10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VSWSPAPBH FOR THS HOUR Pounded it fl Published evening? except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. JS. J. STACK POLE, Pros'i 6r Eaitor-m-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Buiinoss Manager, OUS M. STEINMI3TZ. Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press la exclusively en title* to the use fqr republication of all news dispatched 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 fn Newspaper Pub llshera' Asso^la^ _ Chlcago^n?^" Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents n week; by mall, J5.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, JVLY 25, 1918 I beg you whatever 'be your suffer ing, to learn first of all that God does not mean to take your sorrow off, but to put strength into you, that you may be ble to carry it. Be sure pour sorrow is not yielding you its best, unless it makes you a more thoughtful person than you have ever been before. —PHILLIPS BROOKS. PEACE FEELERS GERMANY having put out an other peace feeler, the ailies will do well to ignore it com pletely. This is no tima to taJk peace. We are busy, too busy lick ins the Huns to think about any thing but unconditional surrender. We have set our minds to war and the best answer the allies could give the Kaiser is Secretary Biker's arnouncement that he means to raise an American army of 5,000,000 men. Germany would like to get out of the war now in order to reorganize and get ready for another great slaughter, when she could take on the nations one after another and win the world for herself. The Ger man peace terms are absurd on their face. All the Prussian gang wants is to get the nations around a peace table to discuss fundamentals which are not open to discussion so long as the allies stand tirm in the field on the platform so admirably laid down by President Wilson. The Wilson doctrine of peace is the only one acceptable to America. We have demonstrated that we can beat the Hun at his own gams and when we talk peace it will be to tell Germany just what must be done. The Kaiser's place at the peace table will be between two American sol diers armed with rifles, if he is dig nified by any consideration what soever. The farmers of Central Pennsylva nia are thousands of dollars richer to-day because of last night's rain, but the Reservoir golf crowd, which nissed its supper, never thought about that. HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IT will be well to remember that Postmaster Burleson has said that the telegraph and telephone systems of the country under private ownership have been oper ated in a "highly successful" man ner. Sir. Burleson might have said the same of the conduct of the postal department before he took charge, but he would make himself the laughing stock of the country if he said anything like that now. Heaven help the public if he does no better with the telephones and telegraphs than he has done with the mailc. He says he has in mind "improve ments and economies." In the past office department his "improvement" hus meant, for example, that a spe cial delivery package mailed in New i York in the evening does not reach Harrisburg until about thirty-six hours later. Before he took charge the same package was laid down on the desk of the man addressed the morning following the evening on which it was mailed. The "improve ment" in this case has been a delay of twenty-four hours in delivery, and the necessity of a complete chango of mailing arrangements by the business man in question. This is only one case of many. Philadel phia Is now so hard hit by blunders of the Burleson administration that the newspapers are engaged ta a crusade for betterment An "economy" of the Burleson variety has been to cut down the number of mail clerks and post office employes at a time when busi , ness has been growing rapidly and their burdens consequently on the increase. Then, too, he has seen to it that in order to "save money" the men of the postal department have not received advances in wages in anything like the proportion given to men In private enterprise. In short, he has succeeded by his non sensical ideas ot "Improvements axut IHURSDAY EVENING, economies" In wrecking a depart ment of the government that was formerly the pride of the nation *nd a model of efficiency. This is no reflection upon the working forces, who have been forced to give up life-long occupa tions in the service to go In large numbers to other lines of endeavor where their efforts are more appre ciated or to continue to work under almost intolerable conditions. If the telegraph and the telephon are to go the same way as the post office department, we repeat. Heaven save the public, and the nation, too, which just now is so dependent upon efficiency in all lines of busi ness. We pay fifteen cents for the old time ten-cent ice cream soda and laugh about It, but" how we do yell when somebody suggests a six-cent car fare. STREET LIGHTING THE Fuel Administration Is to be commended for its effort to save lighting current and gas—which in the final analysis means coal. It is a small matter for a merchant to forego the lighting of his show win dows if all his competitors are un der the same restrictions. The brilliantly-lighted hotel may also dim its luster some>vhat without injury to anybody. But Administrator Hickok is wise in going slow In the matter of street lighting. The Fuel Administration made a grievous error last winter with its "coalless days," working needless hardship on thousands, and it would ; make another grave mistake if it rushed pell-mell into the regulation of street lighting. Doubtless, we may find it possible to get along without some of the present light, but the highway and police departments should be consulted before any steps are taken in that direction. The automobile driver must de pend within the city limits largely upon the street lamps to guide his course. He is not permitted to use j his heavy headlights. To deny him the street light would be to endanger brth pedestrians and the of motor driven cars. But even more serious is the fact that crime flourishes most in poorly lighted dis tricts. "Deeds of evil love the dark ness" is an old and true saying. Robbery unquestionably would in crease with a serious reduction In street lighting. We can stand t{ie baseball ruling if only they don't go and regulate bass fishing. A JUST PETITION V • IT is to be hoped President Wilson will heed and grant the petition of the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl vania Colored Knights of Pythias, praying that he address a special message to the country on the im portance of exercising self-restraint and preserving public order during the war crisis. The lodgemen re-1 ferred particularly to the mob law i and lynching spirit which have j flared up here and there making life j unsafe for even the Innocent and j law-abiding colored men who have been the worst sufferers at the hands of unreasonable, unreasoning mobs. The colored men do not mean that crime should be protected, far from it. t But they do believe all men should be protected in their rights and that the guilt or innocence of j the accused should be left entirely! in the hands of a jury of his peers. ' This is eminently Just and fair and j should have unqualified Presidential ! support. History repeats itself at the second battle of the Marne, which is doing pretty well for one war. AFTER THE WAR EVERY fresh issue of the illus trated journals presents pic tures of girl and women work ers in new ocupations. From railroad shops to munition factories they are taking places long monopolized by men. They are responding nobly to the emergency. They are proving their worth, and doubtless will con tinue to do so. These new activities of women have excited certain self-announced industrial "experts" who are begin ning to worry about the "readjust ment period" to follow the war. "What is to happen," they are ask ing, "when the men return and find their places filled by women?" This is shooting wide of the mark. Our problem will not be so much to displace the women workers as to find new places for the men, and that ought not to be so very difficult if proper steps are taken now in prepa ration for the coming of peace. We shall then find ourselves with the greatest merchant marine in the world and commanding vast markets that have been starved for years and hungry for our goods. Industrial and civic development and construction held back by years of war will be ready to absorb vast quantities of the things which we shall have to sell. We shall have a productivity beyond our former wildest dreams. There should be work for men and women, too. But not all women will want to continue in the mills. With the dis charge of our soldiers will come a very epidemic of marriage and in addition countless wives now work ing for wages will go back to ball for his appearance at court, Les lie Ryman and C. W. Laycock, Chamber of Commerce men, qualify ing as his surety. This sensation came while Dona hue was on the witness stand. He testified that he was playing the part of the "sucker" in the fake prize fight the Burns men were promoting to trap members of the police, Dona hue admitted he was supposed to have lost $4,000 in betting on the fight. He admitted sending a letter to Mayor Kosek in which he raid that the promoters had trimmed him and played him for a "sucker" in" getting him to bet on the fight. In his letter to the mayor, he stilt ed that Adam Herbert, chief of de tectives, and Patrick Nolan, police clerk, knew all about the fight and how he had been trimmed. Under cross-exantinatlon he ad mitted that the purpose of his cell ing was to get an interview with Kosek. According to the scheme, the mayor was expected to have Al len Olds Myers picked un by the police for getting Donahue's monev. Myers was to turn over $4,000 to Kosek. who in turn was expected to turn it over to Donahue for the pur pose* of shutting him up and pre venting an expose in the newspapers, and also to permit Myers to get out of town while the money was in the possession of Kosek. The plan of the Burns men, ac cording to Donahue, was to raid Ko sek's office, cause his arrest and catch him with the money in his possession. Donahue admittted the scheme would not work, because Kosek would have nothing to do with them. CAMPAIGNING BY MAIL In Kansas, now that the wheat harvest is about to be completed, and the Liberty Bond drive and the Red Cross drive are out of the way and there is nothing else to do. the peo ple are beginning to inquire as to "who's running?" Up to this time the campaign has consisted very largely of letter writ ing by the candidates, and in this •plan, it is well known. Governor Capper, who is running for the Unit ed States Senate, has all the other candidates "laid in the shade." It is said that Governor Capper's mailing list is the envy of all Kansas poli ticians. A good story Is told of how the Governor's correspondence bureau works: Frank Grimes Is one of Charles F. Scott's campaign manag ers. One evening recently Grimes went up to the Central National bank building in Topeka to visit "Harve" Motter, secretary of the Henry Allen committee. Motter was visiting with an old friend, a Swede, from Centra! Kansas. He Introduced him to Grimes. "Any politics out your way?" Grimes asked. "Ain't bane much yat," replied the Swede. "Any talk about United States Senator?" Grimes persisted. "Oh, little," was the reply. "Who are you for?" Mr. Grimes questioned. "Oh, I guess I bane for Gov'nor Capper. "Anybody for Scott out that way?" "Scott? Who bane Scott?" asked Mr. Motter's friend. "Why, he's a candidate for the Senate," was the answer. "I tank not," the Swede replied. "I got letter from Gov'ner Capper yesterday and he said nothing about Scott bane candidate."—Kansas Citv Star. LEST WE FORGET 'Leno me your wings, oh, wind," That X may fly Up through the boundless reaches of the sky And gather stars, to strew the graves where lie Our soldier dead, stilled in Death's majesty With new culled staF-dust. "Lend me your song, oh, nightin gales," That I may sing Of daring deeds, and that the world may ring Of heroism, sacrifice, the widow's wails, And echo thrill the earth and heaven through. That man and all God's angels may he true. That "golden notes from out a sil ver horn" May sound my song of songs to na tions yet unborn. Lest they forget. "Lend me your perfume, flower, leaf and blade," That I may burn A fitting, sweeter incense to these dead Than ever yet has burned or shed its light On honor's roll, that all may read aright The story of their deeds in man kind's fight For Liberty. "Lend me your tints, oh, rainbow," For the flag—*• Youi twin that floats so proudly o'er the land Where freedom and humanity go hand in hand. Where brother-love and honor, more than gold. And gentleness to weakness, ever hold Their place; lend me your tints, if needs be. to renew Our flag's proud message In its ev ery hue. And star and fold. "Lend me your gift to hate. Ye Furies' Clan," Lest I forget; May God forgive the wish, all kind ness ban. Even in thought, eke action, and in prayer. This must be banished from the creeds of man Who have what we have to avenge and bear. Teach me to hate, forgiveness to forswear. Forever, ay! and then! The time has come, has come, when the Christ's cross Must yield, its gentle message give way to the sword; When man must count love and for giveness loss. And by the wish to slay, alone be stirred. —William P. Hunter. HARRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELW? .... ... .;. ... BY BRIGGS rou D YOUR / \ OUGHT be<3lM \ IT- iS A MATTER 1 UWOIVIOeD AT TENTI ON f SHfin-r I T ° TH" Ol * ] MORE FOR YOU ) FOR. A FEW MINUTSS- J / HI.S CTAT?C ER. - J LO DELCID<=- / I W/ant To T/M.K V. /' 1 SHOULD LIKE / J A BOOT — / R ° ' SC,NLT) H,RVV . - I Y V^ FMILITAWY WH*sTfj6. You SAY /\ [- ANO i TOI-D HIM ") /"7m BV sl\ > , A,VJD ?? / \ V / I HEARD \ StOUT UeS POOR MONK! barber, I -want mj n * C ' t B^ ave< " THE CAUSE. Mr. Fish: What ras the cause of U J. •our husband's Widow Fish: lie hookworm!. \rZfLc\ PREPARED. C .££ The pen is fflMr M mightier than the jC"" That's good [iJ news. I think It Is t , 'jf i- --**> agreed that. our It:! /' pens are about Jr ' th ® b ®* t lu th * ..... Bmtttuj (Eljat "Williamsport has an institution that I wish Harrisburg would find it possible to copy," said a returning traveler yesterday. "I refer to the Red Cross booth at the railroad sta tion. Williamsport Is well situated for this, better than Harrisburg, In fact. There is an open plaza in front of the station and a broad lawn along the side. On this the Red Cross canteen branch has I erected a trim little frame build ing, in the rear of which is a tent |to store the supplies. The frame structure is used during cold or wet weather, but during days like these little tables are spread under trees. Not a soldier passes through Wil liamsport these days who is missed by the bright-eyed, prettily-uni formed Rod Cross girls, who are al ways on hand with a cheerful word and an Invitation to have anything from an ice cream cone to a sub stantial lunch, with hot coffee or iced tea on the side. "While waiting for a train the oth er day—trains being late in Wil liamsport as well as most every where else these times—l amused myself by observing how the canteen worked. A train came in over the Lehigh Valley. Immediately the two girls in charge at the time ap peared with ice cream cones. They sold them to the perspiring passen gers, even the "candy butcher' and the conductor taking one each. The profits, I learned, went into the up keep of the canteen and the girls said that mpst people gave them from ten cents to a quarter and didn't ;wk for change, although they charged but a nickel for the cone. But the moment a tired, drooping soldier with a big satchel in tow hove in sight the girls forsook their customers and headed straight for him. " 'Thirsty?' asked one. " 'I should say YES,' replied the soldier, mopping his brow and smil ing. " 'Well, come right over here and sit down,' added the girl, leading him gently toward a table, and you can Just bet that young private nev er made the least resistance. "Before you could say Jack Rob ison the girls had dished up for him a tall and clinking glass of lemon ade and he wound up with the sec ond glass. About that time another overheated soldier in heavy O. D. uniform came lumbering up under a heavy load and was towed into the cool cilm of the same table beneath a tree, where he chose Ice cream cones—three of them. "Then came the next part of the program, and by far the most inter esting to me. The first soldier fin ished his drink and asked the price. " 'Not a penny from you,' replied the pretty waitress. 'I have a brother in the Engineers and I hope some girl will do the same for him.' •The other lad got a similar answer to his query as to price and both went away happy over the little at tention shown th%m and the better for this contact with the Red Cross, "I was wondering as my train pulled in," added the observer, "if we in Harrisburg couldn't do some thing like that on our depot plaza." "Good night, Germany," sing the vaudeville artists. Vaudeville peo ple don't stop at elimination of Ger man ideals and the German lan guage, but sauerkraut, hamburg steak and German cheese have been hoycotted to such an extent that the Hotel Columbus doesn't serve these dainties any longer. The demand for hamburg steak isn't satisfied, but the waiter will sell you an order of Harrisburg steak, which is the same thing. At the Bergstresser House in Walnut street an actor was offered some mustard the other evening. Ha was about to use some on his meat when he chanced to see that it was called "German mustard." "Ntithin Jdoin'! I'll use ketchup!" he said. • • The park benches in River Front Park had a good bath yesterday morning, when V. Grant Forrer, As sistant Superintendent of City Parks, commandeered some firehose and chased the dust from the seats. It was refreshing to see how clean and 'nvlting the benches were after their shower Jiath. "That bath was need ed," said a member of the River Front Park fraternity. "When T wanted to ait on the benches I had o carry paper with me. Without naper, T'd have been covered with 'lust from head to foot." • • • < Right In line with the Telegraph's move for better housing conditions imong the poorer classes of the city, "omes a little story of how one man 's trying to do his part In making bis own surroundings more attrac tive. "Brother Jeems" is quite an enterprising colored resident who has built him a new "bungalow" in the much-congested district, cover 'ng the outside with tin flattened from cans of all sorts. Inside, the walls are papered with the dallv nress and dozens of photographs of movie staes cut from magazines. "Why doan yo' have some fotv irrafF of preslduns and sich?" asked -i neighbor. "Well. I s'pose I should have some of T.lncum and Wash'n'ton." said he. "but me. I hasn't mucH beauty in ma famblv, and me, Tse a great lover of it. an' so T takes the olcters of the pretty 11T gals and nut 'em up whar I c'n see 'em all de time." • * Senator William C. Sproul, beside) being a newspaperman and poll, tielnn. is an antiquarian, too, re sembling the late Governor Pennv. nacker In love of research into his. torlcal state affairs. In the Senator's home, near Chester, there Is a I'. hrary of fine books on statecraft nolltics, history, etc., and the collec tion Is numerous and cost'v enough to please the greatest bibliophile Ir Pennsylvania. Since there Is everv prospect that Senator Sproul will serve a term as Governor of the state, this experience. will serve to In- 4 crease his antlnnarlan knowledge! and American literature may on< day he enriched by a valuable work —bearing on the archaeology of this state or of the nation, written by him. * • * Un in Yiewlstown. the biggest to-vn in the Juniata valley, many thrifty citizens are doing "their best" rather than "their bit" to help the land of their nativity In Its efforts to aid in bringing* the haughtv Hun to his knees. Hundreds of youths from this section are doing military ser vice, but (he folks at home, too. nr busy. The eight-hour railroad law permits employes much time to themselves, but many.of these rail roaders are working six and eight hours dallv at other employment to help relieve the acute labor short age. prevalent In the numerous es. sentlal Industries operating In Dew's. Niwn and its Immediate vicinity, Th ftnnpclal benefits accruing to th"