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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07

Britain and His lecture on Friday aft
ernoon in Fahnestock Hall will un-
doubtedly draw a large attendance
others interested, not only in literature
but in the observation of literary
man upon the war. Professor Noyes
has just returned from several months
spent with the allied forces in the
trenches.
Booth Harrington, Too
Speedy" Rush the famous football
coach of Princeton, along with Booth
Harrington, the famous author are
among other prominent speakers.
The POSTMASTER will be James
Scarlet of Danville, whose ability as
a lawyer and orator assures the diners
of an interesting evening.
The Harrisburg Club will be dec
GRATED with Princeton colors both in
banners and floral effects. Updegroves
orchestra will furnish the music and
has been specially coached on the
Princeton songs. The centerpiece will
be the famous old Tiger" which has
decorated every Princeton table for
many years, and whose roar will greet
the diners as they enter the assembly
room of the Harrisburg Club.
On Friday the large Princeton ban
ner will be displayed in front of the
Harrisburg Club and also at Fahnes-
took Hall where Professor Noyes is to
lecture. Large delegations are com
ing from Williamsport, York, Lebanon,
Miffiin, Altoona and M. G. Kennedy,
president of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad will bring the Chambers
burg delegation in his private car.
Many Old Grads"
The event will be strictly a Prince
ton affair and there will be no guests
from any other colleges. That great
deal of interest has been shown is
evident by the fact that some of the
oldest graduates of the University will
be present. Among the old alumni
present will be DIR. Robert B. Wat
son, class of 80, Lock Haven; NJ. II.
CallSins, class of '65, Mifflinsburg and
j. c. Rowan, class of go, Harrisburg.
The latter will have as his guest, his
old classmate VIM. AL. Swan, Oyster
Bay, n. Y. During the dinner vari-
Gus old alumni will be called upon to
repeat the speciality which made him
famous in college whether song, dance
or story.
The committee arranging the event
includes w. Sanderson Detweiler, of
Columbia; M. c. Kennedy, Chambers
burg; James C. Watson, Williamsport;
Robert G. Gordon, Waynesboro; Geo.
II. Stewart, Jr., Shippensburg; Geo.
S. Schmidt, York; Charles f. thinner
man, Lebanon and Francis j. Hall, G..
II. Bergner, John Fox Weiss, w. II.
Musser, r. G. Cox, Robert G.. Gold
smith. r. p. M. Davis, Lewis r. Pal
mer and Jackson Herr Boyd, of Har-
risburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07

: Father Huntington will preach
every night this week at s P. NJ,
and every afternoon at the chill
dren's meeting at 4.30 P. M, in
St. Stephens Episcopal Church,
Front Street, near Pine.-Ad0,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07

Tenor soloist, who will appear in con-
cert with Moorhead Choral Society
John b. Siefert, lyric tenor of inter-
national fame, who will appear in song
in the Technical High School auditor
ium Friday evening, March 8, at the
first annual concert of the Moorhead
Choral Society, is well known by the
music-loving public of Harrisburg,
having appeared here on two previous
occasions. Not only by his remarkable
voice, but with his pleasing PERSONAL
ity has he won a host of local admir-
ers. Mr.. Siefert has pure tenor voice
of sympathetic quality.
Prior to goin gto Europe he came
into prominence in this country as
soloist with the Russian Symphony
Orchestra.
1t has been through the efforts of
A. w. Hartman, director of the Moor
head Knitting Chorus that the services
of Mr.. Siefert have been secured at
this time.
Mr.. Siefert and Mr. Hartman have
on previous occasions appeared on the
same program and will again be heard
in several duets. Mrs. Emma Hoffman,
|accompanist for the chorus, will pre-
side at the piano.
The price of admission will be SIM
plyaenougn to defray actual expenses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07
Find $4,000 in Humble
Home of Deceased Couple

Gettysburg, Pa, March 7.-Search
in the humble home of Almos H.
Shank and Annie e. Shank. brother
and sister, who died within a few days
of each other, has revealed gold, sill
yer and certificates aggregating be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The Shanks, who dressed shabbily
and were apparently on the verge of
poverty, were the owners of a large
quantity of good clothing, twenty fine
skirts being one item in the apprais-
ers' list made public to-day.
The elderly brother and sister had
spent their lives on a little farm west
of Gettysburg. 1t is said that only
two or three times did they get as
far as ten miles away from their
home. The brother died the day
after the sisters funeral, and their
nearest relatives, two cousins, then
searched the house. The first thing
they came upon was $3.50 in gold. then
$3.50 in silver. and finally the remain
der IN notes and bank certificates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07
Big Russian Cruiser
Badly Damaged by
Striking Mine at Sea
Rr AsSocintcd Press

Berlin, March Z. (By wireless to
Tuckerton)-The Russian armored
cruiser Ryurik struck mine in the
Gulf of Finland and was badly dam
aged, according to reports from Stock
holm, says an Overseas News Agency
announcement.
The Ryurik (also spelled Rurik) is
an armored cruiser of $3.50 tons, 529
feet long. Her armament comprises
four 10-inch guns in turrets and eight
S-inch guns similarly mounted, to-
gether with twenty 4.7-inch guns and
four 3-pounders. She has two torpe-
do tubes submerged. The Ryurik,
which was built at Barsow in 1906,
developed a speed of 21.5 knots on
her trial Her complement is 99S
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07

General Brown and his deputies held
a series of conferences on mine cave
legislation to-day with officials Of the
Department of Mines. The pending
bills were under consideration.
Col. Holding Here-Col. A. M. Hold
ing, prominent West Chester lawyer,
was at the Capitol to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07
MEN OF PROMINENCE
TO ADDRESS ALUMNI
Continued From First Pagc.1

here, as he preached at Chambersburg
some years ago and this will be the
first opportunity his many friends
have had for number of years, TO
hear him.
English Poet to Speak
Professor Alfred Noyes, visiting
professor of English literature at
Princeton, will also lecture He is one
of the most prominent poets of Great
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07
EVANGELIST BODELL
breaches TO BIG CROWD

Evangelistic services in the Coven
ant Presbyterian Church are being
continued this week. A large congre-
cation heard the evangelist preach
last night on THE Wise and Foolish
Virgins" Services were held this af-
ternoon at 2.30 o'clock and the regu-
lar evening service will be held at
7.30.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-07
Health Restored
After IS Years
of Suffering
Remarkable Recovery of Elmer Beard
Astonishes His Many
Acquaintances


TANLAC BENEFITS HIM
Those who knew Elmer Beard as he
was only a few short weeks ago are
aston!shed at the marvellous change
that has come over him.
From a worn out, miserable, physi-
cal wreck he has changed almost over
night into the picture of health, and
the story of his recovery is well nigh
unbelievable.
For Is years." said Mr.. Beard
when seen at his home, 235 Lehman
street, Lebanon, Pa, II suffered inde-
scribable torments from indigestion
and stomach trouble. was run down
and tired all the time and | couldn't t
eat enough to keep up my strength
for no matter how simple the food my
stomach could not digest 1t and |
would be filled with gas, causing me to
suffer severe pain and almost unendur-
able misery.
II tried every medicine ever heard
of without being able to get any re-
lief and my trouble got so bad of late
years that I was often confined to my
bed under the doctors care. but l only
got worse instead of better.
Finally. after reading so much
about Tanlac, l began taking 1T and
from that day my recovery has been
rapid until to-day, to look at me. you
would not think 1 had ever had a sick
day in my life.
"I am stronger and more energetic;
I am sleeping fine and j have a splen-
did appetite and can eat heartily of
anything on the table.
II heartily recommend Tanlac and
my many friends here in Lebanon will
vouch for the great good that 1t has
done me-"
Tanlac,' the famous reconstructive
tonic is now being introduced here at
Gorgas' Drug Store, where the Tanlac
man is meeting the people and ex-
planning the merits of this master
medicine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
PROTESTS KREISLER
. tac Editor Of the TcIegrabh :

T2 tic Editor of the Telegraph:
l see by yesterday mornings issue
of the Patriot that Fritz Kreisler is
booked for December Sth. Can ii be
possible that Harrisburg would or
could patroniZe him? To be sure
he is a wonderful artist, but he is
also an officer in the Austrian army,
on sick leave, and the money he
makes. a great part of it, is sent to
Austria to help kill our boys. Could
it be called patriotism for any town
in our country to patroniZe him
And especially Harrisburg, which has
led the countryin giving of her splen-
did sons to the nav of German mill
tarism. The town of Sewiclley, near
Pittsburgh, awoke to the fact that
he was not an American citizen and
an officer in the Austrian army, and
would not allow him to appear. Let
us not be less patriotic. Fritz Kreis-
Ter last January or February, on his
return to this country, was given a
dinner in New York by some promi-
nent men and when speaking of his
war experiences he boasted that aft
er the Germans and Austrians had
devastated certain town there was
not virgin left in the place" Can
il be possible that we will pay to
hear a man, however great his art
and kultur, who would boast of such
things? No! A thousand times no!
A Patriot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
Auto Makers OfferAccepted

r. Coffin. who spoke for the motor
car makers and the motor and ac-
cessory manufacturers, that the
greatest sales during the past year
and a half have been in agricultural
states where the need for material
and individual transportation is ever
present.
Government officials freely admit
that next to steel and ships, the au-
tomobile industry is the most I'M
portant in the war. 1t embraces
$40, 900 workers, including many OF
the best engineers and mechanics
trained in gas engine design and
construction. The gas engine is con-
sidered one of the greatest, if not
the greatest, factor in the conduct
OF the present warrior use in trucks,
tractors, ambulances, airplanes and
boats. The government has felt that
while many of the automobile plants
have been producing munitions, more
of them could be utilized and the
plan is to operate in the direction OF
working every automobile factory at
top speed.
In the discussion of steel. at the
conferences, it developed that of an
annual production. of AZ, 600, 900 tons,
the automobile industry uses approx
imately five per cent of 100000
tons. Charles NJ. Schwab, president
of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
has stated that the steel producing
capacity will prove equal to the full
demands of the war and believes
there will be ample steel for all
needs.
President Charles Clifton, of the
| National Automobile Chamber of
| Commerce. and President c. w.
| Stiger. of the Motor and Accessory
/ Manufacturers. were authorized to
appoint committee, the members OF
which will be announced in a few
davs With all the varied interests
working as a unit under the direction
| of the committee at Washington,
| which will cooperate with the War
Industries Board, the new plans Will
effectually remove all uncertainty
as to the future of the automobile in
| duStry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
TOWARD ANNIHILATION
[NeM York World. l

There is no reason for questioning
the reports that the German birth
rate is now lower by over 4O,per cent.
than for the pre-war period. Nor can
il be doubted that the deathrate has
enormously increased both directly
from the war and indirectly from
the exposure of an underfed people
to various diseases and epldemlcs,
evidence of whose ravages is otten
found in letters from home taken
from killed or captured German sol
diers. Between the two causes, the
population of Germany must be now
declining by probably not less than
100000 year, and the rate OF &C.
cline is necessarily increasing.
If tn war were to end tomorrow,
Germany would face an economic
ruin which would take decades to
overcome, and with population ap-
normally heavy 'for the ages past
maturity and making for general
deathrate abnormally high and m
creasing for many years.
If the war is to go on these con-
ditions of Improvement IN new
blood and a rising disproportlon Oh
old age and natural deathrate must
expand at an accelerated pace. Ger
many would then face not merely the
ruin now in sight but situation por-
tending annihilation.
These are certainties which no
amount of blinking can modify or
avert. The Allied Powers have put
TO keep the sea and stand fast and
forward on the French and Flanders
front, without panic or costly haste,
to force upon the German govern
ment and German people the choice
of agreeing to terms of a nonvictor-
ious peace or of proceeding beyond
ruin toward annihilation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
STACK UP Seed CORN

TUST at present everyone seems to
- be giving advice to the farmer,
who also appears to be now de-
finitely approaching that condition
expressed by the line of the song
about the farmer coming into his
own Just at present the men who
till the soil and roam the fields have
the bulk of the spare change and
while there is criticism of the fail
ure of agricultural communities to
invest in Liberty Bonds as us folks
in the cities and towns have done
there is also more or less sharpness
in the way people are referring to
farmers holding back produce, boost
ing prices of potatoes and claim
ing exemptions. The farmer is rapid
ly getting into that class which re-
quires some defenders.
The State Department of Agricul-
ture, which has hitherto been the
staunch advocate of the farmer and
quick to rush to the aid of agricu.
tural element when assailed, has
made a couple of rather significant
recommendations. AS matter OF
fact, they can scarcely be called
recommendations; they are urgent
messages, and the wonder is that it is
necessary that they shauld have been
made.
Farmers have been asked will
considerable emphasis to:
Send their potatoes and other pro.
duce to the local markets and no
to hoard them, but to sell in theii
home districts and notify the Stat,
Bureau of Markets, which is a sor
of general state clearing house fol
produce, how much is left, so that
it can put them into touch with big
buyers.
Save double the amount of seeC
corn this year. because the farmers
must not only provide corn for thei
own fields next year, but also hav,
enough on hand to furnish seed corr
for the hundreds and hundreds o
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
THE VALUE OF THE BOARD

n ROBABLY there are not very
many people who would give
more than passing notice to an
that the State Indus
trial Board has framed a code of
safety for brewery workers or the
promulgation of code of safety and
sanitation for foundries, while the
cranes does not interest many, but
when it is announced that a code is
to be enacted which will govern not
only the installation, but the opera
up.
This code, which is being discuss
ed to-day before the State Indus
trial Board, will be issued about the
end of the year and govern existing
elevators and those to be put in
Certain definite, established rules will
be laid down and given the finality
of law
In this phase of work the State
Industrial Board was designed to fur.
nish a tribunal which could deal Will
various problems of industry as they
arose and systematic the regula-
tions. 1t was recognized that if every
time it was proposed to improve con,
ditions about blast furnace or 6
shipyard the subject had to go to the
legislature it would mean talk, eX
pense and maybe a snarl. So thu
Board was created and in the mair
the plan has worked well. There have
been criticisms of regulations made
in some lines of industry, but they
have been accepted and it is fair tc
say that some have been rescinded.
The value of the Board is that i
can regulate a thing of such import
ance to everyone as elevators and
do it without getting a whole Stat
Capitol heated up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08

the Republican and Democratic
fusion movement started arrange
ments to continue it, although it had
been expected that the American
party would pass out of existence
with Yesterdays election. The
fusion is to be maintained for the
purpose of getting" James II.
Maurer. the local Socialist leader,
when he runs for reelection rs State
Legislator next year. Maurer who
is president of the Pennsylvania
Federation of Labor. and received
the second highest vote MS n can
didate for the Socialist nomination
for president last year, has been very
bitter in his criticism of the govern
ment's war policies. He is the only
Socialist Legislator in the state, and
the American party leaders have de-
cided that it is time to eliminate him.
The embryo plans call for nominat-
ing one Democrat and one Rcpub-
lican on both Republican ana Dem
ocratic tickets"
Mayor Smith says that the re-
suit vindicated his administration.
Miss Mary Fay. a reporter.
leads the Scranton school board. =
Senator w, J. Burke is one of
Pittsburgh's new councilmen, IIc
succeeds DIR. G.. A. Dillingcr.
Charles e. Berger nrd II. O.
Bechtel have been elected judges of
the Schuylkill County Courts by this
vote: Berger, 19.4S7; Bechtel.
1897; John Robert Jones. 1926:
James ]. Bell, 6.257. Jones carried
Ashland. Schuylkill Haven. Orwies-
burg, ST. Clair, Port Carbon and
many townships. The vote for
Sheriff was Joseph Wyatt. Re-
publican, 1888; P. j. Murphy.
Democrat, $50.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
LABOR NOTES

Packing plants in st. Joseph, Mo-,
are being organized following the
successful strikes of butcher work.
men in Kansas City and Omaha.
At the request of it's federated
shopmen to pay wages prevailing in
it's territory, the Wabash Railroad
announces a 5O-cent hourly rate for
mechanics and 33 cents for helpers.
The Swiss labor journal Mettalur-
giste gives official statistics showing
that 63.137 munitionworkers from
nineteen factories in Germany went
out on strike during the first three
months of 1917.
One million two hundred and fifty
six thousand women are to-day doing
work in England which was done
formerly by men who have joined the
army or been set free for other forms
of war service.
Philadelphia Boiler Makers Union
is successfully enforcing its new
wage scale, which calls for union
recognition, n 50-Cent minimum for
journeymen and 37la cents for help
ers.
St Joseph. Mo-, bookbinders have
secured a one year agreement, which
calls for higher wages and improved
working conditions.
Coal Hosting Engineers Union,
whose members are employed on the
Boston and Maine Railroad, have Sc
cured two-year agreement which
provides for a nine-hour day anG
wage increases.
tIy--
workers at Washington. ID. c., has
succeeded in establishing the union
shop, a 4S-hour week, equal distribu-
tion of work and extra time for
overtime and holidays.
A bill has been introduced in the
United States Senate to put the lum-
ber industry on an eight-hour- day
basis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John p. Emery, elected mayor
of Franklin, is a former legislator.
james b. Sheehan, philadelphia
register of Wills who was a storm
center in the present campaign, Is
nne of the best-known story tellers
in the state
-Congressman b. X. Focht, who
u.as bare Yesterday on his way to
Washington, prides himself that he
is still an active newspaper editor
and correspondent as well.
e. c. Higbee. who has been
named as Palmer's assistant in car
ing for alien property, is aUniontown
lawyer.
~ c. Welchans, elected record
er of Lancaster, is well known to
many Harrisburgerrs.
Congressman U. G. Lyons, of
Warren, was formerly in the Nation
al Guard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08

A S a result of the conferences in
~ Washington last week between
War Industries Board and the
makers of automobiles, parts and ac-
cessories, the motorcar makers were
officially recognized by the govern
ment officials, who requested that
committee be appointed to assist at
Washington in co-ordinating the war
needs of the government with the
vast production facilities of the in
dustry whose leadership in Standard
zation and scientific manufacturing IS
evidenced by the quantity production
of the modern passenger car ana
truck.
General satisfaction has been en-
messed at the outcome, which is the
tinoI result of offers by the makers,
the first on March s. when a dehnlte
offer was made to place their fac1l-
Ties at the disposal of the govern
rlent.
when the plan becomes operative,
II is eXpected that great quantities
of munitions will be made IN many
of the 455 automobile plants IN or
der to do which, it Will be necessary
to reduce the output OF PASSENGER
cars. although no speclnc LeuTcIioii uoii
hns been ordered or planned. Truck
nroduction will increase because OF
The need to assist the railroads IN
short haul business. s.
Ar the Washington conference,
Judge Lovett and his associates on
fbe war Industries Board, expressed
70 tne the automobile representatives
tTeir appreciation of the wide ram
;eoat,ons tf,e Of the automobile industry
VIII It's 455 makers of automobiles,
with n production of cars and trucks
last year exceeding l'SOo,oO0 Ne-
hicles; the 26,7OO dealers ana the
9c 900 garages and machine shops
sei1inr and caring for them; the l.
0SC makers of parts and accessories,
and the fact that there were 4,242,-
600 motor vehicles registered in the
various states on JUL 1. Incident
| " il was shoy II by President Cit
I ton, of the National Automobile
| Chamber of Commerce. and Howard
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A MISTAKEN READER
TO the EDITOR of the Telegraph:

q IHC I.tilOF OF nc 1 ClcgfdfF.
AS arrangements are being made
for the next National Army draft. do
YOU think the same unfair thing will
be done by drafting the same terri
tory as before The BOYS from the
surrounding districts. Steelton. Pax,
tang and Elizabethville included, are
requested and urged to enlist; of
course, at the recruiting station in
Harrisburg, and giving Harris burg
the credit
Then when the draft takes place,
it hits the same territory, leaving
Harrisburg boys doing practically
nothing. For instance, ninety-two
enlistments in Harrisburg on Novem-
Der list, but how many were from
Harrisburg? Not six.
There are many, many bows i'm
Harrisburg who are more capable of
being drafted rather than tearing
homes to pieces by taking two and
three from one home in Nos. /, 2 and
3 districts. The same remark has
been made by very prominent Har-
risburger, already in military service,
and states it very wrong, as these
three districts have done their share
as regards to recruiting and being
drafted and giving this city credit.
OF cource, we all have dear friends
WIZ "io ~ ilal iiSpuIS ufdlt, Dut
why not do their share? If not,
there should be a recruiting station in
every district.
VIII you arrange and publish, or
will you not? Thanking you,
A Mother from one of the districts of
/, 2 and and constant reader of
the Telegraph
Editors Note-Men who enlist in
Harrisburg are credited to the dis
tricts in which they reside Harris
burg gets no credit for men who en-
list unless they actually reside with
in the city limits. The records al
draft headquarters show this.