8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. • STER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager■ Executive Board J. P. MeCULLOUGII, i BOYD M. OGELSBY, I F. R. OYSTER, I GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press IB 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. Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and^Penn- Eastern office, Story, Brooks & Avenue Building. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. B y carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $6.00 ■ a year in advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1918 Hurry and Cunning are the two apprentices of Despatch ayd of Skill, but neither of them ever learn their roaster's trade. — COLTON. SPROUL RIG FAVORITE SENATOR SPROUL continues to Increase in favor with the peo ple without regard to party af filiation. He realizes the conditions which confront the country and his speeches breathe a fine spirit of patriotism. He is going about meet ing the voters here and there, but does not believe it Is necessary to Indulge in the usual hectic political campaign. In this he will have the approval of all good citizens. The issues are clearly drawn in Pennsylvania as between Sproul and ponniwell and there will be no con fusion at the ballot box in November. The Republican standard bearer has taken a clear and unequivocal posi tion with respect to the Important questions which concern the people this year and at the very outset declared in favor of the adoption of the proposed prohibition amend ment to the constitution. This fact • alone demonstrates a correct read ing of public sentiment and all who favor the abolition of the drink traf fic will welcome the challenge of the Democratic nominee to a square con test on the booze issue. Let us have it out at the Novem ber election in the open. If the people of Pennsylvania are in favor of a continuance of the rum traffic with all lhat follows In Its train, they will line up behind Bonniwell. 'On the other hand. If they believe the time has" come to crush this business, they will manifest that de sire in the support of candidates who favor the prohibition amendment Those misguided temperance folk i who still believe that they should throw away their votes upon a purely political Prohibitionist who has no hope of election will probably represent an insignificant part of the • total vote, but even these should consider well how they fritter away their strength this year. "That's the most beautiful building L in the city," said one girl to another, I as they passed down Walnut street and admired the floral front of the home of the Telegraph. Thanks, awfully! CURFEW DESPITE the repeated and em phatic declarations of an army of earnest elocutionists to the effect that "Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night," the curfew has been sounding right regularly down through the years in all well regu lated communities. Solemnly, mournfully, Dealing its dole. The Curfew boll Is begining to toil. That was back in the days of the good poet, Longfellow. Here In Har rlsburg we do it in a more practical, if less romantic way—we simply toot p. whistle a given number of times and children within the age limit are supposed, we say—to take hurried directions for home and ' mother. Dark grow the windows. And quenched is the fire; Sound fades into silence— And footsteps retire. That also was In Longfellow's time. But not so in Harrlsburg. The steam that is used to toot the curfew signal here might better be saved to heat up the cold radiators on "fuelless" days next winter. The f Warning it sounds abroad means nothing, absolutely nothing, in the fair young lives of Harrisburg boys and girls, and even less In the jaded lackadaisical round of existence of Harrlsburg policemen, who appear to go to sleep so long In advance of the curfew siren that' even its thun derous notes can scarcely rouse them to a sense of duty. L "Heigho, yawns the drowsing offi cer oil his favorite corner, "what'a an ordinance between friends, any way," and sinks back to pleasant v ' •' . - • ' ! "• v " *' "• V ! * " ' ' • THURSDAY EVENING, hajuusburg {iSjgjtf TELEGRAPH AUGUST 22, 1918. dreams of throwing hand grenades down the great throat of the curfew whistle. Meanwhile the law is being broken In a thousand places all over the city and boys and girls who should be at home In bed continue to wander at will, where they will. Children laugh at the curfew regulations and policemen growl when they are men tioned. The man who wrote "Cur few Must Not Ring To-night" might have saved his ink. It doesn'a amount to a hoot in Harrlsburg whether it rings or toots or remains silent "Any man who chooses to run the risk can manufacture whisky secretly for fifty cents a gallon," says Arthur' Brisbane. One can but wonder how Mr. Brisbane knows. DEFEAT OF VARDAMAN MISSISSIPPI is to be congratu lated upon the defeat of Sena tor Vardaman for renomina tion. The whole country rejoices that this misrepresentative is to be re tired to private life. President Wil son will regard the result of the pri mary as an endorsement of his ad ministration, and so it is, in a way, but only such an endorsement as Republican Pennsylvania or any other loyal State would have accord ed him under the circumstances. The American people as a whole, regardless of party, are back of the President in his war aims—which they take to be the defeat of Ger many on the field of battle and in the future fair play for all peoples and honest dealing between the na tions, large and small. They will go on to victory under that standard or go down to utter defeat the President rather than accept less than the great objects for which they are striving. But as to agreeing with, the President in all of his policies— tlat iS quite another matter, and the Vardaman incident must be regarded in its true light, that of patriotic people declining to return a doubt ful citizen to office, and not as a straw in the partisan political wind. It's too bad that the Americans are constantly doing things to annoy their Hun opponents. They attack without warning, they don't stop fighting ac cording to the German schedule and now they use shot-guns with buck shot cartridges. Of course, the finicky enemy pretend that all this is con trary to the Geneva convention, con veniently forgetting that it is also a violation of the convention to use ex plosive bullets, liquid fire, poisonous gases and Instruments of a barbarous nature, all of which aqtually have been employed by German troops in the fighting. Shot-guns are used by military police under recognized in ternational agreement, but the Hun always squeals when his own tactics are turned against him. United States Senator James Hamil ton Lewis is doing considerable talk ing in France. Among other things, he has declared at long range that the war will probably he over before the next Presidential campaign and that with the war over, "there is not the slightest chance of the third-term question arising." Jim Ham also be lieves that the people will not look to the military heroes for the heads of the tickets, and that "the leaders will naturally be statesmen rather than soldiers." He also emits the opinion that "the Democratic party cannot go to the East for its candi date." Aha, there's the milk in the cocoanut. Jim Ham lives in the Mid dle West and is not a soldier. Mayor Keister and his associates in the city administration will doubtless pick up quite a bit of useful informa tion at the Erie convention of the League of Third Class Cities. But they should keep constantly in mind that Harrisburg is considerably ahead of other cities, and not fall into the error of being pulled down Instead of lifting up in their official Inter change of thought. Many of the boys of the One Hun dred and Tenth and the One Hundred and Twelfth regiments have made the supreme sacrifice, but the spirit of the nation is being expressed in the high est form of patriotic devotion, and Pennsylvania is over there in the way the Hun can now understand. Good old Harrisburg is humping along saving sugar, reducing its waist line, making a more efficient milk distribution and helping to conserve fuel. When the boys come back we can afford to feast, but not until then. When peace is finally declared the news should come from the Allies in Berlin. Germany will never know all the trujth until the "Yanks" have marched down the Unter den Linden and through the arch of tho Emperor. Have you been reading Dr. Davis' "The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Four teen Years?" If not. turn this even ing to another page of the Telegraph and you'll want all the preceding chapters of this compelling story. Community singing is being en couraged at Duncannon, where the townsfolk gathered at the Jennings summer home last night and sang the popular war songs. Who will start the community "sings" here? President Wilson is still being sharply criticised for his Interference in the selection of candidates for the House and the Senate, but we must steadily keep in mind that "politics is adjourned." Complaints of failure to properly look after the silt basins along the Susquehanna interceptor are heard. Commissioner Lynch will stand for nothing of this sort, if he knows it. There is still hope, we understand, of something being done to save the shade trees of Harrlsburg. Park Com missioner Gross favors the appoint ment of a commission. Secretary McAdoo is catching on, but he will not forget that the long headed Pennsylvania Railroad officials have already taken steps to run their trains by electricity. How about the Curfew ordinance? Is this also a dead letter and unen forced like the cut-out regulation as to motor vehicles? 'PotvttC* tfc By the Ex-Oommltteeman Members of the Democratic state committee may not be called to meet in Harrlsburg to consider the draft of the proposed platform until after September 1. The committee in charge of the document upon which the state organization Intends to go before the voters has not yet de termined upon the declarations and is also disposed to await the result of some overtures said to have been pointed in the direction of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the candidate for Governor, who Insists on running on his own platform regardless of the state committee. The state committee provided that it should be reconvened before Sep tember 1 to hear the report of the platform committee, but it is said that State Chairman George R. Mc- Lean has been informed that the platform builders may not be ready. The original plan was to have the state committee meet August 28. Secretary Warren VanDyke, of the state committee, said to-day that he expected the state committee to meet, denying reports that it would not —Republicans from a dozen coun ties will gather at Neff's, the historic meeting place of the Lehigh county Republicans, for the opening of the Republican campaign on Saturday. This meeting has for years been held immediately after the Democratic meeting to start things and this year the Republicans will have a notable assembly. Gubernatorial Candidate Sproul, Senator Edward E. Beidle man, and Representative James F. Woodward, nominees for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs, respectively, have both an nounced an intention of being pres ent and it is quite likely that all of the nominees for Congressman-at- Large; William J. Burke, of Pitts burgh, Allegheny county; Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesboro, Greene coun ty; Mahlon M. Garland, of Edge wood, Allegheny county, and Ander son H. Walters, of Johnstown, Cam bria county, will also be there. —Senator Sproul has accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the Republican county committee of Montgomery county, at Norristown, on September 7, and he will later visit a number of plants in the coun ty for informal meetings with the voters. It is not likely that there will be any meetings scheduled by the state committee before the latter part of September. There may,be two parties of orators tour the state, and owing to the uncertainty of railroad connections, automobiles will be used largely in making the visits from county to county. —Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell was I at the York fair yesterday and there is small comfort for the organiza tion faction in what transpired in the big Democratic county. The judge spoke to a large crowd at the fair and after the speechmaking "held meetings in York with prominent Democrats. The city and county committees lined up with him and at last Congressman A. R. Brodbeck turned up beside him. This condi tion is interesting in view of the way prominent Federal jobholders iden tified with the Palmer-McCormick group have been trooping into York county to hold the line. —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran ton, who was here yesterday, said that the troubles In his city over firemen and highway workers were ended. "All got increases except the Mayor," he remarked. —Charles B. Lenahan, the Wllkes- Barre lawyer, who persists in run ning for Supreme Court justice over the Palmer-McCormick choice. Jus tice E. J. Fox, is in Pittsburgh look ing after some of his fences and pre paring for some energetic work. —Friends of Henry Budd, the prominent Philadelphia lawyer, have been getting very busy in his behalf for Supreme Court in this city. —People here are still discussing the resignation of J. M. Coughlin, the Wilkes-Barre educator and one of the oldest friends of the Governor, from the State Board of Educatfbn. The fact that it was kept so quiet is what is making it such an interest ing topic of conversation. —People Interested in third class city affairs are watching with much interest the outcome of the situa tion in Johnstown, whore the Clark act, the civil service act for police men, the city fathers and pthers have come into many-sided collision. The Clark act seems to be the cause of more or less perturbation, espe cially in Chester. Wilkes-Barre and Johnstown. It bids fair to be a tar get next winter when the Legislature meets. The Johnstown row occur red when the Civil Service Commis sion announced that all candidates for the office of chief of police, which becomes vacant August 31, must file written applications with the Com mission and submit to physical and mental examination under a rule adopted by the Board. Mayor Eouis Franke and other members of Coun cil contend that the vacancy shall be filled by promotion, without the formality of such examination, from the ranks of the present force. The Commission rules, they declare, have never been approved by Council and would not be effective, anyhow, if they conflicted with the state laws. Bricks Without Straw? "But from the beginning I have planned, as a matter of regulation, to have men from eighteen to nine teen put in a separate class, with a view to deferring their call until it is necessary."—Secretary Baker. "We will need every single man in Class 1 between eighteen and forty five. We must not delude ourselves with the' idea that those in the eighteen and nineteen calls are go ing to be deferred any length of time. They will have to be called early next spring in order to get their training in time to get to France."—General March. LABOR NOTES United Mine Workers has a Cana dian membership of almost 8,000. A provincial bureau is being formed In England for the employment of discharged soldiers in civil employ ment. Pressmen, mailers and stereotypers of the newspaper offices in Toronto have been granted a 6 per cent, in crease as a war bonus. The Women's County Committee of Fife, Scotland, is enrolling 1,000 wo men for weeding and harvesting the flax crop. Belfast shipbuilders have achieved a world's record in completing an 8,000-ton standard ship in 15 days aftor she was launched. Agricultural workers in West Glou cestershire, England, are threatening to strike unless they are paid $11.25 a week i IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ' By BRIGGS | 5 ~~~\ / P f 6ReAT~STOFFI r' — Bora? GIWC M 6 } \ Me Thinks J f FRED 1 * I rut HAwe K_ /-__> A oy e / I PHCODY J - I uer-s hauf ) A UTTIP/ 7~R MIRHRAII'L /*JP\ \ ANOTHER J <-> JGL WMRE 1) / ru. GTJS t>v> AO LL W I 1 ♦ / YJHEK* iiu HEAOSNS NAME x N N>\ J <*>T THE >* THAT YOUR IMITATIONS /' \ i\£L KB I o® ✓ / A*® PuMroY - I DOM-T KrJOvu '.'. A FINE ^ P ' E TUUO^ELI-- Human Touch Heeded [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] Charles M. £jchwab, the human dynamo who is directing the prac tical side of the shipbuilding pro gram in furtherance of the Govern ment's military program, gave some excellent advice a few days ago In Philadelphia to well-meaning patri otic workers. "Patriotic speeches are all right and so are slogans and posters," said the director in his plain utilitarian way, "but they arc being crassly 'overdone. Go among these shipbuilders with the human touch—that's what they need—and drop the hot air. I know men and I know what these men want. They are doing the work in the sweat of their brows, and, believe me, they know what's what." As perhaps the most personally successful manager of steel plants in the world, Mr. Schwab's every-day words make the best kind of advice. His knowledge of men is not the least valuable or his equipment as a phenomenally successful superin tendent and general manager before he went to the head of the class as erector of one of the largest steel making organizations in the coun try. He knows men thoroughly. Tho men who labor in the Bethlehem plant will vouch for his knowledge of human nature, and men who ever worked at Edgar Thompson or Homestead will corroborate. It was Mr. Schwab's ability and willingness to go among the men with the human touch that contributed sub stantially to his success from the day when, as a comparative youth, lie became general manager of the Edgar Thompson works. He al ways could get more work from the men. Criticism of the overdone patriot ism of oratory and slogans and catch phrases and posters is better from Mr. Schwab than the ordinary man because there is not the slightest danger of misunderstanding or mis interpreting him. He knows men and that knowledge warns him that if the oratory and other demonstra tions of patriotic overzeal is kept up, one result will be a revulsion and a testy temper among those which may ask questions about practical results that may not be so easy to answer. Keep up the patriotic talk, says Mr. Schwab, but also go among the men,who are doing the work and offer them the genuine human touch. They need it and—this is Mr. Schwab's strong point—they have a claim to it. Why They Want Him [From New York Times] ■ There is a queer misapprehension among some of the opponents of Mr. Henry Ford's burst into the Michigan primaries. Thus The Detroit Free Press ascribes to him a contempt for the political processes by which the government is carried on. "Mr. Ford," says The Chicago Tribune, "has indulged himself for years in the gratification of not knowing any thing' about the country's political procedure, of not connecting himself with it, or having anything to do with it." This Is a little unjust. Mr. Ford remembers that he cast his first vote for v President "for Garfield" in 1884. If his memory, busy with so many weightier matters, has mislaid his candidate's name, at least Mr. Ford once voted, and he knows that there are Presidents. But it is not as an authority on politics, on the American political system, -that he has been picked for Senator by an expert and an illus trious hand. Just as the Prussian Herrenhaus Includes a number of life-peers who are chosen by the king from among great landholders, rich industrials, "national celebrities;" Just as the House of Lords has among its members great men of business, of letters, so should not our Senate be In part a Chamber of Notables, of Magnates, a House of Fame, in an other than Chaucer's sense? Few men are better known than Mr. Ford. In the matter of swift, ro mantic, inexhaustible riches Monte Cristo was Lazarus compared to this Wolverine machinist. He is one of the greatest carriers in the world. In what hamlet is the sound of his wheels unheard? His experience on the ship of peace makes him an au thority on shipping. His Christmas evacuation of the trenches makes him an authority on military affairs. Yet not as a common politician, but as a rare, a natural, an unconscious genius do his enthusiasts push him toward the Senate. Mystery About the Kaiser A Detroit paper remarks that the kaiser speaks English fluently. What, then, keeps him from understanding it? From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THAT NEW BRIBE To the Editor,of the Telegraph: One would think that when a na tion was engaged in a war for hu manity the setting up of the dollar against the man would have little weight with the legislator. But strange as it may seem, in the eyes of many legislators the dollar is still much bigger than the man. It was in the Presidency of the immortal Lin coln that the nation was first brought face to face with the question of the infernal revenue the nation has been ever since receiving from the liquor traiflc. When the bill passed by Con gress was presented to him for'his signature he refused to sign declar ing he would rather lose his right arm at the shoulder than to have his right hand affix his name to the bill. However, after much urging and the assurance that as soon as the war was over the bill would be re pealed, he reluctantly yielded and the blood money began to flow into the treasury. The sacred promise to repeal has never been kept. A new crisis is on us. Congress has large sums of money to raise for this war for humanity. Once more as in the days before the Civil War the battle for the abolition of the drink traffic has risen to high tide. A day has even been fixed by the United States Senate when a bill providing for national prohibition for the period of the war shall become the unfinished business of the Senate un til a vote is taken. "~ Once more the bribe, only of much larger proportions, is to be held out to block the passage of the bill. We hear talk of a billion in revenue that will be lost If prohibition is voted. The committee in charge of prepar ing the stupendous eight billion rev enue bill has seen a great light and has raised the infernal revenue tax on whisky from $3.20 per gallon to $8 'pfer gallon. Doubtless other alco holics will have like raises proposed. What will be the estimate placed by our Congress upon the dollar as com pared to the man? We shall sotm see. But "woo to him that buildeth a town with blood and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Behold, is it not of the Lord of Hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire?" Sub stitute "nation" for "town" and "city" and it is just as true, and is not our nation passing through "the very fire?" And who are we? We de light to boast that in this land, we, the people, are the sovereigns. If so, let us rise in our sovereignty and compel our servants, the legislators, both state and national, really to serve us and do our will. Pretty sov ereigns we, if we sit supinely by and let our "servants" dictate to, us who shall represent us in the halls of the Legislature and of Congress. The "servants" have become the masters and "t