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SAYS DANIELS
"GAGGED" MEN
Admiral Fiske Tells How Navy
Head Halted Preparedness;
Orders Not to Talk
Special to the Tclegrnfh
Washington, D. C., March 25.—The
House committee on naval affairs yes
terday obtained some definite infor
mation as to how Josephus Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy, has "gagged"
naval officers and suppressed recom
mendations of military experts to pre
vent the agitation for naval prepared
ness from getting headway.
The witness before the committee
was Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske,
l'nited States Navy, now attached to
the naval war college, who a year ago
save Important testimony before the
committee relative to the navy. At
that time Rear Admiral Fiske stated
ihat. the navy could not be placed in j
an efficient condition In less than five j
years.
Subsequently Rear Admiral Fiske
resigned his position as chief of naval
operations and critics of Mr. Daniels j
charged the Secretary with assigning
Ihe officer to a. less important post in
the navy to punish him for that testi
mony.
Rear Admiral Fiske was questioned I
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SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 25, 1916.
to-day by Representative Fred A. Brit
ten, of Illinois, who has been gunning
for Mr. Daniels' scalp a long time. Mr.
Britten got Rear Admiral Fiske to
state rather reluctantly two interesting
facts:
Suppressed Part of Report
First—That he (the rear admiral)
had personal knowledge that the Sec
retary had suppressed that part of the
recommendation of the navy general
board last year which called for an
increase in the enlisted personnel of
19.600 men. The officer personally
conveyed to the board the fact that
the Secretary did not desire this Im
portant part of the board's recom
mendation made public.
Second—The officer admitted that
the Secretary had told him he did not
want him "talking to members of Con
gress and giving interviews to news
papermen" upon the subject of pre
paredness.
After Mr. Britten had gotten these
facts into the committee's records he
looked happy.
Representative Lemuel P. Padgett,
of Tennessee, chairman of the com
mittee, and Representative Oliver, of
Alabama, both endeavored to defend
Mr. Daniels by putting into the records
the "gag" orders issued by Presidents
Roosevelt and Taft. Mr. Britten con
tended that neither order applied to
the case of Rear Admiral Fiske.
Thinks Germany Efficient
The rear admiral stirred the com
mittee by stating that in his opinion
I that, nation which became too peaceful
j in character and forgot all about the
! military art might not long survive,
j He described Germany not as "mili
tary." but as "efficient." Ho declared
| that Germany had the military Idea
and that made for greater efficiency
and better citizens.
Who Are Native Americans?
Asks Uncle "Joe" Cannon
Special to the Telegraph
AYashington, March 25. Debate
on the Burnett immigration bill con
taining the literary test provision that
caused two Presidents to veto similar
measures passed by previous Con
gresses inspired ex-Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon to deliver a remarkable speech
in the House yesterday. As the 80-
year-old legislative veteran concluded
the entire membership of the House
rose to Its feet and gave "Uncle Joe"
| a demonstration of Its affection.
With a touch of sentiment, Mr.
Cannon had just expressed the wish
that he might live "to see the swing
of the 20th century." "But nature
has been kind." he said, "and I can
quit whenever the man with the scythe
comes."
I The ex-Speaker turned back the
j pages of American genealogy for more
[than 100 years, and reading from the
first census report of 1790, demon
! strated that the names prominent In
American affairs to-day were not car
ried in that list of "first families."
"Who are the native Americans?"
risked Mr. Cannon in a tribute to this
country as a "melting pot."
Miners Are Provoked at
Refusal of Demands
Special to the Telegraph
Philadelphia, Pa., March 25. —The
bituminous operators in the central
district of Pennsylvania yesterday re
jected demands numbered fourteen and
| fifteen on the list of eighteen propo
sitions made on behalf of the work
ers In the coal mines. The delegates
of the union then threw down all the
remaining propositions on the list, de
manding an Immediate vote to save
time.
The operators did not wish to vote
at once upon the remaining proposi
tions, but urged that the miners' rep
resentatives should continue to explain
them to the uttermost detail. The
unanimous vote of the operators to
reject every request so far made on the
list, it was intimated by one of their
commissioners, was really not signifi
cant. The miners' representatives
were unwilling to say how they con
strued the action of the operators in
declining to vote at once.
FIFTH STREKT M. E. CHURCH
The music at Fifth Street Methodist
Episcopal church to-morrow is as fol
lows: Morning Prelude, "Medita
tion." Oallaerts; solo. "Just For To
day," Harker, Mrs. Frank Smiley: of
fertory, "Andante Religioso." Hail
ing: postlude, "Postlude in D," Tours.
Evening Prelude, "Grand offer
tory," Batiste: anthem, "God of Our
Fathers," Schnecker; offertory, ;
"Spring Song," Lemare; postlude, ;
"Postlude in Q, M Cappelen.
MORE FIRE DRILLS
IN THE SCHOOLS
Fire Prevention Work Pro
gressing Under Chief Inspec
tor Z. R. Palmer
arc being held in
ever known before
officials of the State
11 MltftVim Department of
sending some of its
men to visit fac
tories and mills for the purpose of
organizing fire brigades and to give in
structions in fire drills. This instruc
tion Is the outgrowth of the division
of inspection work under L. R. Pal
mer, the State's chief factory inspec
tor, and Is being conducted along lines!
suggested by experience in this and I
other States. In addition the factory j
inspectors and the instructors ar«» co- -
operating with the school authorities j
in the development of fire drills in j
schools, which was strongly urged by i
the State Board of Education In a re
cent circular.
As a result of the conference on ac
cident prevention held here this week
special efforts to instruct all men and
women In the industries in the State
in English wll 1 be undertaken. A |
committee selected at the conference i
will make suggestions.
Bucketshop Cnse. The Pittsburgh
Consolifiated Exchange, which was |
mentioned in the bucketshop cases, is j
due to be heard in quo warranto in j
the Dauphin county court Monday.
To Get Bloomsburg. Negotiations!
will shortly be closed by the State!
Board of Education for acquisition by
the Commonwealth of the Bloomsburg j
State Normal school, which will make j
the seventh such school now under
the supervision of the board. The
legislatures for the last, ten or twenty
years have been making appropria
tions to the normal schools and the
State already has some equity in the j
properties. In the Bloomsburg case it!
is planned to pay SIO,OOO to the stock- j
holders for their share and to assume I
indebtedness of about $50,000. The!
Bloomsburg school is valued at $475,-1
000. The State now has control of the !
normal schools at Clarion, West Ches-1
ter. Lock Haven, California and
Edinboro and has closed negotiations'
with trustees of Slippery Rock school. |
Negotiations are also pending for the I
control of the schools at Shippensburg,
Millersville and Kutztown.
Deer All Placed.—The State Game
Commission has about completed the
distribution of game to the game pre- j
serves which have been established in i
a dozen places in the wooded sections 1
of the State, the last deer having been I
liberated a few days ago in the Juniata !
Valley. The commission distributed
125 deer, all from northern States, in :
the game preserves, where a watch i
will be kept on them during the |
Spring and summer. In addition
ninety-seven elk were turned loose in
the woods. Numerous wild tur
keys, pheasants and rabbits have been
liberated, it being the idea to place
them in counties where game is extinct
through hunting or other causes, but
where conditions ars suitable for
them.
Big Borough Meeting. Arrange
ments have been made for the meet
ing at the State Capitol of the As
sociation of Pennsylvania Boroughs,
composed of representatives of most
of the 900 boroughs of the State. The
sessions will be held April 12 and 13
and suggested changes in borough
laws will be discussed.
CHURCHES
Mission Extension Is
Progressing Rapidly
Progress in the extension work of
the recent Laymen's Missionary So
ciety is being made in a large terri
tory in the vicinity of this city, and
county extension meetings have been
arranged' for York, Chambersburg,
Carlisle, Gettysburg, Lebanon, New
port, Sunbury and Lewistown. A
number of Steelton delegates at a re
cent meeting decided to have a con
ference April 5, on Missionary Educa
tion.
Only four more cities will be visited
by the many speakers conducting the
Laymen's Missionary campaign in 75
cities, and the final meeting will be
held at Washington, April 26 to 30.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS DEBATE
Members of two of the Sunday
school classes of Westminster Presby
terian church, met last night to de
bate on the subject, "Resolved, That
American Peace Can Best be Promoted
by War-Like Preparations." The
negative side was defended by Wil
liam C. Wanbaugh and James G.
Howard, of the Young Men's Class
taught by C. W. Kunkel, and was
awarded the decision on points by the
judges w.ho were the Rev. Dr. E. E.
Curtis, Dr. H. B. Walter and A. J.
Leightner. The affirmative side was
represented by Daniel Hammelbaugh,
Jr., and H. Grissinger, from the class
taught by H. A. Miller.
BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN MUSIC
Prelude, Offertoire in F, Batiste:
chorus, O. Saviour of the World, Goss:
offertory. Pastorale. Lemare; solo, If
With All Your Hearts, Elijah-Men
delssolin; postlude, March, Lennem;
prelude: Allegretto in B, Guilmont;
Meditation, Kinder; chorus, Grieve
Not the Holy Spirit, Stainer: offertory.
Serenade, Taft; solo, He Knows the
Way, Briggs, Charles W. Hull; post
lude, Postlude, Chauvet; Miss Crom
leigh, organist; Mrs. Arthur H. Hull,
director.
MUSIC AT GRACE M. E. CHURCH
Morning: Organ, (a) Offertoire in
D minor. Batiste; (b) Communion in
G. Batiste; quartet, O, Jesus Thou Art
Standing. Brewer; organ. Andante
Cantabile, Stoitz; anthem. I Waited
for the Lord, Mendelssohn; organ,
Offertoire in F, Wely.
Evening: (a) Largo (New World
Symphony) Dvorak;; (b) Legende
Humoresque, Dvorak; quartet, Jeru
salem the Golden, Marston; duet, The
Lord Is My Shepherd, Smart; Miss
Buttorff and Mrs. Fager; organ.
Berceuse In F, Spinney; anthem,
Praise Ye the Father, Gounod; organ,
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, J. S.
Bach.
MUSIC AT PENBROOK U. B.
Special music will feature the
morning service at 10:30 o'clock to
morrow in the Penbrook United
Brethren church, of which the Rev.
H. M. Miller is pastor. A male quar
tet composed of R. B. Manley, William
Heffelfinger, Carl D. Sarvls and L. H.
Zarker, will sing "When We Stand
Before the King."
CHRIST LUTHERAN MUSIC
Morning—Anthem. "What a Friend
We Have In Jesus." solo, Mrs. A. R.
Todd; duet, Mrs. Todd and Miss Rals
ton. Evening Anthem, "Mighty
God While Angels Bless Thee," J. W.
I.erinan; contralto solo, "Come Jesus,
Redeemer," J. C. Bartlett, Miss Esther
M. Harpel; male chorus. "The Sweet
est Song," D. B. Tawner.
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I Was Born
FOODS
THEY BUILD OR DESTROY
Amazing but Rarely Suspected Truths About the
Things You Eat.
(Copyright. 1816, by Alfred W. McCann.)
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CHAPTER 36.
Rejected Food Minerals of Corn, Barley, Rye. and Rice Have Been
Built Into a Mountain of Folly So Colossal in Its Menace to the Human
Race That Statesmen May Well Tremble When Tliey Behold Its Di
mensions.
If we are to obtain an adequate
conception of the gigantic scale on
which the nation is now undermining
its vitality we must look at a few
extraordinary figures which are just
as large and just as significant as the
tabulations of disease and death with
which they are so Intimately related.
In the year 1915 there was produced
in the United States the largest yield
of wheat ever known jn any country
of the w0r1d—1,002,029,000 bushels.
This wheat was worth $932,888,998.
Of corn in the year 1915 the United
States produced 3,090,509,000 bushels
worth $1,913,025,071, the most valu
able corn crop ever grown.
The barley, rye, and rice crops of
1915 in point of production establish
ed records.
The barley was worth $118,577,682,
the rye was worth $37,861,403, the rice
was worth $22,318,350.
In addition there was a record buck
wheat crop worth $12,854,750.
Here surely, according to the sta
tistics announced November 8, 1915,
by the Department of Agriculture, was
reason for the celebration of a joy
ous Thanksgiving throughout the
United States.
Yet, from all of this wheat, corn,
barley, rye, lice and buckwheat, from
all of these hundreds of thousands of
tons of the breadstuffs of the nation,
the phosphorus was removed, the
potassium was removed, the iron was
removed, the manganese was re
moved, the magnesium was removed,
three-quarters of all the mineral salts
and colloids, all of the ferments,
enzymes, and vitamines elaborated
through the bounty and benevolence
of Mother Nature were removed.
Two per cent, of the total weight of
wheat consists of mineral salts. Rice
contains less, oats more, corn nearly
the same.
Let us see, therefore, what a trag
edy has been enacted through the
washing, screening, sifting, and
bleaching of our wheat: through the
brushing, scouring, and polishing of
our rice; through the degerminatlng
of our corn; through the pearling of
our barley; through the thinning and
extending of our buckwheat; through
the refining of our rye.
Let us take wheat alone as an In
dex of the extent of the losses sus
tained by humanity through the de
naturing processes through which all
these grains are prepared for human
consumption.
Each bushel of wheat produced In
1915 weighed 57.9 pounds, a total of
more than 580,(100,000,000 pounds, of
which 2 per cent., or more than Ave
million tons, consisted of food min
erals. Of these Ave million tons
three-fourths were completely lost In
the refining process. Here, with wheat
alone, we witness the wanton destruc
tion of nearly four million tons of the
food elements most indispensable to
the health of man, woman, nnd child.
We see the deliberate rejection of the
keystone of the arch, yet when we
ndd to this the rejected food minerals
of our corn, barley, rye, rice, and
buckwheat we build up a mountain
of folly so colossal In its menace to
the human race that well, indeed, may
statesmen tremble when they behold
its dimensions.
Other nations have taken alarm as
proof after proof of the ravages for
which foodless foods are responsible
have been disclosed.
In May, 1912, I received from the
honorable secretary of the Bread and
Pood Reform League of England a
record of the experiments conducted
by Dr. Frederick Gowland Hopkins,
Fellow of the Royal Society, reader in
chemical physiology of the University
of Cambridge.
Hopkins experimented with an SO
per cent, whole wheat meal which,
though not containing all of the
wheat, yet retained a much larger pro
portion of the bran and germ than
does white flour.
Even with such semi-impoverished
material the result of his investiga
tions were so remarkable that they
inspired a belated agitation in behalf
of whole meal loaf or, as it was called
by the London Daily Hail, "house
hold bread."
At the same time Dr. E. S. Fiddle
: and Dr. G. C. Simpson, members of I
the research staff of the School of j
Tropical Medicine, University of Llv- I
erpool, carried on Investigations in
which the effects of refined flour and
white bread upon children and adults
were carefully studied in
the effects of whole meal or whole
wheat bread.
An extended research wa salso con
ducted by Dr. Benjamin Moore, of
the Liverpool School of Tropical Medi
cine, in which certain groups of
pigeons were fed on bread made from
fine white flour, while other groups
of pigeons were fed on whole wheat
bread.
The results of the efforts of these
scientific investigations, which will be
described later, afford further lrre»
futable evidence of the essential
health-giving qualities of those parts
of grain and cereal foods which are
dircarded in the milling of flour, pol
ishing of rice, pearling of barley, re
fining of rye, and the degerminating
of corn.
Asserts He Has Found
Bacillus of Epilepsy
St. Joseph, Mo., March 26.—Dr.
Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati, told
the Medical Society of the Missouri
Valley yesterday that he had discov
ered the germ which causes epllepsv.
Like the lockjaw germ, he said, it
probably exists in the soil and enters
the body through the stomach and in
testines. where it continues to live.
Dr. Reed contended that clogging of
the alimentary canal, always present
in epilepsy cases, forced the germ
from the Intestines into the blood.
MISS MTTLTJNS TO RECITE
Spicial le the TtUgraph
Dauphin, Pa., March 25. —On Tues
day evening Miss Mabel Mulllns, re
citer, story teller and Impersonator,
will give an entertainment in the high
school. Miss Mulllns Is under the ex
clusive management of the Star Ly- !
ceum Bureau and the entertainment
Is expected to be most interesting J
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? she never saw me so I
willing to run errands, /
I / I bin so busy runnin to g- ■ _ \ 3
£ the grocery store for maw \croc6R Sj \ j
s and Aunt Jane and Cousin 1 j I I
I Martha that I almost fcr- -—— " ■ ■ .... .. . J
S got to write my letter to 3
i the paper sum Steve in busy running errand*.
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J cleaner." Then I say, "Suppose I can get you something' for less money 3
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J I always say, "SAVE-A-CKNT" to the grocer.
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