10 NEWS APPROPRIATIONS TO BE ITEMIZED Joint Hearing Develops Dis satisfaction With the Agri cultural List Members of the Senate and House , appropriations committees will re sume their inquiry into the 'requests for appropriations next Tuesday when the Attorney General, Auditor Gen eral and other officials will appear. There will probably be another hear ing the following day and it is expect ed to finish up the work by the third week of the month. The inquiry is supplemental to the report of the Economy and Efficiency Commission and while it is not called a probe it looks as though the members were gunning for something. The result of Secretary of Agricul ture Patton's examination yesterday was that members considered there should be better itemization of the ap propriations for the department. Men connected with the department are assigned to various work and paid from various appropriations. Mr. Pat ton said that he would be glad to fur nish a list of all employes and what they are paid. The chances are that j \/0U } i y'' have every j believe that the CADILLAC is the logical car for you. The reliability of the car is pro verbial. The performance of the car is phenomenal. The never-ending service, year after year, is proof of its superior construction. | CRISPEN MOTOR CAR CO. ft £5 311-815 S. Cameron Street fljßv HARRISBURG. PA. jvjj fl am sorry, but y next home must tve electric light? i She wants a pleasant inviting home. A home where she can enjoy the comfort and help of electHc washers, flat irons and vacuum cleaners. A home i where she will be proud to receive her friends and , where her family will (ind reading- and study a restful pleasure. Stop the loss of vacant houses! Wire them! They will rent quicker and for more money. Take advan tage of our Special House Wiring Campaign eight (8) light outlets for $14.75. Fixtures with a , year to pay for them—They arc in our window^ Have a salesman call today. HARRISBURG LIGHT & POWER COMPANY THURSDAY EVIiNING. OF THE LEGIS .the committee may make a change in the appropriation items. Whether the appropriation for the Commission of Agriculture will be cut out no one will say, but there will probably be some trimming on con tingent funds. There -is a disposition to allow the tree inspection and sta tistical service items to stand because of the importance of the work. Daily and Food Commissioner Foust got through his examination with fly ing colors and Zoplogist Sanders' ex planation of what he was trying to do was listened to with attention. Sanders said that the money spent on the chestnut blight was a waste, but that the white pine rust was a menace. The legislators expressed a desire to have the tree inspection service re sumed as soon as possible. Not much progress has apparently been made regarding the disburse ment of the $£,000,000 war emergency fund. The Governor does not want a "War Board" added and the Senators insist upon the legislative branch be ing represented. They hold that in the present emergency what was done in IS6I does not apply. The Governor's friends point to the enactments of years gone by as a rule which should not be disregarded. * i.OXDOX HAS DIRTY WIN DOWS London, April 5. —London is a city of dirty windows. This is especially true of the windows of the large of fice buildings and the hotels. Women cleaners have been employed but they have confined their work to the win dows nearest\lhe ground. Most of the work is at dangerous heights and the Insurance companies have refused to insure against accidents to women widow cleaners. ANTIDOPE BILL HEARING NEXT Measures Dealing With the Drug Curse Will Come Up on Tuesday Afternoon The opening gun of Pennsylvania's fight agjOnst habit-forming drugs will be tired in the Senate caucus room next Tuesday afternoon .when the hearing on the various "dope" bills will be held bj- the House committee on health and sanitation. This room was selected because .of its seating capacity. Chairman Sigmund J. Gans, of the committee, will preside and competent speakers from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other sections of the state will be present. Chairman Gans said that women and boys would be excluded from the hearing because tile subject is going to be discussed freely and it is understood that some of the speeches should be heard by men only. There are bills in the legislature from Senator Edwin 11. Varend Rep resentatives John C.-Sullivan, of Pitts burgh; Theodore Campbell, of Phila delphia, and Samuel A. Whittaker, of Phoenixville. The Sullivan bill was drafted by Civilian Aid Archibald Mackrell, of the Pittsburgh depart ment of public safety, who has-made a study of the subject. He will be one of the speakers and has reqeusted that the women and young men be ex cluded, as he does not wish to excite the curiosity of the latter and dbes not care to tell his story, which is said to be beyond the conception of normal beings, before women. Senator Vare will speak and it is likely that Dr. John Hawkins, of the Allegheny County Medical Society, will also be here. Captain James Tate, of the Philadelphia detective division, will be here, as will the "dope" squad of the government forces in Philadel phia. This is one of the most Impor tant hearings scheduled for this ses sion of the Legislature. The Vare bill lias drastic punish ment for those who sell the drugs, such as cocaine, morphine, heroin and the like, to the victims. The children in the public schools have become addicts in some instances and it Is hoped that a bill will come out of the Legislature that will make it impos sible to procure the drugs, and if any dealers takes a chance to sell it, to send him to the pnitentiary for a big portion of the remainder of his life. The Harrison act passed by Congress has failed to star*] the test and Civilian Aid Mackrell has gotten opinions from public safety authorities from all over the country in which the habit-form ing drug is named first as the greatest menace to humanity at the present time. There is a great deal of interest in the bills. The agitation for some legis lation seems real, with strong backing. Three Persons Gerard Would Not Sponsor Are Detained in France New York, April 5. —Oscar M. Pflug and Mr. and Mrs. Hartwig Devisen, who came out of Germany on former Ambassador Gerard's special train when he left Berlin after the break with Germany and were taken off the train at the French border by the authori ties there, were detained in their cabins by agents of the Department of Justice when they arrived here to day from Spain on the liner Alfonso XII. Their claims to American citi zenship will be investigated. Agents who boarded the vessel at quarantine were unable to satisfy themselves as to their status and or dered that they be kept aboard the ship overnight. Both men had American passports. Devisen said he was treasurer of the American Benevolent Society of Ber lin, and that Secretary Grew, of the Embassy, was president of it. He was formerly of La Forte, Ind., but it was said that both he and his wife were born in Germany. According to the cable dispatches at the time, the three, were taken from [Mr. Geralds train at his request, not | because they were objectionable to him. but because he did not want to ; assume responsibility for them. Mr. and Mrs. Devisen were able to | prove to the satisfaction of the French i authorities, with the aid of the Amer- I ican Embassy at Paris, that they were I 'entitled to protection as American citizens, and were allowed to proceed i on their way to Spain. Pflug also was later similarly releas jed. Some confusion arose in his case ! through the 1 fact that, although he j said he had been employed as a clerk |at the American Embassy in Berlin, I his name did not appear in any diplo matic or consular list. It was brought out that he had been taken on pro j visionally during a rush and that his I name had not been printed. His father, Max Pflug, lives in Florida. TjAUGHIXG IN GERMAN' Germany struck! She struck Belgium. . Belgium deserved the blow. The French intended to come through Bel | gium to strike Germany. The Bel ! gians would not believe this: but how | could they prove that the French did i not so intend ? Only by what the French stated—and the German gov i eminent cannot accept mere state ments in important matters. Belgium .was unneutral. Belgium had violated her own neutrality. Several times English officers had talked to Belgian officers about what England would do to help Belgium if Belgium should ever be invaded by Germany. Ger many must never again be endanger ed by Belgian perfidy such as that re vealed by this crime, which vac dis covered soon after Belgium had been crashed. War is war. People who i sympathize with Belgium have dis ordered minds. French officers, dis guised as civilians, had entered Bel gium in an automobile: The Belgians are treacherous people and will need strong guidance in the future. ' The army of Germany (still with out the time to mobilize) attempted to restore order in Belgium, and was at tacked by the completely mobilized British army—by all of the British army—and, as a synyiathetic Ameri can writer has put It, the German army, unprepared and confused, "staggered forward almost to the gates of Paris" before recovering its poise and presence oC. mind. The English had always kept Ger many's navy outnumbered, no matter how fast Germany built ships, thus destroying all hope of Freedom of the seas. (This is an offense for which the whole world should unite to pun ish England. The Deity will help too in time. Freedom of the Seas is the great principle for which the Father land fights to-day.) Owing to this threatening insolence of England, Ger many >as forced to place mines and declare a war zone about England to which England replied with a block ade, not one whit more legal than that established on the Southern Ameri can coast by the Unionists during the American Civil War. The English blockade was an at tempt to starve the babies of Ger many, whereas the war zone estab lished by Germany /as an effort to make England come tof terms, and was forced upon Germany by the blockade with which England had re plied to the war zone.— BootU a>r kingion in Collier's Weekly. HAJUUSBCRG TELEGRjkPE BRITAIN NEEDS MANY MORE MEN Ger mlln y, Said to Be in Stronger Position Than Ever Before By Associated Press London, April 5. General Sir Wil liam R. Robertson, chief of the Im perial staff at army headquarters, ad dressed a conference or trades union ists yesterday for the purpose of ex plaining the government's proposals on the question of man power. Arthur Henderson, a member of the war coun cil, presided and the minister of mu nitions and other members of the gov ernment were present. Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, first sea lord, also gave his views of the situation. General Robertson emphasized the fact that while the war office was not a leech it must have more men to meet | the desperate effort the enemy was now making. His speech, as officially given out, was in part as follows: "Our progress with the war is bound to be slow because of the colossal numbers engaged and because Ger many derived a great advantage at the start. It is a difficult and long busi ness to make up for a bad start, l'.nglan<l Not Disturbed "As to the retreat from the Somme, the pessimists say Germany is making fools of us and laying traps. We are not in any way disturbed by her. At §&! 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' Open Every Night COLLINS CO. Largest Stocks Until Easter~ 34 North Second St. nil times pessimists are cowards, while] I in war time they may be classed as! I criminals. Whatever liauoens, keep a i cheerful face. The optimists say Ger many is defeated and is therefore re treating. Both are wrong. "Germany is retiring because she dare not stand up to further punish ment in the positionashe occupied. No one retires in war voluntarily. But she itj not.yet beaten. She is going back in the hope of becoming stronger, and numerically she is stronger now than at any time during the war. • She has now many more divisions in the field than last year, and has in creased the number of her soldiers by abotir one million. "We must meet this desperate enemy effort and must have men. We ought not to expect to win a war such as this unless and until evey man and woman in the country does a full day's work of an essential nature. * * * Our immediate needs are a half mil lion between now a.{!d July." BOOZE Thomas A. Edison once said of a man in his employ: "His executive -ability was greater than that of any other man 1 have yet seen. His memory was prodigious, conversation laconic, and movements ; rapid. He disappeared ore day, and 'although I sent men everywhere it j was likely he could be found, he was not discovered. After two weeks he came into the factory in a terrible condition as to clothes and face. He sat down and, turning said: 'Edison, it's no use: this is the third time. I can't stand prosperity. Put my salary back and give me a job.' I was very sorry to learn it was whisky that had spoiled such a prom ising career. I gave lim an inferior Mob and kept him for a long time. Collier's. APRIL 5, 1917 AM Kit I CAN' WINS PIIIZIC Oxford, Eng., _ April o.— A. G. Kite, of Nashville, Tenn., has recently won a prize of ten pounds offered by Christ Church, Oxford, for the best literary essay in French by one of its members. Other Americans w'jo have lately won prizes at Oxford University are B. H. Branscomb, of Birmingham, Ala., who won a prize of lifteen pounds for translation from the Greek Testa ment and Clyde Eagleton, of Austin, Tex., who won a similar price in mod ern history. New Discovery Ends Corn Misery- Touch a Corn With Ice-Mint, Then Liff It RightOff—lt Won't Hurt a Bit Soreness Slops Quickly, then the Corn Shrivels ami Ufls Off—Try It ami See. Here is the real "Corn Killer" at i touch of that cooling, sootlUng Ice last. Say good-bye to your old corn I mint and real foot joy is yours. No salve and plasters for that Pet Corn pain, not a bit of soreness, either of yours is sure to be a "Goner" if when applying it or afterwards and it ever feels the Magic touch of Ice- it doesn't even Irritate the skin, mint. This Is a new discovery made Hard corns, soft corns or corns from a Japanese product and it is between the toes, also toughened certainly a wonder the way it ends callouses just shrivel up and lift off corn misery. From the very second so easy. It Is wonderful! Just ask that Ice-mint touches that sore, ten- in anv Drug Store for a little Ice ler corn your poor tired, aching mint and give your poor, suffering, feet will feel so cool, easy and com- tired feet the treat of their lives, fortable that you will just sigh with There is nothing better, or nothing relief. Think of it; only a little "just as good." NATIONS NKED TARIFF Tokio, Ajyil G.—Prediction that all the nations of the world will adopt a protective tariff policy after the war, in order to check tho importation of s foreign goods and encouraging home a manufacturers, was made by Viscount Ichiro Motono, the Foreign Minister, in an address before the Japan For eign Trade Association. The best way s to meet the situation which would re • suit, he said, would be to carry on , manufacturing industries In the coim - try where the goods manufactured are to be sold.
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