8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings exoept Sunday by TttE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square a J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager * Executive Board X P. MeCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R OYSTER. . GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited t.o 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. 1 Member American i Newspaper Pub nSKj lishers' Associa tes* tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu "aaa lation and Fenn sjHf ■ sylvania Assocl ** iT ated Dailies. £9 at Eastern office, 55' M Story, Brooks & SB K1 Finley, Fifth ES JS Avenue Building, 09 5? New York City; SgiK Western office, EgGjK Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents.a fTTOUfeff week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, AUGUST , 1918 Light is light, whoever holds the candlestick. —E. E. HAUL WHY NOT A "RERRY DAY?" UNTIL the war came along "Good Roads" Day was a very Im portant anniversary In many parts of Pennsylvania and was on a fair way to become an occasion of State-wide observance. Since that time there have been a number of days designated and this year what would have been "Good Roads" day was turned into "Garden Day." The Idea Is a fine one and it would not be a bad plan to extend it. * This year there were literally thousands of dollars worth of berries and small fruits lost to the farmer and the public simply because there were no hands to pick them. In some sections of the State cherries rotted on the trees for the same rea son. There are instances known right near home where choice rasp berries and blackberries were lost owing to the fact that there were no big or little hands to pluck them. Food values have been 'lost because of lack of organized effort In com munities. There may be serious loss to the peach growers of Cumberland and to the apple growers of Adams If the labor supply cannot be lm- • proved and It seems hard to do so. The point is that the idea of cer tain days *to be given to certain things byway of useful diversion might be extended next year to the small fruits. There are many farm ers who would be glad to give people small fruits, berries, cherries and other things as their share of the "picking." Let the places bo listed in which the farmers and the tree or bush owners have got to have help, and the cities and towns will supply the men and women, boys and girls to help out. SAVE NOW WE may now order two sand wiches and a piece of pie, or one sandwich and two pieces of pie for lunch without running afoul of Mr. Hoover and his food conservation regulations and we may eat hot biscuits for supper without our prodding consciences calling us slackers. The wheat crop Is assured and it Is large enough here and abroad to warrant a slight letting down on bread and grain product restrictions. But, merely because we have enough to tide us over the winter is no reason why we should not save Just as carefully and as scrupulously as we have been doing. Nobody knows what next year's wheat crop will be. It might be a failure. Then what? TVe ought to carry over a sufficient reserve to see us through any period of short production with which we may be confronted. The grasshop per dines sumptuously on the plenty of to-day and dies with the first kill ing of frost. The ant conserves, saves and stores and meets winter with a full larder. The Allies must save wheat in this moment of unexcelled "plenty or v>er liaps go hungry a year or two hence, if the war continues so long. THE "Y" AND ITS FUTURE THE decision of Secretary Rob ert B. Reeves of the Y. M. C. A. to follow the very successful boys' camp with an outing for the boys and men of the association is indicative of the place the Harrlsburg "Y" Is making for Itself in the cam mnnity. Not so long since aY. M. C. A. picnic would have been Impos sible.. There was little spirit of fra ternity or fellowship In the organiza tion. But all that Is changed. The association has com® Into Its own and the proposed outing was assured %of success the momenta was an nounced. The Harrlsburg association is do ing a good work now, but it Is also preparing for the greater duty to be demanded of it when "the boys come home." It is making itself in dispensable as an institution J— UM TUESDAY EVENING, Uvea of hundreds of men, but laj merely laying the groundwork for service after the war, when lt9 mem bership will grow until It bursts the walls of the building of to-day and spreads Itself a half block farther down the street. Such gatherings as Mr. Reeves proposes help pave the way. MILK AND ICE CREAM DR. RAUNICK'S assertion that milk and Ice cream show marked improvement In qual ity this year over last 1B very grati fying. It testifies at once to the activity of the Health Department and the co-operation of a vast ma jority of the dairymen, manufac turers and dealers. Milk ought to be used freely. It Is a perishable product and Just now is very plentiful. To drink milk and eat Ice cream or other milk prod ucts is at once wholesome and patriotic. Every quart of milk con-- sumed saves almost an equal weight of beef or wheat. But with the typhoid fever epi demic two years back a poignant memory, hundreds of people have refrained from partaking of milk or ice cream. That their fears are groundless and t'Vit ice cream made by. a reputable dealer may be eaten with perfect security is Indicated by the health department's report that there is not a case of typhoid caused by in the whole city at this time. The Telegraph did not hesitate to point out the dangers of contami nated milk and Ice cream when they existed. It is happy to note the great improvement. It Is but fair that the facts be set forth. GOOD ENOUGH FOR US FOLLOWING the example of Pittsburgh, towns and cities In all parts of the country, the names of which end In "burg" are reported to be adding a final "h." Pittsburgh is entitled to wear this additional ornament because Andrew Carnegie, he was bossing af-1 fairs In Allegheny county, wanted the letter tacked on to the end of his home town's cognomen and he had added so many other things to Pitts burgh that nobody could object much to a little thing like a silent "h." So the thing was legalized and the contagion spread. ( But let nobody. In Harrisburg at tempt to foist another letter on us. First place we like the spelling as it is. Second place, It is difficult enough now to have stenographers and printers keep the letters In proper order without adding more trouble. Beside, think of the Ink and paper wasted by dropping in an extra letter. If anybody haa a hank ering for spelling revision In th 6 geography hereabouts, let him begin cn Conodoguinet. THIS IS TOO MUCH THE Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger reports the latest mid summer horror in the Quaker City. It Is a recurrence of that awful affliction of our early boyhood —the homemade haircut. The war prices of Philadelphia barbers have driven many households back to this iniquity of the days of barbarity, when men paid much attention to the curl of their whiskers, but very little to the nicks In their hair. The pies that mother used to make are sweet memories to be cherished even beyond the pearly gates, but we ! trust when we pass over a kindly [ Providence will somehow arrange It that we may shed forever all recollection of those tortures we used to undergo every time mother de cided that our "hair was too long." We didn't go like lambs to the slaughter. Far from It. We re sisted valiantly as the sons of free men should —to say nothing of rais ing our voices in protest for the benefit of the neighbors a half block down the street. All In vain! Wo were caught, dragged into the baby's high chair, a towel swathed about thw neck and the orgy was on. The family comb and a dull pair of scissors were the only tools thought necessary, and when they had pulled out and chopped off a quantity of hair sufficient to satisfy the de praved tastes of our tormentors we were turned loose to admire the nicks and Irregularities left In the wake of the improvised mowing ma chines, and to squirm for days in vain efforts to search out the va grant hairs that, escaping the towel, had found lodgment at Inconvenient spots between shoulders and hips. In some families there was a handy man whose specialty was mending shoes and cutting hair— and he did both jobs with vigor and enthusiasm. He it was who per formed the tonsorlal horrots for the cider members of the household and beyond question he was a bad influ ence In the community. Even the most pious citizens used to break out In lurid language under his ministra tions. Harrisburg Is a thrifty town, but It's going to take more than a flve cent advance In the price of haircuts to drive it back to savagery, ever, we can think of no better way of working up a line, hot little hate for the Kaiser than to have this economy forced upon us, with the full knowledge that he is respon sible. ADDING TO STATURE THE men of the National Army have gained from a half Inch to two Inches In height as & result of military training, and their physique In general has been greatly Improved, according to camp statistics Just made public. > If this isn't a plea for universal training, what Is It? If a few months in the Army will add two Inches to a man's stature and turn his flabby muscles hard as •nails, isn't It ifti* *•> KHMA IV life of the Individual has been ma terially lengthened thereby, always supposing that he eecapes the perils of the battlefield T And If service with the colors Increases the span of life one or two years, why Isn't it good for the manhood of the na tion In peace tlmeß as well as war? Look about you and notice who are the sturdy men of Beventy and over among your acquaintances. Civil War veterans, almost to a man. The men who stayed at home during the Civil War are nearly all dead. The veterans of four years cam paigning ore the men who march to day In the Grand Army parades. And they didn't have the scientific mili tary training of to-day. LK By tlio Ex-Committeeman Indications are that the Demo cratic state committee will be called to meet In Harrisburg about August 28 to consider the proposed platform and to settle the details of manage ment of the coming gubernatorial campaign. It was stated to-day that the Bonnlwell men would attend the meeting and make themselves heard. The committee in charge of the platform has been at work and will have a series of meetings in the next two weeks during which Judge Bo'n niwell will be Invited to submit his Ideas. The judge has told friends that the committee already knows his thoughts. From all accounts the state committee will adopt a plat form and adjourn with the least pos sible trouble and if it is a "dry" document or one which does not mention the prohibition amendment issue one way or the other it is llke ly that Judge Bonniwell will go to the people with his own platform as he did just before the state commit tee and then proceed to name, his, own campaign committee. There is no intention on the part of the dominant faction In the state Democracy to allow the judge to boss the band wagon this fall. State Chairman McLean will have the de tails placed in the hands of Secre tary Warren VanDyke and if the judge does not like the way things arc done there will be no interference with any campaign of his own he may launch provided he pays the bills. All the signs are that there will be fighting between the Democratic fac tions all ffill and that there will be a battle for control of the machine wfcged between now and the primary In 1920 that will be worth watch ing. —Senator Sproul'B visit to Lancas ter county yesterday was watched with interest all over the state as there were some Democrats who had a fond hope that the Senator and the Lancaster organization would not hit it off well because of the number of state administration mon in Lan caster. Just exactly how such ideas could get abroad would be hard to say, as Lancaster was one of the counties for Sproul from the very start. —Senator Sproul will make several - addresses In eastern counties this ; month and also plans to go on in- , formal tours to northern counties. ' Senator Beidleman will also make some Informal visits before the cam- - paign starts. —There are some Interesting re ports from Pittsburgh about the ' contests for Allegheny county places next fall with possibilities of some , new alignments in which the Bab cock administration will have some 1 new opponents. —Samuel W. DiHer, re-elected Re- 1 publican county chairman of Lan caster yesterday, hs held that place for several years and is one of the best knowr. Republicans of the state. —The Philadelphia Record says editorially that Congressman William 8. Vare has "turned on Governor Brumbaugh." —tip in Scranton Mayor A- T. Connell had no more gotten things straightened out in the matter of the fire department Increase than the streets department men went on the war path. The mayor is inclined to ward the policy of war time appoint ments of women clerks in city of fices. —The Philadelphia Press, which to-day says that Judge George Kun kel, of Dauphin county, will not be a candidate for the Supreme Court this year, commends that course, saying: "This is calculated to sim pMfy the situation and is a good ex ample for others who are being sug gested, or are themselves ambitious to enter the race and make a contest where none is desirable. , • • * Under the law any one can submit himself for election by petition sim ilar to that used for a primary. It is easy to see to what confusion that could lead. All chance of compA'a tlon or confusion would be avoided by acquiescence in the election of the two Judges now on the bench. They will not be improved upon." —State Chairman William E. Crow continues to lmrrove and will he about ibefore the end of the month. —"Harmonious Artlon"—that's the slogan of the new Democratic chair man of Berks county, Roy E. Mabry, of Longswamp, who will* not ap prove the formation of a separate committee in Berks for the election of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of Philadelphia, for Governor, although Mabry was elected by the antt- Palmer faction here. As county chairmajl, Mr. Mabry will use all his influence to "keep peace within the party," and as the recognized head of the party In Berks, he says ho will lead the campaign. —Discussing the appointment of a United States Commissioner for Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Press says: "Half a dozen men have been mentioned in connection with the vacancy. . Ignatius F. Qutnn is be lieved to be backed for the position by Charles P. Donhelly, leader of the Philadelphia Democratic organi zation. It is supposed that A. Mit chell Palmer has given his O. K. to this procedure because of the signs that lately have been given of a close working agreement between Donnelly and the State organization. However, there is no evidence that Mr. Quinn as yet has obtained the Inside track on the appointment. Another rame mentioned Is that of ' Magistrate Maxwell Stevenson, Jr., although the latter is scarcely a Simon-pure dyed-in-the-wool De'mo , crat" BOOTS! BOOTS! BOOTS! The rest of Germany may go bare ! footed, but you can bet your last (•imolcon the six Hohcnzollern boys i ha £Jt ® n ° u ß h shoes for a centipede. -—From the Memphis Commercial HARRISBURG TELEGTtAPH j THE J)AYS OF REAL SPORT .... ... .... ..... .... By BRIGGS S/ 60iw" TUH .oo i f \ J \ "rotOeß'N This a MttuoM ! f y7vr?s\ fc; - ; -- % LL The Democratic Donkey [Philadelphia Inquirer] In the midst of war we are in Democratic politics. Just when it was beginning to look as if his ex istence was going to be entirely ignored. Judge Eugene Bonntwell, the self-made and self-nominated Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, comes to the fore ground with an appeal to his col league, J. Washington Logue, the candidate of the same party for Lieu tenant Governor, to withdraw from 1 the ticket. For fear that this ex- i traordinary request may puzzle the uninitiated, we hasten to explain that Eugene and Washington, while running on the same ticket, persist and insist upon running In'opposite directions. One is "wef and the other is "dry." One Is headed for the river of unrestricted delight, while the other alms for the desert where a certain animal is said to be able to go without liquid refresh ment for nine days. One sings, "Landlord, fill the flowing bowl," and the other recites, "The lips that touch wine shall never touch mine." All might be well If each could go his own way, but unfortunately both are mounted upon the same jackass, and thus we are presented with the spectacle of the greatest zoological wonder of the age, the two-headed Democratic donkey, compared with which Barnum's Woolly Horse and Forepaugh's White Elephant were mere Dime Museum exhibits. The learned Judge, In his appeal to his unwelcome colleague, seems to be laboring: under unusual mental stress. He realizes that the animal upon which they propose to make the Journey cannot go in two directions at one and the same time, and that ;f they do not come to an agreement they will never get started. It is a long way to Harrlsburg, and if Eugene and Washington ever expect to get there the donkey must be given a cue. Eugene's method of solving the troublesome problem is simplicity Itself. He wants Wash ington to get down and walk. But the candidate for Lieutenant Gov ernor merely gives him a dry smile and says nothing. The request is enough to make the donkey indulge in a sly grin, and if the situation continues much longer the animal is 1 like to break out In a succession of those loud and unmelodlous brays which sometimes break the silence of the countryside. There are really several ways of making the donkey move. One Is the old expedient of building a fire un der' the animal. Another would be for the candidate for Governor to alight and make way for his col league. Evidently he has never thought of that. But If they both persist in holding their places and the animal starts In two directions at the same timo there 1 likely to be a catastrophe, and we shudder to think of the consequences. In the meantime it would be well to re mind the two men that it Is mighty dangerous business to fool with the rear end of a perfectly healthy donkey. It has been tried before and always with disastrous results. The situation is not only amus ing, but instructive as well. It illus trates in clear.-cut fashion one of tlje absurdities of the popular pri mary election system which has been evolved by well-meaning political reformers. AMERICANS CAN FIGHT The course of General Bullard nnd his command at Chateau Thier ry makes one's heart beat high. Ho was ordered by his French com mander to give gTound. He de clined, on the ground that his troops did not know how to retreat. He ordered them forward. The check of the German offensive on the Marne began with this sharp coun ■ ter of his men. His act savored of ' insubordination. Only a brilliant i success could Justify It. He took the chan<*, and report makes him a 1 lieutenni* general. The nsost interesting and amusing evidence of the wonderful work our men are doing on tho battlefront in ■ France is to be found in the Ger ■ man military reports. They first ignored the presenco of American \ troops. Then they belittled their numbers. • Then they reported as 1 killed more than they have said could the, seas. To be a suc ; cessful liar a man must have some 1 sense of humor. The German Is ; without It. The sense of real hu - man proportion it Implies he lacks. • A German lie can only fool a Ger -1 man. The contest on the Ourcq has been Ultter. We are driving the Germans back. The true fighting edge of the Americans has Btlffened the morale of the whole allied army. The French and British know what tney may count on In the five millions to come If the first two hundred thousand thus stand the gaff and wield it. —Ex-President Taft, In tke PuXiL* Teaser. Silver Haired Nurses With Golden Hearts V. E. Whish In the Continental Edition of the London Mail. WHAT should we do without our white haired nurses?" the speaker waa a young soldier, who had been "convalescing" some weeks In the cottage hospital. ' "They do not tire like the young ■ones," he said eagerly to me. "You don't know the grit they've got. Why, Nurse Emma Is a grandmother. At 4 o'clock In the morning she makes tea for us all. You don't know what a cup of tea means to a chap that has been lying awtke all night In pain. "I think," and a wistful note crept Into the boy's voice, "silvery haired nurses like to mother us. The young 'ones look upon us as patients. To the older women we are 'sons.' " How true this was! Are we just to the woman of 50? She who has borne the hurden of her day and in this war is bearing ours. Our silvery haired women! It awoke an echo of pain. These women who apologize so sweetly for delaying the omnibus In getting In and out, who are so anxious to do work of some national Importance. "I quite understand," said one of the women, "age is such a ibar, and in an office Don't Be a Fool You hlame some one else for the harm you have done—■ A fool can do that! You grouch when yourself is the butt of the fun— A fool can do that! You criticise others who try things and fail; You say "Had I tried, 'twere 'a dif ferent tale;" . You sit down and rest by the side of the trail— A fool can do that! You say you'll "get even" for In juries done— A fool can do that! You say you are envied your "place In the sun"— A fool can do that! You always are scenting an enemy plot, If there should be any foundation, or not; Full half you suspect Is the veriest rot— A fodl can do that! You listen In silence when slander Is rifle— • A fool can do that! See friends robbed of that which is dearer than life— A fool can do that! You wait till your personal Tights are disturbed Before you are anxious or even per turbed; You think for no other the wrong should be curbed— A fool can do that! Try thinking of others Instead of yourself— No fool would do that! Think more about service and less about pelf— No fool would do that! Just don't do a thing either night time or day, For pleasure or some kind of prac tical pay, Of which any person can truthfully say: "A fool can do that!" —Strickland Glllilan, in Jhfe Ro tarian. The 'Gratuitous Insult In turning over the files of Hearst's New York Evening Journal, we find in the issue of August 6, 1917, the following: "THE ROOSEVELTS ARE 'LINED UP'—COMFORTABLY all his kin who were eligible h 1 V*\ \ your wife every-t M* A WSM) thing? i ([' y iw/& Not exactly^ ril tell her evJ er ythlng I want 5 mamm *° know ! • and everything • | f w '/yj I feel sure she'll > Vl' " M And out burning (EJjat The great war lis not only groins to make great changes In the life of the people of Pennsylvania and In many ways of doing things, but In opinion of men who have come here | from various sections of the state on business at the Capitol it is likely to leave m-J discussions of memorials, but th are taking different form from tlft monument. In Pittsburgh there are some communities which will erect tablets giving the names of the men who have gone into service and thi* plan has also been discussed in Wil lianisport and Erie. In other places it is planned to line streets with trees and to give each tree the name of a soldier. One up-state town which has given many sons to the army will honor any one who Is called upon to make the great sacrifloe by naming a tree in the town park. The tree idea was much talked of at the Capitol to-day. In Reading the mayor and councilmen are study ing a means to show appreciation of their men in khaki and as a start er will name some of the streets in new sections of the city which are being opened in honor of generals. Naturally there will be one named right away for General Hunter Lig gett, who first saw the light in Read ing according to late evidence, which takes the honor from Birdsboro. • • • Harold Brown, who was one of the spry young colored men at the state draft headquarters and who is now in France with a field artillery regi ment. has sent Major W. G. Mur •dock a letter which is an interesting view of the way the average young Pennsylvanian regards his war tra vels. IJrown Is getUng to be a real soldier. He says that his second Sunday in France found him 300 miles from where he was the first Sunday and he was still going, doing everything himself, including "cook ing, washing, sewing and general housework," and finding the people mighty congenial and without any race prejudice. However, young Brown can not understand why they call creeks rivers and misses the corn fields of old Dauphin. In de scribing how he flt when some peo ple appeared vexed that howould not drink wine when on a ramble he and some comrades struck a farm house he says: "I could not ex plain as my French is a cross be tween French, English and deaf and dumb signals." He urges "Mike" and "Jim" at headquarters to con tinue to study their French, they be ing men who may go next because the draft docs not respect even those at headquarters. • • • The war seems to have started things moving off with a rush since the reopening of the Harrisburg Public Library because over half of % the books asked for have a war fla vor. The fiction built upon war is much in demand and books dealing with Normandy and Picardy are much sought. There is hardly a day passes without some requests for books which describe the Marne re gion of Franco and the Saloniki dis trict. • • • Heber, Dr. Cherrick Westbrook's battling tomcat, has established a dead line at the city limits. Heber is a black cat with a front line of trenches disposition and the accu racy of a grenade thrower in hand ling his claws. There used to bo a time when dogs from Paxtang would roam over the city line intp nearest Harrisburg and those in the Thir teenth ward would ramble out into the dusty streets of Paxtang. But they do not cross the dead line when Heber is around and when he is on patrol duty the barking of the Pax tung dogs sounds far away. • • Just exactly how the railroads are going to get their cars unscrambled after the war Is ended is hard to say. Yostcrday there were cars from ten different railroads from beyond the Mississippi river in Union station and locomotives which are far from home hostlers are to be seen here abouts every day. Some of the vet eran railroad men of the Pennsyl vania system declare that they can not see where the cars are going. to end up the way they are being shifted around. Some huge Nor folk and Western engines, larger than any seen hereabouts, are now being used in this neighborhood. • • • Some of the big western soldiers are bound'to be comfortable no mat ter what the weather. The other day a train came in with the win dows decorated with legs. The men had gotten tired of things inside of the cars and stuck their, feet out side quite regardless of what they might hit. It made the men in the Harrisburg yards nervous, but the mn only wagged their feet when called to pull in their "hoofs." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —General Charles W. Kutz, wha , will have charge of Camp Humph reys, where the engineers are sta tioned, is a native of Reading. -ACaptain T. H. Lynn has taken charge of the drilling of drafted men at Williamsport by an arrangement made in that city. —Dean Josiah H. Pennisan, ol the University of Pennsylvania, 1 thinking up some new ideas at tho seashore during August. —William Wayne, former legis lator and prominent Chester coun tian, who has been In France on Y. M. C. A. work Is spending a short time at his home on a. furlough. —lra E. Freeman, the coroner Of Carbon county, has gone Into the service as a captain and gets a leava of absence. —Captain L. A. Tafel, one of th Guard officers tor yours, is now in franco with a pioneer regiment. —Captain Ellsworth Gregory, ol Pcttsville, who has been at the front in France for months, is home on special duty. —Major David B. Simpson, forme* Philadelphia newspaperman, is no\* postmaster at Camp Wadsworth where Pennsylvania boys are goinft this week. DO YOU KNOW — l That Dauphin county Is go ing to- liave a tremendous oats crop this year If It can all be handled? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Early newspapers tell of various taverns along Market street beintf used as temporary courthouses dur. lng tho days when the Leglslaturt needed the temple of justice fo_ A JlM*—*