2 STEEL COMPANIES REJECT 8-HOUR DAY CONTRACTS Heads of Great Concerns Say Observance of Law Would Decrease Production ■Washington. Oct. 2.o—The great Etoel companies of the nation, Includ ing the United States Steel, the Beth lehem and Carnegie companies, as v.-til as the International Harvester Company, have refused to sign con tracts which contain a provision for iui eight-hour workday and tiui® and one-half for overtime. They are fins ahead on the work of the War JL-epattment without contracts, rely i.-a for payment simply on the ac- of their bids by the Depart ment. Baker and James A. F*r lv'l!, president of the United States i. tee! Corporation, have been in vlg- T IUUS correspondence in regard to litis matter, but as yet have been i.,:able to reach agreement. iae controversy in regard to the ir.iiuduction of the eight-hour day, uh-time and one-halt tor overtime, i.i Miose portions of the steel mills \. ii. h are engaged upon work for ihe eminent involves several knotty • points, as well as several ques l.uuK of major policy. The sieel i ..I'.ufacturers claim tliat the intro i uction of llie eight-hour day will i.ow up the operation of their works {.l'eatly and, therefore, is undesirable , in wartime. They further insist that as the work for the War Department which Kills under the eight-hour provision iwmprises only a small portion of i..eir output, ihey will have men on iii eight-hour schedule working be t de men on nine and ten-hour sched i, os, which will inevitably lead to troubles and strikes. They also contend that as they have hitherto generally paid on the 1- ece-work basts, the introduction ot i lie eight-hour day on the War De partment work will be the begin ning of a revolution in their entire method of handling labor. DIES IN CANADA Mount Joy, Pa., Oct. 20.—Joseph V. itmer. of New Providence, on ' liursday received a telegram that his son, Charles Witmer. died in Can ida and that the body was being sent home for burial. He was thirty < ight years old and left his home when a boy. For many years he traveled throughout the west, finally locating in Canada with a firm of i vntractors. Lot us glove you with a pair of these before-the-war kind of Gray Mocha Gloves At $2.50 It's a blessing to be able to get this kind. We've others too, $1.50 "> $3.50 FORRY 42 X. 3rd. Open Evenings. Bright Glasses Igpf for WRONG RIGHT GLASSES right in quality, appearance, accuracy and adjustment. WRONG EYES wrong in focus, power, strength and clear ness. We rescue wrong; sight by furniNhing right Klauea R. I>. PRATT Eyesight Specialist 26 NORTH Till III) STIiKET SchleikQer Building llf n * verß^es Dictionary g H HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I One Coupon Secures the Dictionary HOW tO Get It Presen^i^nai^^tta!^ For th, MT* CW/ paper one like the above I acft "° ° ' JOrt with ninety-eight cents to I 1 Coupon AO C °T COSt , of handling, H and "OC packln S- clerk hi", etc. secure this NEW authentic MAIL a<uira^,, Dictionary, bound in real ORDERS im flexible leather, illustrated WILL with full pages in color ) BE and duotone 1300 pages. PULED **" 25 DICTIONARIES IN ONE All Dictionaries published previa SATURDAY EVENING, The Diary of a U-Boat Commander (Copyright, 1917, by the New York Herald Co. —All Rights Reserved) (Copyright Canada by New York Herald Company) (Translated from the Original German by Irving R. Bacon) 1915—15 September Well, little book, it's a long time since I have confided my thoughts and inmost feelings to thee. Even thou has Jost interest for me. Noth ing but slaughter and monotony in an uninterrupted cycle of recur rence. daily, week in and week out —God, God. it is driving me mad! Mad, not because I am engaged in the work of destruction which is common to all wars, but because the destruction is so trightfully at va riance with all my preconceived no tions of right and Justice. As long as we wr out to kill the men who came ag&4l|i|t us In cruisers, battleships, destr<*yirs and other warships why, 1 hd come to think it nothing to steal upon them un awares and fire the torpedoes and shells which sent them pell mell to destruction. That's war; and though it be abhorrent to the liner feelings ot the better constituted part of mankind, there is nothing In it that anybody can brand as more unjust : for the one belligerent than for the other. But when it comes to slnk | Ing merchant vessels or passenger ' steamships, without as much as a moment's warning, often sending the | souls of sleeping men, women and i children before their Maker, dear Lord, deliver me from so barbarous, j so savage a warfare! Frits, too. deprecates this sort of ! thing. In fact, he is so outspoken j in regard to his detestation of that I kind of "mtehery that I fear he may ! get himself as well as the rest of !us Inlo trouble. Most of my men are inherently humane and, with j the exception cf Halbert and Hans I Eglau, do not easily accommodate ] themselves to what the English j have not inappropriately called our ! "U-bout warfare of frightfulness." Halbert and Eglau are too ultra patiiotlc (or shall I call it wltra idiotic) to recognize that even In the treatment of an enemy there musi be a decent regard paid to the I opinion of mankind. A small British schooner which we shelled two weeks ago went i down with every soul aboard. Not one survived! Not one! And, O God there was a mother and her babe among those who went down j with the litt'e craft. We could see the poor woman coming up on deck, 1 clutching her little one frantically ,to her heart. True, we tried every | thing in an effort to save at least these two, but there was no trace I of them nor of any of the others ! after the vessel went gurgling be | neath the surface. A storm was raging at the time. ' Tt was the first storm of the season | and came up just about when we fired the shell which doomed the schooner. I have been since trying to soothe my conscience with the anaesthetizing belief that the vessel would have gone down any way, in so terrific a cyclone into which the storm developed at its height. "Fritz," I asked my ever ready friend and counsellor, "is there any mitigation of guilt for a murderer if he is reasonably sure that his vic tim was doomed to death any way, and could not have lived more than a few hours longer." "Well, I have never qualified as an expert in casuistry," replied Fritz; "but I think that there can be no doubt that murder is mur der and can never be beautified or exonerated or exculpated by any sort of excuse. But, if your query , has reference to those poor devils aboard the schooner, I think the most rigorous moralist would hold you innocent. You have no right 1 to do otherwise than your war lord's 1 command. If you disobey their order to kill women and babes, who ! knows what scheme of theirs, of : the highest moment to the country's weal, you may cross and defeat by : your humane insubordination." Fritz had a volume of Shakes- I peare in his hand. "See " he said, i "I can find food for every mental craving in my beloved Shakespeare : —that acme of genius; that almost , supernatural paragon of poets. I, too, felt rather depressed by the de- INTHECAMP For Many ILLS Had way's "Beady 25 -^Belief iH A Quick Acting All nrocKUt*. JLft, Remedy For Sciatica, Sore Back, Lumbago, Sore Throat, Sprains, Bruises, Neu ralgia, Rheumatism, Sore Muscles, Cold in Chest. Also Internally for Bowel Complaints struction of the schooner. So I be took me to reading "Macbeth.' And, presto, what have I found? Solace; for here I Bee murder stalking about in so various a form that I forgot about the share I have had in our own slaughterings, and, by contrast Willi Macbeth and his lady. 1 can ainioft consider my own hands clean." Fritz's assumed merry mood jolted me Also out of the doldrums, and from Shakespeare, whom, of course, both Fritz and I read In the original, we got to speaking of other writers and, linally, of literature in general. "The world has gone crazy over Bhaliow literature," said Fritz. "It is pitiful to think that publishers and writers should be so blinded to their own best interests as to believe that the people do not care for anything but the most abominably ephemeral rot. "A few months before the war an American publisher told mo that the reason only novels with thrills and hair raising adventures are wanted and nothing else published, is thai the people will not read books of an enduring character. He said that when a Fielding or a Smollet novel is republished less than fifteen thousand copies are sold while the modern 'best sellers,' ■which, as a rule, are the veriest abysmal non sense and bristling with doctrines counter to reason as well as to ex perience, have a sale of hundreds of thousands of copies. "That is why we publishers do not want to handle anything except what we know is on a level with the heads of the readers,' said this man. "The publishers do not realize that the reaaing public can set gratis, In the labraries, Fielding, Smoliet, Vic tor Hugo and other great writers who have poured into their pages the life-long gatherings of study, ouser vatton and thinking, and that thijs is why there is no great demand by purchase, for their republished works. The 'best sellers' are not to be had in the libraries, and that is why they sell so abnormally. But it by no means follows that writers of the present day who would put into into their pages such fruit as the Fieldings. the Smollets, the Vic tor Hugos and others of tnat calibre have given would find no ready mar ket. 1 tell you, Hans, the public is just heart hungry for good litera ture, and publishers and newspaper editors are combined by a most re markable self-delusion to prevent literature of that sort from reach ing the readers. That is why, with all the compulsory education in the world, there is no real kultur—no, Hans, not even in Germany, the home of kultur, for the puollshers there are no different than the American one X just instanced." (To Be Moral Conditions Better in Camp Meade Than in Other Mational Army Camps By Atteciatii Prttt Baltimore, Oct. 20.—Social evils among drafted men at Camp Meade, Md., are four times greater than in the Regular Army, was the statement made last night at the meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association by Lieutenant Colonel H. W. Hunt ingdon, of the Maryland cantonment, and his chief aid, Captain Charles M. W illlams. The statement was re ceived with surprise. The officers stated that Camp Moade's rate is lewer than in any other cantonment. They asserted the morale of the men of Maryland, the District of Columbia and of the eastern part of Pennsyl vania in training here was, better than found in other camps. Captain Williams said the social evil is being fought by the Govern ment on the principle that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS Marietta, Pa.. Oct. 20. —Christian Kauffman, aged 75, died at Millers ville Thursday night He lived in the same house the past fifty years. He served two enlistments during the Civil War, and was in many engage ments. He is survived" by his wife, three children and a number of brothers and sisters. Isaac C. Hogendobler. aged 86, died Thursday at Silver Springs. His parents were among the first to set tle in that section. He was a school teacher many years and was by trade a shoemaker, repairing shoes for sol diers while they were serving at the front in the Civil and Spanish-Amer ican wars. His wife and seven chil dren survive. ENTERTAINS MOTORCYCLISTS Dauphin. Pa„ Oct. 20.—A motor cycle party from Harrisburg was en tertained by Mr. and Mrs. Levi Mc- Kissic. The evening was spent with music and games and an oyster sup per was served to: Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Cless. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hertz, Mr. and Mrs. James Harbold, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Vech, Mrs. George Flte, Miss Anna Cless, Miss Mae Vich, Miss Mary Spangler, all of Harrisburg; Miss Viola McKisslc and Mr. and Mrs. L. R. McKisslc. IN HONOR OF GUESTS Dauphin. Pa., Oct. 20. —Miss Cora Coffrode entertained a dinner party Thursday at her home in Erie street in honor of her guests. Miss Irene Umberger and Miss Mamie Cam eron, of Washington. D. C. The fol lowing were present: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Speece, Speeceville; Mrs. Lucy Travers, Andrew Travers, Charles Wiley, Marysville: Mrs. H. S. Hranyan, Millerstown; Mrs. C. E. Hoover, Rockville; Mr. and Mrs George Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Welker, Bion, Roy and Paul Welker, all of Dauphin. CAPTAIN JAMES DUFFY HOME Marietta. Pa.. Oct. 20.—Captain James Duffy, of the Commissary De partment of the United States Army, stationed at Alexandria. Louisiana, Is in Marietta for several days. He was called home on account of the death of his brother. Donald Cameron Duffy, and the serious illness of his mother. Mrs. Martha Duffy. Captain Duffy is In the best of helath. His son. Ensign James Duffy, Jr., has re turned to Boston to resume training he having passed the ex amination for the United States Navy recently. / RAISED RIG TURNTPS Mount Joy, Pa.. Oct. 20.—Mrs. John Canan. on her farm at An drews' Bridge, had a great crop of turnips, one of which weighed nine and three-quarter pounds. It is ot an ordinary variety, but of an extra ordinary size and Is big enough for several meals. Last year there was a poor crop and they sold for a big figure. This year thers is a big crop and they are ■elling for sixty centa a busheL HARRISBURG HOOVER TESTS HIS WAR BREAD Weight and Price to Be Fixed For United States Standard Washington, D.' C., Oct. 20.—Her Bert C. Hoover will receive to-day a report on the success of the new war I'ieaci which Philadelphlans were the flrst to taste. Benjamin R. Jacobs, baking- expert uf the Bureau .ol Chemistry. Department of Agricul ture. who has conducted the experi ments resulting in the introduction o. the bread in Philadelphia, returned U Washington late last night and will report to the food administrator. The formula and other details o. the experiments made in Philadel phia will not be announced by the food administration until this report has been considered and figures on cost of production and distribution are received from the Federal Trade Commission. When this has been done and the food administrator is convinced that the war bread is established beyond uoubt, lie will issue regulations for a standard loaf of so many ounces to be sold at a fixed price. This will be known as the ofiicial Hoover loaf. The war bread developed by Mr. Jacobs is not a war bread in the 'Eu ropean acceptance of the term, as the war breads of France are mix tures. Ttie loaf developed by Mr. Jacobs is a wheat bread entirely, the formula being much more simple than that of the ordinary wheat, loaf. It is designed to save wheat and lard, but is held to have as high nutritive value as the 014 loaf. Mr. Jacobs has been eating the war bread in his own home for many months and his wife has been intro ducing it in Washington through her friends and acquaintances. It was stated U>-day that between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 loaves a week have been turned out In Philadelphia. The war bread Is declared to be especially adapted for use by the large bake ries. The Federal Trade Commission's How You Would Feel on Your First Air-Trip I By a Rookie Aviator • ALL the thrills of the first "joy ride," the excitement of the solo flight and the nerve-racking ordeal of the "yellow test" vividly described by one of Uncle Sam's freshman air pilots. Possibly jjfl - you may never fly, but you can learn all the sensations by reading this article in the HI NEW MAGAZINE SECTION c. * OF THE PUBLIC sii6aLEDGER The National Newspaper—Published in Philadelphia FOR i ' SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 * There, too, you will find the story of the grocer's clerk who put through the * Draft, Food Control and Preparedness measures; an authentic account of the plight of bleeding Belgium, by Maurice Pate, of the C. R. B.; in addition to [ Mm ' i tefacSi ) gB Prominent American Women Who Are Philadelphia's Own Greenwich Village— Doing Their Bit in the World War. With "Clara Ticeish" Illustrations. |pjg * "Old-Fashioned Roses fqr Old Times' Will Modern Captains Kidd Sail the Seven v ! Sake," a Lilting Waltz Song. Seas After the War? tell! A Page of Popular Science, by Rene A Page for the Children and a Page for Bache. the Kiddies. m Fashions, Household Economy and Notes Menus—Meatless and Meatful—by Mrs. of the Shops. M. A. Wilson. H Bp Reindeer Steak, the Latest Delicacy. "Snapping" V/ild Game. Why Women Fear Mice. Shall We Wear Moles? m ■ THREE PAGES OF EXCEPTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS— OF WAR AND OF PEACE, AT HOME AND ABROAD B•• ~ B H All of these, and more, in the New Magazine . |f . Section of the PUBLIC LEDGER, Sunday, October 21 J| ONE OF CAMP HANCOCK Harrisburg's truck units are n busy branch at Camp Hancock. Mem bers of what was lirst known as Truck Company No. 1, under Lieutenant George Hook, left here early in the summer for Mount Oretna. This com pany 1b now No. 3 and is prominent in the southern camp. The above pic ture was taken last week. Sergeant George B.ingliam is in charge. At the wheel is Private Kerney. On the big truck is a load of supplies enroute to the Quartermaster's Department. report on estimated cost of produc tion and distribution is expected to reach Mr. Hoover next week. This report will "have much to do with fixing the weight and cost of the loaf. Four Lafayette Escadrille Members Are Honored Paris, Oct. 20. Four members of the Lafayette Escadrille were cited in the latest French army orders. The citations follow: Dudley L. Hill, of PeekskiU, N. Y„ "for high courage in the recent at tacks of Verdun, especially on August 18, when his airplane was seriously damaged as he was protecting bom bardment avions." Edwin Parsons, of Springfield, Mass., "for splendid courage shown on all missions entructed to him. He brought down an enemy on Septem ber 8." /Sergeant Kenneth Marr, of San Francisco, "a valient feat who aided in bringing down an enemy on Sep tember 19, and engaged several enemy machines on September 22. By Ill's coolness and daring he brought his own damaged avion back." Lieutenant Raoul Lufberv, o fWal lingford, Conn., "for sixte'en flights in a fortnight, in which he brought down or disabled six enemies, scor ing his eleventh victory on Septem ber 24. His own machine was dam aged live times during these flights." TRIPLETS BORN IN TWO STATES Denver, Col., Oct. 20. Mrs. J. C. Atkinson, of Seattle, Wash., became the mother of triplets aboard a west bound Rock Island train early yes terday. Two of the children were born in Kansas, and the third at Pe conic siding:, just across the Colo rado line. OCTOBER 20, 1917. . PUPILS WILL BE GIVEN TREES TO PLANT IN CITY School Board Decides to Ob serve Arbor Day; Post pone Survey Activities Members of the School Board yes terday decided to have Arbor Day observed In the city schools next Thursday by having the teachers speak on the importance of tree planting and conservation and at buildings where any additional trees are needed, to have them planted. The trees will be furnished free by the City Department. The Board also decided after a short discussion to postpone definite action on the school survey ma'de by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. Director Harry A. Boyer, chair man of the building and grounds committee, made the motion to have Arbor Day observed on Thursday. Usually in the city schools tho Spring Arbor Day is featured by short programs but this year in view fbf the movement started by the state the directors decided to have the teachers call attention to (he importance of tree planting. Survey Goes In At a recent meeting of the Board Secretary D. D. Hammelbaugh, was authorized to ask the Chamber of Commerce to furnish the Board with a report of survov. A copy was •nishcd and presented at the meeting yesiudy. Director Wil liam A. 801 l at once presented a motion authorizing President George A.Werner to appoint a committee of four to consider the report and make recommendations to the Board. Director C. E. L. Keen asked whether it might not be advisable to have the directors. get assistance from leading men in the city in con .sidering the various sections of tl4 report in relation to administration, buildings, supplies and finance. Musi Go Over It> President Werner had appointed three members of the committee al ready and was having trouble find ing a fourth one whose term of of fice would not expire in December and who would l>e willing to serve, when Director Robert A. Enders took the floor to ask whether 4he directors were not proceeding with too much haste. "We cannot do anything until each member of the Board has a copy of the survey report and can go over it. The committee would not have copies. We are told those will be furnished soon and then ac ini can be taken." Dr. Keen seconded this thought and after the directorate voted to reconsider the previous action Mr. 801 l withdrew his motion. Now Tcaclicr Named Warren B. Longeneeker, Lancas ter, instructor in electrical engineer ing at the Stevens Trade School, was appointed to succeed Professor James C. Peet, resigned. Professor Dongenecker will receive $1,700 a year. He is a graduate of the Hum melstown High School, and Penn sylvania State College, class of 1913. A special meeting of the Board will be held on November 30 to con sider the proposed plan for re-or ganization of the school teaching system as arranged by Superintend ent F. 10. Downes. Fred C. Burris, instructor in the commercial department at Central High School, was*granted an indefi nite leave of absence from the time of his being ordered to assume his duties as a paymaster in the Navy. WOMAN DIES I'ltOM INJURIES Mlddieburg, Pa.. Oct. 20 Mrs Thomas Stetler died at her home near Shamokln Dam last evening She was struck by an automobile on Thursday afternoon, suffering injur ies from which she died. She is sur vived by four sons and two daugh ters. Prof. T. A. Stetler, superintend ent of the Snyder county schools is a son. I FIFTY CHICKENS STOLEN ■\\ nynesboro, Pa.. Oct. 20.—Chick len thieves visited the premises of | Aden Shank, west of Waynesboro. | last night, and broke open his hen house and carried off fifty of his chickens. Several henneries have ' been robbed in this vicinity recently.
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