HOUSE BILL WOULD CHANGE PRIMARY Would Have Nominations Made on Saturdays Instead of on Tuesdays Among the bills introduced in the House last night were the following: Mr. Higgins, Warren—Changing the dates of the primary elections from the & third Tuesday of September In odd numbered years and the third Tuesday in May of even-numbered years to the last Saturday of June in each year. In years when a President is to be elected the primary shall be the second Satur day in May. The bill provides that general primaries be held in even numbered years and municipal primar ies in odd-numbered years. Mr. Higgins, Warren—Providing uni form salaries for County Commission ers, based on the population of the re spective counties. City Educators to Speak at Schoolmen's Meeting Educators and public school officials from the city and county will partici pate in the Schoolmen's Week pro gram. which will be held at the Vni versity of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A. Carson Stamm, president of the city school board, will speak on "The School Budget;" Dr. Nathan C. Schaef fer, State Superintendent of Public In struction, "More Adequate Support For Public Schools;" Dr. Frederick E. Downes, City School Superintendent. "Continuation Schools;" Prof. F. E. Shambaugh, County School Superin tendent, ''Training of Teachers for Ru ral Schools." GRANTS DIVORCES Divorce decrees in the following cases were signed by the court yester day: Sarah vs. Edwin Specht and Jessie vs. William L Bowers. fLift Corns Out With Fingers L Don't Hurt a Bit-No Danger! [ ; Few drops stop soreness, then tlie corn or cal 'ji lus shrivels and lifts off. Try it and \L J/ see! No humbug! This tiny bottle holds the wonder of wonders. It contains an almost magical drug called freezone. It is a compound made from ether. Apply a few drops of this freeaone upon a tender, aching corn or a hard ened callus. Instantly the soreness disappears and shortly you will tind j The corn or callus so shriveled and loose that you just lift it off with the fingers. It doesn't hurt one particle. You feel no pain or soreness when vlTuxated Iron to Make New Age of Beautiful Women and VigorouslronMen Say Physicians—Quickly Puts Roses Into the Cheeks of Women and Most Astonishing Youthful Vitality Into the Veins of Men—lt Often Increases the Strength and Endurance of Delicate, Nervous "Run-Down" Folks 100 Per Cent, in Two Weeks' Time Opinion of Dr. Schuyler C. Jaques, Visiting Surgeon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New Vork tity. NEW YORK. X. V. Since the re markable discovery of organic iron. Nuxated Iron or "Fer Nuxate," as the French call it. has taken the country by storm. It is conservatively estimat ed that over three million people annu ally are taking it in this country alone. Most astonishing results are reported from its use by botli physicians and lay men. So much so that doctors predict that we shall soon have a new age of far more beautiful, rosy-cheeked wo men and vigorous iron men. Dr. Ferdinand King, a New York Phy sician and Medical Author, when inter viewed on this subject, said: "There can be no vigorous iron men without iron. Pallor means anaemia. Anaemia means Iron deficiency. The skin of anaemic men and women is pale; the flesh flabby. The muscles lack tone; the brain fags and the memory fails and often they become weak, nervous, irritable, despondent and melancholy. When the iron goes from the blood of women, the roses go from their cheeks. "In the most common foods of America, the starches, sugars, table syrups, candies, polished rice, white bread, soda crackers, biscuits, macaroni, spaghetti, tapioca, sago, farina, deger minated cornmeal, no longer is iron to be found. Refining processes have re moved the iron of Mother Earth from these impoverished foods, and silly methods of hom cookery, by throwing down the waste pipe the water in which our vegetables are cooked, are respon sible for another grave iron loss. "Therefore, if you wish to preserve your youthful vim and vigor to a ripe old age. you must supply the iron defi ciency in your food by using some form of organic iron, just as you would use salt when your food has not enough salt." Dr. E. Sauer, a Boston physician who has studied both in this country and in great European medical institutions, said: "As I have said a hundred times over, organic iron is the greatest of all strength builders. If people would onlv take Nuxated Iron when they feel weak or rundown, instead of dosing them selves with habit-forming drugs, stimu lants and alcoholic beverages I am con vinced that in this way they could ward off disease, preventing it becoming or ganic in thousands of cases and there by the lives of thousands might be sav ed who now die every year from pneu monia, grippe, kidney, liver, heart trouble and other dangerous maladies The real and true cause which started their disease was nothing more nor less than a weakened condition brought on by lack of iron in the blood. "Not long ago a man came to me who was nearly half a century old and asked me to give him a preliminary examina tion for life insurance. I was aston ished'to find him with the blood pres sure of a boy of twenty and as full of vigor, vim and vitality as a young man; in fact, a young man he really was, not withstandine his age. The secret, he said, was taking iron—Nuxated Iron , had filled him with renewed life. At 30 he was in bad health: at 46 he was careworn and nearly all in. Now at 50 after taking Nuxated Iron, a miracle of vitality and his face beaming with the buoyancy of youth. Iron is absolutely necessary to enable your blood to change food into living tissue. Without it, no matter how much or what you eat, your food merely passes through CDCPI A I DLIVCIPI A \TC - Doctor,'when you wish to prescribe a true tonic and Ol rAsiAJL I \/ rni jlviAnu • blood builder - one that puts the real "stay there strength and youthful vigor into the blood and nerves try Nuxated Iron. If you have been using the old forms of metallic irons, without success; if you have had patients complain of discolored teeth, upset stomachs, hardened, tied-up secretions, etc, from the use of metallic iron, again we suggest, try Nuxated Iron. Nuxated Iron will be furnished by any druggist on an absolute guarantee of success or money refunded. It is-highly endorsed br such physicians as Dr. Schuyler C JacmiM Plaiting Surgeon of St. Elizabeth s Hospital. New York City; Dr Howard James, formerly Resident Physician of New York City Hospital and Assistant Physician of New York State Institutions: Dr. A. J. Newman Police Surgeon of the City of Chicago formerly House Surjreon of the Jefferson Park Hospital, Chicago: Dr. Ferdinand King, New Yo 'j t Physician and Medical Author, and others. In most cases physicians direct the use of two five grain tablets three times per day after meals. TUESDAY EVENING, RADICAL CHANGES URGED BY ECONOMY COMMISSION REPORT Reorganization of State Departments to Benefit Taxpayers Is Suggested in Report to Assembly Many radical changes are recom mended in the report of the Economy and Efficiency Commission, which was submitted to the Legislature last night after a two years' survey, of the work ings of the State government and a study of government in other states. The commission states that the re port. in effect, Is a plan for the reor ganization of the various departments, bureaus and commissions into such a coherent and connected whole as will minimize parallelism and duplication of effort; reduce, if possible, the bur dens of government to the taxpayer by the centralization and unification of management. The report is not a plan for immediate execution in all its de tails, but a general and comprehensive one. toward which all executive action, legislative enactment and constitution al retoria should proceed. , Ki.'.OOO H \enr For the Governor Simplification of the Governor's du ties by eliminating the service requir ed of him on numerous boards and commissions is suggested. It is propos ed that the Governor's salary be in creased from 110,000 to $25,000 a year: that the Constitution bo amended so that the next Governor elected shall serve for five years and thus bring his successor into office In even numbered years, between sessions of the General Assembly, or amend the Constitution so that the General Assembly in the fu ture shall meet in the even numbered years instead of in the odd numbered years. The present system of collecting and disbursing the State's money is de clared to be defective in many respects. It is recommended that to protect the State funds the Constitution should be amended so that no money can be paid out of the State Treasury except under terms of an act of Assembly appropri ating a specific sum to a specific pur pose. The creation of a board of public findnce is recommended, the members to be Auditor General. State Treasurer, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attor ney General and Commissioner of applying freezone or afterwards. It doesn't even irritate the skin. Just ask in any drug store for a small bottle of freezone. This will cost but a few cents but will positively rid your poor, suffering feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, or the tough calluses on bottom of feet. Genuine freezone is only sold in those tiny bottles and each packed in a round, wood case. Don't accept it unless it is in a round, wood case. you without doing you any good. You don't get the strength out of it, and as a consequent you become weak, pale and sickly looking, just like a plant trying to grow in a soil deficient in iron. If you are not strong or well, you owe it to yourself to mane the tollowing test: See how long you can work or how far you can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of or dinary nuxated iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your strength again and see how much you have gained. I have seen dozens of nervous, run-down people who were ailing all the while double their strength and endurance and en tirely rid themselves of all symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles in from ten to fourteen days' time simply by taking iron in the proper form. And this, after they had In some cases been doctoring for months with out obtaining any benefit. Rut don't take the old forms of reduced iron, iron acetate, or tincture of iron simply to save a few rents. The iron demanded by Mother Nature for the red coloring matter in the blood of her children is. alas! not that kind of iron. You must take iron in a form that can be easilv absorbed and assimilated to do you any good, otherwise it may prove worse than useless. Many an athlete and prizefighter has won the day simplv be cause he knew the secret of great strength and endurance and filled his blood with Iron before he went into the affray; while many another has gone down in inglorious defeat simply for the lack If iron." Dr. Schuyler C. Jaoues, Visiting Sur geon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New Banking, to supersede • the present boards of Public Accounts. Revenue Commissioners and Sinking Fund Com missioners. A budget system is recommended to be applied by a commission consisting of the Governor, the chairman of the Appropriation# Committee of the Sen ate or House in the preceding session, the Attorney General and the Auditor General. Seek Equalization of Salaries Equalization of salaries is rccom j mended throughout the entire State ! government. I To take charge of the expenditure of ; $35,000,000 a year the creation of a board of public-works is reoommended i to supersede separate department | boards and commissions. The board shall consist of the Governor. Auditor | General, State Treasurer, Budget Com- I mission and a Superintendent of. Pu|>- i lie Works, to be appointed by the Gov -1 ernor. It would have complete juris diction over all State property. The suggestion that a bond issue of $100,000,000, to be spent for great im provements on waterways and the har | bors during a period of ten years is advanced for consideration. Statistics are given to show that every dollar ex pended for the development of water way facilities in Philadelphia. Pitts burgh and Erie will be returned a hun dredfold in the future. Such improve ment work would be delegated to the Board of Public Works. The creation of a Department of Con servation is suggested, and the com mission would merge intx) this depart ment the Water Supply Commission, the Forestry Commission and the Fish and Game Commission. The commission would wipe out duplication in the De partment of Agriculture, transfer the pure food work to the Department of Health and the dairy inspection work to the State veterinarian. Concerning printing, the commission recommends that printing for State in stitutions be regulated, as is the print ing for State departments. Annual re ports should be eliminated in favor of biennial reports for economy. Extension of the Department of Banking is desired by the creation of a number of new positions. The Leg islative Reference Bureau would be given the work now done by the Com mission to Investigate Laws, and to codify laws now entrusted to commis sions. The Board of Elevated and Under ground Railways should be abolished, and its duties transferred to the Pub lic Service Commission. Abolition of the Gettysburg Monu ment and Memorial Commission also is recommended. extensions of production effort by State institutions is recommended. When the report was read In the Senate Senator Sproul recommended that it be spread on the journal and 500 copies printed. This will be done. SOO ATTEND UECEPTIOV The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Fra ternal Order of Eagles held its second annual reception at the headquarters last night. More than 300 guests were present. York City, said: "I have never before given out any medical Information or advice for publication as I ordinariiv do not believe In it. But in the case of Nuxated Iron I feel I would be re miss in my duty not to mention it. I have taken it myself and given it to my patients with most surprising and satisfactory results. And those who wish to increase their strength, power and endurance will find it a most re markable and wonderfully effective remedy." NOTE—ViuntrH Iron, which IN pre icrllieil find rrrorameniiril above hy physicians In audi u great variety of times. I* not a patent medicine nor ae eret remedy, but one which IN well known to druggists and whose Iron conNtltuentN nre widely prescribed by eminent physicians both In Kurope and \merlca. I nllke the older Inorganic Iron products It Is ensily assimilated, does not Injure the teeth, make them black, nor upset the Ntumneh; on the contrnry. It In a most potent remedy In nearly all forms of Indigestion an well ON for nrrvom, run-down condi tions. The manufacturers have such Brent confidence In nuxated Iron, that they offer to forflt 9100.00 to any charitable Institution If they cannot take any man or woman under (II) who lacks Iron, and Increase their strength 100 per cent, or over In four weekN' time, provided they have no serious organic trouble. They also of fer to refund your money If It does no' at least double your strensth an/ ,'ndtirance In ten days' time. It Is dis pensed In thla city hy C'roll Keller, fi. A. (iorKUS and J. Nelson Clark, nil Kond druggists. HARRISBURG, <*£££(& TELEGRAPH RUSSIA PREPARES FOR SEA ATTACK Fortress Made Ready With; Feverish liaste For Ex pected Assault By Associated Press Kronstadt, April 10.—Kronstadt is | j feverishly preparing to repel an ex- j pected German naval attack when the I j Gulf of Finland is free of ice. A cor- J respondent of the Associated Press reached the famous island fastness by traveling over the vast ice waste which separates it from the mainland and found the garrison working night and day in anticipation of the long-pre dicted assault. The fortress is entirely controlled by a council elected by the troops, which is unanimously resolved to de fend Russian freedom and territory to tho last. The council Is equally reso lute against lighting for the annexa tion of foreign territory. One mem ber of the council said that as long as j Germany was unwilling to abandon ! its plans of annexation there was j nothing to do but tight. He said that everything possible had been done to put the defenses of the fortress in first class order and that the strong hold wag as strong to-day as ever. An Impressive sight is offered the j viistor to Kronstadt from the walls after dark. At every half mile along the tracks across the Ice bonlires flare j and In their gleam the red flags of the ! revolution can be seen faintly wav- I ing. Around the lires the revolution- ! ary soldiers chant the new revolution ary hymn and cheer for the coming of the Russian republic. DRUG HABIT SENDS HUNDREDS TO RUIN [Continued From First Page] J| ARCHIBALD MACKRELL Pittsburgh Man Who Made Appeal For Antidrug Legislation Today tails are so sordid, so pathetic, so hor rible." j So declared Archibald Mackrell, | civilian aid of the Pittsburgh Depart - j ment of Safety, at a hearing before the Public Health Committee of the I House this afternoon. Continuing he ! said: "It Is because the effect of the drug ; habit upon the life of a community is so terrible, that the public is kept in ignorance regarding it. The news papers could not afford to print the story of it all out of consideration for its readers, and I assure you gentle men, I would not be here before you now endeavoring to enlighten you on the subject, were it not for the fact that I feel it Is my duty as a public official to lay bare the facts and seek a remedy at your hands. Dangerous to Conununit.v "The drug liend is dangerous to a community because the ilrst thing the drug does Is to make a sneak out of him. Not until he is a complete phy sical and mental wreck will he admit that he is a slave to the habit, and he only makes that admission then be cause ho fears he is about to be plac ed in restraint where he will be de prived of the drug. Once the slave realizes his habit is knoxyn then he makes no effort to conceal it. Walk into any of the cheap poolrooms of a large city and you will tind draped in chairs along the wall, pale-faced, hol low-chested boys. Not men, but boys who ought to be home with their par ents, but instead are hanging about waiting for a chance o beg, borrow, or steal enough to buy a few grains of white powder. One sniff of which will straighten up the drooping shoul ders, throw out the sunke nchest and bring color back to the faded cheeks. But for how long? Only for a few hours and then the misery is greater I than ever. They sell tho last stitch jof decent clothing on them and walk (about in rags for the privilege of liv- I Ing again for a few hours. They rob their parens. X have known them to steal furniture from the house and sell It to get some of the drug." The House committee held the hear ing in the Senate caucus rooms to learn of the various drug bills before the Legislature. Senator Vare, Representative Sam uel Whittaker, of Chester; Represen tative Theodore Campbell, of Phila delphia, and Representative John C. Sullivan, of Allegheny, have bills on drugs and all will appeal before the committee. Mr. Mackrell is interested in the Sullivan bill, but wants to see rigid legislation of any kind against the drug habit. Harrowing Talc Captain Mackrell told a borrow ing tale from his own personal experi ence with hundreds of drug tiends, young and old, of both sexes during his police work In Pittsburgh. Much of his recital was of an unprintable character, but graphically depicted the awful conditions following the use of heroin, morphine and other habit forming drugs. All over the State he said this condition exists and he made an earnest plea for the enactment of legislation that will wipe out the evil. No more vigorous indictment of the evil of drug using or a more eloquent appeal for its abatement was ever heard at the Capitol. PIUKST OFFERS SI,OOO TO TRAIN BUYS FOR SERVICE TO NATION Scranton, Pa., April 10.—An offer of SI,OOO was made yesterday by the Uev, W. P. O'Donnell, pastor of the Holy Cross Church, Bellevue, toward the training of boys of his parish between 18 and 25. for military duty. In explaining the offer, he said that he believes the boys of Bellevue, who will be called to the colors, should have some training in military requirements and that he Is willing t? give |IOOO to defray the cost of this training be tween now and the time the boys are wanted by the government, < STATE'S WAR FUND PROBLEM STILL REMAINS UNSOLVED The question of' who shall handle the war funds of the State remained undecided last night after a long con ference between Governor Brum baugh and Senators McNlchol, Crow, Sproul and and C. A. Snyder. Until some decision is reached no action will be taken on the bills introduced in the Legislature last week appropriat ing $2,000,000 for defensive purposes in the present emergency. The Governor refused to accept this and presented replies from officials of 20 States east of the Mississippi Kiver to show that the general prac tice is to appropriate the money to the Governor, and that official is given a free hand in Its expenditure. Two Senators refused to give the Governor this authority, Insisting that the Legislature proposed to appro priate a large sum, and that as its ex penditure would cover items In a defense program, a "war board" should be created to dispose of it. They argued that this could result in a more intelligent distribution of the fund, as no one man could be expect ed to keep in touch with the many demands that were certain to, be made upon the State. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER BRIDES Wilmington. Del., Apri 10. —An in teresting double wedding was cele brated in the Cathedral here yester day when mother and daughter were the brides. Mrs. Anna J. Devine be came the bride of George T. Vansant, of Elsmere, and the daughter. Miss Mildred M. Devine, was married to Leroy M. Sheldon, of Atlantic City. Both ceremonies were performed by the Uev. James M. Grant, Miss Marian M. Devine, a daughter of one bride and sister of the other, was the brides maid for both, and Martin Dunwcll, was the best man at both weddings. 11! Tomorrow, a Special Wednesday Sale of i| 11 S' s & Handsome New Spring Coats 111 >|| At Attractive Low Prices jt i| jij Hundreds of Stunning New Coats in All ||: the Season s Latest Shades, Fabrics and Styles #|! 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' !j dress; s.zes 32 to 42; on sale BOYS ODD TROUSERS ODC U U i " ,!i tomorrow, Wednes- d |O9 o/ ail woo,m,xture S m 11 day, only at ia cheviots; made extra strong and equal to M '! I <[ values offered elsewhere at $1.00; sizes 7 to 4 \> |,> ———————————— lb years. KAUFMAN'S—Fir>t Floor. ]| ( ' WMM<wiwiwmv>i%vmw ; wmwimnJ APRIL 10, 1917. CONSCRIPTION PLAN IS MUCH OPPOSED [Continued From First Pac] strongly ho believes the United States should not upply the volunteer sys tem In raising a big army for use against Germany. He made a similar personal appeal yesterday to Chair man Dent, of the Military Committee, who does not favor conscription. There was considerable talk to-day of a compromise to be presented by opponents of compulsory service and although the administration recog nizes this possibility, no hint was given that it will recede from its in sistence on conscript.on. Chairman Dent declared it would be at least a week before a bill of any sort is re ported from his committee. In the Senate an amendment to the army appropriation bill not passed at the last session authorizing the President to call volunteers in lots of 500,000 each, is pending, but probably will be disposed of on a point of order. It was offered by Senator Klrby of Arkansas, yesterday when debate on the draft plan was injected into discussion of the army appropriation bill. TO HOLD PACKAGE PARTY John Harris Council, Knights of Pythias, will hold a package party Monday night in Pythian Hall, Union Square. The proceeds will go to the Ked Cross Society. Following a short business session the packages will be auctioned off. Members and their wives will attend and refreshments will be served. The arrangements are in charge of the following commit tee: Charles Erb, chairman; John W. Bowman, H. D. Keel, C. A., Corn man, J. B. Colestock. , STATES TO AID IN RECRUITING CALL Governors and Mayors Endorse Plan For Co-operation Throughout Union By Associated Pros . New York, April 10.—Favorable re plies thus far from live Governors and nearly 100 Mayors have convinced tin recruiting committee of the Mayors Committee on National Defense that al most every State in the union will co operate in making special appeals for army and nuvy recruits on April 18 and 19. The mayors of southern cities havn been especially enthusiastic in their endorsement of this plan. Messages expressing sympathy with the move ment have been received from the Gov ernors of South Carolina, Nebraska, West Virginia, Vermont and Arizona. The American Railway Association has sent to each of the 250 railroad systems of the country detailed in structions for the transport of troops and munitions. The motor reserve committee of the council of national defense has pre pared plans for an organization of own ers of motorcars and trucks for mili tary use in cases of emergency. Al fred Reeves, chairman of the com mittee, said he did not expect occasion would arise for the commandering ol private automobiles, because the auto mobile factories of the country would be able to supply the government with all the motor vehicles It needed. 5
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