10 FEB. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS fall Off ?L17,032,659 Owing to U-Boat Activity, Ac cording to Report American exports fell off $147,032,- '659 in February, the totat being $466,- £>23,034 as compared with the correct ed total of $613,555,693 in January. [Recording to a statement issued to-day 'by the Bureau of Foreign and Domes tie Commerce, Department of Com merce. Imports fell off $42,239,685, the to tal purchases abroad in February be ing valued at $199,576,597, as against 12 41,816,282 in January. The exports for the eight months icndcd February, 1917, were $4,080,- •695,942, while for like periods in 1916 Iftnd 1915, the totals were $2,584,682.- '726 and $1,634,466,017, respectively. ;lmports for the eight months ended •February, 1917. were $1,547,931,578, ■and $1,291,072,933 in 1916, and sl,- 055,631,627 in 1915. The excess of ■exports over imports in February was $266,946,437 and $2,532,764,364 in the •eight months' period ended with Feb ruary. Of the month's imports 69.30 per cent, entered free of duty, as com pared with 67.35 per cent, in Feb ruary, 1916, and 63.92 per cent, in February, 1915. In the eight months' periods for the corresponding years the per cent, of free was 68.92, 69.36 and 61.70 per cent., respectively. Gold imports totaled $103,766,495 In February, while the exports of gold for the month were $22,068,059. The imports of gold for the eight months ending February, 1917, were $661,- 703,540 as compared with exports of $132,147,727, showing a net balance of $529,529,113 imports of gold for the eight months ended February, 1917. Yale University May be Converted Into Great Training Camp For U. S. New Haven, Conn., March 23. The possibility of turning Yale University into a training camp was suggested in an intreview given out by Dean Fred crick S. Jones, of Academic Department, yesterday. "It is my hope that Yale men will stay together as a body if war is de clared," said the Dean. "In case war is declared and volunteers are called for 1 think the college should become a military camp: the dormitories used for barracks; the Commons for a mess hall; the athletic fields for parade grounds. We shall have an armory and drill hall available, and with some ad ditional Government equipment noth ing will prevent us from being trans formed into an efficient military train ing school. It would be unnecessary for any part of the college to leave for Fort Sill or other camps. "Of course, the military work would b'i the first and foremost consideration of the students; extra-curriculum ac tivities would be abandoned unless the publications were so reduced that they could be managed by men who might not enlist. As for studies, if it turns out that there is some available time for recitations, I see no reason for stop ping them. Drill will not occupy the entire day, and there should be time to attend some recitations. "For the first year, I hope that Yale men will stay together as a unit. It would be a body of young men with liigh ideals acting concertedly for the best interests of the country. French Look Forward to Trading With America Paris, March 23. Etienne Clemen tel. Minister of Commerce, is giving consideration to the expansion of trade •with the United States after the war. "The interests of America and France," said he to a correspondent of the Associated Press, "have grown so. much closer during the war that I am sure they will continue to develop when peace comes. The trade policies of both your country and of mine be fore the war made exchanges difficult. Our financial relations with the United States during the war make it desir able, from our standpoint, to increase our exports to the United States, and you, on your side, have been showing a great interest in expanding your for eign trade. These motives ought, 1 conceive, to bring about a new work ing arrangement, in which both coun tries shall treat on a reciprocal basis. From such information as I have, I believe that the governments of both countries will be disposed to take up this question at the proper time." M. Clementel considers that the trade barriers between France and the I'nited States are as much the crea-j Hon of the American government as of the French. "The obstacles raised by the French tariff against free im portations from America," said he, "are largely the consequence of the American tariff policy. French manu facturers and exporters do not com plain against high rates of duty as much as against the uncertainty of the interpretation of your tariff laws by customs officials and the inquisitor ial practices of investigating the sell ing prices in Europe and the cost to the manufacturer in assessing the ad valorem duties." The American Chamber of Com merce, in a bulletin issued January 18, gives the subjoined table of im portant classes of goods on which im porters from the United States are obliged to pay higher rates of duties than those imposed on similar articles of European origin. Herring Fishermen Are Counted As War Heroes Paris, March 23. The herring fishermen are counted high up among the war heroes by the housewives of Paris. Braving submarine menaces in the most dangerous zone, they have caught enough herring this season to drive the smoked variety down from three and one-half cents to two centd a pound; it enjoys the distinction ol being the only provision that has gone bark to normal prices. The mysterious migration of the herring brings it in Immense shoals from the North Sea into the English Channel and along the coasts of Nor mandy at the beginning of October each year to disappear in February somewhere off the mouth of the Seine. In the meantime their feeding ground is the same as that of the German sub marine. Precautions were taken to protect the fishing fleet this year and its work ( -was unhindered and prolific. Only once, at the beginning of the season, did a submarine emerge in the midst of the fleet. It found it prudent to plunge again without attacking. The fleet was ordered to keep out of the North Sea this year, which shortened the season three months out of a total of seven, yet the catch is estimated at 30,000 tons as against 45,000 tons In a normal year. The catch was so heavy as to dam age the nets frequently and in some instances they were carried away. One sloop in two tides landed $12,100 worth of herring at Boulogne. The fleet of 30 big Boulogne "luggers" that have been engaged in this fishery will, at the end of the season, be used for coasting traffic, transporting coal arid grain. miS FOR ELECTION HOUSE .. Marysville, Pa., March 23.—Lloyd E. Stephens, secretary of the Board of Supervisors of Buffalo township, has issued notice fhat the board will receive bids for the erection of an election house for Buffalo township up until March 24. FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBtFRO TELEGRAPH! MARCH 23, 1917. BUT THIS IS HOW HE DID IT /3UPGW, * CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY MY \ (WIFE G-MMS \ DIDN'T EVEN CLOTtte I (HER PROPER^- — I KEPT BRINGING / \HER HOME LOtS OF CL.OTttE'o ALUJ ——M THE NEW STORE OF WM. STROUSE F^st^Bffthday ■— merchandise within a store that tells. yJtt I A man, for instance, can be young at sixty or eighty if the spirit within him still carries the buoyancy of youth. If Jf antique ideas prevail he is "old" at twenty. And so it is with -J' ISLp^mJjHBHW ' mt' Altho The New Store of Wm. Strouse is a year old to-day, the mer -o?Wgffi |g JfliMi A chandise within is being re-born every day for no day passes without r j new merchandise, spick and span, arriving from the nation's leading Wm. Strouse made public this **BR | . •, This policy, together the merchandise itself, and our constant effort a imsgm I to please, has built up in the brief space of one year, the MOST POP fW If ULAR Men's Store the store with the widest circle of friends in all I fill il i >jßßjt IB jB Harrisburg'— or Central Pennsylvania, if you please. | || JgpwHp . X •mm And now, as Spring ushers in the second year of big business for The Jrj| Jl* ■" r ill aim New Store, we renew, whole-heartedly, our pledges of a year ago. I ADtEfcRQQffiSTER, \ —featured exclusively by The New Store, for Men and Young Men, JPI mk,jM are so appealing—so thoroughly human, that we predict the second year H °f'The New Store will exceed our original expectations, just as the first I 1| I mjSt || The Department of Boys' Clothes i mm 91 % IWMK Wm Jsk has been the source of great pleasure and comfort to mothers in the se | B H Wm ilfilf lection of the Boys' complete outfit. For here, the wide variety of styles, I jr M ijgf§ and sturdy materials, makes easy th? choosing of the Boy's School, Dress i S IHI or Play Suit, his Easter Hat or mannish Shirt and Tie. Ml Si| at e^ artm6llt Remarkable Expansions of And this encouraging development is veloped into the most camplete Men's due largely to the handsome array of Outfitting Store in Harrisburg. Every iii _ Schoble and Mallory Hats always just thing that's new in Neckwear, Shirts, [ 1 y w w- *-m "C a ste P * n advance that holds the center Seeks, Underwear, etc. is offered FIRST J| J C J | fjT of attraction at The New Store. at The New Store. WM. STROUSE 310 Market Street 'Labor Publicity Men From all Parts of U. S. To Organize Bureau Here Labor publicity men from all parts of the country will gather here to morrow for a meeting of local labor unions Sunday In White's llall, Verbeke and James streets, to establish a pub licity bureau. George M. Welch, local chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, will preside at the meeting. Speakers will be David J. Berry, organ izer of the National Labor Publicity or ganization. Pittsburgh; John Murray, who reported the Mexican labor move ments in the labor press; Chester M. Wright, former editor of the New York fall; Giant Hamilton, of the American Federation of Publllcty Depart ment. and John F. McNamee, editor of the Firemen's Magazine, B. of L. F. 13. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will send a special letter of recommenda tion to be read at the meeting. SKEK TO IIHOOVER (OST OF SC'IIAP The Capital City Junk Company has issued an execution against George P. Cooper, of Columbia, to recover s6oo— cost of a carload of scrapiron. Cooper claims the Iron was not as rep resented, but the local company avers he offered no objections until after he had used it. Thinness Easily Over come (From "Health nml Bounty") Further evidence is being presented almost dally that a recent compound of new chemical elements combined in a tablet with hypophosphites is in reality proving a blessing to the ab normally thin men and women, for it can be demi-i.Pirated beyond doubt that a regular course of three or four months' treatment brings an increase in weight of from 10 to 30 pounds, with a decided improvement of health and color, too. For self administration the most popular form is to be found in three-grain hypo-nuclane tablets, ob tainable in sealed packages from the best apothecary shops, with full direc tions.—Advertisement. Americans Pack Trunks to Leave Austrian Capital Geneva, via Paris, March 23.—Two American engineers who have just ar rived from Vienna after being detained Your Hat in the Making Tonight at 7.45 in the Windows of The New Store of Wm. Strouse will be demonstrated "The Evolution of a Hat," showing every stage of the interesting process —from collecting the fur to the finished product. The story of hat building will also be shown through views of the famous Mallory and Schoble Hat Factories, rep resented exclusively in Harrisburg by The New Store of Wm, Strouse fora fortnight at tht frontier say that United States Ambassador Penfleld, his staff and many American families have packed their belongings and are ready to lJave the Austrian capital at any moment. The travelers say that Austrlans generally believe that war with Amer ica Is Inevitable, but are not much concerned at the prospect. They added that food was extromely dear, hut could bo obtained at the hotels, the poorer classes, however, suffering hor ribly.
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