8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPBK FOR THB HOUR PfmndiJ it)l Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Buildlag, Federal Sui ■' ' X. J. ST A CKPOLE, Prtit & Editer+n-C )nrf P. R. OTSTER, Bunntts Ma*ag*r. GUS M_ STEINMETZ, it anoint Bdittr. 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. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. M Member American Newspaper Pub ■ Eastern office. Avenue F.ulldtng, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa, as second class matter. rtTVli By carriers, ten cent* a week; by mall. *B.OO a year In advance* TTESDAY, JTLY SO, 1918 Hare more than thou shovest, Speak less than thou knoxcest, Lend less Man thou oicest. —SHAKESrEAKE. ' ; 1 THE PARTY CONVENTION | ELSEWHERE on this page Is re printed from the esteemed In quirer of Philadelphia some thoughtful comment upon the recent convention of Republicans in New i Tork. Since the r.ew-fangled ballot reform schemes have been put into operation in this State the old-time convention has ceased to exist. No one who knows anything about party enthusiasm will contend thai the present si-stern is an improve ment upon the old convention ar rangement. Party committees meet, of cours®, but these do not arouse the widespread Interest of the con vention of other days. If we car.'t havea real nominating convention, let us at least have an assemblage eveVy year which will give expression to the party senti ment in the State. How about the suggestion as to military training in our schools! Who will lead in this movement? How about the directors themselves? HOW ABOUT OL'R TREES? HARRISBL'RG has become about hopeless regarding the very much needed and frequently promised Shade Tree Commission Meanwhile the trees are dying and the city promises in the not distant future to be as shadeless as the Sa hara Desert. Other places are showing more sanity in this important matter and tree planting is receiving the same attention as other important muni cipal functions. Dispatches state that the Chamber of Commerce of Mor risville. a New Jersey town, is pre paring a tree-planting program in honor of every man from that place in the war service. Each tree planted is to bear the nameplate of a soldier, with his military unit and date of enlistment A patriotic rally will be a feature of the event. On several occasions the Tele-! graph has suggested some such pro gram for Harrisburg, but it has not yet received official approval. If the civic or municipal bodies are not sufficiently interested perhaps the people themselves may care enough for the trees to honor the hundreds of young men who have left Harris burg to serve their country. Of course. Harrisburg must have bathing facilities. When the Susque hanna basin shall have received the attention it deserves the thousands of men. women and children here who are entitled to fair consideration will have bathing beaches and bathhouses under municipal supervlsorship. This should be an issue of the next munici pal election. COL. HARVEY'S VIEWS COLONEL GEORGE HARVE7 continues to ring the changes on the President's suggestion that "politics has adjourned." In the < current number of the North Amer ican Review he presents In full the correspondence with Vance C. Mc- Cormlck, chairman of the Demo-' cratic National Committee, and Will H. Hays, chairman of the Repub lican National Committee, responsive to his suggestion that there should be no campaigns in certain Repub lican or certain Democratic Congres , signal districts this year. He figures that the elimination of such sure districts would cut down the cam paigns for Congress more than fifty per cent- In short, that the number of Congressional elections would be reduced from 435 to less than and probably by supplementary mu tual agreement, to not more than seventy-five. Colonel Harvey Ls quite pleased with the prompt and satisfactory re ply of Mr. Hays to his proposal, the Republican chairman Intimating that a conference of the two flarty heads "might make more surely ef fective our determination to whack any disloyal head that may show i - up." But be Is not happy over the I apparent sidestepping of Chairman TUESDAY EVENING, McCormick, who promised In his letter ol May 17th that the augges tion would have his "most careful consideration." "There the matter stands." Bays Colonel Harvey. "The prompt re sponse of Mr. Hays Is undeniably frank, unequivocal and, to our mind, worthy of the highest commenda tion." The Colonel thinks, however, that, after five weeks of dallying with the suggestion "to which he [McCormick] had already given careful consideration" he is -,var-| ranted in making a direct appeal to the leader of the Democratic party | —the only man who can meet the country's demand and resolve Into accomplishment his own duties that politics shall be, as it ought to be, adjourned. Manifestly, Colonel Harvey Is de termined to smoke out the insin cerity and hypocrisy which seem to environ those Democratic bosses who favor nonpartisanship and "pol itics adjourned" when It is to their interest to do so, and play politics to the limit when it suits their pur pcvses. In his "War Weekly." the Colonel quoting from the New York Times, asks. ""What is the use of wasting time, money and energy on a minor ity candidate in districts now clearly Republican or Democratic and represented by men of undoubt ed patriotism?" To which Colonel Harvey rejoins: "There is no use, of course; there never was; but it has taken the Times a long timo to find it out — about as long, in fact, as it took Mr. McCormick to consider the advisa-| bility of considering what he had al ready considered." "Russia will come back," says a Petrograd dispatch, and our advice is that if she wants to get there In time she better start soon, for she has gone a long way in the wrong direc tion. BOARDS OF INSTRi'CTION PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL CROWPER is backing a move ment for the appointment of boards of instruction throughout the United States in a plan to instruct drafted registrants before they go to camp. It is hoped through this ar rangement to save months of train ing through a home knowledge of discipline and war aims. Already the Harrisburg Reserves have offered their services in the training and drilling of men who are registered and likely to be called at any time. l These boards of instruction, which are organized with the thought of making better soldiers and citizens, will be designated through the local draft organizations and a conference will be held here this week to fur ther the work in Pennsylvania. General Crowder says "the plan in cludes all such measures as are best calculated to prepare the selectives to go to camp willing, loyal. Intelli gent, clean and sober, and thus bet ter to fit them for rapid progress in their military education after joining the army." .... Of course, the board of instruction will be under the authority of the '.ocal draft board and will consist of an appropriate number of citizens of high character and ability, enjoying the confidence of the community. Subject to the ultimate authority of the local board, says General Crow der, each board of instruction will perform its work by individual in terview and group meetings with the selective, by giving advice and in struction on all subjects that ars necessary or useful to future soldiers and 'by arranging for preparatory military drill and instruction where feasible. Local boards are authorized alid directed to furnish to tlj.e boards of instruction access to the records for the purpose of compiling lists of names and addresses and to send out, in the name of the local boards, any notices of meetings or interviews as desired and requested by the boards of instruction. Few of the selectives have had military training before reaching camp and it is believed through these boards of instruction much em barrassment will be saved the men themselves and great good shall be accomplished in advancing their fit ness for service. It is not generally known that in the mobilization of the great citizen army defects have frequently been largely mental and it has been found that the proposed boards of instruc tion are useful in overcoming the un fortunate mental attitude that upsets the new soldier. Personal instruction will have much to do with the re moving of Imaginary troubles and placing the registrant in a better at titude of mind. Men who leave home mentally and morally fit are in bet ter shape to become good soldiers when they arrive in camp. They are going to cut sugar con sumption again, in which case the restaurantkeepers may have to pro vide microscopes with each little en velope. JUP. ON THE JOB JUPITER PLUVIUS is taking a hand in the fighting along the Marne river. The Germans have been forced to abandon many of their guns in the mud and the Americans close upon their heels are using these pieces in accelerating the retirement of the enemy. A significant feature of the fight ing of the last two weeks is the growing confidence of the French and the Allied forces. Prestige of the German strategists has been bad ly upset and the French military leaders now believe that the Ger man soldiers also are realizing the failure of the German high com mand. Deprived of overwhelming brute force, the Prussian highway men are no match for the Allies on any front If the Frenchmen, who comprise seventy per cent, of the forces which have been keeping the Germans on the jump In the present drive, are "bled white," as Prussian advices have frequently declared, then we must believe that the whiter they are bled the harder they flght. The farmer isn't Interested in clouds with silver lining*—what he is looking for in clouds is rain. II ■ || ""Po&tZc* Ik By the Ex-Commttteteman | Present Indications are that Major George R. McLean, the Demacratlc state chairman, will remain at the holm of the Democratic State com mittee in Pennsylvania and handle what needs to be done from Wash ington where he is stationed In the judge advocate general's office. The details of the campaign will b* left to Warren YanPyke, secretary of the state committee, who has managed the headquarters for the last five years. This plan will not be changed unless there is a rumpus raised in the state. It is authoritatively stated that Joseph J. Guffey. of Pittsburgh, who was mentioned as a possible acting state chairman again, would not con sider the matter at this time. State headquarters people are with out any information as to when the state candidates will meet or the plat form committee will get down to business. —State department officials to-day declared that they were awaiting word from Scranton as to the out come of the contest over the Republi can senatorial nomination. There is nothing official here since word of the contest was received, but as soon as word is received a formal certifica tion will be made to the Lackawanna county commissioners. —After considerable Jockeying to control the appointment of a succes sor to Harry J. Stone, as chief clerk to the City Commissioners, at a sal ary of $2,500 a year. Mayor Smith has finally obtained the position for a resident of his ward. The new ap pointee is Windom D. Bryant, a per sonal friend and an accountant. Commissioners Holmes and Kuemel were disposed to appoint an out-and out Vare man. but the Mayor insisted that since Stone, whom Holmes flred. was a resident of the Twenty-eighth ward, that the place belongs to him. —There may be a battle looming up in the Berks county Republican ranks for the organization meeting of the county committee to be held in Reading on the first Saturday in September. Rumors of opposition to Thomas C. Seidel"? candidacy for county chairman come from the vi cinity of Hamburg, where it is said Harry P. Shomo will be backed by former Judge W. K. Stevens and the Penrose organization. Should this program go through there are inti mations that Mr. Shomo's son, Wil liam A. Shomo, a Reading lawyer, would be a candidate for the place as compensatioa referee, held by Mr. Seidel. who is a Brumbaugh ap pointee. —The road of County Fuel Ad ministrator in Chester has proved so full of quicksands and morasses that the original appointee. Democratic County Chairman Bayard Kane, gave it up alter spending heavily of his own niads. He Is succeeded by Plummer E. Jeffries, a West Chester man long identified with the inde pendent friction of the Republican party. There was a tremendous beating of bushes and trumpet calls for a Democrat to come forth to the sacrifice, but after one glance at the empty par.trjvthe faithful, to a man. kiaked off his shoes and fled speedily t the tall timbers. —City Manager Hinkle is organiz ing a junior police force for Altoona and has named as their chief Lieu tenant Colonel Walter B. Allen, of the home defense police. The junior police are to be under the auspices of the public welfare board. Ac cording to the plans, it is intended to have four junior officers in each ward. Their duties will be to pre serve order on the playgrounds, and act in a general police capacity, re porting violations of ordinances, but they will not make arrests. The pri mary object of the organization is to supply the boys with a form of In struction and recreation, develop a teeling of civic responsibility and help to lay a foundation for future good citizenship. _ —Officials connected with the United States district attorney's of fice in Philadelphia declare that men accused of irregularities in the ad ministration of the draft will be in dicted before the Federal grand lury no matter who their friends may be. There will be some additional de velopments it is predicted. —Wilkes-Barre's chief of police, who Is the central figure in the Chamber of Commerce graft charges, has made a statement in which he declares that the detectives vno worked on the case are smeared with gra/t% themselves. The situa tion is rapidly becoming one where charges and counter charges are nu merous. —Caunty commissioners from all over the vate will gather at Pitts-' burgh next week for a general dis cussion of county government and! proposed laws. It is said that thei Attorney General's Department will' have a representative at the meet-1 ings and that the State Board of| Public Charities and Auditor Gen-j eral will also have men there. The legal department is said to be plan ning to offer assistance in the draft ing of bills to be presented at the next legislative session. —Considerable comment has been caused in political circles by a let ter in the Philadelphia Public Led ge! signed by Jcfcn McE. Bowman, calling upon legislative candidates to agree to submit the -legislative amendment to the voters of the state before passing upon it. There are signs that this plan will be much heard of later on. The Bonniwell people are said to intend to make their fight right on the amendment and precious little else. German Idea of a Joke [Kansas City Times] Here is the way the official Ger man report softens to the folks back home the news of the German re treat from the south bank of the Marne: "On the southern bank of the Marne after four hours of artillery preparation and under cover of a heavy fire and with numerous tanks the enemy made combined attacks against positions which had been evacuated 'by us during the previous night which attacks uselessly beat against empty positions." "We fooled 'em," says the high command. "Great joke on the Allies. They attacked positions from which we had retreated." Thus Is the German to be per suaded to overlook the defeat while bursting, out laughing over the joke said to have been played on the victor*. HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By Briggsl f k w eTu~ Oon fn \J. tiel/ | CM, wclu -ji CAKJ) /4"oo6e I ( H6 S AT ) / Tn ] Bo ° we y ?*<-- Geoftse J ' ARn\y- at I A Goov fßigmD J T/Kts>^ e / \ ToWW f&R MY M x Rr - / A HBBBARD y ( FoftT, . \ 0F I'LL / I <£££,. / ( - J VviaiT h,^.^ r |\JL V ~ \* <3ooD, Time. I / HP'S io ) / MAV fe ""a Fikje / ,RL 1 II . -rr;-. . WA ILI k)6 I \ "T" Vf"OT* FRWOCg/ A Pennsylvania Convention [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Last week the Democrats of New York held a state convention at Sara toga. The week before the Repub licans gathered. There were several hundred delegates in each body. Now these conventions are power less to nominate tickets. They may suggest and indorse candidates, but there are primaries in New York as there are in Pennsylvania, and candi dates are actually nominated at these primaries. Of what use, then, these conven tions? Of great use. They assemble the party thought of the state. They discuss events and men and they is sue a declaration of principles, which declaration virtually becomes the parly platform. Thus the Republi can convention placed the winning of the war above all else and sound ed a patriotic and never-surrender note that rings throughout the na tion. We have nothing like this in Penn sylvania. Sometime ago the Penn sylvania State Committee met in Philadelphia and sought to arouse enthusiasm. But such a meeting was only a makeshift for a dignified as sembly representing the people. It had its value, of course, but this value was exceedingly limited. There are many things about our election laws that . ned changing. One is the abolition, as at present practiced, of "assisting" a voter at the polls. This is a source of de liberate crime. Another is a simpli fication of the system of marking the ballot so that if a cross is raide against a party title the ballot will not be thrown out if the voter makes a cross against the name of a candi date in another column. The inten tion of the citisen to vote a 'straight' ticket with the exception of the cross made elsewhere is plain. In New York and other states this inten tion Is recognised by law. In Penn sylvania the voter Is disqualified. It is a deliberate scheme to swindle. When these changes for the better have been achieved in our election laws, provision should be made for the choice of delegates to a state convention where party principles may be declared —not to choose can didates. but to represent party sen timent in speeches and platform. We have much to learn from New York in these respects. Col. Harvey's Observations [From the War Weekly.] "Ludendorff calls his own men traitors." He ought to know. Speaking-of passing the buck re minds us that we have been reliably informed tliat Mr. Baker has cabled to General Pershing that General Wood will be given no European, cor.mand without his approval as indicated by a request. If General : Wood goes to Italy it will be be-i case General Pershing suggested him for the command. Canada, we are told, has sent 400.- 000 men to the war and has 100,000 more In reserve. According to the good old Rule of Three, then, to do as well as Canada has done, the; United States should send 5.700,000! men to the war and have 1.400,000' In reserve. Until we have done that' we shall have no cause to complain J of the burden of conscription. And' let us remember that it is just as much our war as it is Canada's. The Telegraph Adventure [New York Times.] The railway experiment was much less of a leap into unknown prob lems than the wire adventure, and was undertaken uncjer greater ne cessity. Railway rates and finances were as well understood as anything can be after thirty years of regula tion. The telephones and telegraphs have not been equally regulated, their finances have not been so con trolled, and their efficiency rivaled that of the railways, although the railways were at the topnotch of their public service. During the de bate on the subject In the Senate it was said that the officials advising the President were "bursting with ignorance." and names were men tioned unkindly. But the wires have been taken into the hands of the government and the thing has passed beyond debate. World's Meanest Man This Is a great big world and it is hard to say who Is the meanest man In It, but when we recall our thrilling boyhood days we feel like giving our vote to the Nodaway county watermelon grower who has bought a machine gun.—Kansas City Times. Woe Betide Public Men Who Trifle [New York Times.] GENERAL SMUTS, the Roer sol dier and statesman, predicted In London a day or two ago that eventually the American Arm> in Franco would be numerically stronger than the combined armies of France and the British Empire; that is to say, the allies would have more than 6.000,000 men. perhaps 7,000,000 men, in the field. Only with such a host could we expect to achieve a military victory over Ger many alone. But when is America to forge ahead of her allies in fight ing man power? There will be no prospect of it until the draft ages are extended, and that is a matter that Congress has put over. Con gress is waiting upon the President and Secretary Baker. A dispatch from Washington yesterday said that they had not yet agreed about the draft age limits. There are signs that when at last Congress takes up this pressing question it will be de bated interminably. "This war," Chairman Pou ot the Rules Com mittee is quoted as saying, "should be fought by men and not by boys.' It is not fair to call upon young men not of age to fight the battles of this country, and T shall oppose any such legislation." From what war ever fought since the dawn of time were 'young men not of age" excluded?! If the American people are in earn-] est in the prosecution of the mo- 1 mentous conflict thev have entered.] they will put the extinguisher upon! politicians whose objections, if sus-1 tained. would he a "gottsend" to the Germans. In the ranks of every! combatant nation In Europe are' younsr men, not of fighting age in! Mr. Pou's opinion. If Great Britain and France had refused to train and; equip their youth for the front, Ger-1 many would long ago have been the! 10 VICTISf I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life — The hymn of the wounded, the beat en. who died overwhelmed in the strife; Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding ac claim Of natioqs was lifted In chorus, whose brows wore the chap let of fame, But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart. Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desper ate part; Whose youth bore no flower on Its branches, whose hopes burned in ashes away, From whose hands slipped the prize they had grasped at, who stood at the dying of day With the wreck of their life all around them, bnpitled, un heeded, alone, With death swooping down o'er their failure, and all but their faith overthrown. ; While the voice of the world shouts its chorus.—its paean for those who have won; . While the trumpet is sounding tri umphant, and high to the breeze and the sun Glad banners are waving, hands clapping, and hurrying feet Thronging after the laurel-crowned victors, I stand on the field of defeat. In the shadow, with those who are fallen, and wounded, and dy ing, and there Chant a requiem low, place my hand on their pain-knotted brows, breathe a prayer. Hold the hand that la helpless, and whisper—"They only the vie-* tory win, "Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the de mon that tempts us within; "Who have held to their faith unse duced by the prize that the world holds on high; "Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, flght—if need be to die." Speak, History! who are Life's vic tors? Unroll thy long annals, and say. Are they those whom the world called the victors—who won the success - of a day? The Martyrs or Nero? The Spartans, who fell at Thermopylae's tryst. Or the Persians and Xerxes? His judges or Socrates? Pilate or Christ? victor and dictated her own terms of peace. America would have been next in line for discipline and for punishment in the form of indem nity. The war must be pushed with all the high-power energy the American people are capable of. Obstruction by musing idealists, pacifists, nnd German propagandists will not bel tolerated. If an American Army of 5,000,000 men is needed, it must be sent to France. Mr. Wilson has said as much himself. Congress, by the way, has given him a blank order to fill in. Mr. Wilson, too. has said something else very much to the point. It was at the opening of the Liberty Loan campaign in Baltimore I on April 6. 1918, after one year of war for America: . "Germany has once more said that force, and force alone, shall decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men, whether right as America con ceives it or dominion as she con ceives It shall determine the des tinies of mankind. There is, therefore, but one response pos sible from us: Force. Force to the utmost. Force without stint or limit, the righteous and tri umphant Force which shall make Bight the law of the world, and cast every selfish dominion down in dust. Thunders of applause greeted this tremendous statement which will be come historic. Mr. Wilson had read the souls of his countrymen, and he spoke their purpose. Class 1A is exhausted. How can we send "Force to the utmost. Force without stint or limit," to France when it is most wanted, unless the draft ages are changed without delay? This is the most urgent question before the American people. Woe betide the public men who trifle with it! THE CURB MARKET [From the Pennsylvania Farmer] The curb market offers the most direct route from the farms to the consumers. It eliminates the mid dlemen and dealers in the products handled and should save money for both producers and consumers. To ibe successful it must yield advan tages to both Interested classes. The producer must receive more for What he sells at the curb than he can realize by sale of the same prod ucts to the dealers. The consumer must be able to buy at the curb at a sufficient saving to pay for a long er trip to market and for the trou ble of carrying goods home. If products at the curb are of a higher quality than those offered by the grocers, the buyers may be trusted to appreciate that point and give added preference to the curb mar ket. But farmers cannot expect to build 'business upon prices that of fer no inducement to buyers to come" to their wagons. On the oth er hand, town and city consumers cannot expect farijiers to bring their produce to the curb and spend the time of parceling it out in small sales unless such marketing brings them a commensurate Increase in price over what the dealers are pay ing. Curb markets ara only a partial solution of the bigger marketing problem. They can bo served only by those farmers living within haul in* distance. But they benefit all farmers when they help increase the bulk or the produce bought and consumed. The real market prob lem is not to get higher prices for a short period, tout to get the prod ucts to the consumers in such u way that more will be consumed and a higher range of prices made pos sible over the year. The article on the first page of this issue tells how curb markets help to this end. It also discusses some of the funda mental requirement In the develop ment of curb markets. There is op portunity to repeat the success of the towns discussed in many more of our eastern cities. Two Fathers—a Contrast [From the Los Angeles Times] There is a very distinguished and widely known father in Germany who is not at all in doubt as to whether his sons have been killed or captured. Eh, Wllhelm! Whatever else has been said of him in the past or is to be of bim in the future. Colonel Roose velt is no piker as a patriot. The Roosevelt boys could have easily found something "soft" in the way of Army headquarters Jobs either on this side or in France. JEvery one of them has gone in whera i*< inu. ble is the thickest, ; JULY 30, 1918. Soldiers' Chances in War [Spokane Spokesman-Review ] Great as the danger and large as the losses in the aggregate, the indi vidual soldier has plently of chances of coming out of the war unscathed, or at least not badly injured. Based on the mortality statistics of the allied armies, a jrldier's chances are as follows: Twenty-nine chances of coming home to one chance of being killed. Forty-nine chances of recovering from wounds to one cnance of dying from them. One chance In 500 of losing a limb. Will live five years longer because of physical training, is freer from disease in the Army than in civil life, and has better medical care at the front than at home. In other wars from ten to fifteen men died from disease to one from bullets; in this war one man dies from disease to every ten -from bul lets. For those of our fighting men who do not escape scatheless the govern ment under the soldier and sailor in surance law gives protection to the wounded and their dependents and to the families and dependents of those who make the supreme sacri fice for their country. Mrs. Willets Is Out Again We are glad to learn that Mrs. ■Willets is able to be out again. It is nearly two months since she kicked at the cat and broke her kneecap against the door. Society has missed her very much. —Home- town (Penn.) Banner. OUR DAILY LAUGH A NATURAL. WWtil/rJY J MISTAKE. jj Willie Wood _ ~ a pecker: Someone has been borln * here before me! PUZZr.fjf. Mr. Owl (look lng at golf ball): I / My! what kind of \ ■vu estc Is that} frfipPLy kitchun WJ ; CHATTER. I Potat <> Mash- VaHlfl'vVvf er: Why do you '< object to Mr. £^?S