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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
Food Prices Are Certain
to Take a Drop Soon

Due to the slumping off of for
eign demand for food, prices will
take a big drop, says =. q. Foy,
food expert in the New York Even
ing World. Regardless of price, the
big packers and other corporations
have been holding food in expect
ancy of a big demand from Europe.
Now that the countries of the con-
tinent are getting sufficient
amount, the home corporations find
themselves with some white ele-
plants and will consequently begin
to unload.
For example, in the matter Of
butter South America and Aus
tralia are supplying England with
their necessary amount at prices
fifty per cent. lower than the offers
of this country. The result of this
was decline of one and one-haii
cents pound in creamery butter
yesterday. Eggs also are suffering
the same changes; the combincd 4
value of butter and eggs in ware
houses of the United States exceeds
S165, 100000. The large packing
companies boarded up high-priceu
cheese and now England has cut the
price of Canadian cheese, with the
result that they have no demand
for American products in that line.
Yet the consumer pays a price OF
thlrty-three cents as result of food
speculation.
Medium and common beef is quite
cheap in comparison with other
things and entirely plentiful. Chick
ems are cheaper now than the gov
ernment has released the 5000, 900
pounds from it's warehouses ro,
general consumption.
Fruit and vegetables are also very
plentiful. The wholesale market l.;
literally supplied with Elberta
peaches, and as the government has
great store of sugar, this should
enableN housewives to put up all the
preserves that they need.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
Freight Handlers to Take
Vote Whether to Strike
or Await Solution
BIZ Associated Press.

Washington, Aug. 7. - The 450,-
900 members of the Brotherhood
of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Station, Express and Steamship
Employees will begin voting to-mor-
row as to whether they will strike
imm ediately for increased wages or
await a solution of the wage ques-
tion along the lines of the proposal
made to Congress by Director Gen
eral Hines.
In announcing the issuing of the
strike ballot, ]. j. Forester, Presi-
dent of the Brotherhood, said to-
day his conference yesterday with
Mr.. Hines had not resulted in any
change in the situation. Mr.. Hines,
he said, had nothing further to of
fer than the proposal for a con-
gressional commission to consider
the whole wage problem.
The situation with our men,"
said Mr.. Forester, ''is that we must
have immediate relief or our mem
bers will commence seeking en-
ployment in occupations where they
can make a living for themselves
and their families. They have been
so loyal in numberless cases now
that they have even sold their Lib
erty Bonds to live on during the last
few months. Our hope is that Con-
gress can take some action at once
to relieve them"
Increases sought by the men, Mr.
Forester said, approximate 20
cents an hour over present scales
| with time and half for overtime
The strike ballot of the clerks and
freight men will be the second sent
out this week. The shopmen now
are voting on the question of ar
| immediate strike for increased
wages. Many shopmen over the
country already have quit work, but
! their number was estimated by rail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
MARDI GRAS IS
SCHEDULED BY
CITY MUMMERS
Second Annual Event Planned
For Paxtang Park For
August %

The second Mardi Gras of the Har-
risburg Mummers' Association will be
held Friday, August %.
The event this year will be some
what of a victory celebration, it was
said to-day when the announcemen mt
that the custom of holding such
events, was to be resumed by the AS
sociation.
Paxtang Park has again beGa Sc
lected for the staging of the events
Of the big festival. Committees are
now at work making their plans for
the presentation of an entertaining
program to last throughout the great
er part of the day.
First Held In 1918
The same general committee that
was in charge of the first Mardi Gras.
staged in July, 1915. will be in charge
again this year. Walter l. Mont
gomery is chairman of the commit
tee, which includes in addition
Clarence o. Backenstoss. william K.
Orr, R. Ross Seaman, j. Grant Hoff-
man, Robert Buck. Sr., II. NJ. Brooks
and Harry Q. Beck.
More than 100 contests will be in
Cluded on the program. The COM
mittee is now at work securing sat-
isfaCtory prizes for the events. The
work of arranging these events is
largely in charge of Harry Q. Beck.
When the first Mardi Gras was held
under the auspices of Mummers' AS
sociation in PaXtanS Park in July,
1915, il was planned to make the af-
fair an annual one, but the war and
other matters interviewed, and it was
found advisable to discontinue the
custom.
The first event was a big success.
and preparations now indicate that
this years affair will excel it,
The Mardi Gras will be entirely free
to the city people and will be con-
Quoted in addition TO the Mummer's 5
parade on New Years Day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
New Haven Strike
Is Seriously Curtailing
Service, Officials Say
By Associated Press.

New Haven, Conn, Aug. 7.-Se-
rious curtailment of passenger and
freight service over the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
was forecast by the management of
the property, in a statement this
noon, which admitted that prac-
tically all the mechanical employees
engaged in maintenance of engines
and cars had walked out.
The statement added that no de-
mands were made upon the officials
and no cause given for withdrawal
from service. The management saws
every effort will be made to operate
as many trains as can be done with
safety.
An estimate of the number who
walked out at the Connecticut end
of the system is 2,200, of which l.
500 are in the so-called New Haven
shops. The walkout has been with
out incident.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
Reading Has Ordinance
to Stop Price Fixing

Reading, Pa. Aug. 7. - Drastic
measures to help in bringing down
the high cost of living by regulat-
ing the sale of produce in the local
markets will be taken by Council!
in the passage of an ordinance which
was presented by Councilman Ed
ward c. Hunter, of the Department
of Public Safety.
The bill strikes at the farmers
and produce dealers getting together
to fix prices and at the grocer who
buys from the market farmer for
resale.
1t is a we'll known fact that the
farmers and other stand keepers
have some spokesman in the mar
kets who goes about with the word
that produce shall sell at certain
price, and that price holds. 1t is
even charged that the farmers,
rather than sell at price below
what is fixed in the markets. have
been known to leave the city and
scatter some of their vegetables
along the road.
When the ordinance is passed a
watch will be kept on the price fix
ing and arrests will follow. with fines
fixed at $40 to 500 or Imprisonment
for thirty days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
is THE COST HIGH

TO the Editor of the Telegraph:
How would you cut the high cost
of living? that is the question asked
in the Telegraph. The first question
is, is the cost of living high or is 1T
simply that money has decreased in
value? The cost of living is not how
much money does food and other
essentials cost? But how much Will
a days wages purchase? If the cost
is high, that is, if a days wages does
not purchase as much as it should, 1T
doubtless is because there is a
limited production. And what is
limiting farm production but high
wages and short hours of work in
towns and cities, which attract the
necessary help from the farms. It
is folly for those in the city to de-
mand for themselves a forty-four
hour week at wages from $25 to
$50 and expect the farmer to put in
a seventy-fve hour week at from
$40 to SIS. If those in the cities
are not getting enough for days
wages, the remedy is to work long
er hours, thus taking less men to
do the work in the factories, on the
railroads, etc, and leaving more
men for the work on the farms.
When every man produces more.
every man can have more, prices will
largely adjust themselves.
or, if those in the cities think
the prices of food too high and don't
want to work longer hours there,
the other remedy is to go on a
farm and produce for themselves the
things to eat. Respectfully,
EDWIN DINGMAN.
West Camp, \. Y, July %, 1919.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
RIOTS BREAK OUT
In TROLLEY STRIKE
[Continucd from First Page.l

dashed into a hallway, ran up to
the roof of the building and disap-
peared. All the shots went wild ex-
cept one which broke one window
of the car.
95 Per Cent. of System Tied
At $50 a. m. strikers and SYM
pathizers attacked the crew of a
Bergen street car at Vanderbilt
avenue and another at Bergen street
and Rogers avenue. Car windows
were smashed and the rioters were
dispersed by the police. No arrests
were made.
Strike leaders claim that 95 per
cent. of the entire system was tied
up and that since last night more
than 1000 men had joined the
union.
Thousands of motor trucks, auto
mobiles and wagons were employed
during the rush hours TO bring a
vast army of workers to Manhat-
tan. Despite this the congestion at
subway stations and l. platforms
was as pronounced as yesterday.
''Raw" MotOrmcn
Police Inspector Murphy report
ed that at 4.30 Il. m. to-day a man
who said he was a representative
of the carmens union, had called
on the telephone and warned him
that the B. r. T. would start cars
operated by inexperienced motor
men. The man reminded the in
spector that this was done last No
vember l and resulted in the fatal
Malbone street tunnel wreck in
which nearly 100 persons were kill
ed
The alleged unino official said
h4 1,n NNt tptN III toe 4 As..,.
from pickets who were covering the
various barns. He said the raw
men were being trained in the
barns. Inspector Murphy said he
had personally Investigated the mat
ter but was unable to verify the re-
port.
William Siebert, superintendent
of surface transportation of the B.
r. T., denied that the company
was employing green motormen, and
said that only the regular motor
men and conductors were being
used. Mr.. Siebert said that the
company would not operate any cars
without proper police protection. He
said there were about 200 police
men to man the surface cars and
about 900 or protection on the
elevated lines.
All the streets leading to Borough
Hall and Brooklyn Bridge were
jammed with men and women
walking to work, who were unable
to get accommodations on the sight
seeing buses, jitneys, moving vans
and horse-drawn vehicles which
have been carrying people at ex-
orbitant rates. A large number
utilized bicycles to reach Manhat-
tan.
Max Kaufman, a twelve-year-old
Brooklyn boy. was shot in the back
and probably fatally injured to-day
by a stray bullet fired by police
man when the officer was pursuing
three strike pickets after the latter
had attacked and beaten a guard
on Canarsie- Broadway l. train.
niolEnf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
Military Placed in Bad
Light by Documents
Written by Erzberger
BIZ AsSociatcd Press.

Berlin, Wednesday, August 6. -
Criticism of the war record of Ma
thias Erzberger, vice-premier and
minister of finance, was met to-day
by the Tagcblatt ordinarily not
friendly to Herr Erzberger. with a
statement that the documents pub
lished showed up the military au-
thorities in a bad light rather than
Herr Erzberger.
The Tageblatt made an analysis of
reports on various attempts by mill
tary authorities to force the vice.
premier into the military service as a
private. The records made public by
Die Post, recently showed that DIR.
Alfred Zimmerman, then secretary
for foreign affairs, sent request to
the war ministry for Erzberger's re-
lease on the gound that he was per-
forming foreign propaganda work of
incalculable value and that his with
drawal would seriously interfere with
the work.
Later it is shown, certain military
men reputed to be hostile to Herr
Erzberger sought to have him drafted
and General Schaefer asked the min
istry of war office to force him into
the army because the vice -premi err s
civil state spread discomfort and
argued that 44-year-old, seemingly
healthy, strong man should not be
used in war service" All these eff
forts by the military authorities
failed.
The Tageblatt in its comment, said
the documents proved the military
authorities tried to punish Herr Err
berger, whose political course they
disapproved, just as they did others.
Only two Majority Socialists, Herr
Hanover and Herr Wolf, the Tage-
blatt remarks, were killed in the war
in> spite of all the enthusiastic talk
ers and shouters of the party. The
conservatives it was said, made a
fairly good showing in field gray,
but none ever was killed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
COUNTRY CLUB
PLANS APPROVED
[Continucd from First Pagc.l

l.. Stoddard, the architect of the Penn
Harris, although some changes in in
terror details were suggested.
To Cost SS5 900
Edwin S. Herman, president of the
club, presented the financing plan,
which calls for raising of Ss5,000 in
round numbers and pointed out the
big investment in the property and the
desire of members that there be an
adequate home. Vance c. Mccormick
supported Mr.. Herman's statements,
saying that the club had a splendid
site and should have a home in keep
ing. Lesley McCreath and George w.
Reilly discussed a financing plan con-
templating retirement of outstanding
club securities and Il new issue suffi-
cient to meet the cost of building and
Jackson Herr Boyd came forward with
a supplementary plan of securing funds
from members through a system of an
nual payments of specified amounts
for ten years. Mr.. Boyd's plan met
with general approval.
Francis j. Hall discussed interior
details and pointed out that some
changes which would reduce mainte-
nance charges could be made without
impairing convenience. Donald Nc
Cormick, Samuel c. Todd. w. p. Ma
guire and other members gave support
TO the general plan for clubhouse that
would be adequate and not too elab-
crate. The general opinion of the men
gathered at the luncheon was that
the club should build a house in keep
ing with the Harrisburg idea as soon
as practicable and that the Finance
committee should at an early day sub
nit a report to the board OF governors
which is authorized to proceed with the
project.
The finance committee is composed
of Charles H. Bergner, Lesley McCreath
and George w, Reilly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
COMPLAINT FILED

The Charles Horn Silk Company
of Titusville, filed complaint with
the Public Service Commission
against proposed increase in rates
by the Titusville Light and Power
Company, raising the point that the
company should provide against in
terruption of service due to short
age of natural gas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
HOSPITAL AGAIN CLOSED

City health officers to-day closed
the municipal hospital where Rusln
Tomlin, colored, 1928 Cumberland
street, had been confinedS for the
last month suffering from small
poX. Tomlin has recovered and as
no new cases developed DR.. ]. NJ. J.
Raunick, ciey health officer said the
hospital can be closed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
MAKES BIG NONSTOP FLIGHT
BIZ ASSOcinteT Press

Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 6.-AvI-
ator Stopani, plotting an airplane
from Madrid to Rome. arrived this
evening at 5.45 o'clock. He left
Madrid this morning at o'clock.
The flight was made without stop.
by way of the Gulf of Lyons, Mar
seiles, Spezia and Pisa. The aviator
carried a letter from King Alfonso
of Spain to King Victor Emmanuel
of Italy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07

an orderly manner at Q a. m. In the
Readville district where the principal
shops are located, the locomotive shop
was almost deserted and only few
men remained In the carshops, officials
said.
Officials of the Boston and Maine
railroad said that the 1900 men en-
ployed at the Billerica shops. who went
out late yesterday, remained away from
work to-day and that 500 mechanics
in the terminal yards here had given
notice that they would quit during
the forenoon. At the offices of the
Boston and Albany railroad. it was
said, that men were leaving the Allis-
ton shops
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
TO HELP FARM AGENT

K. 4, Fordlce, OF ROgersVlle, has
arrived in this city to assist Farm
Agent II. G. Niesley for several
weeks in the work of the Dauphlr
County Farm Bureau. He will leave
within several weeks for Minln-
town, where he will assume the du-
ties of farm agent of Juniata coun-
ty, succeeding ID. r. Pheasant. Mr..
Fordicc is graduate of Penn
State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
SUBJECT TO DELAY
IN Associated Preaa.

Chicago, August 7.-Practically all
railroads of the Middle West have in
effect to-day orders to accept freight
subject to delay" on account of the
strike of Federated Railway Shop
men. The strike of the shopmen con
tinued to spread and NJ. l.. Hawver
president of the council. directing the
strike in the Middle West. said that
traffic will be discontinued in three
days"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
EDWARD EUGENE FERRY

EdWard Eugene FERRY, aged three
months, son of Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward Ferry, died yesterday at the
home of his parents. Funeral SER
vices will be held tomorrow with
the Rev. Father Murphy, of ST.
Francis church, officiating. Burial
in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
STRIKE DISORDERS
By Associated Press.

. Paterson, n. J., Aug. Z. - Disor-
ders marked the strike of silk
weavers and dyers here to-day when
pickets attempted to induce more
dyers to walk out. Fours strikers
were arrested charged with throw
ing stones. Strikers claim $500 of
the 5000 dyers here and 5000
weavers are out. The men demand
n 44-hour week without reduction
in pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
Deaths and Funerals
MRS. MARY AMOIR

Mrs. Mary Amour, AZ, wife Of Viii
liam Amour, died yesterday at her
home, 1905 North Fourteenth street
She leaves her husband and two
daughters. The body will be taken
to Mt. Carmel tomorrow for funeral
services and burial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
CHILD HIT ny AUTO

Struck by an automobile truck il,
Strawberry street this morning,
Earl Wolfe, five-year-old son .ol
Charles K. Wolfe, of the City gar
age, 119 Strawberry street, escaped
with but a slight laceration of the
forehead. He was taken to the
Harrisburg Hospital for treatment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
WILSON SUMMONS
FOOD ADVISERS
Continued from First Page.1

ICOntlnucd from First Page.
gressional committees as great
combination in control of food prod
ucts, are to be hailed again before
the Federal courts by special prose-
cutors.
The evidences in hand, Attorney
General Palmer declared, indicated
"a clear violation of the antitrust
laws"
Whether the prosecutions would
be civil or criminal, the Attorney
General declined to state, merely re-
calling that the law provided for
both.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07

HAY FEVER relieved and pre-
vented by new discovery and inVen-
ton. Those who suffer from annual
attacks can avoid same by consult
ing the MAN-HEIL Demonstrators
at Gorgas' Pharmacy, 16 n. Third
street.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
1000 Boston Shopmen
Decide to Join Strike
Bu Associated Press

Boston, Aug. 7. Four thousand
shopmen employed by the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railroad in
this city went on strike to-day accord
ing to an announcement by railroad
o1icials- The men left the shops in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
NORTHWESTERN SUSPENDS
RAJ ASSocinted pfeSs

Chicago, Aug. 7. Railway
freight traffic on the Chicago North
western Railroad was suspended to-
day on the Iowa and Minnesota di-
vision because of the. shipments
strike. according to statement
made at the division offices of the
company. Passenger trains op the
Northwestern are running irregu-
larly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
PLAN For ARMORY

The State Armory Board has
placed in the hands of General G.
c. Richards matters pertaining to
the building of an armory at Erie
the citizens having offered a pIot
Of ground and q sum of money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07
800 GO OUT

New Haven, Conn. Aug. 7. -
Shopmen of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad here left their
work at 3 o'clock in keeping with a
vote in mass meeting last night. The
number of men out appeared to be
about 500 here:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07

country, and make producers of
them so they may not only be able
to produce what they use but pro-
duce something to sell to the rest
of humanity.
E. j. DARE.
Dnskfnnin
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07

road administration officials to-day
as not more than 10000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-07

l.. Stoddard, the architect of the Penn
Harris, although some changes in in
terror details were suggested.
To Cost SS5 900
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-07-17
PROTOCOL IS ACCEPTED
1--WE ENTER ON FORTY YEARS
MARCH THROUGH DESERT"
GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
VOTES, 200 TO 115, ON REso-
LUTON.
western N.~.p.p.r unlon New. Service.

western Newspaper Union News ssrvicA.
Weimar, July 1O.-The resolution
ratifying the peace treaty was adopt
ed by the German National Assembly
here by a vote of 2OS to It's. The text
of the ratification resolution as intro
duced In the National Assembly con-
sisted of two clauses, reading as fol-
lows: 1.-The peace treaty between Ger
many and the allied and associated
powers signed on June %, 1919, and
the protocol belonging thereto. as well
rs the agreement relative to the occu-
patton Of the Rhineland signed the
same day, are agreed to.
This law comes into force ON the
day Of its PRONUNCIATION"
Most Of the ministers were present
ut the meeting of the National As
sembly and there was full attend
ance of deputies.
DR.. Hermann Mueller. foreign min
lister, in introducing the government
bills, explained that the Fastening Of
the ratification order would bring
about the lifting of the blockade.
I'VE are about to enter upon a forty
years march through a DESERT" he
said. II Gun find NO other term for
the path of suffering which fulfill
ment of the treaty prescribes for uA"
DIR. Peter SPAIN, leader of the Cath
Ollie Center party, said:
1--WE agreed to the treaty under
hard compulsion, to save ourselves
from anarchy and to preserve the
fatherland from internal ruin"
Herr Kreixig. Socialist; Professor
Schuecking, Democrat; DIR. Traub,
National party, and Herr Kahl, Peo-
pies party, all violently protested the
injustice of the treaty. the impossi-
bility of its fulfillment, and declared
that the day of Germany's liberation
would come.
These speeches were greeted with
such turbulent applause and hand
clappIng that the President of the
Assembly called attention to the fact
that bandclapping was against the
rules, and threatened to have the gal
leries cleared.
The National party introduced an
amendment in favor of ratifylng with
the express reserve that the sanction
Of international law experts of repute
should first be obtained concerning
articles 227 to 2SO. and that a neutral
court should be created to investigate
the responsibility for the war.
President Fehrenbach protested
against Alsace-Lorraine being torn
from Germany. He said that the
treaty of 1871 simply made good what
had been taken from Germany $50
years before. He hoped that the peo-
pie Of Alsace-LOrraine would preserve
their German character, customs and
civilization.
Ninety-nine deputies abstained from
voting on the resolution to ratify the
peace treaty.