12 STATE SEEKING LABOR ON FARMS Board of Public Charities Takes Lead in Urging Co operative Steps Tha State Board of Public Charities is making every effort possible to get people for work on the farms and In conjunction with the food commit tee of" the State Public Safety .com mittee Is calling upon men in charge of county prisons and almshouses to ha* e all able bodied persons go out and help increase the food supply. Letters- have ben sent by Secretary Bromley Wharton to the stewprcls of all almshouses asking that they put all the land possible under cultiva tion and the keeping of as much live stock as they can aird to tho warderis of piisons suggesting use of labor on tarns. The letter to prison official* says in part: "It has occurred to this board that the convict men in the .iail may bo on the farm at the county almshouse. This system is being carried out in the almshouse of Dela ware county. Every day the prison ers are conveyed by wagon from the jail to the almshouse and worked on the farm. At the Western Peniten tiary. at Roekview. Center county, about 500 prisoners are at work on the farms of that institution. Will you take this matter up and advise me if some arrangements cannot be made with the county almshouse or county home to have your prisoners utilized on the farms connected therewith ?" The letters are accompanied by this letter from Chairman Heinz, of the food committee, to Mr. Whar ton: "Acting on the advice of Governor Brumbaugh, I am asking your co operation in stimulating the produc tion of food. "Mr. Hoover, who knows the situ ation abroad as no one else does, says that the world will starve if we do not put in more crops. May I, there fore, suggest that you call to the at tention of the superintendent of each county almshouse and hospital for the insane, the necessity of tilling all suitable land belonging to the insti tution, and of keeping as much stock 'as the land will support. "Hogs and poultry will provide quick meat, and each institution should endeavor to supply its own needs for meat by raising these. "There will, no doubt, be difficulty in securing farm labor. The Aim house of Delaware county. I under stand, is using the convict men of the county jail who are brought out each day to the institution in a wa gon. The experience at Sockview, Pa., with convicts and at Occoquam. Va., with workhouse prisoners, shows that the ordinary jail prisoner can be worked in the open without chains or armed guards withefut gan ger to the community. "The farm committees of the local committees of Public Safety will, no doubt, be able to make other sug gestions for solving the labor prob lem and I suggest that it would be well for each institution to get in touch immediately with the commit tee of that district." Motor Cars Active in Recruiting of Army When it comes to matters mili tary, little Visalia, Cal., is not only patriotic but strictly modern. A short time ago the recruiting officers in that town were informed that a machine gun company was needed in a hurry by the Second California Infantry. A rapid-fire recruiting campaign produced, the men in twenty-four hours and then a dozen businessmen of Visalia, who own Dodge Brothers motorcars, offered to set the new recruits at the Presidio at San Fran cisco in record time. This was the first attempt at mov ing troops long distances by motor in the San Joaquin Valley and it was watched with much interest by mili tary men. The 230-mile run was made in eight and one-half hours, with an average speed of 2 7 miles an hour. The first half of the trip was com pleted with a 35-mile average, but rain and slippery roads cut the ave rage to 27 before the ferry at Oak land was reached. While the number of men moved in this particular instance was small, the run demonstrated that the num ber of troops it would be possible to rush to a given point would depend wholly on the number of motorcars available. The only delay reported on the en tire trip was occasioned by five punc tures. The performance of the Dodge Brothers cars aroused high praise from the officers who accom panied the recruits on the trip. FESTIVAL OF PEXTEOOST Shiremanstown, Pa., May 26. The Festival of Pentecost will be celebrated by St. John's congrega tion here to-morrow. At the morn ing service the Holy Communion will be administered and new members will be received. In the afternoon at four o'clock infants will be re ceived by Holy Baptism. At all of the services including the evening, the pastor, the Rev. H. K. Dantz will preach and St. John's vested choir will sing. Special Excursion —TO— Zoological Garden Glrard Avenne (Thirty-Ural Street), Philadelphia Saturday, June 2 Via READING RAILWAY SPECIAL TRAIN Special FROM Fare L.V.A.M. ; HARRISBI'RG V 2.50 <1.20 i Hummelntown 2.511 <1.3(1 ; Hronintont 2.50 <1.30 j Swntara 2.50 <1.43 j Herahey 2.30 <l.lO I Palmyra 2.50 <1.53 Annvllle 2.50 7.02 LKBA\O\ 2.30 7.12 Glrard Ave. <3lat St.) nr... 10.00 RETURNING, SpeHul Train will I leave Glrard Avenue <3lat Street) j 5.50 P. M., for lleadinK. Ilarrlx ' bur* and Intermediate Htatiuna. SATURDAY EVENING, MARVELOUS ARTIFICIAL mmmmmmrn* " • • |.J "•* .. ' : ,JHH JShH^MS^^HGMI J-JA>TD (B /<vr/Mr/dAw/. This photograph shows a German officer using an artificial hand much as he would a natural hand. Wonderful strides have been made in the de velopment of artificial limbs. Artificial hands such as that shown in the photograph will perform nearly all of the tasks that the human hand will. Studebaker Is Pilot Car of Club Tour When the Associated Advertising, Clubs of the World convene In an- j nual session the week of June 3, In St. Louis, Mo., the San Francisco Ad , Club will step to the front and re- ! ceive the unique honors of having < come all the way from the coast by ' automobiles. True, there will be rep- ! resentatives of the advertising pro- i fession from the continent, from j Hawaii, from the Antipodes and from various other corners of the civilized world—but it was left for the intrepid Californians to evolve the motor car caravan stunt. That the "On-to-St Louis" cara van of the Frisco Ad Club is well piloted is evidenced by the fact that i a Series 18 Studebaker "Six" was officially chosen as pilot car of the party. It is keeping well ahead of the long string of motors, posting ( road signs, gathering touring infor- | mation and wiring it back to the | cars that follow, arranging places of | rest and a thousand-and-one other | duties that necessarily fall upon a trail-blazer. The pilot car. or Studebaker six, is a regular stock car and owned by the San Francisco distributor of Studebaker automobiles. It is equip ped with Goodrich tires, with safety treads on rear, and finished in a color scheme that is distinctive The Thrift of the Franklin Car Our Response to the National Call AS a people, Americans have of economy is the man who with flexible construction doubles L\ so long been charged with buys a heavy, extravagant car and the tire mileage of the Franklin cat - . 1 wastefulness and extrava- then limits its use. Smd (he Used Car ices , gance that we have come to ad- Whatever the times or condi- They tell the same facts in terms 1 as our Natlo " al sm - tions, the Franklin owner knows of depreciation, emphasizing the Perhaps the meanest thing that that he stands firmly on a thrift security of the Franklin owner in has been said of us is that our only basis. the investment value of his car. idea of economy is to do without. That if all cars were as efficient Under all circumstances of That, being a people of ex- as the Franklin, America would road, climate, and the cost of gas tremes, we can save only in the save Four Hundred Million Gal- oline and tires, the man witn a most drastic and obvious way. lons of gasoline and $192,000,000 Franklin owns and runs his car That our idea of reducing wort h °. f tires every year—with- on t h e most favorable terms, household expenses is to dis- out cutting one mile off the stu- These factors make the Frank charge the help, wear our old m.leage of n^^L^^LctofLeuse. clothes and cut the table where G f staunch service, of small up it will be felt the most. There is Needless Waste of kee P. of low depreciation. That we must either waste Gasoline and Tires Twenty thousand Franklin , ShUt d ° Wn tHe furnace Thrift always implies a sense owners saw these things before and freeze. va [ ues there was any call to National There is just enough truth in . . .. , . Thrift. this indictment to hurt. 18 ,h f. m,l ' a * e gallon of gasoline —or a set of tires? =================== l Wasteful Economy vs. Construe- ,ha ' a " th ® Of all the fine cars. th. ' tive Saving and Use twenty-odd years of motor-car , Franklin alone devotes designing has never produced its qasoline to maximum lhe call to National economy anytning like a standard of mile- mileage 1 ought rather to be a call to a ge for either gasoline or tires? National Thrift. That gasoline, worth twenty While the deadweight of Here in the richest country in miles and upward in the scientific- V ess extent car cuts M| J the world—with nation-wide light-weight Franklin, drops as low emieaye 0 employment and prosperity, with as nine miles and even six miles ~ " wages higher than they have ever i n many another make of fine car? Qf It- f inec *f s ' been in the history of the world, v ... Franklin alonejets every with 935,000,000 acres of tillable . That while the Franklin owner mU art of a Or, there land and unprecedented returns '? , hl8 ,"" for the farmer—we can support t r a set '? y P lc . WAifc the extravagant: another hundred-million people. sne5 ne , car ow . ner 1 S? ttm S A whether in this country or Eu- five thousand or lessf lifseUofttstiresdnd J rope, on what America wastes, if Franklin Owners Have the Facts ™ " rmK 3 eto . we only apply brains to our prob- .. _ ~ • ~~~ lems, National and individual. on Com P aratwe Costs Of all the fine cars, the Where the heavy car wastes - JIT m , am \ ains l * s j Motor Traffic a Vital Factor gasoline in the drag of its dead business basis in National Life weight—the Franklin devotes its r. i . . „ „ P° wer to mtlea ■ While the used car value It takes no brains to practice Where the heavy car hammers of ihe average fine car ) the economy of doing without. its tires QUt befor > theif dme _ drops to— 2 A good example of this idea Franklin light unsprung weight ' E W. Shank, Distributor 10 7 Market St. Both Phones f enough to stand It out prominently | from the score of other cars In the | caravan. It is the same type Series j IS six-cylinder motor that made the ! trip and was the first car into the i famous Yosemite valley this year; ! that made the run with twenty cars, | with seven soldiers in each car, fully ! equipped, of the Tenth Company, i Coast Artillery, from Fort Winfield Scott. San Francisco, to Halfmoon j Hay, a distance of 39 miles over the I Pacific - highway and through the J coast ranfee of mountains, around the i most difficult turns, in one hour and fourteen without one item of ] engine or tire trouble. | It is the desire of the San Fran ! Cisco Advertising Club in making I this trip primarily to interest the I convention at St. Louis and secure i the 1918 convention for the Cali j t'ornia metropolis, to aiso demon strate the possibilities of a gj-eat number of cars to move a large body of men from long distances in the East to the West, or vice versa, should anything happen to the rail lines of transportation during these times, and incidentally to local points | on the road that would mark a vital point to be guarded or protected should there be an attempt to block the roadways. Xo effort is being made to estab j lish a new cross-country time rec ord. Each car in the "On-to-St. j Louis" caravan is a regular stock ; model, equipped for touring and not for the so-called "stock car" rec ords made by stripped cars In the hands of professional drivers. How ever, the driver of the Studebaker pilot car says he'll head the proces sion into St. Louis in plenty of time for the intrepid ad men to "sit in" on the first confab of the big con vention. VLA RRISBURG TELEGRAPH! Hupmobile Dealers Are Optimistic as to Future The motorcar business on the Pacific coast is in a thriving condi tion according to reports sent into the Hupmobile factory by Sales | Manager J. E. Fields. Mr. Fields is on a month's trip through the West and has already visited Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Port land and Seattle. Dealer conven tions were held at each of these large distributing centers and Mr. Fields was able to gain first-hand informa tion from Hupmobile dealers in re gard to the business outlook. "The entire Pacific coast is hungry for motorcars," said Mr. Fields. ' .rul winter the western dealers have been unable to get automobiles on account of the freight car situation. As a re sult they are hundreds of orders be hind for immediate delivery. The whole country suffered from the freight car situation but the West felt it more on account of the long haul and the inability of railroads to furnish western freight equipment. "As a result of this situation, a big supply of cars will be necessary to meet the requirements along the Pa cific coas{. I find business is con tinuing along normal lines and everybody feels that the prosperity SENSIBLE BUYING PLUS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ENABLES US TO OFFER YOU THE MOST COMPLETE AND MODERN LIST OF GOOD USED CARS TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE UKiTED STATES. EVERY CAR BOUGHT FROM US IS BACKED BY OUR REPUTA TION, WHICH IS BASED ON THE REFERENCE OF THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS. PARTICULAR BUY ERS INSIST ON OUR CARS. Trucks & Delivery Wagons, to 5 ton, from S2OO up. 1917 HUDSON SUPER SIX Roadster; 1917 OVERLAND Tourine car: bought practically new. at a sacrifice. uiw two nuntlis nco; eitra equipment. 2917 HAYNES Touring; only slightly IM7 M.'ltllib.vßOOTH Roadster; very used; owner will sacrifice. r Uracil ve: wire wheels and five good 1917 CHANDLER Touring car; run 2000 10 V.r e, 1TrB ,,,r„v- , miles; extra equipment. 1919 JErFER\ Touring csr; run 0000 1817 MITCHELL Touring car: "light lmi! lUxuWr T„„rl„- SloT mr: fl " t> *" en * er: " ,leut ficellent 1017 81PER-BIX HUDSON Touring, with 191U WHITE Touring car: excellent me shutter on radiator. chnnical condition: unusual oppor -1017 PULLMAN Touring car: bought tiinitv. new ouo month ago; bumper. pot 1910 MERCER Speedater; will do better ~ , . " ,un 90 null'* an liour; very attractiie. 1917 BRISCOE Touring: rery economical 191 ii CHALMERS Tour In.-. "(MO;" to run: plenty of power. J4J.V geren passenger. fine shape: SBSO. 1917 BI'ICK Roadster light Six; run 1916 1-AIGE Roadster run 3509 milea: about 3000 miles: snap. snap at 1917 DODGE Touring car: practically 1910 CADILLAC Touring: Scylinder: brand new: extra tire. perfect running order: lots of 'extras. 1911 PA'IUE Touring: very One condl- 191(1 STEAUNS-KNIGHT Scylinder car; tion: off list price. beautiful deslzn- only slightly used. 1917 St PER-SIX HUDSON Cabriolet: 191(1 OI.DSMOBILE Touring. 8-crllnder cracker-lack shape from start to llnlsb; plenty of power and speed: jpxid tires, big snving. 191(1 REO Touring enr; mechanically 1917 GRANT Touring, "light atx:" right; shows no wear whatever tive.passengcr: powerful and economl- FORD Touring cars and Roadatcrs- all cal car to run. tncdels from $l3O up. GORSON'S AUTOMOBILE EXCHANGE 238-240 NORTH BROAD ST., PHILA., PA. Agent* Wanted. EASY* TERMS Open Sunday 9 to ?• Send for Free Bulletin. IP DESIRED Open Memorial Day. which we have enjoyed for the past two years will continue. "I And Hupmoblle dealers, espe cially, optimistic over conditions and their greatest worry seems to be over their inability to siicure enough Hupmobiles to meet the demand. iThe four-cylinder Hupmobile has made a great reputation in the west ern mountains for economy of op eration and Hupmobile dealers have enjoyed wonderful success. Natural i ly, with their business well establish j ed, they are anxious to secure as many cars as possible. The big I business complaint is or* shortage of I freight equipment and insufficient production to take care of orders." Couple Make Long Tour on 25th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Aultman and son, of Denver, are In the midst of an extensive tour of the country, which is the unique method of cele brating their twenty-fifth anniver sary. ' Some years ago a solemn com pact was made, that 1917 would find them on a long automobile sight seeing tour. That the tour Is assum ing large proportions is shown by a mileage of 3,600 miles already cov ered on the territory as far Kast as New Orleans, and with enormous fields still unexplored. Past experience prompted Mr. Aultman to select n Velie Biltwel Six for the journey, and it has proven full worth of its name. He said, "Our selection of the Velie Six was made primarily because of re liability and comfort. We have ex perienced no trouble of any kind." ■ 2ppy . ice. And you don't lose the use of your = machine while I'm doing the work—for '■ - i"■".v ■' 1 = I have a rental battery for you whatever ' Come in and get acquainted, and while — 1 you're in ask for your Willard Service Card which entitles you to free testing. FRONT-MARKET MOTOR SUPPLY COMPANY 109 MARKET STREET I'ItIBVTORS AND OFFICIAL WILLARD SERVICE STATION —<jjGja)— i Smith { I Form-a-Truck v TitJrtr \/ ! ]j How Can You Afford ! I to Overlook This? I MASTERPIECE of transportation design, built for Ik J your requirements —to give you the lowest hauling ■, cost in the world and the most satisfactory service. |i An attachment that makes Form-a-Truck has been in steady \ ]'. a fully guaranteed one-ton service for four years—has covered L l| truck out of any Ford, Max- ov er 20,000 miles hauled an aver , well, Dodge Bros., Chevrolet, pounds and cost f II r> • i A i j r-psi but tor repairs. i I Buick or Overland car. I hat . . f j gives you a permanent truck A proved transportation service i, ' construction—as well built as '°f "onderful day in and day out 1 i the most rostlv truck von ran efficiency and earning power. That if j tne most costly truck you can has ad - ded to the fite o{ e J buy-and yet cheaper in price user by cutting do F wn expense £ than a good pair or horses. t j ie hauling and delivery depart- \ J A hauling unit that moves ments and by eliminating unneces- I, twice the tonnage moved by sar y an d wasteful equipment. T | hQrses that has demonstra- The Smith Form-a-Truck gives I ' ted a ton-mile operating cost you a one-ton truck of 125 in. | J of less than 8 cents from wheelbase; with either 9or 12 ft. i< I records obtained from over loading platform; with a sturdy | J 10,000 users in over 400 lines double c V n dnvc ' soh<; truck L 1| r i type rear tires; a rear axle con- j' I struction that supports 90% of the || A sturdy truck construction that load carried —takes all the carrying . has reduced time lost out of service work off the power plant and puts ■|r j to a minimum. The first Smith it on the truck construction. > *1 Every type of body from the Hz fit, flare board express type to the big It " steel dumping bodies for contractors and the huge vans for movers is used on Smith Form-a Truck. There ts no line of business in which .) I the new era hauling and delivery vehicle does not find a ready place. I CAMP CURTAIN GARAGE i E 7th and Camp Streets Bell 1093-J MAY 26, 1917.
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