Reducing Package Joy.Riding By Ida M. Tarbell The prompt and cheerful response i-hich the public in general makes to very reasonable plan of readjust iient for war needs is one of the nost heartening exhibits in a dis leartening world. Show men and V>men what is necessary and they prlng to it. You must convince hem it is right—a hearty system— ut when they see it is right they o it. and do it promptly. Here is this matter of reforming ur elaborate and wasteful delivery rstem. A few weeks ago the Corn ercial Economy Board laid the acts before the country. We were mploying in sending home our gro eries, about 100,000 men younar nen, and as many horses and rucks. The butlher, the baker, the :eneral and department stores hud reat forces. This army was not all •snployed to do for us what we could iot do for ourselves. Fully fifty per ent. of it was busy doing things yhich a little forethought and a tit le willingness would have ellmlnat d. A half dozen deliveries a day vere made to probably a million louseholds where one or two at the >utside would have been possible f the housewife had not been en ouraged by the merchant to think hat the oftener he came to the louse the better, he liked it. Ex ravagant service was one of his •hief competitive tools. Probably Ifty million little packages went joy iding daily which might have been •arried by the purchaser, and thin •hen wo are counting every gallon f gasoline. It cost money, of course. The .verage cost of deliveries to the gro ers of this country has been about hree per cent, of their net sales. Na urally, they added this to the price f goods and the woman who orders nee a day pays for those who order half dozen times. It is possible we should have gone n heedless and unthinkable of all his waste of motion and material if he war had not thrust its impera ive demand for young men upon us. Var thrives only when men are bundant. If war calls they must o. ' But how are we soing to re ease tliem without stopping the ma hinerv which supplies our dai'v leeds? There is only one scientific iray and that is the one taken by the 'ommercial Economy Board in the erorm of the delivery of goods. It i the study of each business prac ice as an efficiency engineer.would tudy a machine operation, finding he lost motions, the bad routing, the ireventable waste. It means cutting very prodigality out, husbanding Ime and motions as strictly as noney and materials. it. was such a study of the delivery ystem that led the government 1o ecommcnd a fixed number of deliv ries a day, at regular hours, to a.<k mrchasers, as a patriotic duty, to arry tlieir small packages, and to Ive up their freakish habits of ask .. fo>- ••nclal deliveries and goods in approval. The quick understanding with i-hich the merchants of the country net the request to re-organlze their eliveries, to give up their elaborate ompetltlve weapon that so many ad come to think indispensable, is no of the proofs of the amazing vol- t .% o"erpt|nr in 'iipotimr war reds that the country is giving. It is only a few weeks since tho ossiliility of freeing men and equip •ent through a reform of deliveries •' •••ore tV>" merchants and lieir customers. To-day the Com lcrcial Economy Board has definite n formation that in the following cit the deliveries have been reduced 'two, or in sonic cases one: Akron, j .; Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, 1 ayton, O.; Portland, Ore.; East St. ouis. 111.: Fort Smith, Ark.; Min-| r>apolis, Minn.; Harrisburg, Pa.; In- ! irmnpolls, Louisville, Ky.; Pitts urgh. Providence, It. I.; Reading, a.: Richmond, Va.; Rochester, . V.; San Francisco, Toledo. O.; opeka, Kan.; Columbus, O.; Oak nd, Cal.; Saginaw, Mich.; New Ha n. Conn.; Roanokei Va., and St aul. It is impossible at this point in the; to tell just what this [icans in men and horses and trucks j li these particular cities, but if we; ccept the experience of those sens-j hie towns which did not wait for rar to cut out the waste, it Is fair) d reckon it as close to fifty per cent, j "or instance, in Escanaba, \Hchlgan, j co-operative delivery was organized , even years ago. There being no war ressure the number of deliveries ras set at five a day. Simply byj ombining and regularizing the serv-1 •e, the men ami horses were at oncei educed by one-lialf. Out in New Mexico there is a town. I toswell. where a former postmaster; as built up a system according to ; lie routes of 'he or j rucks being those of the formor 1 lail carriers. This service is done at saving of twenty-five per cent, to tie merchants. A service which for icrelv r>" nlred seventeen wsmons i:i ow performed by three cars and i jur wagons The gentleman who has worked lis change has some wise reflections n the subject: "The waste in dellv •v s*rv'or in ther' I'nitod is mply staggering," he said, "and the lerchants are to blame. A few peo le want the service and the mer hants give it to them and of course lake them pay for it. Whereas if le truth were known I venture the .atement that seventy-five per cent, f the people the country over would luch rather have less delivery serv e and reduced prices on goods. All telligent irerr'bant k"ow their de very expense Is excessive, but what in they do—the other fellow does , and they must also. The fact re tains, however, that a great major y of the people are forced to carry leir expensive systems by merchants :t<• r n ' to tbo w'i|nia of a thought iss, well-to-do minority." Here is the kernel of the practice: few demand elaborate and there re exi'ei.M.vo waiting on. The med iant thinks his only chance to get leir trade is by humoring their ir- Kiilar hpbttn. tellinir thev ran ive anything at any hour and so rain and again he sends home an •tide on which there is a two-cent roflt, at a cost of six cents. The needs of war have opened up le unsoundness of this particular usiness practice as they will many hers. Comnionsense as well a yalty demand that it be corrected id at once. The call is urgent. Before these lines reach the press le first contingent of our National rmy will be on its way to camp— >o,ooo men for the firing line. But iATCORN AND THE WAY is POST MONDAY EVENING, to keep that many men on the firing line mean" certainly a million, pos sibly a million and a half, behind the line, supplying and transporting, keeping up roads and military work, doing the thousand and one things that must be done for those at ihe front. It will be some trouble. It will require forethought, but what a little sacrifice for so great a reason. It is a little sacrifice which in the aggre gate means freeing tens of thousands of men for our Army. Surely in the great and terrible demand that civi lization is making upon those of us who believe in Her, so small a re adjustment should have a universal voluntary acceptance. There should be no town in the country of which its merchants should be able to say, "We tried to put our deliveries on o war basis our women would not co-operate." They refused to think ahead, refused to carry their llttl" packages, refused to give up their special deliveries, and their goods on approval. It should be done and done now, for now is the need. The men are being culled by the hun dreds of thousands. We'believe in their going. We have accepted the awful sacrifice. The very least we can do is cheerfully to accept the re adjustment suggested by those who are making a careful and scientific study of our commercial practices. In Paris to-day there are only three deliveries a week. Shall we insist on a half dozen a day? It is up to the American woman to say. First Degree Conferred on Two Blain Odd Fellows Blain, Pa., Oct. 22. —First degree was conferred on two members of the local Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Blain lodge, No. 706, James O'Donell and CJiarles Moffett, of New Germantown, at the meeting oil Thursday evening by the degree team of Machinaw lodge, No. 380, of New Bloomfield. After the meet ing a. banquet was given in the kitchen of Zion's Reformed Church. Members from the New Bloomfield lodge were: D. A. Tressler, John Mailman, 13. F. Keller, O. A. Gut shall, C. Askins, George Spahr, E. M. Garber. Warren R. Clouser, W. H. Supp, h. H. Stephens, W. H. Darling ton, H. W. Robinson, James E. Stew art, Philip A. Clouser, S. B. Swarta, W. C. Lebo, C. A. Bealor, A. B. Ker ner, Lawrence E. Cupp, Elmer H. Tressler, B. B. Lupper, H. W. Dronigold, the Rev. Homer C. Knox, W. S. Cupp, W. M. Heckendorn, Au rand A. Ickes, C. O. Davis, A. P. Nickel, R. S. Weller, Paul E. Mc- Keehan, Frank Fetterhoff, S. 11. Bernheisel, M. J. Bower, J. S. Sheal fer, S. Beck Wallace, W. J. Grenoble, and H. Earl Hook, of Port Royal lodge, No. 556. 150 Lives, Raiders' Toll in the North Sea Irf>ndon, Oct. 22. One hundred and fltfy lives were lost on Wednesday when five Norwegian, one Danish and three Swedish vessels wore sunk by two German raiders in the North Sea. Christianla, Oct. 22. Tlie Aften posten lias definitely ascertained that sixteen Norwegians, seventeen Swedes and eight-seven Knglishmen were killed in the convoy action on Wed nesday. but adds that the total num ber probably is niueh 4 greater. The entire crew of one steamship, eleven men. were all killed except the cap tain. Twenty men from the Wistur were saved, but of the crew of the Kikander only the captain and the third officer were saved, and the re maining seventeen art* believed to have been killed. Of this number, three were women. Wedding and Birthday Anniversaries at Newport Newport. Pa., Oct. 22. —Mr. and Mrs. William Horting observed their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary and Mr. Hortlng's seventy-sixth birthday anniversary simultaneously on Thursday evening at their home in the northeast corner of Market and Fifth streets. Dinner was served to these guests: Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Horting, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Sweger, and sons Donald and Ralph Sweger, Mr. and Mrs. F C. Horting and Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Mingle, of Harrisburg, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McClure and son, Alva and Frederick, of Lewistown, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horting and daugh ter, Miss Mary Horting, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Horting, and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Horting and son, C. R. Hor ting, Jr., of Newport, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rupley, of MarysvlUe. JELLY SENT TO SOLDIERS Lewistown, Pa., Oct. 22.—80ys at Camp Meade have not been for gotten by their Mifflin county friends. A gift of 478 glasses of jelly has been sent by Mrs. Frank Childs. Mr. nd Mrs. Frnk Childs. of Lewistown, are the parents of Engle Childs, captain of the first contingent sent into training at Camp Meade from this county. Their other son Erl, is an officer in the U. S. Navy. Both boys are popular in Lewistown and are the only chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. Childs. A message received Thursday from a member of lewistown Company M, Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., says that the boys down there are also fond of jelly. CHRISTIAN KAVFFMAX DIES Mt. Joy, Pa., Oct. 22.—Christian Kauffman, aged 74, a Civil War veteran, died on Thursday night at his home in Millersville. Mr. Kauff man was a member of Company K, 203 d Pennsylvania Volunteer In fantry and served two enlistments. He is survived by his wife, who was Mary J. Baker and the following tons and daughters: Miss Alice B. Kaugman at home; John J., Mil lersville; Daniel B„ Malvern; one brother, Joseph S. Kauffman, of York, and two grandchildren. FRENCH IN NEWPORT SCHOOI S Newport. Pa„ Oct. 22.—Newport High School will soon have French and Spanish as elective studies in the school curriculum, Prof. G. J Moyer, assistant principal, will be the instructor. In addition to being optional for the pupils, patrons of the school are also given the privilege of pursuing these courses. Three periods will be held each week, commencing at 3.30 o'clock and concluding at 4 o'clock. RED MEN'S CONVENTION Marietta, Pa., Oct. 22.—The Lan caster county Red Men's convention will be held here on Saturday next, with morning, afternoon and even ing sessions. State speakers are ex pected. Among the features will be the parade in the afternoon for which five bands have been secured. The Diary of aU-Boat Commander (Copyright, 1917, by the New York Herald Co.—All Rights Reserved) (Copyright Canada by fccw York Herald Company) (Translated from the Original German by Irving R. Bacon) 1916—30 March I dreamed of Minna last, night. With all my daily thinking about her and all my prayers In her behalf this has been the first time I ever dreamed of her. It was a confused sort of dream and I could recall but little of it—nothing In detail —when I woke up. It seemed though, to be of evil import, and has left a heavy feeling in my heart. Fritz is a believer in dreams. "Some drpams, of course," he said, when I told him of the one about Minna, "are purely the _product of a mechanical pressure upon the body, or of mists arising from a dis ordered stomach and the like. But i The Liberty Bonds M f ❖ -- " * Prefer Americanism ! * . ♦ ♦ ♦ * And in buying Liberty Bonds you lare not giving anything—you * % are getting something. % \ ♦ | You are not spending money. J! <• 9 m K? % You are saving it. % * Not only saving money, but getting 4 per cent, interest on it —and | * the strongest country in the world back of it —making the safest in- | % vestment in the world to-day. % * "Athena" Underwear Is Shaped to Fit the Form This famous brand of fine knit undergarments /*" is sold in this store of Harrisburg exclusively. / \MrWk All the various weights and styles jpr are here in vests, pants and union \ J j|j|L suits. j f gril Women who care will want no other kind, for j / Athena underwear is so different from other [! |i] V makes —it is made to fit the figure. jfcb-CS' i|l\ Sloping shoulders Curved arm size Full bust Patent seat r f Comes in cotton —cotton and wool —all wool — silk and wool. —Union suits in medium and heavy weight —Cotton vests and pants, medium and cotton, at #1.25, #1.50 and #1.75 heavy weight 75f and 850 —Wool mixed union suits, at * —Wool mixed white vests and pants, $2.50 and #58.75 #1.25 and #1.50 —Silk and wool union suits, at —Silk and wool vests and pants, #3.50 and #:*.75 1 #1.75 and #2.00 BOWMAN'S —Main Floor. Fall and winter weights, colors, weaves of -jTgtii. fashionable Silks—Velvets—Wool Dress Goods \ \ Have you selected the material for your new Fall |j] With a certainty of a scarcity of many fabrics and MM I f increased prices on all of them, we feel it our duty to ad- r |||| \MJ vise you of what is coming. 1 jUJ WKL Buy now—you 11 not buy handsomer materials I —neither will you buy at such favorable prices hereafter Silks Fur Cloths 40-inch Pussy Willow Satin, yard, ...#3.50 50-inch Black Silk Plush, yard #6.75 40-inch Meteor Crepe, yard, 50-inch Black Silk Plush, yard, .. #IO.OO , c . _ #2.00 and #2.50 50-inch Black Silk Plush, yard, .. #13.50 40-inch Satin Supreme, yard, #.<5.75 40-inch Crepe de Chine/yard #1.59 £! nc * mT A Y 2}?™ 36-inch Satin Imperial, enlace effects, yard, -n -"V v C -' af< 'A J jjflj\)() 50-inch Nutria, yard, #15.00 30-inch Messaline, yard, .. $1 .SO to HBsioO s °-' nch Tan Caracul, yard 7.50 -!"<* 5 • ;■ ■ #1 ? Woolen Drat Goods 32-inch Washable Satin Stripe Crepes, yard, #2.00 54-inch Plaid or Striped Skirtings, yard, 32-inch Washable Satin Stripe Tussah Shirt- ' " $3.00 ings, yard #1.50 50-inch Collingswood Cords, yard, .. #2.50 30-mch Hemingway Lining Satin, yarn, 95<S c . . , „ . , , . . , ° s 54-inch Epingle de Lame, yard, #3.00 Velvets 54-inch Suede Velours, yard, #3.50 ~7" T~ *. mi- . ™ . . - 54-inch Suede Velour, self check, yard, 18-inch Millinery and 1 rimming Velvets, #4.00 clinch Paon Dress Vel've't,' yard,''. #3.00 5^ inch Pennsylvania Constabulary Suiting, 40-inch Chiffon Dress Velvet, yard. #4.95 - va ™' \ I*' * * 40-inch Liberty Chiffon Velvet, yard, #O.OO 3 ° and Broadcloths, yard 50-inch Black Silk Velvet, yard #6.50 #l.<s to #3JS0 v 27-inch English Velveteens, yard, .. #2.00 50-inch Serges and Poiret Twills, yard, 44-inch English Velveteens, yard, .. #3.85 #2.00 to #3.85 36-inch Velour Plush, yard, #1.50 56-inch Kitten's Ear, yard, #6.50 Note: Sponging and shrinking promptly done for any material 36 to 56 inches in width— a yard. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. ' ' 1 - ■ -■ Harris burg telegraph there are others, which might be called fatidic or prophetic, and which bring before us events still unborn. Nearly everybody has had such dreams. I have had them, and was afterward dumbfounded to find the realization correspond with the dream in every particular down to Uie most minute detail, such as even the casting of shadows by some of the objects, exactly as I had seen them in the dream." On the twenty-seventh of this month we sank three merchant steamships and two barks. No lives were lost —at least none by reason of torpedoes or shellflre. The sea was calm, and I believe and sincerely hope that the crews reached land in' safety. The following: day we also sank a steamship— a Norwegian— which was carrying meat from Ar gentina to England. We had given warning by firing a shot across her bow, but she ignored it. Another shell carried away her wireless ap paratus—Halbert is still Infallible In his marksmanship. The Nor wegian stopped and her crew got I away in lifeboats. Three bombs sent finished her In half an hour. Of her crew thirty-two had been killed by falling fragments from the masthead and two more were drowned by the capsizing of one of the boats. We aided In righting and bailing out the boat and, as the dis tance from the Irish coast was 195 miles, we replenished their food and water supply, which had been lost in the overturning of the little craft. One of the crew, a little fellow with a sallow complexion and dark hair and who looked more like a Spaniard than a Scandinavian, said something which sounded like a curse just as the boat he was in pushed oft from our side. JSo&manZ HARRIS BURG, MOSDAI, OCTOBER 22, 1017, "He Is wishing the Kaiser to hell," said Eglau, who was nearest him. "If you will allow me," said Hal bert, taking a firmer grip on his automatic pistol, "I will send this fellow on his way to hell to announce there that His Majesty our Kaiser refuses to go." The man's grim humor was meant In all seriousness. It would have given Halbert Infinite pleasure to riddle the offender's body with bul lets. "How do you know he spoke dis respectfully of His Majesty?" I asked. "I heard him," replied Halbert. "I know Norwegian." The lifeboat by this time had got ten more than fifty yards away from us. 'tYou might hit somebody else at so great a distance," I said. I did not want to appear to be indif ferent to so gross an insult to our ruler, and yet I disliked the iilea of taking £i man's life for a hastily, perhaps thoughtlessly, uttered word! But calmly and without any trace of excitement or impatience Halbert Yarn Demonstration Special Demonstration of Minerva Yarns by an expert in the working up of yarn in to various articles of apparel. Beginning To-day and Saturday, Nov This representative cf Minerva Yarns is thorough in hsr instruction and will demonstrate her method of knitting with the aid of special models and a complete assortment of yarns in all the best colorings. BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. Sale of Housekeeping Necessities Muslin—Sheeting—Pillow Tub ing—Pillows At the time of Fall housecleaning it is sometimes necessary to replenish the bed ding supplies—and it will more than repay you to buy of the following— Bleached muslin—36 inches wide—cut from 45 inches wide, at yard, 25<; the piece. Yard, Pillows—size 18x25 inches—covered with Unbleached muslin—in 10 to 19-yard lengths fancy art ticking. Pair, $1.25 —smooth, even thread muslin. Yard, ~ 16£ Bolsters to match, each $1.25 Unbleached sheeting—39 inches wide—will Pillows—filled with sanitary feathers and bleach easily. Yard covered with fine quality art ticking. 'Pair, Pequot pillow tubing—in 36, 42 and 45-inch s2.<)o, $2.50, $3.50 and $4.00 widths—useful lengths—36 inches wide, at Goose feather and down pillows—covered yard with plain and fancy linen ticking—at 20 per 42 inches wide, at yard, 23$ cent, off regular prices . BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. 7 1 he Aeolian- V . The Phonograph of Richer Tone When you hear the Aeolian-Vocalion for the first time you will at once recognize the perfection of the in strument. When you play the Vocalion —when you take the i| Graduola, the Vocalion tone-control device, and with , delicate pressure cause the music to shade down to the J/- ■ merest whisper, or to swell to the greatest power—then i 1 ' you will perceive the true wonder of the Vocalion. / y*jT;. Come in and play the Vocalion yourself—then you EfBH i v will realize how far it is above any other instrument of UgaMfr' 'i the phonograph type. You will see it as it is—a great, iWCjxI'P modern musical instrument. Buy your Vocalion on the Bowman Club .II h. iti- -r ,il tti Plan 55.00 delivers one to your home. BOWMAN'S— Fifth Floor Oil Heaters— Gas Radiators— Cylinder Gas Heaters— One of the most popular articles around the house this time of the year is the gas or oil heater —being small, they can be conveniently handled and will be of good service before the real cold weather comes. Oil Heaters Gas Radiators Full-size oil heaters, japanned trimmed, pol- . , . .. 10 Illlilf)'I II 4-tube radiator, 18 ished steel drums, lead-coated steel reservoir, . . ... , iff r ! f| * inches high, aluminum HH I V N at $4.50 finished top and jewel- n p a I Other oil heaters up to $8.50. , moo- Ms :i Itj I ed front, at ... $3.20 M jjj 8 Gas Heaters Same style as above, Polished steel cylinder body, EE3 base and top, at $3.98 C/ 6 inches in diameter, with alu- |f] I . , ' -, n • , H|| H 4-tube radiator, 28 inches high, with nickel minum finished top and nickel J|i J finished top and sottoni and jewel front at plated knob $1.98 [ iff | $4.75 Same style with body 7 in- 6-tube radiator, 18 inches high, with polished ches in diameter, at ... $3.25 nickel finished jewel front, at $5.50 BOWMAN'S—Basement. OCTOBER 22, 1917. salt), "I can handle pistols and can non with equal accuracy. If I miBS the man and injure another I pledge my word of honor that I shall send the second bullet Into my own brain." "May I make a suggestion?" in terrupted Fritz lyaunlß, who saw that the situation had become ex tremely embarrassing to me. In or dinary circumstances I would not have hesitated to order the persist ent, bloodthirsty Halbert below, but I had so frequently crossed him In precisely such matters that I began to fear he and the others might be gin to doubt the sincerity of my love for our fatherland. Fritz's in terruption, therefore, as always, came very opportunely. "Certainly, Herr Lieutenant Lau nig," I said, "your/ suggestions are never unwelcome." "Well, then, if you and Halbert will listen I believe I shall be able to demonstrate that It is not par ticularly honorable to take one's own life just because one has failed to take the life of another." And we listened to Fritz's unusual notions concerning honor. Whether these notions were right or wrong is im material. They accomplished what Fritz had Intended —the averting of a deliberate murder. (To Be Continued.) WOODLAND SOLD Blain, Pa., Oct. 22. Yesterduy flft.v-one acres of woodland, located along the Conecocheague mountain, west of Blaln, belonging to the Wil liam W. Woods estate, was sold at public sale by George L. Woods, of Boiling Springs, executor to Daviil Stambaugh, of Jacksontownshlp, for *IOO. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25cat all druggists. FOUNDED 1871 3
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