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COAL OUTPUT IS
CLOSE TO RECORD
Chief Roderick Says That It
Will Not Be Cheaper;
Wages Arc Still High
Predictions that the price of coal
will never be as cheap again as it
has been in the last four or Ave years
and that while present high prices
may be expected to continue for a
time there will be a gradual reduc
tion in the rates now t charged are
made by James E. Roderick, state
chief of mines, in his resume of the
mining operations in the state during
the year 1316.
The chief says that the last jscar
was one of the most remarkable ever
known in the coal business and that
the war stimulated it as it did almost
everything else, until prices which
were unprecedented were paid. The
unique feature of long abandoned
mines being put into operation to
meet the demands of the trade is
commented upon and the chief says
that coal that could not have been
marketed two or three years ago is
now bringing fancy prices, while coal
is being taken from tho roofs and
refuse and sold readily.
Cost of mining is increasing
through necessity of going after
thinner veins and the increases of
wages of miners that it is scarcely
possible that wages will return to
former figures and consequently the
price to the consumer will be high as
compared with live years ago.
Labor troubles are responsible for
a decrease in the output of 1916 to
extent of 3,000,000 tons and also
brought about the necessity of im
porting labor from southern states.
In many sections men left mines to
go Into steel and other mills and
f
I Wholesale Distributors
Witman Schwarz Co.
Have That Little Job of Tinning Done
Before You Go on Your Vacation
Better have that little job of tinning done before you go 011 your vacation. Better have
the roof looked after—the spouting fixed—the heater put in condition for fall and winter
—or any other work that will have to be done attended to at once. By the time you are
back and settled down to usual routine, the busy season for the tinners will begin and you
will not be able to get the prompt attention we can give you now. This is the best season
to have such work done. Just phone or drop a card to any of the following firms whose
reputation for good work and square dealing is a guarantee that your order will be
filled to your satisfaction in every way.
C. W. Eisenhour, Boyd and Logan Sts., .' Bell Phone 2826
Cleckner & Burke, .. 1226. N. Third St., Bell Phone 911-J
D. S. Lowe ...1418 N. Sixth St Bell Phone 3718-J
E. W. Weiss 1221 N. Sixth St. Bell Phone 285
Wm. L. Jauss 210 Mulberry St., Bell Phone 1159-M
Zeigler & Hays 222 Hunynel St : Bell Phone 3723; Dial 4670
Ralph Weast, Ethel and 18th Sts Bell Phone 4280
J. E. Shenk, Penbrook Bell Phone 2539-K; Dial 4725
Fisher Bros., 1001 Capital St Bell Phone 2298
Members of the Sheet Metal Contractors' Association of Harrisburg.
THURSDAY EVENING,
operators with demands for all the
coal they could produce and with
golden prices offered could scarcely
obtain men.
Production of anthracite coal In
1916 fell below the figures of 1913,
1914 and 1915. but the output of
bituminous coal was over 10,000,000
tons ahead of the previous year and
only slightly behind the record year
of 1913. The figures announced, show
the following production: Total 256,-
504.012 tons; bitumninous. 169,123,-
814; anthracite, 87,680,198; coke,
26,428,926.
Accidents were 1,001 fatal and
nonfatal. Those in the bitu
minous region were 436 fatal and
1.806 nonfatal: anthracite region,
565 fatal and 1,510 nonfatal. In
both instances there were decreases
in the fatal accidents as compared
with the previous year.
Boy Scout Executive
Committee to Organize
A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the local council of Boy
Scouts will be held at the head
quarters to-morrow afternoon at 4
o'clock. The organization of the
thrco departments will be perfected.
The departments are: Administra
tion, training and inspection and the
court of honor.
The members of the executive
committee are: William B. Mc-
Caleb, president; Samuel P. Eby,
secretary; Howard C. Fry, treasur
er; George S. Reinoehl, David Tracy,
William Jennings, David Dauffman,
A. Carson Stamm, J. William Bow
man. Henderson Gilbert and E. S.
Herman.
William B. McCaleb, Jr., a mem
ber of Troop ll,' has made applica
tion for merit badges in athletics,
signaling, lifesavipg and personal
health. The application will be sub
mitted to the court of honor for ap
proval.
More Food Registration
Chairmen Are Named
Mrs. John W. Reily, chairman of
the food supply division of the Dau
phin County Committee of Public
Safety, announced the names of ad
ditional chairmen who will assist in
tho registration of the women next
week.
The names of the chairmen ap
pointed are: Mrs. R. H. Lyons, 225
South Thirteenth street, Second
ward; Mrs. Emma Hayes Heck,
Hecktown; Mrs. A. E. Rudy. Rock
vtlle; Mrs. W. S. Wanley, Lucknow;
Mrs. John Gl Davis, Coxestown;
Mrs. Lewis M. Nleffer. Riverside.
Meetings were held to-day and
others will be held to-morrow to or
ganize the various committees
which will have charge of the regis
tration next week.
H. L. COLLINS, "UIRARD."
NOW HEAD OF TELEGRAPH
Philadelphia, Pa., July 5. The
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph an
nounces that Herman L. Collins has
become 'president of the company
and editor in full charge of the
newspaper.
Mr. Collins was formerly a mem
ber of the editorial staff of the
Public Ledger. He originated the
"Glrard" column in that newspaper
four and a half years ago, and has
been its sole author ever since. Here
after "Girard's" column will appear
exclusively every day in the Even
ing Telegraph.
HCRT IN COLLISION
Albert Kaufman, of Philadelphia,
sustained a badly cut arm and a
possible fracture of a rib, yesterday,
when his motorcycle collided with a
trolley Car at Third and Peffer
streets. He was t&ken to the Harris
burg Hospital and later removed to
the home of his father-in-law, Peter
Bartch. 2148 North Fourth street.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
PRO-GERMANS
ARE GUILTY OF
TREASON-T. R.
Ex-President Also Denounces
Persons Prejudiced Against
Men of Teuton Parentage
Forest Hill, L 1., July s.—Theodore
Roosevelt, in a- Fourth of July oration
delivered here, demanded that Ger
mnn-Americans and pacifists become
outright Germans or outright Ameri
cana: that all German newspapers
published here bo compelled to print
an English translation paralleling all
German text in their column* and that
the vote be denied In peace time who
refuse to render universal service in
war time.
He declared that the persons in
America who champion Germany's
cause are guilty of moral treason.
On the other hand, he denounced the
prejudice against Americans of Ger
man descent who are loyal to the
United States and said he would have
chosen several men of German parent
age for officers in his army had he
been permitted to raise one. The
Colonel spoke in part as follows:
"The events of the past three years
bring us face to face with the ques
tion of whether in the present century
we are to continue as a separate na
tion or whether we are to become
merely a huge polyglot boardlnghouse
and countinghouse, in which dollar
hunters of twenty different nationali
ties scramble for gain, while each
really pays his soul-aliegiance to some
foreign power.
Mornl Treason •> -
"Now we are at open war with Ger
many, yet many of these persons—
supported, of course, by the profes
sional pacifists—continue to cham
pion Germany's cause as against the
cause for which we are fighting. This
is moral treason to the Republic, and
all who engage In it are, In fact, al
though not in law, traitors, who have
no right longer to be treated as
American citizens. The time has come
to Insist that they now drop their dual
allegiance and in good faith become
outright Germans or outright Ameri
cans. They cannot be both; and those
who pretend that they are both are
merely Germans who hypocritically
pretend to be Americans in order to
serve Germany and damage America.
"At the moment the vital thing to
remember about these half-hidden
traitors is that to attack America's
allies &hile we are at death-grips
with a peculiarly ruthless and brutal
foe, or to champion that foe as
against our allies, .or to apologize for
that foe's infamous wrongdings, is to
be false to the cause of liberty and to
the United Staees.
Envenomed Foe
"Germany is now our bitter and
envenomed foe. She has repeatedly
and brutally murdered our women and
children and defenseless men. She lias
proposed to join with Mexico and Ja
pan to dismember us. Her publicists
and newspaper writers back up with
foul abuse and untruthfulness the
efficient brutality which her military
men have exercised at our expense
and at the expense of the tortured
people of Belgium and of northern
France. Whoever now upholds or
justifies Germany is an enemy of the
United States.
"Or contrast the brutality shown
toward men, women and children on
the Lusitania and scores of other
ships by the officially directed Ger
man submarines with the Alabama's
action fifty years previous;. Semmes
never destroyed a vessel without pro
viding for the safety of the passen
gers and crew; he turned his own of
ficers out of their cabins to put in
them the women and children of his
foes, and once when he had 700 pris
oners and a prize, the Arial, he actu
ally permitted them to go in freedom
on the vessel rather than send them
to a nearby port when he found that
there was yellow fever in this port.
"Compare these actions with the
methodical and organized brutality of
the German military authorities in
this war; and then brand with shame
the American traitor who seeks to
aid Germany by asserting that he, if
given the chance, would be guilty of
atrocities like those she has commit
ted."
Harrisburgers Who
Did Not Attend Evans
Lecture Missed Treat
Harrisburg people missed a big op
portunity to learn how other cities
are beautified in the summer months
when they did not attend James Ev
ans' illustrated lecture in the Tech
nical High School Auditorium Mon
day evening. Mr. Evans has travel
ed all over the United States and
most of the photographs from which
his views are made were from his
own camera. He has a particularly
fine collection of street, front and
backyard scenes, taken in the rose
sections of the Pacific coast.
Mr. Evans also has done much
in a practical way for the develop
ment of backyard gardening in this
city. He has evidence to show that
more board fences have come down
in Harrisburg the past spring than
ever before. He believes that once
propertyowners and residents un
derstand how (Cheaply this can be
done there will be few remaining
board fences to detract from the ap
pearance of the city.
Ladies Nest of Owls to
Observe Patriotic Night
Patriotic night will be observed
this evening with a special "July 4"
program by members of Ladies' Nest,
No. 1930, Order of Owls, at their
meeting in the Cameron Building,
at Second and Walnut streets. Ad
dresses are to be made by several
prominent speakers and officers of
the organization.
The contest to increase the mem
bership from 215 to near the 500
mark will close at this meeting, when
the members with the largest enroll
ment of new members will be award
ed a gold wutch and diamond ring.
The work is in charge of R. F. Web
ster, district organizer. A large class
of candidates will be Initiated follow-"
ing the special exercises.
SIXTEENTH FULL
The Adjutant General's Depart
ment to-day announced that it had
received a report that the Sixteenth
infantry. Col. George C. Rickards.
Oil City, had reached war strength
of 56 officers and 2,002 men. This
is the second regiment of the Guard
to reach this strength, the first hav
ing been the Third artillery, Col.
AHhcr Miner, Wllkes-Barre. The
third reported 34 officers and 1,112
men, not Including Battery E and
the sanitary detachment which have
been in the federal service since the
troops returned from the Mexican
border. These organizations includ
ed give it full strength. W. A. L. Mc-
Dowel, Pittsburgh, was to-day ap
pointed a first lieutenant and as
signed to Second brigade headquar
ters. - •
BAKER PROMISES
IMPROVEMENTS
ConUnucd from First Page
rary and will be replaced speedily
by a more direct method of dealing
with this news. In the ipeantime an
adequate force to deal promptly yvlth
the dispatches will be on hand twen
ty-four hours a day and will deliver
the dispatches received in the order
in which they come so that no dis
advantage will result in anything be
yond the brief delay in sending the
dispatches to Washington and back
to the center of distribution."
The work of reading over the press
dispatches is being done by the Com
mittee on Public Information, much
of it personally by George Creel, the
chairman. Secretary Baker explain
ed thsi the plan worked out provid
ed, however, that the opinion of
Brigadier General Mclntyre, censor
for the War Department here, was
sought where there was any doubt
as to the advisability of publication
on any item.' Mr. Baker has made
no effort to find legal authority for
the establishment of the new censor
ship, he said, and does not intend to
ask for legislation in that regard.
"The Secretary of War," he said,
"by unanimous consent, is empow
ered to take any steps necessary for
the protection of American soldiers."
The censorship arrnngement to be
set up by Major General Pershing, it
is understood, will cover British or
French publications regarding Amer
ican troop movements as well as dis
patches '.o this country. Mr. Baker
added that it might be found neces
sary to supplement that censorship
with an additional reading at New
York in order to make certain that
every press or personal dispatch had
been read to present information of
value to the enemy from leaking out.
Neither Secretary Baker or Secre
tary Daniels would express any opin
ion to-day as to whether word of
the departure of American troop
transports had been transmitted to
Germany in such time that a U-boat
trap had been laid. Both indicated
that they had no specific information
on this point. It was made clear,
however, that additional precautions
to prevent such a happening were
being considered, the nature of
which was not disclosed.
The War Department censorship
has been in operation since Tuesday.
War Department Censors
News Dispatches Which
Pass Foreign Censors
By Associated Press
Washington, July s.—The War
Department here continues to cen
sor news dispatches from France
which have already been passed by
foreign censors.
It deflects incoming cablegrams
at New York to Washington, where
they are censored and turned over
to representatives of the press as
sociations and newspapers to whose
New York offices the cable messages
are addressed. The Associated Press
accounts of the Fourth of July cele
bration in France were among the
dispatches deflected and delayed.
Secretary Baker, in a statement
last night said that the present ar
rangement is temporary and will be
maintained "only so long as is 'nec
essary to perfect a smooth working
plan to handle this matter without
imperiling the lives of American
citizens." It is understood that
George CreeT is soon to visit New
York to make some different ar
rangment. The press associations
and newspapers were not notified in
advance of Secretary Baker's plan
of deflecting incoming cable mes
sages to Washington. v
No Approvals No Approvals
SCHLEISNER'S ANNUAL SALE OF
1000 Dresses Regardless
Will Be Held on Friday and Saturday
Due to the tremendous volume of business yearly in our dress department we are al
ways prepared to meet the requirements of the woman and miss who find it necessary to
have the proper gowns, frocks and dresses for all occasions. This, of course, means that
our stocks are wonderfully comprehensive at all times. It mean£ also that the manufactur
ers with whom we do business are always on the alert to meet with the critical require
ments of our business. Under the censorship of our buyer, who adopts as critical methods
with the inexpensive frock as with the highest price gown, our stocks are continually ultra
advanced in mode. ...
Yet We Never Allow Our Stocks to Remain Till a Following Season
So that while most of the dresses in this sale are from our own stock, many were secured at
price concessions. They embrace street, evening, afternoon and dresses for function wear.
And they will be placed on sale as follows:
ygSUMMER DRESSES (g-d p*'LOT OF 150 DRESSES SOO 50 3 5 AFTERNOON
figured and plaid 3-t Georgette, crepe de at DRESSES ' of
voiles and chambrays chine and taffeta dresses nav y and white fou "
ami ginghams. - white, flesh, .navy, tan and other combined with Georgette.
Values up to $9.90. , , . .. . , Values up to $42.50. ■
fashionable shades in sport and
dressy models. <j nrr AFTFRNOON
■ $^T.95 Sl * MM 1R — DRESSES Value, $25.00. Q* AND STREET
§ linens, voiles and DR'ESSES —ta f -
ginghams attractive feta, crepe de chine and Georgette—
models - .. . OF 25 DRESSES all desirable shades.
Values up to $15.00. Values up to $35.00.
<|-| p"SO TAILOR-MADE ettc drcsses in gray, EVENING
at V * I iT)S ER G E DRESSES" Ha S ue blue - he{ % c ' rose and other de " atT /LL* ' ° black
and practical sirablc shades as well as white and and the most attrac
m ode Is. flesh. ti ve an( j fashionable evening shades.
Values up to $35.00. Values up to $75.00. Values up to $79.50.
25 SILK SUlTS—will be placed 35 WOOL JERSEY SPORT MISCELLANEOUS LOT OF 50
on sale including values SUITS all attractive new shades; SKIRTS, in velour, satin and other
up to $37.50. q75 values up to $32.50. QgQ sport materials, values sr7 50
SPECIAL IV 1 SPECIAL JLLA- to $16.50. SPECIAL I *
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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA NEWS
WEST FAIRVIEW
BREAKS RECORD
Lively Red Cross Branch Se
cures Nearly 100 New Mem
bers in Two Days
West Fairview, July s.—The West
Fairview Red Cross Auxiliary is
bending every effort to make a good
showing with the other branch so
cieties of the Harrisbuj-g Chapter.
The unit broke all record for new
members when almost a hundred
were secured in two days. At a re
cent meeting of the auxiliary Miss
Mary Snyder was elected chairman
of the gauze department; Mrs. Al
bert Shaull chairman of the muslin
partment. A meeting of the ladies
Luse, chairman of the knitting de
partment. A meeting of the Ladies'
of the auxiliary will be held Wednes
day afternoon at the Good Will fire
house. The sewing class will do its
first work at this time.'
The list of new members to date
follows:
Miss Violet Rowland. Mrs. B. Row
land, Mrs. Freeman Luse, Mrs. H.
Garland, Mrs. L. Stair, Mrs. Parker
Dewalt, Mrs. Reitzel, Mrs. H. F.
Wolpert, Mrs. A. Gamber, Mrs. Frank
Hawbaker, Mrs. Charles Carroll, Mrs.
Adam Boyer, Mrs. Edward Hatfield,
Miss Tillie Boughter, Mrs. Frank J.
Shaull, Maude Gladfelter, Edwarcl
Gladfelter, Mrs. J. Ralph Wilson,
Miss Annie Neidig, Mrs. William
Eichelberger, Mrs. J. G. Turner.
Mrs. H. W. Neidig, Mrs. Melvin
Holmes, Mrs. Theodore Eslinger,
Miss Eva Kilheffer, Mrs. Bernard
Gladfelter,- Mrs. William A. Cripple,
Mrs. W. T. Miller, Mrs. Daniel Bretz,
Mrs. D. J. Stiles, Miss Irerie Ashen
felter, Mrs. Elizabeth Seidel, Mrs.
Sylvan H. Neidig, Mrs. Harry Shultz,
Mrs. Albert J. Shaull, George W.
Phillips, Miss Nora Gallagher, Mrs.
H. B. Burns, Mrs. H. S. Swarlz,
Mrs. Susan Martin, Miss Jane Es
linger, Mrs. William Himea.
Mrs. George W.'Seward, Mrs. Rob
ert McCombs, Mrs. W. F. Smeltzer,
Mrs. George W. Rhiver, Mrs. J. Har
per Lantz, Mrs. Fred O. Seidel, Mrs.
Nelson Snider, Jr., A. B. Hoke, Mrs.
A. B. Hoke, Mrs. A. B. Freeland, Mrs.
J. H. Freeland, J. H. Freeland, Mrs.
I. W. Matter, Mrs. E. D. Kutz, Mrs.
F. S. Hoke, Mrs. L. B. Cranford,
Mrs. J. H. Miller, Mrs. H. B. Shoop,
Mrs. George Mann, Mrs. R. M. War
ner, Mrs. William Boughter, Mrs. E.
Malsh.
Mrs. Alphonso Myers, Mrs. Connell
Myers, Mrs. T. W. Eshenbaugh, Mrs. j
D. H. Wagner, Miss May Langletz, |
Miss Ruth Blair, Mrs. Walter Fisher, j
Mrs. Franklin Martin, Mrs. lra|
Shauli, Mrs. Charles Miller, Mrs. Joe|
Best, Mrs. Oscar Wagner, Mrs. H. M.
Glessijer, Mrs. D. R. Bortmer, Mrs. [
Harry Koppenhaffer, Mrs. Mahlon
Foreman, Mrs. John Hammond, Mrs. I
George Weber, Ben Hoon.
George Himes, Miss Mabel Es-1
linger, Mrs. Melvin Cranford, Mrs. H. I
Morgan, Mrs. C. W. I-.erew, Missj
Catharine Cranford, Mrs. William j
Sturgeon, Miss Hazel Givler, Martin
B. Stewart, Mrs. Martin B. Stewart,
Mrs. Annie Grace Taylor, Mr. D. W.
Love, Mrs. E. F. Fager, Miss Minnie
Johnson, Reuben Rapp, Mrs. B. V.
Brant, Mrs. Clara Brant, Mrs. Oliver
Fisher and William Seidel.
JULY 5, 1917.
Halifax School Board
Assigns Teachers For Year
Halifax, Pa., July s.—At the regu
lar yearly settlement meeting of the
Halifax school board on Monday aft
ernoon, the tax rate was increased
frcm seven to eight mills and schools
were awarded to the following teach
ers; Dunkel's, Effle Koppenheffer;
Harden's, Mary Albrignt; Gilbert's, H.
R. Brubaker; Rutter's. George Miller;
Baker's, Lester Lebo; Taylor's, Blanche
Lobb; Urlch, Elsie Sheetz; Matamoras
High, Laura •Ellcker; Matamoras Pri
mary, Edith Witt>ert.
P. O. S. OK A. OFFICERS
Halifax, Pa., July 6.—At a meeting
of Washington Camp No. 576, P. O. S.
of A., on Tuesday evening, the fol
lowing officers were elected: Past
president, W. D. Straw; president, S.
L Brubaker; vice-president, C. C.
Vestfall; master of falls, Ira P. Zim
merman: conductor, Ross E. Zimmer
man; inner guard, Harvey P. Hess;
outer guard, Leroy Enders; left sen
tinel, W. E. Rutter; right sentinel,
John C. Miller, trustee, H. P. Potter.
Ross E. Zimrfierman was elected dele
gate and W. D. Straw alternate to
attend the annual sessions of the state
camp at Wilkes-Barre next Augi'st.
Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator.—ad.
Long study and experimentation by Bell Telephone
engineers have shown that the clearest and best transmis
sion of your voice, regardkss of the distance it must cover,
is obtainable only when the lips are about half an inch from
the mouthpiece, and straight in front of it.
Shouting into the transmitter is ineffective, as it results
in an unintelligible distortion of sound. Likewise, words
spoken from an angle rather than directly in front of the
mouthpiece, will reach the other end of the line with part
of the syllables missing, and faintly if at all.
A little care makes a big difference!
The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
E. W. Gilpin, Local Manager
Harrisburg, Pa.
Honors to Young Men Who
Enlist From Duncannon
Duncannon, Pa., July 6.—The flag
raising at Juniata Bridge, in the
north part of town, at 9 o'clock on
the morning of the Fourth, was at-
l>y a large crowd, which join
ed in the patriotic event in honor of
the twenty-three community boys
who have answered the cv.il of their
country and enlisted in the United
States service. On the beautiful lawn
at the residence of Charles M. Gross
lie had erected a flagpole eighty feet
high and, joined by George E. Boyer,
they purchased the flag which now
floats from its top. Msa. Charles M.
(Jross raised the emblem as the Citi
zens' Band played the Star Spangled
Banner. A squad of members of
Company F. Third Regiment, U. S.
N. G., under command of Corporal
James Faevey, fired a salute, follow
ed by prayer by the Rev. Filmore T.
Kohlor, and a patriotic address by
the Rev. Dr. George H. Johnston.
Prof. J. L. Bucke led the singing
of "America," and closing prayer
was by the Rev. Wesley N. Wright.
Aunt Parson, now in her eight
ieth year, widow of John Parsons, a
veteran of the Civil War, had a place
of honor, and the several surviving
community veterans of the Civil War
were present. A detail of ten mem
bers of the local lodge of Improved
Order of Red Men, of which lodge
one of the soldier boys is a member,
and the parents of all the Duncan
non boys took part in the celebra
tion.