■KRISBURG TELEGRAPH I ;l NBtVSPAPBR FOR THE HOUS Poundtd iljl Tenlnga except Sunday by Bl TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Hfrtfh Building, Federal Saaret 1 H. STACK POLE, PrtSl & Biifr-in-ChUf * OTSTER, Busintss Managrr. \ ■ M. STEINMETZ, Monotint Editor. i liber of the Associated Press—Tha Press Is exclusively en- Htled to the use for republication of news dispatches credited to it or llHtt otherwise credited In this paper also the local news published rights of republication of spectal herein are also reserved. m yember American I i | M Newspaper Pub- AII -mTf Ushers' Assocla - tlon, the Audit BSSjji Bureau of Clrcu- WtE*Ma latlon and Penn- Bgffif iff A aylvanta Assoc!- Ifii Bat S ated Dailies. Bp Eastern office, \mm Wi 3a Story, Brooks & S IBS Wt Flnley, Fifth ■ BSB ,25 Jff Avenue Founding, HuBlH 188 fg New York 'City; ■HB 53UF Western office, |jtt Story, Brooks Sr. BfWnC F!nley, People's Gaß • BuMdlng, at the Post Office In Harris- Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cent* a HBEnKioipSL} week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advance, V .WEDNESDAY, JTJI/Y 24, 1018 me but courage, Lord! ask not that Thou smooth the ap pointed path; ■pjfc not any joys the years afford, W ask not even Thine averted wrath, me but learn to smile — me face lightly any blow that STATE RESERVES has been issued by the headquarters of the Reserve Militia of the State an inter- Hting circular compiled by Adjutant Hsneral Beary, a thorough and con- Hientious soldier. This circular Ives the origin and purpose of the lilltia and states that since 1858 has been the policy of tha Com anwealth to maintain an organized >dy with military authority to re st invasion and suppress internal sorder. It was this policy, he ex alns, which led to the establlsh tent in 1878, of the National Guard nd which has, since the absorption the Keystone division by the Tnited States Army, led the Legisla- Ure to create the Reserves. ; It is a tribute to the unwearying abors'of the late General Thomas J. and those associated with htm that the old N. G. P. is now re garded as one of the best divisions on the fighting front in France. For more than a week it has been giv ing the Hun a taste of the training of years before the war. The record ft the old organization will be an isplration for the new body which ikes Its place and the recent en aijipment at Mount Gretna has emonstrated the quick grasp and llitary spirit of the average Penn ylvanian. It is now proposed to increase the Reserves by the addition of another brigade, and in view of'the conditions this may be a wise thing to do. We hav> been fortunate in the splendid fighting qualities of the State Con stabulary, but a larger body of citi zen soldiers may occasionally be necessary to maintain peace under all circumstances and to resist riots or Invasion. This is the kind of weather that makes the man who had concluded not to take a vacation this year begin to figure how he can work it in. PATRIOTISM—POLITICS IN making a survey of the war activities of Pennsylvania there must be general pride among our citizens in the achievements of thU splendid old Commonwealth. According to a statement just Issued by Major W. G. Murdock, Chief of the State Draft Headquarters, Penn-. sylvanta has sent 202,360 men into the armed service of the nation since the outbreak of the war. Thousands more from this State will enter the service and each call to the colors is having a more enthusiastic response. Furnishing men for the Army and Navy and for all branches of the service Is not all the Keystone State has done Its patriotism has been further expressed in the purchase of millions of Liberty Bonds, in contri bution of millions to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., Knights of Colum bus nd In every effort to win the war. Dr. Charles Hopkins Clark, a dis tinguished publicist of Connecticut, has recently presepted the patriotic work of the Nutmeg State and, speaking as a Republican in politics, he says: While Republicans are eager to assist and stimulate the present Democratic Administration in the prosecution of the war, and know BO party in their patrlotista, they realize the inconsistency of the suggestion that politics 1s ad journed, when every day gives evidence to the contrary. Pennsylvania is a leader among hosts and throughout the war has manifested Its loyalty and patriotism in strong support of the Government and in the giving of its sons and its material resourced for the prosecution of-the war. It were bettef for the Administration at Washington to cease its.hypocritical chatter of "politics adjourned" •ad devote Its whole thought to the WEDNESDAY EVENING, pushing forward of everything which will aid In the winning of the war. No considerable number of people are deceived by the no-polltlca palaver of the President and his as sociates and it were better for the country that any pretense of this character be avoided. Our system of government is based upon political parties and without the constructive criticism of the Republican leaders and news papers throughout the country many unfortunate failures would have still further hampered the preparations necessary to the conduct of a great war. Just criticism is absolutely necessary under present conditions. Pennsylvania has no reason to be ashamed of its part and the fact that it is an overwhelmingly Repub lican State ought to be sufficient an swer to the foolish talk of adjourn ing politics when there is no thought of such a thing in the minds of the Administration spokesmen. Republicans are going to do their utmost in every activity connected with the war, but they are not going to sidestep their political principles and aims for the benefit of a party which has too often interpreted the making of the world safe for democ racy as meaning "making the United States safe for the Democratic party." Postmaster Sites announces the flitting of the Post Office from its present temporary quarters to the Federal building next Saturday. Thus 9nds the familiar Joke of several years when one wished to describe an indefinite period of time—"When the P. O. is finished!" HOW LONG? THERE is now an abundant sup ply of water In the reservoirs of the city and might it not be a good thing to utilize some of the surplus In reviving the parched grass of the river parks? When one sees the dead leaves dropping all over the city from the neglected shade trees and the fur ther neglect of broken branches and overhanging boughs along the side walks, one cannot help wondering how much real Interest there is in the trees among those who are charged with municipal administra tion. Civic bodies and individual citi zens have urged upon City Council the organization of a Shade Tree Commission without avail. Behind the opposition is the selfish objec tion of overhead wire corporations which do not want to be interfered with in their slashing of trees in the stringing of wires. But how long will the people stand for this sort of thing? The nepd of a municipal bathing beach was made plain to hundreds of Harrlsburgers yesterday, who desired to take a dip, but had no place where in to dip. FRUIT OF VACILLATION KERENSKY, reappearing in Lon don and en route to America, revives hope that something may be donre in and for Russia. He himself is quoted as believing that Russia may again take her place in the fighting line and oppose the Ger mans. Such faith is not found in many quarters, but it is heartening to find it in Kerensky, whose dreams of a year and a half ago went glim mering so tragically when his own weakness deprived him of the cour age to deal with Lenine and Trotzky as they deserved. If, in the mean time, Russian hopes have been kept alive at all it is through the efforts of the group whom Kerensky over threw. One of the numerous Grand Dukes Michael is at this moment at the head of a considerable number of Czecho-Slavic troops opposing the rule of the Reds in Southeastern Russia; and it is possible that he and such forces as Kerensky may be able to scrape together may find them selves enabled to co-operate. One thing is certain, Russia cannot be permitted to remain the menace to the Allied cause that she is now and has been for nearly a year. It is un fortunate that the United States alone among the Allied nations has been put In a position where the de lay and the danger in the Russian situation are so clearly chargeable to us. The administration has fixed a limit of price on manufactured goods made of cotton, most of which are produced in the North, but has not placed a limit on the price of raw cotton, pe culiarly a product of the South. Poli tics may have adjourned, but there are other things that have not. Russia is beginning to see the light All that the United States and the other nations now standing together against the Hun need do to rehabili tate the demoralized Russians is to furnish a rallying post for them. We notice that men's low shoes have been marked down to <7.50, which makes us think that perhaps after the war, when we are permitted to sell a Liberty Bond or two, we may be able to afford a pair. Old man Hlndenburg being dead. there's nobody left to explain to the German people that this is mereley a "retreat to victory." One of the things Harrisburg does not need to worry about—the aboli tion of league baseball. Director General of Railroads McAdoo announces that Increased freight traffic is shown as compared with last year. The Increase in quantity of traffic, together with largely increased freight charges, Bhould give the railroads an Income unprecedented in tho history of rail roading In this or any other country. A little rain, Mr. Demain, a little rain! Haven't you any regard for the roasting-ear eropT > CK I>e.KKoi|Cca)ua1 > e.KKoi|Cca)ua By the Ex-Committeenuui Not a move has been made as yet in the matter of choosing a new Democratic state chairman to suc ceed McLean. The Palmer-McCor mlck wing of the party is bent on keeping control of the organization and Candidate Bonniwell is just as determined to have as chairman this fall a man who will foe really favor able to his candida/cy. Bonniwell un questionably believes that if Palmer and his friends remain bosses of the party machine they will spend most of their effort the coming fall on the election of Democratic Congress men and permit the head of the ticket to be beaten. It is no secret that the Palmer-McCormlck crowd feel that to save thei rown skins it would be better to permit Bonniwell to be overwhelmingly beaten. The Philadelphia Press commenting edi torially on the situation says: "The recently elected chairman of the Democratic state committee has gone to Washington—where all deserving Democrats now go for the purpose to take a Job in the Department of Justice. This leaves a committee vacancy over which the Bonniwell Democrats and the Palmer Demo crats and perhaps other Democrats, have fallen into another controversy. Wo presume it helps to fill In time, but what good is any kind of a Dem ocratic chairman going to do this year in Pennsylvania? The only real thing there is to fight over is the campaign fund which will be con tributed toy the federal officeholders, but even that would not be con tributed if an anti-Palmer chairman could be elected." —Frank S. Magill, candidate on the Republican ticket in Franklin county for the Legislature, isn't worrying about politics these hot days. With Mrs. Magill, who is a daughter of Thomas M. Nelson, president of Chambersburg Trust Company and for many years a widely-known bridge builder, he has gone to Camp Keoka, near Naples, Maine, for the summer. —C. W. Black, assistant postmas ter of Mercer, and who recently was appointed post office inspector, has received word from the post office official to report at Kansas City, Mo. He will look over territory com prising .Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Oklahoma. —The Scranton Republican, com menting on the marked failure of voters in Pennsylvania to exercise their franchise, has this to say of a similar situation in Massachusets: "Indifference of a great many cit izens to the importance of having all qualified voters participate In elec tions has moved the Massachusetts constitutional convention to consid er the advisability of making voting compulsory. Many delegates are said to favor such a change but later in dications are that the movement will fail. "The wisdom of compelling men to vote whether they desire to do so or not is seriously questioned by many close students of big public questions. It will be applying Kaiser ism to American methods and insti tutions, they assert, and throughout the country they will find a large and influential element In agreement with them. "Unquestionably all communities have suffered from the fact that many good citizens have neglected to exercise the voting privilege, because of the belief that it would not Im prove conditions or alter results for the better. "Were the best elements of all i communities to go to the polls both at primaries and regular elections the result would be the nomination t of a higher type of men for the various public offices. It would also • result in the defeat or a greater number of candidates who do not t measure up to proper public stand ards. < HANDING IT TO GERMANS < [Phila. Inquirer] I Before we got into the war, and 1 even afterwards, It was not uncon- - mon to meet a lukewarm, milk-and water American who, after paying - the required tribute to our own own country, would exclaim: "But ' you've got to hand it to the Ger mans." ] Back of this seeming spirit of fair play was the intimation that the Germans were invincible, that they ! could not be beaten. It was the very idea that had been drummed 1 into the heads of the Germans by their false system, and this idea wqs encouraged by those who considered I themselves good Americans. Well, we are handing it to the ! Germans, and we hope the eulogists ! of the Huns are satisfied with the way in which the job is being done. ' If we are correctly Informed, our boys on the other side of the water ■ are "hftnding" It to the Germans ' with both hands, and they are doing it in a good old-fashioned American way. The pent-up indignation over ' the sinking of the Lusitania, the atrocities in Belgium and the firing upon hospital ships Is giving strength to the arms that carry American guns and that thrust bayo nets in the direction of the fleeing Huns. Yes, we are really • and truly "handing it to the Germans" now, but in a way that neither the Ger mans nor their apologists ever ex- ' pected. German Reasoning [N. A. Review's War Weekly] The Muenchner Neueste Nachrich ten has it all figured out. "America," it declares solemnly, "does not intend that Germany shall be thoroughly defeated, and both America and Ja pan can be depended upon to play false to the allies." Having fortified Itself with this comforting.reflection, tJie paper continues: America is becoming more and more a decisive military factor in the war, but even from a purely military point of view America can not desire that England shall win the war outright. America's interest Jies in ■compromise, so therefore I re gard Wilson with less suspicion than usual. It must not be forgotten also that for America the world war Is merely an expedition. America can not be defeated on French soli, and for America and Germany there IS no front upon which a tactical victory will Involve a political decision. An absolute victory for England would break tfte so-called Anglo- Saxon circle and sooner or later pro-' duce a struggle between England and America for domination of the world. With inimitable cunning Oriental Japan awaits this last Issue of present history. Truly, the ways of GerAan reason ing are past finding out; or, rather, as the London Times neatly put It, the Munich editor must be "aware that the political ignorance of his readers knows no depths." We can only hope that he will get & copy of the President's Fourth of July speech and have a fresh struggle with his fascinating suspicions. " ' + * ' ' ' * HXRRISBURG TELEGRXPH! MOVIE OF A MAN STALLING AFTER ARRIVING HOME FROM A POKER GAME By BRIGGS — . : <— : J f f.t- Iw AII 7 Y °°- 1 . \ HCNR r-rtH/we WIFP LT _ T (KiGLoteaV \ fcu THIEK >u [T'LL7'JUST B s T* ~~l| /Yoo WAJ'TNE YOU! L.OSG.SJJ \J Y V v, , AFTERWARD In the Afterward, when I am dead, I want no flowers over my head. But If Fate and the Gods are kind to me They'll send me a Sikh half com pany To fire three volleys over my head— To sweeten my sleep, when I am dead. And many shall sneer. But Some One shall sigh, Yet I shall not hear them as there I lie, For this is the Law of Lover and friend— That all joy must finish, all feeling end. And many shall laugh; but Some One shall weep, Yet I shall not know 1 shall lie asleep; A worn-out body, a drled-up crust; Ashes to ashes and dust to dust! And they'll drink a toast up there in the Mess, "Here's to a friend in his loneliness!" And music and talk for a while shall cease While my Brothers drink to their Brother's Peace. And the Sikhs shall say (th*t were once mine own): "Who rode with us often now rides alone!" And leaning over the grave they'll sigh— "Sahib murgya! Kl Jae, K1 Jae!" And I, who so loved them one and all. Shall stir no more at the bugle call, But another Sahib shall ride instead At tho head of my Sikhs, when I am dead. And even this thought which hurts me so Shall cease to trouble me when I go. My chestnut charger, Mam'selle (She was fleet of foot and I loved her well!) Shall nibble the grass above my head. Unknowing that one she loved Is dead. Some one—my Horse and my Com pany Shall fail to smile at the comedy; Shall strive to reason, yet fall to guess That Life is little and Death is less! And they shall sorrow a little space Till somebody comep to fill my place; But all their sorrow, their grief and pain, Tney shall expend upon me—in vain! And you—lf you read this epitaph— Harden your heart, I pray you, laugh! But if you would deal with me ten derly Place one dew-kissed violet over me; I claim not this and ask no more, Yet — this was the flow'r that Some One wore In the long dead days that have gona before. —Captain Cyril Morton Home. LABOR NOTES The wages of able British seamen are now S6O a month and food, as against $25 before the opening of the war. Fifty-five thousand Belgians have found employment through the Brit ish labor exchanges sine* January, 1915. New York aldermen favor increas es of from 10 to 20 per cent, for civic employes—next year! On July 16 at Sandusky, Ohio, the International Protective Association of Retail Clerks will convene. Wage-earning women and minors in Kansas are assured proper hours, adequate remuneration and whole some working conditions. In Wisconsin in 1016, 1916 and 1917 40,980 Industrial accidents oc curred which caused disability of more than seven days' duration. Railway accidents will be reduced by 20 per cent., according to esti mates of the Railway Administra tion, through the efforts of 1,000 safety committees. New Haven (Conn.) bartenders have been Increased to s3l a week. Pullman porters now demand a wage increase, saying that the war has halved their tip harvest, Quentin R North American (Philadelphia). [Phila. North American] Yet there Is a further reason why Americans are deeply touched by the death of this boy: it is the tragic but fitting expression of another life. Never has Theodore Roosevelt been more inspiringly the reflection of Americanism; never moro true to himself, than in this hour of search ing trial. Here was the supreme or deal for his courage and his faith, the testing of all the inspirational doctrine he has preached to his countrymen. And he met it not alone with the fortitude all men knew he would reveal, but with a solemn pride that his boy had proved worthy of his race. His only words to a sympathetic nation were these: "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had a chance to render some serv ice to his country and show the stuff there was In him before his fate befell hirrff" No clearer expression of the man could have been given. Yet it was, we may believe, something more than a personal response; It was a message of comradeship and inspira tion to all men and women of this land who have felt or are to feel the same heartache—that they may be conscious of the glory as well as the grief of sacrifice offered in a high cause * * serenity that is utterly apart from stoicism, as the father of another soldier has written in up lifting words: "1 am much more sensitive to what this destruction means than in Ahe early days of the war, because it is Interpreted to me to-day In the threat that hangs over lives very Prepared to Enforce Peace [League to Enforce Peace Bulletin] The British government has 'be gun public discussion of a League of Nations. Will Washington follow our ally's example? This thought must have been uppermost in the minds of many who read the recent news from London. The United States, through Presi dent Wilson's note of December 18, 1916, addressed to the Entente Al lies, became sponsor for the League of Nations idea. The allies, in their reply to this note, accepted the prin ciple involved in the President's proposal. Since then, although Presi dent Wilson and leading European statesmen repeatedly reaffirmed their adherence to this general purpose, so far as the public knows there has been no advance in the exchange of ideas on this fundamental war aim among the governments associated in the task of subduing Germany. Now the British government, through Earl Curzon, its spokesman in the House of Lords, is on record as willing to discuss details. The House of Lords, June 26, adopted a resolution that "this house approves the principle of a League of Na tions." Earl Curzon called attention to the fact that the nations associated in the war against Germany were al ready a league to enforce peace and that the rudimentary organization of such a league existed in the ma chinery created to co-ordinate the resources and efforts of the allies in the war. One of the chief difficulties, he pointed out, would be the limit ing or rationing of armaments. If armaments were limited, the Inter national court must have the power of inspection and control which meant In practice the complete con trol of all sources of production In the various countries concerned. He indicated an opinion on his part that economic pressure, after this war, would be more effective than mili tary force in keeping recalcitrant nations in bounds. The Steam Heat Jump [Sunday Courier] In behalf of the thousands of Harrisburg taxpayers who are asked to meet a maximum raise of 60 per cent. In steam heating rates, The Courier to-day, therefor®, sets forth the critical necessity of some publlo spirlted steam heat patron making the protest before it is too late. By all laws of justice and sane business the Public Service Commission should enlighten the Common wealth of Harrisburg as to whether this company, which paid six and eight per cent, last year, a war year, if you please, is justified In asking a fifty per cent, maximum raise in rates for next winter, using, aa It does, the cheap river coal. dear to me. Nevertheless, I find my mind dwelling less and less upon the spectacle of physical destruction. Why is this? I think It is because 1 have become more conscious of the spiritual grandeur of the war. I have realized that man is so much more than his body that the loss of the body is not the loss of the man. I have learned to think of the body of a soldier as the vesture only of the spirit, and of the spirit as step ping out of its torn and blood stained vesture in the vigor of in destructible existence." Le Temps, the most influential Journal in Paris, says of him (Col. Roosevelt): "It he has not come himself, as he wanted to do. to take his place In the midst of the.combat, it is be cause obstacles more powerful than he have kept him In the United States, where, moreover, he has not ceased/to serve by every means in his power the cause to which he of fered up with a full heart those most dear to him. * He has given us his four sons, all animated with the finest emulation of heroism and in spired by all the great thoughts with which paternal tradition had sur rounded them from birth. • • • "May the great soul of Ex-Presl dent Roosevelt find in this trial the consolation and comfort which our brotherly friendship sends to him. He knows, as he has often said, bet ter than anybody else, how fruitful in benefits for generations which will come after us and gather the harvest of our efforts and our suf ferings is the beauty of freely offered sacrifice." Prophet of American Ideals [Kansas City Star] The circumstances under which Theodore Roosevelt spoke at Sara toga give his words a moving solei%i ity they could not otherwise' have had. He spoke not only as the one pub lic man who had forseen from the beginning the significance of the war to America, and had striven might ily to arouse his country to the ne cessity of preparing against the day of need. He spoke also as the father who had laid all that was dearest to him on the altar, and who, in the name of the fathers and mothers of America, called for life saving ef ficiency in the prosecution of the war and for the overwhelming vic tory that alone would justify the sac rifices made. It was the American statesman who spoke, but the statesman with the vision and the purpose that come only to those who have suffered. For at the time of his address, of his four sons and one son-in-law at the front, one had been gassed, another had been disabled perhaps for life and was probably to be invalided home, while a third was reported missing In air battle. Three out of five in the casualty lists, and the war just he gun! Out of that bitter experience ciuiie his plea for the greatest pos sible haste in throwing all of Ameri ca's giant strength into the task; for the immediate extension of the draft ages and for armies overseas next year equal in strength to Germany's. That is a plea to which the heart of America will respond. It is the plea of patriotism and humanity. In the presence of a patriotic statV"Tianship consecrated by such sacrifice, the shrill voice of malice and slander must die away. Theodore Roosevelt at Saratoga, under the shadow of a torturing uncertainty for his son, pleading for a more ef ficient citizenship, stands forth as he has stood for years, the man of vision and of execution, the prophet of American ideals. JUST BE GLAD O, heart of mine, we shouldn't Worry so. What we've missed of calm we couldn't Have, you know! What we've met of stormy pain And of sorrow's driving rain, We can better meet again If it blow. For we know, not every morrow Can be sad. So forgetting all the sorrow We have had. Let us fold away our fears. And put iby our foolish tears, And through all the coming years Just be glad. —James Whitconjb Bilejr. JULY 24, 1918, EDITORIAL COMMENT General Otto von Below Is as signed to look after the Austrian generals, who can unite cordially in tinging "Man wants but little Herr Below, nor wants that little long." —Springfield Republican. We heartily favor recognizing the heroic Czecho-Slovaks and the in domitable Jugo-Slavs as independent nations and fighting shoulder to shoulder with them the world safe for democracy, provided they under stand clearly in advance that there Is to be no kissing either before or after victories.—Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. IF I SHOULD DIE If I should die In Flanders field, If I should die in France, Oh, take me out and bury me Beneath some friendly poplar-tree (Those poplir-trees of France!) Oh, keep me near, where I can hear Those roaring guns of france. If I should die in Flanders field Beneath the sod of France, There let me stay till victory Is come, and all the world Is free (God grant this boon to France!) Oh, let me stay to see the day That freedom comes to France. Then take me fur from Flanders field When freedom comes to France; Return me tq the very land I love the best, my Maryland (It's sweeter far than FYance!) Oh, bring me home to Maryland And say; "He died for France." —Robert Garland. OUR DAILY LAUGH SHOWING RESENTMENT. mond-Egg—So dfei. LjjHHL you're leaving because the boarders m 1 a - never heard M...V 1 them say any- V\ thing about ft. c Tilly the Maid- jHflk No'm. But ev ery time they go /gy _ In their rooms \\\ they hang *■** something over the keyhole. B3TANT i cm I i JOYS. Oh what a How few on rn. ' wC - iKSi would fret Wer ° wa as i . "tVWf. FtUOVI \"b T| \MOTV\ Mi WCMH I THE NEW IH GrQUt I VERSION. j Tom, Tom, the unTijTTjP* ( piper'a son, ! Stole a pig and away he I Tom was beat, /Jp but the pig (ftJvC Was kll le d , ( \J| packed, shipped and * —>—