6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH r A NEWSPAPER FOR THE. SOME Founded XSSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief P. E. OYSTER, Butinqpa Manager GOS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MJCHENEH, Circulation Manager,. Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY. F. XL OYSTER. GUa M. STEINMETZ. 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 rspubllcatloh of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American \ r i . Newspaper Pub •■ifWyanT Ushers' Assocla f tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu- MSStSlbGftHft lation and Penn sylvanla Associ vflß 3 0 ated Dailies. Cfil §3 SBB is! Eastern office, | Story, Brooks & !§l'Se Avenue Building, JtBBJH. IBM W New York City; fSßaa Western office, r *tHfrV fSPjS Story, Brooks & JfrSGjßj yyepg Finley, People's S cja s Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. BY carrier, ten cents n T<>t,Tl°rsf week; by mail, |5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, AUGUST IS, 1913 Ood doth not need Either man's work, or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve Him best. —Milton. POLICE INCOMPETENCE IF Harrisburg is placed within a five-mile "dry" zone as a result of the sale of liquor to soldiers and to persons who became disorderly upon government work in this vicin ity, law-abiding liquor dealers will have nobody to blame but the com paratively few saloon men and others who are understood to have been selling whisky Illegally and to the police who have countenanced the practice. Early in the season, Major Murdock, in charge of draft headquarters here, had to interfere because of the uninterrupted opera tions of "bootleggers" who disposed of liquor at high prices to drafted men on their way through the city. The police wore at fault at that time and they have done very little to im prove conditions since then. So far as Harrisburg hotelmen are con cerned. it must be said that evidence points to most of them as having lived strictly in accord with the law. The Army officers, in charge of operations ac Middletown and New • Cumberland, have been most con siderate. At the very beginning they might have regulated the sale of liquor in this whole district They might have closed scores of drinking places and they had authority to place the local police department to all intents and purposes under their own direction, so far as liquor and vice control is concerned. But they did not choose to disturb local con ditions. They tried to live in har mony with the civil authorities. The manner in which this proffer of good will was met may be judged by the occurrence of Saturday night, when a local city detective beat up with a blackjack a Federal officer who was bringing two prisoners to the county Jail and would have allowed the pris oners their liberty not they had more sense than their would-be lib erator and decided to remain. This is not the first complaint against the police department. It is generally Inefficient and has been. It is larger than ever and more costly tjjan ever, but It is not so effective as it was when it was smaller and there was less red tape in its conduct. Civil service does not appear to have wrought any reform. Instead, con ditions grow worse. There are able and conscientious officers on the force—men who would be a credit to any poHce department—but they are not in the majority; neither are they intelligently or ably directed. No matter what the War Depart ment may do in the matter now at Issue, city council owes it to the pub lic to go thoroughly into the faults of the police department and cor rect them. The Kaiser's personal press agent is very silent these days; probably trying to think up a few new excuses. JUST IN TIME WE are just in time in Russia. President Wilson did not act a moment too soon in ap proving allied intervention for the protection of that sorely beset coun try from further German Invasion. Trotzky and Lenine have fled to Krondstadt from their capital at Moscow, in order to escape the ris ing wrath of their deceived fellow countrymen. Perhaps the coming of the allies from the north and east hastened their downfall and will perclpitate the new revolution that has been brewing ever since the Bolshevlki leaders sold out the na tion to Germany. At all events, momentous changes are about to occur in Russia. The moment cannot be long postponed, if it is not already here, and it is well that American troops are on their way to stretch a hand of fellowship to the millions of Russians who for TUESDAY EVENING, a century or tnore have been looking to the United States as the land of liberty where dreams of freedom for the masses have come true. In making your vacation plans, do not forget there is another Liberty Loan coming. AS TO HOUSING THE point has been made by persons who do not fully un derstand the Harrlsburg hous ing problem, that materials are so high now and labor so scarce that houses cannot be built and rented with profit. It is also contended that we should advertise the advan tages of the town as a shipping and manufacturing center and let the housing situation take care of it self. The answers to these arguments are obvious. To the first it may be pointed out that if we are to await i a period of low prices for building materials wo shall doubtless refrain from construction for a period of at least five years after the war, for all builders and dealers in supplies agree that the demand will be in creased rather than diminished by the reconstruction that will take place in Europe immediately follow ing a declaration of peace. Ameri can engineers, architectural and building firms are being organized for this work abroad and billions of dollars will be expended, which will reflect upon the American market In a way tending to keep prices high and the demand constant. Secondly, we have already lost one industry which would have employed some 5,000 hands because we have no houses to offer, and this months before any public mention was made of the house faihine here. No, we cannot wait until the man ufacturer or the shipped* comes to Harrisburg to build, for the simple reason that the time is past when business men select locations for branch houses without first making a complete survey of local condi tions. Labor is too difficult to hold under any circumstances to risk los ing it by placing an industry depend ing upon manpower in a locality which does not provide sufficiently for Its working classes. Housing has ceased to be a mere matter of supply and demand, where any thing with a roof between earth and sky can be classed as a house and rented as such. Working men de mand good homes. They are on titled to them and they will have them—if not in Harrisburg, then in some more enterprising city. As to the inadvisability of adver tising Harrisburg as a town in which houses are scarce, that appears to be the only way the present trouble can be removed. You cannot pass a life insurauce examination by as suring the physician that there is nothing the matter with you, nor can you cure a cancer by hiding the sore. The same may be said of try ing to make the outside world be- lieve what is not true with respect to housing. Beside, the housing problem is not one of merely building more houses. We might possibly worry along in a fashion with the houses we al ready have, if ail of them were put into proper condition for human, habitation. But all authorities tes tify to the fact that hundreds of our dwellings are not fit for stables, and a way must be found to correct these conditions. The Telpgraph entered upon this campaign after due consideration of the entire situation. It did not sup pose for an Instant that the move ment would receive universal ap proval. It proposes to continue along the lines laid down until some im provement has been wrought, A Democratic correspondent writes that the Republicans have made a target of the President. In public life targets are not made; they make themselves. AN AMAZING REVELATION THE report of the sub-commit tee named to Investigate the delay in aircraft production to be made public this week, it is to be hoped, will clear up the beclouded situation and place the blame where it properly belongs. The announce ment that members of the commit tee quarreled because Secretary Baker declined to answer their ques tions is a most amazing revelation. Mr. Baker should have been the last man to hold anything back from the investigators. In the last analy sis failure of the air program must rest on his shoulders as the responsi ble' head of the War Department and It might have been supposed that he would have been extremely desirous of doing anything possible to assist those whose purpose 1 i is to speed up the construction of aero planes. Another "retreat for victory"—for the allies. If you want to know why the Tele graph thinks something ought to be done about housing, go to Ann alley, 'or Seventh street, or Marlon street, or Wallace street, some sections, and take one good look. "Lenlne may go to Germany," says a dispatch. That ought to be punish ment enough. " 4 Tsttflc* IK fvKK^niodKia By the Ex-Committeeman Course of the leaders of the reor ganization faction of the Pennsyl vania State Democracy will be de termined at a meeting to be held In Philadelphia within the next week. Under the action taken by the Dem-, ocratie State Committee when It adjourned its June session the com mittee wac to be called together be foro September 1 to adopt a plat xorm aid at range other details of the campaign. Since that time both the offlcia: end of the State Com m:ttee and the friends of Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, the guberna torial nominee, have been playing a waiting game and the next .move seems to bo up to the State Chair man. It will be determined at the meet ing in Philadelphia when the' can didates shall be called together to select the campaign committee, the selection of whose chairman will be tenuered to Judge Bonnlwell and at the same time the committee in charge of the platform will submit a preliminary draft. The general idea is that the State Committee will meet hore about August 28. The Kepublican State Committee, place and time of meeting, have not yet been owing to the Illness of State Chairman William E. Crow, but prospects are that the committee will meet late in the month,,either here or in Pittsburgh. • —A policy of silence seems to have been adopted at the State Capitol in regard to the charges against the manner in which the Governor's of fice handled matters fn connection with district appeal board No. 2, of Philadelphia, and other draft mat ters and also the demand of miners of the Kulpmont district that Chief of Mines Button be removed. It is not likely that anything will be done in either case, but that the storms will be allowed to blow over while the Governor is in Maine on his va cation. —Chester city council is giving the latest illustration of the third clams city law, the mayor and members of council being hopelessly tied up over an appointment. It is probable that what has happened lately in Chester will accentuate the demand for a revision of the third class city law. —The Interest the Lackawanna county Republican Senatorial contest Is exciting Is Illustrated by the fol lowing from the Philadelphia In quirer: "State-wide interest is being taken in the contest over the Repub lican nomination for. state Senator in the Scranton district where allega tions of fraud resulted in the local court throwing out the returns from several election precincts and revers ing figures of the official count and giving the nomination to Represen tative Albert Davis instead of Pro fessor David W. Philips. Mr. Davis made his fight mainly upon the coal mine caVe issue. He attacked the coal companies and made a determined drive for the vote of the citizens who have been leading the movement for legislation for the protection of sur face property owners who are suf fering from the 'robbing' of the pil lars of the coal veins under the city of Scranton. —Congressman A. R. Brodbeck, of the York-Adams district, is openly at odds with the Democratic county committee of York county and it is intimated that he will name his own Congressional committee and leave the county committee do as it pleases. Brodbeck is a reorganization factionist, while the committee seems to have some Bonniwell men on it. There are also some men opposing Brodbeck who are Palmer adherents. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times gives this interesting item from Washington county, which indicates what the Bonniwell wing of the Democrats are likely to do: "Some of the Washington county supporters of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell. the Democratic nominee for governor, are intimating that an independent ticket in the interest of the Bonni well candidacy is soon to be launch ed in the state. It would be used here in an attempt to elect a "wet" state senator and three representa tives pledged to oppose the ratifica tion of the prohibition amendment to the Federal constitution. During the recent visit of Judge Bonniwell to western Pennsylvania, he gave as surance to Washington county "wets" tljat the prospect of an inde pendent ticket being formed is good. He wants to make it absolutely "wet." It would carry his name and those pf antiprohibitionists for lieutenant governor and secretary of internal affairs. Effort was made to get Edward E. Beidleman for lieu tenant governor and James F. Wood ward for secretary of internal af fairs, Republican nominees, to al low the use of their names, but they declined." Alcohol Hinders War Making [From the New York American] We shall be delighted when the government decides that making and selling booze is not a proper war In dustry and that alcohol as a bever age is not any more necessary nor any less harmful to civilians than to soldiers aud sailors. The verdict of those in command is that the health and morale of the Army and Navy are greatly Improved by en forced abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Then why not improve the health and morale of the whole people by doing away with the rum sellers' business entirely? We shall then have a healthier people, a bet ter people, brighter homes, cleaner politics and happier conditions of all sorts. Alcohol does not hplp to win the war. Alcohol delays winning the war. The booze makers and the booze sellers are doing nothing to aid the nation in this terrible strug gle. They are not fighting or work ing. Make them work or fight! A SONG I must make my mourning Over into song; To the one who left me Mourning would be wrong. Mourning would be wrong, Work must' be my grieving, Smiles the only sign; Weeping were unworthy Such a loss as mine. Such a loss as mine. Work must be my worship. Cheerfulness my prayers; Less would be unfaithful To the one who dares. To the one who dares. Spirit his to chide me Were my laughter fled. Though I found his body Lying with the dead. Lying with the dead. Work must be my grieving. Love must hide my loss. Still my lips be smiling When they kiss the Cross, When—they kiss—-the Cross. —Claudia Cranston In Good House i keeping. TLAJRJRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF UFE Byßriggs f~ TV - DOIW ! | THAT OOSHTA / . 7*E WAVY- / IVE TJBIWE.© V I FETCH-CM - T Y- 7 I THE. AMY- ^ fl , PNI*!, TVP cl* es to you. Now find out what kind of work men are in charge of these vulnera ble points. If they are enemy aliens, transfer them at once. Don't wait to have them prove their loyalty. Some other point in the shop will not decrease their efficiency and it may increase your safety. The fire brigade and the man who can reach the hydrant the quickest ought to be loyal American workmen—just as men in the boilerroom and at deli cate engines should also be. What are you paying men at these points, and what do you know about them? Surveillance and guards and sen tinels are the next most Important considerations. The number and lo cation of alien enemies and persons Republican Conventions [Philadelphia Press] At the different conventions of the Republican party that are now being held in many states the same key note is very much in evidence. The members of them meet together as representatives of the minority party nationally, not to find fault, not to hinder the wheels of progress, but to bring that stability and poise in this dark hour that a party of construc tion and progress can bring in times like the present. They meet in thoughtful, helpful, mood, because the history of achievement in this country since the days of 1861 is the history of the Republican party. The Republican party is a war party, a lighting party, a party that always has and always will strike in the open. The representatives of the Repub lican party can in good conscience meet at this time to discuss and con sider matters with a view to per petuating the party in its usefulness. Republican votes and leadership in Congress are entitled to full credit for the more than a million men that are to-day in France.. Men of the Republican faith in Congress have in spite of Democratic handicap, weak ness and indecision, insisted upon an adequate crmy, properly equipped, determined to fight for final and un conditional surrender of the common enemy. When tha administration faltered, obsessed with the idea that the war was three thousand miles away, the Republicans stood firm. Republican leadership insisted that we raise and equip an army competent to do the American part along with France and England. It was in response to this insistence of Republican leadership that the pre paration we now have was brought about The Republicans have in sisted since the war started upon preparing to aid the Allies with the greatest speed possible. In all of our war activity. Republicans in Con gress have not'been critical or fault finding in a partisan way. But they have insisted as patriots that the greatest possible efforts be put forth to enable the soldiers of America to sell their lives as dearly as possible. This is reflected in the platforms and in the atmosphere of the Republican conventions. There is no disagree ment as to the Republican attitude. There is no belittling either of men or of the task before us. But there is the firm opinion that no one man nor no one political party Is Mg enough to carry the whole burden of this war or to solve all of the intri cate problems that will arise in con nection with the great world con flict* of doubtful loyalty, and second by the strategic points to be guarded. Both systems are necessary—one for men, the other for places. They check each other and insure safety. With only the one method there will at various times be exposed points. One agent may be diverted but two or more are more difficult to divert simultaneously. Take a personal interest in the alien. If it is necessary, set up an information bureau to help him un derstand drafts and regiilations and registration. If he wants to learn English and become a citizen, help him to do so. See that he gets American information on bulletin boards, in pay envelopes and other wise. to offset the anti-American material sent him or told him. (Over 140,000 sets of civic lessons in foreign languages have already been handled by industries through pay envelopes.) When this intelligent handling of alien enemy and those of doubtful loyalty is in operation, the plant is ready for another step—the sys tematic removal of every possible cause for unrest, dissatisfaction, dis loyalty and disturbance. This will require a close contact with the workmen, and another analysis of the plant, if not a map. Is it wages, or hours, or foremen or the em ploying and dismissal method, hous ing, substitution of women? What ever it is, it constitutes the medium through which the German agents work, and it is their chief stock in trade next to the love for the father land. In dealing with German spies, a plant has to be fool proof as well as bomb proof. The man who strikes may think it is bad housing or treatment; the German propa gandist knows it's German efficiency playing through American negli gence and carelessness. From American Industries. FIGHTING EACH OTHER [William Franklin Sands In Asia] All these months past it has bee'i the educated classes of Russia who have suffered; the masses are only now being touched. Such privations as the people suffered in the begin-, ning were attributed to the machi-1 nations of the "bourgeois" and "counter-revolutionaries," to the Reaction. It is only beginning to filter down to the masses that even now, when they, the "Real People," can theoretically exert their will un hampered, conditions are no better. The peasant has been told by the Bolsheviki to take the land he re quires from his wealthier neighbors. He has attempted to do so, and has come into conflict with the people of the next village, or has been dis possessed by wandering soldiers from less fertile districts. When he has been able to retain a greater portion of land than he possessed before, he has had neither implements and ma chinery to cultivate It nor seed to sow. The factory workmen are be ginning to find themselves in the same predicament. The people are commencing to feel, and their Bol shevist masters admit, that Russia must pass through an era of intensive development before their political theories can he perfected. Bolshevist leaders admit that In order to start again the machine which the laborer will ultimately control, it is necessary to draw upon foreign capital; that to obtain for eign capital it is necessary to make its investment in the country both safe and attractive. Could Russia therefore rid herself overnight of her hordes of marauding soldiers and professional criminals operating un der some political mask, she would at once begin to trade with anyone who had goods to ofTer or money to Invest. She has not the strength, however, to throw oft these hordes. Isolated Individuals, small communities, vil lages or towns, or even unorganized city dwellers cannot medl this situa tion. It is a matter for centralized effort, for government. . An Index Since patches have become honor able, says Old Man Doodle, you can tell by a man's patches whether he is addicted to praying much or Just sitting around.—From the Chicago News. The Lord Is With Thee Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dis mayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goe*t.— Joshua 1:8, AUGUST 13, 19m PRAYER OF A SISTER It's worse for mothers, God. Oh, help them first. But after you have comforted each mother In all the land, then hear! I dread the worst. Oh, send me news, good news from him, my brother! The little boy with whom, not long ago, I played at soldiers on our kitchen floor; And walked on stilts; and cut and bent a bow. And whittled arrows—shall I see him more? He has his mother and his sweet heart praying. I'm Just his sister —But I cate, I care. (It's hard, this new game he and I are playing.) After the others, God, oh, hear my prayer. —Mary Carolyn Davies In Good Housekeeping. OUR DAILY LAUGH BEHIND THE Miss Giggles little too heavy to draw down big money for a trick bicycle act. TGC . Miss Pondero- jo (X sa—Oh, I -don't o wB get much from ) qJ? BSjIS the show shops wf but I'm beln' ( // lliiii well paid for \ | advertlsin' aj H Mi / strong wheel. y M A fff f ( S \ THAT'S DIF ( V J FERENT. Professor: Ton \ cannot have your cake and /r- * J Wsfl' eat it too. x Wise: Perhaps not, but h/i I've known peo- If|Y pie to have tw< \\\\ cakes. TWO BIRDS 1(1 It' X I WITH ONE J What did your husband say when you told fiFfakx him you wanted /j |\j nSI • to go to the m -f ru jl ' country this / Jl summer? -C: ■ He said, Join s -H. the farmerette ' V | brigade and get paid for going. rW. TOUGH ON ™ E BIRDS " V awful V /fir •Jn c • they've - done away with r-r wires. As soon as you light OD one' of these wireless mes lt'B WOULD DO JUST AS WELL VM Big Bug—Say gimme a match Ntf/A/ ft mk A Fred Firefly 'j —Sorry, I -U 7 haven't got one. \\/7 but I can give / Sf\ \ you a light if //ug\ \A you wish. 'ft fl ■ l-uptuttg (Efjat L=== ======== J While they are not In the Mine class with the soldiers as a popular attraction the fact remains that the men who almost overnight replaced the soldiers who were patrolling bridges, viaducts, water works and other works of vital Importance to * the nation are doing a tremendous lot of work and doing It efficiently right In this city and nearby. Im portance of Harrisburg as a rail road center which is something which William B. McCaleb used to urge upon the people of this city during the days when he was super intendent and which railroad men from J. Edgar Thompson on down have realized has called for the or ganization of a corps of men who are scarcely known. In fact until you happen to bump up against them in the dark you hardly know that men are on guard. A. year or so ago soldiers from Philadelphia and New York regiments came here to guard the bridges and the yards and other places necessary to the scheme of train movement and growled over the duty and longed for action. Thsy went away about as suddenly as they appeared and a good many people thought that the bridges were not guarded. But they soon got over it. Through the terrible cold of last winter, the chill nights of last spring and the alternate rains and hot per iods of this summer every yard of the great yards about here, the bridges and buildings have been un der watchful eye, and the men walk ing tracks would amaze the average man if he could get to see a sched ule of what is done in storm and sunshine. It Is about as hard to get Into the yards at Enola, Lucknow, Rutherford or near Maclay street as It is to get Into the Governor's office and any one who lingers near a bridge Is politely asked to move on. Between electric lights and watch men things are pretty well taken cdre of around here. "While -we have no means of say ing what was the total trout catch In the season which ended with July. I feel safe in saying from what X haVe heard from wardens and fisher men and those who follow the sport that we had the largest catch in several years," was the opinion exj pressed by Nathan R. Buller, state commissioner of fisheries, in regard to the first trout season under the new fish code. "I am Just home from visits to hatcheries and various points where I got the reports and the fishing was so good in many localities that fishermen got the limit daily and beside they got good sized fish. I am sorry there were some people who took undersized ones, but there seems to have been plenty of the size capable of taking care of themselves to go around. The northwestern part of the state seems to have done exceptionally well in trout fishing. We have plant ed extensively in that section and I think the results told. This year's trout season was an exceptional one. If was very cold at the start, but the fishermen made up for it in the last eight weeks. I would consider it a very successful season. "We are going to start to put out young trout, the kind that can survive, be fore the end of August" continued the commissioner. "We have got start this early because we do not have the people to handle the work such as we used to have before the war. We are also up against some transportation difficulties. Hence we will make an early start apd con tinue planting as long as we are able to do so. We are not going to put out as many trout as we did for the last season. Remember we got close to the 3,000,000 mark and we had the hatcheries making a most successful season and a complete force of men. But we are going to make the best of it and will ask the trout' fishermen to help us." Com missioner Buller said that bass and salmon fishing reports were fair, the catches being good where streams were right. Judge Charles B. Wltmer, of Uni ted States court, gave up his vaca tion a couple of times this summer to handle business in his court. The Judge likes to take to the woods and to fish and every time he has started off something has happened and he has had to go about his district lo hold court. The special session be ing held here this week grows out of the war and the Judge fixed the time in spite of the heat and that the fishing has been good.- James E. Lentz, the recorder of deeds, is being given many a compli ment for the thorough manner in which he has organized the govern ment's work for instruction of draft ed men in the upper Dauphin dis trict. The work of this board has been reported to Washington as about the first to carry out the ideas of the provost marshal general. There were some questions whether the board could get the men out. It was put up to Mr. Lentz. He got the boys out and they are so keen, about drilling that they have been ordering books of drill regulations and asking the men of military ex perience in their home towns to give them pointers in the evenings. • • Horace A. Beale, the Parkesburg Ironmaster selected as the chairman of the subcommittee on iron and steel of the War Resources commit tee of this section of the state, used to be at Steelton. Years ago he was stationed at the Pennsylvania Steel Works and played football about here. : | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Francis J. Torrance, reappotntod to the State Board of Public Chart ties, has given years to the service of that Board and Is a recognized au thority all over the country, —James Robinson, the Philadel phia superintendent of police, who becomes an officer in the United States Guards, used to be in the Na tional Guard. —Postmaster Percy Faust, of Weatheriy, has sent his third son into the service and Is proud of it. AS —Senator Botes Penrose and Dis trict Attorney Samuel P. Rotan. of Philadelphia, are on a fishing trip off Atlantic City. —Major William P. Clarke, Wll - guardsman. Is the post adjutant at the rifle matches camp. The major is a newspaperman and has been in militia affairs for many years. —Fred O. Newell, the Canton edi tor, who had been ill, is back at his desk. DO YOU KNOW —That Ilarrtdburg'a roll of honor In this war deserves some perma nent memorial and tt should bo started now? , HISTORIC HAKRISBURO Dauphin Rnd Lebanon county mili tiamen tn the War of 1812 mobi lized on the Haprisburg river front.