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"LEAK" HEARING
IS RESUMED WITH
LAWSON ON STAND
Faces List of Questions He
Must Answer or Be Cited
For Contempt
Washington, D. C„ Jan. 15.—The
Kouse Rules Committee to-day re
sumed its efforts to get Thomas W.
Lawson to give the names of officials
Who he intimated In previous testi
mony might be involved in his charges
relating to a leak of advance informa
tion of President Wilson's peace note.
When called to the stand he faced a
list of written questions whose answer
was demanded under threat that if
lie refused he might be cited before
the bar of the House on contempt
charges and imprisoned if declared
guilty.
Before the hearings began the
committee met in secret session to
pass on a proposal to ignore a writ
cf habeas corpus in case Lawson
should obtain it in a fight against
contempt proceedings. Plans were
considered to prevent Lawson from
Introducing the name of any represen
tative of a foreign government in his
testimony.
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Among others called to testify were
Barnard Baruch, of New York; F. W.
McKinnon, of Chicago, broker: James
R. Reilly, of the Dow-Jones Company
ticker service and the Wall Street
Journal: Donald McDonald, of Boston,
and members of the brokerage firm
cf Lockwood and Company, New
iTork.
While the committee was deliberat
ing behind closed doors a message
was received from Lawson saying he
could not reach Washington at the
time specified for his appearance but
■would arrive later in the day.
Chairman Henry then directed the
sergeant-at-arms to get immediate
service on to bring him be
fore the committee. A recess was
then taken pending his arrival.
The committee voted to recommend
to the Mouse the adoption of another
resolution which would broaden the
scope of the inquiry still further and
extend the time in which the commit
tee might report to ninety days. This
members say, would give ample op
portunity to investigate anything that
might develop.
Later Chairman Henry received a
telegram from Lawson saving he
Would arrive at 2 p. m. Henry then
set the time for the hearing to resume
at three.
It developed during the recess that
Chairman Henry received a letter
from Luwson yesterday laying down
certain conditions under which he
■would testify. His principal conten
tion, it is understood, was that a spe
cial congressional committee be
formed to interrogate him. The rules
committee will not heed the condition.
Jumes Reilly, news manager of the
Wall Street Journal, and Donald Mc-
Donald, head of a Boston financial bu
reau, to whom Lawson is said to have
given the name of the congressman
Who he says told him the name of a
cabinet member, a congressman and a
broker who were involved in stock
market operations were waiting to tes
tify.
Two Strengthening Resolutions
Two resolutions to strengthen the
powers of the rules committee to com
pel witnesses to answer questions were
presented by Representative Garrett, a
member of the committee, and were
adopted soon after the House met one.
One of them was general in character
but the other would compel Lawson to
give names specifically.
Representative Campbell, Republi
can, to-day introduced a resolution for
a special committee of five to deal with
the "leak" situation.
Peace Note "Leak" Loss
Causes Woman to Kill Self
Boston. Mass., Jan. 15. —Despondent
because she lost $50,000 in the stock
market after the recent peace note
"leak," Miss Julia P. Snow, 3y vears
old, of Portland, Me., drank chloro
form on the Charles river bank yester
day afternoon and died soon after be
ing taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital.
She left 236 Bay State road, where
she had been visiting at 6 o'clock in
the morning and was unconscious
when found by the police on the bank
of the Charles.
Miss Snow was the daughter of a
prominent Portland lawver, who died
a few years ago. The $50,000 lost in
the stock market was her entire for
tune. Her mother lives in Portland.
READING EX GIN EUR DIES
Harry W. Longenecker died this
morning at his home. 1840 State
street. Funeral services will be held
from his home. Wednesdav afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Homer S
May. pastor of the Fourth Reformed
Church, will have charge of the serv
ices. Mr. Longenecker was an en
gineer on the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad. He is survived by his
wife, Gertrude, his mother, Mrs Sara
Chubb, of Highspire, four sons, John
Edward. Joseph and Marlin; one
daughter, Mary: one brother, John
Longenecker of this city, and one lis
ter, Mrs. Alice Martin of Elizabeth -
town.
| CANT FIND DANDRUFF j
Every bit of dandruff disappears
after one or two applications of Dan
derlne rubbed well into the scalp with
the finger tips. Get a 25-cent bottle
of Danderlnc at any drug store and
save your hair. After a few applica
tions you can't find a particle of dan
druff or any falling hair, and the
scalp will never itch.
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I lABKISRCAO - . PA. .
MONDAY EVENING,
JURY HAS REAL
KNOT TO UNTIE
< Common Pleas Talesmen
Heard All About Latest
in Neckwear
' least twelve
I J Jfl )( 111 of Dauphin's good
3 /y/r# men and true heard
1 "" al,out
assumpsit brought
by Louis Auerbach
Iff n against Sides and
|U i RIIMUiaIRK haberdashery firm.
I was aired in Janu-
IsmbhmhJ ary Common Pleas
j court.
. The question at issue was whether
jor not about seventy-five dollars'
j worth of brand new ties which Sides
] and Sides had bought were all they
! were represented to be by Auerbach.
| The local firm defended the suit on
| the ground that the neckwear wasn't
(at all what it had been cracked up to
be and consequently the legal knot
1 was left to a court and jury to untie.
While President Judge Kunkel
1 heard the neck-tie case in No. 1 court,
j Additional Law Judge McCarrell
! heard the assumpsit suit of Mark M.
| Mattis against W. 11. Idel for alleged
j breach of contract. Idel l.ad been
employed by Mattis.
IJank Dissolution. ln a decree I
! handed down this morning by Presi- ;
dent Judge George Kunkel, formal
dissolution of the Sixth Street Bank!
was ordered. The Sixth Street Bank !
was recently merged into the Camp:
I Curtin Trust Company.
Mission Chartered. The Bethesda ]
Mission of Harrisburg, was formally 1
chartered to-day by President Judge I
! George Kunkel. The Bethesda Mis- |
! sion was formerly the City Rescue j
Mission. John Fulton is the superin-I
tendent.
Withdraw Application. Applica
tion for the transfer of the liquor li
! cense of the National Hotel, Union
town, from O. C. Paul to William H.
Dcibler. was withdrawn to-day.
Will Irobated. The will of Mrs.
! Anna Feeser, of Linglestown. was pro
| bated to-day, and letters on the estate j
were granted to Gideon Feeser.
SOLDIERS WILL
RETURN BETTER MEN
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his headquarters staff, General Clem- !
ents arrived in Harrisburg yesterday,
and opened headquarters at the Senate '
Hotel.
"Not only from a military training !
point of view have the soldiers of I
Pennsylvania had a successful cam- ]
paign in the South," said the general, ]
"the discipline of camp life will make
them more regular in their living as
citizens. They arc healthier. Fat men ;
have become lean, and lean men have 1
taken 011 flesh during their six months j
of service. In our entire division num- 1
bering 18,039 men we had but four-I
teen deaths, due mostly to pneumonia, 1
appendicitis and other ills.
"They have also learned to be eco- j
nomical. I learned this fact through !
the manner in which they ordered !
supplies of clothing. Some soldiers
would not buy a new uniform, unless
it was absolutely needed. The money ,
they saved, averaging about $33, will
come to them when mustered out. For
instance, some men will come home;
with four or more pairs of shoes. ;
These shoes cost them $2.81 a pair. J
You know what it costs for a pair of
shoes here. Soap, blankets, under
i wear, combs, safety razors, in fact.!
the best that can be had was furnished
at small cost.
"Discipline was a big factor in mak- i
ing healthy soldiers. They were sup- I
plied with bathhouses and required to i
take at least four baths each week. :
The food was good and plentiful, the
exercise beneficial, and on a whole the i
training a big success."
Asked as to his opinion regarding i
universal military training. General j
Clement said, "I do not care to com- \
mit myself on that subject."
General Clement and his staff will !
remain in Harrisburg until a United
States recruiting officer musters them
out. In the meantime arrangements
are being made to turn over the State
property, and to make a final report
[when mustered out. General Clement
notified Adjutant General Thomas J.
,Stewart of his arrival and will await
'further orders from National Guard
headquarters.
Soon after the arrival of General
I Clement yesterday the Fourth Penn-j
sylvania regiment passed through
Harrisburg. There were three sec
tions, the regimental staff arriving on
the last section. The Fourth regiment
[came over the Philadelphia and Read
ing railway and the various companies
were sent direct to their home stations
where they were given a warm wel
come by the citizens of their respec
tive towns. These companies are lo
cated at Reading, Allentown, Bethle
jhem, Columbia, Hamburg, Pottsville,
; Pine Grove, Lebanon, Lancaster and
| Easton.
| SINBI'RY COMPANY HOME
I Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 15.—Company I,
1 Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, com
manded by Captain Clyde M. Smith,
arrived here yesterday from Camp
I Stewart, El Paso, Texas, and were
'greeted by half the population of the
borough. A citizens' committee headed
Iby Burgess Keiser and the Women's
Preparedness League are arranging
| a big banquet for all the soldiers here
■ upon the return of Troop I, First
I Pennsylvania Cavalry, this week.
RECEPTION AT LEBANON
1 Lebanon, Pa., Jan. 15.—Mayor
: George T. Spang with an escort of
; council men. Civil and Spanish-Ameri
!ean war veterans. Sons of Veterans
land cltlsens with two bands met Com
pany 11. Fourth Pennsylvania Infan
try, yesterday on its return from serv
ice at El Paso, Texas, for the past six
I months. Captain H. D. Case com-I
manded the company.
I NO FIRE APPARATUS IX PARADE I
It is probable that no fire apparatus I
will be In the troop reception parade 1
to-morrow night. Because of the un- I
favorable weather and icy condition of
some of the streets, City Commissioner
j Gross has withheld his order to take
I out the apparatus. William L. Jauss,
of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's!
Association, who Is in charge of the I
firemen's division, said to-day, that all !
firemen would be welcome In line, I
parading with veterans' associations. '
and if weather conditions permitted
the fire apparatus would be placed In
the rear of his division,
COTTON VIUD
Washington, Jan. 15.—Cotton, exclu
sive of linters, consumed during De- |
ceinber amounted to B3,B87 running]
bale*, and for tho five month* nndlng
December 51, ,73,962 bales, (lie Census!
Bureau to-day announced,
SES
Koant (ha TmaHi White and Healthy
DIRECT EXCHANGE
OF NOTES WITH
MEXICO PROBABLE
Joint Commission at Resump
tion of Hearings Discusses
Cure For Troubles
New York, Jan. 15.—A direct ex-
J change of notes between the State De
partment of the United States and the
| provisional government of Mexico
probably will be discussed by the
| American-Mexican joint commission,
which resumed its sessions here to
! day, us a cure for the troubles be
tween the two republics. The com
mission has been meeting at different
times and places since September 4,
1916, and the members admit that in
direct negotiations have failed to set
tle the difficulties.
: Official notification of the yoluntary
I withdrawal by the United States from
I Mexico of General Pershing's column
and of the Immediate dispatch to Mex
ico of Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher
is expected by the American represen
tatives.
"This meeting is at the suggestion
of the American commissioners," said
Juan B. Rojo, secretary of the Mex
ican section. "We are pleased with
our results and our government, too,
should be pleased."
STORM TO CONTINUE
FOR 24 HOURS
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die Atlantic States and the South are
unsettled and temperatures have fallen
2 to 24 degrees in the Ohio and Lower
Mississippi valleys. Middle Atlantic
States over most of the Lake region
and in the far Northwest.
The lowest temperature to-night will
likely be about 12 degrees, making it
plenty cold enough for the snow to
pile up and drift the roads shut.
SXOW COVERS SOUTH
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 15. Snow
and sleft to-day covered a large por
tion of the South. North and Central
Texas are under one of the heaviest
snowfalls in their history, 7.1 inches
having fallen in Dallas since early
yesterday. The storm extended over
Kastern Arkansas. Northern Missis
sippi and Western Tennessee, Western
North Caroline and Virginia.
Street car service was inter
rupted in Memphis where snow to a
depth of 4'i inches lay in the streets.
In Nashville three inches of sleet coat
ed the streets and interfered with
traffic. Sleet was reported also from
Charlotte and Greensboro, N. C., and
several points in Virginia.
TEXAS UNDER 7.1 INCHES
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 15.—North and
Central Texas to-day is digging itself
out of one of the heaviest snowstorms
known in the district. The snow be
gan early yesterday and continued un
til late last night when it reached a
depth in this city of 7.1 inches.
Weather Bureau records show only
two great snowfalls—one of 7.5 inches
in 1906 and one of eight inches in
1915. With the sun obscured this
morning indications were the snow
would last until to-morrow.
ALLIES OCCUPY CERIGO
Athens, Friday, Jan. 12, via Lon
don, Jan 15. (Delayed) The
Allies occupied the island of Cerigo on
Wednesday.
Cerigo is the southernmost of the
principal of the lonian Islands, be
longing to Greece. It is in the Medi
terranean off the Southern extremity
of Morea. A number of other Greek
insular possessions have been occu
pied by the Allies, supposedly on ac
count of the establishment of bases
for hostile submarines.
Rev. Daugherty Lays
Cornerstone of New
Church at Sunbury
Sunbury, Jan. 15. lnterest of
I central Pennsylvania Methodists was
centered yesterday in the cornerstone
laying ceremonies at St. John's
Methodist Church, which is being
erected here at a cost of $53,000. The
pastor, the Rev. J. H. Daugherty,
formerly pastor of the Ridge Avenue
Methodist Church, Harrisburg, laid
; the cornerstone, assisted by the Rev.
J. B. Stein, a former pastor.
More than 1500 persons witnessed
the ceremony which was part of a
1 series of services held yesterday.
Among the speakers were the Rev.
Arthur Llewellyn and the Rev. C. K.
j Gibson, Northumberland: the Rev.
j Dr. R. C. Auckerman and the Rev.
J. A. Hartman, Sunbury and the Rev.
j F. W. Leidy, Catawissa.
The new edifice is to be built along
I Tudor-Gothic lines, of gray marble
and Indiana Limestone. The main
avditorium will seat 750: the Sundav
School department, 1.000. The church
| membership is nearly 1,000.
Gen. Funston Inspecting
Posts of Punitive Expedition
Columbus. N. M., Jan. 15.—General
Frederick Funston and party arrived
at the punitive expedition's field head
quarters in Mexico late hist night. At
! a point five miles north of Colonia
Dublan, General Funston was met by
General Pershing and staff. The par-
I ty then proceeded through the files of
1 infantry and cavalry that line the
road leading to headquarters. The
two cos 'mandcrs and their respective
staffs lined together.
The Dublan garrison will pass in re
view to-day after which, accompanied
by General Pershing, General Funston
will motor farther south to Inspect the
most advanced posts of the punitive
expedition. General Funston has re
fused to make any public statement
on the question of withdrawing.
CAN COLLECT TAXES
Washington, D. C„ Jan. 15. —The
Federal Government, in a Supreme
Court decision to-day in litigation
with the Sargent, Sutton and Kear
sarge Land Companies of Minneapolis,
was held to have authority to collect
large amounts of taxes under the cor
poration and Income tax laws from
holding corporations which are lessors
of mining land royalties.
The corporations, the court decided,
are "organised for profit" and "doing
! business" within the taxation clauses
[of the corporation tax law,
The court also sustatned the govern,
ment's contentions that royalties re.
ceived are taxable gross income, in.
steud of return of capital, as contended
by the corporations,
TAX LAWS EFFECTIVE
Washington, D, C., Jan. 15.—Alaska
territorial license tax laws upon fish
ing and mining corporations were put
into effect by a Supreme Court ruling
to-day. Appeals in lest suits from
lower court decrees upholding the ter
ritorial legislature's tax acts were dis
missed.
HARRISBURG g£i& TELEGRAPH
Autographed Letter Shows
the Kaiser Had Peace Step
in Mind October 31
Amsterdam, Jan. 15. via London
The Norddeutsclie Allgemeine
Zeitung, publishes the following auto
graph letter from the German em
peror to Chancellor Von Betlimann-
Hollweg dated October 31, 1916:
"My dear Bethmann: I have since
j been turning over our conversation
thoroughly in my mind. It is clear
that the peoples in the enemy coun
tries, who are kept in hard endurance
of the war by lies and frauds and de
luded by fighting and hatred, possess
no men who are able or who have
the mora! courage to speak the word
which will bring relief to propose
peace. What is wanted is a moral
deed to free the world, Including neu
trals, from the pressure which weighs
upon all. for such a deed It is neces
sary to find a ruler who has a con
science, who feels that he is respons
ible to God, who has a part for his
own people and for those who are his
enemies, who is indifferent to any pos
sible wilful misinterpretation of his
act and possesses tho will to free the
world from its sufferings.
"I have the courage. Trusting in
God, I shall dare to take this step.
Please draft notes on these lines and
submit them to me and make all
necessary arrangements without de
lay."
KCHOIOS KAISICK'S WOIIIIS
London, Jan. 15.—The King of Bav
aria has sent a telegram to the German
emperor congratulating him on his re
cent proclamation, according to an Am
sterdam dispatch to Reuter's. The King
telegraphed that the emperor's "strong
words to the German people at the arro
gant reply of our enemies find a lively
echo Inall hearts." He offers assur
ances that the Bavarians will continue
the fight which was forced upon us,"
in order to enforce peace.
Patriotic Sons Plan
Washington Birthday
Fete During Convention
The Washington's Birthday Observ
ance Committee of the camps of the
P. O. S. of A., from Districts Nos. 1
and 2 of Dauphin county has decided
to make the celebration embrace the
district convention which meets on
that day in tl.is city.
A musical entertainment will be ar
ranged in connection with addresses of
prominent members of the order. The
exercises will start immediately after
the business session of the convention
and adjourn to meet in the evening
when the public ceremonies will be
held. Gabriel H. Moyer, State vice
president, of Palmyra, and C. L. None
maker, past State president, of Al
toona, will be the principal speakers.
Camp 639 which meets in the Flat
Iron building, Nineteenth and Derry
streets, will arrange the musical pro
gram and will arrange to entertain the
delegates to the convention and all
persons attending the meetings. The
meetings will be held in their hall.
The Patriotic Order of Americans of
the two districts will be invited to take
part. Another meeting of the com
mittee to make final arrangements will
be held In the office of John W. Ger
man, 14 South Market Square, on
Wednesday evening. January 31.
West Pays Final Tribute
to Memory of Buffalo Bill
Denver, Colo., Jan. 15. The West
yesterday paid honor to the memory
of Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo
Bill), while the body of the man who
had done so much to make her cities
possible, lay in state beneath the huge
dome of the Capitol, from the flagpole
of which the Stars and Stripes floated
at half-mast. Troopers from Fort Lo
gan formed lines In the rotunda of the
Capitol, through which passed the
Governors of two States, delegations
from the Legislatures of those States,
officers of the United States army,
members of fraternal organizations of
which the famous scout and plainsman
was a member, veterans of the Grand
Army of the Republic, women and
thousands of children, as they moved
slowly and misty-eyed by the bronze
casket that held all that was mortal
of him whose name and the West are
one. Not the least conspicuous among
the mourners were a handful of old
Indians and former scouts- I —those who
had been youths In the famous Wild
West Show which bore Colonel Cody's
pseudonym.
The body was dressed in the frock
coat, on which were pinned tho badges
of the Legion of Honor and the Grand
Army of the Republic. The cotfin bore
the inscription. "Colonel William F.
Cody, 'Buffalo Bill.' "
Several thousand persons followed
the remains to the Elks' Home, where
the funeral services were held. Sev
eral hundred, unable to gain admis
sion, stood two hours outside to view
the body at the close of the services.
Later the body will be placed In a
rock-hewn vault at the summit of
Lookout Mountain at Golden.
No Hope of Saving
Stranded U. S. Cruiser
Eureka, Cal., Jan. 15.—The strand
ed cruiser Milwaukee, whose crew was
take off safely Saturday night, was
washed further toward shore yester
day. Hope of refloating the cruiser
has been abandoned.
The paymaster of the Milwaukee
returned to the ship and brought off
$75,000. Personal effects of the offi
cers and men also were removed.
Preparations for salvage work were
discussed by Lieutenant W. F. New
ton, in command of the Milwaukee,
and J. M. Frazer and R. J. Porter,
heads of wrecking companies. They
boarded the cruiser and made an ex
amination of her condition.
After his inspection Mr. Frazer de
clared that the cruiser cannot be re
floated. He said the stanchions had
begun to give way and that she would
soon go to pieces.
A temporary pier will be built out
to the Milwaukee so that the ord
nance, machinery and other movables
can be stripped from the cruiser as
quickly as possible. Work of salvag
ing the submarine was turned over to
a private concern at a contract price
of SIB,OOO.
Lieutenant Newton said that the
factors responsible for the beaching
of the Milwaukee were a dense fog,
strong current and the drag of the
heavy line attached to the H-3.
"The conduct of the Milwaukee's
men was splendid In every particular,"
he said, "and the rescue work was
efficiently handled."
I)It. LIEBKNECHT GETS
AN ADDITIONAL SENTENCE
London, Jan, 15, Dr, Karl Lleb.
knecht, the German Socialist leader,
has received an additional sentence of
four and one-half years at hard labor
and expulsion from the Berlin bar,
according to a Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam to-day,
A courtmartial at Berlin last year
sentenced Dr. Liebkneeht to four
years imprisonment for military
treason, fie appealed to the Imperial
military tribunal which grave a de
cision on November 5 last, rejecting
the appeal.
MISSION LODGING
HOUSE IS NEEDED
John Fulton Makes Pica For
j Assistance at Luncheon Meet
ing at Rotary Club
Plea for a lodging house for the
Mizpah Mission, the local organiza
tion in charge of welfare work for
down-and-out men. was made before
the Harrisburg Rotary Club at its
noon luncheon in the Columbus hotel.
Mr. Fulton, who has had a vast ex
perience In the work he is conducting
here under the management of a
number of prominent Harrisburg men,
said that the mission now has no lodg
ing place for its men and has to send
those who apply Into the doubtful In
fluences of the cheap lodging houses.
He told of much good work and many
rescues since his acceptance of the
Mizpah superintendency.
Other speakers to-day were Owen
L. Underwood, managing partner of
Doutrich & Co.'s Pottsvilie store, and
former president of the Pottsvilie Ro
tary club; Clarence W. Stewart, of
the Elmira Rotary Club, and Herbert
K. Curll, who has been recently made
general agent for the Harrisburg
Branch of the International Harves
ter Company as well as general mana
ger of tho Eastern District of that cor
poration, one of the most important in
the country.
Next week the members of the club
whose first names are "Ed." will have
charge of the luncheon and the week
following the ladies of the club will
lunch with their husbands. To-mor
row evening the club will meet at the
plant of the Harrisburg liag and Box
Company, Vernon street, Samuel Eby
president.
MORE NEWSPAPERS
FORCED TO RAISE
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have raised their rate to 12Vs cents
per week for city delivery and $4 a
year by mail.
The Braddock (Pa.) Daily News-
Herald has raised its price to 2 cents.
The Denver Times has increased its
rate from 25 to 30 cents a month, de
livered by carriers, agents cr through
the mails. The price on the street will
remain 1 cent a copy.
The Cumberland (Md.) Evening
Times has increased its r&te from 25
to 40 cents a month, delivered by car
rier, and to $4.50 in advance for mail
delivery. Local advertising rates are
also slightly Increased.
Nine newspapers of Central New
York raised their prices on January 6.
They Include the Syracuse Journal, 1
to 2 cents a copy, 7 to 10 cents a
week; Afton Enterprise, New Berlin
Bee, Unadilla Times, Sidney Record,
Bainbridge Republican. Smyrna Press,
Sherburne News and Edmeston Local,
all of which raised their annual rate.
Others that have just raised prices
are:
McKeesport (Pa.) News —1 to 2
cents.
Greensburg (Pa.) Tribune —1 to 2
cents.
Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat, Leader
and Tribune —1 to 2 cents.
Altoona (Pa.) Mirror, Times and
Tribune—l to 2 cents.
Sioux City (Iowa) Tribune —6 to 10
cents a week, $2 to $3 a year; ad
rates also Increased.
The Granville (N. Y.) Sentinel has
raised Its price from $1 to $1.50 a
year, paid in advance.
Overdose of Rum Influence
Drives Paper to Prohibition
Allentown, Pa., Jan. 16. An over
dose of l.quor Influence in labor
union affairs has driven the Allen
town Labor Herald, official paper of
the labor movement in this city, pub
lished by David Williams, right over
to the side of prohibition. The flop
is a big one, for the Labor Herald
has been a conspicuous defender of
the liquor trade.
POLISH STATE COUNCIL. TO MEET
London, Jan. 15. An Amsterdam
dispatch to the Morning Post says that
the first session of the new Polish
State council will be held on January
15, According to the Cracow news
paper Czas the American consul gen
eral at Warsaw has informed all neu
tral consuls there that his government
has instructed him not to olticially rec
ognize the kingdom of Poland until
the end of the war. Nevertheless, he
is quoted as saying, he will confer
with the Polish government and State
Council on purely political matters.
"BUFFALO BILL"
Pride of tlio Cowboys Has Passed
Away—A Local Tribute
[J. R. Miller, an aged veteran of
Post 116, G. A. R„ sends the Tele
graph the following lines which he
says were "composed and written upon
the spur of the moment."]
Gone, but not forgotten,
No danger did he fear,
He would always bid you welcome,
And meet you with good cheer,
He was very unassuming.
And never put on style,
He would grasp you by the hand,
And on you cast a smile.
One of the finest horsemen,
That ever backed a steed.
Sure none could him excel,
No matter what the speed.
He was a famous rifle shot,
None finer in the land,
When Cody's rifle cracked,
His Quarry bit the sand.
He was ever restless,
And always on the trail,
No matter what the mtssion.
He was never known to fail.
Uncle Sam would always call on him,
To lead a forlorn hope,
He was the only White Man,
Who could with the Redskins cope.
One of the greatest pioneers,
None better in the land,
He never shirked a duty.
For Cody had the sand,
He would lead a train of emigrants,
Across the desert plains,
He braved the hostile Indians,
And feared no wind or rain.
Onee employed by railroads
To him it was a treat.
He killed oft all the Buffaloes,
And fed the men tough meat.
I l.ave seen him In his manhood,
Stand upon the stage,
When all the Gallery Gods,
Would go oft In a rage.
I have seen him on his noble steed
Ride across the field,
When at his rifle crack
A glass ball then would yield,
I have seen him ride upon the street,
The envy of them all,
And now we miss that ehleftlan
He has answered to Roll Call,
Just a few niere years of waiting,
And the time will come to all
When every veteran soldier
Must answer last Roll Call.
With footsteps getting feeirtc,
Our locks have all turned gray,
i Just a few more years of sorrow,
| Then, for us no Pension Day,
JANUARY 15, 1917.
GRACE WARNS OF
SHOCK THAT WILL
COME WITH PEACE
Bethlehem Steel Company
Head Declares United States
Must Prepare
Philadelphia, Jan. 15. Prominent
men from all parts of the State attend
ed the testimonial dinner in the Manu
facturers' Club on Saturday night to
Eugene G. Grace, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Company.
Several addresses were made fol
lowing the banquet, among the most
of these was one by Mr. Grace in
which he said in part:
"American manufacturers are face
to face with problems both of war
and peace. Aside from other domes
tic questions arising directly out of
tho conflict in Europe, the necessity
for American preparedness is some
thing none of us can disregard.
"It would be inappropriate for me
to discuss tho general commercial re
lationships of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, but I do feel that, with en
tire properiety, I may bring to your
attention certain aspects of the busi
ness, namely, its relation with our
National Government, for some of
these considerations, to my mind, af
fect every manufacturer.
Serves the People
"In a peculiar sense Bethlehem Steel
serves the American people. We pro
vide a large quantity of ordnance ma
terials for the use of the army and
navy and our facilities are of high
potential importance for building
men-of-war.
"It. is because of our peculiar rela
tionship to the government that we
have felt a special responsibility—a
patriotic responsibility—for all our
policies in dealing with the Govern
ment.
"For example, though we have been
able, since the war began, to obtain
in Europe almost any prices we
chose to ask for our products, we have
adhered, in our charges to the United
States government to the basis of
prices established before the war be
gan.
"There was agitation last year for
the building of a government armor
plant. Certain of our statesmen as
Washington declared that we had been
'robbing' the government, although
the figures showed that our navy had,
for twenty years past, paid less for
armor than the navy of any of the
other great powers.
What Was Offered
"We did not concede that our prices
for armor were too high, but we did
agree—if the government would aban
don Its plans for a federal plant—to
make armor for our navy at any prices
the government itself might consider
fair.
"Does anybody Imagine for a mo
ment that we would have made such
an offer if it would show that our pre
vious prices had been exorbitant?
"In the development of our navy
now being pushed forward, larger
ships are to be built and greater guns
are called for than ever before.
"One of the special needs is sixteen
inch guns—guns sixty feet long and
capable of hurtling a 2,000-pound
shell with such power und accuracy
as to hit a fifty-foot square target fif
teen miles away. Such guns call for
the highest skill and experience of
the gunmakers' art. Upon such guns
may depend, indeed, the safety of the
nation."
President Grace then explained that
the Bethlehem Company has under
taken to construct a big plant fitted to
build sixteen-inch guns. He favored
a government policy encouraging the
establishment of the maximum private
ordnance manufacturing capacity and
in speaking of the plan said: "The
prices charged the Government should
of course be reasonable, and the gov
ernment has ample ways of satisfying
itself that prices are reasonable. The
fact, however, that a price is high
does not indicate that it is unreason
able. Nor does the fact that a fair
profit is asked indicate greed on the
part of the manufacturer."
Too Many Naval Shells
Referring to the fact that a British
manufacturer recently bid less than
American manufacturers for sixteen
and fourteen-inch shells for the navy
he said: "It is entirely conceivable
that there is a considerable surplus of
naval shells on hand which the Brit
ish government might be willing, even
in time of war, to have its munition
makers "dump" on our market and
turn the proceeds into shells for use
on the battlefield."
Speaking of the attitude of the Navy
department toward private enterprise,
the speaker said: "If, however, the
navy department will make its tests
within the known capacity of the pro
jectile-making art, and if these tests
shall be standardized, we will under
take to manufacture shells under con
ditions both as to price and as to time
which will equal to, if not be better,
than, those of any other manufacturer
in the world.
"The policy of the Navy department
seems to embody an effort to discour
age private enterprise and to divert all
work for national defense into gov
ern fent plants. The situation with
reference to battle cruisers is an ex
ample in point.
The Bid For Battle Cruisers
"The Bethlehem Steel Corporation
controls shifrtauilding companies which
build perhaps 40 per cent, of the ton
nage of the United States. Knowing
the purpose of the government to en
large its navy, we deliberately reserved
a large part of our facilities —at the
sacrifice of merchant contracts carry
ing with" them very large profits—that
it might be available to aid in carry
ing out the naval program.
"We bid on the new battle cruisers
sums which Navy department experts,
after examination of our books and
records, found would yield a profit of
less than 10 per cent. Indeed we
agreed to assume risks for increased
costs of materials and labor that made
it possible that these contracts might
yield no profit whatever.
"The price for these vessels is in
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BLOOD AS A NERVE TONIG
"If people would only attend tothei*
blood, instead of worrying themselves
ill," said an eminent nerve specialist,
"we doctors should not see our consult
ing rooms crowded with nervous wrecks,
More people suffer from worry than
from anything else."
The sort of "thing which thespecialisl
spoke of is the nervous run-down con.
dition caused by overwork, and tha
many anxieties, of today. Sufferer#
find themselves tired, morose, low.
spirited, unable to keep their mind on
anything. Any sudden noise hurts
like a blow. They are full of ground
less fears and cannot sleep at night.
Doctoring the nerves With poisonous
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deed, high, for the design calls for size
and speed beyond anything ever before
demanded. Now, It so happens that
the costs run beyond the amount actu
ally appropriated by Congress on the
basis of the cost estimates made a
year ago by the Navy department.
"Finding this to be so, and because
shipbuilders could not alter the inex
orable cost facts and reduce their bids
to a point within the early estimates
of the Navy department, the prices are
called 'exorbitant'; the Secretary of
the Navy writes a letter to the chair
man of the House Committee on Naval
Affairs, scoring the shipbuilders, and
Congress is asked to appropriate $12,-
000,000 with which to equip the gov
ernment navy yards to build these
ships.
"This request is made without any
assurance whatever that the govern
ment can build these ships any more
cheaply than the private shipbuild
ers."
President Grace continued that the
Bethlehem policy is to prepare for
peace rather than increase its ord
nance-making facilities. He mention
ed the construction program planned
by the company involving an expendi
ture of $100,000.000 —probably the
largest of its kind ever undertaken by
a single industrial corporation.
In conclusion he said: "But the ne
cessity to prepare for peace brings
problems as great as the problem of
preparation for war.
"Here are some facts underlying a
problem which makes us at Bethle
hem do a lot of thinking:
"In 1915 we employed 23,000 men;
now we have some 70,000 men on our
payrolls.
, Business More Than Trebled
' "In 1915 our total payroll was $22,-
500,000; in 1917 it is at the rate of
$72,000,000 a year, or $6,000,000 a
month.
"The average earnings of each
wage-earner were a little over S9OO in
1915, whereas our figures for 1916
show average earnings of nearly
$1,200 per man, an increase of more
than 30 per cent.
"When the war is over and this
country is confronted with world com
petition, what is the effect on this in
dustrial situation to be? What prep
arations are we making to protect our
own markets, let alone to capture
world markets?
"Listen to what Lloyd George, the
British Prime Minister, said about
England's preparations in a speech in
London on Thursday of this week:
" 'Before the war we had a good
many shortcomings in our business,
our commerce, our Industry. The war
is settling them all right in the most
marvelous way. Old machinery is
scrapped; the newest the best and tho
latest is set up. Slipshod and waste
ful methods are scrapped, and ham
pering customs are discontinued. Mil
lions are brought into the labor mar
ket to help to produce who were be
fore purely consumers. The resources
of the nation in every direction have
been developed and directed; the na
tion itself disciplined, raced up, quick
ened, has become a more alert people."
"That sort of thing is going to take
place all over Europe, while we, In
our fancied security, are taking few
steps to take care of either our indus
tries or our workingmen."
Among those present were: Sena
tor Edward E. Beidleman, Speaker of
the House Richard J. Baldwin, Quincy
Bent, general manager of the Steelton
plant of the Bethlehem Company: At
torney General Francis Shunk Brown;
Senator William E. Crow, J. H. Cross
man, Jr., B. Dawson Coleman, State
Treasurer-elect Harmon Kephart,
Leonard H. Kinnard, United States
Senator Philander C. Kno::, William S.
Lieb, Lieutenant Governor Frank B.
McClaln. United States Senator Boies
Penrose and J. Leonard Replogle.