6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWBPAPER FOR THE ROME Founded 1881 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QVS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager, Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUOH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to 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. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley. People's Gas Bulling, - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. to.oo a year in advance. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1918 Steep is the way and toilsome, Long and hard and slow, Yet a wider view and a purer air Are ours, each step that we go. —Priscilla Leonard. COTTON, AT LAST PRESIDENT WILSON has given southern planters to under stand that he means to place a maximum price on cotton and to regulate its sale. It is high time he did so. Cotton has advanced in the past few rears of the war from eight cents to thirty-seven cents a pound, and still going strong. Profiteering in cotton has been the disgrace of the war. Southern growers have put on every peuny they figured the traffic would bear. For a very long time cotton was freely exported without restriction and unquestionably targe quantities of American-grown prod uct reached Germany that should have remained at home or have gone to our Allies. Northern farmers have been com pelled to accept government prices for their wheat and there is no rea son why the planters in the Demo cratic States to the South should not be required to take government fixed prices for cotton. And having at last taken notice of the cotton scandal, is it too much to hope that the President will next turn his at tention to the fact that the import of rice has been forbidden, while the country is sorely in need of all the foodstuffs it can produce? "Box-toed shoes are doomed," says a dispatch. But what do most of us care. The military shoe has no box SAVING THE CROPS SE VE N T Y-FI V E Harrisburg school boys are going into the Adams county apple belt to help harvest the year's crop. They are not serving for pay, merely, for they could earn far more at home. They are "doing their bit." They are part of a great army of boys and men the country over. When Mr. Hoover quieted the hunger fears of Europe with the statement that none would want for bread, he knew what he was talking about. America's great "harvest army" has performed this year a feat which is an epic of labor, according to re cent reports of the Committee of Public Information. In its smoothly organized, efficient and almost mili tary movement up the great Missis sippi basin, from Oklahoma to the Canadian line, this great army of workers has saved America's wheat crop, the loss of which might well have meant the loss of the war. It's a fact worth thinking about—the world's bread is safe for another year. Every year the great drive goes on, but this year, because of the urgent need and the labor shortage, special attention was given the problem and the work was more thoroughly or ganized than ever. This is an unique army—recruited in part from migratory workers, from college students on vacations, and from clerks and businessmen, ■who can give only two or three weeks to the work, but do that gladly for the Nation's good and their own. As soon as the wheat crop is ready in the Southern States of the wheat belt a line of men is thrown across Oklahoma —40 in one town, 50 in another, perhaps 100 or 200 in other communities—and the drive is on. Every effort is made to keep the great land army together as long as possible. When one line has been run, east and west, across the wheat belt the harvest is well under way for that district. A week later an other line is run a little farther north. Week by week the land army marches northward. By the time the Kansas harvest is ready the first line in Oklahoma, for example, has fin ished its work; the men are prompt- SATURDAY EVENING, Sjykrisbuius s£££& TELEGRAPH: SEPTEMBER 21, 1918. ly moved north to enter the new "flrst-line trenches." By late summer the army is work ing in the Dakotas, and the Ameri can wheat crop has been saved. Moving across the border about Sep tember 1, the Canadian crop is put out of danger. When the Canadian wheat has been harvested the men move south again for the American corn crop. Because of tho constant changes in the personnel of the army, due to the fact that so many members can work only for two or three weeks, it is almost Impossible to make a real estimate of the number of men en gaged; but it is an army that would make a big addition to any field force in France, and it does as effective work as the fighting men abrpad. Next summer an even more care ful plan of organization for the har vest army will be worked out, and dvery effort will be made to apply labor power to the best advantage. And what is true of wheat is true also of peaches, and apples, and ber ries, and so on, down through the whole list of crops that must be har vested promptly upon ripening if they are to be saved. All honor to the "harvest armies." A Quakertown man killed himself in a refrigerator, his creditors being hot on his trail. WE CAN WHEN a hard-headed financial expert pauses in his arithmeti cal calculations to solemnly announce that under given condi tions two and two sometimes make five, curious minds may be excused for taking notice. Theodore H. Price, noted statis tician, founder of Commerce and Finance, and now engaged in im portant governmental work, writes for the publication named a remark able editorial on "The Spiritual Ele ment in the Economic World," that cleverly sets forth his belief that America lias accomplished, since tho war began, what any authority pre viously would have had no hesitancy in pronouncing the impossible. "The war," he says, "has unsettled many beliefs and shattered many theories previously regarded as ab solutely inerrant. In the field of commerce, for instance, the law of supply and demand has been sus pended, and in our financial calcula tions it hardly seems safe any longer to assume that two and two make four, as we observe the enormous j increase in bank deposits recorded during the last four years, concur rently with the destruction of wealth that has been in progress. "The fiscal miracles that have been performed in raising loans and collecting taxes would be unbeliev able if they were not historical facts, and, like the earlier miracles de scribed in the Bible, they can* only be regarded as the products of a faith that can remove mountains. This faith, which now. as then, is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen, is entirely spiritual. It comes from within, not from without, it is im material and entirely psychic, but it is nevertheless essential to the development of the material and the concrete and without it the world's economic progress would cease." This is an amazing bit of writing, considering that the source is a brain given largely to computations in cold facts and figures, but who shall say its truth is not as dem onstrable as though the proposition could be proved in terms of mathe matics ■> Indeed, the writer goes on to do that very thing to his own satisfaction in language not difficult to grasp and that will need little amplification for the mind of the average reader. He says: By faith Columbus voyaged across the unknown waters of the western ocean to discover the con tinent that we have inherited; by faith our forefathers devel oped it and established here a government conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal; by faith we undertook and are suc cessfully prosecuting a great war to secure a world-wide accept ance of that proposition, and by faith the seemingly impossible has been accomplished in mobil izing the men and raising the money necessary for that war. And now as we seem measur ably near the end of the strug gle there are to be heard the voices of those who predict that a long period of economic depres sion will follow its successful ter mination. They say that wages and prices must decline, that great overpro duction will ensue, that want and distress will be general and that the costs of the war, of which the present excitement has made us almost oblivious, will have to be finally met amidst great travail. To these timid and pessimistic souls it can only be answered that they lack the spiritual faith that is as the alchemist's stone to things material; that overproduc tion and low prices are factors of depression only to those who choose so to consider them; that in the last analysis increased pro duction at reduced cost is essen tial to the rapid creation of wealth, and that one of the chief benefits of war is that it educates men to make their labor yield more and to work more inten sively; that a shortage' of the things necessary to existence is acutely felt to-day and that it is absurd to say that we shall be worse off when this shortage is relieved; that the war has been a wonderful schoolmaster in econ- omy; that one truth not yet dis proved is that economy Is wealth; that if we permit the post bellum era to become one of depression it will be entirely our own fault and that our pre-eminent duty is to preach and practice the gospel of hope and energize the material with the power of a spiritual faith in ourselves and in mankind. If we falter not in this duty the miracles of peace will be greater than those of war. And, indeed, they will be. William Allen White, in one of his excellent books, relates this incident, which Illustrates the point: He and a guide, of much smaller stature than him self, were making their way through the great Northern woods near the end of a wearisome day. Finally, a mile from camp, White threw down his pack and said he could carry it no further. Without a word the little guide raised White's pack on top of his own and trudged oft, White feebly following. That eve ning White asked his companion: "How could you, a little man, carry both our packs when I, a big man, could no longer carry my own?" And the guide drawled in reply: Mr. White, you can If you think you can." That's the solution. "You can if you think you can." And we think we can finish this war successfully, and we can carry the prosperity of war over into the times of peace. Can we do it? We can if we think we can. We have the faith. By the Ex-Committeeman All indications are that Pennsyl vania will have two full-fledged Democratic state committees within a week and while one of them will not have the right to use the name of the party, the men behind it al ready claim that they have as much right to have a tried and true set of committeemen as the men, who pos sesses the title to what is left of the organization, have authority to say that Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell is not a good Democrat. The fight for control of the state machine and of the delegation from Pennsylvania to the next Democratic national con vention is now fully under way and for weeks to come the suffering pub lic will be reeled with the opinions of the opposing chiefs about each other. The Bonniwell people will make their first move on Monday when a meeting of the friends of the Judge will bo held in Philadelphia and where men who have been invited can not attend' they are to send proxies. The judge's crowd does not propose to want for representation. The committee to be formed will be statewide, as wide as possible. In fact, and many prominent Democrats are already listed as intending to serve. Care will be taken to have these men maintain their party affiliations and there will be a statement issued that they are real Democrats as con trasted with men of the Palmer and McCormick type who refuse to ac cept the nominee of the voters of their party because they don't like him. —An Interesting squabble is under way In Philadelphia. The Mayor wants the tax rate reduced and so do leaders, but the placemen see their jobs going and there is a row on. Similarly there is a fuss between the presidents of councils over the naming of the committee on state legislation. The proposed small council bill is the bone of contention there. —Gifford Pinchot, late candidate for Senator and now an active agri culturalist, will not take much part in the campaign as he will go to Europe to study conditidhs. He has issued a letter supporting Sproul. —Senator Sproul and many of his friends are at Pittsburgh to-day for the Babcock buttermilk party. Sen ator Penrose will meet Western Pennsylvania leaders in that city to night. Senators Sproul and Beidle man will tour Somerset and other counties next week. —Congressman Fess' claim that the next Congress will be Republican will be given some support in Penn sylvania. It looks like a cut in the Democratic representation because of the row. —People at the Capitol are re marking on the fact that for the first time In years the November ballot in Pennsylvania this year will con tain not only a complete state ticket including four nominees for Con gress-at-Large, but the nonpartisan spaces for the appellate courts. It haS been a long time since the Key stone State has had ten state offices to elect at once. In addition to the party squares for the Republican, Democratic, Washington, Prohibition and Socialist parties there will also have to be spaces for the defunct Roosevelt-Progressive party unLess all of its candidates in the state re tire as the nominees for state offices have done.; the Single Tax party, which has a complete state ticket: the Surface Protective ticket, which rages in the Lackawanna district and the People's Independent movement, which has not progressed outside of Northampton county. It is probable that there will be seven or eight candidates for the Supreme Court. Five candidates have already filed and J. J. Kintner, of Clinton county, who was here this week gave violent symptoms of being a candidate. Both justices appointed by the Governor will be down the list. There are now three candidates ahead of Justice Fox on the ballot —Bouton, Budd and Dively and Justice Simpson may be the last name. —Announcement of the plans for the taking of the soldier vote Is ex pected next week. Governor Brum baugh was to have been here this week, but the proposition did not get out of the Attorney General's of fice to which the Secretary of the Commonwealth referred the letter from the War Department. —Some idea of the extent which Pennsylvania is aiding the depend ants of the officers and employes of the state government who have gone into the United States Army or Navy is furnished by the August payments under the leave of absence for the war act of 1917, which permits such persons to make application for half pay during service. Dozens of men are norw in the military or naval service and the allowance Is half o| the salary up to $2,000. There have been numerous rulings on what con stitutes dependency and makes a person eligible for the payment —A flood of legislation to forbid the teaching of German in the schools of Pennsylvania, notwith standing the attitude of federal of ficials and the position of Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who holds that the language has a • commercial value, is expected when the General Assembly meets in January. In a number of counties where German was resumed people refused to send their children to the schools and the Patriotic Sons of America, intends to back a number of bills. Gabriel H. Moyer, the past presi dent, who has been most active in combatting German, is behind some of the bills. "We're going to have a showdown in Pennsylvania and see where everyone stands," said he. "We at least intend to get people on record and we will show Dr. Schaef fer, who has opposed the banish ing of German, where to head in. We want books like the Spirit of Democ racy, which we back, to be used Instead of the kultured doctrines be ing taught in some of the German textbooks still in use in parts of this state. HOW TC GET TO THE GOLF COVRSE ON A GASLESS SUNDAY -:- • By BRIGGS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 3 PER CENT. MORE WHEAT! To the Editor of the Telegraph: What! Who said so? Hoover, the big man, who's in the employ of Uncle Sam. So brother farmer as you hear it said, or take off your hat, sit down and take time to read, the slogan: "Three Per Cent. More Wheat," won't you take three minu tes to look around, three to think and three to decide; how it can be done? If you're a slacker you'll not try, if a knoedter you may say "I'm running my farm and will do as I please." Lest you forget and your neighbor don't know that Uncle Sam wants "Three Per Cent More Wheat" why not greet, as jou one another meet, for the hext three weeks, with "Three Per Cent More Wheat" instead of the customary "how do you do." A few facts. Cumberland county has 2,500 farms with an average acre of about 75 acres. With the cus tomary 4, 5 or 6 year rotation, oue third to one-fourth of the farm is sown to wheat. This would mean approximately 50,000 acres in wheat. A three per ceht. increase equals 1,500 acres or six-tenths acre per farm. More than this amount is usually destroyed around the build ings by the chickens. Why not keep the chickens off the wheat and thus by conserving the usual waste around the farm buildings, a large part of the "Three Per Cent More Wheat" would be assured. It is timo we brand the free range hen as an outlaw. She needs to be incarcerated and made servant in stead of master. She needs to be de throne} from being queen of all she surveys, by the clippings of wing and tail, or head if you please; when the preacher comes- around. If we take time to think and plan certainly most of us could increase! our wheat acreage six-tenths of an acre and to make up for the farmer that can't, and the slacker or knock er that won't, we had better make it an acre. - Perhaps "Uncle Sam" will be so pleased at the effort we have made, that the breaks will be eased; and the price be raised, to compen sate us for growing "Three Per Cent. More Wheat." More later. A Township Committeeman. JOVER HERE—OVER THERE To the Editor of the Telegraph: The day will come when there will be 1 no Hun, And the world will be pure and safe, And the Stars and Stripes will then proudly wave Above all, in its well-won place. Then again there will be a sunny France, Then once more a gay old Paree. For we are going to fight with all our might To make the world what it should be. And when our brave soldier boys pass us by Leaving all to go over there, With searching looks to ourselves let us cry What more can I do over there? So we who are here, while they're over there Must work with good spirit and will. For the quicker the ships move out on our ways. The quicker moves Old Kaiser Bill. LEWIS PROKOP, 1802 North Sixth St. Translated from the Greek. LABOR NOTES Women are now eligible to mem bership in the Railway Mall Clerks' Association. The standard rate of wages in To ronto for carpenters is 65 cents an hour. Women will be employed as enum erators when the next census Is taken in 1920. Baltimore (Md.) Boilermakers' Union has raised wages from 50 to 70 cents an hour. London (England) County Council has opened classes for girls employed at the Ministry of Food. San Diego (Cal.) Carpenters' Union is enforcing its new wage rate of $6 a day. E. E. Dudding, of New York, wants 100,000 American convicts put to work in munition plants. Thousands of women in Japan earn their livelihood by working in the fields or on the dock loading ships. General Pershing's Forces Playing For a Great Stake THE advance of the American Armies toward Metz is of great er significance than its strate gic importance alone would indi cate. The territory through which the German forces must retreat and yield to the Allies if the progress of the Yanks continues is tne famous Briey basin, from which France drow before the war the great bulk of its •- .. -cpply. It is recalled that in the Franco- Prussian War of 1870 Bismarck evi dently overlooked the resources of this district, for by tho peace treaty France retained it. its development later or the benefit of France must have been a matter of chagrin to the Iron Chancellor, and one of Ger many's first moves after war began in 1914 was to obtain possession of it. Planned to Seize Metals Germany realized that it was to be a war of science and of metals. Her farseeing general staff, map ping out long in advance the cam paigns that would most nearly in sure victory tor her, cast their armies one after another towards the greatest prizes of Europe—coun tries and sections of nations which held large deposits of the valuable raw materials with production in a stage of development which would I permit Germany, after seizure, to I continue uninterruptedly working the deposits and thus using the pos sessions of an enemy as the means wherewith to defeat him. The very first move Germany made after the war was declared was to launch a huge army through Belgium. The reason given at the I time was that this route was the only practicable one to France. Yet it | is more probable that the real pur i pose was, at any cost, to seize pos session and absolute control of the ' country, with its Immense deposits lof iron ore, thoroughly developed iron mines, model steel works, fac tories suitable for the making of cannon and shells and accumulated stores of copper, nickel and zinc and its admirable railways. Overran France Then the German Army went over into P'rance, overrunning large man -1 ufacturing and agricultural districts, obtaining for the use of the people of raw material, which was used, not to prepare for peaceful trade at the end of the war, but to prosecute the war itself. The costly effort to take Verdun Pennsylvania's Showing (From the Philadelphia Inquirer) From Harrisburg comes the an nouncement that Pennsylvania shows a total registration in the great | man-power enrollment, on Septem ber 12, of 1,148,969. This slightly exceeds the estimated number. Phil adelphia furnishes almost a quarter of a million of the registrants. Near ly 900,000 of those who enrolled are natives of the state. It is a splendid showing, and one that must give just pride to the people of a com monwealth which has never failed in its duty to the nation. The nat j ural resources of Pennsylvania have always been a source of satisfaction, and now it has been demonstrated that in the matter of man-power it has no reason to be apologetic. The result will cause no surprise to those who are familiar with the state and its people. From the very outset of the war Pennsylvania has been in the forefront. It was to be expected from a state that takes pride in the possession of Valley Forgo and Gettysburg, a state that furnished the financiers of the Revo lutiorff the war of 1812 and the Civil War. It has come to tho front with men and means whenever it has been necessary, and the record it has made in this war, and which it will continue to make until the struggle is ended, will furnish one of the brightest pages in the history of the world's greatest conflict. Revived His Interest [From the Dallas News] Thomas Atkins was fractious. His medicine was nasty, and he refused to lake it. Two or three V. A. D.'s stood round him, urging hWn be good. "Come," said one, "drink this and you will get well!" "And rosy, too!" chimed in a sec ond. Atkins brightened. He wasn't par ticularly keen on getting well, but to get rosy was quite another mat ter. "Which of you is Rosy?" he ask ed, surveying the pretty group. can be explained only on this theory. | Verdun as a fortress was cornpara- j tively strong, but was not of such j strategic importance as to warrant Germany's drive, viewed supertlcial-1 ly. But possession of Verdun would i have meant for Germany further se curity in ihe possession of the Briey district. This district produces 90 per cent, of all iron ore mined in France. Since its capture this product has been going to Germany, to be return ed to France as cannon and shells. The fact that the Germans have maintained even a repellent posi tion before Verdun has enabled them to keep up tho mining of ore in this district. Before the war the iron ore output of Germany, chiefly from the de posits of the Lorraine district, was about 28 million tons annually, of which Lorraine contributed 21 mil lion tons. Since Germany has had possession of the Belgian, Luxem burg and Briey mines, Germany has been using 49 million tons of iron ore each year- But for that fact ex perts have declared Germany would long ago have been forced to aban don her enterprise and the Allied na tions would have made short work of her. Great Prize at Stake France has been seriously handi capped by the necessity of import ing practically all her supply of iron and steel since the Germans took possession of the Briey district mines; and ore of her objects in the war has become that of regaining possession of them. It is believed that the surrendering of this dis trict and of Lorraine to France will be made one of the conditions of peace, as it would enable France to mine 36 million tons of iron ore each | year, against an estimated produc tion of only 7 million for Germany. [ It is to be expected that the re : sistance of the German forces op posing the American advances will be the more bitter as It progresses, beeause of the great prize at stake. Success on the part of - General Pershing's troops will mean not only wresting front Germany one of its chief sources of iron and of the coal with which to smelt it, for the Briey ba3in contains valuable coal mines a swell, but it will mean turn ing it over to France at an oppor tune time, releasing the shipping now employed in furnishing France with Iron and coal to other work in 1 the war. , The Old Rail Fence [From the Columbus Dispatch] Among tho once necessities of farm life that reflected prodigality in the use of valuable timber was the old rail fence. Like many other bygones of rural life, its place in farm wastefulness now is well es tablished and yet it had its uses for which the present straight line wire fencing cannot qualify. 0 The old rail fence's serrated stretches were the homes of small animal life that now is rapidly dis appearing. Around its timbers there grew the uncultivated blackberry, with its sister the raspberry, and among its recesses there thrived the elder whose fruit once was coveted pie material and whose blossoms were the foundation for elderberry wine that matrons served of a win ter evening when the neighbors gathered. The rail fences, with its invariable undergrowth, was the favorite pro tection for Bob White in winter, and from its top he sang in the warmer seasons. Beneath, the little ground squirrel burrowed. From safe re treat he chattered if some intruder came near to annoy him as he was busily engaged in gathering his store of food for the snow time. / To the harvest hand it afforded protection at the end of the long row for a brief respite and its cor ners formed shaded nooks under which the water jug might be kept. And from what royal timber was this old fence constructed! Black walnut logs, chestnut logs and the smooth lengths of the ash tree were cleft by numerous rail splitters for the "seven high" fence that stood the storms of decades. There was many a black walnut rail whose tim ber would make the manufacturer of gun stocks chortle with satisfac tion had lie such a present supply of wood at his command. Chances For Older Men Able-bodied men over draft age can be made skilled workers in the training schools now maintained in the large factories, and thus enabled to earn good wages while they are rendering aid to the nation in its time of need. The war has proved that age is not a bar to the attainment of efllciency in a new trade. The men past 50 have come back to renewed usefulness in lines of work never previously tried, and from all parts of the country reports are proving his great possibilities in aiding most lines of essental industry. At the Boardman Trade School, in New Haven, a painter aged 60 learn ed quickly to be an adept machin ist. A shirt ironer past 45 years of age in a laundry at Bridgeport, Conn., ran a screw machine after three days' practice and produced twenty-five per cent, more rapidly than the estimate made by the mak er of the machine. At the end of a week he was taking the machine to pieces, and now he is earning sixty cents an hour in regular production. An enameler of the same age. Who was working on a machine in the same training room, stayed a month to aua'ify as foreman in a screw ma chine room. A farmer of 68, who had had mechanical training in his vouth, entered the training room of a munition factory, and quickly qualified for skiHed production. OUR DAILY LAUGH LOCATED. Jkl Do you think 'J:j, > ' brains of the They mast be j somewhere. (J jJjj | COMPLICATED I . y ; l CALCULATION | lis';// Has your hus '//' ijl/ band quit work? Yea. Ho has 7 figured it out \*N •. that h® ca n save J J more by staying fyr v,'* home and runp If ning the furnace |\ L/v\ p than he can IV [N \ earn by going | J downtown. THE HITCH. JA^jk Are you liv ing within your Income? \\J|| \ lam all right, A > V but the trouble l[ .x j is my wife Isn't. i L I HOW IT WAS DONE. > l\ Maiden Lady: / y \m V Weren't you f I \. 1 ever proposed \ | to, Mr. Hunt? _J Mr. Hunt ( n e r v o usly): Not since I was TB if married. BI'EAKINO OP LLANDUDUO. " ETC. M** The First Cor- jw \s. respondent I hope England will never be Invaded. C K The Other One —Same here. y) i The Eastern •"*! I front Is bad enough. But | think of spelling TyvOr j the names of | Welsh battle fields I larotutg >, -o.„ _ . , county;' 3 PErt ° f Lanc aster x