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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.
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of these before-the-war kind of
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At $2.50
It's a blessing to be able to
get this kind.
We've others too,
$1.50 "> $3.50
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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-
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Also Internally for
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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
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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
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Reindeer Steak, the Latest Delicacy. "Snapping" V/ild Game.
Why Women Fear Mice. Shall We Wear Moles?
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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.