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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
Typist Turns Wooer
Over to Police Court

London. - At Westminster police
court Charles Edward Ross, 81, de-
scribed as an engineer, was charged
with stealing jewelry. 1t was stated
that the prisoner was given into Gus
tody at. Hyde Park by Ethel Grant
typist, of Beaufort street. Chelsea,
whom he had been counting. A dia-
mond ring and gold pendant dis.
appeared from her fiat, which tho
prisoner admitted having pawned.
Mrs. Jessie Harris, of Fifth street
Soho, wife of wool merchant, de-
posed that the prisoner was sup
posed to be engaged to her daughter
and was until recently a frequent
visitor at her house. She missed
jewelry valued at f70 from a locked
attache case.
A detective officer said that the
prisoner had given information as to
the disposal of the jewelry and most
of it had been recovered from pawn
brokers.
Ross was remanded in custody.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
Oil Preparation Protects
Motor Cars on Driveways

During the automobile shows
throughout the country, now drawing
to a close, many visitors who ad-
mired the spick- k-and-span beauty of
the Paige Larchmont and other MEM
bers of the Paige family were much
surprised to learn that--in many in
stances-the cars had been driven
from the factory to their show des-
tination. Not a mark or blemish of
the minutest kind marred the origl-
nal beauty of the cars, which had
been driven through slush and mud
hundreds of miles over the worst pos
sible roads. The wondering visitors
were informed that the secret of the
application of well-known product
white paraffin oil.
AS the Paige, like many of the
other big factories, has been doing
its utmost to help the Government
relieve the freight congestion by de-
veloping the driveaway to its utmost
possibilities, the employment of some
means of protecting the glossy new
bodies of the cars was inevitable.
White paraffin oil serves this pur-
pose admirably. Purchased at any
drug store, a gallon of it when ap-
piled with a cloth covers the body
of any car. If, however, it is sprayed
on-as is done at the factories be-
fore q driveaway-a gallon will be
sufficient for four cars.
The spray of white paraffin oil
forms a protecting film over the
body of the car and catches the mud
and dirt of all kinds which can no
longer be absorbed by the body fin
ish. When the car reaches its des-
tination a thorough washing is suf-
ficient to remove all signs of travel,
the oil causing the dirt to scale off.
thorough cleansing with warm
water and a good car soap, a cold
douche and a rundown with a poll
ishing chamois leave the body of the
car as fresh and unscathed as when
It left the hands of its makers.
The success of this treatment has
done much to enthuse dealers over
the drive-away idea and they are
now flocking to the factories and
driving their cars away by the hun
dreds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
DIRECT ROUTES
TO Big CAMPS
Overland Dealers to Act as In.
formation Bureau For
Tourists

Tens of thousands of people will be
visitors at the sixteen great Army
training camps this summer. Par
ents, relatives and friends of the
boys in training for overseas service
will want to see them in camp and
get an idea of these great soldier
cities with their khaki clad inhabit-
ants,
This will undoubtedly mean that
many of these visitors will motor to
the camps from all parts of the
Union. as the railroad facilities are
all being used to speed up freight
transportation, the automobile offers
an ideal means of this kind of travel
and as aid to relieving congestion.
Appreciating this greatly increased
travel, the WHY'S Overland Company
is now working out plans whereby
every dealer will act as an informa-
ton bureau for tourists. Word has
Just been sent out by John N.
WHY'S to every distributor and deal
er located all over the United States,
urging all motorists to use the Over
land dealer to give them the best
route from city to city, and asks
every dealer to cooperate in every
way with travellers, especially those
VINO are going to the cantonments.
By this plan it is believed that the
overland Company may aid material
ly In helping the tourists to keep on
the best roads and direct them over
the shortest distance between inter-
mediate points on their journey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
BIG MEN JUDGES
in PACKARD TEST
Will Decide Winner in Big
Efficiency Contest Started
on the 1st of June

Three men nationally known for
interest they have taken in bringing
about greater efficiency in transpor-
tation will be the judges of the
Packard Motor Car Company's $4,000
Truck Efficiency Test. They are Wal
demar Kaempofert, automobile editor
of Popular Science Monthly and con-
tributor to the automobile section of
McClure's; H. w. Slauson, I. B., motor
editor of Leslie's. and Harold p. Gould,
editor-in-chief of 100 Per Cent. Eff
ficiency.
Each OF these men have been writ
ing for years on getting greater re-
suits from motor trucks. both from
the standpoint of lower operating
costs and the carrying of bigger
loads. That they have welded a pow
erful influence for better hauling at
lower costs Is generally recognized.
In speaking of the test which began
June l and ends August 81, B. b. Har-
rington, manager of the Packard Har-
risburg branch. states "its purpose is
ability to relieve the railroads of
short-haul traffic, to clear the railroad
terminals of freight congestion-in
short to help save a freight car for
in cooperation with the highways
Transport Committee of the Council
of National Defense.
Immediately at the close of the
test the judges. will meet. From the
Standard Truck Cost Systems on
which the performances of the trucks
in the test have been tabulated, they
will make their decisions. They will
announce the names of the owners
who win the three 1000 awards and
the names of the drivers who win the
$500, 500 and SIS awards in each of
the three classes, as we'll as Packard
Philadelphia awards to local drivers
of 800, $50 and s25 in each of the
three classes"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08

States Fuel Administration. of the
needs of the Allies. With the thou
sands OF motortrucks that have been
bought and are now coming forward
In fleets and the thousands of aero
planes now in course of delivery, the
needs of the Allies will increase tre-
mendously. 1t is imperative for the
individual owner, If he is to get gas
oline in the future'at all, to be ever
mindful of eXtravagant use and. pos
siblc waste and to use every effort
to save in the essential operation of
the commercial vehicle; whilst for
the passenger car, its use should be
confined to reasonable. thrifty en-
joyment If used in any way that
could be. classed as nonessential.
Practice conservation as an act of
pure patriotism, that the supply of
gasoline and oils may meet all de-
mands.
Coming now to tires; the govern
ment demand for cotton ducks has
made it necessary for the mills to set
aside a large portion of their equip
ment for government needs, and
there is now a rumor of threatened
Communicating of the cotton sup
ply. The quantity of cotton and cot
ton fabrics suitable for tire construc-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
Repairs to Two City
Pumps Are Complete;
$4,000, 600 Gals. Dali,

Repairs to the two pumps at the
CITY water plant, which were built in
1874, and were used continuously dur
ing the winter months when the large
engine was not running. were cont
pleted to-day, Commissioner Hassler
reported. They will be started to-
completion of these repairs. which
cost thousands of dollars, the city
now has a pumping capacity at the
plant of at least $4,000, 600 gallons of
water day, more than twice Of the
present daily consumption.
Commissioner Hassler also announc-
ed he had purchased all chemicals
needed for the remainder of the year.
A carload of alum, which will be used
at the filter plant, was received yes
terday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
NEEDED WARTIME
CONSERVATION
Thrift. Economy and Patriot
ism Should Combine to
Make Motorist Careful

In these war times, conservation
of the nations resources is the or
deg of the day. Trift, economy and
patriotism should combine to make
the motor car owner mindful of
many things that knows he should
practice, but which he has been
habitually neglecting. The necessity
of conserving gasoline needs but a
passing reference 1t may be apropos,
however, to call the attention of the
car owner to the fact that records
are now being kept by the United
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08

Samuel Ellenberger Phillips, son of
DR.. and Mrs. C. r. Phillips, 1916 North
Third street. is now MEM
Der of the Headquarters Di-
vision, Three Hundred and
This is the regiment in which his
brother. John w. e. Phillips, is a SER
geant. Sam" as he is known, is a
graduate of the Harrisburg Academy
and a first-year man at Gettysburg,
where he is a member of the Sigmna
Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He was
prominent in athletics at both schools.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
A and M.

A and M.
Companies A and M played their
first league game this week and both
teams fought hard to be winners. Each
team was well backed up from the
side lines. Patton's pitching for Com
pany A was largely responsible for
the score, II to S.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
Sports and Recreationa1 Activities at Camp
Dn
RULES FOR QUoITS

Playing Rules: To start the game,
one player of each team shall take OPP
posite ends Of the rink. The player to
take first pitch shall be determined by
the toss of coin. Opponents of each
end shall alternate in pitching one
QUOT until all four have been thrown,
when the judges will measure to de-
termine the point winner. In pitching
the quoits, player shall stand i'll line
with or back of the pin at his end, and
not more than three feet to either side
of the pin. He may assume any posi-
ton while pitching, but may not touch
any part of the ground in front of the
pin until after the quot he has thrown
strikes the ground. And the four quoits
have been thrown by the two oppon-
ents at one end, the judges shall de-
termine which QUOT or quoits are
nearest the pin, and shall award
points as follows;
One point to the player having the
nearest quot.
Two points to the player having the
nearest two quoits.
Three points to the player having
QUOT leaning against the pin,
Five points to the player whose quot
encircles the pin.
The distance shall be measured with
yard stick, and shall cover direct
line between the nearest visible parts
of the QUOT and pin.
Should q QUOT be broken, it shall
be replaced by a perfect one
A match shall consist of the best
two out of three games.
game shall consist of 81 points,
and the team first securing this num-
Der shall be declared the winner
Players shall exchange ends at the
close of each game.
II in a match contest each team
wins one game, the teams shall ex-
change ends when either side has
scored ten points in the third game.
The score of a forfeited game shall
be Fl to 0. The referee shall declare
game forfeited If a. team is not ready
to start play within fifteen minutes
of the agreed beginning time or if any
member of a team refuses to abide by
an official decision and continue to
when requested to do so.
A substitute may take a players
place If in the judgment of the referee
a player has been injured or is suffi-
GENTLY i'll to seriously interfere with
his ability to play.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
National League.
TRACK ATHLETICS AT
PENN STATE

Pennsylvania state has entered 81
field and track men in the Meadow
brook Clubs games to be held in Phil
adelphia, March and 8. This is the
largest representation the Blue and
White has ever had in the Quaker
City's big mid-winter sports carnival.
Despite the loss Of 16 sterling Gin
derpath athletes through enlistments,
Penn. State will send two relay teams
and dozen individuals to compete in
the special evenths.
Since early in December Martins
track squad has been training indoors
for this meet. Meritorious perform
ances by the relay men and some OF
the special-event entrants in the week
Iy time trials have encouraged States
followers to look for their men to
bring home their share of the honors.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS, 1917.
BASEBALL AT YALE

The Athletic Association Board of
Control met recently and approved the
plan of having a formal baseball team
Schedules will conform as nearly as
possible with those Of former years,
excepting that games will be played
only on Saturdays, owing to military
work. Games are being arranged with
both Harvard and Princeton.
In accordance with the war time
policy Of the University, no profession
al coach will be secured and compile
charge of this department will be as
sumed by returning graduates.
Professor Robert N. Corwin, the
chairman of the Yale University Ath-
letic Association, says:
Our hope is to give every man who
so desires an opportunity to play base
ball, and we shall try to have them all
profit by It."
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
AMATEUR BASEBALL

Amateur baseball as a national in
stitution is sure to take a great squirt
after the war, according to officers Of
the National Baseball Federation, one
Of the organizations which now con-
trolls amateur baseball and which Is
now working toward a Baseball AS
sociation which includes the reConcil-
liation with the National Amateur or
CARNATIONS in severai Csries.
Friends of amateur baseball see an
increased interest in the sport on the
part of returned soldiers who are being
keyed up to all sorts Of athletic activ-
tiles in the training camps.
These soldiers will not give up their
sports when the war is over and will
turn to baseball, creating a big new
interest in the national pastime.
If the war continues long it is not
likely that many of the big leaguers in
the army will get back to their clubs.
Big league baseball is so fast that even
a years absence in any other line Of
endeavor usually slows up a player so
much that he is unable to play up to
his former standard again
Scores Of these players will either
go back to the minors or enter some
business or profession. In the latter
case they will play amateur or semi
pro. ball.
The amalgamation Of the two ma
tional organizations would be a great
help to the amateur game. The two
organizations have been quarreling
for more than two years when the
National Federation grew out of a
rump convention held during the con-
vention of the national association at
Louisville.
The result was that the territory
was divided between two central bod
les when it could have been very well
managed by one. Many cities left both
organizations because of the miniature
war. These cities would undoubtedly
return to q central organization.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
PUSH BALL

Push Ball has made good. 1t has
added more pep" to our recreation
than any single addition to our equip
ment. 1t is more interesting to watch
than football and more amusingg in
cidents arise in five minutes than is
produced by clowns in regular cir
Gus of two hours. In the 10th Field
Artillery, one man clinging to the ball,
was rolled clear over it on to the head
Of the opposing players, much to their
discomfort at the field hospital the
ball suddenly bounced out Of the crowd
directly on to the neck of an interested
spectator, who Immediately lost in
terest in the proceedings. The first
thing he said was, Get his number"
Getting hit by the ball unawares is
like being hit by a Military Police
man. With the ball being pushed along
the ground one man conceived the idea
of laying down under it to get it start
ed up in the air. The scheme worked,
the bali rose in the air and about 40
men fell over the man on the man on
the ground
If you want some real strenuous eX-
rcise let us know the time that you can
use the ball and we will try and get it
to you From fifty to one hundred men
on team will get good results. Try
it. Ask the physical director at your
nearest Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation building about it.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
THEY LAUGH AS THEY LEARN.

The boys in all the barracks relieve the
tedium Of learning to be soldiers by tell
ing Of the mistakes made by the recruits
in the process of learning to b esoldiers.
Some of these may have been resurrect-
ed from experiences. but they are al
ways new to some Cd the boys
One of these stories concerns the Of
ficer of the day One night this officer
approached a guard and was duly chal-
lenged.
Halt! Who goes therer' cried the
guard.
"Officer of the day"
"Say," said the guard confidentially,
coming closer, you'd better get to he'll
out of here. If the officer of the night
comes around and ketches you, he may
run you in"
Another officer Of the day story is told
by the officer who was one party to it,
He was challenged in the regular man
ner and as regularly replied that he was
the officer of the day. An extension of
the regular form would have been for
the guard to say: Advance and be rec
ognized." He would then salute the Of
ficer
Instead of that the guard said; "Step
up and salute!"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
SAFE AT HOME

The shades of evening are be-
ginning to fall upon the diamond
of life, the game is almost ended.
Breathless the crowd sits awaiting
the end. The score is a tie. Every
thing is in the balance.
This day will decide not the
worlds championship. but the
greater struggle of eternity
One there is among the war
SCARED veterans upon whom all
eyes are fastened. he has won
many game before. He has heard
the plaUGits of thousands, and re-.
ceived the applause Of millions in
his day.
The shadows descend, the crowd
is GREATNESS. All depends on HIN.
1T Is no me for a single. He
has made them before, aud has wa
many q game With them.
T. base OF balls will GO no good.
It is no time for sacrifi' e.
There is but one thing that will
CONT i'll this closing moment-a
home run.
Death hurls the ball toward the
batter
STRIKE one! the umpire cries.
Again the sphere flies by as the
batter stands unmoved. There is
but one more chance.
He pulls himself together, his
frame like iron. His features are
unmovable; the ball once more
speeds toward the plate.
With one supreme effort he
swings the stick and sends the ball
to distant corner of the field.
and the dauntless Ewing starts
upon his last circle of the bases.
One, two, three--the ball is be-
ing rapidly returned.
Will he make itf
1t is a close race. He takes the
one and only chance and throws
himself headlong upon the ground
for the last slide.
For a moment all is confusion.
Suddenly the dust clears away and
the great umpire of the universe
is heard to say: Safe at Home"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
Line Up.
112TH BASEBALL TEAM.

The 18TH regiment viii nave a base
ball team that will not be afraid to
play and team in the division or out Of
the division as soon as the league is
over and the players selected from the
various teams.
Here are list of games played this
week besides the two regular league
games:
Companies B and c put up q good
game Score, B and c 2.
Companies G and e fast game.
Score, G. and e 0.
Companies and LIS second team.
Score, l. 10 and B 10.
TWO teams in CO. M. Both fighting
to be first team. Score, second 6 and
first team 4.
Two teams in MIG. Trying to get the
best players for the league team
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
WE FIND GOD IN TRENCHES

Private Peat, the famous soldier,
who after two years Of the worst part
Of the war has come. back to this
country, says the March American
Magazines:
IF you had taken the biggest OPP
portunity life ever held out to q man,
wouldn't you smile? If you had gone
down into hell for the sake of people
who were there already wouldn't you
come back-if you were lucky enough
to get back-With a smile? If you
had learned more in the past two
years about life and all that makes
it worth living than you had found out
in the previous twenty, wouldn't you
be glad as yau had never before
dreamed Of being glad?
be good even for hand shal1e-though
I hope it will. Instead Of a pair of
lungs, I've got one and a fraction, But
what of that! 1 notice that people
care lot more about gripping my left
hand now than they ever used to care
about getting hold of my right. I get
all the air with one lung that I seem
to need, and it isn't hot air, either.
"And suppose I hadn't come back
at all? / know I'd be smiling now
and l wouldn't be doing it in hell,
either. That's what you don't realize,
you who are Lel3 at home. You don't
know how things get clear and plain
to us in the trenches. Talk about
finding himself We find more than
ourselves. We find Cod"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06

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Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
18TH BASEBALL LEAGUE

Companies c. and X played their
first scheduled game Wednesday 9th.
Sitter driving home run bringing in
Patterson in the End ending off John
sons pitching, and James and Hale
also scoring in the same ending was
the result of winning the game.
Stuchen relieved Johnson in the 3rd
ending after which it was pitchers
duel. Stuchell striking out II batters
and Hale Striking out II.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06
PREVENT CRIME.

zinc arcerating offenders is the wrong
idea. We ought to try 10 prevent crime"
Gust so'' said the oldfashioned
Judge "And you can prevent lots of
crime by putting the right people in
Jail"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-03-06

Eddie Collins will play second base for
the Chicago White Sox again this year.
he will be placed in Glass Four. Conse-
quently Manager Rowland will have the
same infield that played in the Worlds
series last fall-Gandil. Collins, Weaver
dications the White Sox may lose only
one of their regulars, Pitcher Urban Fa-
Der, whose strategy proved too much for
the Giants in October Happy Felsch,
who was married last summer, will es-
cape the draft under a recent ruling by
Secretary of War Baker.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
WHERE THE MONEY GOES

One 500 and one $50 Liberty bonds
will provide 10 pistols and four signal
rockets Or enough T. N. T. for bursting
20 nm howitzer shells or 800 hand
axes to be used in the prosecution of
the war Two 500 bonds will provide
5000 machine gun rife cartridges.
Nine 500 bonds will provide 20 demol-
ition drop bombs. Fifteen 800 bonds
will provide one 81 nm gun.
Three $1,000 and one $500 bonds will
supply the army with five dozen pack
outfits. Nine $1,000 bonds will provide
10000 gas or phosphorus grenades and
10 $1,000 bonds will purchase 10000
rifle grenades. One 16-inch sea coast
gun can be bought with ITS $1,000
bonds.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-02
GERMAN VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY

Read this by Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche and then think Of the women
and children whose blood was spilled
in invaded Belgium and France and Of
the Lusitania:
81 condemn Christianity. To me it
is the greatest Of all possible corrup-
lions. The church is the great para
site; with it's anemic idea of holiness
it drains life of all it's strength, it's
love, and it's hope. l call
Christianity the one great curse, the
one great intrinsic depravity, the one
great instinct of revenge, for which
no expedient is sufficiently poisonous,
secret, underhand to gain it's ends. l
call it the one immortal shame and
blemish upon the human race