8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JBSI B3sa= . Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square ——— 1 3. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QU& M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press is exclusively en titled to tho use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub tshed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Assoc^a- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- office Avenue Building, O a s'' Bulltfing, i Chicago, 111. Entered at tha Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, 13.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919 All Die so (to 10 and worry On all this green-covered earth Ia followed soon, if we wait and hope. By a generous measure of mirth. —Jeanctte Lawrence. LEE'S STATEMENT MOST railroad men know person ally or by reputation William G. Lee, the head of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and his courageous declaration in Washingaon as to the prevailing cause of the high cost of living has caused something of a sensation. He urges that the Government had better be doing something to sup press the profiteering in foodstuffs Instead of considering at public hearings further increases. "All of us are to blame," said he, "because we are exerting every ef fort to get more money for our selves and better conditions, while the profiteers are taking double from the working man what is given him." "I will admit to you," he further declared, "that we are going the wrong way and that it is time to call a halt. Until we get together to stop this there will be hell in this country." Mr. Leo referred to the rather satisfactory conditions prior to the war and said that there was some peace "until the commodities that working people are compelled to pay for were permitted to be in creased, doubled and trebled, with out any question and often seem ingly with the approval of the Gov ernment." He accused the lawmakers of playing politics, instead of finding a way to bring about normal condi tions, and indicated that the labor organizations were also playing politics. "It is the same down the line," was his conclusion. It is such statements as Lee's that have aroused the Washington ad ministration to its responsibility and its obligations to the people. With millions of dollars worth of foodstuffs stored in the military warehouses of the Government, it is little wonder that the labor leaders and others are calling the Washington authori ties to account. A CITY FOUNDATION RECENTLY a good woman of Pittsburgh passed away leav ing $1,000,000 to establish a fund for the relief of the poverty and distress of children and babies in want through abandonment or the death or poverty of their parents. This large bequest will be handled by a foundation named in honor of the donor and the entire residuary estate is to be devoted to this philan thropic work. Here is another argument in favor of the Harrisburg Foundation which The Telegraph has suggested as a proper agency for the care of be quests to be devoted to public wel fare objects in this city. There is such a Foundation at Cleveland and it is a community trust, created by the union of many gifts—many dif ferent estates or parts of estates— held in. trust," contributed by the people and managed by them for the benefit of the city. In the Ohio metropolis the Foundation provides an income for assisting educational and charit able Institutions, for the improve ment of living conditions, in provid ing facilities for recreation and for any other educational or charitable purposes which will best make for the mental, moral and physical im provement of the people of the city. Such r. Foundation for Harrisburg would hppeal not only to men and women of wealth, but to those of moderate means whose surplus (after caring for children and rel atives) would not be great enough to endow a chair or a charity or accomplish any other notable pur pose. By the combining of many small funds a large income would be provtded with which work of real significance to the community SATURDAY EVENING, might be accomplished. Under ap pointment by the court, trustees for tho proposed Harrisburg Foundation would be elected and women would be eligible to membership on this committee. No distinction should be made in the use of the money on account of race, color or creed and all receipts and disbursements, as at Cleveland, would be audited annually and the certified statement showing invest ments held, amount of income re ceived, purposes for which it has been used and expenses of the com mittee would be published in news papers of the city. Several millions of dollars have already been pledged under wills and trust agreements for the use of the Foundation at Cleve land and similar community trusts have been established in a score or or more of the leading cities of the country. Tho Telegraph is advised from Cleveland that the Foundation in that city has met public expecta tions and has given a new signifi cance to the ownership of wealth. Instead of diverting ownership it perpetuates it and at the same time guarantees proper custody, proper management and proper use of in come. It makes it honorable for a man to build up a fortune in a com munity, because it provides the means for the return of that for tune as a whole or in part for the permanent service of the community. At Cleveland bequests and gifts, large and small, are solicited from those who are in sympathy with the idea and who desire the assur ance that their bequests for educa tion and other purposes will be per manently under the control of men of wide experience and sound judg ment. Harrisburg has many generous cit izens who doubtless would be glad to have such a Foundation as has been outlined organized in this city, to give full force and effect to their philanthropic impulses, and The Telegraph will be pleased to print any comments which may be re ceived upon this suggestion, Harrisburg canteen workers who have seen manacled American prison ers go through this city on crowded railroad cars enroute to Leavenworth and other Government prisons are disposed to believe the stories of bru tality which " are now coming out through investigations. These boys, in may cases, had simply violated military discipline in being absent without leave and the punishment in flicted has been out of all proportion with the nature of the offense. It has been quite a common thing to see a white soldier handcuffed to a color ed comrade and frequently the prison ers were without shoes. These men, who fought for "world-wide democ racy," cannot be blamed for feeling that a little of the same idealism might be utilized in this country, especially in the treatment of many who rallied to the colors and fought in a great cause. MODERN CHIVALRY WHO says the age of chivalry is dead, when 100 men and women will come forward to give their lifeblood to save an un known hospital patient? What knight ever did more than shed his blood for his lady fair? But the knight rode forth on a charger amid the plaudits of the gathered populace, the blare of trumpets and the pomp of circum stances, while the men and women who volunteered in response to the Harrisburg Hospital's call for aid knew they would suffer in obscurity and gain no fame for themselves. Theirs was an unselfish offer. America is safe so long as it breeds men and women of such heroic mold. TURN ON THE LIGHT HOMER S. CUMMINGS, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is quite perturbed over the probing by com mittees of Congress into some of the war expenditures. In view of the burning of a lot of aeroplanes in France and the way the foodstuffs for which the public already has paid are being handled by the Gov ment, it would seem that a little turning on of the light might be good for the American people. During a hearing before the House subcommittee investigating aviation. Chairman Cummings said regarding expenditures for the investigations: "It is perfect folly to spend money now. When Congress should be look ing into the high cost of living and reconstruction problems committees should not go trooping off to do clerical work on the Pacific Coast." The average Wilson Democrat, taking his cue from Chairman Cum mings, perhaps, is always greatly concerned over the waste of "time and momy" by committees of Con gress appointed to investigate the profligacy of an Incompetent ad ministration, but until forced by a public sentiment to disclose the facts no information was volunteered by the partisan apologists of an arbi trary and dictatorial leadership. A PERMANENT CAMP MEMBERS of the Harrisburg Rotary Club who heard Arch Dinsmore's plea for a perma nent camp site during their visit to the Y. M. C. A. boys' camp at Big Pond understood how he felt about it. The success of the camp under the direction of Mr. Dinsmore and Mr. Miller the past two years has demonstrated the wisdom of provid ing the association with a place where the camps can be held from year to year; where the equipment purchased for one year will be on hand for the next season. The camp site ought to include certain permanent buildings and a lodge where boys and men, under proper regulations, could spend a few days or a night at any time during the year. More and more outdoor life Is coming to be part and parcel of the American boy's training. Whatever money is spent in that direction is well invested, but while we are at it we should get as much for our money as is possible. l By the Ex-Committeeman The time for filing nominating petitions for judicial primaries will expire at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth next Thurs day, but there are very few papers entered at the department, notwith standing the fact that Pennsylvania will this fall elect eighteen common pleas and five orphans' court judges in addition to municipal court judges in Philadelphia and a county court judge in Allegheny. The office of associate judge ap- I pears to have many attractions, as there are over three dozen petitions on tile for the fourteen judgeships to be filled. In some districts there are six and eight candidates where one man is to be elected. The State Department is receiving numerous petitions from aspirants for county and municipal nomina tions, although such papers have to be filed with county commissioners. The time on this class of nominating petitions expires on August 19. —Ten of the desks in the hall of the House of Representatives are in the hands of repairmen who are re placing parts which were broken or damaged during the session and I every desk in the big chamber will be gone over by the furniture force of the Capitol. Half a dozen chairs have had to be repaired. —Committee rooms in use by the Legislature have been converted into offices for Capitol departments again, pending completion of office buildings in this city. —Efforts on the part of the Pin chot committee on organization of the State for election of Republican National delegates attuned the ideas of the former Federal forester j to form a unit in the Eighteenth Congressional district have not been very successful and men who tried to organize in the Seventeenth dis trict for the same purpose met with a rather cold reception. Representa tion from the counties in the two districts at the conference on Tues day was mighty slim and some of the men announced as intending to participate did not show up. The general impression among people at the Capitol and others who attended the Tuesday meeting was that it lacked the ginger that formerly characterized the old-time Bull Moose gatherings and that Pin ehot was not likely to secure much of a gathering. At the Capitol the conference was looked upon as more or less of a failure and the contro versy which raged at the conclusion over the men invited and those left out was regarded as pretty nearly winding up the movement as far as State-wide effect is concerned. Only some unforeseen situation will make it of any account. —Mercer county people say that under terms of a recent decision of the Attorney General the vacancy caused by the death of Senator James M. Campbell, of Mercer, in the Fifteenth Senatorial District can not be filled this fall. The coming . election is not a general election, but for county and local offices and [a State Senator cannot be elected at any other than a general election. Should a special session of the I,egis lature be called then the vacancy would be filled by a special election, otherwise it will carry over until the election next year. There are candid ates announced for the office, John L. Morrison, of Sharon a " d Fred A " Service . of —Commissions for all of the men named as members of State Boards and as trustees and man agers of various institutions in the closing hours of the legislative ses sion have been issued by the State department and they are now filing their bonds. B Judges G. A. Endlich and George W. Wagner, of the Berks county common pleas court, filed papers to be candidates for re nomination at the State department. They have been endorsed by manv members of the Berks bar. —From all indications there will be more real fights over nomina tions for associate judge in Penn sylvania counties this vear than known in a long time. In Hunting don county, the only one to elect two judges this year there are a dozen candidates already. —County Controller E. S. Mor row, of Allegheny, will not be op posed for renomination. —Entrance of Dan L. Parsons, a Johnstown attorney, long active in Republican affairs, into the Cam bria county orphans court contest means a strenuous battle in tho cen tral county. —Center county Republicans have gained nearly 500 in enroll ment and confident that the Demo crats will get to fighting among themselves long before the general election. —Relative to the Philadelphia mayorality fight the Philadelphia Press to-day says: "The Republican Alliance is still continuing its efforts to get A. Lin coln Acker into the field but to date there has been no evidence that he has agreed to make the fight to be come mayor. The petitions urging him to run are still being circu lated and it is reported that there arc many signatures. "Senator Penrose is expected in Philadelphia to-day. The Senator will probably arrive here from Washington early in the day. He will spend the day in conference with the anti-Vare leaders and is expected to depart for Atlantic City late in the afternoon to spend the weekend on his yacht. "Penrose's arrival may bring the Acker situation to a head. The Senator Is said to have given the Republican Alliance this week to get Acker around, and if it is re ported to him to-day that no definite progress has been made, he may give the word to try elsewhere. In that event It is thought the AUi unce may turn Its attention in the direction of District Attorney Sam uel P. Rotan. Mr. Rotan's availa bility has lately been discussed by Important anti-Vare leaders. Durell Shuster, secretary to Con gressman J. Hampton MooVe, yes terday visited the Republican Alli ance headquarters. 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