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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27

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person Who took hts money from rom ,,nlS nnre,n
does not return tho money to MT. W
Daniels residence. aiN Jefferson street, ~
Thursday, November -. he viii give V
INTO the hands Of the states attorney
NOTICE -oF. sALE or STOCK To or.hr ra1
AssEsSM Public notice Is he''nf II
given that tho undcrs !gnod. FRANK ~
tscssonRer TREASURER at the Baker -,
Corporation. corporation otgah,Itsn ~ ia,~s
existing under and hN virtue -, ~ ~ n,ib IL.
Of tic State OF pctawarc, will sell at puip =, "
nu,tlon fftv shares oi the capital Stoch ~
said company. upon which the sum ~ -"
hundred dollars is luu1 IS due on '"'s atd
Tor non payment oi assesst,i'iNN iNNtcNnmnrn
subscriber and owner ot said staitH' !
eording to the STATUTES ~ IN, t,ct
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,,Ssrs5,nenf. ~ aforesaid due from mn
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pertaining thereto. Saiu sat' I" -, ~ =
s,,u,r, unli>e H. thr city oi Niluh'lE'"i'
county of NV CH%ttC. IN ear NtaN -
pctavnrt on saturday, the ipuIltthth H"N
or M, u,n,,r ~ - laiS. at - g 'i"N u
ihc t,.inn,,n tTh,. purchaser must unn'-
diatclv nav TO the corporation tn SttH .,
one tilntirtd dollars tSlth) on ta'n 'i SuN'
,har,s. IN addition ~ the amount ~ tnI t'i'
fkANk Il. HESStNtfk
Treasurer III iiaktr Tractor Corporation
ston REM AIiI, will l,e paid for Information
furnished Is trading tn the arrest and
.oUXictiln Of the urtsou al persons >lCailtf
Huirk Touring Car. engine NJ. 1'~or3
n,,iawarc registration ~. i32l. property
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I.O\ 0bas g NUN,r. Secretary
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27
REAfON Ais.
4tJNEl 10 LOAN

DELAWARE dONIf LOAN OFFICE
Licensed and Bonded 4GyaaCys. made on
watches diamonds every Rase Prop
ID r. seventh street
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27
WANTED.

80 II NON-HaNC tina, iCaky rse0i r.
11are.1 ~ A new one Nm &. beaumont.
ST. i,tpIar IT t'hony 4aiS W
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27

Hot ~ and sf.,-c. sul1 at-s~t Corayr -.,-
onu and Frau6in All CoaN Ncltcules tu.
gut~t l.aO Poplar >trcrt
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27
WOMEN'S SPECIALS.

CAHLETe-l .OoL carpets and rugs wanted
70 clean. Both phones. George h. Lana
Co. lzD5 Orange street
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27

IoST-Camco brooch Reward Il returned
10 I2tsf West street
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27
MOVING AND HAULING.

CAREFUL moving and naUlinE. Livery
opeu day and ultnt horses aud vehicles
% nlTC i"r business or pleasure. 81 Jack
sos f5ltfy uI3 lrtprn stre<t
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
Newspapers and heWar

the draft, in itself a revolutionary
proceeding for a democracy, could
not have been instituted; food could
not have been conserved; coal could
not have been saved-none of the
thousand and one things that ulti-
mately will spell victory could have
been achieved.
1t has been patriotism, pure and
undefiled, that has been the chief
motive power in this cooperation.
The newspapers could have printed
every line of real news about the
war and still have left the country
cold to these great enterprises.
Increased advertising has come to
the newspapers, some one will say
perhaps, in connection with great
patriotic campaigns. And yet there
is not a newspaper in this country
that has not given a hundred times
more patriotic publicity than it has
been paid for.
There is not a newspaper in this
country whose gross receipts from
patriotic advertising will amount to
one-fourth of its increased burden OF
expense purely on account of ouI
participation in the war.
The newspapers ask no credit
want none. They have done only
their duty. They expect no Laurel
wreaths, they want none. They ex-
pect no special consideration from
the government; they have had none
they want none.
The newspapers will go along
pursuing the same general course
hoping, fighting, praying, working
for victory, giving a liberal share
of the only commodity they have to
ell-space-giving their all, their
very existence, if need be. to win
this war
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12

[From the Fourth Estate1
The newspapers are not seeking
any particular credit, says the Birm-
ingham News, for what they have
done, are doing and expect to con-
tinue to do to help win this war.
They have very ably and very fully
press-agented -he actions of others,
most of whom deserved the praise.
They have told the public repeat
edly what this or that man, this or
that organization had done, but as a
rule they have kept pretty quiet
about what they themselves have
been doing along patriotic lines.
Most of them have told the pub
l'c frequently about the patriotism of
their employees. Many of them carry
service fiags at the mastheads OIL
CT them have boasted about how
much their employees had given to
Red Cross and Y. NJ. c. A. and how
mary Liberty Bonds they had
Fought.
But, after all, that showed nothing
except that the atmosphere around
the office was right, encouraging EN-.
rloycs to do their part.
This editorial is written with the
idea OF taking off the mask of mod
esty for the moment for the naws-
papers of the United States.
Will out nc splendid, unfaltcri1g,
self-sacrificing cooperation IF the
newspapers /of this county, the war
could not have been prosecuted six
months.
Without the unstinted gift of the
kind of publicity that untold mill
lions could not have bought, not a
Liberty Bond issue could have been
fioated; not hundred thousand re-
cruits could have been mustered;
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
PENNIES
TFrom the New York Tribune

tFrom the New York Tribune]
1t is easy to be heroic in large
matters. Only trifles can torment the
spirit. OF all the ills that imitation
ana deprecated currency have
brought upon us. We are often
tempted to say that the nuisance or
having to find an extra penny or two
pennies for all the things that used
10 cost a nickel. or the botheration or
receiving three or four pennies out
OF dime, is the most trying. We
may resignedly If not cheerfuly pay
S9for pair of boots that three years
ago cost So; $50 to $40 for suit
OF clothes that eighteen months ago
cost $40; 60 cents a pound for
! porterhouse steak, and so on through
all the list.
But there is something in the hig-
gle-haggle of the siX-cent imposition
that stirs the inner depths. And yet
there seems no escape from its very
wide extension. 1t is all very well to
talk about the watered stock of our
street railways and other corpora
tions; but if they are not even earn
ing current expenses and are headed
straight for bankruptcy, it is not a
,question of surplus stocks or bonds.
1t is a question as to whether we
shall have cars in which to ride. The
plain fact is that operating expenses,
like food and clothing and all the
rest, have risen from so to 100 per
cent. in two or three years. This
means that even If there was a
handsome profit in a nickel fare be-
fore there is in many instances moth
ing left now at all.
There seems hardly any escape
from the nuisance of the pennies un-
less we discard our nickels and dimes
and go back to York shillings" and
ihalf-shillings. or agree on a straight
rate of dime for everything that
formerly cost a nickel. This we
might call the Standardization of in
fation. The only alternative we can
see is to fix not merely the price
but the quantity of everything that
every human being consumes, the
number of cigarets each one shall
smoke, the number of times per
week he or she may go to . movie
or Coney Island. and the color, form
and size of everything we wear. eat
or drink. The latter is the socialistic
Ideal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
Men Without q Country

Every leniency has been shown
our conscientious objectors. There
has been a prolonged and careful ex-
animation OF each individual case by
a court especially appointed for its
broad and humane outlook. Now
this court recommends Jail SEN
tence ranging from ten to fifteen
years for the two or three hundred
objectors who have rejected non
combatant service. We hope that
this report will be approved and the
objectors sentenced accordingly. I'm
prisonment is, IL anything, too mild
and honorable a sentence for the
grave offense committed. The man
without a country escapes cheaply
with a flfteen-year Imprisonment
From the New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
HoW Germany Treats Negroes
[From the St. Louis Post -Dispatchl

[From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch]
1t is true, as stated by writer
in the letter column, that the ne
groes have good cause to fight
against world domination by Ger
many. History has shown that in
Africa Germany has treated the ma
tives worse than any other govern
ment which has invaded that conti-
nent.
Belgian individual cruelties in the
Congo caused indignation in Bel
gium and compelled the Belgian gov
ernment to investigate and put a
stop to them. But in Germany s
treatment of the natives, extermi-
nation of whole tribes was the pol
icy and this policy was not only ex-
cused but exalted as right by Ger
man publicists.
In the case of the Hereros. in
Southwest Africa, General Won
Trotha issued this proclamation:
The Hereros must now quit the soil.
If they refuse, I shall force them
with the gun. Every Hererp. with or
without a weapon, with or without
cattle, found in German territory I
will have shot. I shall not look after
the women and children. but will
drive them back to their own people
or shoot them"
The German pastor, Schowalter,
wrote in 1907 that as a result of
this policy about fifteen thousand
Hereros died of hunger on the
desert. Almost the entire Herero
tribe was destroyed. And DIR. Rohr-
back, imperial commissioner for
Southwest Africa. reported that "the
question is solved. The Hereros have
lost their land. but that cannot be
regarded as tragic, owing to the
splendid fertility of the land, which
is now fiscal"
That is to say. it paid. This is the
German test
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
TRADE BRIEFS

Estimates place the 1918 wheat cror
of western Greece at 1850 900 bushels
an increase of 20 per cent. over the
size of last years yield. Favorable
weather conditions have also bene-
flied the corn and barley crops.
cigaret making machinery is in
demand in Bolivia.
Good quality tomato seed is needed
in the Mazatlan, Mexico, consular dis
trict. Seedsmen who are interested
in this market should communicate
with Consul w. E. Chapman. who may
be addressed Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex
leo.
An agency for the sale of office
supplies is wanted by Spanish con-
Germ.
Machinery for making saddle and
slipper felts is in demand in Aus
tralia.
Needlework transfer designs for
pillow tops and literature relating
to the arts and crafts are wanted in
New South Wales. Australia. The
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce will supply detailed in
formtion about these needs.
Consul Thomas D. Edwards sug-
gests that farmers in northern New
York and New England could find
markets for their surplus scrub tim
Der in the Cornwall, Ontario, consular
district. Firewood sold at $12 to SIS
a cord in that section last winter and
prices will be higher this year Wood
may be sent into Canada free of duty
except the war tax of 7h per cent.
of the cost.
There is a market in New Zealand
for office supplies. particularly type
writer's. furniture and labor saving
devices.
The British government will buy
from sheep producers In New Zealand
their entire wool clip for this and
following seasons until one year after
the war. Payment will be made at
prices fixed by oficial valuers and all
shipping expenses will be borne by
the British government
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
WHY NOT COME IN .?

ENBROOK wants Harrisburg to
supply it with water, and Su-
perintendent Hassler says it is
physically possible TO do so.
The way for Penbrook to go about
meeting this desire is TO apply for
admission TO Harrisburg as a part OF
the city. Annexation is the answer.
The people of this city would well
come the people OF their smaller
neighbor to the east and would glad
ly extend to it the advantages of
water, sewers, fire protection, police
patrol, etc, which the people of the
recently annexed territory to the
north and east now enjoy.
But it will be the concensus of
opinion that We cannot as a city af-
ford TO sell our water at prevailing
rates TO any residents outside the
city, except as a means of relief in
grave emergency. Harrisburg tax
payers have spent millions of dol
lars on their water and filtration sys-
TENS. The water rates do not cover
interest on these investments. The
amount charged the property owner
for water is intended to meet run
ming expenses. sinking fund and in
terest on floating debt. Whatever
surplus remains goes into improve
ments. Harrisburg has cheap water
now because its people for many
years have been taxing themselves
in one form or another 10 pay for
their water plant To sell water at
cost TO a neighboring community
would be both unfair and unbusi-
nesslike.
But Harrisburg wants Penbrook
TO have good water and plenty of 1t.
Beyond doubt if Penbrook is willing
TO become a part of Harrisburg the
way will not be difficult. Eventual
ly all the suburbs must come into
the city and those which come in
early will receive most benefit.
Come right in, Penbrook, the waters
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
"Whence Cometh My Help"
CFrom the Pittsburgh Chronicle
TELEGRAPH

lrIOIIl lLle TlllSpul 81 SliA OAlN'S
Telegraph
Though often in sore distress, ;he
faith of David never wavered, and il
when he said: II will lift up mine
eyes unto the hills, from whence
cometh my help. My help cometh
from the Lord, which made heaven
and earth
AS il was with David, so it has
been with numberless thousands who
for days and nights have been pass
ing through an ordeal of heat. From
homes where anxious parents have
watched over little sufferers prayers
have gone up for relief from the SUI
perheated atmosphere that was en-
dangering the lives of loved ones
From the alleys and congested dis
tricts, sorely tried by the abnormal
conditions, young and old alike have
sent up pleas for alienation of their
miseries. From the toilers in the
mills, in the highways and byways
and on the farms. there have gone
forth supplications for relief lest
they perish. From the gardens, the
orchards and the cattle ranges there
have come prayers for help in the
time of great need.
Meanwhile, as the sufferers prayed
the heat waXed worse and worse, and
to many II seemed that relief would
be withheld until too late. But 20.
in the middle of the night a storm
arose, lightning purified the air, life
giving breeZes swept through the
slums, through the mills and out
over the country, and rains quenched
the thirst of the cattle and put new
life into the whitening fields.
The prayers of all had been ans
wered.
Now that the nation is passing
through a terrible ordeal of fire and
blood ii is we'll to remember the
words of David. "I will lift up mine
eyes unto the hills, from whence
cometh my help. My help cometh
from the Lord. which made heaven
and earth"
And in Gods own time the pray
ers of those who suffer because of
the fiery trial of the war will be ans
wered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
BENJAMIN F. MEYERS

" HE death of BENJAMIN F.
Meyers takes from Harrisburg
figure whose shadow, even
after years of retirement. was cast
large upon the life and activities of
the community. Mr.. Meyers was a
journalist of the old school; schol-
arly. picturesque OF phrase and. fig-
ure, independent OF thought to a
marked degree. fearless and vigor-
Gus OF expression. Prominent in the
business life of the city and a leader
of the Democratic party of State
wide power, il is for his newspaper
work that he will be best remem-
bered. During his editorship, the Pa
triot and old Star-Independent
reached a circulation and influence
equal to that of any of the interior
newspapers of the State.
Throughout his active newspaper
career in Harrisburg. the success of
no public movement was fully as
sured without the support of his able
and fearless pen, and many were the
Democratic campaigns that twould
have fallen fiat but for the stinginS
lash OF mis- editorial urgings. Sar-
casm, railery, bitterness of speech,
all were his and he knew how 10 use
them to the utmost, but beneath all
lay kindly heart and a spirit ever
ready to servo a fellow in distress
or to champion a worthy cause.
Benjamin F. Meyers left such a
mark upon Harrisburg as few men
have made or will make Thou
sands of people were guided by his
editorial opinion and even those who
differed with him politically or on
other matters OF public moment, re-
spected him and admired the staunch
courage and the love of fair play that
were his chief characteristics. His
death will cause nothing but regret
on the part of those who knew him.
And to think how funny talk of an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
SPPOUL
rPhiladelphia Public Ledger1

With all this talk about Senator
Sproul, there will be some who will
want to know some of the details of
his life history. He was born in
Lancaster county, Frank McClain's
home, on September 16, 1870. The
Senator is president of the Chester
Daily Times, chairman o. the Penn
Seaboard Steel Corporation, presi-
dent of the Chester Shipping Com
pany, the Ohio Valley Electric Rail-
way, the Lackawanna and Wyoming
Valley Railway and the General Re-
fractories Company; he is also direc-
tor in several banks and other Dusi-
ness enterprises. He is a trustee of
Swarthmore College, a director OF
the Pennsylvania Training School
For Feeble Minded Children and
chairman of the Pennsylvania His
torical Commission. He was first
elected to the State Senate in 1896.
OF course, his political activities
have been varied as business endea-
vorS.
A short time ago, when it began
to appear that the Sproul boom was
to develop serious proportions, the
situation was discussed with 4. Nit
chell Palmer, Democratic national
committeeman and reorganization
anu WILSON, ledueT Oh feHnSylNdnld.
When they were in Swarthmore Col
lege, Palmer and Sproul were room
mates. So it was lightly suggested to
Mr.. Palmer that, in view of these
circumstances. he might be tempted
not to work so hard as he might for
the Democratic nominee for Cover
nor against Sproul. Mr.. Palmer
laughed heartily and said:
When we were at Swarthmore I
used to lick him regularly"
Often Senator Sproul and Mr..
Palmer are seen together in social
assemblies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
THE USES OF ADVERSELY

~ ESTRICTIONS upon the use of
n meats having been raised,
doubtless there will be a re-
sumption of meat consumption upon
an enlarged scale. But many of us
have learned that We can get along
with much less meat than we for-
merly thought possible-if we
thought at all about it-and feel the
better for our abstinence. We are
beginning to understand that a re-
stricted diet need not be an un-
wholesome diet and our education in
the use OF substitutes promises to be
physically beneficial as we'll as pa
triotically necessary.
Our next initiation into the rlys-
teries of conservation bids fair to be
in the nature of revision of view as
to what is necessary in the way OF
clothing. Next year IL a man insists
on all-wool garb his only means OF
qualification will be the o. D. uni.
form with which your Uncle Sam
uel bedecks his gallant sons who
fare forth to do battle with the Hun
Buy now" is not advertising advice
Within a few months the govern.
ment will be telling you what you
may and may not buy. and you will
be wearing cut your old clothes OIL
msekly complying. But who shal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
Possession is nine points Of the
laD; seIf-poSSesSion is ten,-ANoS.
HOW THE BOYS BENEFIT

n EPORTS coming from the army
n, environments where the young
men being called up for service
are that almost every man who can
show the results of military training
is getting promotions. There are in
stances known where young fellows
who had drilled in cadet corps and
boys brigades and remembered what
they had been taught were made
''non-coms, while men who had eX-
perience IN the drills of home de-
Tense organizations speedily rose to
be sergeants. Almost every man
who drilled with the Harrisburg Re-
serves last summer and winter and
went into the service is holding a
commission or is a sergeant or cor
poral. Men who served in the Re-
serve Militia or the old National
Guard have been snapped up. while
those who were in the Regular Army
get choice assignments.
All this is because there is a
dearth OF men with military expert
CA1C 4A4 I-4AS NSNA4IAE 44OM " OE-4I IlS
men coming in. The great majority
of youths responding to the call TO
the colors are raw. Many of them
have never been away from home
and in addition to the realization
that they have been sent to a place
where highly specialized work is
taught they are generally badly rat
tied. It is the serious side of mill
tary service that affects them. And
this is all the more reason why the
young men, and the older men, 200,
of draft age, should have some
knowledge OF what to do.
The members OF the upper end
draft district, officially Dauphin Lo-
cal Draft Board No. 5. with head
quarters at Elizabethville, with a live
committee OF instruction. is setting a
pace for the whole county and il is
regrettable that Harrisburg boards
have not progressed as well. This
upper end board named its commit
tee of instruction, called its boys to-
gether and had talks for them within
a few days after the army authori-
ties urged that it be done and Sat-
urday for the second time they had
their boys drilled. The example of
Elizabethville board and its alert
members and committeeman ought
TO commend itself to every other
board, not only in Dauphin, but ad-
joining counties. Steelton board has
organized as have some here, but
Elizabethville has been working Its
organization for over ten days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
Old J. C. Aby Brutdlized

Now that Field Marshal Won Eich-
horn, German commander OF
Ukraine. has been assassinated at
Kiev, we hope in a short time to
hear that some bouquets with bombs
in them have been thrown at Lenine
and Trotzky--From the New Or
leans States
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator william e. Crow, who
is improving after a recent severe
operation, will go to the mountains
when able to be removed. He has
had letters and kilograms from men
all over the country congratulating
him on his recovery.
State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port
is recovering from a recent illness at
his cottage along the Raystown
branch of the Juniata.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
PATRIOTIC CAMP HILL

T'AMP HILL is doubly active in
war work. Since long before
the war started it has had an
enterprising and a hard-working
branch OF the Emergency Aid and
now it is to have a Red Cross Aux
Hilary. The Emergency Aid has sent
thousands of dollars worth of sur
gical dressings to Europe and has
provided large quantities of knit
goods for West Shore soldiers in the
training camps and abroad. And
now that a Red Cross Auxiliary is
TO be established, the patriotic lit
tie community may be depended
upon to double its benehcent exer-
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
The Song of the Dime

Tinkle, tinkle. little dime,
Come into this bank of mine.
Every cent you leave by chance
Helps to purchase food for France.
khaki Komedy. by Sergt. Maj
Edward D. Rose (Howell Publishing
Col