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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
Fine, Mr.. Gompers

Samuel Gompers has been regarded
by many of his own class as merely
an ambitious labor politician, and
the general public has often had
occasion to look at him askance.
But, like the trusts and the big cor
porations, he has shown up better
under the tests of war than of peace.
In those whom the President has
gathered around him as advisers and
helpers in Washington the industrial
extremes have met in a union of
whole hearted patriotism and sacri-
fee, and tho Representatives Of
American capital are standing shoul-
der to shoulder.
Mr.. Gompers has just performed
a signal service in the cablegram
which he sent in reply to inquiries
from w. A. Appleton, secretary of
the English General Federation of
Trade Unions, and NJ. Jouhaux, Sec
retary of the French Federation
Generate du Travail, asking whether
American labor would be represented
at the international conference at
Stockholm in September. In his re-
ply Mr.. Gompers says fiatly: Il an
swer that such a conference cannot
at this time or in the near future
be productive of good, and as far as
the American Federation Of Labor Is
| concerned 1t will not send repre-
sentatives. New and more favorable
results must develop before a con-
ference of labor of all countries can
advantageously be held"
The importance of this action Is
shown by tho fact that the labor
representative in the British cabinet,
Arthur Henderson, has recently been
! in Paris in consultation with French
| Socialists and workmen as to the
| Stockholm conference, and his atti-
| tude had caused decided disquietude
| in Great Britain. He had apparently
counted on the American Federation
| of Labor being represented at Stock
! holm. and If Mr.. Gompers had fol-
| lowed Mr.. Henderson's lead a sit
might have promoted the sort of
peace for which Germany is play
| ing. The London Morning Post ap-
praises the significance and value of
| this incident properly when 1t says:
"Once again the Allies, and par
ticularly the government of this coun-
try, have to thank America for its
timely lead. While our ministers are
| faltering with pacifsm the leader of
American labor puts his foot down
much in the manner of our own Sea-
mems and Firemen's Union a short
while ago. Yesterday Bonar Law
went so far as to hint vaguely that
the government might after all. re-
fuse passports for the Stockholm
conference. Can this suggestion of
new courage be an effect already of
Gomperian forcefulness
/ Mr.. Gompers has done a fine and
a wise thing. and he has stiffened the
British backbone. There is no mu-
tuality of interest between honest
labor and Prussianism. and American
patriotism cannot work in harmony
with German Imperialism. - Balti-
more Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
First!

First now as always in the ma
tional defense, Pennsylvania leads
all the states in army recruiting since
war was declared. The total is more
than 20, 900 enlistments. This means
men accepted.
Commenting on this fact, the New
York Herald says:
THE Pennsylvanians of German
descent whose ancestors came to
America before the Revolution and
whose blood flows in the veins OF
millions of Americans are the ones
who by long residence and proved
loyalty have the right to speak for
the real Americans of German
descent"
When the pot boils there is scum.
1t rises to the surface, but the vital
elements of the fluid are in the body
of it. Some of the best Americans
are of German descent. The worst
Americans are aliens who have en-
joyed our institutions, waXed fat in
our land, become legal citizens and
then have dropped the veneer of our
civilization and spend their days and
nights planning this nations destruc-
tion.
Men who have felt the thrill OF
Americanism since childhood need
no second call to arms when the ma
ton is in peril. Some of the best
blood of Germany fled the country
years ago and is now part and par
eel of our great democratic expert
ment. It is a pity that these thou
sands of loyal Americans should be
humiliated by the infamous activi-
ties of German agents who pretend
to be the mouthpieces of citizens
who, in fact, abhor and C.ni1ise
them. - Evening Ledger, PE-l-.uei-
phia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
A CCORDING to press dispatche!
n hotelmen in BOSTON "haVe vote

A CCoRDING to press dispatches,
" hotelmen in Boston have. voted
~ to discontinue the service or
- - white bread for a week, as a
means of saving flour and encourag-
ing the use of corn, rye ana other
breads" This example, 1t is added
is being followed in other places.
without entering into the. countless
details of food economy in hotels and
restaurants, it may be pointed out
that amid all the calculations and
difficulties of the problem the public
is in danger Of losing sight OF the
principal or moral of the whole story.
Not economy of wheat or white
bread only Is necessary, but or al
other cereals. The experience OF Eng
land during the last month is definite
on this point. One of the most prac-
tical of experts. Captain Bathurst,
believes that cereals like rye and corn
count as much or more than wheat
at this stage of the European con-
flict. The only important qualifica-
tion is that rye and corn breads
require more skillful baking than
white bread. But in regard to the
saving Of bread, the poor mans meat,
for 1t is protein in the cheapest form,
the problem in wartime may be stat
ed briefly on the facts of the British
experience since the new food con-
troller was appointed.
In pre-war times the consumption
of bread was Y to pounds a week
per capita. The controllers allow
ance of four pounds represents a re-
duction of nearly twenty-five per
cent. Physiology teaches that a fur
ther reduction in the national bread
consumption is serious and even dan
gerous. The authorities will have to
strain every nerve to insure that the
bread supply, including all cereals,
is kept up to three-fourths of its
pre-war value If the allowance of
four pounds is taken to represent the
distribution figure for the whole
mixed DODulat atiOn-men. women and
children, workers and nonworkers -
il may be conceded that 1t is physio-
logically correct and that it will suf-
fee to keep up the manpower of the
nation; that Is to say, that the popu-
lation as a whole will not suffer. But
an important exception must be made.
To limit the worker to a four-pound
bread ration must imperil his value.
The German experience. which is
just published in the leading scien-
that such n ration of bread leads to
a slow deterioration of the race. Some
time may elapse before this is noticed,
and the risk is one which the Ger
mans. after STUDYING the value Of
this ration in 5000 selected families.
are now trying to avoid According
to these results. it Is much safer to
reduce the ration of meat than the
Bread. in which all cereals as food are
included, is the workers food. which
nothing, can replace.
The economy of bread is necessary
by workers and nonworkers alike. IT
is imperative on all the sedentary
classes to get as far below the four
pound bread ration as possible AS
bread in this sense implies all cereals.
X Is plain that the consumption of
cereals other than wheat. by those
who can do without them is no
true economy The weakness in
the hotel position Is that the serving
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
COAL PRICES

-Y AsHINGTON dispatches are
wv to the effect that radical re-
visions IN coal prices may be
expected before the end of the week,
by government order. 1t is to be
hoped that they will be more effec-
tive than those which got consumers
"all het up" n few weeks ago and
resulted in nothing. Likewise, price
revision should not be confined to
soft coal alone. Coke and hard coal
hard coal in particular, should be
included. Prices for anthracite are
reaching a point where coal is a
luxury instead of a necessity in many
households. Widespread hardship
will result the coming winter If pres
ent almost prohibitive prices are
maintained.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
WHY WRIGHT QUIT

VTTHY Chester NJ. Wright, promi-
Wv nent in Socialistic circles of
the world and until his resig-
nation recently managing editor of
the New York Call, left the Socialist
party is set forth very clearly and
Interestingly in an interview pub
lished in another part of the TELE-
GRAPH to-day. Men of Socialistic
tendencies should read it. Wright
is not alone. Many other deep think
ers and sincere Socialists have left
the party for the same reasons
Wright quit.
Mr.. Wright sums up his reasons
for resigning his position as editor
and leaving, the party in single
emphatic paragraph, as follows:
1 am out of the Socialist party
because l am an enemy OF the
cause that party has espoused;
and because that party has be-
come an enemy of human free
greatest need. 1t doesn't matter
what motives the party may have
had in taking its anti-American,
anti-democratic position, il is the
hideous fact that counts. The
Socialist party in America is
feeding now in it's last days upon
the rotten Teutonic tester on our
body polite, as gruesome a sight
as American political history has
ever afforded
Mr.. Wright is in a position TO
know, He was editor of the organ
of the Socialists in America. He
accepted that place because his con-
science prompted him to do so. He
quit his job because his conscience
world not permit him to remain.
If trusted leader of the Socialist
party leaves. high-salaried position
because he feels that his party is
being misled and is in bad hands,
isn't it about time that Socialists all
over the country, many of them just
as sincere and just as patriotic as
Wright, investigate their party lead
ership and find where they are head
ing?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. w. ]. Crookston, chief
medical officer of the Pennsylvania
troops, is on active duty after hav-
ing been observing the war in
Europe and studying troops at the
border.
State Chairman William e.
Crow is spending August on his
farm in Fayette county and letting
politics take care of itself.
Deputy Attorney General w. Fl.
Keller is home from a vacation trip
to Saranac Lake.
Senator Horace w. Schantz, of
Allentown, is planning to have the
biggest Republican rally in years
when the Lehigh campaign opens.
He is that county's first Republican
Senator.
H. E. Apgar, who was secretary
to Congressman John r. Farr, has
developed aspirations for council in
Scranton.
COMMISSIONS James. Alcorn is
spending August at Eaglesmere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
Fighting Weight

Surgeon General Gorgas has done
we'll to secure revision of the army
standards of height and weight for
recruits, thereby giving smaller men,
chock full of fighting spirit, the
chance for which they pine. The
"bantams," feet 1 inch in altitude
and tipping the scales at 110 pounds,
whom the specifications now reach
down to include, often prove to be-
the stuff of which the happy war;
a prodigy of bulk and muscle, quails
at the fiery ordeal he must face.
Grant and Napoleon were not giants,
and Joffre's shadow on history's page
is much longer than the hero of the
Marne himself. Let the little men
now come forward and take the
places big men decline to flll.-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
THURSDAY EVENING. AUG. 0

The noblest thing you ever did,
the nobleSt emotion you ever felt,
the deepest and most Self-Sdcrifcing
loUe eUer in your soul, that is your
true self still. through all the bdser
life into 1ohich you haze tGllen.-
PHILLIPS Brooks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
Labor Notes

A recreation hut for the use of
women munitionworkers has been
opened at Plumstead. Eng. by the
Y. NJ. c. A. at a cost of 1900.
Officers of the International Union
of Painters and Paperhangers report
that their membership now is 9O,S57,
an increase since May of 1893.
Ealing Town Coupcil, London, Eng
land, is to buy 1000 tons of coal for
sale to residents during the winter
months.
With the aid of an electrical fur
mace. a London scientist has drawn
glass tubes with an outside diameter
of but .00004 of an inch.
Nearly two thousand permits have
been granted to children between
twelve and thirteen years of age to
work on the land in Northampton
shire, England.
"A Modest Minimum Wage" is the
latest contribution to social science,
now being used in arbitration courts
in the Commonwealth of South Aus
tralia
Canton. Ohio. trade unionists charge
employers with maintaining a black
list in that city as part of a scheme
to wreck the building trades council.
The third annual convention of the
Central States Cooperative Society
will be held in Staunton. Ill, begin
ming Monday. September 10.
Outdoor city employees of Nanaimo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
PROSPERITY BULLETIN
NO. 46

We believe that there will be
greater prosperity during the bal
ance of this year than we have
ever enjoyed and we believe that
every manufacturer will get his
share. d. We intend doing as
much advertising in newspapers
as we have done heretofore.
A. A. BREUER, Vice-Presi-
dent, Clements Mfg. Co.,
Chicago. "a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
In Alaska. Too

This year, more than any other in
the past three years, the mosquito has
proved most harassing little winged
devil. - The Anchorage (Alaska)
Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Harrisburg had it's first gas light
ing in 1850 and people drove in
from surrounding towns to see how
1t looked on the streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's fame has
gone all over the country for its
activity in recruiting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

A grant of $4,000. 900 has been made
by the British government toward the
establishment of permanent Depart.
ment OF Scientific and Industrial Re.
search.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

b. C.. Canada. have petitioned the
council for a 10 per cent. increase in
wages and stopping of work at 1
p. m. on Saturday with a full days
pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

Clothing for workmen fastened to.
gether with clips instead of seams ha.
been invented so that a wearer car
lioerate himself when caught by ma.
chinery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

1t used to be peace at any price
in America; now it is peace at our
price"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
The Philadelphia Inquirer gives

The Philadelphia Inquirer give
1t extended space, saying in part:
Following up their confident
predictions at the close of the
recent session of the legislators
that State Senator William G.
Sproul, of Delaware county, will
be the next Governor of Penn
sylvania, intimate friends of
Senator Sproul yesterday stated
with apparent authority that he
will formally announce his can
didacy for the Republican nomi-
nation Immediately following
the November election. Sem
ator Sproul when interviewed
last night indicated that he had
no statement to make at this
time, but there is reason to be-
lieve that unless he shall
change his mind he will be
actively in the field within three
months. The nomination and
election of q successor to Cover
nor Brumbaugh takes place next
year, the next Governor being
inaugurated in January, 1919.
Unless there shall be unexpected
changes in the situation Sem
ator Sprouts nomination now
seems quite probable. He not
only has the backing of the rep
resentatives of the large manu-
featuring industries of the State
as well as the big business in
terests, but he has also the good
will of the leaders of both fac
tions of the Republican Party.
While he has supported Senator
Penrose in many political con-
tests, he has maintained friendly
relations with some of the most
potential anti-Penrose Republi-
can partisans."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THE WAY.

"How did the owl get reputation
for wisdom?"
"By persistently hootlng at every
thing, take it."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

A feature of the present London
(England) Economy Exhibition is a
model munition-works canteen in
which between 400 and 500 people are
served with hot meal in ten minutes.
Japanese railways employ 1000
women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

A recreation hut for the use of
women munitionworkers has been
opened at Plumstead, Eng. by the
Y. NJ. c. A. at a cost of 1900.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

E.J. .STACKPOLE,P Pyes't s. Editor.ir. c CAief
+. r. OYSTER. Business Mandger.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

Ealing Town Coupcil, London, Eng
land, is to buy 1000 tons of coal for
sale to residents during the winter
months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
The Inquirer then goes on to

The Inquirer then goes on to
say:
"Quick changes come in State and
local politics. There are several
well-known Republicans who are
watching developments and who, If
the condition shall warrant, will
Jump into a free-for-all contest for
the Governorship. But great
transition must take place to have
that occur. If the talk of harmony
upon the local Republican ticket
shall result in reality, as it seems
that it will, the boom for Sproul for
Governor will have made great
headway. A factional fight in Phil
adelphia coupled with disturbed
political conditions in Pittsburgh,
might lead to complications which
would make the Gubernatorial
sweepstakes anybody's race"
According to Philadelphia
newspapers the United States gov
ernment may take a hand in the
vice situation in that city.
Throwing aside all pretense of
observing the primary law the
Democratic bosses of Lackawanna
county decided to steam roller any
man who stands in the way of the
right kind of a ticket says the
Scranton Republican. There was
three hours of talk and oratory in
Liberty Hall while the candidates
presented their reasons for desiring
to be candidates. 1t was evident
from these speeches that the steam
roller will meet with stiff opposi-
ton when it starts to bowl out the
men who believe they have the
right to submit their claims to q
nomination to the voters of their
party"
One of the largest voluntary po-
litical organizations ever gotten to-
gether in Allegheny county is be-
ing formed in behalf of Thomas d.
Carnahan, Josiah Cohen, Thomas j.
Ford, John d. Shafer and Joseph
NJ. Swearingen, Common Pleas Court
judges whose terms expire this year
and who are candidates to succeed
themselves. This organization is be-
ing formed by legislative districts
and will embrace the entire country
1t is expected that at least 5000
citizens of Allegheny county will
| the organization work has beer
completed. At the beginning of the
present judges campaign for re-
election a central committee wa
formed consisting of Walter Lyon
| chairman; George j. Kambach, Sec
retary, and Roy g. Bostwick, treas.
urer.
The time for filing nominating
petitions for judicial candidates will
expire at the Department of tn,
! Secretary of the Commonwealth to.
morrow night at the close of bust
ness hours. 1t Is expected tha
there will not be as much of a rust
as usual to file eleventh hour peti,
tions, as many have been entered 70.
day. Among the petitions fled to-
day was one for Senator ChailSs II
| Kline, Pittsburgh, former presioen
pro tenn. of the Senate, for Judge o!
| Common Pleas Court in that county
Endorsement of Magistrate vii
liam j. Tracy, as a candidate for re
election at the coming fall election
was given at Philadelphia by Mayo
Smith. A delegation of member
of the Building Trades Council call
ed upon the Mayor, and asked hin
| to endorse Tracy, who formerly wa
prominent in that organis ion. Mr.
Smith acqniesced, saying that h,
was familiar with the magistrate
work and approved ii. Tracy is
| political follower of State Senate
James p. McNichol.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
Peeitic4 i~
Pen~oqe0o~io
By the Ex-Committeenan

Early announcement of the cam
didacy of Senator William c. Sproul,
of Delaware, for the Republican
nomination for Governor, is pre-
dicted by Philadelphia newspapers.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
last evening declared in first page
article that the Senator lis can
d'date" and said that he would be-
gin his campaign Immediately alter
the November election. Philadel-
phia morning newspapers follow the
same line.
The chief thing emphasized in
the Sproul candidacy stories is that
it will prevent a factional fight BE-
tween the forces headed by Sem
ators Penrose and McNichol and
those aligned with the Wares. The
Bulletin says in this connection:
Senator Sprouts candidacy, Re-
publican leaders concede, precludes
Statewide contest between the
Brumbaugh-Vare and Penrose fac
tions next year, as it is realized that
Senator Sproul would not be can
didate for Governor without the
voluntary and earnest support Of
Senator Penrose with whom he has
long been politically affiliated"
While the Philadelphia North
American, which has persistently
criticised the Senator and attacked
Speaker Baldwin, who was Sprouts
choice for speaker. is silent on the
story to-day and the Democratic
Philadelphia Record passes it up be-
cause it means peace, the Phiiadel-
phia Ledger says that it means
harmony" and that it eliminates
Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Nc
Lain. Pittsburgh newspapers PRINT
the story with more or less sense
of relief apparent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

With the aid of an electrical fur
mace. a London scientist has drawn
glass tubes with an outside diameter
of but 10000 of an inch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

Officers of the International Union
of Painters and Paperhangers report
that their membership now is 90.S57,
an increase since May of 1893
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

Roger Dever, Wilkes Barre lawyer
and prominent in labor affairs, was
here yesterday looking up compen-
sation cases. Mr. Dever says that
the miners will ask considerable
changes in the compensation laws
again at the next session of the Leg
islature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

outdoor city employees of NanaimO.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09
IN POOR TASTE

VTT HEN young men are guilty OF
wv disorder in the parks they
should be punished and it is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

Canton. Ohio. trade unionists charge
employers with maintaining a black
list in that city as part of a scheme
to wreck the building trades council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-09

The third annual convention of the
Central States Cooperative Society
will be held in Staunton. ILL.,, begin
ming Monday September 10.