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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-16
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the ground that that sea was prac-
tically dominated by Russia, an enemy
of Turkeys ally, Germany. Departure
through the Dardanelles was thought
impossible and as a result a part of
the crew went through Austria into
Switzerland before the break with the
former country.
Converted Yacht
The Scorpion is a converted yacht
and has been stationed at Constant
nople Sas a dispatch boat for the
American embassy since November,
1908. A year ago members of the
Scorpions crew were reported to have
clashed with German soldiers in Con-
stantinople and in March of this year
the Italian newspapers printed reports
that the Scorpion had been blown up.
Constantinople dispatches denied this
report. The commander of the Scor-
pion is Commander j. p. Morton.
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Every Home GardenWill Help Solve
the Food Problem

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PEAR TREES, CSC

PEAR TREES, CSC
The Bartlctt-undoubte the
best of the summer varieties, very
juicy and highly favored.
Clapp's Favorite-a tested fine
pear similar to the Bartlett; fine
texture, melting, buttery and juicy;
rich, sweet delicate flavor; ripens
in August and September.
PEACH TREES, 15c
Elberta-one of the largest and
finest peaches; flesh is yellow, firm
and of highest quality.
Crawford's Early-a fine, large
peach of excellent quality.
Crawford's Late-large, yellow
fruit with red cheek, yellow flesh,
rich and delicious flavor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-16
AUCTION For RED CROSS

A blind auction VIII be held this
evening by members of John Harris
lodge. No. 1913. knights of Pythias, in
the hall. 1865 Howard street. Pro-
ceeds from the sale will be given to the
American Red Cross Society. Each
member of the lodge is expected to
attend and bring a package to be plac-
ed on sale. The meeting will be for
members and friends Following the
auction there will be a dance.
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at an opportune time.
PLUM TREES, csc

Lombard PIms-a hardy and
very productive tree whose fruit is
violet red, flesh yellow and juicy
and palatable.
Burbank Plums-Hardy and pro-
ductive, bearing q hundred plums
to the square foot. Fruit is of me-
dunn size; flesh amber yellow and
rich and sugary in quality
German Prunc Plums-Abundant
bearers, skin is purple with thick
blue bloom, sweet and pleasant.
CHERRY TREES, CSC
Large Montmorency Cherry Trees
tender and juicy, very hardy and
an immense bearer; begins bearing
very young.
Napoleon or Royal Ann-fruit of
the largest size, pale yellow with
red cheek, flesh very firm, excellent
flavor, ripens in July.
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to the United States and travelled on a
train ahead of the embassy special. At
the Swiss border they boarded a
special train which had been provided
by the Berne government.
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Scamcn On XNnv Hone


Buchs, Switzerland, via Paris, April
10. = Twenty-three sailors from the
United States guardship Scorpion, at
Constantinople, arrived in Vienna as
the American embassy staff and con-
sular officers were leaving for Switzer-
land. The sailors were on their way
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Must BE Efficient

ut is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, on the farms, in
the shipyards. in the mines, in the fac
tories, must be made more prolific and
more efficient than ever, and that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular re-
quirements of our task than they have
been: and what / want to say is that
the men and the women who devote
their thought and their energy to these
things will be serving the country and
conducting the fight for peace and
freedom just as truly and Just as ef-
fectively as the men on the battlefield
or in the trenches.
THE industrial forces of the country,
men and women alike will be a great
national, great international service
army-a notable and honored host en-
gagged in the service of the nation and
the world, the efficient friends and saw
iors of free men everywhere Thou
sands, nay hundreds of thousands. of
men otherwise liable to military serv-
ice Will of right and of necessity be
excused from that service and assigned
to the fundamental, sustaining work
of the fields and factories and mines,
and they will be as much part of the
great patriotic forces of the nation as
the men under fire.
Il take the liberty, therefore, of ad-
dressing this word to the farmers of
the country and to all who work on
the farms: The supreme need of our
own nation and of the nations with
which we are cooperating is an abund-
ance of supplies, and especially of food
stuffs. The Importance of an adequate
food supply. especially for the pres
ent year, is superlative.
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tlement that I hope you will permit
me to address to you few words of
earnest counsel and appeal with re-
gard to them.
I'VE are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip a great army
but these are the simplest parts of
the great task to which we have ad-
dressed ourselves. There is not a sin
gle selfish element, so far as / can
see, in the cause we are fighting for.
1--WE are fighting for what we be-
lieve and wish to be the rights OF man
kind and for the future peace and Sc
curity of the world. To do this great
thing worthily and successfully we
must devote ourselves to the service
without regard to profit or material
advantage and with an energy and
intelligence that will rise to the level
of the enterprise itself. We must rea-
lize to the full how great the task is
and how many things, how many
kinds and elements of capacity and
service and self-sacrifice it involves.
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Things To Do Well

These, then. are the things we must
do and do WELL besides tighting-the
things without which mere fighting
would be fruitless:
We must supply abundant food, for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen not only. but also for a large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting.
I'VE must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma-
rines or no submarines, what will every
day be needed there. and abundant ma
terial; coal to keep the fires going in
and our factories with which not only
to clothe and equip our own forces
on land. and sea, but also to clothe and
support our people for whom the gall
liant fellows under arms can no longer
work; to help clothe and equip the
armies with which we are co-operat-
ing in Europe. and to keep the looms
and manufactures there in raw ma
terial; coal to KEEP the fires going in
ships at sea and in the furnaces of
hundreds of factories across the sea:
steel out of which to make arms and
ammunition, both here and there; rails
for wornout railways back of the fight
ing fronts: locomotives and rolling
stock to take the place of those every
day going to pieces; mules, horses
cattle for labor and for military serv-
ice; everything with which the people
of England and France and Italy and
Russia have usually supplied them
selves, but cannot now afford the men,
the materials or the machinery to
make.
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Two-piece mahogany dinngroom suite 6O-nch
ounet and large china closet. $11S value Special s75
Jacobean settee, spring seat upholstered top. Spe-
Three-piece mahogany finished lvingroom suite
leather spring seat cushions. Special ......l $500
Brown fibre hreside rockers tapestry cushions
Brown Gbre tables with golden oak dull aSishsS fsg
'Op Dives, P6meroy stewartThird op P,Sor TO $3.50
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Appeal to Farmers

without abundant food, alike for
the armies and the people now at war
the whole great enterprise upon which
we have embarked will break down
and fall. The worlds food reserves are
low. Not only during the present emer-
sency. but for some time after peace
shall have come both our own people
and large proportion of the people
of Europe must rely upon the harvests
in America.
Upon the farmers of this country.
therefore, in large measure, rests the
fate of the war and the fate of the
nations. May the nation not count
upon them to omit no step that will
increase the production of their land
or that will bring about the most eff
fectual cooperation in the sale and
distribution of their products. The time
is short. 1t is of the greatest impera-
tive Importance that everything possi-
BILE be done, and done Immediately, to
make sure of large harvests. L call
upon young men and old alike and
upon the able-bodied. boys of the land
to accept and act upon this duty-to
turn in hosts to the farms and make
certain that no pains and no labor are
lacking in this great matter.
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II particularly appeal to the farm
ers of the south to plant abundant
foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resist
ing the great temptation of the pres
ent price of cotton and helping, help
ing upon great scale. to feed the ma
tion and the peoples everywhere who
are lighting for their liberties and for
our own. The variety of their crops
will be the visible measure of their
comprehension OF a national duty.
THE government of the United States
and the governments OF the several
states stand ready to cooperate. They
will do everything possible to assist
farmers in securing an adequate sup
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and Walnut Dining Room Suites
Specially Priced

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Nine piece mahogany diningroom suite in William
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table china closet, side chairs and chair,
Special Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Ten piece American walnut dinngroom suite Co.
inch buffet, 54-nch extension table. china closet, side
table side chairs and one arm chair Special. $40
Mahogany. dningroom suite of 3 pieces buffet
china closet and extension table. William and Mary
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Dives. Pomeroy & stewart-street Floor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
TWO INDUSTRIES ARE
 MAKING INQUIRIES

Two industries are making inquiries that may lead to important develop ments in the Pine Bluff industrial field. The inquiries were addressed to B. B. Bloom, secretary of the cham Der of commerce, and may prove fruit full for the city and Jefferson county, as we'll as for the state.
 One is a flour mill, which is well established, and which made inquiries last year, with view to locating in Pine Bluff. The owners of the mill made inquiries last year, but financial and other conditions were not as fay- orable then as now The mill men opened the correspondence this time of their own volition.
 The second inquiry relates to the matter of hickory wood for the manu- facture of fire ladders, which is an important industry. Mir. Bloom said there is an ample supply of hickory in this section for this industry.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
YOUNG IS REELECTED
 BY COLoRED PYTHIANS

John Young, ST., of Pine Bluff, has returned from St. Louis where he attended the biennial meeting of the supreme lodge of negro Knights of Pythias, and where he was re- elected, by exclamation, to the office of supreme master of the exchequer.
 There were about 10000 delegates and visitors in attendance at the con vention, and it was decided to hold the next session at Atlantic City. Young followed the custom establish ed by him years ago, of taking, in actual cash, to ,the floor of the con ventions, all the funds of the organ izations in his possession and charge, something more than $10,000. In the past two years, according to his re- port, he handled about $53,000 of the funds of the order.. He has now been elected master of the exchequer for the twelfth time, which will mean "A years of service in that office, when his term expires.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
HOMESTEAD LAWS TO AID SOLDIERS
 ACQUIRE LANDS

Little Rock, Aug. 29.-By act of congress, approved July 2S. 1917, any person whose application for land under the homestead laws is allowed and who afterward enters the naval or military service during the war, will be given credit for the term of his service, as though he were living upon and cultivating his Homestead. The period of residence required un- der the homestead law is three years with the privilege of five months leave of absence each year. At least one years residence will, however be required on the homestead even though the soldier or sailor may serve more than two years during the war
 In the event of the soldiers death during service no further requlre-f ments will be made and final proof may be made by widow if living and unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, by his minor orphan children, or his or their legal repre- sentatives. Much interest attaches to this legislation in view of the fact that there are several hundred thou sand acres of vacant government land subject to homestead entry in this state
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
ASK SAME RATES FOR PEANUT 0IL
 AS COTTON OIL
Houston Files Petition With .fq Federal Commission
 " Against All Roads.

Houston. Tex. Aug. 2".-A com plaint against 162 railroads and steamship companies, embracing the territory from coast to coast and from the great lakes to the Rio Grande, has been filed with the inter state commerce commission by the Houston chamber of commerce and the Fidelity Oil company of Houston. Practically every line in inc United States is included in the complaints.
 Complainants are seeking readlust- ment of freight rates in carload lots on penuta oil, cocoanut oil and soy bean oil from all Texas producing points to practically every destination in the United States. The complaints assert that several plants are now in operation crushing peanuts and soy beans for the oil, which is ship ped to interstate markets, where it Is used for the same purposes as cotton seed oil.
 The carriers are being asked to establish the same rates on these oils which are now in effect on cotton seed oil to the same points
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
CHILD LABOR LAW IS BEING TESTED
 BY MILL HANDS
North Carolina Boys Seek To Keep Company From a'
 Discharging Them.

Greensboro, x. C., Aug 29.--Areu- ments which are expected to consume another full day were begun in fed eral district court here today in the first test case of the new federal child labor law.
 The constitutionality of the law was one of the chief points argued by both sides in the case. While it's opponents also termed it violation of states rights and declared it would be pos sible for canneries affected to evade it's regulations, while other industries could not do so without loss. The law, which becomes effective Septem- Der 1, prohibits employment of chil- dren under IA in any factory, mill workshop or cannery whose products are to be shipped in interstate com- merce, and provides an S-hour day fo1 children of 14 and 15 years.
 The suit was brought in the form o1 injunction proceedings by Roland II Degenhart of Charlotte, N. C., and his minor sons, Reuben and John, by which they sought to restrain the Fidelity Manufacturing company from discharging the youths from it's Char lotte cotton mill.
 William T. Hammer, United States district attorney also was made a de fendant.
 Judge Parker of New York made tho first argument for the plaintiffs to day. He declared that the act violat ed the fifth and eleventh amendment 1 tO the constitution
 Clement Manley of Winston-Salem N C., in the second argument for thu ] plaintiff declared the act to be a grav'
 invasion of the states rights and {: clear attack upon the constitution. MT
 Manley said it would be possible fo
 canneries to shut down for thirty day
 and then put their goods on the mar ] ket. The law provides that product made by child labor in violation of thu | provisions shall not be shipped in in terstate commerce for thirty days afte their manufacture.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
r sWANT RACES SEPARATE.

Little Rock, Aug. 29.-Instructions have been given the chairlnen of To- coal boards to show opposite the name of each man certified whether he is white or colored.
 This information is necessary that the adjutant generals office may ar range to comply with the state law requiring the races to travel in sep arate coaches, and also that the seg- regation of the races into regiments and other organizations may be ac- complished.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
PENSIONERS TO ' GET WARRANTS
 EARLY NEXT WEEK

Little Rock, Aug. 29.-The Confed- crate pension warrants are being drawn by the clerical force of the state auditors office and will prob ably be mailed to the county clerks for distribution not later than Mon day.
 There are. 1,Q21. pensioners this year, and they were allotted uni form sum of $1OO, both veterans and widows. The total amount allowed is $1102,100. The amount available for the payment of the pensions is $S75,659, which will give each pen sioner $79, being one dollar less than they received last year.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
ORDERED TO ALEXANDRIA.

Little Rock, Aug. 29.-The following enlisted men in the quartermaster's corps, were ordered to report today to Capt. J. A. Stevens at Little Rock, for initial muster iLto federal ser vice, to proceed immediately to Alex andria, La, for duty at the divisional cantOnment:
 Sergeants, first class-Ben R. Ham ilton, Chesley Cecil Clayton, Kern l.. Hall. Paul D. Dilzell, Terrence O. Pfaff. Sergeant-Chas. R. Moore.
 Privates c. Bird, Hal R, Black, Ernest c. Benton, Chas. Craig EdwinvE. Crumpler, Maynard o. Dav idson, w. G. Gates, Harry B. Meier mott, Edwin H. Sayle, M. P. Smith James H.. White, Ben w. Bartlett.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
VRGE EDUCATION SUNDAY.

Dr.. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, is request ing ministers, Sunday school superin- tendents, leaders of young peoples societies, and all others engaged in religious work, to make Sunday, Sep tember 8, educational Sunday through out the United States. and to urge at this time the importance of prompt and regular school attendance as a patriotic duty this year, despite the numerous temptations to remain out of school or defer the date of enter n
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
ANTI-GLARE LIGHTS LAW.

The ordinance, adopted by the Pine Bluff city council and providing for the equipment of all automobile lights with non-glare lens, becomes effective Sat ''rday, September 1. A number of 'otorists have already equipped their cars with lens meeting the requirements of the ordinance, and the remainder must do so within the next two days to avoid arrest and the, payment of fines.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
LIKE INTERVIEWER CLOTHES.

M. l.. Elkins, head of M. l.. Elkins & company, said yesterday that he has already sold number of Kup- penheimer suits to Pine Bluff men. A page advertisement in yesterdays issue of The Graphic contained for nal announcement of the designa- tion by '"The House of Kuppenheimer" of the Elkins establishment as the 'Kuppenheimer House in Pine Bluff" and MT. Elkins was not long in ob- taining results from the advertise Inent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
RAN FORD INTO DITCH.

Tom Steed made a sacrificial drive with the Steed grocery Ford car Tues day night, while coming to the city on the Sulphur Springs road. He met horse and buggy in a marrow part of the road, and in order to avoid a. collision, he turned the car into ditch, which, fortunately for him, was not deep enough to cause serious ac- cident.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
George F Little.

George F. Little, infant son of Mir. and Mrs. Walter Little, died yester- day morning at the family home, SIP Dakota street, aged five months. The body was taken to Cleveland county yesterday afternoon where the inter- ment will be had in Lehigh cemetery. The funeral services will be conduct ed by Rev. F. B. Little.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
EXPLOSION ON PATROL SHIP.

The navy department has been in formed that an explosion occurred in the boiler room of the scout patrol vessel Elfrida, while she was pro ceeding down the Elizabeth river, Norfolk, Va. Chief Machinists Mate M. Mortensen and Fireman U. E. Kite, both of the naval reserve, were seriously injured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
NEW HOTEL OPENS TOMORROW.

The Planters hotel, located in the new two-story brick building erected by w. T. Hill at the southeast cor ner of Fourth avenue and Chestnut street, will be opened Saturday under the management of Mrs. T. T. Wells, All equipment for the hotel is new. Mrs. Wells has conducted hotels at Warren, Sheridan, Bearden, and other places, and expects acquaintances from those places to be guests at her hotel while they are in Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
McNEILL TO REOPEN STUDIO

Mir. NJ. D. McNeill will open his studio for the fall and winter term Monday, Sept. 3
 All who desire to study this sea son had best make application for hours at once, as all his time prom ises to be taken early.
 : A special course for teachers.
 For further information call or phone his studio at Hotel Pines, Room 63O. (advt)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
WOMAN WRITES ESSAY.

Mrs. E. B. Reed, whose address is box 177, route 3, Pine Bluff, has won honorable mention for an essay on "How America Should Prepare" in a. contest operated by the Greater Vita graph company, as an outcome of the recent showing here of '.Wemanhood, or The Glory of The Nation"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
WANTS 100 BALES TO CAR.

E. B. Bloom, secretary of the cham Der of commerce, yesterday received a telegram from the National Asso- citation of Cotton manufacturers, stat ing that it is desired to have cotton bales compressed to B pounds den- Sity, which would enable them to pack 100 bales to car, and would occupy less space on ships
 MT. Bloom answered that local com- presses are not equipped for com pressiOn to the desired density.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
MEXICANS CONTEST ELECTION

Mexico City, Aug. 29.-A commits sion has arrived from Campeche to protest to President Carranza against the election of General Joaquin Mucel as governor of that State. The com mission asks that the elections be de- clared void on the grounds that Gen eral Mucel did not separate himself from the military command a suffici- ent time before the elections to com ply with the requirements of the new constitution.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
SATURDAY (. E. PAYDAY.

Saturday will be payday for the hundreds of employees here of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway com pany. The men of the different de partments usually are paid on the first and second and fifteenth and six teenth days of each month. Because of the second occurring on Sunday and the third on Labor Day this month, checks will be distributed to all Saturday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-30
NAVY LOSES TWO MEN.

The navy department has been ad- vised of the death of George Herbert Manley, landsman machinist's mate of the United States naval aeronautlc corps, which occurred on August 2l at Tours, France, as result of in- iuries received in an airplane accident
 Harold Norman Halsted, landsman for quartermaster, died at Toulon, France, July 31.