of his peculiar fit ness for Congress. They are a hand some group, by the way. This raises an argument between him and his opponent, Bachelor Kless, embarras sing to meet. Spotts has the evi dence! He has It on ten to nothing! Were Teddy in this dis trict, he would vote for Spotts. Rather, he would vote for the moth er of the ten-Spotts. She is the 'Ace - —Charley is the 'Joker.' Candi date Spotts doesn't overlook the ad vantage of showing in his family group, photographer for voters, that two of his best show symptoms of patriotism. But we'll bet they take after the mother—most noble boys do—and so she should be the can didate for Congress." But Kiess isn't worrying. MONUMENT ENOUGH Where I shall fall upon my battle ground There may I rest —nor carry me away. What holier hills could In these days be found Than hills of France to hold a soldier's clay Nor need ye place a cross of wooden stuff Over my head to mark my and name; This vary ground Is monument enough! 'Tis all I wish of show or outward fame. Deep in the hearts of fellow coun trymen My fast immortal'sepulcher shall be. Greater than all the tombs of ancient kings. What matter where my dust shall scatter then? I shall have served my country oversea And loved her—dying with a heart that sings. —Ray Gauger. "A Little Learning—" [From Harper's Magazine.] A Chicago man was walking through a foreiga quarter of his city when, with an amused smile, he stopped in front of a small eating place, on the window of which was painted in white, "Lam Stew." Now the proprietor happened to be standing in the doorway, and when he paw the smile of the gen tleman who had stopped in front of his place, h asked to be favored with the explanation of the Joke. Whereupon the other explained about the missing "b" in "iamb," and the proprietor accepted the cor rection fn good part, at the same time expressing his thanks. When next the Chicago man pass ed that restaurant he found that the menu had been changed, but that the lesson in orthography had not been forgotten. The proprietor was now offering "Ciamb Chowdar." BGOTRESBURG TELEGRAPH! I SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE ' ... By Brig f WE'LL C7U\*UE 7 " ~\ J OLD -BOY BRIO 6 / SIR - TIN I 5 /WE LL ALL RIGHT MUSTARD HOW BOUT A) |AU£W 6 D ME A MICE /IS MEAT- / *BR|NIG AIVJ BUT BEEF STCW To SER\JE. SLICE OF THAT LESS DAW ORDER OF COLD A^MOA-? 0 CHARLIE? HOUJVS / •R TODAV-/ VIRGINIA HAIV\ V. J 1 "IOIVJ<SUE VAJITH I \ J TNE STEVU i\~ SORRY-/ AIVJD / —5 V ENGLISH MUSTARD / , TODAV ? THAT / —X —' > / V / I SOUNDS GOOD / S So Me WHCM CAK6S UMUS/NOC. ^CK H 2^? LL DeL/>>Y ,M ,p - 1)~N The AMD COUKTTRV SAUSAGE / AINU /] MCMT AAJD TRTF J/ . AIVJO .A CUPPA COFFEE',/ O ~ LV C *S N -R N J HEAV/Y DEMAMD 1/ Al<? RO " \ Y CAKEI- TOAST — ARJO A J\ WE HAV/EM'T *IJ |A AJSITK THE SCRIPTURES APPLIED O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom ven geance belongeth, shew thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast them selves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard It. Understand, ye brutish among the people: and, ye fools, when will ye be wise ? He that planted the ear. shall He not hear? He that formed the eye. shall he not see? He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not He correct? He that teach eth man knowledge, shall not He know The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of Thy law; That Thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. For the Lord will not cast oft His people, neither will He forsake his inheritance; But judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow It Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of Iniquity? Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said. My foot slippeth, Thy mercy, O Lord, held < me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. Shall the throne of lnlqulfy have fellowship with Thee, which frametlj mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge". And He shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the our God shall cut them off. THE FLAG WENT BACK [Philadelphia Evening Ledger] "We regret being unable on this occasion to follow the counsels of our masters, the French. But the Ameri can flag has been forced to retire. This is unendurable, and none of our soldiers would understand their not being asked to do is neces sary to re-establish a situation which is humiliating to us and unaccept able to our country's honor. We are going to counterattack." Pride is an essential of morality. It exalts men and maintains their pur poses at levels higher than anything dictated by the frank self-interest and the bread-and-toeer philosophies of your modern liberal. The subtleties of the superb dispatch quoted a'bove, written by an unnamed American commander immediately before the brilliant American counterattack on the Marine, were not lost on the members of the French staff to whom it was sent. In "the French, our masters," was the implication of stately deference to the ranking of ficers and .the place that they have won through travail. Ami in the next line flamed the white pride of a na tion that, even in the thick of mili tary actions which swing back and forward with the force of the sea's own tides, could not bear to see Its flag momentarily displaced. "None of our soldiers would understand —." There are Oriental nations which still feel that they alone know how to be austerely proud and how to feel that life Itself is a small thing where honor Is concerned. They might properly take that message written In the thick of battle and put it in textbooks for their children. The French officers had merely suggested an hour's rest for the American troops! He Belongs to the Country [From the Johnstown Tribune.] Some New York politicians want to lick other New York politicians by using Colonel Roosevelt as a candi date for governor. 'lt is a long day since Colonel belonged to.New York. He is &s much a citizen of Texas as ho Is the Empire State. He belongs to the country and it would be a most serious state of affairs if any argument could induce him to run for governor of New York. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE FIREMEN'S SIDE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: Since you have oacned j?Jf r c °l um i 3 to a discussion of the differences between the council of the borough of Camp Hill and the Camp Hill Fire Company, I take this opportunity of answering the letter which appeared in your-Usuo of Saturday, July 20. This letter .is from a member of the Camp Hill council, who does not have the courage to sign his name to it, and who tells a number of half! truths about the fire company mat-l This councilman is known to] the writer, and is the same mem bei of council who made the motion at the council's last meeting that the fire company be given $26 and led the councilmen in voting against his own motion. X did not ask the Camp Hill coun cil for a $25 donation to help de fray the expenses of the band con cert recently given. In asking for a contribution I stated to the council < that the fire company was endeavor-' ing to prove to the people of Camp l Hill that the company was worthy .of support and that it knew how to properly conduct its affairs. I referred to the fact that we had but recently given Camp Hill the very best entertainment the borough had ever had, when we had the Pennsyl vania Railroad Glee Club give us a concert: also that our idea in bring ing the Municipal Band to the bor ough was not only to arouse interest' in the company, but to provide the I citizens with an excellent evening's i entertainment as well. I also told I them that we had put the company on a business basis and had ap pointed a custodian for the firehouso and its contents at a salary of $25 a year, and suggested that the coun cil might pay this officer's salary. I most certainly did not ask for a con tribution to help to defray the ex penses of the band concert, as the expenses for that affair*had already! been provided for before I appeared before tfie council. Although the council claims that no provision was made in the annual budget for help ing the Ore company, they have since voted to spend money for various purposes that were not provided for in the budget, and this I am pre pared to prove at any time. I am also prepared to prove that money which was provided in the budget for the fire company was not used for that purpose. I also am pre pared to prove that money which really belonged to the fire company wat withheld by the Camp Hill coun cil for many months before It was finally paid to the firefighters. Any resident of Camp Hill with a sense of humor would Indeed en joy himself immensely were he to attend a meeting of the Camp Hill council on the second Thursday eve ning of each month. It would in deed interest and amuse him to see j how various committees fail to take' action on Important matters that arej referred to them, and notice hei lack of interest and understanding by various councilmen In the proper functioning of the borough's affairs. This is no reflection on Individuals In the council, but simply the truth about the councilmanic body as a whole. j It is quite true that the Camp Hill council pay the flre company SSO per year rent for the privilege of holding council meetings In the firehouse, but they get their money's worth, for they do not pay as much for the privilege as do other organl-j zations. The flre company wants this mat ter settled solely on its merits. If we are entitled to help fr'om the bor ough council, we want It. If we r.re not entitled to such help, we do not want a cent. Whether or not the councllmen like the writer's methods or manners brtfc nothing to do with the merits of the case. When I went before th.j council I told them a lot of unpleasant facts that did not sit comfortably. They may not like to hear the cruth, but I am sure that the taxpayers who provide them with money and the voters who placed them In their positions, are at least entitled to a knowledge of how their representatives act, and also a knowledge of how their money Is spent. That the matter mar be thoroughly thrashed out before the citizens of our borough. I challenge the Camp Hill council to product & defender of their policies, and I will debate htm at any time and place satisfactory to the council. My charges against the council will elth er be disproved, and I will be com pelled to withdraw them, or the council will be convicted before the citizens of the borough of not spend ing time and intelligent thought on the borough's problems and how to meet them. I would suggest that the anonymous letter writer, who is a meniber of council, accept this chal lenge, and although he is trained in unction, X believe I can produce facts and figures that will convince our Camp Hill residents, even if they do not convince the members of coun cil. I would also like to hold up for ridicule before the people of Camp Hill the councilman who wrote the anonymous letters tg the Harris burg papers, and who did not have the manhood and courage to ac knowledge their authorship until he wus confronted with proof that I knew who wrote them. Any letter I send to the Harris burg papers will go over my own signature and I will be prepared to back up any statement I make. . I beg to remain not anonymously, but frankly and sincerely, ROBERT E. CAHTLL, President Camp Hill Fire Co. WHY ? To the Editor of the Telegraph: Why In all the songs, prose and poetry about the war Is the wife's name never mentioned? When a man marries "he promises in sight of God and these assembled witness es to forsake all else and cleave him only to this woman until death us do part." But it seems that war obliterates this. The wives don't count in war time. This is, to say the least, a rank injustice. In the first place there is no more sacred relationship than the married one. In the second place most mothers have other children and are not giv ing their all. and in the third place where a husband leaves children be hind the wife has to fulfill both obli gations. I do not mean to cheapen 3r de ride a mother's sacrifice, but only ask for a fair amount of considera tion. A mother's heart is wrung when her bey goes, but she, under normal conditions, has her hu-sband. But the wife has no one. You all know that a husband and wife have more in common than mother and son. Confidences, advice, compan ionship and a oneness that no other bond on earth equals must be sever ed, but we are pushed aside, Ignored and in some cases even snubbed. Is it right? Please in the future give us an equal footing. A WIFE. Out of a Father's Heart [From the Kansas City Times.] "Quentin's mother and I am very glad that he got to the front and liad. the chance to render some serv ice to his country and to show the stuff that was in him before his fate, befell him." • In those restrained words of Colo- I nel Roosevelt yesterday spoke the I heart of every American father and ! mother with a son at the front. There is nothing that can make quick coming death a little thing. There is nothing that can-take away its poignancy. The separation, the loneliness, are simply dark facts to be faced. But there is another side. I There Is the side of duty done, of [ Ideals cherished, of deaths swallow |edup in victory. It is not all of life ! to live, nor all of death to die. When | the supreme moment comes, what ! Is the inevitable, the overwhelming I consideration? Not the sorrow of i parting. Not grief and tears. But | the simple question: "Have I fought the good flght? Have I done my part? Have I played the man?" So the stricken father and mother, with the light for the moment gone out of their lives, can exclaim with solemn pride: v "We are glad that he had the chance to render some serv ice to his country and to show the stufT that was In him before his fate befell him." Can any parent ask for more? They Mean Business Those Texas women who are reg istering for the ballot mean busi ness. They are not disclosing their ages for fun.—Dallas News. Game For the Hun [From the Erie Hefald.] When the Hun Isn't executing military movements, he's busy exe cuting Finnish women and boys. How Long Shall I Cry? O Lord, how long shall I cry, and tnou wilt not hear! Even cry out un to thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! —Habakkuk i, 2. JULY 23, 1918. | EDITORIAL COMMENT " Both General Foch and Mr. Hoover are showing us how the Huns may be whipt by nibbling tactics.— St. Louis Star. Germany has . built three new bridges across the Rhine. Do com ing events cast their shadows be hind?— St. Loifls Globe-Democrat. Accbrding to T. R., the most un necessary luxury accorded to spies in this country is the last "n" in in tern. —Philadelphia North American. Things are reversed in Soviet Rus sia. The Bolshevik police probably round up everybody who wants to "Work or Fight."—Brooklyn Eagle. Garment men are predicting that ready-made suits for men will reach SIOO next fall. And no possibility of relief with suitless days.—New York Evening Sun. Conserving Paper The Pittsburgh newspapers have been prompt to put into effect the regulations laid down by the War Industries Board regarding the use and waste of newsprint paper. The Pittsburgh Newspaper Publishers' Association, which comprises all the daily papers of the city, have agreed to an increase in the price of their Sunday editions to ten cents* Thls| is an advance from six cents. foUR DAILY LAUGH CTNICAIk 5? Jt Thla tory says: The song —Ay died on her lips. 2yTy Oh, she prob :/ ably murdered 810 HEIiP. The typewrit er has limita- When you're ('<Sa \ TB wrlllng with ! pen and don't fv ) | J<£====-_ j know how to V: < spell a word, i p—~ you can drop a ': blot - i:i. 2* r^-*- ft ANNOYING. ■ Man ln tSIS kM Moon: Drat those flies any- way. OLAD TO HEAR Qlrls will be Is that advance /1 * information con- f \ :ernlng summer \ HUQOVNO A 1 BRUNETTE. " How '/ie al ways hugs th Perhaps hj doesn't 11 k. blondes. " ii. 3Ebntitt§ (Elfat F. R. Stevens, agricultural director of the State Chamber of Commerce, Is ae keen a believer In the value of the milch cow to the state as la Food Commissioner James Foust. "Sev eral times during the last tiro or three months I have heard thinking men express considerable concern at the rate at which milch cows are being sold for beef," said he to-day. i everting to his favorite topic, "and, if the present tendency continues, there will probably be an increase in these sales when the pastures fail and more high-priced commerclt> foods are needed to maintain the herds." he continued. "It Is undoubtedly true that the price of milk has not risen In the same proportion as other foodstuffs, nor in the same proportion as the commercial foods necessary to ou# dairies in large sections of our coun try. There is also great uneasiness on the part of farmers on account of the farm labor situation. There is a great deal of Justice in the farm er's attitude, and yet 1 want to Im press two very vital facts in this re lation. The ilrst is. that many ai our farms are primarily dairy farms that would not succeed as well with other types of farming, and, while grade bulls ought to absolutely dis appear and the boarder cows with them, yet tho well-bred cows, that are even to-day producing milk at a profit, cannot be replaced within five years, if then, and should be kept. "In other words. It is a to day of weeding out, so that the cows may be kept at a profit now and a foundation made for a better herd in the future. With ,a great food stringency facing us and the end of the WRr far in th future, I am as much concerned to-flay with the sup-- ply of milk, and milk products as with the supply of cereals, because it is the health of the children that will suffer first when food is scarce. "The labor situation Is bad. but. In spite of the drafts and other de mands, I expect it be better next year than it ha* l\i this. Our businessmen are to the fact that the food supply is a national and not only the farmer's problem; and, if worst comer to worst,, this realization on the part of business men will close many nonessentials (during the coming year and supply farm labor." • • • Even across the sea In China they . feel the call to do service for the i American Red Cross. About a - month ago (from a report received by friends in town), a most wonder ful pageant for the benefit of the ' Red Cross Was held in Canton, China. All the "foreigners," as the English, French and Americans are knqwn, took part. The pageant represented "The World With Her Pages," who were the different countries. England was strong in her Armour, America as Goddess of Liberty, Belgium in a widow's garb, looking sad and dejected. Many other nations were represented. Japan wore a most gorgeous cos tume having cost 200 yen. As each nation entered, the Hand played the nation's anthem, but when Belgium entered they stopped playing and the piano softly played "Lead, Kind ly Light." The World wore a flow ing robe of purple with white suit underneath. The heralds were also dressed in purple and white and wore purple turbans and carried long trumpets, with which they sum moned the nations. The couriers i also woro purple and white and car s ried spears. The first time the pageant was > given a pouring rain spoiled the per -1 formance, but, although they had ' already taken in SSOO as gate re ; ceipts, in true American spirit they I decided to run it through right;— ' and at the second performance were i more successful and earned much money for the benefit of the Amer ican Red Cross. All the women from America who live in Canton, as well as those from England, have Just as active a Red Cross headquarters as orte can find anywhere. They knit and make bandages and make all necessary things. • • One of the most unfortunate oc currences common during the stir . ring days of the Civil War may re peat itself during these days of self denying patriotism unless steps are taken to remedy the results of a defect which was prevalent, in the workings of the draft regulations during the first part of the war. Dur ing those days many young men who were in the draft availed themselves of their privilege to enlist In tHe service of their country without waiting to be drafted. These patri otic young men went into the service for the most part without letting theli boards know about it, causing mush confusion. The reports to the Selective Service Headquarters Sat urday developed the fact that ln the city alone 150 registrants of the pres ent draft never returned their ques tionnaires to their local boards, and were marked delinquent. Investiga tion by the Adjutant General's of fice, it is known, will show that the majority of these men are already in tho service and merely failed to no tify their boards. During the days of the Civil War, when affairs were not conducted so systematically as now, It is known that many of the bravest spirits of the times had their names put on their regimental rolls as deserters, merely because when they were lost from their commands they trans ferred themselves to another body of troops in their vicinity. Some of there lists were never corrected. An old Civil War'veteran said yesterday that It remains for the Adjutant Gen eral's office to correct the lists of the present war to show that many of tho 160 or more youths now marked delinquent receive credit for the service they are now rendering Uncle Sam. | DO YOU KNOW —That the fashionable resi dence section of narrlsburg used to en tend far south of Market street along: Second and that many of the cheap apartment houses there were formerly the homes of wealthy families? [ WELL KNQWNjEOPLEj „ a rr.°- L lnford Scott, maker of gun thl l? 869 ' WBed to be n tfner fir Kovernm(,n t in charge of gun lo cations on Pacific coast fofuflca. h=Tw K New ' ton Dubjl . well-known In cltv roports that the whole TWt^P lllnfr ' Chlna - w here the United Evangelical hospital Is locat &£*" bCen ,ald WBBte "bel
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