6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE IIOZIE Founded 1831 ' — ============= Published evenings exoept Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. i Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Afanapor GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Kdiier A. R. MICIIENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUQH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—Tho Associated Press Is Exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this papor and also tho local nows published herein. , . All rights of republication of apodal dispatches herein aro also rosorvod. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl utod Dallies. Eastern oftlco, Story, Brooks A Flnley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; Western oftlco. Story, Brooks A Flnley, People's Gas Building. Chicago, 111. Entered at tho Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a tTLSisfegTouKii> week; by mall. $5.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918 Honesty is the first chapter in the hoolc of wisdom . — THOMAS JEFFEBSON*. Civility costs nothing and buys everything. — LADY MONTAGUE. i THE GOOSE AND GANDER WHAT'S that old law about thej sauce for the goose being also sauce for the gander? Anyhow. Bill of Potsdam, hasn't heard about it. Having heard of an, allied air raid over Frankfort the All-Highest sent a telegram to the burgomaster stating that the em-j peror "deeply sympathizes in the j misfortune which has befallen the open town of Frankfort as the re-1 suit of an enemy attack which Was contrary to international law and claimed many victims." The telegram requests that the • Burgomaster convey to the victims' jmlatives the "sympathy of the All- Highest." But nothing was said about the Hun bombing squadrons which at the same time were active In bombarding towns behind the Allied front, killing and wounding women and children. Grant that the day Is not far dis tant when the German sky shall be clouded with American airmen. Senator Penrose ought to he more careful of the feelings of the sensi tive Democrats, who resent being called to account for their failure to be present in the Senate when im portant war measures arc being de* layed, ' PASSING OF AN INDUSTRY THE death of Arthur P. O'Con nor, operator of the old Watts furnace at Marietta, is another reminder of the passing of the once great industry of iron making and • forging for which Pennsylvania was famous before the days of the modern giant steel plants. All through the State where iron was to he had from local ore deposits these charcoal furnaces apd forges flour ished and made great fortunes for their owners and provided good liv ing and prosperity for whole com munities that now have drifted back into the forests, abandoned by the descendents of those who knew them as lively and thriving centers of population. Whole "deserted vil * lages" of this kind may be found in the woods and mountains of this Commonwealth, with occasionally the "big house" still occupied and occasionally a few of the old time forge and furnace houses turned to other and more modern uses. But, so far as the production of iron, is concerned, the industry is dead. One wonders, contemplating the accomplishments of these early manufacturers and the excellence of their products under the crudest of manufacturing conditions, whether in some future age we shall not turn again to the low-grade iron de posits of Pennsylvania for much of the ore to feed the gigantic indus- I tries that are now eating up mil lions of carloads of high percentage product from the mines of the lake regions and Cuba Don't wonder the American soldier repudiates the name "Sammy." Gen eral March tells us that "Tank" suits him better, and so he is called in Trance and England. MALIGNING A FLOWER THE beaytiful cornflower, some times known as the bachelor's button, has been woefully ma ligned by ardent patriots who have declined to wear it in their coat la pels or grow it in their gardens be cause of the mistaken belief that it is the national flower of Germany. Nothing-could be farther from the truth. Rather, it may be said to be the flower of the French soldier, for the cornflower grows from one end of Europe to the other and is a ra vorite with the beauty-loving Frenchman who picks it for a uni form ornament as he marches I TUESDAY EVENING, through the countrysides of his be loved Franco. Writing to the Telegraph on the Injustice that has boen done this lovely summer blossom, a well-known Harrlsburger Bums up the situation very well, as foltows: Investigation develops the fact that this flower grows wild throughout Europe and Is not confined to -Germany, although with characteristic Impudence, ■ the Muna misnamed and adopted It as the "Kaiserblume." Its proper name Is "Centaurea and inasmuch as our French Allies wear It na their badge on their blue uniforms, and blue flowers are not numerous, I do not think we can snare this beau • tlful and hardy plant from our gardens; so let us not surrender to tho unfounded claims of the Huns or banish It, because they too hove given it a name, but let us rather rejoice In and continue to wear it with the dear children, for dally use, and term It tho '•Poilus' Flower." Let us always be sure that wo are not being foolish, rather that pa triotic. In times such as these mis taken prejudice may do great Injus tice. Let us be calm and reasonable In our arguments and certain of our facta boforo we reach conclusions that may be ridiculous. If not ac tually Injurious, either to others or ourselves. If there Is going to be a shortage of coal In Harrlsburg next winter, there's .no use deceiving ourselves. Let's prepare for the Inevitable. TIME TO DECLARE SENATOR SPROUL, Republican candidate for governor, having expressed the hope that the "Republican State Committee will declare for the national prohibition amendment," and having added that no matter whether it does or not, his personal declarations In favor of that measure will stand unchanged. It is time for those who will have charge of the framing of the Re publican platform to seriously con sider the temperance plank. Sen ator Sproul is so distinctly a "dry" candidate that Judge Bonnlwell, the "wet" Democratic hominee, is at work on a plan by which he hopes to organize a "wet" party in Penn sylvania in order to attract to his standard all voters who do not favor the prohibition amendment. In other words. Judge Bonnlwell pro poses to make capital out of his "booze" platform if he can, and the Republican party should accept the. challenge and place Itself on record , as being in full harmony with the } views of its gubernatorial nominee, j meeting Bonnljvell more than half way and Seating him on his own chosen ground. The party would be >ll the stronger for that, and the Democracy of Pennsylvania thereby would be lined up where it belongs { —in the "wet" column. , The desperate efforts of Bonnl well to curry favor with the brew erics and the bar room llement may be judged by the manner in which he is dragging even the national administration into his cam paign arguments. "President Wil son is vested with tho power to de clare wartime prohibition at this hour." bonniwell is quoted as hav i ing said in an address Saturday, j "if in his wise Judgment it is neces sary or advisable. Ho has not so acted and he has protested against any effort prematurely to do so." Unfortunately this is all too true, but it does not alter the fact that the Democratic candidate is build ing his whole campaign on the "booze" issue and is even using the administration to bolster up his cause. It becomes all the more im portant, therefore, that the platform of the Republican party and the platform of its leading candidate should be in full harmony upon this important subject The time is ripe . for such a declaration. It can no longer be said that prohibition is not popular. When two Harrisburg lodges of railroad brotherhood men, who be lieve thoroughly in the patriotism of Samuel Gumpers and who sup port most of his policies, take ac tion protesting against his anti-pro hibition utterances, it can not be said that labor is opposed to abol ishing the sale of liquor in the United States. Nor is this temper ance sentiment merely local. From all parts of the country where "booze" has been barred labor leaders testify to the benefits that have resulted. For example: „. Er " est . P- Marsh, president Washington Federation of Labor says—"Organisation among the hitherto unorganized has made great strides. The prohibition law has aided in this desired end." John L. Donley, president Ari zona State Federation of Labor • "Arizona workers are certainly better morally and financially than before prohibition was adopted." Otto R. Hartwig. president Ore gon State Federation of Labor—"l have always opposed adoption of prohibition because I felt it was an infringement on my personal rights. But since it has become-a law here the benefits derived have been so great that I am a cham pion of prohibition from now on." Prohibition sentiment is growing by leaps and bounds the country over. Judge Bonniwell is on the wrong side of the fence. The re turns in November will be im mensely in favor of Senator Sproul and not the least of his appeal to the voting public is his stand in favor of the national amendment. His party's platform should be in full harmony with his own. May we observe that the noisy cut out is still very much in evidence. Mayor Kelster is neither deaf nor blind, and we shall not be surprised to see somebody on the carpet before long. ... •Autocracy is quite as Intolerable in one country as another, and we must be careful in the United States that we do not accept political and parti san scheming as the very essence and core of patriotic devotion. It is cer tain as we go on our way winning the war that the people will insist In hav ing something to say about it, and without apology to the little men who are assuming to think tor our mil lions of citizens. ■ . By the Ex-Committeeman Conditions in the Democratic party In Pennsylvania, so much ad vertised ut Washington and from Market Square, Harrlsburg, Pa., were made more acute yesterday when the committee named by tho state Democratic committee to draft the platform was Ignored by all but one of the seven nominees Invited to meet with it. The men who foi-- row politics In tho Keystone State say that It means the beginning' of the end of the domination of the party In Pennsylvania by the so called reorganization clique, which Is headed by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian; Vance C. Mc- Cormlck, Democratic national chair man and chairman of tho War Trado Board, and other eminent Federal jobholders. For weeks, in fact, ever since the strenuous meeting of the Democratic state committee peoplo have been waiting to sec what attitude would be taken by the men nominated by the Democrats at adlrect primary. Most of the candidates aro men who were backed by the banded bosses and at odds with Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, nominated In splto of the efforts of Palmer and his pals. Now these men, nominated at a state wide primary, have apparently lined up with Judge Bonnlwell, who has refused to have anything to do with the platform makers, contending that tho platform was settled at the primary. —All candidates on the state ticket with one exception, former Congressman J. Washington Logue, nominee for lieutenant governor, failed to put in an appearance. The meeting was called for a conference of the committeemen with the can didates with a view to agreeing up on a platform which they all could recommend for adoption by the state committee, which is scheduled to meet some time before September 1. Mr. Bonnlwell, who sent a letter say ing that he had been nominated up on a platform which he had submit ted to the voters prior to the primar ies and that he proposed to stand up on that platform also Indicated that It was not the business of the com mittee "to Interfere with him. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the other candidates "followed Judge Bonniwell's lead" and says the much advertised and reorganized Democratic party in Pennsylvania is "split up the back" over the liquor issue. The Philadelphia Press says that the belief is that the platform builders met the prohibition issue by "passing the buck" and the Evening Bulletin in addition to saying that Bonnlwell "spurned" the platform makers, engaged headquarters for his own campaign in Philadelphia, which is taken to mean that he will Ignore the state windmill in this city. The Record says: "No action of the reso lutions committee will compel Judge Bonniwell to swerve from his course, and he will continue his campaign along the lines laid out following the historic meeting of the state commit tee when everything possible was done to wreck his chances of elec tion." —One of the members of Chair man Rupp's platform building crew, predicted that the platform would be "acceptable" to every one but Parke H. Davis, of Easton, said frankly he did not know what would happen. The contents of tho paper were kept secret by the members. It was declared that George S. McLean, chairman of the state committee, would be notified that the subcom mittee is ready to report and that the platform will be announced at a meeting of the organization to be held some time next week in this city. —The fightipg judge remained in his chambers in City Hall during the meeting, announcing in advance that he would not attend and that he had mailed the committee a copy of his platform. In this he had the support of Samuel R. Tarner, of Pittsburgh, another of the Congress-at-Large candidates, who, after a protracted conference with Judge Bonniwell, that he too would be noticeable at the meeting by his absence. Judge Bonniwell's stand is also said to have the support of J. Calvin Strayer and Fred Ikler, the other two candidates for Congress-at-Large, who failed to put in appearance, and of Asher R. Johnson, of York, candidate fe the fruit of political preposses- i sions rather than of military pru dence probably accounts for the | persistence of the belief that the i dispatch to Siberia of a very con-1 siderable military force, American,; Japanese, British, and French, | while enabling the Russian people j to free themselves from the j clutches of Germany, thus assuring; to them a future of independence' under a government of their own choosing, which would be the chief: and justifying motive, would also! contribute directly and powerfully j not only to a victory on the western front, but to the defeat of Germany on all fronts. Danger in the east sufficiently great to compel tho transfer of German troops .from the j western armies would manifestly A PATRIOTIC ARTIST (Pittsburgh Gazette Times) Madame Schuman'n-Heink has re cently re-declared her patriotism in a magazine article that moves one by its sympathy and its earnest spirit of devotion. The great contralto so long a dominant figure on the grand opera stage in America needed no new declaration of principles for the reason that she has recorded her Americanism in deeds rather than words. Her fourth son, George, Washington has entered the Ameri can service though barely 20 years of age. Three older sons had pre ceded their brother to the front, and the great singer declares that she hoped to keep her "baby" boy, at least, until he reached his majority, but his restlessness and great desire to take part in the world struggle could not be restrained. He is the one child of the family born in America, and he urged this as a reason why he should go. Madame Heink is also in the American service, for she is singing in the camps and contonments all over the country from California to Maine and declares sheds willing to go abroad and sing for the soldiers, or, as she puts it, "nurse the wounded, scrub the floors or do any thing that might be required" of her. The singer relates with en thusiasm her experiences as an en tertainer in the various camps. 'The courage and enthusiasm eff the boys." she says, "wring my heart, and to have thousands of these brave fellows join me in singing 'The Kosary,' Ethelbert Nev in's beautiful hymn of devotion and sacrifice, is worth all the labor and travel involved." Madame Heink, by thß way, declares that she finds the Nevin song by far the mcjt pop ular wherever she goes and it is always first of the "request" num bers called for. A Pretty Kettle of Fish (Baltimore News) We shall have a pretty kettle of fish if the electorate should take it into his head to rebuke Presiden tial interference with its privileges by returning to Congress the men the President has asked be kept at home. They have been bad enough, but with an indorsement from the homefolk they are apt to become even more obstreperous. The Raincoat Frauds Apropos to the raincoat frauds, it will always be found that a slick slacker makes a slack slicker. — From the Washington Post. A Sable Philosopher [From the Atlanta Constitution] De hymn tells you 'bout being' "in Heaven a thousand years," but dar's some folks what couldn't stand sich long time prosperity. J I make victory there more prompt I and certain. It would be less costly, j These views are known to be held !by military authority in Europe. They appear to be rejected at Wash- 1 I ington. But no "little handful of I Americans" in Siberia will force the; withdrawal of German soldiers from! the soil of France and Belgium. There has been some apprehension I at Washington that allied intorven-1 tion in Russia —for the sending ofj troops is intervention, disguise it as| we may—would alarm the Russian people and provoke them to make common cause with Germany against j the intruders. Recent events must have dispelled that illusion. Clouds I of obscurity overhang a great part I of Russia, but if there is any one j thing of which we can be certain it ; is that Germany has now no .friends j there save among the Bolsheviki. ] The Soviet government has been an ) instrument of Germany, it depends I for its life and - continuance upon | Germany, and it is tottering to its i fall. On (he shores of the White' ! Sea, throughout Siberia, on the Cas- j | pian and in Tprkestan, where the 'presence of a British force from' : India is announced, the "invaders" are welcomed as deliverers. At! I Baku, strangely enough, the local : Bolsheviki with the Armenians are ! helping the British to fight the I Turks. Reinforcement of the Czecho-Slovaks by Russians in Siberia who have joined them is re ported. The picture is everywhere the .same —the Russians desire and i welcome allied help against Ger many. HEADGEAR FOR THE ARMY (Army and Navy Journal) Every now and then somebody publishes a _ statement that the overseas cap is likely to supersede the campaign hat throughout the Army. While the value and adap tability of the overseas cap for the service for which it is now the authorized headgear is recognized, there is no possibility that the cam paign hat will be abandoned at present. The campaign hat with its wide brim was adopted after long years of study and experience as the best available hat for Army use generally in the United States and in the Islands. It is unnecessary to remind anyone of the unfitness of the overseas cap for use by our men in--the hotter climates of the United States especially in the desert country of the southwest where a very large part of our Army now in this country is likely to remain for some time to come. Discussion of the Army headgear question has brought out a few advocates of the adoption of a helmet somewhat similar in type to that worn by British troops in tropical countries. It will be recalled that some ex tensive experiments were made with helmets during the earlier years of American occupation in the Philip pines but the consensus of opinion was finally against the use of the | helmet and the campaign hat was retained. There is every reason to I believe that the overseas cap which is being made in quantities for use j in France by the A.E.F. will be re- I tained for that service, and it may 1 be issued to troops immediately de | stined for service abroad; but the ! old familiar and useful campaign ! hat is likely to remain with us in most sections of the United States as a part of the American soldier's uniform for a great many years to come, or until something that will prove a material improvement upon it is found. Hard Work {From the Baltimore Evening Sun] "I want you to understand that I got my money by hard work." "Why, I thought it was left you by our uncle." "So it was, but I had hard work getting it away from the lawyers." Rapidity of Retreat Explained The report that the Germans re tired from the Marne under a smoke screen may be true, but most likely their coat-tails were afire;— From the Dallas News. She's Hhd Her Chances A girl of Brighton, England, boasts that since the war began she has been engaged fifteen times and has ■broken every engagement herself.— From the Indianapolis News, AUGUST 20, 1918. Lincoln's "Lost Speech" (The New York Sun) President Lincoln assisted the British Prize Court last week. Sir P. E. Smith, attorney general, irf the $20,000 coffee case was ar guing that Germdn owners codld not claim the protection of the Declaration of Paris for goods in neutral bottoms, when the President, Sir Samuel Evans, drew his attention to a legal dictum of President. Lin coln that nobody else in court ap parently had heard of. Sir Frederick had Just pointed out that the Germans had sunk neutral ships containing enemy goods when Sir Samuel, examining a law book, came upon a manuscript npte. He said: "I have, here a note from Presi dent Lincoln's lost speech. Presi dent Lincoln was not only an Ameri can President: he was also —what is more to the point in this Instance —a lawyer. He stated: 'lt is, I be lieve, a principle of law that when one party to a contract violates it so grossly as to destroy the object for which it is made the other party may'rescind it.' "The speech was made in 1856 and is called 'the lost speech.' The record goes on: 'So carried away were the hearers that the reporters present forgot their notebooks, and but for a young lawyer who kept his head sufficiently to make copious notes the speech would have been lost to history and gone opt of human knowledge." OUR DAILY LAUGH PRETTY SOFT. Turtle—Tee, hee, whenever I see one of my creditors, I Just pull in my head! A NEW RULE. "Are you a tramp?" "No, mum, I'm a food conserver. Have you got any old food you don't want wasted." SECURED A LAUNDRY BUSI NESS. "Rastus, I hope you are doing lomethlng to provide for the future." "Yessah, I sure is. I done got married yesterday." EXPERT. "Is your wife practicing food econ omy?" "She doesn't have to practice, she's an expert at It." foentng dljat Owing to the fact that the ex pansion of the work of the Harrla burg Chapter of the Rsd Cross has necessitated the Harrisburg Public Library giving that splendid or ganization more of the space in the library building plans are being® made to carry the story telling feature of the Institution's activities to the children of the city Instead of having the boys and girls gather at the Library. This idea of Miss Alice R. Eaton, the librarian, will mean a greater development of the community scheme and it is hoped to get the use of such places as parish houses, schools and the like for Saturday mornings after the first of October. Ever since the Library was opened hours have been set aside for talks and story telling on Saturdays and some of the city's best-known men and women have given their time, while Army and Navy officers and state officials have contributed. The assembly room of the Library is now used for the Red Cross in addition to the old Eager 'school and it is the scheme to seek the use of such well located buildings as the Shimmell, Foose, Lincoln and Steele schools, parish houses up town and on the hill and other buildings where members of the Library staff, who will work in conjunction with the energetic and enterprising Story Tellers League of the city in telling stories to the children. This work will start in October and continue throughout the winter. In spite of the fact that circu lations of libraries all over the state are reported as having been affected by war time activities the circulation at the Public Library started off on August 1 after a suspension of a month for painting and renovating, at a faster pace than any previous August. The demand for books of a serious nature and for studying has shown a remarkable jump and the children's service has expanded. Plans are being made to add ma terially to the stock of books for little folks and some will arrive next month. It is the hope of the Library whose staff has been established for the winter affter undergoing many changes because of resignations of members to go into war work to launch its school library work promptly. A meeting of principals will likely be held soon to discuss the facilitation of the work. The Library has six libraries in schools and has had requests to establish seven more which can not be met owing to the heavy expense attached under present conditions. Collection of books for soldiers is to be resumed at the Library under the direction of the state headquar ters established by the American Library Association and State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgom ery. The Library is asking for volun teers to gather and prepare books. Last winter the Library bore expense of collecting the books in the city and thousands were forwarded to Camp Hancock for the Pennsylvania soldiers. The books will be as sembled here, arranged and sent where directed by state headquar ters. Director Thompson, of WilA liamsport, was here in conference with Miss Eaton about the way to handle the books and magazines. Live material, not junk, is wanted for the men at the camps and at the front. • • • Men connoted with building and loan associations in this section say that they haw had no troubft in regard to the Liberty bonds in which the associations had invested funds because the stockholders in many cases came around and wanted to buy them. The bonds have been very much in demand. * • Under the caption of "For the Duration of the War." Arthur J. Anderson, editor of the Pennsyl vania Farmer, writes this interesting bit: "We recently shared a car seat with one of the 'boys' in Uncle Sam's Army. He had worked his way through a college course in mechan ics and was now a proud top ser geant in the artillery division. Among a lot of other worth-while things, he said: " 'Uncle Sam is the best father a man ever had'. My own father was a railroad section hand, but that didn't prevent me from getting an education. Uncle Sam gave me free schooling and practically a free college training. I am asked to fight for humanity's rights, but not a woman or child will be wilfully injured U Uncle Sam's fight. Npt a hospital will be bombed, not a Red Cross station In jured, not a legal or humanitarian trust broken. And look at me. I am well cared for, well fed and well clothed. These shoes, this uniform and this entire equipment is the best that money can buy. It is all Uncle Sap's and until this war is over, the man inside this uniform belongs to Uncle Sam.' " • • * The manner In which the young men of draft age are listening to descriptions of the Army insurance plan indicates that the idea is mak ing great headway. Next to want ing to know how to handle them selves when they get to camp, the draftees are asking about insurance. Flavel L. Wright, the insurance man, who has been making addresses about it at various gatherings, says he has to give more time to eluci dating than to speaking in public. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. R. V. Dunphy, of Wil more. has become a chaplain in the United States Army. —Judge Charles B. Witmer, who held court here last week, is at his country home along Buffalo creek in Union county. —Dr. J. P. Kerr, president of Pittsburgh Council, and now a major In the Army, has been named to command the base hospital at Camp Sherman. —Dr. W. J. Holland, of the negie Museum, Is being congratulat ed on reaching his seventieth birth day. —L. W. Jones, the Johnstown health officer, has stirred up that city by telling people to boil drink ing water. —T. DeWitt Cuyler, prominent Philadelphian, who ts active in the m!litary service end of the National Defense Council, is a wealthy man who .has given up most of his time to war work. DO YOU KNOW —That one-half of Harrlsburg's products these days are for the nation's use? HISTORIC HARRISBTJRG —Friendly Indians came to John Harris' home before the Revolution for advice as to what to do In the impending struggle. i