NOTICE! Owing to the conditions brought on by the War abroad, and the resulting advance on all materials which go towards making up a WONDER SUIT we wish to announce that from August Ist, we will raise our price on Wonder Clothes $1 This slight advance represents only a small part of the higher cost of manufacturing. We had to choose between raising prices, or sacrificing quality. At no time will we lower the quality of WONDER CLOTHES Which will be sold as follows: $lO Until August Ist sll After August Ist TROUSERS $2.00 Until August Ist $2.50 After August Ist THE WONDER STORE 211 MARKET STREET Fnnne they build or VJ VT ir DESTROY AMAZING BUT RARELY SUSPECTED TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT ITCTgVc cann b f By ALFRED W. McCANN CHAPTER 88 The infantile paralysis epidemic of 1916 prei*?nte«l so many symptoms similar to the symptoms of pigeons and chickens suffering from poly neuritis as a result of "feeding upon denatured and demlncralized grain foods, sneh as white flour and com mercial t'ornmcal. that Professor Simon Baruch called the phenom enon to the attention of the Health Commissioner of the City of New York. "Denatured foods "constitute the chief cause of infantile par alysis," is the substance of Profes sor Baruch's conclusions. In June. 1916, an epidemic of In fantile paralysis broke out in Brook lyn, X. V. The disease spread so rapidly that tfter 187 deaths had been reported in New York City and hundreds of cases discovered in eleven States and Can ada, Health Commissioner Haven Emerson announced that he would appeal to the National Red Cross for help. Three thousand three hundred phy jlclans and nurses were put to work tn New York and Brooklyn, and the Resorts ATLANTIC CITY. X. J. 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Fifty-five street playgrounds were ordered closed. Every children's reading room In Manhattan and Brooklyn was closed. Sunday schools were closed. Summer camps were broken up. Dr. Lewis C. Ager called for public subscriptions to buy bracers and other supporting devices for victims of the disease. At the Kingston Avenue Hospital in Brooklyn a hundred Bradford frames, plaster of paris bandages, and a maker of braces were called for. "Of the 293 children with infantile paralysis in the Kingston Avenue Hospital." said Dr. Ager, "75 per cent, will have legs or arms badly de formed." Extra calls were sent out am bulances. The Health Department commandeered eleven automobiles from other departments in order to respond to the frantic appeals. Eminent scientists publicly an nounced that they did not know the reason for the spread of the disease nor did they understand why chil dren presented so little resistance to it. Then came this remarkable state ment, July 9. 1916, from Professor Simon Baruch, who diagnosed the first recorded case of perforating ap pendicitis successfully operated on and who is one of the foremost mem bers of the American medical pro fession. "The obscurity of the origin of in fantile paralysis ana the mode of diffusion, together with its fatality and crppling results, strikes terror into the hearts of the people an extent unknown since the shotgun ; quarantine of yellow fever," declares Professor Baruch. "Just as the latter gave way to an enlightened public sentiment due to the discovery that the fatal disease is not due to 'foites' (babbage). and supposed carriers, but to Inoculation by a certain kind of mosquito, so will the present unreasoning apprehension disappear when the real cause of in fantile paralysis is discovered. "For several months I have w-atch ed the scientific development of the malign influence of defective or ab sent vitamines in certain foods, as published in the weekly reports of the United States Public Health Service, together -with articles in the medical journals on beri-berl and pellagra. "Pigeons fed on polished rice are affected by paralysis technically called polyneuritis, which begins with loss of weight and ends fatally. Dr. Sidell found that pigeons fed on this ex clusive diet did not get paralyzed (within the two months of experiment at least) if they were given also some otherwise useless yeast products (rich in mineral salts) from the brewery vats which are usually wasted. He has also shown that if this waste ma terial be given to a pigeon already paralyzed it will recover within an hour and to all appearances it will be normal in twelve hours. "There is a striking similarity in some of the causes predisposing to Infantile paralysis and berl-berl. Both occur chiefly in overcrowded localities in hot weather, and more among males than females. Both are ac companied by fever and paralysis, and both are extremely fatal. Both have prevailed as epidemics, and their fatality has caused terror and despair.' "Berl-beri was formerly regarded as an infectious disease from undis coverable sources, but is now known to be due chiefly if not solely to ab sence of vitamines in the diet, of the Japanese and others, as in a reported epidemic among Norwegian fishermen. "May not Infantile paralyss, which has eluded thus far the most search ing investigations, be likewise trace able to some defect in diet that may be discovered by the able officers ac tively engaged in research? I regard this result as probable. "We have a clue to the possibilities In this direction in the report of the United States Public Health Service of April 17, 1916, on bread as food, in which the fact is clearly brought out that the fine roller milled wheat flour Is devoid of vitamines, and that owing to the use of baking powders containing bicarbonate of soda the vitamines in other foods are likely to be destroyed. "In a study of pellagra in South Carolina. VoeghtlUi regards this malady as somewhat related to beri beri. He found that this disease pre vailed In the factory districts, where people eat mostly fat bacon, cereals and soda raised biscuits or corn bread made of highly milled corn, while In the backwoods, where coarsely mill ed grain is used, pellegra is rare. The high cost of vitamlne-contain ing foods, like eggs, milk and meats, makes It Impossible for these poor people to protect themselves against FROM TRENCHES TO BALL GROUND Canadians, Blood-Stained, Come From Inferno, Sleep, Then Play Baseball Headquarters of the British Army |in France. June 30 (correspondence , of the Associated Press).—These young j Canadians in Khaki playing baseball lln a Belgian pasture could tell you what the shell fire at Verdun was like. They had been under It—the worst that has been known on the British front. Around them was the utter quiet of the countryside; in the dis -1 tance the guns were still growling j around Sorrel Hill, Sanctuary Wood and Hooge, the scene of the Germans' j greatest battle ir. France. Mud-stained, blood.stalned, they had come away from the bloody piles of | dirt which had been their trenches : and after a long sleep had wondered ' why they were alive and started to : play baseball to pass the time till ! they should go into the trenches again. I They had besn ir. the thick of it from S.SO a. m. till 1.30 p. m. on June 2. right in the apex of the Ypres salient, j that bend in the line which had stuck out as invitingly to the Germans as i the Verdun salient for more than a : year. The Germans could arrange their guns in a fan-shape around it as they i could at Verdun; and they did. When | their guns began to speak the British guns spoke back; and even the old j inhabitant* of the Ypres salient agreed that it was the worst ever. Nobody on the spot ever supposed that there were so many guns in either the German or I the British army. "Silent Lizzies" Speak But the officer inside the farmhouse sitting at the farmer's dining-room j table could tell all about It—his small i part of it. He and his men had been i in and out of the trenches on their shifts till they were quite used to the monotony of the trench life and the daily wastage. The morning of June 2 was very quiet. A general who was taken prisoner afterward was making an inspection. An occasional crack of a bullet overhead and an occasional shot In answer! At 8.30 the inferno broke without any more warning than a boiler explosion. They always do, British, or French, or German. "Five-point nine" (that new 5.9-inch j German shell), "whiz-bangs," trench ; mortar shells and "Silent Lizzies" (a ! naval gun shell of high velocity which j is not heard coming until it bursts). "X knew what we were in for," said the officer. Anybody with any experience at the front would know. At any time either side wants to concentrate its artillery on a certain frontage of trench, that frontage is bound to go down, and the attacking side can rush its infantry in and take the debris. The difficulty is to hold It. This time the shells were coming from the front and both sides. According to the usual system, they were laid on both the front and the support trenehss with a curtain of fire between the two. Stuck Through Fire "You know the kind of country it is," this quiet young officer from To ronto went on. Nature as well as the shells is against the soldier. If he digs a trench, water fills It. Mostly he must depend on sandbags—roofs and walls of sand bags. He cannot dig cellars twenty feet under the earth and crawl into them when the "cloudburst of hell" descends as in the hilly and mountainous coun try. So nobody ever has a good word to say about the Ypres salient except the peasants. The soil Is rich. "We had no orders to go," said the officer. "We stuck." They could not Are back at those guns thousands of yards away with 1 their rifles. No one was showing his head In the German trench opposite. If a man leaned over a section of para • pet, remaining to fire, he and it might jbe blown away by another shell. The j onlv thing to do was for each man to j find any kind of cover he could in a fresh shell hole if no parapet remained and wait. Messengers in such in j stances, be it the British or German side, have one chance of five in sur i viving if they try to go or come from the rear. Five hours of this! Then at 1.30 in the afternoon orders to retreat did I arrive. That officer from Toronto gathered the remnants of his command under the showers of shrapnel bullets and in the midst of geysers from the high ex plosives. Just as he was starting the tornado ceased. This meant the German infantry charge. As the i Canadians started taking what cover they could in a half-obliterated com munication trench they had a glimpse over their shoulders of the Germans arriving. German rifle and machine gun fire followed them on their way back to the support trenches, taking a final toll; then the British guns turned their tornado on the Germans In their new positions ar.d the support trenches blazed their rifle fire into German charges. Shell Cuts Coat Another officer in another farmhouse - -this one from British Columbia. He is pleased with the coat he wore when he went through a curtain of fire. A piece of shell had cut a big rent under the arm without even penetrating through his undershirt. "Some luck, eh?" he said. 'T had a hunch that I would come through all right when I started." His orders were to go up in rein forcement. He went. One shell struck in the midst of t>. platoon and got only one man. That was "some luck." too. Men fell, but the command went on to the counter attack. "Those who are in the thick of it certainly get it hot," said another of ficer. "Each company in the thick of it thinks for the time being that It Is fighting the whole war. Its casualty list looks pretty bad. But when you take the losses of a division as a whole you are surprised at the small per centage." SENATE PASSES BIG ARMY BILL [Continued From First Page] reported to the Senate for passage by the Military AfTairs Committee. Some of the important provisions of the Senate bill as it now stands are: Material Increase for army trans portation, machine guns, aeroplanes, armored motorcars, ammunition and supplies. Modification of authority granted President In House bill to take over the loss of vitamines in purchased cereal foods. "It may be of interest to ascertain if infantile paralysis has been more prevalent since 1878, when the new milling processes were invented. I omitted to mention as proof of simi larity of causes that the experiments made on pigeons have been confirmed in chickens, which fed on whole corn remain healthy, while the same fowls fed on highly milled cornmeal are affected with paralysis. "These briefly stated scientific facts lead me to believe that close scrutiny of the food of the children afflicted may lead to the discovery of a dietetic cause of infantile paralysis. Voeght lin correctly concludes his fine article that "in studying the etiology (causes) of any disease which is assumed to be of dietary origin, it js essential to pay careful attention to what might ap pear on superficial examination as trivial details." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH | STORE OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY PTM".] {Kaufman's Big Clean Sweep Sale Ends To-morrow\ To-morrow The Last Day Of This Semi-Annual Event , I E * TRA | I $5.00 all leather SUIT scanning the papers for and need now. 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Appropriation of $2,000,000 to pay the dependent families of enlisted men in the army and National Guard pen sions of not more tnan SSO a month while they are on border duty. Foreign pay for officers and men in the National Guard and regular army while on border duty, regard less of whether they are on Mexican or American territory. Elimination of an amendment adopted yesterday which proposed to give guardsmen the right to vote in camps while away from home. Purchase of two aviation fields, one at San Diego, Cal., and the other at College Park, Md., at a cost of $300,- 000 each. Provision is made that $13,381,666 of the appropriation for the Signal Corps shall be spent on aeroplanes. The House appropriated only $3,222,- j 100 for aeroplanes. The increases made in the bill by the adoption in the Senate of amend ments to the House bill are found in the more important items to be as follows: House Senate Signal ser vice $3,775,000 $14,827,156 Pay of offic ers of line 10.000,000 11,400,000 Pay of offic ers, Nation al Guards . 2,225,000 11,400,000 Enlisted men, National Guard .... 7,750,000 23,000,000 Foreign pay, officers ...250,000,000 3,178,000 Foreign pay, en 1 i s ted pien 800,000 11,000,000 JULY 28, 1916. Subsistence . 13,000,000 20,000,000 Quarter master's supplies .. 8,700,000 12,250,000 T r a n s p or tation of army 8,000,000 25,000,000 Clothing and camp equipment 12,000,000 20,000,000 Medical de partment . 2,000,000 4,000,000 Or d n a n co stores, cav alry 6,000,000 11,000,000 Machine guns 8,600,000 12,313,000 Armored motorcars . 300,000 1,000,000 Field artil lery, Nat ional Guard . 8,000,000 14,000,000 Field artil -1 er y am m un ition, X a t i o nal Guard 8,000,000 14,000,000 D ? T S 110 COXTROL. ARMY Paris, July 28. The question ol parliamentary control of the army was I solved in the chamber of deputies to day by the adoption, 269 votes to 200, of a resolution to the effect that tha chamebr delegates to its war commit tees "the powers necessary for exercis ing effective control on the field and withi nthe limits o ftheir powers as provided by the chamber order of June 22." MONT ALTO'S XEW RESERVOIR Waynesboro, Pa., July 27. —- Ground was broken yesterday for tha reservoir in Mont Alto park, which ia to serve as the storage and supply dam of the Mont Alto water system. The reservoir is being constructed a short distance below the Pearl of tha Park spring, and will contain about 180,000 gallons. CACTURE BRITISH BO * Amsterdam, July 27, via . July 28. A Berlin official statement says that four German destroyers have captured two British cargo steamers i in waters off UnH.i. krona, """ ~' ————— 5