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Cily | Sfafa HARRISBURG AUTO SHOW FEB. 10-17 JACKSON BOOMS AMERICAN PLAN Commissioner of Labor Sets Forth For What He Stands as an Official Dr. John Price Jackson, State Com missioner of Labor and Industry, to day announced that he was formu lating plans not only to supplement the department's "Safety First" cam paign but an "America First" move ment among the workers of alien birth employed in the industrial establish ments of Pennsylvania. One of the ] plans will be to establish English classes and to encouragenaturalization. j Every labor union and every Indus- j trial plant has been sent letters urg- I ing them to join in the movement. A statement issued to-day says: "In connection with the American ization campaign Commissioner Jack son has been directing the mobilization I of statistics to indicate the location, 1 product and capacity of every indus- j trial plant in Pennsylvania for a co- ■ hesive and readily available reference} work in any emergency. "Commissioner Jackson announced j to-day that during 1915 Pennsylvania! produced in its manufacturing plants j powder and other explosives with a market value of $11,410,800, while in 1914 tho market value of powder and other explosives produced in Pennsyl vania aggregated only $5,450,200. The number of employes working in such plants increased from 1.190 in 1914 to 3.527 in 1915. The total number! of plants increased from 28 to 44 in j 1915 and the total wages paid em ployes in explosives plants increased! from $978,600 to $2,127,700. "Commissioner Jackson said to-doy i that the production statistics for siich ! plants are now being collected for j 1916 and, he believes, will show an! enormous growth over 1915, both in i wages paid and in the total market i value of the product. "A compilation of 30,000 Pennsyl- j vania industrial establishments lias | been published in the Department of and Industry within the last! two months. This volume for indus- j trial preparedness contains lists of those establishments by alphabetical' classification, by class of industry and by county distribution. The work has' already been turned over tc the Naval Consulting Board of the United States as a directory where munitions and supplies may be obtained in Pennsyl vania. "At the request of Dr. R. F/Bacon, of the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, chairman of the Pennsylvania board of directors of the Naval Consulting Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service -*• By I.lc ( v n n ) ANOTHER r DO YOO KTHOWXOUPVIFEIb ILL HAVE TOO \ BUT DON'T 1 VICTIM- \EVMY 1 MADE S?L* HE f( fJJOCR&TANO *TOU DO*T I TELL VIFE \ LOVE-ILL I I MASTER. IN So- I TOLD TOO SATURDAY EVENING, ! Board, Commissioner Jackson aided in ; organizing the preparedness commit tee for the following southern-central counties of the State: Dauphin, Leb | anon, Lancaster. York, Adams, Cum : berland. Perry, Juniata, Mifflin, Frank lin and Fulton. Exhaustive data from those counties have been turned over ; to the Naval Consulting Board. "As chairman of the National Com ! mittee of One Hundred for American ization of the Alien Workman, Com missioner Jackson called a meeting of the committee at 'Washington, Friday, to convene simultaneously with the closing of the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The National Committee of One Hundred includes men and women of national prominence in the com mercial and industrial world as well as in labor and educational circles." Prayers For President and Nation in Crisis to Be Made in Churches I _ With war clouds gathering over the United States following the severance jof diplomatic relations to-day with I Germany, pastors and congregations : in all city churches at the services to i morrow will give special prayers ask ' ing for Divine guidance of the officials I of tho country. I A number of ministers had an nounced sermons on the possibility of I peace, but it is anticipated that mam pastors will devote the entire time of services to-morrow for prayer for the safety and future prosperity and suc cess of the United States. BERLIN WITHOUT POTATOES Amsterdam, Holland, Feb. 3 (via | London) The Berlin Lokal An : zeiger says that owing to the preva ' lence of low temperatures, endanger ing potatoes in transit the supply for ; Berlin has been cut off. The mu nicipality therefor, the newspaper states, will be unable to distribute any (potatoes next week and as a substi ! tute bread flour will be distributed. EMPLOYING GIRLS Hazleton, Pa.. Feb. 3.—The Jeanes | ville Iron Works, which is making I munitions for the Russian armies, be -1 gan hiring girls yesterday to turn out ; shrapnel. Officials of the plant, where a force of 2,500 men and boys is em ployed, declared that no curtailment of business was in sight for a year. READING BANK CASHIER DIES Reading. Pa.. Feb. 3.—Morris V. R. Custer, 67, for twenty-five years cashier of the Schuylkill Valley Bank, this city, died at his home at Doug lassville yesterday of debility. He was a member of a pioneer family. AGRICULTURE IS IN EXEMPT CLASS New Ruling Made Today by the State Compensation Board in Allegheny Case Tho State Workmen's Compensa tion Board has ruled that In using the word agriculture in exemption of that occupation and domestic service from the operation of the compensation act the Legislature employed the word "in Its broad sense and intended to in clude within its meaning such em ployments and pursuits as are usually connected with and incidental to the work of farming or agriculture UB ordinarily understood." This ruling is made in setting aside the award of compensation by Referee L. E. Christ ley to Nancy Jame Dimple, of Pitls -1 burgh, and will stand as the ruling i unless set aside by the courts. The Legislature of 1915 . exempted agriculture and domestic service from compensation provision. Joseph Dim ple, husband of the claimant, managed a chicken farm which also contained a garden patch with some wheat, owned by William Fromm, Jit. Oliver, 1 .and located in Eutler county. While cranking an automobile to go to a nearby station to meet his wife and also to bring back some lime for whitewashing the chicken houses he was fatally hurt. "We have decided." says the de cision, "that it is not reasonable to conclude that the Legislature is using the term 'agriculture' intended it to apply only to the production of grains, grasses and other products of the soil. The purpose of the Legislature seenis to have been to relieve farmers as a class from liability tinder tho com pensation law and the phrase 'agri culture' should be construed so as to give effect to this legislative purpose and should not bo narrowly Interpret ed so its to apply only to a part of the operations which are usually carried on upon farms of this Common wealth." A farmer, it is held, may devote all of his time to general farm ing or he may specialize and may do so without taking himself out of his occupation as generally understood. In tho case of Faggiani vs. Temple Coal Company. Scranton, the board finds that the man suffered loss of an eye, this being- a case in which a ques tion arose as to whether the claimant was acting in good faith, and wherein the referee chose a disinterested sur geon to give testimony. Open-Air Pupils Make Big Gains in Weight Thirty-eight of the forty-three pupils in the Susquehanna open-air school gained 174 pounds in weight during a four-month period ending February 2. Miss Marian Williams, teacher at the school, submitted a re port 'yesterday to the school board, showing the big improvement in the health of the youngsters. Only five lost weight, while tho remainder of the boys and girls gained from one to fifteen pounds. City schoolchildren will get only one of the four days usually given them for Easter vacation as a result of action by tho board yesterday aft ernoon. Upon the recommendation of the teachers' committee it was decided to suspend the rules and close the schools only on Friday, April 6, and to use Thursday, April 5: Monday, April 9. and Tuesday, April 10, as additional teaching days. Tho remainder of the school term will remain the same. Miss Margaret Shilling was elected from tho substitute list to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Miss Nellie Glennen. Bills totaling $4,- 605.25 were ordered paid, together with the expenses of the special com mittee on inspection of Junior high schools. The sale of the property at Third and Roily streets, to tho Evan gelical Publishing House was ratified, and it. was decided to pay Samuel Friedman 2 per cent commission for arranging the sale. Excess Profits Tax May Strike a Snag Washington, D. C., Feb. 3.—Demo cratic members of the Senate finance committee conferred last night on plans for consideration of the ad ministration revenue bill which passed the House yesterday. Hearings have been asked and prob ably will be granted on the provision of the bill for a tax of 8 per cent, on net incomes of corporations in excess of an exempted $5,000 and 8 per cent, profit on investment. Many protests against the excess profits tax have been received and some of the Democratic senators do not look upon it with favor. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, woftld not. discuss his indi vidual view of the bill, but there are indications that the committee will make same changes. MEDAL FOR MRS. DEPEW Paris, Feb. 2. —President Poincare. on recommendation of the minister of war. has conferred a gold medal upon Mrs. Chauncey Mitchell Depew for*her hospital work at her home, the Chateau d'Annel. near Compiegne. Mrs. Depew, who is a daughter of Julian Callan, of New York, and widow of Trenor L. Park, married Mr. De pew, a nephew of ex-United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew, in 1915 In London. They were divorced last year. HAHRISBITRO TELEGRjfiPK RAIDERS IMITATE KU KLUX KLAN Germans Seek to Cross Snow- Covcretl No Man's Land Clad in White Sheets With the British Armies in France, Feb. 2, via London, Feb. 3—(From a Staff Correspondent of the Associated Press): The German raiders who made two attacks yesterday tnorning against the British trenches south of the Ypres salient looked for all the world like the famous Ku Klux Klan, the cru saders of reconstruction days in the Southern States of America. They were clad in white sheets fashioned Into a sort of smock, wore white hoods and masks and sought thus to cross Two Power Ranges give the Peerless a "Dual Personality" In this one car you find those fascinating contrasts in per formance which heretofore have been possible only in two totally different and opposite types of cars. "Sporting" \ • Soft, velvet-smooth performance Simply open the throttle wider to with the lightning pickup you would release her double poppets and you expect in an Eighty Horsepower give her full fuel rations and utterly Eight! change the whole character of your car. And in this range you are auto- In her "sporting" range she is a matically operating on half brute of a car for super-power and consuming fuel so sparingly as to put thundering speed —the rightful con many a lesser powered six to shame — tender with anything built, no matter even many a four. * what its class. "Peerless Eight Ever growing demand for this greatest of Let us demonstrate a greater variety and d long line of Peerless successes foretells a contrast [of performance than you have ever shortage in Peerless Eights this spring. known in any one car. See us now. Keystone Motor Car Co., 57 to 103 S. Cameron St. lIARRISBURG, PA. C. 11. BARNER, Manager The Peerless Motor Car Company, Cleveland, Ohi<r Prices—f. o. b. Cleveland—Subject to Change Without Notice On orders accepted by the factory for M A A 00 orders • cc P td h V the factory for shipment until February 28,1917. Jjfcf shipment, after February, 28 1917 Touring SIB9O Coupe $2700 kWStffijSr Touring SI9BO Coupe $2700 Roadster SIB9O Sedan $2750 M * Road t" sl9B° Sedan s2B*o Sporting "I $2250 Limousine $3260 M Sporting 1 2 250 Limousine $335* 1 ~ '// tftat ifte Roadster ) * 2250 /tame implies *■ the snow covered No Man's Land without detection. The raiders came over in two waves only to be hurleu back with heavy losses In killed and wounded. They swept into a perfect storm of machine gun lire and there were crim son splashes in the snow wherever one of the strange white ilgures fell. There was a ghostly aspect to this af fair throughout. It was attempted at the misty hour when the late winter moonlight fades into the dawn. After an all-night vigil in the front line trenches the soldiers' nerves are apt to be jumpy as morning approaches. On this occasion there had been the usual preliminary German bombard ment and something was expected but not the ghostly apparitions which eventually greeted the gaze of the sentries as they p'eered into the chilly half-light Into the barren stretch of white separating their trenches from those of the enemy. Shot Anyhow Regardless whether they were ghosts or Germans the sentries knew that the proper thing to do was to shoot and there came a crackle of rifles all along the line. One young Irish officer stood up and let go with FEBRUARY 3, 1917. his revolver. Then the machine guns chimed In and the first wave of the attackers was breaking when the sec ond came over. Two Germans man aged to plunge into a British trench but they got out so quickly that Ihey left behind them unused a can of dynamite, many grenades and a rifle. One of the two died in tlio British wire entanglements ag he was at tempting to retreat. An officer commanding a section of a trench under attack reported to day that while some of his troopers had been under tire for the first tune he had had difficulty in restraining them from pursuing the retreating "ghosts." An incident which shows that the humane spirit haH not vanished In this war occurred recently when some German prisoners appeared behind the British lines with British gas masks flung across their sohulders. Inquiry developed that the British army au thorities have ordered this pracautlon so that prisoners may have the same protection from a gas attack from their own lines as their captors en joy. 9 Mrs. Sanger Is Guilty New York Jury Find New York, Feb. 3.—Mrs. Margarr Sanger, birth control worker, and Mir F&nta Mindell, clerk at her clinic. 4 Amboy street. Brownsville, were foun guilty yesterday in special session Brooklyn, of illegally distributing ir formation about birth control. Ba was continued In each case until Mor day, when sentences will be impose" Neither of the defendants would sul ndt to being finger printed. More than fifty women, sympathl: ers with the defendants, were in coin- Many of them said they would e: tablish a sympathy patrol in front i the homo of Mrs. Ethel Byrne, sist< of Mrs. Sanger. Mrs. Byrne is at 246 West Four teenth stre", where there are thre physicians and a nurse in constant ai tendance on her since her relea* from prison.
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