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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
;ere Relief
Means Life

There are 10 starving Armenians in
Erivan. Yet this is the centre of the
community that fled from Turkey under
me spur of the prosecutions of the
Ilrk The reason is that the American
, nomgi'tee for Armenian and Syrian
Ee'iei, o. which Cleveland H. Dodge,
le'ropolitan Building. New York, is
II surer, has established here d sys-
OF organized relief, including: in.
cvstrial work on an extensive scale.
maj mas meant literally life as we'll a.
capitalization to this section of the
YetUgees. who number altogether abous
quarter of q million in the Caucasus.
Perhaps that industrial work will
mako the best start for the story. In
stead OF direct relief. in the form of
iood or money. the committee. with an
eye 70 the future of the people. has
distributed labor. except in the case
Of children and helpless women. Since
clothing as we'll as food has to be pro-
Wded the refugees, the committee has
begun at the beginning. and distributed
cotton and wool among the women tc
he cleaned. carded and spun - except
that the cotton is first carded, after the
ancient bowstring fashion. by men.
The wool is give out as it comes from
'ae Sleeps backs. This is returned by
The women in the form of yarn, fol-
the spinning OF which they are paid
Thousands of pairs of socks have also
been knitted by the women.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Scenes F rom
A Church Stable

Within the same stable and | am
sorry to say That the stable belonged
to the monastery Of the parent Ar
menlan Church at Etcnmiadzin, and
that 5he monastery takes rent Tor it
from the Russian government and
gives 40 1ooG 10 the refugees-there
WAS another woman, widow Of Il Van
merchant, who had been aNluent
though now she had but a littlc corner
Of the carthcn hoor rt q stable, which
she kept as tidy As possible. ller eyes
were like these OF q broken hearted
madonna, as she told how her husband
1our sons and a daughter had all been
Killed, and She was without a kinsman
in the world, except, possibly, a
nephew in distant Rostov. Her quiet
dignity was rs affecting in its way as
the other woman's explosion OF grief
Note book and memory are both full
of these stories. This man saw a priest
shod. like horse, before he was Slain;
this one saw cructisions; this little
boy and his tiny SISTER lived Tor three
months in the mountains on roots and
berries, before they came up with a
force Of Armenian volunteers; this
woman from Mush witnessed through
cut four days, from her hiding place
before she got away TO the mountains
the locking of families into houses
many persons being crowded into one
house, wherenpon kerosene was applied
and the victims burned TO death. The
mind grows numb and the heart sicl
from q constant recital Of such tales
O. horror as it is difficult to believe
the twentieth century could hold. The
poor, weakened, mcnkey-hke babies
that have ben held up before my eyes
arc the worst spectaele Of all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
Child raining at Home
BY Mothc1s Who Have Been kindergarten Teachers

This tie 1ceh series articles prepared Under tic direction
United
association Each rten by o has training
she has
learned helpful yon
the mothers the country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
This Help Means Life
70 Quarter Million in
Caucasus Who Cheat
ed Death by Hunger
and Sword
Practical Religion, Di-
rected From New
York, Organizes Life
and Brings Hope to
Stricken Peoples
By William /. Ellis

ERIVAN, The Caucasus.
-HlS city has two present claims to
distinction for it is at once the
- nearest large town to Mount
Ararat and it is also the centre of the
relief work for the Armenian refugees
r. the Caucasus, who number about a
quarter OF million. An ancient city,
Er:yan has long been an Armenian
centre. and 1t was here that the recent
all-Armenian congress, to consider the
future Of the race, was held. Americas
representatives in the work of relief
have their headquarters here, and from
this centre radiates an organized min
istry for stricken people that is one
Of the notable achievements of this
world war. 1t will have religious and
political consequences beyond anything
imagined by the people of the West,
who sought only to save the lives Of
nyriads of sufferers.
As have daily watched the changing
hucs OF Mount Ararat, one of the sub
finest as we'll as the best-known peaks
on earth. it has come to have other
associations than those of the story OF
the ark and the salvation wrought TO
the race thereby. The long stretches
Of history upon which this snow crested
mountain has looked with millenniums
OF which the Armenians are associated,
grip the imagination. The mountain
OF the ark is associated in history with
this sorely distressed people and their
persistence as a nation; and now it
lay be that the scenes of American
't.vity witnessed at is base represent
rev salvation that has come to the
.mcnians. whose fidelity is one of the
4gye!s of Christian history.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
By Charles II. Hall
Editor of ".Sea Pouer'

A MOTHER ship sunk by Hun
~ torpedo. The torpedo's white
track was the first sign of an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
Unusual Cases to Be
Heard Next Week

Hearings are scheduled for Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Wilkes Barre,
Pottsville Lancaster and Harris
burg by the Public Service Com
mission for next week and on Mon
day series of arguments in unusual
cases will be heard here to be fol-
lowed by an executive session at
which action may be taken on the
fire main charges of the Springfield
Consolidated Water Company. In
the argument list are the cases of the
United Businessmen's Association, of
Philadelphia, against the Union
Traction and other companies in the
Philadelphia trolley system in which
valuation is sought; a complaint
against discontinuance of service of
natural gas by the South Penn Oil
Company in Butler county; an ap-
plication of the Bellefonte Central
railroad TO abandon a three and a
half mile line in Center county; the
application of the borough of Mid
dleburg for state permission to buy
the water company in that town and
an action between electric companies
operating in Lebanon county over
refusal of one to pay the other for
current under an advanced sched-
ule.
Tuesday the coal clause" in the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
THURSDAY, November 21

busy.
Three employees of State Draft Bu-
reau take advantage of wars end and
TAKE part In double wedding.
L. NJ. {. a. plans woodworking
pee to take kinks out of muscles of
tired businessmen.
Big gains made I'm resources and de-
posts of the city's ten trust COM
panies show Harrisburg's workers are
laying aside bit for rainy day.
Ralph Chiolato, Scranton, asks State
Pardon Board for clemency because
ing.
Henry ]. Steiger named receiver for
pennsylvania Reduction Company,
former collectors OF the cltys ashes
and garbage.
Mrs. Miles Bower. bride of Blaln.
dies of pneumonia.
Miffin county expended Sl3. 600 to
hght influenza; 300 deaths occurred in
the epidemic.
5. A. Robson. veteran of the Civil
war. and the oldest and best-known
81.
Alexander D. Oyler. Civil War vet
eral. Of Gettysburg. dies aged So
Carlisle Civil War veterans in spec
ial meeting, tell of hearing Lincoln's 5
famous Gettysburg address.
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh dine
members of the Governors military
staff
Influenza renews it's appearance
here, claiming five new victims.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
Monday, November Is

Scores of properties wrecked and
several totally destroyed in cyclone
that sweeps over Riverside. Several
families made miraculous escapes from
death. Immediate steps are taken by
city to provide for relief of stricken
Harrisburgers. No other part of city
is touched by storm.
Plans are made TO have Keystone
Division march in Philadelphia for
grand parade when the unit comes
home from France. Harrisburg pre-
pares for great parade for local men
serving in France. Philadelphia. Bal
timore and Washington put in bids
for parade of 18th Division.
Donald Mccormick, food admins
traitor. rules conservation of food is
necessary despite wars end and fines
dealer S10O for not obeying rules.
Pipe Bending Company loses con-
tract to make 100000 shells for the
Navy and plans to put shop back on
peace basis after four years of muni-
tions making.
Millersburg raises $4,000 for United
War Work fund.
Samuel Kopiovitz, .112th Infantry
again reported wounded.
Sister Carmelita. formerly Miss
Anna Hartnett, Lebanon, dies in con-
vent of Sisters of Mercy.
Senator William l.. Crow named
chairman of committee TO arrange for
Governor Sprouts inauguration.
Harry >. McDeNlttt suited 10 become
new Governors private secretary.
Philadelphia proposes o build great
bridge across the Delaware to Cam
den as memorial to Pennsylvania sol
dierS.
Steelton plant of Bethlehem Steel
Company gets back to normal work
ing conditions but still needs skilled
workmen.
John Shakespeare, oberlin. died in
trolley car.
All physical examinations under
the draft stopped.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23

report of demands for. or releases
of men in the community immediate
ly surrounding each of the twenty
central state employment offices.
Each of these twenty local offices
is keeping in close daily contact
with every employer in it's district
and at each indication of lay
off of men. or probable demand for
employees, the news is telegraphed to
the central clearance house at Har-
risburg-in the event that the shift
of labor in any local district is too
great to be properly handled within
that district.
When one district reports a sur
plus of workers, due to cessation of
war contracts, and another district
is requesting workers for recon
struction products, the district need
ing men is at once notified, by wire,
where a rsurplus exists and is in
structed to get in immediate COM
munication with the district where
men are available. This work is
all conducted on a strict arithmeti-
cal basis in order that any district
having a surplus of men will not
be swamped by orders, from other
districts, for more than are avail
able.
Ii any district office reports that
men are being released at war
plant at some distance from the dis
triCt office, scout is Immediately
sent from the Bureau of Employment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23

BEST TELEIiIsAE'H WAR CARTOON OF WEEK
NEWS OF WEEK BOILED DOWN
FOR OUR BUSY SOLDIERS
Wednesday, November 2o

influenza flares up again IN many
PiSCeS IN the state, several cities con-
S,,1a SiuenlnS auNlsablIity OF renewing
Goyernor Brumbaugh urges land
ms OF the Twenty-eignth Division M
Philadelphia, where a great pHraGe
may De held in honor of the PennsyI-
N&i.Ia oattlers.
DAh cupid plays queer pranks when
ne ne uNltes IN marriage Robert NJ. Stur-
SaIrb iolh, ana Mrs. Emaline Stras-
oaush II, lancaster. Surgeons son and
! tue brides daughter were married
! some months ago.
Sohn II. Keckler. Waynesboro. con-
Flcted OF serious charges growing out
HI & ms mex doctorlng. KeckIer is al
/ ie6eu TO nave treated Il farmer ana
ms daughters for enchantments.
thanksgiving turkeys are selling
LoI Sixty ana ty-eight cents a
pound the highest price on record.
FIens made Tor annual ThanksgIy-
ing donations to Harrisburg HospItaI
Plans for making the Susquehanna
river naVlgablo from tide water 10
! SuhpuFy by means of dams and
! uFeuSlhS, given great impetus at Dig
mass meeting OF businessmen. MaioI
I HntGg, naIg, VINO Oullt warehouses tor war
| Depar tnleht, estimates cost to be be-
tween Sl5O,OO0,OOO and S2OO, 200, 900.
Mrs, Jane Hudson Sangree, widely
known woman, died, aged SIS.
John II. Young. Three Hundred and
Forty-hrst Field Artillery, dies ln
! france w. p Murray. one Hundred
ana sixteenth Supply Train, reported
| wounded. ~
sergeant William II. Felix. Mechan-
| icsburg, wounded in the battle of the
Marne, is invalided home.
governor Brumbaugh issues Thanks
! giving Proclamation,
Mrs j. E. Garner former organIst
az Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
Tuesday, November 19

Jacob NJ. Alvord, Millersburg,. form
er businessman and marriage license
clerk, died after long illness.
Lieutenant Alexander Rodgers, Jr.
grandson os late Senator j. ID. Cam
eron. dies IN France of pneumonia af-
| ter being passed.
Council passes resolution thanking
Secretary Daniels for naming great
military transport "Harrisburg."
Fifty thousand children left orphans
by influenza epidemic. committee es-
Inmates in planning to look after des-
titute youngsters.
Mayor keister plans to reinstal the
Bertillon finger print system OF iden-
tifying criminals.
Edgar Metzger, IL, had leg broken
when run down by automobile.
Food situation will remain un-
changed during winter, wholesale
grocers announce. Call for conserva-
tion must be needed.
Congressman Focht asks for 100
captured German cannon to be distri-
buted in cross river counties.
Rev. II. N. Fegley celebrates 10th
birthday and 46 years as pastor of st.
Marks Lutheran Church, Mechanics
burg.
Sentence is suspended by Perry
county court on John SkaHe who acct
dentally shot to death Frank Tippery.
q boy companion, while camping.
Penn-Harris to be partly opened
December 20.
MTS. II TeOGTlCk T.. OOWne5 lb re-
elected president of Sunshine Society.
Senator Beldleman, iieutenant-gov-
ernor- elect, addresses University
Club.
Miles Nichols. Z. run down and kill
ed by Automobile,
Major General @. NJ Clement,
former commander of the Keystone
Division. volunteers to serve as scout
master for Sunbury troops of Boy
Scouts.
Sergeant Frederick Kent, Paxtang,
18th Infantry, reported killed In
France,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
Friday, November %

Mayor Keister and Councilmen in
spect new water works at Lancaster,
camp FIRE Girls begin campaign to
BUY chocolate for soldiers in France.
Private c. L. McIlhenny. One Hun
dred and Twelfth Infantry, reaches
Staten Island hospital with contingent
of wounded Yanks.
Funds for relief of windswept Riv-
erside urgently needed to relieve dis
tress.
w. T. Stoddart, architect for new
Penn-Harris. here to supervise interior
decorating.
Seven hundred, Christmas parcels
mailed through Red Cross to soldiers
Final figures for United War Work
Fund show Central Pennsylvania
oversubscribed it's quota of $500, 900
by more than 100000.
Harrisburg Railways Company de-
cides to retain "skip-stops" with the
coming of peace because of improved
service.
Druggists who sell alcohol with
out indicating it to make it unfit to
drink. warned they face arrest.
William Weibel. alleged I. w. w.
and Stacker. arrested in Chambersburg
for cursing American Army.
Vandals enter summer homes of
Willim Pearson. Supreme Court Pro-
Fox. on the Yellow Breeches. and de-
stroy property valued at $1,000.
'LiRhtless nights" go with the COM
ing of peace. merchants to-day per-
mitted to use unlimited illumination
City patrolmen ask Mayor for in
crease OF $25 a month In salary. and
plan for establishment of old age PEN
sion fund. Matter TO be placed be-
fore Council and the Legislature.
Harry NJ Mumma. MilleFsburg. vol
untary worker at emergency Influenza
hosnltal dies OF the disease.
Mrs. Lyman ID. Gilbert reelected
head OF Red Cross Chapter, annual re-
port shows half million articles were
made for soldiers by loyal women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
TRANSFER NOW
Big PROBLEM
Plenty of Men to Work, but
Opportunities Are Chang
ing Very Rapidly

The State Department of Labor
and Industry has undertaken the
problem of adjusting the labor needs
of the state so that communities
which require men can get them
from districts where cessation of
war activities has made men idle.
The Pottsville and Hazleton mining
districts are calling for thousands
of men and Cameron and other
counties where explosives and mu-
nitions have been made are COM
mencing to curtail activities and
have men idle. In the reports COM
ing here it is shown that central
counties need men and that in ad-
dition to the mines, the railroads.
steel mills which are turning from
war material and ship shapes and
farmers are asking for hands.
Director Jacob Lightner, of the
Bureau of Employment, says that
in the forty-four central counties
of the state there is u present labor
shortage in spite of the fact that
men are being released that the
, problem to-day is mainly one of
immediate transfer of workers to
their old trades and as near their
home communities as it is possible
to transfer them.
A plan by which the central Of
flee at Harrisburg may keep in al
most constant touch with employ
ment conditions throughout CEN
tral Pennsylvania has been develop
ed by Acting Commissioner Walter
McNichols of the Department of
Labor and Industry and Director
Lightner of the Bureau of Employ
ment.
In the operation of that plan the
primary purpose is to learn from
what communities released NUM-
ton workers, originally came, and,
so far as is possible, to place every
worker in a plant at or near his
original home locality. Hundreds
of men have been transferred with
in the last week in the central Penn
sylvania district in accordance with
that plan.
A virtual barometer of actual or
labor fluctuations, in the central
section of the state, is presented on
twenty charts covering one entire
wall of the clearance house in the
Bureau of Employment at Harris
burg. Each chart daily bears the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
Saturday, November 16

Bread made of whole wheat flour
appears on local market for first time
in many months.
Selinsgrove boasts of states oldest
anG most experienced bandmaster in
person of Professor Joseph II. Feehr-
er.
Bernard Schmidt sells Harrisburg
Baking Company 10 Z. $. Manbeck.
viii of late DR.. II. II. Wiener pro-
bated; written on back of prescrip-
tion blank
Although sugar is scarce confec-
TONERS have made great supply of
candies by using nuts and fruits.
Clear toys, time -honored gifts of
Santa Claus. will not be available this
year because of sugar shortage.
Six hundred college boys from Get
tysburg and Bucknell here for annual
football game.
Memorial service held in Steelton
for Father II. G. Ludes, later chap
lain of ST Joseph's hospital, Lancas-
ter.
Charles w. Hartwick, foreman of a
street repair gang, drops dead at
work
| Two million bars of chocolates be-
| ing prepared at Hershey for soldiers
in France. Consignment will fill ff-
teen freight cars.
| Howard L. Burkholder, employed at
c. 1. & 5. Company. kills self by
drinking carbolic acid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23

Buckman, of the State Senate, hold
er of No. IS for years, will receive
! that number again. The usual num-
! ber of requests for numbers corre-
| spending to house. post office box
and room numbers and for figures
approXimating college years are be-
! ing made to say nothing of the reser-
vations asked of odd combinations.
Turkey Calls S25.-It costs S25 to
call wild turkeys in Pennsylvania.
The State Game Commission has just
received word of the tining of three
men who were initiating the call of
the wild turkey to obtain shots at
gobblers in the mounain regions of
the Juniata valley. The use of such
calls is forbidden by the game code.
In another instance man was
stopped by game protector as he
was attempting to call wild turkey
and it was found tha.he had shot two
birds, one on each of the preceding
days. He was fined S25 for each tur-
key as the law limits each man to
one.
"Watcrcd" Buttcr-Over n dozen
arrests have been ordered in Phila-
delphia and vicinity by Dairy and
Food Commissioner James Foust as
the result of taking of samples of
butter by state food bureau agents
In each case il was found that the
butter had been "watered" or that
it contained more moisture than the
law allows. This is the third series
of arrests ordered for this otfense.
To Cut Accidcnts-Chiefs of di-
visions and officials of the various
bureaus of the State Department of
| "A lnhtGtrsN- en-
moned to Harrisburg next week for
conference on reduction of acci-
dents. Commissioner Walter Nc
Nichols will preside and reports on
accidents the last half year will be
discussed. Many of the accidents
occurred in industries occupied with
war orders"
Protest Closing Linc-Protest was
filed to-day With the Public Service
Commission by counsel for the Pass
yunk Avenue Businessmen's asso-
citation. against the proposed aban-
donment of the trolley line on
Passyunk avenue, Philadelphia, by
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany. Its subsidiary company, the
Frankford and Southwark Company
was also made a respondent 1t is
declared that the line is we'll patron
lied especially in the evening and
that the cessation of operations on
that street would cause much incon-
venience. Residents of New Milford,
including some engaged on govern
ment work, have filed complaint
against the new rates of the SusquS-
hanna County Light and Power
Company and the borough of AM
bridge has complained against the
minimum change of the Ambridge
Gas Company.
Berlin Cared For-R. J. Bowman
was to-day appointed justice of the
peace for Berlin borough.
Railroad Officer-William II. Har-
per was to-day appointed a police
man for Dauphin county for the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Now Home Rule Cases-State
Health Department authorities to-
day stated that reports of recur-
rences of influenza had come from
Pittsburgh, New Castle, Uniontown
and other cities, but that the re-
strictions were. matters for local
authorities. They can now eXer-
else home rule"
Jitncy Casc-The Mitzel jitney
application is scheduled to be heard
by the Public Service Commission
december IS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23

to the point where the men are be-
ing released and arrangements are
perfected for transferring those
workers to employment nearest their
original home communities.
The twenty offices thus endeavor-
ing to-day to stabilize labor condi-
tions in central Pennsylvania are
located in the following cities: Har-
risburg clearance house, Altoona,
Bradford. Dubois, Emporium, Has
2leton. Johnstown. Lancaster, Leb-
anon, Lewistown, Lock Haven, Mt.
Union, Pottsville, Sayre, Shamokin.
Wellsboro, Wilkes-Barre, Williams
port and York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
SteeItOn $3.50 Over Top
in United War Fund Drive

The final figures of the United War
Fund drive for Steelton were COM
puted last nigl1 and placed at $2S,-
$50. which amount is $3.50 over and
above the Steelton quota. The figures
include $4,000 collected by the wom-
en- of the town, and $4,000 sub
scribed by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, without which latter subscrip-
ton Steelton's final figures would
be short just $3.50 of the quota.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
ANNIVERSARY SERVICES

West Fairview, Pa, Nov. 2S.-On
Sunday, November "a, the Rev.
Charles a. Lantz will finish his first
years work as pastor of the West
Fairview pastorate of the United
Lutheran Church in America. A
communion service will be held on
Sunday morning at 1880. on Sun
day eve hing at 7.30 o'clock, the
pastor viii lpreach in ST. Marks from
Neh. 4:6-"The People Had a Mind
to Work" 4 short summary of the
years work will also be given at the
evening service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
Harmless Means
of ReduCine Fat

Many fat people fear ordinary
means for reducing their weight.
Here is an extraordinary method. Ex-
traordinary because while perfectly
harmless no dieting or exercise are
necessary. Marmola Prescription
Tablets are made exactly in accord
ance with the famous Marmola Pre-
scription. A reduction of two, three
or four pounds week is the rule.
Procure them from any druggist or IL
you prefer send rs cents to the Mar
mola Co, S64 Woodward Ave, De-
tisement