SERIES OF DISTRICT SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTIONS
HELD BETWEEN APRIL 9 AND 20
Work for the ensuing: year will be
discussed and officers elected at each
of a series of District Sunday school
conventions to be held In various
churches throughout lower Dauphin
county, beginning Monday evening,
April 9. All evening meetings will
open at 7.30 o'clock. Afternoon con
ferences will bo held i n tho same
church tho evening meetings aro
scheduled to be held at 2 o'clock.
State Field Worker W. D. Heel, of
Philadelphia, and other widely known
Sunday school workers will bo present
at each conference.
The meetings are as follows:
Second District, Monday evening.
Aprß 9, at Hlghsplre Church of God.
Comprised of Mlddletown M. E. and
Riverside, Church of God, St. Peter's
Lutheran, First U. B. and Presbyter
lan (Ebenezer, A. M. E. and A. M. E.
Zlon, Colored), I-Ilghspire U. B.
Church of God and Mission and Lu
theran, Including Ebenezer U. B.
Sixth District, Tuesday evening,
April 10, at Steelton M. E. cnurcli.
District comprised of Centenary U. 8.,
Main Street Church of God, First
Presbyterian, Grace U. E., St. John's
Evangelical Lutheran, Mark's Evan
gelical Lutheran, Trinity Evangelical
Lutheran, First Reformed, Central
Baptist, First M. E., Mt. Zlon, Trinity
P. E., E. End Chapel: (colored) Mon
umental A. M. E., Mt. Zlon Baptist,
First Baptist.
First District, Wednesday evening,
April 11, at Royalton U. B. District
comprised of Newberry, Swatara Hill,
Shope's U. 8., Geyer a U. 8., Royalton
U. B„ Bachmansville, G. B. Conewago
and Deodate; Strickler's Mennonlte.
Eighth District, Thursday evening,
April 12, at Penbrook Church of God.
District comprised of Zlon Evangeli
cal Lutheran, Penbrook U. 8., St. An
drew's Reformed, Penbrook Church
of God, Progress Church of God,
Pleasant View Church of God, Pen
hroolt U.' E., Shope's L. and R., and
Paxton M. E.
Eighteenth District, Friday even
ing, April 13, at Harrisburg Covenant
Presbyterian church. Comprised of
all the Sunday schools of the city of
Harrisburg north of North street and
■west of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Ninth District. Saturday, April 14,
at Dauphin U. E. church. Comprised
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of Dauphin Presbyterian, M. 8., Zlon
Evangelical Lutheran, Trinity U. E.,
Zlon U. E., Fishing Creek M. E., Stone
Glen Church of God, Fishing Creek
U. E. f Coxestown M. E., Riverside M.
E., Rockvllle U. 8., Shlloh Lutheran
Riverside.
Fifth District, Sunday, April 35,
morning, at Grantville U. B.; after
noon, Union Deposit U. B.; evening,
Manada Ilill U. B. District is com
prised of Grantville U. 8., St. Paul's
U. 8., West Hanover, St. Maria L. and
R„ Ilanoverdale G. 8., Bomgardner's
Union, Hinkletown U. 8., Shope's and
Piketown Church of God, Manada
Furnace M. E., Union Deposit U. B.
and L. and R., St. John's Evangelical
Lutheran, Hoernerstown, Sand Beach
Evangelical Lutheran and Hoerners
town G. B.
Third District, Monday evening,
April 16, at Hummelstown Reformed
church. District is composed of Hum
melstown Reformed, Zlon Evangelical
Lutheran, First M. E., First U. 8.,
Sand Hill Evangelical Lutheran, Derry
Presbyterian, Fishburn's U. 8., Salem
U. 8., Hershey; Spring Creek G. 8.,
Stoverdale (Union), Holy Trinity and
Evangelical Lutheran, Hershey, and
G. 8., Hummelstown.
Twentieth District, Tuesday even
ing, April 17, at Ilarrisburg Park
Street U. E. church. District com
prised of all schools east of railroad,
except Bethany and Calvary Presby
terian schools.
Seventh District, Wednesday even
ing, April 18, at Llnglestown U. B.
church. District Is comprised of Lin
gletown Church of God, U. 8., Mt.
Zion L. and R., Wenrick's Union and
Paxtonia U. E.
Fourth District. Thursday evening,
April 19, at Oberlln Lutheran. Dis
trict comprised of Salem Evangelical
Lutheran, Neidig's U. 8., Enhaut
Church of God, New Benton M. E.,
Paxtang Presbyterian, Chamber's Hill
(Union), and Rutherford Heights
U. E.
Nineteenth District, Friday evening,
April 20, at Harrisburg Market Square
Presbyterian church. District com
prised of all schools south of North
street and west of railroad, includnig
Calvary and Bethany Presbyterian.
EXTOL U. S. FOR
WAR-BLIND AID
Heads of French Institutions
Laud A. B. F. B. Fund For
Generous Gifts
France's gratitude for American
generosity is strikingly shown in let
ters received during the last few days
by the A. B. F. B. Fermanent Blind
Relief War Fund.
The letters come from the executive
heads of seven French institutions for
blinded soldiers and sailors. The A.
B. F. B. fund distributed $50,000 for
Immediate relief among the seven in
stitutions, following a meeting of its
executive committee on January 3, at
which it was voted to send $150,000
to France. The SIOO,OOO remaining is
now on deposit in tho Bank of France.
It will form the basis of a permanent
endo-wment of $2,000,000 for the
Allies war-blind.
The recently received letters are ad
dressed to Eugene Brieux, the French
Academician, who is chairman of the
A. B. F. B. fund's French committee.
They were forwarded to the New
York headquarters of the fund, 590
Fifth avenue, and were made public
yesterday (Saturday) by Mrs. George
A. Kessler, one of the fund's honorary
secretaries.
An impressive feature of all the let
ters is tlio unmistakable evidence tliey
contain of the need of an efficiency
financed and managed organization, of
nation-wide scope, in France, to pro
vide the many blinded men with per
manent adequately paying work, after
they have been trained at the score
of already established training- schools.
The letters ate signed by:
(1) Monsieur G. Robiemaitre, pres
ident of the Valentin Huay Associa
tion at 9 Rue Duroc, Paris. The A.
B. P. B. fund allotted $14,000 to this
institution, which, ' however, really
needs $40,000 a year to give a six
months' training at practical paying
trades to one hundred blinded sol
diers at a time. After this six months
training, the institution provides the
blinded men with tools, materials and
work at their own homes, furnishes a
school education to their children, etc.
(2) Madame E. Levy Dhurmer,
general secretary of tha blind Soldiers'
Foyer, 64 Rue de Rocher, Paris. The
A. B. F. B. fund apportioned SIO,OOO
to this institution, which has been au
thorized by the French government
to collect and distribute sums of
money so that the blind soldiers may
be kept from want in their own homes
until they can support themselves at
practical paying blind-trades.
(3) Monsieur R. Vallery Radot,
president of the Friends of Blind Sol
diers at 130 Avenue Daumesnll, Ver
sailles. The A. B. F. B. fund allotted
$20,000 to this institution, the pur
pose of which is to aid and support
blind soldiers, after they" have been
trained, until they may become self
supporting.
(4) Madame Iv Poisson, vice presi
dent of the Central Office of Charities,
175 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris. The
A. B. F. B. fund allotted $2,000 to this
institution, which is authorized by the
French government to make loans to
blind soldiers who have been trained
at a blind-trade, but who are not yet
self-supporting.
(6) Monsieur L. V. Morel, president
of the Society for Workshops for the
Blind, 9 Rue de L'Echelle, Paris. The
A. B. F. B. fund appoi'tloned $2,000
to this Institution which provides the
blinded soldiers with practical paying
work in its own shops.
(6) Madame Martha Brandes, head
of the-Bllnd Soldiers' Shelter to which
the A: B. F. B. fund recently sent
$1,600. This "shelter" actually sup
ports a number of helpless and maim
ed blind soldiers under its own roof.'
(7) Monsieur Henry Guedy, gen
eral secretary of the Help for the
War's Blind, at 2 Rue Balzac, Paris,
to which the A. B. F. B. fund recently
sent S4OO.
The above sums were allotted to
these institutions, after thorough In
vestigation by the A. B. F. B. fund's
French committee, consisting of
Eugene Brleux, president of the
French Government's Committee for
the Blind; ex-Premier Louis Barthou;
i General Florentin, Grand Chancellor
i of the Legion of Honor; David Men
! net, president of the Paris Chamber
I of Commerce; M. More', Governor of
the Credit Foncier of France; Dr.
i Valude, head physician of "Quinze-
I Vingts" hospital, and M. Schneider,
! proprietor of De Creusot.
(iratcful Spirit
Typical of the grateful spirit of all
the letters from the heads of the
seven French blind Institutions, Is the
communication of M. Robiemaitre,
president of the Association Valentin
Hauy.
"Express our deep gratitude to the
New York committee," Monsieur
Robiemaitre writes. "The generous
gift will be used at once to aid the
most urgent cases. Since the begin
ning of this terrible war, the United
States has given us innumerable evL
dences of Its long-standing friendship
Americans have not forgotten the
services which wo rendered them
when they fought for independence a
lutndred years ago."
"I send you the receipt for 100,000
francs remitted to our organization,"
writes Monsieur R. Vallery Radot,
head of the Friends of Blind Soldiers'
Society. "This' large sum will shortly
be devoted to giving aid and support
to many blind soldiers in organizing
their work, practicing their trades and
furnishing necessities for their own
and their families' lives."
"Convey to the Permanent Blind
Relief War fund niy very deep grati
tude for its noble generosity," writes
Madame Martha Brandes, founder
and president of the Blind Soldiers'
Shelter. "Thanks to this generosity,
we can now give much more aid to
those who have given so much for
us."
"Our directors instruct me to ex
press their thanks for the gift, which
you have kindly given to our work,"
writes Monsieur Guedy, general secre
tary of the Help for the War's Blind.
"This sum of money, as you desire,
will be applied to immediate relief.
Thanks to you, we shall now be able
to help many unfortunates." •
than a week after the long
letter which I sent you," writes
Madame Levy Dhurmer, general sec
retary of the Blind Soldiers' Foyer, to
George A. Kessler, "M. Brieux asked
us about our financial needs. Your
committee of apportionments, cf
which he Is president, then gave us
60,000 francs. I hasten to send you,
In the name of our board of directors,
the expression of our deep gratitude."
"I thank you for the part of the
Permanent Blind Relief War fund
which you have apportioned to us,"
writes Madame Poisson, vice president
of the Central Office of Charities. "I
avail myself of this opportunity to
advise you of the grants to indi
vidual blind soldiers made at our last
meeting: Theophlle Baptiste, Route
de Paris, 500 francs; Lertrand, 14 Rue
des Roues, Poitiers, (for medical care
to his wife) 3Oul> frcs; George Foude
vllle, 4 Rue de I>a Pompe, Guingamp,
(partly for raw material) 1,200 frcs.;
Foure Noe, 31 Rue de Vleux Ver
sailles, Versailles (partly for clothing)
400 frcs.: Albert Serieys, 78 Rue St.
Msnr. 1.500 frcs."
"X beg to acknowledge receipt of
check number 40630 on the Bank of
France for tho lum of 10,000 frca.
from tho French Commlttco of the
Permanent Blind Relief War fund,"
writes Monsieur L. V. Morel, president
of tho Socloty of Workshops for the
Blind. "Tho blinded, whose sufferings
your liberality will relievo, send to
tho generous American nation their
gratitude."
Several of tho letters are accom
panied by detailed descriptions of tho
work which the institutions aro actu
ally doing to-day. These descriptions
show with tragic vividness tho ap
parent"lnsufllclency of adequately or
ganized effort at present In France to
give permanent paying work to tho
blinded heroes after they have left
tho training schools. There are about
twenty training schools for the blind
at present in different parts of France.
But, although several of these insti
tutions provide the blinded men with
tools, materials and several hundred
francs of capital, when they grad
uate, this aid is apparently not suf
ficient to enable them to support
themselves. A central Institution,
which will assure all tho'blinded men
in different parts of France of stead>
earnings by marketing their products,
as well as by financing them tem
porarily while they are making these
products, is greatly needed. Such an
institution is actually to bo established
by the A. B. F. B. fund within the next
few months near Paris. M. Brieux and
other members of the French com
mittee are choosing the location for
this central Institution at the present
time. (
The helpless situation of many of
the blinded soldiers after they have
learned a trade, was strikingly exem
plified a few weeks ago when M.
Brieux cabled to George A. Kessler
asking for an immediate remittance of
SIO,OOO. Forty blinded soldiers who
liad received six months' training in
blind trades at Reuilly hospital, ac
cording to M. Brieux, were about to
be discharged from the institution be
cause their place was needed for
others. All these forty blinded men
lacked money, tools, raw materials
and places in whi-ch to make and sell
their products. Unless something was
done for them, they would apparently
bo reduced to begging. The SIO,OOO
was cabled to M. Brieux at once.
Madame E. Levy Dhurmer of the
Blind Soldiers' Foyer, encloses a list
of seventeen blind soldiers who,
though trained to a blind trade, have
had to receive small sums of money
from the institution since last De
cember. Almost all of these men have
either wives, parents or children de
pending on them. Practically all of
them are without resources. They are
unable to make money from their
brush-making and other trades, be
cause they have no facilities for the
steady sale of their products. The
foyer has distributed among these
seventeen men a total of SI,OOO since
last December for their immediate
needs.
In addition to the $150,000 recently
sent by the A. B. F. B. fund to Its
French committee, $50,000 was also
sent to the fund's English committee
in aid of the work for the blind sol
diers and sailors at St. Dunstan's. The
English remittance was acknowledged
How Our Country Is
Preparing For War
That a state of war between Germany and the United States actually exists now, is asserted by
Vice-President Marshall, and his opinion is echoed by such eminent authorities as Charles E. Hughes,
Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt, while the preponderance of newspaper sentiment in the United
States reflects the same conclusion.
"Our citizens have been murdered, our rights have been invaded, and treason has been plotted
by German agents within our frontiers," notes the New York Tribune, and then asks "what are we
going to do about it now?"
An official answer to that question will doubtless be given by President Wilson to Congress
when it convenes on April 2d. At least this is the consensus of public opinion. Under these circum
stances a knowledge of what preparations for war the United States plans and actually has under
way is of absorbing interest to the American people.
Tt is to furnish this information that the article "A 'State of War' With Germany" in THE
LITERARY DIGEST for March 31st, 1917, is presented. Man-power, money, food, submarines,
submarine destroyers, aeroplanes, mobilization, coast defense, munitions, transportation, and many
other topics are covered.
Read "The Digest" this week and judge to what extent the United States is ready for war.
Among other articles in this exceptionally interesting number are these:
How the Entente and German Press View the Russian Revolt
Enthusiasm in the Allied Countries, Uncertainty in Germany
Is Germany "Retreating to Victory" Are We In a Fool's Paradise?
on the Somme? "Scientific Management" In Arithmetic
Democratic Russia As Our Ally Bucking Record Snow-Drifts
Japan, On United States' Break with Germany French and German Music In America
Why China Joined the Allies An Irish Writer of One-Act Plays
Swatting the Submarine Testaments On the Battle-Field
What Supreme Court's Decision in A Standard of Principles For
Railway Case Means Evangelists
Many Interesting Illustrations Including the Most Significant Cartoons
Let "The Digest" Be Your Guide in the Search For Truth
If you wish to find out all about a country you will to the great issues of our times? Are you taking pains
not be content with the report of a single person to get all the facts before you take sides? If you are
who has visited it. You will read all the books you anxious to do this THE LITERARY DIGEST,
can get that treat of its people, its government, pro- unique among news-magazines, will give you just
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saturate yourself with all the View-p6ints you can of aU the news in every field of human activity,
obtain and from these you will reason out your own It gives you the facts, drawn without bias from all
opinion of this country, which will approximate very sources, and leaves you to do the judging. Read
closely to the truth. Are you doing this with relation it every week and act on conviction.*
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by Sir Arthur Pearson, the blind pub-
Usher and philanthropist, who la
chairman of tho fund's British com
mltteo. In a cable of throe words.
"A thousand thanks!"
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In making public the A. B. F. B.
fund's recent French correspondence
yesterday, Mrs. Kessler appealed to
the generous American public for sub
stantial contributions adequately to
conduct the fund's presslngly needed
work. Checks should be made pay
able to Frank A. Vanderllp, honor
ary treasurer, and mailed to the fund
at 690 Fifth avenue. New York City.
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