4 Si To fittingly mark the opening of our recently IB pjj enlarged, remodeled and redecorated storeroom, we jj||| j respectfully invite one and all to be present during I OPENING DAYS |l pi To-morrow, Friday and Saturday ||l ME During these days we will display for your inspection ' the latest and best products from America's Greatest jj|g Piano, Player-piano and Talking Machine manufacturers. To make your visit pleasant, as well as instructive, we have provided liberally for your entertainment by arrang- I g® ing a series of |j|| | J Morning, Afternoon and Evening Recitals 11 |gj| By Distinguished Pianists, Vocalists and raja ylf Instrumentalists ll||jl Come—bring your friends—expect a royal welcome ' MM g|[|| and a good musical time. No one will ask you to buy any- MQn thing. pM & J. H. TROUP MUSIC HOUSE if Troup Building 15 So. Market Square pj| FOODS T "KS™ AMAZING BtlT RARELY SUSPECTED TRUTHS ABOUT THE THINGS YOU EAT iW^ h VccaAn b r By ALFRED W. McCANN tfor nearly ten years a hitter light has been waged by milk dealers and producers against city, State and Fed eral control of their products—poli tical compromise, corruption of pub lic authorities, and the expenditure of a vast war fund so completely demor alized the efforts of milk reformers to improve the quality of all dairy prod ucts that milk to-day, except in iso lated instances depending upon the in tegrity of the individual farmer and dealer, is shamefully and dangerously below standard. As long ago as August, 1907, so alarming were the facts in the hands of milk scientists concerning the gen erally unsuspected deadliness of dis eased and contaminated milk and milk products that the commissioners ' of the District of Columbia called a milk conference in the city of Wash ington. At this conference the first grading of milk ever attempted in America for the purpose of minimizing the dangers of bad milk was recom mended. The grades adopted were: Class 1 tor certified milk. Class 2 for inspected milk. Class 3 for pasteurized milk. In the certified and inspected milk It was required that the cows be tu berculin tested and that the bacteria count of the milk be under the 1,000,000 mark. It was known that pasteurization destroyed or rendered harmless the germs that cause tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, and other diseases. For this reason it was urged that all market milk should be pasteurized. It was not, even then, thought that pasteurization would be looked upon by dairymen as a substitute for cleanliness or decency because pas teurization does not and cannot re move filth from milk. The action of the commissioners of the District of Columbia was not without its effect. It inspired violent opposition among milkmen all over the country. Organizations of dairy men and dealers were at once created for the purpose of resisting all "faddish" invasion of their "rights" by "highbrow" scientific reformers. In April, 1908, the Board of Health of New York city graded milk into Ave classes: First—Plain milk. By plain milk ■was meant ordinary milk either raw or pasteurized. Pasteurization was not required. Second—Selected milk. It was sub sequently found that the phrase se lected milk had no significance. The term was merely a device employed PARALYSIS2TEJS? DR. CHASE'S Special Blood and Nerve Tablets AVrite for Proof and Booklet Dr. Che. *24 N. 10th St. Philadelphia. nSI/vo 80-SAN-KO'S PILE REMEDY Gives instant relief in Itching, * Bleeding or Protruding Plla*. j!S£ Ike Pr.BowriVw Co- Philadelphia. Pa. WEDNESDAY EVENING, by the milkmen themselves in order to deceive the public. Third —Inspected milk. It was sub sequently found that inspected milk had no more significance than "se lected milk." Fourth—Guaranteed milk. It was subsequently found that guaranteed milk had no more significance than either "inspected" or "selected" milk. Fifth —Certified milk. It was sub sequently found that certified milk had no significance at all. In fact many of the worst abuses of the milk industry were perpetrated in so-called certified herds. Agitation in scientific circles had become so keen that the Board of Health of New York city, completely under the control of the milk industry of the time, was forced to do some thing for the appearance of things. The grading outlined above accom plished nothing for the reason that it provided a place for every kind of milk shipped to the city—raw, pas teurized, clean or dirty, thereby leav ing th situation exactly as it was before. The conditions following the 1908 legislation were not improved in a single detail over the conditions pre viously existing. Political and com mercial influences responsible for this crime against humanity did not real ize the enormity of their offense, but they continued to raise money for the purpose of fighting all efforts of the authorities to impose bacterial standards upon their product In December, 1910, the situation, based on a continuous parade of new ly discovered evidence showing in spectacular detail the true nature of the American milk tragedy, had be come to acute that the New York Milk committee called a conference of the leading milk authorities of the State of New York. At this conference it was resolved that pending the adoption of national standards the classification of milk recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture and ap proved by the commission of the Dis trict of Columbia, 1907, but never acted upon by the milkmen, should be adopted. On the same day the conference passed another resolution as follows: "Whereas, It' has been demon strated that it is imperative that definite standards and regulations should be adopted to control the pro duction and handling of dairy prod ucts for the prevention of disease and the saving of lives, be it resolved that the New York Milk committee be asked to invite twenty recognized experts on milk problems to meet In conference for the purpose of making a unanimous report recommending proper milk standards on which con gress or State authorities may formu late milk legislation." Out of this resolution was born the National Commission on Milk Stand ards, comprised of twenty of the foremost milk authorities in the United States. These men were brought together from all parts of the country at the expense of the New York milk com mittee in May, 1911. After many discussions the commis sion adopted a classification providing for four grades of milk—Grade A, certified milk; Grade B, inspected milk; Grade C, market milk; Grade D, milk for cooking purposs. Pasteurization was demanded for all milk in Grades C and D. Through the deliberations of this body the entire country received for the first time a hint of the true na ture of the long-neglected abuses of the milk industry. Thousands ot dol lars were collected from milk men in many States for the purpose of pre venting the official adoption of the new standards. In October, 1911, the National Com mission on Milk Standards met again. Three months later, January, 1912, the New York City Department of Health provided for a new classifica tion of milk—Grade A for infants and children, including certified milk, guaranteed milk, inspected milk, and selected milk. Politics and commercialism had again interfered. Notwithstanding the proof offered by the commission that the phrases "certified milk," "guaranteed milk," "inspected milk," and "selected milk," had no meaning, and were intended simply for the purpose of keeping open the doors through which milk abuses had been passing uncontrolled for years, the of ficials, who dared not offend the milk men, persisted in perpetuating the old and dangerous system. In this new classification Grade B and Grade C were defined. Grade B was intended to cover "milk for adults," raw or pasteurized, ana Grade C was Intended to embrace all milk so badly contaminated that it could be used "for cooking or manu facturing purposes only." So bitter was the criticism of these meaningless standards that the health authorities confessed their compli cated and unsatisfactory grading sys tem was intended to avoid too great a disturbance of the milk industry. "We do not want to bring about a milk famine," they said. "It is bet ter to have bad milk than no milk at all." That they failed to provide the safe guards recommended by the National Commission on Milk Standards set back the progress of milk reform in the United States for years, but it caused great rejoicing among the dairymen and dealers. In the month of January 1912, the National Commission again met and in August of the same year its first report was published by the United States Public Health and Marine Hos pital Service. In this report the pasteurization of all milk excepting certified milk was demanded. In the meantime manp prosecutions against dealers in dangerous milk were brought about through the health authorities of various com munities. n all of them the defense of '.he prosecuted dealer was con ducted by means of the fund raised in the milk industry for the purpose of defeating every effort of the National Commission on Milk Standards to protect humanity against the dangers of unsafe dairy products. Just how far these milk re actionaries went we are about to see. The entire country is now suffering from their work. KAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH WAR AVIATOR IS AN EARLY BIRD Starts Usually Long Before Daylight; Spectacle Wonderful Headquarters of an Aviation Group (Behind the French Front) (Cor respondence of the Associated Press) The aviator is an early birl and here, where the nightingale abounds, it is a close race between them to bed at dusk and to the lields at dawn. . The nightingales were rioting in song this morning when the pilots of the Franco-American Flying Corps were making their way to the aviation camp and daylight had just peeped over the horizon when Captain H commander of tho group, ordered: "Bring out the machines!" There was nothing new in this to the seven American pilots who have been flying fti different groups on dif ferent parts of the front for upwards of a year. All of them had been out with the nightingale a few hundred mornings, but it announced their first expedition together as a separate unit of the French aviation corps over German territory. L.ong-plancd machines resembling small sheds, and short-winged ma chines which in comparison dwindled to the proportions of devil flies, rolled on the field and were pushed on the run to their places until twenty-eight were lined up. Captain H gazed at the low-lying clouds excellent mask for a flotilla crossing the enemy's lines—and ordered "Tell the Americans to be ready." The Amer icans, grouped behind their swift chasers, listened to final instructions from Captain T—, who commands the Franco-American flotlla and is proud of it. The din was then too great for verbal orders to be heard, and a sol dier with a white signal flag ran into the field while pilots and machine gun ners leaped to their seats. The flag was raised while the motors buzzed like a swarm of gigantic bumble bees. The flag dropped and Captain H 's big biplane rose to lead the column. The flag was raised and dropped at intervals of about thirty seconds, and each time a pair of the bigger ma chines followed until nineteen of them were filing toward the German lines. The big machines were gone but the noise increased as the propellers of the smaller but more powerful and swifter biplanes were set in motion. It was time for the Americans specialists in speed. The first big plane was approaching the clouds when, with a bound, Captain T rose; then fol lowed Lieutenant Delaage of the French Corps, Lieutenant William Thaw, of Pittsburgh. Sergeant Elliott Cowdin and Corporal Victor Chapman, New York; Sergeant Norman Prince, Prides Crossing, Mass.; Corporal Kif fen Rockwell, Atlanta. Ga.; Corporal J. M. McConell, Carthage, N. C., and Sergeant Hall, Galveston, Tex. These little biplanes with powerful motors are the fruits of the evolution of aviation during the war—built to match the best German machines in speed, carrying only the pilot, a ma chine gun and the minimum require ment in fuel. Instead of rising gradu ally like their prece,ssors, they bound upward with an ascensional power heretofore unattained. They are so dangerous in a fight that the pilot has to go into the adversary's territory to hunt an engagement. That was what the Americans, especially chosen for these machines, were to do. There were nine of these, together with nineteen of the big bombarding biplanes, in sight together for an in stant; then the head of the line disap peared in the clouds. The, "hunters," as the speedy machines are called [overhauled the last of the bigger fliers and went out of sight ahead of them, while Thaw's "Iris" and Captain T—'s "Fram," the two pet dogs of the camp were still barking after them. Even soldiers habituated to this spectacle for nearly two years never tire of it. They watch the last ma chine until it is out of sight, then turn back without comment to the sheds to await the return. The silence and solemnity of the camp after the bustle of the departure was depressing. The 70 soldiers of the camp knew that some of those brave boys might be missing when the roll was called again. Time passes with marvelous rapidity on fighting expeditions, aviators say, but the two hours maximum wait in camp to see if they all get back is always long. Watches are out after ninety minutes and eyes are turned in the direction taken by the fliers. At the ninety-ninth minute, perhaps, a speck appears high above the horizon. "There they come," is the word that passes around the camp and everyone is on the field. "It's a chaser," says one. "Number two is. a bombarder," says another. In a few minutes twen ty-seven specks are counted, then there is another wait and voices are hushed. A "hunter" circles around the camp, dives downward at a dizzy pace, skims along the field without slowing up, until breaking against the wind it comes to a thrilling stop. The faster machines, last away, are first back, for the fuel supply with them is sometimes a close fit and not a second Is to be lost. Seven cnasers land at the same brpakneck pace, and with the same precision. The eighth seems to flutter as It approaches, tips and dives fitfully. Field gla. srs are levelled at him. "He's had his tail piece carried away," cries one. "It's Thaw," says another, "and there's something wrong with his pro peller." Alternately rearing, diving, and sliding on its wing, the machine comes down conclusively like a wounded bird. "He's going to break a bit of wood!" exclaimed a French soldier, expressing in characteristic aviation language the prospect of a smash. The machine rears again after a dive which took it dangerously close to the earth, veers around abruptly aaginst the wind, bumps along the ground a hundred yards and stops. "Thaw's one of the few pilots who could bring home a busted machine like that," said a soldier. "But Where's Chapman?" All the biplanes are now in and the pilots and soldiers are all searching the sky anxiously. Then a cry comes from the field. A speck has just emerged from the clouds. Chapman, driven out of his course by the shelling in which Thaw's propeler was damaged, had finally found his way, and lands now with the last drop of gasoline in his reservoir. "The disgusting thing about it," said Thaw, while the mechanics were which Thaw's propeller was damaged, "was that the fellows over there across the line wouldn't come out to fight." AUTO STORAGE— First class, fireproof garage, open day and night Rates reasonable. Auto Trans. Garage Announcing the Fall Opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 21, 22 and 23 In line with the general Fall Opening movement, Robinson's will be in com plete readiness this Thursday to present for your inspection what we con sider the most beautiful collection of Fall merchandise ever assembled in this store. You will be interested in the charming array of new things that will be revealed \\ ednesday night at 7.30 o'clock when our window shades are raised. If, as the saying goes, "Confidence begets Success," then this early season review of the favored modes for Fall will certainly compel enthusiastic ap proval because, "confidence" stands bravely back of the selection of every model we show—the confidence which springs from experience and our close relations with makers of high repute. This is the spirit in which we ask you to come, and if you will, pass critical judgment on this first showing for early Fall. Third and Broad OSO H S Opposite Streets "Uptown Department Store" Market House TRENCH WARFARE IS FASCINATING Soldiers Receive Orders to Cross "No Man's Land" With Delight British Headquarters, France, Sept. 18 (Correspondence of The Associat ed Press) Between the British and German modern machine warfare wherein every man was supposed to have become a pawn without initi ative of his own has been developing perhaps the deadliest form of sport imagination can conceive where every combatant places his cunning, his strength and his skill in hand-to hand fighting against those of his ad versary. Hardly a day passes that there is not a trench "raid" by one side or the other, and some times several such sallies. No s.ubject is more tabooed in its details by the censor. Com manders do not wa%t to let the enemy know why their raids succeed or fail or why the enemy succeed or fail. Invention fights invention; secrecy fights secrecy. All the elements of boxing, wrest ling, fencing and mob tactics plus the stealth of the Indian who crept up on a camp on the plains and the team work of a professional baseball nine are valuable to the player. The weapon that is least needed is a rifle. A club or a sandbag or an Indian battle ax or spiked club is better. A good slugger without any weapon at all may take an adversary's loaded rifle away from him and knock him down and then kick him to death. The monotony of trench existence these days is broken by preparing for raids and against them. Battalion commanders work out schemes of strategy which would have won them fame in smaller wars. Fifty men or a thousand may be engaged in a raid. It may be on a front of fifty yards or a thousand. Its object is to take as many prisoners and kill and wound as many of the enemy as possible in a few minutes; and then to get back to their own trench. The assaulters try to hold on to the piece of trehch they have taken, the guns are turned on them, the bombers close up on either side, and machine guns and rifles are prepared to sweep the zone of retire ment. An uncanny curiosity gives the sol diers incentive for the raids. Ordin arily they never see their enemy hid den ih his burrows across "No Man's Land" from thoir own burrows. Un seen bullets from unseen snipers crack overhead. Unseen guns suddenly con centrate in a deluge of shells. For months this sort of thing goes on and the trenches of the adversaries remain always in the same place; the grim monotony of casualties and watch ing continues. This arouses the cle 20th Century Shoe Co. No. 7 South Market Square We open our Fall Shoe campaign, equaling any, and sur passing many, in styles and values. The secret of our styles and values are the result of our expert Buyer selecting our lines from the leading manufacturers and jobbers in the countrj\ Our motto "SHOES THAT WEAR" is established in every city where our stores are located. See us for lower prices on highest values in shoe?* SEPTEMBER 20, 1916, sire to "get at" the enemy which the trench raid satisfies. It means spring ing over the parapet and rushing across "Xo Man's Land" into the very houses of the enemy and man to man on his doorstep proving which is a better fighter. To go over the parapet ordinarily means death. In order to make any such rush there must be "interfer ence" as they say in football, and the barbwire in front of the enemy's trench must be cut. This is usually done by the guns, which become more and more deadly in their ability to turn accurate sprays of destruction on given points. They cover the rush and they cover the return of the Haid ers with their prisoners. But the guns are not all; there are all kinds of organized trickery in or der to enable a body of soldiers to get into the enemy's trenches for a few minutes of activity, whfti the occu pants throw themselves on their in vaders at such close quarters that It is a question if even a revolver is now a practical weapon. It cannot be thrcwn over a traverse and a bomb can. Running into a German around the corner of a traverse a blow may be better than a shot. There have been trench ratds where every man who went out was respons ible for a casualty or prisoner while the raiders' own loss might not have been one in ten to the enemy's. There are also failures. Success requires that every detail should work out right. The British inaugurated trench raiding which the Germans promptly I adopted. Where its development will end no one dares venture to say. One advantage of any raid is that those who return are bound to bring back some information of value to the in telligence corps. Officers in the trenches as well as officers in other military units, us ually wear steel corsets as a protec tion against spent bullets. "Score one for the breastplate," said an officer who had been doubled over by a shell fragment which hit him in the abdomen. Instead of a flow of blood crimsoning his blouse all that was visible through the rent in the cloth was an abrasion on a steel surface. "But for your new corset you would have been dead by now," the surgeon told him. Early in the war an officer who wore protection of this kind would have been frowned on by his fellows as unsoldierly. A type of corselet of small plates of highly tempered steel joined together by steel wires is be ing more and more worn by officers. Its structure adapts itself to the movements of the body, it weighs only a few pounds and, fitting snug- W§§2l A Skin Like Velvet 21 L 8e e exquisitely fragrant cream of g~i T~) "A "It T T"' W- rr 'Pp b f auty flower of India and be "ilt TJ IVI h. 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