6 HARRISE-'JRG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.EGRAFH PHIXTfXO CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS If. STEINMETZ. Managing EMtur A R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUOH. BOYD M. OQELSBY. F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Aesoclated Prees — The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all 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. Ji Member American r ] Newspaper Pub llshers' Assocla cP*. tlon, the Audit Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn ea sylvanla Aseocl -16155 "s*lol ated Dallies. u| 'm Ml Sb east er n office, W 3 llifl Story, Brooks & tSjgteK H Avenue Building Western office, '©fiTlrTwK*® Story, Brooks & xll*slBlEs3EE Flnley, People's s Chi S Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $6.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918 - . . i 7 wish you not few cares, hut capo- j city for many; not easy tasks, but i strength to master all of them; not freedom from temptations, but grace i sufficient to wrestle with them; not ( absence of sorrow, but faith where- < with to see beyond, it; not exemption from perplexities, but confidence in Ood to work them out. — Anow. AFTER THE NEXT DRAFT j THE business of the country has j been seriously affected by the, transfer of manpower under;, the first draft act from Industry to the military service, but the hard-j ships of the present are as nothing by comparison with those of the fu ture. The new draft, from eighteen! to forty-five, will hit every line of endeavor from farming to munitions 1 at a time when all branches of in- j dustry are crying for workers. The situation we face Is serious. Wajr In-j dustries and "essentials" must be| kept up. There can be no letting; down there. Farming must not be: neglected. If we are to win the war. j Shipbuilding must go ahead. Mlncj production must be kept at top- j notch. Railroad traffic must not be j permitted to lag. There Is but one answer. If men must fight, women must work. I ] According to the census of 1910,| the total number of women in the United States at that time was 45,- 259.871. Of tfiis number there were employed in the industrial world 3,647,865, including clerks and sales women. but not domestic help, leav ing a total of 41,6^1,806, These figures have been considerably changed, both as to totals and the numbers employed, but they are suf ficiently accurate to serve as exam ples. Uslhg them as a basis, if only one of every eight of the unemployed would take the place of a man, it would m< an that we can put an army of 5,000,000 men under arms, replacing them with women, and if one of every four of the unemployed would volunteer for work, the prob lem of filling the Jobs vacated by men would be well nigh solved. This, of • course, presumes that every woman now at work remain at work, for that is their duty, and especially those who are trained along any particular line. While brother, or husband, or father may be earning enough to keep the erst while working woman in ease at home, the call of country should keep her on the Job. Victory or de feat may hinge on whether or not our girls and women will answer the call of factory and mill as their sis ters In France and England have done. This is Ihe condition we are about to face and women In every walk of life will be called upon to do far more next year than knit for the Red Cross, worthy and necessary though that be. They must take the places of the men who are going away. They must become the wage earners—the producers of the coun try. NOT TO BE BLUFFED THERE has arisen the fear in the minds' of some that back of the War Department's an nouncement of an army of 6,000,000 there may be the hope that this news may Induce German leaders to sue for peace at an early date. It Is to be hoped that no such thought is m the minds of those at the head of the government. Germany Is not to be bluffed. That has bsen very well demonstrated. Force, and force alone, will bring a decision In Eu rope and the big army proposed must turn the triok. At all events, the oountry is la no mood to listen to talk of pease In which the present German govern ment would hav.e a voice. Germany must be brought to her knees Ger many, to paraphrase the Kaiser's own words in referring to Amerloa, "must be punished for her actions"' MONDAY EVENING. To that the people of thta country' have made up their minds. Nobody In the army, and few outside, have any other thought We are devoted to that principle and we are ready to stake ourselves, to the last man, and our all In material possessions to that end. It Is pointed out by fearful ones that President Wilson has reversed himself on other Issues and might under some conditions agree to dis cuss terms of peace before a military decision has been reached, hut it Is unthinkable that there should ' be such a change of front at Washing ton. If the President has one virtue above another, It la singleness of purpose and once as fully committed to a course as he Is to the present war may be depended upon to stick until his purpose has been accom plished. He will have all true Americans back of him In this. Ger many must bo punished and this is no time to talk peace. MJLNING BY STATUTE PERSONS who have observed the qperatlon of the "daylight sav ing" law In Harrlsburg have come to the conclusion that you can not legislate children to bed. We are all so much In favor of the sum mer daylight utilization that we would not go back to the old plan If we could, but the truth Is that as long as there is a sunbeam In the western sky It Is hard work to make the "kids" quiet down and "turn over and go to sleep." "Cutting ooal" Is hard work and conditions In the mining regions of Pennsylvania, admittedly different from those of Alabama and Ar kansas, have been such that miners want all the recreation they can get, while the foreign element has brought with It various church days with which some large cities and governmental centers are not famiL lar. And miners are also making much money. Where there Is money I there are always to be found means j of amusement It Is proposed by the F*uel Admin istration that agricultural fairs be "discouraged" so that the miners will not be attracted from their work. This suggestion, we are happy to say, does not come from the level-headed, hard-working Fuel Administrator of Dauphin county and some of the other men who are cheerfully filling the same exacting post of war-time duty In many coun ties of our State. The truth Is that you can not make men "cut coal," run cars, man pumps, load trains and do other work about coal mines by statute any more than you can legislate children to sleep. When It comes down to suspending fairs which last two or three days a year as a means of keeping miners at work we humbly suggest to the Wilson ad ministration, and the distinguished Pennsylvania Democrats which are a part, that a better way to keep miners at work-would be to study conditions in the coal regions close ly, even inspecting housing, or per chance scanning the list of saloons in some communities. THEY WILL RESPOND THE farmers of Dauphin and surrounding counties have been asked to plant at least three per cent, more of wheat the coming season than they had in the ground this year. Beyond doubt, they will respond. No class has done better in. the food crisis than the farmer. He has come forward with increased crops at a time when farm labor is scarcer than ever in the history of the country and he Is preparing to duplicate that worthy performance under conditions that promise to be even more adverse. But the time has come when the farmer cannot be expected to carry his load alone. He must look to the towns and villages for aid during his very busy seasons. He is receiving high prices for his produce and he will have to pay corresponding wages for workers, who, if they do not come forward voluntarily, will have to be induced by patriotic com munity efforts to give a few days each to the work of garnering the crops the farmers have put out. The farmer cannot afford to be independ ent in this crisis any more than can other employers of help. He must make his wants known and be con tent with the quality of labor the condition of the market affords. NOT PARTISAN, PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATIC organs are angry because Washington newspa per correspondents have com plained that while Southern rice and cotton go scot trie under the rulings of the War Board, rice from abroad is banned, and accuses them of stir ring up factionalism during war times. If anybody is stirring up fac tionalism it is the biased members of this same War Board, who have ruled out of the country vast quan tities of rice at a time when rice is of the utmost importance as a wheat substitute. If the supply from over seas is depleted what will happen? Nothing more or less than that our own Southern planters,who have been getting rich because the War Board refuses to place a restrictive price on their cotton, as has been done with Northern wheat, will put up the price of rice also in the United States and the people will pay the bill. If there is any sectionalism, any playing of one part of the country against another, the fault doe# not lie with newspaper writers who set forth the facts as they exist, but with those who are responsible for the conditions set forth, and no amount of Democratic dust throwing or mud-tossing will explain away the truth that the War Board's conduct is regarded "by many"people aa botu injurious to the people as a whole and discriminatory so far as the farmers of the North are concerned. If the War Board has a reasonable explanation the people will be happy to hear It and all newspapers will be pleased to set the members right be fore the publto. Until that Ume the yapping of & -pack of subsidised Democratic political publicity pur veyors masquerading under the guise of newspapers will only Increase the suspicion that rests In the minds of those who are accused of being par tisan when they are only patriotic. 'PO&TTC* LK By the Ex-Commlttccman I While Senator William 0. Sproul ; was shaking hands with the folks i and talking crops at the big Path Valley picnic In Franklin county on Soturday afternoop, Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, Democratic nominee for Governor In spite of the bosses, open ed his campaign with a bang. To day nieq connected with the Demo cratic state windmill In this city were wondering what they were going to do with such a dreadful candidate as the Judge. Senator Sproul had a notable wel come in the Cumberland Valley and spent a delightful day. It was hardly a political excursion as the people wanted to meet him and were de lighted with his personality. Senator E. E. Beidleman was at the Killing er picnic and other Republican can didates were out visiting the people. Secretary W. Harry Baker, of the Republican state committee, upon whom has devolved the work of ar ranging for the campaign because of the illness of State Chairman William E. Crow, came back from Philadel phia after getting things ready for the formal opening of headquarters on September 3. Senator Sproul will speak at Lehigh county's Republican gathering Saturday and then speak at the Erie Grange meeting where Judge Bonniwell is also to speak. —The committee appointed by the William C. Sproul club to arrange for a reception to State Senator Sprpul, Republican candidate for Governor I of Pennsylvania, met Saturday and made preliminary plans for the event, fixing the date for Tuesday evening, August 27. Senator Sprou' told the committee that date would be agreeable to him and that he would be on hand to greet his friends and neighbors. His home folks want to be first in line to boost his fall campaign. —Judge Bonnlwell's campaign opening was attended by a number of the scouts of the Democratic state machine and while they found some glee In the fact that the attendance at the historic Lehigh gathering was not what It used to be this Joy was dimmed by the realization that the drop in the crowds was due to the cutting out of the beer attraction. In years gone by beer was free and the people numerous. The Judge was vit riolic as usual and while he did got mention any of the leaders of the faction opposed to him by name he left no doubt about whom he meant. Congressmen Steele and Dewalt. whom the Palmer-McCormick ma chine tried to defeat for renomina tlon, were big figures at the meeting, which endorsed the whole ticket. —Much attention is given by the Philadelphia Record to-day to the refusal of the Judge to have any thing to do with the resolutions com mittee of the state committee, which will have a powwow at Philadelphia to-day. —Discussing the Bonniwell plans for a "wet" ticket, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says: "Judge Bonni well Is appealing for votes for Gov ernor on a platform the principal plank of which is opposition to pro hibition. What he is endeavoring to do is to break down party lines and make the contest a 'wet' and 'dry' • one. Senator William G. Sproul, the Republican nominee, has declared In favor of the ratification of the prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution. By abandon ing party lines Judge Bonniwell hopes to draw the 'wets' of all par ties to his support. * * * This ticket will be headed by Judge Bonniwell and it may be that no candidates will,be put up for either Lieutenant- Governor or Secretary of Internal Affairs. Asher Johnson, of McKean county, the Democratic nominee for Secretary of Internal Affairs, is classed as a 'dry.' The new ticket will carry the names, of the four Democratic candidates for Congress men-at-Large, Joseph F. Gorman, Allentown; Fred Ikeler, Bloomsburg; J. Calvin Strayer, York, and Samuel R. Tarner, Pittsburgh." —One result of the way Altoona has been operating under the city manager system may be some bills to change the Clark act for a greater measure of self-government. Some of the third class city experts are of the opinion that additional Wre needed to adapt the Clark act to the city manager idea, but Al •Uoria has gone on ahead without bothering about detail. Greater freedom of government by the small er municipalities is regarded in the state as bound to come. —-Judge Bonniwell when in Pitts burgh last week visited Col. James M. Guffey, who is said to have had la hanffin thrashing his nephew, Ex- State Chairman Joe Guffey, when he ran for the Democratic gubernator ial nomination. He saw other Old Guard leaders and will return to Pittsburgh late pext week to spend four or five days in Western Penn sylvania, Including Washington and Greene counties. Feel Like Doing Something No doubt the kaiser will soon think of exempting the crown prince from military service on the ground that ho has a dependent wife and chil dren.—From tho Cleveland Plain Dealer. Still, They Don't Seem Happy Whenever the Germans are badly defeated in battle they have a happy way of explaining It to the people at home by saying that "the retreat was a complete success."—From the New Orleans States. • A National Game Mrs. Kicker—Do you approve of your husband's poker games? Mrs. Bocker —Yes; he gives me thrift stamps when he loses and war stamps when he wins. May Just Let It Wear Off Paper underwear Is a new inven tion said to be serviceable. Is It re moved with a hose each Sgening.— From the Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. Poor Weak Womanhood Some married women are so weak that they allow their husbands to keep part of their salaries.—From the Idaho Statesman. HAJUUSBCRG aSSBfI TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BYBRIGCS % lBlB, ky ?be Trfbana (New York Tribam) "FIRST TO FIGHT" He's lusty and lightsome. And say—he can fight some! i At home, ori the foam, or in far j tropic scenes Just watch for that helmet— They can't overwhelm it— The globe-eagle-anchor that marks the Marines! Though dusty, not crusty— He's tried, true and trusty— He'll sleep on a plank, can the Kaiser on beansr A sea-boy, an air-boy— You're certainly there, boy!— The Hun's on the run when his scouts say, "Marines!" Their story of glory Is gorgeous and gory— Too proud not to fight, they'll show Fritz what "fight" means! Not theirs to be waiting At home, hesitating— Undrafted, undaunted—the unlicked Marines! —Luelia Stewart in N. Y. Times. Yanks Have Tank Wrecker One-pound armor-piercing shells fired at the rate of one per second are dealing with the German tanks as effectively, we are told, as the depth bombs are dealing with the submarine. The new tank wrecker is an American development. It is a 3 7-millimeter gun, weighing about 175 pounds, and has a detachable tripod mounting, which makes it possible to store the parts in a dug out, from which it can be taken and assembled in less than two minutes. The gun is handled and manned by a crew of four men. "'lt has an unusually low trajectory and a muz zle velocity of 1,312 feet per second. As the gun is employed at compara tively short ranges, it is not usually aimed —that is, the men Ire by "dead reckoning"—which permits o# the rapid delivery of fire; when sights are used the action Is reduced , to about- twenty-five shots per min ute. Without the trail, which is long and "straddled," the gun measures only thirty-two inches; it has a bell like contrivance over the muzzle, reminiscent of the old-fashipned blunderbuss; this is a flash hider for use in night firing. At a hundred yards the tank wrecker is said to deliver a knock out blow. French factories are be ing worked overtime to turn out the new gun and it is also now being made in America. And That Isn't the Worst The Crown Prince and Prince Rupprecht are now on equal terms. Each has suffered defeat. But they are not on the best of terms of friendship, and what they are saying about the Allies they may soon be saying about each other. —Wilkes- Barre Record. LABOR NOTES England's National Union of Rail way men has 490,000 members. Kansas has succeeded in recruit ing over 80,000 harvesters. Cramps' shipyards at Philadelphia are 100 per cent, organized. pay has been granted York (Pa.) school teachers. Practically every woman in Italy from 16 to 60 years of age is a war nurse of a volunteer war worker. Trade union organisations at Bielefeld. Germany, have refused to join a local patriotic committee In the collection of money for the "Ludendorff Fund" for wounded sol diers. Baltimore, Md.. has one woman barber. In England all private employment agencies have been discontinued since the outbreak of war. The Busy Friends of Booze [From the Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph] WHILE the friends of booze must realize they are fighting: a losing battle, they are coti disposed to throw up their hands: and surrender. They are not going! to quit until they receive the Knock-j out Mow .which, from present indi-1 catiofts, is likely to take the form i of the Federal constitutional amend- j ment so steadily gathering its neces-1 sary indorsements from the ftates. { Organized renewal of the agitation) for the restoration of liquor to our fighting forces is seen in the starting of a new publication at Washington entitled the American Army Gazette. In its first issue it declares that "No military reasons exist for the dry law and the stringent prohibition regulations which have been clamped upon the Army." The General Staff, It says, does not approve the abolition of booze. On the contrary, it would, if consulted, probably have restored "the old, well regulated canteen, with its light wines and beer." The American Army Gazette as- Country "General Store" The 1,200 Y. M. C. A. huts in France, where our soldiers buy rAany things not furnished by the Govern ment, are like the old-time country store in the variety of things carried, aside from clothing and meats and groceries. Besides cigars, cigarets, smoking and chewing tobacco, the toldier may obtain at these huts soap, safety razors and blades, shoe laces, candles, all kinds of brushes, shoe polish, canned- jams, jellies and fruits, chocolate, sweet crackers and many other articles. IN NO HURRY "All the little boys and girls who wish to go to heaven," said a Sun day school superintendent, "will please rise." Whereupon all, with the excep tion of Sammy Scruggs, rose, "And doesn't this little boy want to go to heaven?" asked the super intendent in surprise. "Not yet!" said Sammy. —From Harper's Magazine. THE WORLD'S COAL AREA A good authority gives the coal area of the world in square miles as follows: United States, 192,000; British America, 18,000; Great Brit ain, 12,000; Spain, 4,000; France, 2,000; Germany, 1,800; Belgium, 518; rest of Europe 100,000; China, 2,000; Japan, 5,000. Coal is fourfd in commercial quantities in twenty seven of the states and territories of the United States and Alaska.— From the Pittsburgh Dispatch. • THE BLIMP When I was through my training for The service of the air, I thought I'd get a biplane fast In which to do and dare. But my ambitious dreams of fame Received an awful crimp When orders from headquarters came And tied me to a blimp., The little old dirigible Was not so very bad. But nothing to the busses that My fellow fliers had. They flashed above, me out of sight. And I was forced to limp Along in lower altitudes And cuss.the lagging blimp. But slnee I spied a sniper's nest Concoaled among the hay, And mapped a hidden battery. All in a single day. And got a Cross de Guerre to wear When I'm inclined to primp, I wouldn't take a battle bird For my beloved blimp. —MINNA IRVING. serts that Russia's army might be in the war to-day if it hadn't been de prived of its beloved vodka. "It was too great a chock to the war-weary Russian army to deprive It entirely of stimulants. It could not stand such a radical change in its diet, and modo of living. Prohibition doubtless did much to crush the mo rale of the Russian troops." | The inference from the American 1 Army Gazette's remarks is that, j given plenty of booze, our Boldiers' morale would be preserved and I strengthened and they would put up ■ a kind of fighting worth while. The i American Army Gazette can't have | been reading the news from Europe ,of the last few weeks. It couldn't [ have chosen a worse time for urging I the need of stimulants by our soi i diers. Instead of giving them stimu j lants, their officers are more con- I cerned about restraining their im petuosity. The American fighting man doesn't require any "Dutch courage," thank you. He's going to show the world that booze isn't needed to send the Germans goose stepping back to Berlin. PICNIC DINNERS [Pennsylvania Farmer] We are getting many suggestions on wholesome conservation in picnic dinners, club meeting lunches, feed ing the threshing crews, etc. All of these indicate a conscientious effort on the part of farm men and women do live up to every letter of the Food Administration regulations, and sup ply many commonsense local regu lations to the same end. Of course, the picnic dinner is the soul of the picnic gathering and has been from time Immemorial. This is true with all people, city as well as country, except, of course, that country pic nics always have better food and more of It. But there is no reason why we cannot sacrifice just a little in our picpics in these war 't/mes Just as we do in our everyday liv ing. The real inspiration, rest and diversion in picnic occasions come from meeting and visiting with neighbors and friends. Real neigh bors and real friends can "make merry" over a real war-time lunch eon as well as over an ante-bellum banquet if the good ladies preparing the luncheon only think so. There - is considerable voluntary autocracy in the present phases of our democ racy, and if the ladles will exercise just a bit more autocratic power in dictating what shall and what shall not be eaten on picnic occasions they may be trusted to save food without serious interference with the success of the occasion. Threshing is not exastly a picnic diversion, but we well remember our boyhood days when we would a lit tle gather help thresh than do the other; work on the farm —and that heavily-loaded threshers' dinner table was the chief inducement. Numerous suggestions are being made on how the threshers can be more economically and mora sen sibly fed. Every farm woman can draw helpful hints from these sug gestions, but from the Washington County Fkrm Bureau comes a plan that will require a community un derstanding. The plan is for farm ers to carry their midday meal to the threshing jobs. This plan will avoid waste of much food and will save a lot "of work for farm women, which is no small item in these days of scarcity of help. Agan, a little farm woman autocracy can readily put It into force. How Many For You?' A number of prominent and near prominent men will write "ads" for the next Liberty Loan campaign. Every citizen should do likewise. Here's a sample: "Wanted —(So many) bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan of the United States Govern ment. (Name and address.)*'— Pittsburgh Sun. AUGUST 19, 1918. INFORMATION WANTED [From the Kansas City Times] Pan-German and Liberal factions In Germany are now engaged In a controversy as to which Is respon sible for bringing America Into the war. Neither side, It appears, la willing to be It question 1* one that may be left to Germans to settle for them selves. There will be a number of such questions waiting adjustment, we imagine, as soon as the German people get a little more time to be stow on them. It is conceivable that when the war is over and they find themselves without a job, without markets, without a neighbor who will speak to them, when they find them selves thus cut off from the world with nothing to show for their spree but a broken head and a war debt, it is conceivable they may want to know a number of things. It is even possible they may apply for the In formation to the right quarter. Hav ing been taught that all wisdom re sides in the Kaiser they may ask him. in case he is still to be found at the old address, who it wts> that started the quest for a place In the sun. They may want to know where the tradition of the mailed fist orig inated, who is responsible for the shining sword theory of rational progress, who gave his personal word that Gott had approved the teaching that the Gerpian was the elect of the earth. Perhaps the Kaiser, If ho Is not too much shaken, can think of soothing and convincing answers quickly enough. But we imagine he may be put to It. We imagine the old recitation about his ancestor placing the crown on his own head and daring anybody to knock it off. the old tall talk about it being a German's highest pleasure and duty to shoot II|B father if his emperor tells him to, will hardly fill the bill. The Kaiser would do well to be thinking up something new. for he is going to need it. His faithful sub jects are going to be of an inquiring turn of mind after they get through seeing stars, and the question of who brought America into the war will only be the opening of the dance. A Peculiar Habit Americans detailed to the rear to work have been borrowing uniforms from Australian soldiers and going into the thick of the light. The German generals, convinced with the Katser that the Americans wouldn't fight, might take notice that deserting to the front Is a pe culiarly American military fault. — Baltimore Arperlcan. Watch the. Next Loan The Kaiser remarked, once upon a time, that "There can be nothing stable in a nation that changes Its leaders every four years." Maybe so, but Just now we'll back our gov ernmental stability against his with every cent we've got in our jeans.— Erie Dispatch. Useless Argument What Is the use of all this argu ment over the kind of histories we shall have in our schools? We're making history these days, not read ing it. —Rochester Post.Express. Wait Until 3,000,000 Are Over "The smile has almost vanished from German faces," says a Stock holm newspaper. And it'll be an cient history in Germany before long.—Altoona Mirror. [ OUR DAILY LAUGH Sdear, what shall eomes that fel low who said he was going to knock the spot* JUST LIKE US. mi Papa Centi- ' M * J pede: No use v) ,j£—l talking, at the A present price of V shoes, when these are gone, I'll have to go barefoot. * C 3 X Wj •. ONE AND THE \\