10 SCHOOL BOARD BLOCKS ACTION ON MEASURES Stop Proposed Plan to Inves tigate Gary System For New Junior High School A plan to have a thorough Investi gation and report on the Gary school system. giving recommendations as to Its adaptability In connection with the construction of the new Junior High Schools In Harrlsburg, was blocked yesterday afternoon by the majority members of the school board. A resolution to have the Investiga tion made by two school directors, Dr. l>ownes. Professor J. J. Brebm, one of the Jhnlor school principals, and a citizen to be named by the Citizens Advisory Committee, was presented by Director A. C. Stamm. As an ex planation of his action, Mr. Stamm stated many persons were Interested in the Gary system and that such an Investigation as was proposed In the resolution would mean scarcely any delay In the building program. Directors 8011, Boyer, Brets and Keen fought the Idea from the start, raising all kinds of objections, Mr. Bretz declared he was sure the Gary system was not at all adaptable for Harrisburg. proceeding to outline the system as he thought It to be. He asked Dr. Downes to tell of the plan. Dr. Downes almost flatly contradict ed Mr. Bretz's description, although he agreed that tne plan could hardly be used here unless it was modified to a certain extent. Dr. Keen objected to the possible expenditure of SSOO for the expenses of ths Investigation. Mr. Stamm re plied that It would only be fair to pay the expenses incurred in getting a report on the Gary plan. Director Boyer's opinion was that such a report with ultimate changes would interfere with the plans and contracts with the architects. Sec retary Hammelbaugh set him right by explaining that it would not In terfere. Director Boll's complaint against the resolution was the delay which would result, and the con stantly increasing price of building materials. When the vote was called President Werner remained standing when Di rectors Enders, Bacon and Stamm voted for the resolution and Directors Keen, 8011, Boyer and Bretz voted against it. Mr. Stamm's resolution follows: In the building construction for which the voters have authorised the school board to borrow $1.250,0C0 there is included a new building for inter mediate, or Junior hign school pur poses. on Allison's Hill and the re modeling of two other buildings for the same purposes. The next logical step on the part of the board with re spect to these buildings, and oae which properly may be taken w't*i as little delay as need be, is to decide what kind of buildings are desired their size, facilities, etc. Mr. Brehm, who ;s to be the princi pal of the new building, his advised the board in some detail that In sev eral trips of inquiry and Investigation he has recently made to other cities, he finds not only that there is no ac cepted standard of facilities or cir ricula for schools of this grade, they differing radically in different cities in which the general policy of the In termediate or junior high school has been adootod; rut alsi that changes in facilities, curricula, etc., are veiy rapid, due. cf course, o tho fact that the junior i-i.hool idea Is compara tively new. and has not yet ap proached its complete development. It would seem that for these reasons a very thorough and careful Investiga tion of the subject of Juniur high school buildings and teaching should be trade by this board to enable it to t'ecide upon the type of buildings to be erected and provided in Ilarris burg, in advance of the preparation of any plans. Also, there is in this community a sentiment more or less pronounced, on the part, perhaps, of a relatively limited number of people, but of peo ple who are deeply and intelligently Interested in the public school system, that before the type of Junior high school buildings shall be finally de termined. an examination and report upon what is known as the Gary plan of teaching should be nade. the Gary plan being n plan developed by Mr. William Wirt, in Gary. Indiana, and now finding favor in other cities, it being In operations In some schools in New York, and now being put into operation in some schools in Phila delphia; Now. therefore, be it Resolved, That a committee consisting of two mem bers of this board, Dr. Downes, the superintendent of schools: Mr. Brehm, the principal o* the Junior high school, and one citizen to be selected the Citizens Advisory Committee, to consider and report upon the question of the tvpe of all three proposed Junior high school buildings and of the facilities to be afforded by them; said commitee to report to this board, with their rec ommendations. not later than the next regular meeting, their report to in clude an estimate, made with the aid and advice of the respective archi tects. of the cost of erecting the new Junior high school buildings and of remodeling the Camp Curtin and Cen tral High School buildings for Junior high school purposes. Resolved, That anv expenses In curred by this cominitee. not to ex ceed $500.00, shall be paid by the board, and that the amount thereof be paid out of the contingent fund. Prior to the presenting of Mr. Stamm's resolution, many routine business questions were disposed of Including the adoption of committee reports and the acceptance of the resignation of J. Grant Koons as er gineer at Tech High School. After the vote on the resolut'on. architects were called In to pre?ent plans for the annex to the Harris school and for the new open-air school. Architects participating in the competition were M. N. Lair, C Harry Kain, Frank G. FahnestockJr R. R. Markley, Robert Williams, c! Howard Lloyd and Johnson and Kel ker. A special meeting of the board will be held on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, to select the plans. Bell 2360 ' Dial 4914 New Five and Seven Passenger CABS FOB HIRE Special Rates by Day or Week Day and Night Service Unequaled City Garage 116-18 Strawberry Street Roar Union Trust Bldg. Market Square SATURDAY EVENING. GOVERNOR'S AX WORKING WELL More Bills Are Vetoed; Op posed to Interlocking Direc torates in Banks Governor Brumbaugh vetoed the Senate bill designed to repeat a part of the act of 1534 re-chartering the Karmeri and Mechanlcd bank 0f Philadelphia and a section of the act of 1840 regulating bank* on the ground that the repealer would legalize Interlocking directorate*, which he says have national dlsap proval, and adds that no one has given the least reason for lt passage. "Its proponent was urged to explain Its purpose" says the governor. "The explanation after weeks of waiting has not given much Information." The governor also vetoed the House bil authorizing owners or lessees of property to kill blackbirds under certain conditions. The gov ernor Eays the act of June 7 desig nates blackbirds as game birds and makes provision for their killing and that this bill is not necessary. ' In vetoing the House bill authoris ing courts to make orders for re moval of bodies from cemeteries ad jacent to cities the governor says the bill does not provide whence the funds are to come or where the bodies are to be taken, while he Bays there is doubt as to who would own the cemeteries after the bodies aro removed. "Some one may want this ground. These neglected bodies are In the way. This bill would remove them and make easy the acquisition by some one of this ground," saya the governor. The House bill appropriating SO,- 500 for payment of Increase of salar ies of mine Inspectors under a re cent act was also vetoed. The gover nor sny%: "Morally these Inspectors are entitled to this Increase, legally they ore not." He holds that the bill Is unconstitutional. The bill for a new edition of Fron tier Forts of Pennsylvania was dis approved because the Legislature did not provide enough funds. LINDNER GOLF COURSE OPEN FOR RED CROSS BENEFIT Carlisle, Pa., July 7.—John Lind ner wishes to announce that the golf course at Forest Hills, his country place, has been open for the past month to all players fond of tho same. Any person is welcome to play on the course provided they comply with the rules and regula tions of any well regulated country club. A nominal charge for every person will be made and contributed to the National Red Cross Society. OLD-FASHIONED LOVE FEAST Blaln, Pa.. July 7. —An old-fash ioned love feast was held last even ing in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at New Germantown, con ducted by the Rev. G. H. Knox, pas tor. The Holy Communion will be observed on Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock. SI2OO Five-Passenger CAR AHEAD" ZTZIZ comicm.mi Four-Passenger . pu>T ioio C Roadster Season after season, for seven 3-ears, Pilot Motor Cars have retained an individuality or personality which has elevated them above the common run of cars and made them the unhesitating choice of exclusive buyers. Ensminger Motor Co. Green and Cumberland Streets I •" y ▼ -▼ -9 Vy▼WWWT> yW▼ ▼ ▼ *r ▼T▼.▼ ▼ ▼ ..▼ 1 ▼ T. TT TV <r^r l j: A N NOUNCEME NT! < The King* Motor Car Co. £ (Detroit, Mich.) < J Are Pleased to Announce the Appointment as Their < ► Dealers For Harrisburg and Vicinity ' ; The Rex Garage and Supply Co. 1917 North 3rd Street < This well-known concern has adopted the King line because they believe in its many claims for superiority i Here are some of the claims and statements of facts: < In the n g silence, economy and ease of operation are the natural features of its perfect mechanism. •< A °de m this car will make a new epoch in your motoring experience. A ride spoils you for other cars. \ ► The King Car embodies improvements and refinements in eight-cylinder construction, which could be offered ► • onl y °y a company that has its "Eights" in operation all over America and in thirty foreign lands. ► Evc:^tis°action. an big * powerful ei g ht " c y lin der King Car will return many miles of matchless riding k Watch the ease in which the King takes the difficult spots for motorists right in this city. < \ Quick deliveries on all models, priced as follows, f. o. b. Detroit. Mich.— < , Series EE 7-Passenger Touring $1,650 < ► Series EE 4-Passenger Foursome $1,700 i ► Series EE 3-Passenger Roadster $1,585 i Series EE 7-Passenger Sedan $2,300 ' 1 NATIONAL GUARD TO GO JULY 15 Foreign Muster on August 5, So No Commission Will Have Precedence Washington, July The Penn sylvania National Guard Will be mustered into the Federal service on July IS, as originally planned, It will hot, however, be drafted tor service abroad until August 6. Thle policy Was stated definitely to-day by General Manrf, chief of the division of mllltla affairs. For weeks there hoe been Indecision in the War Department us to whether the first plan announced for calling out the National Guard Would have to bo "Changed, The plan contemplated taking tho Guard in three incre ments, tho first on July 15, the sec ond on July 35 and the third on Au gust 6. By taking tho first contingent on July 15 and tho second on July 25, they will be merely mustered Into the Federal service for duty within the limits of the country. On August 5 It is the Intention to draft them for foreign service, and In so doing all commissions will be dated from Au gust 5, so that there will bo no ques tion of precedence or rank, as would be the case If some commissions were dated before others. It is not known yet where the Pennsylvania Guard will go for Its training. Two training camps re main to be selected, and one will be for the Pennsylvania Guard and the other for the New York division. The plan now contemplates sending the militia to the camps Just as rap- Idly as the camps are ready. It Is probable that the various commands will be held In their armories for a few days to do recruiting, and if the camps are ready they will be sent to them direct. In the case of the Pennsylvania Guard, it is expected that after a few days In tho armories It will be sent to Mount Gretna and then to the southern training camp. All that could be learned to-day about the camp Is that It will be In the Depart ment of the Southeast under co'm mand of General Wood. However, the War Department expects to make the selection definitely within a few days. "It has been definitely determin ed," said General Mann, "to call the Guard in three Increments as ori ginally planned, but that there may be no question of precedence or rank involved, they will not be drafted into the Federal service subject to foreign duty until August 5. Thus every officer will stand on the same basis whether mustered in on July 15, July 25 or August B. "There has not been a determi nation of the question where the Pennsylvania Guard is to be trained. This division as well as the New York division remains to be placed. But in a short time the question will be settled. It is the intention of the department to get the Guard into the training camps Just as quickly as possible so it may begin instruc- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH tton to fit it for active Borvlce abroad." "Word has come from the quarter master's department that the neces sary equipment 'will be ready when the Guard is called, and that the first contingent can be outfitted as ■oon as mustered in. Bome doubt exists as to the ability to do this, but in any event there will be no delay in taking the Guard Into the Federal service. Briscoe Light Delivery Shows Great Economy The Briscoe Light Delivery car la making a name for Itself among the retail merchants of tha coun try. A merchant of Rlveralde, 111., A. A. Bonow, by name, who runs a grocery and market has written the factory that the total cost of oper ating the Briscoe during the four worst months of the year was $59.29. Thts covered gasoline, grease, alco hol for radiator, and two new spark plugs. The car's mileage was 2,794. Mr. Bonow says he replaced two horses and two wagons and one driver with the Briscoe delivery car and more than doubled the efficiency of his de livery system. His customers have also been pleased with the Improve , ment In the dispatch of their pur chases and he regrets that he did not Briscoelze his delivery service sooner. Seven Injured When Car Overturns on Steep Hill Lewlstown, Pa., July 7. —An auto mobile party from this place met with a serious accident near Allens ville, this county, on Thursday even ing. A tire blew out on a steep hill and the machine fell over on one side, pinning several of the occu pants beneath the car. *■ Brcon Miller, aged 46, of this place, owner and driver of the car. received a bad laceration of the knee, face and head; Mrs. Charles Blair, of Pittsburgh, aged 60, re ceived internal injuries, fracture of several left ribs and many bruises, condition serious; Miss Olive Menold, of Pittsburgh, aged 68, wound In head and body injured; condition serious. Miss Olive English, of Lewis town, aged 40, injured about face, arms and body. Mrs. Breon Miller, of Lewlstown, aged 38, numerous abrasions and bruises. Mrs. Margaret Miller, of Lewlstown, aged 72, bruises. Miss Cornelia Miller, of Lewistown, aged 14, cut in face. // a whole year's cost // of operation by // BUYING NOW V\ ' / Fifty makers of motorcars have already advanced prices. \ Packard new car prices will go up soon. But instead of boosting prices on Renewed Packard Twin-Sixes, we shall continue to sell them at present big reductions from actual performance and pleasure car values. If new car prices hold high and go higher, any Used Car listed below should depreciate very slightly by next season. 1916 1-25 Packard Twin Six Touring, repainted and guar anteed faioo 1916 1-35 Packard Twin Six Touring, repainted and guar- / i anteed 92300 / / l L 1914 Chalmers, Master Six "-passenger Touring $450 / / \ \ 1914 Pullman "-passenger Touring. / / \ \ MOO / / \ \ 1913 Chalmers 5-passenger Touring. r— / / Packard Motor Car Co. NX of Phila. "MO CAA Front and Market Sts. AfjS Harrisburg. Pa. t Harrisburg 2694. /N T/i£ WO/?LD Firestone Company Helps Employes to Own Homes Finding homes and providing en tertainment for lta 18,000 employes In "the city of atanding room only" la the task set for Itself by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. Hundreds of new workers pouring Into the city which has "run away from itself" as one magazine writer describes It, have presented a gigan tic problem in housing. The Fire stone company early saw the diffi culties of getting men to stay at their lobs unless they were given clean, pleasant places to live, and imme diately set about the solution of tho problem. A huge allotment has been opened by the company not far from the plant, and lota are sold to employes on easy payments at low prices. A house may be built at cost by the employe and paid for o per cent, down and one per cent, a month. But this does not take care of the hundreds of employes who are constantly coming to Akron from dis tant cities, attracted by the eight hour day and ideal working condi tions. Many of these meen have no money when they arrive and fre quently leave their families behind until they can forward them money to pay their transportation. For these workers the company has built a little village of temporary homes on the ground surrounding its plant In this village, where the dwellers live a simple life—there are accommodations for 1,600. The com munity is governed by the strictest sanitary and police regulations en forced by the villagers themselves. The company doctors and nurses make weekly inspections and report that the village is the most healthy community in Akron. Within a stone's throw are the Firestone war gardens where employes are raising sixty acres of vegetables for their own use. The residents of the village are changing at intervals as enterprising workers get a house in Firestone Park or buy a lot to build on. But there is always somebody to move in. For entertainment and recreation, there is the $350,000 clubhouse with bowling alleys, swimming pool, showers, reading rooms, and audi torium. During the recent, campaign for Red Cross funds In Akron, the employes of the office presented a two-act operetta in the clubhouse and turned the proceeds, SI,OOO, into the Red Cross fund, A moving pic ture show is given once a week free to the employes in the clubhouse auditorium. In. this city "built In spite of itself." Firestone workers are well provided for. Motor Cars Invaluable in War Says Ensminger "Motor cars and the improved country roads for which they are re sponsible, will prove crucial factors in case the Germans should succeed in bringing the war to American shores," says E. C. Ensminger, local distributor for the Dort Motor Car Company. "The three million and a half automobiles now running In this country could move an army of fif teen million men. Europe has had no such advantages and it is well worth the study of our military authorities as to just how this won derful force could be best mobilized and used in case of necessity. "This thought is also well worth the consideration of civilians. What our cars might do in war is indi cated by the wonders they have ac complished in peace. They have been the greatest creators of wealth and conservators of health of any utility •we can boast." Carlisle Manufacturer Sends Women's Shoes to Belgium Carlisle. Pa., July 7.—Five cases shipped from here to New York this! ■week, contained 325 pairs of 1 ■women's shoes and they will be sent to the interior of Belgium by the 5-Passenger Touring $725 3-Passenger Clover-Leaf ({'Toe I Roadster % \ Ensminger Motor Co. Green and Cumberland Streets Bell Phone 3515 * | will replace 4 llorses.4 Horses j U Cost You $ 541 a year to keep. r J> K Smith Form-a-Truck costs*l4o&r •; •5 farmers are replacing slow, & P. costly horses with Smith ForrQ-a-Trucks. You are I a adopting modern machinery on your farm. Why not Jl •J adopt modern hauling methods? J| || Does Work of 4 Horses _ Smith Form-a-Truck costs noth- Zm . ing while idle. The minute the *1 ■ 1 One Smith Form-a-Truck does engine stops your cost stops. And 14 twice the work of 4 horses. And at when working, it earns four times '<• b half the cost. Yet Smith Form-a- as much as horses. Truck costs not one penny more than ■£ a good team and harness—onlys3so g c p er f on j^jjj e J® Smith Form-a-Truck on the farm will iM "| do any work horses can do —will go 6000 to 8,000 miles per set of tires—l 2 "<■ L any place horses can go. to 18 miles per gallon of gasoline—l 2to fcf 7a . 15 miles per hour under full load—repair |fl Save This expense practically nothing. Government figures say it cost $441 Now fnr fi f • 5% I a year to feed and stable four horses. £ow_maae_ror b Cars li Ik Veterinary—medicines—extra men— Smith Form -a - Tnirk P. A? bedding—all cost extra. Smith Form-a- combined with a Ford MaxwS? Ruick f' Truck costs you only $l4O a year. D odgJ II 5* Government figures also show four chassis makes a powerful, economical, PJ horses eat the crop of 20 acres. Get a fully guaranteed one-ton truck. f m yO. Smith Form-a-Truck and save 20 acres. Jk *<• Sell 4of Your Horses Convertible Farm Bodjr || Use the horses for plowing, seeding' rn £h|lif-^ r get , a ?. y one of eight and harvesting. Don't delay farm work farm bodies—stock rack t>i Pi by using horses for hauling. Your Smith Z^: n _Ss? basket rack—hog rack |4| ■4 Form-a-Truck will carry your manure— e ~~ fct JM hay—fertilizer and everything else. ™ p . b° ar d down. Change from one type to another in an instant. $9 Costs Nothing While Idle And without a single tool. M 9' , . . TT7 Come in—let us show you more reasons l Horses devour profits in feed whether why you should have Smith Form-a- they work or not. Truck on your farm. 2)1 Camp Curtin Garage o|i 7th and Camp Streets Bell 1093-J JULT 7, 1917, Belgium Relief Society, at the re quest of John Lindner, President of the Lindner Shoe Company. If any one wishes to make any contribu tions in the way of wearing opparel. Batteries I 1 You will find that the marvelous machine-pasted plate USL Start er Battery, due to its exclusive v improved inside construction, I actually lasts longer and gives \ " 1 more power than any other start- | er battery. Rigid and impartial X © (D tests have proved this. +■ (1) | The USL 15 months Guaranteed 0 1 ® I Adjustment Plan is the most V 2 | liberal offered by any battery | maker. So be Battery Happy— irt 3 U = Buy a USL. | Complete stock, all sizes for all 1 | cars. Free inspection of any battery, regardless of its make, at all times. STANDARD AUTO SUPPLIES CO. 113 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa. a few lines to Mr. Lindner will b< appreciated. Any goods forwardW to the Lindner Shoe Company WiM go to New York to be shipped t4 Belgium byway of Holland.
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