WHOLE STATE IS READY FOR BIG Y.M.C.A.DRIVE Record Job in Mobilizing Men, Women and Boys for Great Drive Philadelphia, Nov. 7. —The mobili zation of Pennsylvania's men, wom en and boys for the great drive, which begins next week, to raise the % . late s share of the $35,000,000 fund to be expended by the War Work Council of the Young Men's Chris tian Association to shorten the war by helping to keep the soldiers of America. and her Allies physically, mentally and morally lit to do their work, is now practically complete. The Job was done in record time, I'or C. C. Michener, director of the Pennsylvania War Work Council, took it up less than a month ago. It is a fact generally recognized that in conducting big financial iam- I nigns on a national scale the Young Men's Christian Association leads all other organizations. When the lied Cross undertook to raise a hundred million dollars last spring it bor rowed C. S. Ward from the Y. M. A. to organize and direct the un dertaking. When the League to En force Peace wanted to launch Its national propaganda a year and a) half ago it retained C. C. Michener. iK>w a businessman of New York iind Utah, a former V. M. C. A. or gnnteer of many years' experience, to direct the campaign. Nobody who wants to give to the Y. M. C. A. and is able to do so will , be overlooked. In each city, town i nd village in Pennsylvania, and in the rural districts as well, "teams" of ten men, each under a captain., will start out next Monday morning, armed with lists of names from a carefully compiled card catalog to call upon prospective givers. Each man in each community is listed ac < ordlng to his approximate ability to contribute, and his check will be ' 'V' - —■>--- lil T^ ,MS ™UMrN7Cf —the Highest I|| I) ffinorjfuglh I [m TTE \R the Sonora,a phonograph XX of established reputation and ; j|S famous for quality. Sonora icon J, ■ J highest marking for tone at the jjs Panama Pacific Exposition. )" 850 $55 S6O. 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The team will meet dally for lunch, at which one hour will be devoted to making reports, com paring notes and receiving neoded in formation and advice .between mouthfuls. Results will bo tabulat ed and telegraphed to headquarters in Philadelphia daily. Early In the evening of November 19th, the last day of the canvass, headquarters will know to a cent how much more than her minimum proportion Pennsylva nia has contributed. Never before have the people of Pennsylvania manifested such deep earnestness in a public undertaking. The very first thing proposed by the chairman of the Pittsburgh commit tee was that the Smoky City's allot ment be 'increased twenty-five per cent., and the proposal was accepted without a dissenting voice. The very foremost men in Penn syJvania, as in other states, arc taking the lead in the movement to raise the $35,000,000, The list in cludes such men as Samuel Rea, Robert E. Strawbridge, Charlton Yarnall, (Jeorge H. McEadden, Ar thur E. Newbold, George WHarton Pepper, Edward Hok, Thomas De witt Cuyler and John Gribbel in Phil adelphia; Maitland Alexander, I'*. R. Rabcock, Joseph Bufllngton. B. E. Jones, Jr., Ralph W. Harbison, A. W. Mellon, R. B. Mellon, A. K. Oliver, fleorge T. Oliver, Homer Williams, D. M. Clemson and others of that type in Pittsburgh, and men of simi lar commanding position in every community. The Women's Co-operative Com mittee of the War Work Council of the Y. M. c". A., composed of the most promine nt and influential wom en of the state, are also taking a very active part in the campaign. Even the boys are doiutf more than their pro rata share. The boys of the five counties around Philadelphia plan to earn and contribute SIOO,- 000, which is one-tenth of the total asked of the boys of the United States. Why Decks of American Fighting Ships Are Red Base American Flotilla in British Waters. Nov. 7. When the American destroyers arrived at this Irish port the natives were puzzled by the ap pearance of their steel decks which were painted a bright red. So when the first American came ashore, an Irishman made bold to ask, "what makes your decks so red?" "Why they're red hot from the speed we made coming over," was the quiet reply. [Letters F rom theFr ontJ Nears End of Test For Aerial Service Walter Shaffer, whose interesting letters from the French j'viation school, ha\e given his friends a close insight of how con ditions arc in great training camps for fighting birdmen are con ducted no wis nearing the end of his tests. He writes that Jic has been lncUy in not being "smashed up" in the trials. Tours. X^rance. Monday. Oct. 7. 1917. Dear Mother:—Am nearing the end of my tests now and if this bac! weather will only let up for about one day 1 can finish up. always ex cepting, of course, that 1 don't smash up. So far I have been pretty lucky that way, not having broken anything so far, furthermore not wishing to. The penalty attached to breaking cne machine 1s pretty hard. It would hit me that way, anyhow, because it would mean that I would not get a chance on the speedy little fighting machine, but would be put on a double-motored bombing plane something 1 sure would consider a disgrace: but why borrow trouble or cross bridges before we get to them? I only have one more cross-country trip, so 1 should worry! Of course l>ad will say my usual fool's luck is still holding good and maybe he will be right. Still, I have used quite a little care, always flying pretty high —I,OOO metres while doing cross country work. At this height one can glide to a good landingplace within quite a wide radius if the en gine stops. Oh, yes, the engine stopped several times on me while on my tests. Fortunately. I was al ways over my objective point so it never worried me any. One M'iU al j ways come down, you know, no fear i of that, but the plane is easily steered I and can be kept under control as : i i.sy as while the motor is running. I i landed at a little town several days i ago, and just as I was about twenty ! feet from the ground my engine | stopped dead and made my landing I right among a big flock of quail. And here, comes the funny part of the story—the landing was such a per fect one that the quails did not even fly away. And there I was with H;ail running all around me. Gee: I wished 1 bad a gun then, for they sure would have been good with this war bread. I told you that these cross-country trips were in triangular fcrm; we have to land at the three points and have papers signed. Well, I was on my second triangle, but darkness caught me Just as I had finished the second leg of it, which compelled me to stay in that town I ; sent you the postcards of. It sure' was a welcome change to sink into I a soft, clean bed, sink down about I three feet and not stop suddenly on j a hard plank. Really, it was so new and wonderful 1 could not sleep for | half the night enjoying it, and then • the meals! Once again 1 was Intro-j duced to butter and made tht- ac quantanct of three and four differ cr tly-prepared meats every meal, not tc mention several new ways of pre paring eggs. Yeh, boy! every meal a ten-course one, with generals sit ting at the next table, probably won dering who in Sam Hill 1 was. be cause 1 had my dress uniform on, and I don't mind saying it looks pretty nifty. 1 am still wondering whether they did not think I was a high officer in cognito. for one of | them met me on the stairs and sa- \ luted. He had enough stripes on for i me to do the saluting, but I forget quite often or hesitate, which Is just i as bad. and so am lost. If I don't HAHniSBURG TEJLEGRAPH get In the coop before this war Is over for not showing proper respect to officers it will be strange indeed. I guess, though, they make allowance for we aviators, as we are all con sidered crazy, anyhow. Another thing: It's a queer, fact that the biggest freaks nake t.he best aviators. 1 have seen it happen time and time again. That being the case, looks as if my chances are pretty fair, for you know some people think rue tunny-looking. We made the man's life miserable in charge of that place by our in sistence that the weather was all right for flying*, which probably con firmed their impression that we were II azy, because it sure was blowing: a grale. We were kept there for threw days when they put us awing again. It was one 01 those, raw, chilly morn ings that one gets up at h6me to go l'or chestnuts when you hate to leave the Are. Donald knows the feeling if you don't. Well, we had no lire; our only way of warming up was to walk to the field, four miles away. One would not imagine tiu town so far away from the Held from an airplane, but when you walk it you know how fast an airplane goes. It sure was cold and llyintc ulo*m>- a* 1,000 meters did not help matters irueh in the way of warmth. About 500 meters below me floated little white fleecy clouds, which reminded me of chiffon, so light, transparent rnd fleecy were they. And there I wa?. floating aloft like a king—and reeling; actually like a frozen bum. My feet were nearly numb, my luindn were cold anil 1 didn't know whether I had a nose or not. Worse luck. 1 , was then only half way home. There was nothing to it but ."tick it out. so 1 tried driving' with my left hand j p.nd sitting on the other, which was •lot a very big success. My left hanc ! has been a good Bible student and has never known what my rig-lit j hand hath done, as it has alwivys | managed the engine. The engine j !"et, though, ,-nd going along smootlii> , albeit noisily. And so we went for | another hour. I arrived at camp !—a mighty cold little boy. But when 1 got down near the ground the weather was so rough 1 had my I hanOs fin. !r:eprcg level without j worrying how cold I was. Imagine ; then as I came down to land seeing a machine turned upside down in the middle of the Held. Didn't seem like a good omen, did it? I landed all right, though, and 1 saw no reason for duplicating th.j feat. It's costly, you know, aad shakes one up quite a lot. Several men had just come down from their altitude tests as I came in and they sure must have had some time. One fellow said he flew through five snowstorms and • swore the flakes were as big as his I head. He sure did make the camp | laugh with his droll account. Two i other feilows went up with him, but i the cold was too intense and they j came down without finishing the t"st. ! so will have to do it over again. The 1 reason flying is so cold in these ma i chines is because they are so open i and the pilot has no protection from | tile elements. With any other plane | it's different, so I am looking for j ward to getting one of those enclosed j types this winter, when the weath | won't have any of me to hit but my helmet. >We have instructions al ways to fly around a field before ! landing, especially when coming j down from high altitudes, as it helps one's eyes to become accustomed to t the ground. I have always obeyeu thU rule until the olher day. when I I was anxious to save time and came I down from 1,000 meters and landed. I nearly "spilled the beans" too, be | cause I did not know where the ground was, and as a result 1 mm ! an awful landing?, bouncing several j times. Believe me! nothing more is | needed to teach mo the importance I of such a rule, and I won't omit that I little "tour de piste" again, 110 mat- I ter how tired or hurried I am. ft j was for this very reason that a man j smashed up here the other day. He was coming down from his altitude test and omitted this necessary lit tle "tour" with the above result. He ! admitted himself he did not know I where the ground was. 1 would not send you a picture of | myself in leathers, because it would j make a horrible' picture. They are considerably more useful than heau | tifying. However, when I started on | my "brevet" work a waterproof fur | lined overall suit was given me. I ! may send you a picture of that If | the sun ever comes out again. It j sure is a warm suit, and thnt is the reason I wore my uniform on all my I trips. It was quite simple to slip I this warm suit over everything. ! Nothing like being prepared for an I engine breakdown, and I (lew hign I enough to glide to any chateaux 1 I happened to notice. The trouble is they are generally situated in a big ] forest and one cannot very well land j nearby. One fellow tried it and I smashed to smithereens—no, didn't j hurt himself—but lots of others do i get away with it. However, I don't j work my ' engine to death, which is no doubt the reason it up so well. Considering that I knew notn- I ing about motors when I began, 1 j am picking up fast and learning lots | of little kinks useful in my flying. By this time I am quite used to keeping a line on three or four dials I and a map and compass at the same j time. The map reading is most in i tereAing. and its accuracy surprised [me quite a little. It's lots of fun to pick out a little town far, far below j you, then trace all the little roads leading out of it and see every one | pictured on the map, even to the merest crook. The compass is pretty I near a closed book to me, though, | f.nd I used it very little. By checking up with the map I have learned a little of it, but It's coming very I slowly. As for flying the machine itself, that is all done Instinctively now—by feeling, you might say, as I meet a puff of air like I would a wave with a canoe. These two modes of pleasure and travel always have | seemed nearly on a par to me, both j being so light and fragile, BO fleet und responsive,—and now I'm getting I the backache from writing, it's be- I ginning to rain and my wash is not l In. so good-by till next time. WALTER. Wounded Americans Are Doing Well at Hospital With the American Army in France, Nov. 7. The American soldiers wounded in the German raid on a trench last week are all doing well In the base hospital. Some of them are suffering from painful wounds. Artillery fighting continued fairly active on the .An>~fica.n ctor to-day. SAVE SEED CORN SAYS MR. PATTON Secretary of Agriculture Says That Farmers Must Take Care of the Unlucky Ones \ Every farmer in Pennsylvania who j has had a successful corn crop and i plenty of corn that is suitable for j seed purposes is urged by Secretary j of Agriculture Charles 13. Patton to | take immediate steps to save double | the usual amount of seed corn that I he has put away in former years. ! Secretary Patton says: "Much more than the usual acreage of corn I will be asked to be planted next j spring and now is the best time to , select and save the necessary seed. t In many sections the early frosts i have destroyed and danuiged the ! corn crop and left practically no ! seed for next year. These localities ; will be calling upon others for their corn seed next spring and we want an ample and full supply of the very j best types that are adaptable to the i va |",'° us sections of this state. "So much of the crop in some sec- I tions is soft through being frost bit i ten that it is unfit for seed and these i sections must draw upon other sec ; tions for their supplies. Farmers should Immediately arrange for their | seed for next season and the Depart i "lent of Agriculture at Harrisburg | is willing to assist if requests arc sent I at once so that an available supply , can be reserved. Farmers must ar j range to secure seed from localities | possessing climatic conditions similar : to their own and there should now I be selected a supply of locally adapt jed seed for the 1918 planting. In j many sections it was impossible to | sow the increased acreage intended : for wheat and rye and this ground j will likely be available for a big in crease in the corn acreage next year. Don't let your seed wants wait until next spring. Get after it right away and be sure that you will be amply I supplied with good stock when the j season is upon you." Big Slag Bank at Lebanon Blast Furnace Is to Go l.ebanon. Pa., Nov. 7.—What is re garded as the initial stop toward the removal of the large slag banks sur rounding the dozen blast furnace plants in this city and county has been taken in the award by the Leb anon Blast Furnace Company of a contract to the National Slag Com pany, of Allentown, for the removal of the slsg deposits at the old Mell.v plant here. The contract calls for the removal of the approximately 200,000 cubic yards of slag in the bank in two months. With the increased cost of lime stone, slag, which heretofore had no very great commercial value, is now being extensively used in concrete work and in certain roofing material. The Lebanon Blast- Furnace Com pany needs the land occupied by the slag bank, and should it be success ful in reclaiming it there is every in dication of the unsightly slag hanks at the Lebanon, Colebrook, North Cornwall, Bird Coleman. Sheridan and'Hobesonla plants being removed. PI TS COFFIN IN CHLNFSK ROA1) AS AUTO PROTEST Peking, Nov. 7.—Chinese coolies have devised an effective means of protesting against speeding automo biles. A few days ago an automobile be longing to a prominent Chinese offi cial killed a Chinese child near the Summer Palace. The chauffeur was arrested, but released upon payment of a very small fine. In expression of their disapproval of the court's action, the parents of thte child and their neighbors erected a matshed in the middle of the road, on the very spot where the child was killed, under which the coffin was placed. Inscriptions were frosted on the sides of the cofHn denouncing the injustice of the court. Since then the main road has been abandoned by traffic, but officials ap parently have not dared to remove the body, which is watched constant ly by friends of tho bereaved fam ily. Be Safe Anywhere Eat Without Fear Travelers Have Learned That Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Protect the Stomach from Heartburn, Sour Risings, Gas Fermentation and Other Distress. Xenr Ihr >li*nourl—Aliouril the Double Kuxlr l.imtteil. The ways of cooking change from town to town. You don't get food cooked twice the same way with the same materials. Thus the average stomach gets rough treatment at times. It needs help. Hundreds of travelers never have the least bit of trouble because they have learned that a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet after meals prevents stomach distress. These Tablets absolutely stop heart burn, nausea, indigestion, dyspepsia of the worst type, sour stomach, bloaty feeling and all eructations and irritation, and freshen and Invigorate the stomoch. They cheer you up, and make you get all the good there is in your food. You will forget you ever had a stomach to worry you. Get a 50-cent box of Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets at any drugstore.—Ad vertisement. Why Are You Gray? Why look older than you feel? Now that so many thousands have proved that Q-ban Hair Color Re storer brings a uniform, dark, lustrous shade to gray or faded hair —you really ought to try Q-ban. Ready to use —guaranteed harmless —7sc for a large bottle money back if not satisfied. Sold by Geo. A. Gorgas and all good drug stores Delightfully beautifying. Try Q-ban Hair Tonic: Liquid Sham-poo; Soap Also Q-ban Depilatory (for superflu ous hair.) I Hair Color Restorer JSjoumzaM BFM, lUOI 2556 UNITED HAHRIntTRU. WEDNESDAY, NOVBMBEH 7, 1017. FOUNDED IS7I The Outcome of the Largely on the Question of Food Supply —Every man, woman and child can help in this direction to the nation's cause and to the sustenance of tlie wori l's spirit of liberty. —Patriotism demands cheerful acquiescence to the efforts that are being made by national authority- to insure the success of this phase of the world struggle for democracy. ' —To conserve our food supply is a - much a duty as to subscribe to the Lib erty Loan or to the Red Cross, and in its way it is quite as vital to the cause it humanity. Dinner Sets s ( ~ J hc 1 hanksgiving table will depend for the very basis of its attractiveness upon the Dinner —That you are well prepared in this direction we have planned a goodlv sale of beautiful I n tlunng the , se I>re " days-prices that will make the charming table seen, delightfully economical. & . 0 point with pride to the splendid variety on exhibit in our basement section rich in beauty, yet moderate in price. of alTwllo sTe^heni thC art, * tlC shapes ' desi S ns ad decorations are certain to win the approval —ln spite of pottery strikes and freight embargoes, our china expert, through his knowledge ot market conditions, enables us to present the following excellent values: & Dinner Set, 100 Pieces, $14.50 Dinner Set, 100 Pieces, $30.00 Made of fine Englsh porcelain, with an old, deep blue decoration in artistic design. This Made of Nippon china from Japan \ rich is an open stock decoration. Oriental decorative, artistic design that onlv Dinner Set, 100 Pieces, $17.50 | the Japs could accomplish— most all colors in Made of American porcelain, with a neat thc dccoration > with and pink prevailing, border decoration of entwined rose effect with green leaves-each piece has gilt edge. This is Dinner Set, 107 Pieces, $45 00 an open stock decoration. , Dinner Set, 100 Pieces, $22.50 Made bv Theodore Haviland, of Limoge. Made of American porcelain, with a rich France—a neat pink spray decoration with border decoration in Dresden effect with gar- gilt handles, lands of flowers in pink and blue. Dinner Set, 100 Pieces, $25.00 Dinner Sei, 100 Pieces, $75.00 Made of English at the well-known potteries of Gri " dle ; v u & Son - v '. ho f rc kn ? wn Made bv Haviland & Co., of Limotre the world over for their exquisite decorations T - -r, j • • , . ' Ue>t ' and the pure whiteness of their clay body. France. Ihe decoration is a rich border of This set has a green border decoration placed cone s^a P e design, with olive green border and between two lines and on the green body yellow center; each piece has gilt edge and a Grecian border decoration in black. ' the handles arc of Roman gold. Window Ventilators Made like an adjustable window screen, only cov- ered with sanitary dustproof cloth instead of wire; V/, / keeps out drafts, dust, snow and rain—yet allows fresh air to enter. P uUCti 9 inches high, 23 to 37-inch extension 35<? Without j fiiSSSR 9 inches high, 31 to 49-inch extension 40f Jraft&Dust I 9 inches high, 34 to 59-inch extension 50<; Sai " .O J BOWMAN'S—Basement. Genuine Holland Bulbs Don't Forget the Nut. faT Fresh arrival direct from Holland to tl i • • Bowman 's. I nanksgiving Now's the time to plant them Tn our basement you will find bush Hyacinth, double or single, all col- ing prices: "Tulip"" large'' variety ' of ' 'colo'S '<"! Barcelona. tOf lb. dozen SJOc alnuts, Grenoble & < 0 lb. Narcissus, healthy and fragrant; Brazils, lb dozen Almonds, lb BOWMAN'S—Basement. BOWMAN'S—Bwement. " " Opening of Bowman's Fall Sewing Machine Club - -JQ. SI.OO Delivers One of These High Grade vj/ Machines to Your Home ou 04111 1 afford to do without a sewing machine anv longer when such convenient club arrangements are within \ VB-% yOUr reac^ —particularly so when you can procure the highest type of a machine—the perfection of mechanical ingenuity— at a vety moderate price. Eldredge Two-Spool Machine—New improved case, plank if.ll1 to P- ,ift ,id ' noiseless, quartered oak case, rubbed and polished finish- Price $49.00 Eldredge Rotary Machine—New and improved case, e'asv - : jv*• Jffl runn ' n g—complete set of attachments. Price $.'19.00 I Vindex B Machine—Highly polished oak case, drop head ' Jr r { Js2?i casy runnin &- Pticc $32.00 /3 Bowman A 1 Machine —Highly polished oak case. cas\ running, drop .head. Price $25.7& Jj Complete set of attachments with each machine—also in struction book. BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. NOVEMBER 7, 1917. 3
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