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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
NO CONVENTION
FOR DEMOCRATS
VanDyke Idea Fails TO Win
Much Applause Around the
State Windmill These Days

The demand of the Harrisburg
Democratic Association for a return
to the old state convention system
wherein representative Democrats of
Pennsylvania may gather Ito discuss
merits OF men suggested as condi-
dates for state nominations" and to
consider planks for state platforms
will be ignored by the Democratic
State Committee as the action of
men who cling to institutions of the
past The resolutions adopted by the
association, which Is composed of
number of prominent Democrats,
including most of the original Bryan
element, have been sent to State
Democratic headquarters, but by an
apparently pre-arranged policy all
comment upon them is withheld.
A state convention to discuss mer-
its of candidates in advance of the
primary is about the last thing that
the folks around the State Demo-
cratic headquarters want this year.
The headquarters company would be
glad to have a conference to discuss
finances, but nothing else. The plat
form will be left to the state COM
mittee after it is elected at the pri-
mary at which it is hoped to get
away with the whole Washington
ticket. Meanwhile the headquarters
will be maintained here, the press
clipping bureau run actively and the
glad hand given to Democrats who
may stray into the place. Most OF
the Democratic officeholders realize
by this time that every time they Wis
it the headquarters it costs money.
Acting Chairman Joseph f. Guffey
is expected to visit the headquarters
some time late this month. He has
not been here for weeks, but with
the PRONUNCIATION of the. slate he will
stop in on his way to and from
Washington. The plans are to util-
ize to the utmost the federal appoint
ments in Pennsylvania, to mobilize
the jobholders and to make what
capital is possible out of the railroad
situation, placing the blame for the
fuel and food situations upon the
city and county administrators. The
aim will be to avoid not only con-
Ventions but even meetings of the
executive committee
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
Demand of Dealers For
Motor Cars Exceeds Supply

Motorcar manufacturers and deal
ers arriving In New York during the
last week for the opening of the ma
tional automobile show Saturday,
voiced but one regret and as to that
they were in unanimous accord.
The one regret was the certainty
of reduced 1918 car production In
the face of a live market. From the
west, northwest and the south par
ticularly, men accustomed to count
ing correctly the pulse of the trade,
predicted Il demand for cars quite
equal to the roslest years of tho past.
Even eastern men reported many
good signs. One, distributor OF
bort cars in upper New England. said
he was ready to contract for double
the output the factory would allow
him. That's nothing" said friend
from Texas, also bort distributor.
I'D take three times as many as
they will give me-"
These are typical remarks from pre-
show talk heard on every hand re-
garding conditions. The answer, It is
declared, is that automobiles are in
dispensable to the transportation re-
quirements of the country. Business
could not be carried on with the same
speed and efficiency without them,
the automobile men say. Even though
it were possible to return to the days
when traffic was measured by the
ground-covering capacity of horses.
it would be economical to do so.
Horses consume valuable foodstuffs.
Cars run on gasoline. of which there
is an ample supply.
Speed, it is argued, is necessary in
order to end the war quickly--not
only speed in strictly military prepa-
ration and movement, but also in all
walks of civil life. Individual civil
ians contribute to the success of the
war in just the measure that they
are personally alert, active and effi-
cient. Efficiency is largely a matter
of time and no agency saves so much
time as the passenger automobiles.
This is the drift of expression at
the New York show and it is mighty
interesting
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
WILL ADDREss SCHOOL

Camp Hill, Jan. 5.-The Sunday
school of the Presbyterian Church
will be addressed tomorrow morn
ing by r. n. McCandless. the secre.
tary of the Associated Aids of Har-
risburg. He will tell the school OF
the good done by it's Christmas gifts
to Harrisburg's poor. At it's Christ
mas entertainment the scholars
brought offerings of food and cloth
ing to help Santa Claus bring Christ
mas cheer to the needy. These were
turned over to Mr.. McCandless for
distribution, for he knew where the
gifts would find grateful hearts. The
morning service will be a missionary
service. The pastor will preach a
missionary sermon and the Offering
will be given to the Board of For
eign Missions of the Presbyterian
Church. In the evening the pastor
will preach the sixth of his series of
sermons on the "Beatitudes."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
COAL DEALERS
ARE PESSIMISTIC
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keep his entire force busy deliver
ing it to consumers for four weeks
at least For every small shipment
of coal that is received, he said, he
has eight times as many customers
demanding it as it will supply.
Other dealers agreed with this one
| that the coal shortage is reaching an
acute stage. With the exception of
one dealer, who has seemed to be
well supplied, the dealers expressed
the seriousness of the situation in
| emphatic terms this morning. A deal
er said that during the cold wave
that has enveloped the city for tho
last ten days. his office has been be-
sieged continually with from forty to
sixty people. It seems to be charac-
teristic of every consumer ordering
coal that he needs it for immediate
delivery.
Little Relief
That the coal supply is reaching a
stage where it is almost impossible
to secure it has been attested daily
at the police station during the last
cold wave. Every day. Chief of Po-
lice Wetzel said, an average of a
dozen people approach him with a de-
mand for relief. The cases brought
to the police are of the most serious
nature, it was pointed out, as people
hesitate to go before the police until
they have reached a point where i'm
mediate alienation of their plight is
necessary.
There is no immediate relief in
sight, say the dealers, and Fuel Ad-
ministrator Hickok said this morning
that the operators he saw in Phila-
delphia were unable to make any
promises of delivery. The situation
all over the state is so bad that Mr.
Hickok's recital of Harrisburg's con-
dition to the state administrator and
the fuel operators was but a drop
in the bucket. Mr.. Hickok said this
morning that there is some coal on
the way to this city that has been
lost or laid up on sidings or lost in
the freight congestion.
In response to the suggestion of
Mr.. Hickok that the situation be re-
lieved by using wood for fuel one
dealer said that it was his opinion
that some one would no doubt or
ganize forces to take the fire out of
the mountains during the acute short
age. Another dealer said that the
plan is not feasible. as the wood costs
as much as the coal and would not
give any real relief.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
Shop Employees Gave
Their Gifts to Recruits

In place of the usual Christmas
gifts to it's employees, the bort Mo
tor Car Company, of Flint, Michi-
gan. doubled the sum that would
ordinarily be appropriated for that
purpose and. sent it in cash pro rata
to the sixty three bort factory men
now in the Army and Navy. e
It was announced by the directors
of the company that this action was
taken Mt the suggestion of one oil
the shop employees, enthusiastically
seconded by several of his fellows.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
STARTING X. OF c. CAMPAIGN

Waynesboro, Pa, Jan. 5.-A mass
meeting in the interest of the
knights of Columbus war campaign
FUND will be held Sunday afternoon
at 2.3O o'clock in the Arcade the
ater. A program has been prepared
Tor the. occasion which will consist
of music and speeches. Those max
ing addresses will be: Charles Wal
ter and Norman Bonbrake. of Cham
bersburg; William Rodenhaver, of
Harrisburg; the Rev. j. F.. Guy and
watson r. Dawson, of Waynesboro.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
Uncertain as to New
Draft Ruling Results

Harrisburg may have to furnish a
quota for the second draft, according
to local draft boards. owing to the
new ruling that men be taken. in ac-
cordance with the number of men in
class 1. the quota for the city may
know as yet whether the city will
have to furnish a quota.
Some weeks ago the members OF
the local Regular Army recruiting
city would not have to send a draft
quota. owing to the large number OF
volunteers recruited since the first
draft
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
Aged Methodist Minister
Dies at Lewistown

ISewistown. Pa. Jan. 5.-The Rev,
Dr. Joseph Gray. prominent Meth
odlst minister, died at Lewistown yes
terday. Funeral services will be held
on Monday at the Methodist Church.
Dr. Gray was one of the Oldest mem
bers of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference which he Joined in 1868.
lie retired from the active ministry
IN 1905 and was living at Lewistown.
lie is the father of the Rev. Dr. ]. NJ.
Nj. Gray, pastor of the Grand Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church. Kansas
city. Mo-. one mthe most prominent
churches of the denomination in the
country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

Lemoyne, Pa, Jan. 5.-The an
nual meeting of the stockholders OF
the United Electric Company for the
election of board of directors and
for the transaction of other corpora
ton business, will be held at the Of
flee of the company at Chambersburg
on Monday, January IA, at 4 o'clock.
This company operates a plant in this
place which supplies the West Shore
with current,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
Harrisburg Man Sails For
France as "Y" Secretary

Word has iujst been received here
that G.. M. Appleby has sailed for
secretary there. Mr.. Appleby was
president of Appleby Brothers and
Whitaker, was superintendent of a
stone quarry, the General Bridge and
Construction Company, and was presi-
dent and organizer of the Mine, Mill,
Plumbing and Heat Supply Company,
He is a member of the Engineers So
ciety of Pennsylvania. He lived at
1912 Mulberry street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
COMMISSIONED FOR BRAVERY

liam b. Gilmore. of Chambersburg,
son of the late Col. James r. Gill
more. has re-enlisted in the Amer
lean eXpeditionary force in France.
Mr.. Gilmore's second enlistment in
the Ambulance Field service, in
which he received the Cross of Hon.
or for bravery under fire. having ex-
pired. he has been commissioned as
first lieutenant in the Field Artillery
"over there"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

Carlisle, Pa. Jan. 5.-Announce-
ment was made to-day OF the en-
gagement of Miss Almeda Jones, of
Carlisle. to Rowan G. Pearce, of
Germantown. The latter was a for
mer Dickinson student, for a time
connected with the Standard Oil
Company and now stationed at Paris
Island, Port Royal, S. c., having en-
listed in the Marine Corps. Miss
Jones is prominent musician and
is known socially here and in Har-
risburg. She is daughter of w. X.
Jones, head of the w. X. Jones Gro
Gerry Company, of this place.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
CUMBERLAND VALLEY
Carlisle Council Discusses
High Cost Of Paving

Carlisle, Pa, Jan. b.@Ths closing
meeting of the Carlisle Borough
Council was marked by a warm dis
cussion on street matters. the paw
ing of Pitt street completed during
the year being the main target. The
cost per front foot is s3.56, an In
crease of fifty cents per foot over any
work heretofore done and charge
of lax methods and improper super
vision featured. The towns share is
increased due to the fact that the
post office and two school buildings
are in the paved sector.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
MEASLES AT SCOTLAND sCuoor,

Waynesboro, Pa, Jan. 5.-There
are seventy-five cases of measles in
the Soldiers Orphans Industrial
School, at Scotland. All the build,
ings are under quarantine and DR..
j. p. Maclay. of Chambersburg, the
physician to the school, is trying
hard to head off the disease. One
of the boy pupils of the school Wis
tied the soldiers encampment at
Gettysburg late in the summer and
contracted a case of regular "sol-
dier measles" and case after case
has followed since.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
DINNER FOR OFFICIALS

the regular meeting yesterday even
ing the members of the borough
town Council and other borough Of
hcials were entertained at turkey
dinner at the Warner apartments by
President A. r. Warner, who retires
from Council next Monday night
after twelve consecutive years of
service as councilman. Those pres
ent were: j. w. Croft, c. l. Myers,
p: e. Conrad, S. A. Benedict, S. S.
weaver. Leonard Johnston, A.
StoYer Fitz and John c. Hiteshew.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05

tration of Holy Communion. The pre-
paratory servios will preeeds ths
communion service. At the morning
service new members will be re-
ceived. At vespers the pastors theme
will be The Signs of the Times"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
JOHN A. HABECTxER DIES

Rutherford Heights. Pa, Jan. g.
John a. Habecl<er died to-day at the
home of his son-in-law, Charles A.
Baker, Is Somerset street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05
ENTERTAINs $. h. S. SORORITY

Shiremanstown, Pa. Jan. 5.-Miss
Marie Senseman and Miss Emma
Senseman delightfully."- entertained the
Sigma Beta Sigma Sorority Club at
their home in East Main street Mon
day evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-05

COMMUNION AT ST. JOHNS
Shiremanstown, Pa, Jan. 5.-The
first. Sunday of the New Year at st.
Johns will be opened by the admins
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-28
oo-opefataon Of hospitals ana ortho-
pedlc surgeons.
College Women for Cantesn Work.

The following statement 10 author
ICED by the intercollegiate COMMITTEES
on woman's war work abroad Of the
Intercollegiate Community Service AS
ISOLATION:
"a call has come from the womsn's
the Young Mems Christian Association
for . unit Of college women to do
association cAnteen work in France.
The committee on woman's war work
abroad will select the personnel Of an
intercollegiat0 cAnteen unit for the
Y. NJ c. A. and collect funds to supply
it from individuals. colleges or alumnae
associations who can furnish satisfac-
tory. candidates for the unit"
candidates must be between twenty
eight and forty years Of age, Of excel
lent health and character; they must
enlist for one year, pay their own OK
penses or be financed to the amount
OF $4,000 Z year, ana must subscrtbs
rulings"
Smith College has already formed .
canteen unit; Barnard and Bryn Mawr
are doing so, and already Mount Hol.
yoke has most desirable candidate for
a member. possibly as director, Of the
intercollegiate canteen unit"
I'VE are specially DESTROYS that grad
yates OF the western. southern ana
middle western colleges enter into this
work. The committee promises warm
welcome 70 any candidate. however
everywhere to have . share In this
splendid opportunity. Communieations
will be received by the intercollegiate
abroad, Toe East SD street, New York
city"
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Women's Overseas Hospital.

Mr.. Will Irwin, war correspondent,
and one of the best known of the
younger journalists. is to speak at the
National American Woman Suffrage
wednesday evening. May 8. at 3
o'clock, for the benefit Of the Wom-
ans Overseas Hospitals, which is sup
ported by the association. The patron
esses are Miss Agnes Hart Wilson. Mrs
Louis D. Brandeis. Mrs: Ralph Gal
Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, Mrs. John Hays Hammond.
Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss. Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood. Mrs. Richard Aldrich,
Mrs. v. Everit Macy and Mrs. Frank A.
Vanderlip.
Mr.. Irwin has been in Europe most
of the time since the beginning OF the
war, and has had exceptional oppor.
tunities for gathering facts and gain
ing impressions. as he has been on the
spent much time In France and Switzer-
land. He Is writer Of great descrip-
tive power Many will recall The
City That Was" which il perhaps the
most wonderful thing written about
the San Francisco fire.
The Womans Overseas HOSPITALS
while primarily consecrated to the saw
ing for France of her women and chill
dren. is also caring for the wounded
soldiers from the battlefields of the
allied armies.
The personnel Of the unit ia made
up of physicians and surgeons from the
New York 1nflrmary for. Women and
Children, and is under the direction of
DR.. Caroline Sanford Finley, who has
been in France since November. Others
DR.. Alice Gregory. DR.. Anna van
Sholly and DR.. Olga Polisky.
The French war department is most
cordial in its cooperation and advice,
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War Work During the Summer.

Besides the extensive cultivation of
college war gardens during the sum-
mer. other plans have been made to
turn the energy Of college girls into
patriotic work. A new summer school
VIII be established at Vassar College
known as the training camp for nurses
Ihis camp will open June "a and con.
tlnue until September 10. 1t will be
under the auspices Of the Council Of
national Defense and the Red Cross.
Just as Plattsburgh was the begin
ming of system to train educated
men for the higher positions OF milf
tary life in the shortest possible time
&c 60 the vassar camp is the first scien-
tine attempt to fit educated women as
quickly as possible to Officer the
nursing profession" is the statement
OF the publicity department Of the
camp. The Vassar idea is the euuiya
lent OF the Plattsburg system. II is
assigned to overcome the shortage of
nurses that now confronts the conn
try. when 1900 scientifically trained
women are needed for every million
soldiers, when our allies are calling
on America for trained women to OF.
nicer their hospitals. and when the
public health standards for the conn
Try are menaeed by new working and
living conditions and the growing
scarcity OF doctors and nurses"
The three months at the camp will
eliminate the drudge period" OF the
nurses training, doing away with much
OF the manual labor and elementary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-28
Englishwo,nan FarmeHs.

working on the farm in wartime
doesn't mean rakine hay ana wearing
lilac sunbonnets. as 1t did when Maud
Muller raked the hay" said Miss Helen
Fraser OF Yorkshire, England, in ad-
dressing the 500 members OF the stu
don't body Of Goucher College on
''Woman's Part in Winning the War;"
last Monday.
Miss Fraser 10 . typical English
woman, and with the military cape
which she wore and the serious man.
ner in which she presented her topic,
brought homo to her hearers that
women have q vital part to play in
America, as in England.
Through our board Of trade labor"
continued Miss Fraser. I'VE have placed
10000 permanent woman farm work
ers. That 10 to say. these are the
women who have agreed to spend their
whole time farming for at least the
duration Of the war. OF course, farm
ers themselves have also employed
help outside Of our exchanges. and the
remainder of the 100000 women doing
farm work in Great Britain are those
doing seasonal work in units.
"A million women are working for
money who never earned q cent be-
fore in their lives. Why, our women
can construct an airplans all by
themselves, to say nothing Of the
women who do everything on the rail-
roads but drive and stoke locomotives, -
she continued.
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D. A. r. to Reach $4,000, 600.

The sum of $s,41e,022.so 10 the total
figured today by the war relief service
the Daughters Of the American Revelu-
tion as Its actual cash expenditure for
war relief since the beginning Of the
war. The remaining days Of tina third
liberty loan campaign will easily see
tho ?10,00o.000 figure reached.
This amount has been variously sxpsnd.
ed for supplies for the United States forces
ct home In the name Of the society; for
bonds in the name Of the society: for
French orphans; for the restoration Of
Tilloloy: for tho children Of southern
France: for a cafeteria for women and
girls working in French ammunition
plants, and for this country's other
allies in Britain. Belgium. Flanders,
Italy, Poland. Serbia and Armenia.
The financial statement giving the
itemfzed expenditures in every one Of
these cases does not inc, lde the sums
Of 1851 raised by one daughter in
New York for the war chest; $4,000
raised by one chapter in New York for
the British war loan: $1,400 raised BY
one daughter in Maryland for Emer-
gency to the Auxiliary Relief Society.
Nor does It cover the cost Of twenty
ambulances, 10,4o0 garments to France,
lss.2o7 hospital garments; 1.so1.2ss
surgical supplies. 116 fiass to regi-
merits, 31,1S2 books for Y. M. G. A,
461 binoculars and many hundreds of
supplies In other forms.
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Directions for Spiral Socks.

Directions for knitting the spiral
heelless socks for soldiers issued by a
number Of organizations during war
relief work are as follows:
The spiral heelless socks. The sock
should be 10 inches from the top to
where you narrow for the toe; % to %
inches in length. finished.
Cast on g to 7e stitches: divided "a
l24-1s: or 24-24-24 on three needles.
/ Knit plain 2, purl for 4 inches: then
one round Of plain knitting; then plain
rounds. On the sixth round plain s,
purl until the end. there will be
There will be 8 purls. Always have 1
pufls at the end of each needle, so slip
one from the second needle to the first
plain 4. .purl 4. plain 4: at the end
there will be 3 purls. Slip one stitch
from the third needle to the second
needle.
pun until the end. there viii be )
purls; slip one from your first needle
to complete third needle. Then on, the
first needle plain 4. purl 4: this will
complete the pattern. On every sixth
round you move the pattern one stitch
around by plain on one needle and
work it Off this way; do this until the
socks from the top measure 10 to 20
inches
Toe-an plain knitting. -Four rounds
plain.
Fifth round. Knit eighth and ninth
stitches together at regular intervals
| of 8. thus: Eighth and ninth stitches
together. seventeenth ana eighteenth
| stitches together, twenty-sixth and
twenty stitches together, and
so on to end OF round. Then two plain
rounds.
Eighth round. Knit seventh and
eighth stitches together at regular in
tervaIs Of Z stitches, as above, to end
Of round. Then two plain rounds.
Eleventh round. Knit sixth and sew
enth stitches together at regular in
tervals Of 6 to end of round.
Then two plain rounds
Fourteenth round. Knit NTH and
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WAR WORK CALENDAR.
SUNDAYS,

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uniform at Unitarian Church. 18th ana
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SATURDAY.
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EVERY
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