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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
National Potato Day"

A national potato day" is urged
by Captain G.. NJ. Won Schrader, of
the Missouri State committee of the
Navy League of the United States, to
meet the world shortage of the po-
tato crop. Captain Won Schrader, a
former naval officer, has purchased
a farm in Missouri. After careful
investigation of conditions, he said:
THE necessity or increasing the
food supply in our country is evi-
denced by the appeal of the govern
ment to the farmers to increase their
crops. To bring the present war to
a successful issue, the necessity of
food is as important as ammunition
and fighting men. No greater aid can
be given by the people at large to
our country nor more patriotic deeds
accomplished. than to assist in cor
recting this deficit.
1.-The potato is one of the greatest
staples of life. Owing to their high
price, the average farmer has been
forced to decrease his acreage. be-
ing unable to buy seed, selling to-
day in the neighborhood of SO a
bushel. To assist the farmer in pro-
curing this seed, I propose to have
a national potato day, on which ev-
erybody in the country will donate
either potatoes or money. Let the
poor man or the child give one po-
tato and the rich man a hundred
bushels-each according TO his
means"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
Uniforms Should Be Worn
[ WASHINGTON Post

The officers of the army and navy,
without exception, should wear their
uniforms. The officers of the depart
ment of the East are in uniform. but
others have not been required to
wear them. The officers in the de-
partments, although performing war
duties, are still in civilian clothes.
1t is not an idle and negligible
custom that requires the defenders
of this nation to wear a distinctive
garb. In time of war the matter be-
comes important. An army or navy
officer should appear as such here
after wherever he may be. His
identity should be known. his rank
made plain and his work facilitated
! by prompt recognition of his author
| ity, so far as it extends.
The uniform is the visible re-
minder of the government and the
flag. 1t calls for respect. The pub
| lie is proud of the army and navy
and will show it's respect whenever
| it can. The wearers of the uniform
are set apart for special service
which can best be performed by
courteous and ready cooperation by
the public. An officer in uniform
cannot forget his martial character
and duty, nor can the public be ig-
norant of the attitude it should take
| toward him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
War For Lasting Peace
LChicago Times.l

In the circumstances it is not
strange that the trustees of the Car
negie endowment for international
peace should have declared their be-
lief that the most effectual means
of promoting durable peace is TO
prosecute the war against Germany
to a final victory for democracy.
There can be no lasting peace so
long as any one nation or any par
ticular group of nations is in po-
sition to subject the rest of the
world. or considerable parts of it, to
the danger of conquest. Peace main
tanned by force of arms over subject
peoples is worse than war Nations
who seek to enlarge their boundaries
at the expense of other nations are
not deferred by mere pacifist talk.
Just as order within nation rests
in part upon the existence of an or
ganized police system, prepared TO
use force against lawbreakers, so in
ternational peace must be guaran-
teed by a properly organized inter-
national agency strong enough to
curb any disturbing nation.
After this war is over the world
should be guarded by international
agreement against new outbreaks OF
armed aggression.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Books and Magazines
By BRIGGS

Miss Florence Converse, who is
doing an interesting and valuable
kind of general editor work in her
Series of E. p. Dutton & Co, has
been for nearly ten years a member
of the staff of the Atlantic Monthly.
She is the author of half q dozen
books, novels and others, of which
one, Long WILL" has been put into
Everyman's Library Her work as
editor of the Little Schoolmate
Series is distinguished by the espe-
cial preface, full of suggestive ideas
and vivid outlining of backgrounds,
which she writes for each volume.
THE Call of the Republic" by
Col. Jennings c. Wise. of Richmond,
Va, which Il. p. Dutton e Co., are
bringing out this week. comes at an
opportune moment, for it deals with
the question of universal military
training, upholding that measure,
showing its necessity and setting
forth the benefits that will result to
the nation as a whole, to communi-
ties, to the body of the people and
finally to the individual himself 1t
has an introduction by General
Leonard Wood.
He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are
stored is the line of the Battle
Hymn of the Republic" from which
Boyd Cable got the title for his new
war book, Grapes of Wrath" which
is ready for immediate publication
! by l.. =. Dutton a. Co.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
Garrison Recalled

In the satisfaction which the ma
ton feels over the belated activities
in certain directions. 1t must not
forget the splendid service of those
who at one time labored and warned
in vain, only to be ridiculed and
misunderstood by many now so ac-
tive.
The New York Herald recognizes
this in reminding the people that
if the advice of Lindley Garrison
had been taken two years ago we
would be in far better shape to meet
the present situation, which every
keen observer knew would come II
the war lasted long enough.
Former Secretary of War Garrison
was one of the big men who saw the
country's needs when all others iT
power were denouncing as unwis'
alarmists those who had the percep
tion of Garrison. The Herald is righ'
in insisting that the splendid judg'
ment of Mr.. Garrison must now b'
recognized. = From the Bridgepor
Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
THE DONATE STATUARY
must be remembered that the
placing of the Donate statuary

l.
placing of the Donate statuary
or the failure to place it will
play an important part in the cam
paign for members of the City Coun-
ell this year. This fine group of stat
uary, the gift of Mr.. Hershey, foun-
der of the great chocolate industry
in our eastern suburbs. has been re-
posing in a warehouse for year or
two without reason or excuse save
petty difference of opinion as to
where the group should be located
Harrisburg is not going to take
any backward step through supine-
ness or indifference or neglect of any
official or officials. The people are
not so blind as they sometimes seem
and there is bound to be a reckon
ing of the stewardship of those who
have been chosen to serve in public
places.
1t is a disgrace 20 the city that this
splendid gift should have been so
long neglected and the generous DON
or has reason TO feel that there was
mighty little appreciation of his do
nation. II the city will not set up
this statuary in some suitable place,
then it is due the citizens of Harris
burg that the municipal authorities
wash their hands of the whole mat
ter and place responsibility for do
ing the right thing upon the COM
2 ~munity-at large.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
THE EPIC OF WOOL

The production of wool in the
United States is falling off at such
rapid rate that, unless the devasta-
ton of our flocks should be arrested,
it will be- only question of time un-
til we shall be without wool for our
clothing. The sheep has been shah
billy treated by us. Now he is return
ing that treatment in kind, and per-
sons with a taste for figures warn
us that if we had to depend on the
| 5O,O0O,000 sheep in the United
States for our wool. each one of us
would get new suit of clothes only
| once in four years, or a new garment
each year if we would be contented
with one reaching from the waist
band to the knees.
Our plight is worse than that of
the Achaians after the fight of the
| golden ram. All of us are suffering
from the wool shortage, and we will
suffer more and more. because we
| refuse to grow the wool that would
keep us in comfort and security. We
ought to have 100,000,000 sheep of
shearing age to provide the 600,000,-
600 pounds of wool required each
year to make our clothing, one sheep
| for each person. For each Baby
Bunting there should be a lamb to
| furnish the fleece to wrap the Baby
| Bunting in. We now import more
than half the wool we use, the world
supply is dwindling and no one can
say what the price six months from
now will be.
Baby Bunting looks to the busi-
ness man to provide his Teddy Bear
suit and mittens, and that is why it
| is the nations business to pay atten-
ton to our wool supply and that
quickly, for the situation is critical.
! That is why there is a lesson in the
world romance of sheep for the
American merchant and manufac-
turer. They cannot have an adequate
understanding of our markets with
| out a knowledge of the industry in
the countries whose products play
such an important part among our
people.
Women are learning what the
| shortage means The largest stores
| find it more difficult day by day to
! get woolen piece-goods and dresses,
and some makers of women's spe-
cialties who formerly produced moth
ing but all-wool garments now con-
! fine themselves to those made of
| cotton and wool. Our carpet manu-
| facturers. who used to depend upon
Asia, Turkey and Russia, see these
markets closing to them as our own
output of carpet wool reaches the
vanishing point.
Thus it comes that we are forced
to scour every nook and Granny of
the earth, every out-of-the-way and
barbarous spot, to get the wool we
need for our clothing, carpets and
| felt goods. PARKWAY Thibet, China
and Persia, distracted Mexico, New
Zealand and Australia. storied
Egypt, the Cape of Good Hope, Rus
sia. Turkey and Argentina-all are
laid under tribute.
But the foreign markets on
which we have depended are begin
ming to fail us. Changing fashions
here, expansion of agriculture there
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26

decreasing tlocks everywhere, make
1t harder and harder for us to get
wool enough to clothe our people.
Some of the difficulties in which we
ind ourselves are due to the war
and will in the main, pass away with
1t. The peril that threatens us, the
peril that will not pass away with
the war, has its roots in our shiftless
disregard of things on which rest
some of our most vital interests.
The problem touches every man,
woman and child. 1t is not only an
American problem but world prob
lem, not only a clothing problem but
u food problem, not only Il peace
problem but a war problem. The
output of wool, in order to clothe
us, ought to keep pace with popula-
ton. but in this case the world has
lost its economic balance Production
not only fails to increase with the
children of men, but shows an alarm
ing decrease. AS man grows, his
clothes supply shrinks, and he must
piece it out more and more with
shoddy. The worlds wool clip in
1916 was 2,700,O00,000 pounds
more than 156,000,000 pounds less
than in the preceding year. In some
parts of the world, as the United
States, there is a steady decline.
standstill. Australia, on the other
hand, gives promise of maintaining
her position as wool-producing
country, unless more profitable use
should be found for the land.
The sheep must come back into
his own on the farms of the East
and the Middle West. The Depart
ment of Agriculture says he will
bring profit to the farmers with him.
For one thing, sheep are the scaven-
gers of the farm, and do the work
at least as well as men with scythes
and grubbing tools. Then. at the
present prices of wool and mutton
and there is no reason to suppose
that high prices will not prevail for
a long time to come-a substantial
revenue can be derived from the
sale of lambs and wool. There are
cases on record to show that net re-
turns as high as eight and nine dol
lars a head are being realized. The
greatest fortunes of Australia, and
some big ones in our Western States.
rest on sheep. Millions of sheep could
be raised on farms east of the Mis-
sissippi that do not now know them,
and the poorest land need not be
given over to them either. Within
fifty miles of London, for instance,
farmers find it good business to de-
vote productive ground to the rails
ing of sheep.
Manufacturers are praying for
sheep, more sheep. The marauding
dog has been doomed to death. 1t
may be the turning point in the life
of the sheep in the United States.
| Barely more than tolerated before,
it is now sought for on every hand.
Only a few days ago Wyoming
cattleman heard of flock of 5000
for sale in Montana and bought them
sight unseen Within As hours he
had sold them at profit of SIS, 900
BY Anselm Chomel, in THE
Nations Business"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
Checking Food Prices
Pittsburgh Dispatch. ]


Lord Devonport, Great Britain's
food controller, after consultation
with Herbert c. Hoover, suggested,
because of his experience in Belgium,
for the same position in this coun-
try, approves the Americans pro-
posal that the feeding of the Allies
should be entrusted to a small inter-
Allied committee or bureau through
which all food supplies from Ameri-
ca would be bought. This, he says,
would avoid competitive buying
among the Allies and the different
departments in the Allied govern
ments which, to a considerable de-
gree, he declares, has been respon-
sible for the high prices which Amer
lean consumers have to pay for their
foodstuffs.
1t has been understood that some
such cooperation had been arrang-
ed among the Allies some time ago,
and that it had worked so successful
ly in thwarting speculative holdups
that the Allies themselves had been
able now and then to manipulate
the market to their own advantage,
but If that were so the American
consumer has not noticed any bene-
fit and Baron Devonport's own state
ment implies that it was not. Mr.
Hoover's energy and efficiency may
now be trusted to systematic the
business. IL given the proper govern
mental support in this country, and
in view OF our admitted obligations
to feed our allies, that can hardly
be doubted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
COMMUNITY TREES

IN NOR BRUMBAUGH's
~ suggestion for community trees
in the new Capitol Park ex-
tension is a happy thought. Every
municipality and community in the
State is to be permitted to plant
and own it's particular tree.
Nothing would do more to give
the whole of PENNSYLVANIA feeling
of personal interest and ownership
in Capitol park than this planting
of community trees. What a pleas
ant thing it would be to have dele
cations from Altoona, Williamsport,
Reading and the other cities and
towns of the Commonwealth coming
to Harrisburg to celebrate the set
ting out of their trees on the lawns
of the Capitol park extension.
The first thing that the Legisla-
ture has to do is to provide money
for the prelminaries, the grading
and the planting. That will occupy
at least two years. BY that time
the scheme of decoration will have
been so we'll established and so def
nitely outlined that there will be no
difficulty in having the Legislature
appropriate the necessary money.
There is every disposition in the
present session to set aside as much
as is necessary to give the project
a proper start, so that as early as
next Fall or Spring, at the latest.
the planting pilgrimages may begin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
WELL, KNOWN PEOPLE

Cyrus d. Foss, the Philadel-
phian, here to urge civil service. was
private secretary to Mayor Blank
enburg. of Philadelphia.
Henry Cooper, ST., former Sen
ator from Allegheny county, came
here this week to see his colleagues
in action.
State zoologist Sanders, who Is
Just now lining up against the fruit
tree pests, used TO play football when
at college and keeps IN prime condi-
ton by hard exercise.
Governor Brumbaugh is some
what inclined to feel down on his
luck pressure of business has kept
him from even one-half days trout
fishing this spring.
Easton. the new head of the Bap-
fists of the Reading districts, is a
clergyman well-known in this sec
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
Acme of Tact

A lady in the suburbs was consid-
erably annoyed to find her neighbor's S
fowls continually overrunning her
garden and playing havoc with the
geraniums. GO round to the next
door, Jane" she said to her new
English maid. land point out to Mrs.
Jones that her fowls bother us a
good deal, and ask If she'll kindly
try to keep them at home"
The girl returned with satisfied
look on her face. II don't fancy we
shall ave 'em around ere again in a
'urry, ma'am." she replied.
Il hope you were polite, Jane,
remarked her mistress.
"Oh, yes, ma'am," came the re-
ply.
'Missus respects L ses. and If
YOUR fowls amt kept at 'ome you
won't be gettin' so many eggs of a
morning. and we shell be eatin'
poultry christian Register.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
MEAT AND CLOTHING

y view of the urgency of the sit
uaton regarding food produc-
ton in the United States, the
subject of sheep raising has again
come to the front. Time was when
thousands OF flocks of sheep cover
ed the hills of Pennsylvania and
there would seem to be serious oc-
casion for a return TO this industry.
No effort should be neglected for the
production of food for the armies
of the country and for those who
will continue the industrial activities
so necessary for q nation.
One of the serious drawbacks to
the sheep industry of this State has
been the ravages OF dogs which have
made sheep growing almost impos-
sible in certain districts. One dog
will frequently destroy a whole
flock of sheep n a single night. There
is now pending in the Legislature a
bill which restricts the keeping Of
dogs for the benefit of growing of
sheep and cattle and making in a
large measure the owner of the dog
responsible.
At meeting before the House
Committee on Agriculture this week
the difficulties which confront the
sheep raiser were developed, especial
ly with reference to the menace of
unrestrained dogs, During the hear
ing the great problem of food pro-
duction was uppermost and as the
State Department of Agriculture is
supporting the bill it is believed that
1t will become a law at the present
session.
Elsewhere in the TELEGRAPH
this evening is reproduced interesting
information regarding wool produc-
tion and the plight of the United
States as result of reduction in
the amount of wool raised for tex
tile manufacture. The war has cut
of to large degree the supply from
the rest of the world and the raising
of sheep in America and elsewhere
is bound to receive increasing at
tention. The dog has been the worst
enemy OF the sheep industry in the
Eastern States and flocks have been
scattered and strewn in heaps oi
dead. 1t is stated that in some coun.
ties the industry has been entirely
wiped out and in others badly Grip.
pied. Washington county, in this
state was once the banner wool pro-
+. duclng county in the world. The
writer of the article from which ex.
tracts are printed in this paper to
day says 5,S0s sheep were killed in
pennsylvania last year and ir
one county of Michigan 1s2 heaC
were killed in one. night by two dogs
There Is no more timid animal thar
the sheep and the dog is a real men
ace TO the industry. This same au
shortly states that dog-proof fences
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
Torpedoing Hospital Ships
New York World.

lNeW lOTh NOTlu.
If it is the German desire to de-
stroy whatever shreds of sympathy
for the cause of autocracy may still
linger in odd corners of civilization,
the deliberate sinking of hospital
ships should serve.
In Hague treaty signed by Ger
many the safety of such ships is
guaranteed. To mark u sacred char
acter which until now has always
been respected they are conspiciously
painted and well lighted at night and
fly the Red Cross flag. These lawful
precautions have not safeguarded
British hospital ships from subma-
rine attack, but have made it easier,
more certain and more deadly.
In their purposed and avowed tor
pedoing of vessels bearing helpless
and suffering men the Germans
have sunk one which bore not only
234 British wounded but 167 of their
own men. Accustomed to the ruth
lessness of their officers. these Ger
mans became panic stricken, evil
IDENTIFY fearing that they might be
abandoned. This made rescue diff
cult, but the valor with which Brit
ish seamen have ever worked to save
life did not fail. All but Is of the
Germans were saved; of the British
wounded and the crew 10 perished.
The murder of hostages, the de-
portation of French and Belgian
workmen, and even girls of tender
years, to work as slaves, the name
less offenses against humanity and
decency in occupied lands, had well
defined German kultur. But II has
won fresh laurels now; hereafter
hospital ships must go unmarked
and at night unllghted The wound
ed. Germans and British together
are safer so than under the flag oil
mercy the world has been taught &c
| honor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-26
It's a Home Job
kansas City Star !

Whether this country meets its
obligations in supplying food to the
world in this emergency must de-
pend, not on the federal govern
ment or on the States. but on the
individual communities. These out
side agencies can help. But the real
responsibility lies at bone.
The job before the Nation is to
see that there are no Stacker acres.
This can be managed only If every
farm community and every town
takes a hand. Local conferences can
call attention to the waste lands. can
arrange for cultivating them. can see
that necessary financial help is pro-
vided, and often can get the extra
labor needed by forming volunteer
farm squads of boys.
The State commissions undoubt-
edly can accomplish much. But
communities need not wait for these
commissions to tell them what to do.
They can go ahead or their own
initiative.
Americans are used to home rule.
They accept responsibility without
waiting for a central government to
direct them. Now is the chance to
put home rule into effect to increase
the food supply.