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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04

fathers names to enlistment papers
giving their consent for them to join
the regular army.
Hazleton. - Counterfeit nickels
flooded the towns in this region yes
terday. Many merchants received
coins which are made so well that they
pass the usual tests.
Weatherly. - Because of the death
of Peter Musselman who died at the
age of "a years, the cane has been
handed to Griffith Bachman, now the
Oldest resident of the town.
Mount Penn. - Edward L. Hess, IL,
was drowned while rafting on a lake
here. companion, Raymond Meyer,
13, made desperate effort to save
him him and nearly lost his own life.
FritZtown. - A new trolley line
from Reading via Sinking Spring and
this town to Ephrata, Lancaster coun-
ty, is being laid out and may be con-
structed this summer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
RAISE PAY 10 PER CENT.
By AsSocidtcd Press

New York. April 4. The United
States Steel Corporation, through
Chairman Ebert II. Gray, has an
nounced an increase of about 10 pei
cent in wage rates and salaries up .tc
$2,500" of the employees of the cor.
poration's various subsidiaries to take
effect May next, subject to equitable
adjustment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
CRIPPLEs LEARN TRADE

Rome. April 4.-Crippled soldiers in
Italy have been taught a number OF
useful trades, among them the ma
king of artificial flowers, baskets. the
cutting of canoes, leatherwork, book
binding and many other things. These
objects have found such a ready sale
in the larger Italian towns that sew
eral American women are forming
committee to forward them to the
United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
U. S. NAVAL CLERKS

Washington, April 4. - In anticipa-
ton of vast war demand for addi-
tional government clerks and other
employees, President Wilson by eXecu-
tive order has authorized the civil
service commission to fill vacancies
for which no suitable eligible exists
with persons who have been subjected
only to noncompetitive tests.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
FRAUDULENTLY GOT PASSPORT

New York. April 4. = George Born,
formerly of Wilkes Barre, was arrest
ed here last night by agents of the
Department of Justice upon a charge
of fraudulently obtaining passport
from the United States consul at Hull
England. His purpose, it is alleged
was to obtain credentials which would
permit him to travel through England
and return to this country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
GERMAN WORKERS STRIKE

Tageblatt says labor difficulties have
broken out in the big Vulcan Ship
building Work at Hamburg. The
workmen demand a one-third increase
in their wages. The Vulcan works are
where most of Germany's great ocean
liners have been built.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
FREE SUPPER FOR POOR,

Destitute mothers with their chill
dren will be guests. at a free supper
to be given Monday night by the
Volunteers of America at the mission,
1901 North Third street. Tickets may
be procured Thursday and Sunday
evenings. Sunday night DIR. Bur-
roughs, of Detroit, Mich, will be in
charge of the services.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
GAME FUND $4,000
BY Associated Press

Albany, s.. Y, April 4. - Henry c.
Phipps yesterday paid the State Con-
servation Commission SIS. 900 in set
tlement of fines against him of ille-
gally trapping wild ducks at his estate
at Vantage. Long Island State game
protectors raided the estate on Feb
ruary 20, when 442 live and % dead
wild ducks were seized.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
Senate Galleries Are
Closed to Chance Visitors
Bv Associated Press

Washington, April 4. - The Senate
ganeries. by order of the rules COM
mittee to-day were barred to visitors,
except those holding special reserved
cards from senators.
No reason is given for the action,
but it is believed to have been due to
Mondays demonstration when Vice
President Marshall threatened to clear
the galleries if similar outbreak oc-
Cured. From time immemorial two
of the Senate's galleries have been
omen to the public
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
STEEL RECORDS BROKEN

Pittsburgh, April 4. - The world s
steel production record for IA furnaces
was broken during the month of
March by the Homestead plant of the
Carnegie Steel Company which pro-
duced S4,472 tons of steel This sur
passes the record in one month by
more than 1000 tons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-04
U-BoAT STORY FAXED
BY Associated Pres.

81 London, April 4. An official state
ment issued last night characterizes
as "the usual pure invention" the
German claim made officially at Berlin
that an S,0O0-ton British auxiliary
cruiser was sunk in March.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

education seems to all intents and pur- | poses, to make it's big drive in one di- 1 rection-namely, to get everybody pos slble to take part in the producuon ot
 music; it Is dedicated to the new move
 ment!
 What brings the "Community Sing to
 the fore just at present is the fact that patriotism and music go hand in hand;
 music is being provided through all the cantonments; the boys love music and
 they sing. The men 'over there love
 rEdsic and they sing; there is nothing
 like music to boost people up and put them on democratic footing; and the
 Community Sing spirit has swept the
 entire country; it has gathered up every body, rich and poor, black and white,
 in it's big arms and sung them into feeling of kinship and democracy which
 is little short of wonderful!
 Albert Spalding brought down upon his classic head veritable avalanche of criticism when he characterized Community Singing as good socially, but bad unsteady.
 One of the many odiums of criticism hurled at the renowned violinist concern 1 ing his "aristocracy of art" attitude IS this
 "To place credence in the 'aristocracy of art in day when the community sing has come to be widely accepted as l the ordained agency of popular artistic salvation and millennial Humanitarian ism, is to invite wholesome detestation and abuse. To the minds of those who are strenuously occupied in taking mu- sic out of the hands of the few and plac- ing it in the hands of the many it savers of abhorrent heresy, a kind of esthetic Junkerdom. Any doubt of the democra-
 tizing efficacy of chorus variously com posed of persons who can sing somewhat ana persons who can't sing at all stigma tizes the one who harbors it egre-
 gious Bourbon, dead of soul and gener- ally pharisaical. Little sympathy or tol- eration is wasted just now on those who cannot clearly see that new heaven and new earth must inevitably be in the
 making when folks can be induced to
 congregate in public places to sing Old
 Black Joe or Silver Threads Among the
 Gold Poor Butterfly or Pack Away
 Your Troubles Anyone venturing to
 question the musical tastes of these fore
 runners of the new and redeemed hu- manity or the nature of their musical capabilities is wrathfully consigned to the damnation. of his own cynicism or contemptuously dismissed as a relic or an effete order of society"
 Mir. Spalding, who is one of the strong opponents of the extensively cursed prin- ciple of artistic aristocracy and consid- erable of a skeptic, concerning the cos-
 mic musical utilities of community chor- uses," might learn something from the lit- tie Limerick which explains the situa-
 tion of the vast majority of people'on the
 subject of the classics and the "aristoc-
 racy of art"
 T hate all music that's deep, To the tones of a jazz band I leap. When the classics hear, I confess without fear
 It's my feet that go soundly to sleep"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09
By DOLLY pALRYMPLE

NM NE evening recently I was dining il with "gemmun frien' of mine "a man who has recently come to Birmingham to live-a man who doesn't care penny about music; he's sort of man like General Grant said of himself:
 "There are only two tunes in the world to me; one is See the Conquering Hero Comes," and all the rest are mot. But Id made up my mind to do a little missionary work along musical lines.
 MT. Robert Lawrence had said to me: ''Why don't you bring some of your men friends to hear our community sing?" and so 1 had planned to spring this subject on this particular newcomer Of course it was not subject for the soup; it fitted better with the salad, so as I've reached the age when can enjoy my dinner regardless of the size of the party-talking when possible. but eating with understandings deferred the subject to a later hour of the even- ing.
 Now, this man, as I said before, was brand new subject tor objecD for mu- sical missionary work; he doesn't know a F'ugue from fiddle, and if you men- tioned Bach or Beethoven or our own dear Geraldine or Mary Garden to him, he'd probably quote:
 'Galli-Geraldine Garden de Bun Has the sweetest voice under the sun,
 But we threw up our hats
 When she sang in five flats;
 While they made her move out of each
 one.
 "She wobbled and warbled serene It was Faust and the jewel song scene
 When she trilled Les Bijoux
 Some one cried 'Vous pauvre chour As they hit her with peas on her bean"
 So I really thought that mentioning the community sing to him would be like mentioning dry land to a disapproving fish, so I ate on and enjoyed myself. I remembered once he had said to me in New York, when we were at the 'F'rolic" one night. that jazz music seemed to be the delirium tremens of rag time, so I fancied that either he wasn't musical or if so didn't want to admit it for fear, as is usually the case when if you do, that somebody will ask you if you think Caruso has grown stouter or how to pronounce Deb ussy; but of course, 1t turned out that was mistaken about all of it; for the unexpected hap pened before we had finished tie hors d'oeurves, when, to my amazement, he said:
 Lets go to the community sing Sum- day afternoon
 If I had been hit in the face with bunch of raisins I couldn't have been more surprised; compared to such a statement coming from a man of his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09
Army Levels Social Rank
Irving Hancock. in Leslie,s.

H. Irving Hancock, in Deslies.
 At Camp Upton, down Yaphank and
 Moriches way, on Long Island, men of
 many differing national origins, of all
 trades and professions, and representing
 every phase of social life, are being mold
 ed into soldiers. Already the signs are i abundant and convincing that these men now forming the Seventy-seventh divis- ion of the national army drawn from
 New York state will become a fighting unit that will live in our history. It is
 trite to call America the melting pot of the world, but it is factt hat these men at Upton are the most cosmopolitan lot to be found in any camp in the country.
 In this Long Island camp may be found | representatives of every blood that this county has to build with. In the matter, too, of financial and social circumstance 1 the same comprehensive showing is
 made. In one of the infantry regiments | is a young man who is not accused of ever having toiled before his income is
 around s500000 a year. With him labor Tzzy Beckholt, who has sometimes earned as much as $22 week as a garment
 maker; Joe Cuccolo, whose civilian wage l as bootblacll was s7 a week, board and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

lodging added; and Joe Brewer, long shoreman at union rates. Among any 509o of these soldiers could be found men capable of practicing any profession men, tioned, or able to make good in any form of manual endeavor.
 Through all of these thousands of men run a common will and a common spirit. They are Americans, and at last every one of them knows it. With but few ex- captions they are glad to be just where they are and are filled with quiet, good- humored resolve to learn the new busi- ness of soldering and practice it with every ounce of resolution that can be summoned.
 Of all characteristics observed in go- ing through the camp, good humor is the most evident; next in evidence is patti ence with new and trying work, accom- panied by only gradual uniforming and equipping. Third may be found devil may-care attitude toward whatever the future may hold in store. Courtesy is markedly present in these spirited young
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

ton seriously to it he could get "Ridi, Pagliaect' out of any cigar store Indian that might come his way.
 So much for the sineing-but tnars,. something to say also, much in fact, about the orchestra-eouallv as
 magnetic and equally as capable is AT. Philip Memoli with the instrumentalists of the community sing. Mr Memoli caS
 take the raw material and convert 1T into the finished product; he can infuse into his orchestra a remarkable co-ordf-
 nation and enthusiasm; he has done ic: and for the first time in Birmingham,s history we really have a Symphony or chestra. MT. Memoli is an accomplished
 musician; his experience here and in his native Italy has equipped him with splendid resources and there is every reason to believe that his orchestra will be one of Birminghams biggest musical assets.
 With the community sing and the Sym phony orchestra there is no reason why
 any man, woman or child in this big city should not know music like they
 know their A B Cs; they should know ] not only tunes but composers, instru- ments; in fact, everything pertaining to music.
 Don't let us number among us one of the Mrs. Nouveau Riche, who invited great vioinist upon one occasion to play at her house and of whom the vioinist tells this story:
 When I called up my hostess some five hours before the reception relates the violinist ito ask about the condf- tion of the piano, she exclaimed: I | sent the piano back to the factory last week for repairs! Can't you play some- thing without one?'
 Quick thinking! The only things had at my fingers ends for violin alone were some. Bach sonatas. This gave me an 1 inspiration ea | " Certainly, I answered, T can play 1 the Chaconne.
 After a moments silence q disap- l pointed voice replied: But, my dear.
 would so much rather you played the | violin"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

fellows Even those who know little English, or who speak sort of English, are yet but little acquainted with grace ful phrase, display all desire to be polite and considerate toward comrade and stranger.
 Maj Gen. J. Franklin Bell has de- clared that he wants singing men. be- cause singing army is a fighting army. As to singing, the division commander has his wish. These are song-loving men. Snatches of song and bursts of chorus come through open barrack win- dows By night the men gather at the Y. M. c. A. tents and sing; those who are not found there are in the barracks regaling themselves and their fellows with the latest vocal things. Wise cons pany commanders have already bought and installed pianos, with the idea that the men will later repay them out of company funds. Rag-time, patriotic airs and the popular. classics of all lands floats out on the air, for clever amateur pianists are not lacking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09
PREPARING AND MARKETING
 HOLIDA Y POULTRY
Study Requirements, Pander to the Trade, Give the Public What It Wants. There Is Always a Demand for Superior Products at Fancy Prices
By G. R. SMITH Author of Practical POultryman

AutnOr or PractlCal fOullTymAu
 The markets must be closely studied. Raising chickens is an easy job. It is high-class business to land them in the markets at the right time, in the right problem is becoming more perplexing under the stress of high prices and the alarming scarcity of all kinds of meat foods.
 Make the most of the holidays. They should be considered in matching, brood ing, feeding, finishing and marketing. Other businesses give the seasons seri- ous consideration. Why not the poultry *man?
 Hundreds of tons of bric-a-brac are purchased by the people at. Christmas time. Try 10 sell them such stuff at any other season and they would laugh at you. Merchants know this and make the most of the psychological situation. So the Christmas dinner is fixed insti- tuition. The Thanksgiving family feast is another. Every man feels that he must have turkey at such times. even though the turkey may be nothing more than a two-pound Wyandotte broiler.
 SEASONS AND FASHIONS
 It's up to the poultryman to furnish the birds when they are wanted.
 Habits and fashions swing a powerful commercial influence. Those who have things to sell are foolish not to take full
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

should be practiced Suspend the bird by the feet and pull the feathers by a quick jerk downward. If plucked im- mediately after killing this method can be used with much success. Great care should be exercised to remove all dark pin feathers.
 These are important matters in mar keting holiday poultry. After pick ,. the carcass should be immersed in cold water. This will cool it and give it it's best possible plumpness, making it ready for the eye of the customer.
 Poultry raisers are very much con- cerned these day with ways and means of feeding their flocks. They have been accustomed to feeding large quantities of wheat and corn, and both grains have skyrocketed in price. Next weeks ar ticle tells how to put poultry on war ra- tionS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

the fact that so many of them neglect to study the psychology of days and seasons.
 DO PERSONAL WORK
 Visit wholesale and retail markets Do not stop with single interview. Study the whole situation at first hand. Inves- tigate Find out personally what is wanted and when 1t Is wanted. Such trip will be an amazing eye-opener to many a poultryman.
 Ignorance of what the purchasing pub lie requires will kill any mans business Ask the man in the market if you want high lights on holiday demands Then go home and make your preparations &C., cordingly.
 Pander to the trade requirements. Play your own game; but never forget that you must bring to the public what the public demands. To ignore popular de- mand is the height of folly. The pub- lie will only return your compliment. and smilingly look for the man who brings them what they want.
 Market conditions for poultry of all kinds are peculiar. All signs point to an immense shortage in the holiday supply large proportion of the mature stock was sold for slaughter months ago, be- cause of the astonishing up- shoot in all kinds of poultry feeds and appliances. The man who has poultry meat for sale for Christmas and New Years trade had better study the situation exhaust lively. He is handling precious stuff.
 SEARCH FOR QUALITY
 You can't fool experienced buyers. They are after meat. They can guess as correctly as you can what proportion of bird is edible
 The Christmas dinner roaster espe- cially must be meaty and plump to win the top notch price.N The best fowls will quickly command from three to five times as much as the inferior birds. Thousands of poultry raisers do not seem to appreciate this point. The many inferior specimens hanging in the meat markets show strange lack of thought and effort toward quality.
 The fowls that are marked at bottom prices have too much leg and neck and bone and offal in proportion to juicy meat. The fancy price birds are picked up rapidly by glad buyers. while the n- ferior and therefore cheapest stuff is the last to go. and usually to unwilling purchasers. The man who brings the highest quality of poultry to the mar kets can name a fancy price and will get 1t If you do your holiday shopping late. you will find nothing left but the thin long, -shanked, long-necked, skinny culs of the culls. They are left overs" The quality isn't there. That is why they were left over.
 The lank, lean. skinny fowl should not be killed. Keep 1t for feeding and fat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

later, like MT. Rileys famous goblins, he'll "git you if you don't watch out" You haven't got a chance; you've just got to sing under MT. Lawrence's baton
 whether you want to or not, he'll make you. Why, he could make dumb man sing almost. He divides the crowds into little groups and he makes those groups sing. Then two groups get together and sing, then three, and then, before you know it, the whole bunch of groups are singing like mad. MT. Lawrence could get music out of stone fence. It is not at all unlikely that if he turned his atten-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

The main thing that impresses you at the community sing at the Bijou is the hearty lusty, enthusiasm with which the people sing. This, of course Is due largely to the wonderful leader Mr. Robert Law
 renee who next to the singers is the most interesting attraction. MT. Lawrence un- derstands people first, and then music. He knows just when and how to make people sing. He knows the ones who need urging and he knows those who must be let alone. This is pure, genuine, musical instinct, but the important thing is that you might as well sing because sooner or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

The Barred Plymouth Rock enjoys the distinction of being the first strictly American breed to become generally pop ular. In she infancy of the American poultry industry the range of variety was limited, consisting only of Shang- hais Chittagongs Spanish, Games and what were known as Doniniques. It is generally agreed that the Barred Ply mouth Rock is descended from a cross of the Dominique and breed known as the Black Java, the latter being of Asiatio origin.
 It's undisputed qualities of furnishing excellent meat, good weight and being a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09

heavy layer of large brown eggs, as well as fowl that can rough it,'' have made the Plymouth Rock extensively popular.
 As a fancy fowl the Barred Rock has many admirers. For time 1t was the most popular variety. They are found in every poultry exhibition, and fanciers pay big prices for spcimens to win. It requies considerable art and patience to breed winning Barred Rocks.
 For the backyard flock there is no bet ter. breed. The Rock has already dem- onstrated its value as the farmers fowl and for the fancier it is worthy of his best skill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-09
A Vince
From the Washington Star.

From the Washington Star.
 A novelist said at a Bar Harbcr tea:
 "It is incredible what some women will spend to get into society. 4 western millionaires wife came to New York, took a house in Fifth aveI nue' and gave a ball of great magnifi- cence.
 When her husband totted up the bills he winced and said:
 "My, Maria, these here bills tot up to $3O000,'
 "It costs money, dearie,' said the wife, to get into society,"
 "Humph said the millionaire. It don't seam to me that we're gettin' into society as much as society is gettin' into us.'"