TO PROTCT THE DEPENDENTS OF ENLISTED MEN Concerted Effort Being Made to Insure and Indemnify Fighting Men Washington, Aug. IT _u "1 time in the history of the United States a concerted effort on govern® mental initiative Is now being>*<|e to provide adequate and scientific financial protection for the and enlisted men of the army and navy and for their dependents. Instead of proceeding along the old course of fighting a war first, caring afterwards for injured sol diers and sailors and the families of those killed, the government is now tiio very outset of America s entry into the war laying plans for Insur ing und indemnifying its fighting men. Ai a result of more than a month s constant and intensive study a plan will soon be presented to Congress for consideration which, if adopted, will give to the men "who go to the front the comforting assurance that they will be cared for should they be wounded, and that their depen dents will receive adequate protec tion should they be killed or disabled. The plan is intended to take the place of the pension system so far as concerns men and women engaged in the present war. It is based upon the fundamental idea that the gov ernment should, as a matter of Justice, protect its soldiers and sailors, and their dependent families, and should do this with due regard for condi tions as they exist today. Workmen's compensation laws, pen sion laws In the United States and foreign countries, Insurance practice and other related questions have been investigated during the preparation of the plans, and as a result Informa tion will be presented to Congress which it Is hoped will lead to the enactment of legislation both Just and humane. The necessity for such legislation is admittedly more pressing in this war than in any other to which the United States was a party, because at the outset the government has adopted the selective draft system. Men are now being picked for serv ice at the front by the government. It is generally admitted that under DON'T EDUCATE YOUR BOWELS TO RELY ON Powerful Purgatives It's the worst thing you can do. In time your bowels come to depend so much on stimulation by salts, calomel, etc., thut it is practically impossible to obtain a natural mo'vement. 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Evening, 8.15. *- ' / " V TO-DAY Paws of the Bear WITH William Desmond AND Clara Williams A POWERFUL PI.AY OF LOVE AND INTRIGUE. TO-MORROW SATURDAY METRO'S POPULAR STAR Mabel Taliaferro In "PEGGY, WILL O' THD WISP." *■ \ Regent Theater \IWHJK Cool and Comfortable TO-DAY WALLACE REIDJand MYRTLE STEDMAN In it tbrllllnK Western drama "THE WORLD APART" TO-MORIIOW MARGARET ILLINGTON One of the moat dlntlnKulahed Mtuice "torn of tlie dny, mukea her debut on the screen in "SACRIFICE" *■ THURSDAY EVENING, such conditions the government has a solemn duty to perform t> those selected. In the preparation of the plans shortly <o be submitted to Congress there has been cordial co-operation between several government depart ments and agencies and organizations. Seldom has there been a more thorough study of a question In an effort to solve a vexing problem. Investigate* Problem Inasmuch as the bureau of war risk Insurance of the Treasury. Department is already insuring masters, officers and seamen of American merchant men and also the hulls and cargoes. President Wilson asked Secretary M- Adoo several weegs ago to Investi gate the question, and the Council of National Defense also took up the problem through the Committee on Labor of its Advisory Commission, headed by Samuel Qompers, President of the American Federation of Labor. Judge Julian W. Mack. Frederick L. Hoffman, James W. Sullivan, James Lord and F. Spencer Baldwin, con stituting the section of Compensation for Enlisted Man and Their Depen dents of the Labor Committee, have performed Invaluable work in the preparation of plans. Assistance has also been given by Edwin F. Sweet. Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Captain S. H. Wolfe, representing the War Department, Major Henry Leon ard, representing the Navy Depart ment, Miss Julia Lathrop. represent ing the Department of Labor, Dr. L. S. Rowe, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Hendon Chubb, Chair man of the Advisory Board of the Bureau of Wiar Risk Insurance, Wil liam C. DeLanoy, Director of the Bureau and R. M. Little, Chairman of the Federal Civil Employees' Compen sation Board. The experience and knowledge of the insurance men of the country was early sought by Secretary McAdoo. and out of more than one hundred representatives of different companies who attended a conference called by the Secretary on July 2d in Washing ton grew a committee of twelve In surance men, who studied the prob lem and submitted a comprehensive report to tne Secretary. Inasmuch as a portion of Amerioa's army is already in France, a part of its fleet Is in European waters, and many more soldiers and sailors and marines are in training. Secretary Mc- Adoo has striven to push the prepara tion of plans with all possible speed In the hope that Congress may pass the necessary legislation during the present session. • The plans under consideration are based upon the now generally ac cepted idea that payments on account of soldiers and sailors killed or In jured In service should depend In a measure upon the number of peo ple dependent upon him. It Is plainly evident that this course should be fallowed. Iniler War Risk Bureau In general It is intended that pro vision be made for the support of de pendents of soldiers and sailors by giving them an allotment out of the pay of the men and also an allow ance from the government; that offi cers and men be indemnified against death or total or (partial disability: that a system of rehabilitation and re-education of disabled men be in augurated; and that the government insure the lives of soldiers and sail ors. The new system would be admin istered by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the Treasury Depart ment which is already writing war risk Insurance on masters, officers and crews of American merchant vessels and on American hulls and cargoes. Dependents of soldiers and sailors in service would be provided for through allotments from their pay. supplemented by family allowances by the Government. The amount of the Government allowance would de pend upon the size of the family, and, as to others than the wife and chil dren, upon the actual dependency upon the men. The family allowance would be made only if the soldier or sailor makes an allotment for his dependents out of his pay. Government Will Pay The risk of death or disability would be compensated for somewhat on the analogy of workmen's com pensation acts, with the compensa tion measured by the men's services, the size of the families, and the loss to the family. Partial disabilities would be compensated for upon a per centage of the compensation for total disability. The cost of this compen sation naturally must be paid wholly by the Government. In addition to direct compensation to take the place of pensions, the plan in contemplation would go further and establish an insurance system by the Government under which our sol diers and sailors could obtain insur ance at premium rates based upon the mortality experience tables of peace times. The excess cost due to Increased mortality and disability war risk should clearly be borne by the Government, and the cost of adminis tering the insurance department for the benefit of the nation's fighting men is also a proper governmental charge. The tentative plans would provide for the issuance of Insurance to officers and men In amounts rang ing from J 1,000 to SIO,OOO, with pro vision for payments in installments. Death or total disability would ma ture the insurance. In working out the new system, It Is deemed essential that a system for re-education and rehabilitation be established, so that injured men may be fitted as far as possible for lives of usefulness either in their former or some other vocations. This new idea proposes to impose on the public Treasury the obligation of indemnifying Justly the men who have entered, or are about to enter, the Army or Navy to fight in the cause of liberty. With our men on the soil of France and hundreds of thousands of others about to enter the service of their country, the ques tion Is one of justice and fairness and the plan should be as liberail as it is possible for a Just and generous Re public to make. Indian Maids Soon Tire of City Ways Oakland, Cal. True to their an nouncement, Marlon Wasson and Rosa James, two Indian maidens both aged seventeen years, tiring of city ways after a week's experience here, have "hit" the blazed trail for their beloved tepees near Lovelock. The girls disappeared from the home of Mrs. J. B. Royce, at No. 160 Lake street, where they were employed at housework. Later she received word that the girls had passed through Hayward on their way to Llvermore. Nature Changed by Shock; Sues Company Philadelphia. On the ground that his whole nature was changed by an electric shock, George H. lien, at Camden, brought suit against the Public Service Railway Company for {26.000 damages. Allen was shocked by a dangling live wire on January 2 while driving his team along Warren avenue, Bev erly, and he avers "that hlB whole nature has been changed from that of a happy, active man to an Inactive and morose man." Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad —"The Faws of the Bear." World Apart." PAXTANG PARK—Vaudeville. William Desmond and Clara Wil liams, starred In a powerful drama of love and Intrigue, Is Pawn of running -.through It, la the 1 riangle-iiicc at at Colonial traction at the Colonial to-day only. The story . depicts the adventures of a young American traveler in Bel gium at tne outbreak of the war. He meets a Russian countess, who is of the secret service, and in trying to serve her gets mixed up in diplomatic affairs. The many thrilling compli cations resulting from this meeting • JI" j " l ® bttßis of an exciting story. Added features include a popular Black Cat subject and Pathe News, 10-morrow and Saturay the popular Metro star, Mabel Taliaferro, is the star of a delightful Irish play, "Peggy, Will o' the Wisp." How the landlord and the peasant are continually at odds, and the reason for the fighting desire of the Irish peasant for home rule, is Indicated clearly In this charming story in which Mabel Talia ferro appears. "The AVorld Apart," shown at the Regent to-day. Is a stirring western story with so slender "The World and still so appealing Apurt," nt a thread of romance the Regent running through it is a rarity, but this is Just that—exceptional, and vigorous as the wind in tne western hills. Wallace Reid plays his part with his usual dash and attractiveness, while Myrtle Stedman Is afforded some rare oppor tunities. To-morrow Margaret Illington will be presented in "Sacrifice." This pro duction calls for Miss Illlngton's ap pearance in a double role, that of Mary Stephani, daughter of an Im portant personage in the little king dom of Zandria, and of Vesta Boris, a dancer. The best way to get through the hot spell is not to think about It. and one of the best ways to The Bill forget the heat is to at Pnxtnns take a trolley ride out to Paxtang, get a seat in the big, open-air theater and en- Joy the vaudeville show. And you really can enjoy the bill at the park this week, no matter how warm It is. With Frozini, the world's best ac cordion player as the feature attrac tion. and a surrounding show made up of such acts as Amanda Gray and her Southern boy singers; McDevitt and Kelly, with their grotesque danc ing act; Fisher and Souls, in one of the very funniest of comedy cycling stunts, and The Aerial Cromwells to hand you some real thrills with their clever work on the trapeze, there is little chance to worry about the weather when you are comfortably seated In the park theater. Before the show this evening the park management will give a free fireworks exhibition with a program of pyrStechnical novelties that is guaranteed to please the most fas tidious critic. Special attention will be paid to the aerial part of this week's fireworks display, and some bombs of extraordinary beauty will be shown. Woman Recovers Needle Swallowed 53 Years Ago PleasantvlUe, N. J. Nearly fifty three years ago, Mrs. Daniel Edwards swallowed a needle and to-day It was extracted from her body near the left breast. Twice Mrs. Edwards had felt the needle In her throat, but physi cians were unable to locate It. To-day she felt something sticking her and an Investigation showed the end of a needle protruding from the skin. Her husband pulled it out. It W*B black with the exception of the eye. which was as bright as the day the woman swallowed it when a child. War Thins Numbers of British Tramps London. Statements sent to the local government boards show that the present decrease in pauperism is the biggest In the ranks of the tramps. "The war has made a man of many a tramp," says one of the reports. "A large number are now in the army doing their bit with the rest, and others have found that work Is not such a terrifying thing after all. I know three who never worked before, but are now making muni tions." GERARD GERMANY" H| lAMES W. GERARD'S account of his experiences as United States 11 Ambassador to the German Empire Begins SUNDAY, AUG. 5, in the | PUBLIC LEDGER The National Newspaper—Published in Philadelphia JUDGING from the flood of orders pouring in from all parts of the country, the de - mand will be so great that only those who have ordered in advance can be sure of obtaining copies containing ttye first sensational installment. Be sure that your newsdealer will hold a copy for you, or mail the coupon below for the complete series. Public Ledger Company, Box 1526-C, Philadelphia. Please instruct your carrier in my city to deliver the Public Ledger, daily and Sunday, for the period of the Gerard Series (about six weeks), collecting from me at the customary intervals. If / wish to discontinue at the end of the series I will notify you or the carrier. Name Street City State HARRIKBURG Sl&jti&J TELEGRAPH IN A FRENCH AM Ast>JßLi>r gas Workmen assembling 75 mm. gas bombs in a French ammunition fac tory. (French official war photograph.) FREEDOM IS NO COLORED BUBBLE Freedom 1* not a rainbow colored bubble which can be lightly blown from a pretty little clay pipe. It is a great, heavy ball which one learns to roll up hill and keep in placo aft er it gets there. For if freedom Is left at the edge of a decline, it is likely to roll right down, and gather momentum enough to crush every thin in its path. There is nothing in all the world which has to be handled more in telligently than liberty. For stu pidly managed or cavalllerly treat ed, or too lavishly exploited, it turns into license. Republics are not built over night. Democracy develops slowly. Real liberty of thought or action was cradled In the heart of life at the be ginning of time, and though It was born centuries ago. it is little more than a helpless child even now. So much for background! Liberty has now made clear as a toddling thing which will grow up as big and fine and strong as our dreams of It if we, who are its parents, train it well. No part of freedom belonged to woman in the beginning of things. Men clamored that if you educated her she would be unfit for her du ties. As if all the revolt and refusal in the world would affect nature's inexorable decree that woman shall Wfe the mother of the race! Educat ing woman didn't affect Nature—but it did affect woman, and she became really a mother rather than Just a bearer of children. Gradually through the ages wom an has awakened to a sense of re sponsibility. She knows she has her place in the world and owes some thing to the world. She has a desire to take part in movements which shall be for the good of the race. She feels It her duty to give of her best self to life. She knows and feels and senses all those things—but in working them out she has gone lightly on and has had to meet and slay opposition in and out of her ranks. No one can expect woman to ad- Just herself overnight or in one de cade or yet in one century to her new responsibilities. First of all each woman has to face her own misgiv ings: "Is it possible that I am giv ing up the best there is, the old and tried, for the new and unproved? Am I going to lose my chance at love and loving and home and happiness II I try to develop along the lines which appeal to me?" After she has met the struggle within herself, woman has to meet and conquer other women. And then there is the world of men to face. Opposition everywhere! No wonder the struggle for freedom has left woman in a frame of mind where of some it may be said, "What will she do with it when she gets it?" What will she do with it when she gets it? Make the world a better place for her children. Demand the best of herself. Refuse anything but his best from man. And perhaps the fact that man has been in comfortable, easy-going fashion free to give women his sec ond best or third best or even his worst, is the reason why he doesn't want her to get independent enough to pick and choose and refuse any thing but what is worthy. The whole struggle of feminism comes down to a rather simple resi due after you have boiled it in the Jam pot of life, strained it through the cheesecloth of common sense and let it "Jell" in the glass of prac tical facts. Woman's struggle for freedom, for economic independ ence. for the right to express her self, is Just a struggle to be a hu man being. Dolls, toys—mechan ical or otherwise —or shadows and ghosts, mere housekeepers, breed ers. and all specialized and exploited man-made contrivances must go, and in their stead a living, think ing, feeling being must come. INDUSTRIES FROM PARK ZONE WIDELY SCATTERED By J. HOWARD WERT THIRD AtfD FINAL, PAPER The varied industries and long es tablished business places in the area affected by enlargement of the Capitol grounds became widely scattered, as has been shown in the cases of those mentioned in the last paper. Many of them, naturally,, gravitated to those sections of the city that have been developing in recent years as new and thriving business centers. Cam eron Btreet, in particular, has become lined with vast business plants, and to this great thoroughfare of the fu ture a number of the Eighth ward industries were attracted. The Harrisburg Roll Grinding and Corrugating Company, once located in a portion of the old Jennings Foundry, South and Short streets, is now at 520-522 South Cameron street. The Gordon Manufacturing Company, which started in the Moeslein build ing on State street, and in more re cent years was housed in an exten *Bive building on Walnut street, near the Pennsylvania Railroad, is now advantageously located at Walnut and Cameron streets. Light and Power Conipnny The Harrisburg Light and Power Company, which long had its office on North Third street in close prox imity to one of its power plants, now has its general ofSce at 22 North Sec ond street, while other power plants have been increased in capacity to supply the placo of the one wiped out by park extension. One of the best-known grocery and feed stores of Harrisburg, for more than half a century, was the one founded in Civil War days by Calvin Etter and James Shanklin. For forty four consecutive years it was in bus iness at State and Cowden streets. Calvin Etter, surviving partner of the firm, feeling the advantage of re maining in the vicinity of the spot in which he had built up his trade, erected spacious and well-appointed storerooms and warehouses at 911-917 Cowden street. The business is now conducted by his son. C. Ross Etter. For many years the drugstore of Dr. Thomas A. Thorley was a promi nent feature of State street business life. Among the last of the business Interests to leave the park extension zone, he is now located on Verbeke street, opposite the brick marTcet house. The large brick building, 138 Short street, -and extending far back on South street, once the Jennings Foun dry, has housed many industries in the past quarter of a century, some of which, like the City Star Laundry, already noticed, have expanded into large proportions. Amongst those who have been in this building in re cent years and who were forced out by the park extension was the pat tern and model maker, J. T. W. Mc- Laughlin. He is now at 1205 Capital street. The Day School Building There was but one public school building In the area covered by the enlargement of the Capitol Park, the Day building on North street, erected in 1876. This school structure was an emphatic monument to the Rev. Prof. William Howard Day, D. D., one of the greatest and brainiest men of the colored race who ever resided in Harrisburg. His efforts in behalf of the elevation of his race were un ceasing. and, as a prominent and ag gressive member of the Harrisburg Board of School Control, his opportu nities were exceptional in securing for his people Improved school facili ties. Thus the Day {called at first the Lincoln) schoolhouse was secured by him to better the educational op portunities of the colored pupils who, up to that time, had been packed away, much like sardines in a box, in certain rooms of Franklin Hall, a ramshackle three-story structure on South street, with a multiplicity of uses. From this North street building came the first colored pupils to be admitted to the Boys' High School of Harrisburg, of which the writer of this paper was then the principal. Here again Prof. Day's persistency and shrewdness won the victory, for, incredible as it may seem at this period, there was in the school board AUGUST 2, 1917.. of that day a well-defined scheme to sidetrack the admission of any col ored pupils to the city's high schools. The names of the first admissions were the late the Rev. William H. Marshall and Prof. John P. Scott, both of whom have been powers for good in our city. When the Day school building passed to the State, Its pupils were transferred to other buildings, largely to the Wickersham school in Cowden street. That the structure itself has remained untouched so long Is due to the fact that the Bureau of Chem istry of the State Agricultural De partment has been housed there. The Keeley Institute Although not quite germane to the general title of this series, there are two private buildings soon to be lev eled that seem to demand a brief passing notice. One is the handsome residence erected many years ago at North and j Fourth streets by James Russ. For several years a Keeley Institute was i located here, which was extensively patronized. During the time which elapsed between a first and second oc cupancy of the Russ building by the Keeley Institute It was the home of an excellent hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy under the super- j vision of that noble and devoted woman, Mother M. Clare, then supe rioress of the order in Harrlsburg. During the Spanish-American War, when Camp Meade was in existence contiguous to our city and tvphoid fever was fearully rife through the imperfect sanitation of the camp and the carelessness or incompetence o? some of the aritly officials in charge, the St. Clare Infirmary did a noble work. Many a stricken soldier had reason to bless its shelter and thank God for the ministering care of those devoted Sisters of Mercy. It does indeed seem a pity that a structure so ornate as Is the Russ building and so rich in memories must be leveled. Since its acquisition by the State it has hummed with the activities of the Division of Veterinary Science and the State Live Stock Sanitary Board of the Department of Agriculture. A Monument to Filial Love The one house of all others in the I Capitol Park Extension Zone that I hate to see destroyed is the one of which I told the story in full years ago, under the caption: "A Monument of Filial Love." It is the house. No. 143 North Fourth street, built by Isaac McConnell who once roamed the streets of Harrisburg as a poor Irish lad; and who, when wealth had crowned him in a far western min ing state, hied him back to erect this handsome building and furnish it elaborately so that his mother could spend her declining days in ease and comfort. The facts in regard to the Isaac McConnell house were obtained large ly from Miss Annie Glancy, 133 North Fourth street, who has been amongst the very last of its inhabitants to leave the zone given over to the State. In this house, erected by her father] Miss Glancy was born and there she has lived all her days. Ah! the Capitol Park Extension is a very great improvement, and im provements must be made; but, all the same, sometimes, these improve ments sunder some very tenc}r heart strings. But to return to the McConnell home. When I visited it recently I found the building in charge of "the courteous Jacob Lightner, at the head of the Employment Bureau of the Department of Labor and Industry, in which position he has done efficient service in bringing employers and labor together. This bureau, like the other depart ments of the State government lo cated thick along Fourth street, will soon be obliged to flit, for the edict has gone forth that all buildings must come down. The Kurzenknnbe Prlntery Quite a prominent industry of the Eighth ward during many years past has been the printing and binding plant conducted by J. H. Kurzen knabe in the large brick building at Short and South streets, already men tioned. He, too. has at length secured 9 a suitable location for the conti! ance of his business. The bakery of George W. Orth i for many yearß a feature of 8t street near Fourth. A little th like a capltol park extension co not crush a man of Mr. Orth's g and he Is still In business, as br as aver. In an uptown location. • Moorliend Knitting Company , For almost a generation the Mo head Knitting Company has beer prominent Industrial feature of < city. For many years It was loca in the extensive manufacturing pli abutting on Walnut and South str near the tracks of the Pennsylvai Railroad. Here, too, the Gor< Manufactory, already mention found a home after leaving the Mo abutting on AValnut and South stree Now both these Industries are cated in most convenient and co modious quarters at the Intersect! of Walnut and Cameron streets. • •••**• Thus has been traced with gr brevity the present Eighth ward. T razing of buildings has leveled so that we are sorry to think we w see no more—some around wh clustered many historic situations. But it has also removjhl *. vast ai of bad housing conditions and modes of living that were conducl to neither health nor morality, is the duty of our civic authorltl in particular, and of every citizen his sphere, to see that these a eliminated entirely, not merely trail ferred to another location. (THE END.) His Undying Love Spoiled Movie Fil Los Angeles. Cal. Declaring * undying love for an actress for a lo( film company. Herbert Hynes, twent six years old. was arrested for spol ing a film at the company's studio 1 intruding his person before the cat era in an attempt to get near tl girl. He is in the psychopathic ward the county hospital for n ope-ratlo Some six months ago Haynes w arrested for annoying the actress. I went to he>r home at three o'clock the morning and In true Romeo sty threw pebbles against her window panes. He declared his romance h been of long standing, as he kne the girl years ago. She, howev denies all knowledge of the man. SKIN ERUPTION QUICKLY HEALEI Itasli Had Broken Out On Fac Arms anil Shoulders, Says A. Curcio "MICH OBLIGED," IIE SAYS "I was a sight, I was ashamed 1 be seen," says Antonio Curcio, \ Balm street, llarrisburg. Pa. "M face and neck, my arms and shou ders were all broken out with sorr kind of a rash. "I sell the fruit and it hurt m business for my customers did n< like to see it. I was losing mon but what to do. I did not know unt the Tanlac man he so kindly told m "Much obliged I am to the Tanla man and his good medicine for no the rash is gone. I do not have any moje and my skin is clear an business is good with me again. "I do not know what made tl rash but I think it came from m blood. It was perhaps poisoned bv Tanlac that good medicine made clean. I feel all right. Fine. An I tell my customers that Tanlac Is good medicine for them. I know." Tanlac, the famous reconstructs tonic, is now being introduced her at Gorgas' Drug Store, where th Tanlac man is meeting the peopl and explaining the merits of thl master medicine. Tanlac Is also sold at the Gorga Drug Store in the P. R. R. Station in Carlisle at W. G. Stephens' Phai macy; Elizabethtown, Albert W Cain; Greencastle, Charles B. Car Middletown, Colin S. Few's Phat macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft' Pharmacy; Meehantcsburg, H. i< Brunhouse.—Adv,
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