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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
ENFORCEMENT OF LAW
Florida Times-Union.1 I

ltiorlda TlmeS-Unlon.
In the eyes of the law there is no
such thing as a prominent man and
no such thing as an insignificant
one. Our government is founded
on the idea that all men are born
free and equal. There may be priyi-
ileged classes in other countries -
there are in many other countries
and yet even these are amenable to
the general operations of the law.
In this country one man has no more
rights under the law than another.
But how about law enforcement.
If it is enforced as to some and ig-
nored as to others law is made an
inStrum ent of tyranny. No man has
reason to object to obeying a law
that all are required to obey, but if
he is required to obey a law that
others are exempted from obeying he
is treated outrageously and if such
treatment does not make him an an
archist it is not to the credit of the
men who so treat him that he does
not become one. If it does drive him
into a hatred of all law it is more
the fault of those whose oppression
embittered him than it is a fault of
his own
In the enforcement of law social
condition should not be considered.
Not even race should be considered.
If a public official entrusted with
the enforceme of the law fails 20
enforce it evenly he should not hold
his position and he is not even en-
titled to the respect of his fellow
men, A public official who wilfulIy
refuses to do his duty violates his
oath
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
OSTEOPATHIC NEEDS
he Editor of the TcIccrobh:

To the Editor of the TcIcgrGbh:
Will you do your part to help cor
rect a mistake which is quite COM
monty held by the public, as to the
nature of the bill which osteopaths
are trying to have passed by Con-
gress?
Many people think that we are
asking for a special favor, but the
osteopaths are not. What we want
is the privilege of taking the same
examination which drug doctors take
to get into the Army and Navy; to
be graded on their examinations by
the same examiners; to go into serv-
ice with the same rank and pay as
the drug doctors; to take orders the
same as other men of the same rank
and to save the lives of the nations
heroes.
The osteopaths can pass the same
examinations which other doctors
pass; which was proven by the fact
that the drug doctors promised US a
| chance at their examinations last
summer. Twenty-Five osteopaths
| took the examination and were
graded by the medical men and not
one of them failed to pass. After
| the drug doctors found that we could
pass their examinations, they craw-
fished and our men were not given
the commissions which they earned.
l would consider it a personal fa-
vor If you will publish, as q matter
of news to your readers, the COM
parison of the courses of study in
our schools with that of two we'll
known medical schools, which shows
that we are given thorough training
to treat human ailments. This in
cludes surgery, which is used to a
great extent in the Army and Navy;
as well as the general care and treat
ment of all acute and chronic con-
! ditions; and that an osteopath would
no more try to set broken bone by
| spinal manipulation than a drug
doctor would attempt the same re-
suit by giving a pill.
Yours very truly,
MORRIS G.. REIGART,
435 Lincoln ST.,
Steelton, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
LIGHT FILTERS THROUGH

r II HAS taken the Democratic
press a long time to come into
agreement with the Republican
and Independent press on the sub
ject of reasonable publicity concern
ing the conduct of the war, but 1t is
evident that the more influential of
the Democratic editors are seeing
the light, Says the New York
Times:
The plain error of too many de-
partments, boards, all sorts of
bureaucrats or authorities. has
been to dangle rainbows before
the country, to daub rich pigment
of imagination on the facts, to
take the future for the present,
to represent hopes as realities,
The country wants tine truth, no
matter how disagreeable, about
the America share in the prose-
cution of the war.
That is just exactly what the Re-
publican press has been saying for
year, but it has taken a long
time for the leader of the Demo-
cratic press to admit that the de-
mand for honest and full publicity
was in accordance with the best in.
terests of the nation, There has
never been any reasonable doubt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
A BOON FOR BOYHOOD

A MEXICAN boyhood will hail as
II n heaven-sent boon the an
nouncement that due to the
need of castor oil as a lubricant for
air craft machinery there will be a
scarcity of that product during the
remainder of the war.
Do you remember how the horror
of castor oil hung constantly over
your otherwise blithe and youth
full spirits during the feasting
of Thanksgiving and Christmastide; !;
of those days when mothers reme-
dies so often seemed far more to be
dreaded than the stomachaches that
usually followed our holiday indul-
gences? First, the turkey, the fruit
cake, the mince pie, the candy-and
then mother with the castor oil bot
tie, as inexorable and inevitable as
fate We shuddered, we squirmed,
we protested, we wept- but we swal-
lowed-and then we shuddered
again
And the same nemesis of the bot
tie hung between US and many a
green apple laden branch and
danced across the table cloth in COB
lin glee when we shyly proposed a
second piece of strawberry short
cake. It arose to haunt our pleasant
dreams of day in bed when. on a
cold, rainy morning. we timidly re-
marked that we had headache and
felt queer all over and limited that
school was no place for a boy whose
fever might rise dangerously at any
moment or might be suddenly over
taken by a chill. Then it was that the
castor oil bottle came down from its
shelf and without further debate we
became martyrs to our imagined
maladies or showed such sudden
signs Of remarkable recovery that
the bottle went back, to be held in
readiness for any return of the
symptoms.
Once we found a place in the
natural history book where it said
that castor beans were rejected ever
by hogs and that not even the mos
degraded savaRes would consider
them. as an article OF diet, and W.
rushed to show mother, with tn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
AFTER THE WAR

All of our wrongs shall be righted
After the war;
None of our tasks will be sighted
After the war;
Women will all be gay,
Children will sing and play,
All ourinvestments will pay
After the war.
Nothing at skies and sevens
After the war;
All of our hells will be heavens
After the war;
Weary will get rest,
Misery will be blest,
Worst will become the best
After the war.
What IL, readler-hearted
During the war.
Some of these good things were
started
During the war?
wouldn't we multiply
The chances that you and
Might be happy by and by,
After the war? Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
PRECISELY RIGHT

"HE executive committee of the
Dauphin County Ratification
Committee hit the nail right on
the head when, at a meeting held
last evening, it passed the following
resolution urging its members to
concentrate on the election of legis-
lators pledged to the dry" amend
ment:
As legally, the votes of legis~
lators alone can ratify the ma
tional prohibition amendment,
though there may be the possi-
bility of influencing of votes by
other officers, it is the judgment
of this committee, that under pres
ent conditions, it will be wise for
the temperance organizations OF
Dauphin county to concentrate all
efforts in the campaign before the
primary election to secure the
defeat of wet candidates and the
nomination of dry candidates for
the Legislature.
With every candidate for Gov
ernor worthy of consideration
pledged to support the prohibition
amendment and some of them going
to even greater lengths for the
abolition of the liquor traffic in
Pennsylvania, the Governorship, as
far as the liquor problem is con-
cerned, is removed from the primary
contest. The big issue now before
the people is the adoption of the
federal amendment by the next Leg
islature. The Governor is not re-
quired to sign the resolution The
question is in the hands-of the Leg
islature. The liquor people know
this and are working tooth and nail
for the election of legislators and
Senators. Nothing would please
them more than that the temperance
forces should become involved in a
partisan or factional controversy
over the Governorship and lost sight
of the Legislature, as they did in
1914, when local option YVES at stake.
The Dauphin county committee S
example should be followed by sim
liar committees elsewhere. 1t is
working along sane and practical
lines designed to give the people the
Kind of a Legislature, regardless OF
party, that will vote for the dry
amendment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
PATRIOTIC ACTION
[ Savannah News. ]

j
Men rave at befuddled and deceiv-
ed Russia, and yet some of them are
doing about as much to help defeat
Germany as is the average Bolshevik.
They do not yet seem to understand
that patriotism, to be worth anything
right now. has to be translated into
action. You have to do something
fo- your country, and you ought to
be willing and ready and anxious to
do anything you can. Furthermore.
you ought not to sit back and wait
until your country hunts you up per-
sonally to suggest a course of action.
but you should get busy and hunt MP
things to do for your country. Don t
profiteer. Don't strike. Buy Liberty
Bonds and Thrift Stamps. Give some
books for the soldiers to read. II
some of your property is needed for
the public welfare let the public have
it quickly. If your nation calls you to
the colors to risk your life in its SER
vice, go gladly in the knowledge that
you are enjoying a privilege in the
performance of that duty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

argument that what pigs refuse was
certainly no At medicine for boys.
But such are the prejudices of wom-
ankind, deep-set by parental injunc-
ton and supported by household ex-
perience, that the argument was
wasted:
The war, however, bids fair to re-
lieve the small boy of to-day from
the bondage of castor oil. Now, if
only somebody can find use fer those
other cid stand -bys-melted goose
grease camemile and yarrow tea,
powdered quinine and sulphur and
moiasses, we shall consider that all
the fighting has not been In vain.
Down with tyranny of all kinds;
freedom for cur friends, the boys, is
our battle cry,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
TOO EARLY GARDENS

TO the Editor of the Telegraph:
This is little warning to those
who are making gardens for the first
or second time. The temptation al
ways is to get the seed in too early.
My experience over a long period is
that gardens planted late grow better
than those planted too early. This
applies even to such hardy seeds as
lettuce, peas, radishes and onions.
which are not hurt much by ex-
posure but which do not grow when
the ground is cold. A good time to
plant is when there is just sufficient
water in the soil to keep it moist
md when the earth feels warm to
he hand. This does not apply to
weetpeas or annual poppies which
hould be planted very early.
GARDEN CRANK.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE -.

WE'LL KNOWN PEOPLE ......
DR.. Francis ID. Patterson, of the
\ Department of Labor and Industry,
is speaking before Philadelphia doc
tors to-day on the work of the state
for disabled soldiers and workers.
General c. M. Clement, open
ed Mt. Carmel's Liberty Loan cru
sade.
John w. Smoke. the Lebanon
county school superintendent, enters
upon his thirtieth year and gets
raise in salary.
A. G.. C. Smith. superintendent
of Delaware schools, is another vet
eran in the ranks of the county
school men. He starts his thirty
first year.
Eugene II. Fellows, of Scran-
ton, who lost out in the superin-
tendency contest in Lackawanna, is
a son-in-law of Judge II. M. Ed
wards.
David II. Lane, the veteran
school director, says some of the
survey plans are "fiddle-faddle."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
Why Trust Them?

Why, it may be asked again,
should it be necessary to catch a sus-
pected German spy in the act in or
der to prove that he is a dangerous
enemy alien? Is the United States in
position to trust suspected spies
until they do something to confirm
suspicion? Is it, or is it not? IL it is,
why not close the internment camps
If it is not, why not enlarge and fill
them christian Science Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
THE ALDERMANIC EVIL

III ALIEINhF1ANAS IL v IL
HE police court-aldermanic mud
~ die, involving the collection OF
- costs that bear the suspicion
OF being excessive, is the direct out
come OF a situation that ought tc
have been corrected by the Legisla'
ture long ago, Evil masquerading
under the guise of law is far more
to be feared than evil that operates
outside the law, for it is much more
difficult to reach, 1t is so with the
aldermanic system in force here and
in other third-class cities, and it is
tine serious attention is given to
the matters
Under the legal provisions, each
ward is entitled to an alderman, who,
in addition to the authority usually
vested in a notary, has among other
powers those of a committing mag
istrate. and it is this phase of alder
manic activities that is most open to
criticism. 1t is well known that certain
aldermen have grown rich on the re-
turns of the criminal cases passing
through their offices. 1t has been
charged, and not denied, that some
constables acting for case-hunting
aldermen, have stirred up trouble in
their districts in order to provide
material upon which to base suits,
and it is a notorious fact that ignor-
ant colored people and foreigners
for years have been held up" In
these aldermanic courts and made
to pay excessive fines and costs.
Trivial cases that ought to have been
dismissed, others in which there was
lack of evidence and still others
based upon Interior motives, have
been reported to criminal court in
such numbers-purely for the pur-
pose of piling up aldermanic court
fees-that the judges. frequently
have protested to the aldermen
against cluttering the dockets with
them
The alderman has outlived his
usefulness, at least in Harrisburg
There is proper and really necessary
work for about four in the city, at
living pay The number should be
reduced to some such figure and
they should be confined to civil work
Their present police duties ought to
be performed by municipality en-
ployed police magistrates and per-
haps one such-certainly not more
than three, all told-could look after
all the legitimate police court work
developing in the city, and thus put
down the farming" of crime as it
has been practiced here for years.
There are honest, honorable alder
men, many of them, but they, I'M
fortunately, must suffer with the
guilty.
A cleaning up of the whole crime
detecting and prevention system of
the city is needed There is much to
be corrected both within aldermanic
circles and without Civil Service has
not corrected all the defects of the
police system by any manner OF
means, even though it has added
greatly to the burden of the taxpayer
and has to some extent removed the
police force from politics Mayor
Keister is correct in his views as tc
the desirability of having a commit.
ting magistrate for police court
hearings. but the way to do this s.
by act OF Legislature, which at the
same time would eliminate the al.
derman's office, or at least reduce
the number Of aldermen and limi
their power.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

The Kaiser is beginning to tell the
folks back home just how 1t happens
that he didn't win the big victory that
was to have ended the war But as
yet he hasn't told them the truth
which is that the allies are better
soldiers than the Germans,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
Tar and Feathers Also Good

AS compared to making pro-Ger-
mans kiss the flag. smearing them
with yellow paint is highly prefer
able. Nobody has much objection TO
the desecration of yellow paint
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
LABOR NOTES

Women who are able to qualify as
draughtsmen will be employed as
ship draughtsmen by the United
States Navy. Their pay will range
from 81 to seas a day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
A Big Subject

Farm school commencement ora
tors will attempt to explain the ex-
act reasons for the high cost of liv-
ing. is there nothing too difficult for
a graduate to tackle?-St. Paul Dis
match
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
Knolu Whom to Fear

If the Swiss government has pur-
chased 800, 900 gas masks 1t has re-
vealed the quarter from which it
fears aggression. The Allies are not
the powers that make a speciality of
gas.-Buffalo Enquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

There are about 125,000 Chinese
serving in France as farmers, trench
diggers and laborers. The Fren2h
government began importing them
last summer. 1t contracts to pay
each man $40 a month and to send
another $40 to his family at home
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
Faith Without Works

Yea a man may say. Thou hast
faith. and ] have works; shew me
thy faith without thy works. and I
will shew thee my faith by my
works.-Jannes II. IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Sacramento (Cal.) Typographical
Unions wage scale for newspaper
members provides for a work-day of
seven and half hours and an in
crease of so cents day. The rates
are now $3.50 for day work and
$34.50 for night work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

that the American people can be
trusted. We have not been keeping
anything away from the Kaiser by
people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1918

The Life Of God is not to be dis
covered By reasoning, but by obey
ing.-RUsKIN>
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Trotzky is now in favor of iron
discipline for the Russian Army, but
we fear it's pretty rusty.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

The refusal of Servia to submit to
a discussion of peace must make the
admirers of Russia sick. = Philadel-
phia North American. :.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Among the compensations of war
IN England is the reduction of three
thousand in the annual output of new
books.-Boston Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Every time Won Hindenburg calls
Tor victory, Central gives him the
wrong number-Brooklyn Eagle
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

The infant Bolshevik government
is precocious child. Inside of two
months it began to crawl.-Brooklyn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Baker Under Fire.-Head-line He
got used to it before going over
New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

The announcement that the birth
ly one-half in the last three years
ought to go long way toward MAX
ing the war popular everywhere else
-Philadelphia North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Stamford (Conn.) Sheet Metal
Workers Union has secured a wage
increase of As cents day. The union
hiss an agreement with employers
which does not expire until June
next, but the employers accepted the
claim that continued increases IN the
cost of living made a higher rate nee
essary
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

-, New York, which haw-haws every
time Kansas is mentioned, has only
one motorcar for every thirty-five in
habitants, while Kansas has one for
every ten.-Chanute Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg is being
watched by neighbors to sec
how it goes with the Third
Loan?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

There are eighteen states which
have adopted the statewide initiative
and referendum. in their order of
adoption. as follows: South Dakota.
Oregon, Nevada. Montana. OlSIa-
home. Maine. Missouri, Michigan.
Arkansas. Colorado, Arizona. CaIifor-
MIA, Ohio, Nebraska, Washington,
North Dakota, Mississippi and Utah.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

If New Workers are to cultivate
1900 farm gardens this summer. a 6
Mr. Hoover asks, they will have to
arrange a schedule by which their
their war gardening. = New YorE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
EDITORIAL CONVENT

Most of the Kaiser's spies have
tlties before and aliases after arrest
New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

The 'wets" are recalling that Rus
sia went dry in 1915 and crazy in
191S.-Brooklyn Eagle. III
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Ell. J.sTACKPoLE,Pr Pres't s. Edisoria- c hisf
r. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MdndgiHg Edisor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11
OUR DAILY LAUGH
BEING
PRACTICAL.

Mother: My
dear, do you
think it right to
let that young
man spend so
much money on
you?
Miss Modern
ette: Why not :?
I have no in
tention of mar
rying him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
John Harris made a fortune by
acceptlng Continental Congress
money and holding on to it. He had
faith in the government
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Just how Harrisburg is keeping
house is being watched by many
students of municipal affairs. Har-
risburg, as is we'll known, was one
of the few cities in the state to
make a success under the old third
class city act and the way it spends
it's money and the results it gets as
we'll as its methods of handling
everything from finances to streets,
health, police, wires, vice, sewers
and Fairgrounds, is going to be
checked up by the men in authority
in a number of the cities of Penn
sylvania, and not only of the third
class either.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-11

If you are a weather sharp, you
can get a job as Army weather man.
State draft headquarters has receiv-
ed kilograms from Washington, pro-
viding for the special induction of
meteorologists into the service. That
is the polite name for weather man.
This war is bringing out a good
many new things in Army matters
and weather men are among the lat
est to be called for. There are also
special calls on Major Murdock's
desk for tailors and photographers.
Some of the latter to be trained to
take pictures from aeroplanes.