6 LABOR UNION OFFICIAL SUGGESTS NEW BALLOT The following letter suggesting a simplified form of ballot has been written to the Harrisburg Telegraph by C. F. Quinn, secretary and treasurer of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor. It is self explanatory and follows: To the Editor of the Telegraph: "Tour recent editorial on simpli fying; the ballot is responsible for this communication. "For some time the subject lias interested me and consideration has been given to it. My conclusion is that, if ballot-reform be not a Pick wickian amusement of ballot-re formers, a simple ballot is a simple problem'. "Political action is manifested, in jreat measure, through party meth ods. At the primaries, the names of all candidates are presented to the registered voters on the ballots. The candidates on each party-ballot, having the highest number of votes for the respective offices, become the candidates of the respective parties r.t the succeeding general election. Every voter is thus given OFFICIAL BALLOT (Instructions to Voters Here) Party Column ' Blank Column STATE CANDIDATES REPUBLICAN __ For Governor " . For Lieutenant-Governor DEMOCRATIC ' For Secretary Internal Affairs SOCIALIST COUNTY CANDIDATES For County Commissioner PROHIBITION For Register of Wills For Coroner "11l connection with this bailor, | there should be, at all the polls, lists of candidates, so that voters have access to them for desired informa tion. "Under this system, a vote in tha j-nrty-square would be a vote for all candidates of the party in which square an X has been marK,eL Po ■ <3'jt a candidate of any pa.tv the voter would write, in the blink, un der official heading, the name of the candidate pf an opposite party for •whom he intended to vote. He would also have the privilege of writing in the names of any candi date, or citizens, he pleased, or I e might omit the party-square X al together, anfl write in the names of all the candidates. ROTARY CLUB HELPS Sunbury, Pa., Nov. 16.'—With the 1 aid of the Rotary Club, Sunbury lias raised $4,000 of its alloted SIO,OOO 1 for the Y. M. C. A. war fund. Thoi town has been divided into districts, i and prominent men, headed by John ; G. Sell, vice-president of the North! Branch Fire Insurance Company, are j making a canvass from house to | house. j Women, Prepare! Thousands of women in Pennsyl- j vania have overcome their sufferings,] and have been cured of woman's ills by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, j This temperance medicine, though "iarted nearly half a century ago, j sellc most widely t<}-day. It can now j be had in tablet form as well asj liquid, and every woman who suffers from backache, headache, nervous ness. should take this "Prescription" j of Dr. Pierce's. It is prepared from! nature's roots and herbs and does not contain a particle of alcohol or any narcotic. It's not a secret pre- I seriptlon for its Ingredients are print ed on wrapper. It is now put up in tablet form. Write confidentially about your case, or send 10c for trial pkg. of "Favor ite Prescription Tablets" to Dr. Pierce, President Invalids' Hotel,' Buffalo, N. Y. McKeesport, Pa.—"l found Dr. | .Pierce's Favor- j ' te Prescription equally as good j us it usetl to be. j Jfe aKO 1 hil, l a Se " I vere nervous | -Tl break-down. I j 'yj became very fills® ""5/i weak and thin /ijPyß ~jv'nl an( ' could not s ' ee |P' when a mine 1 advised VI V\' n\\ me to try 'Fa ' vorite Prescrip tion' as it had helped her. Tbia I| did, and three bottles cured mo of all i nervousness and I was once more ini good health —-thanks to this good ■ medicine. Women who suffer as 1, did Will llnd great relief in tho 'Pre-1 scripllon.'—Mrs. Emma Decker, 418 Penny Ave. A Wonderiu! Ointment 3s Gingered The Gingerole Co., For the enclosed stamps kindly j lend to my address Gingerole. It is j *. wonderful ointment. I have used it! with splendid success and am adver- j tising it to my many friends. Also send me a number of leaflets | to give to my pupils to take home. \ Sister M. Agatha, O. S. 8., j 6t. Boniface Convent, Hammet, Pa. i Via Erie, It. F. D.. No. 7. For 25 cents you can get a big package of GINGEROLE and drug gists will tell you that if it is not better than any plaster, liniment or poultice you ever used, money back. There surely is nothing so good on earth' for sprains, strains, bruises, bunions, callouses, chilblains or frosted feet. Just rub it on; it will not blister. GINOEROI7E absorbs instantly, is very penetrating and that's why it Dnly takes a tew minutes to net rid Of earache, headache, toothache, backache and neuralgia. GINGJOROLE is for sale and rec ommended tjy all first-class druggists. FRIDAY EVENING, an opportunity to vote for his choice of candidates. . "The names of all candidates, hav ing been submitted to the voters at the primaries (It should be assumed that every intending voter at the general election will vote at the primaries, if not, the state is not to blame), and nearly all cjtizens, hav ing party affiliation, it seems, that the names of candidates might -very well he omitted from the bal lot at the getlferal election.' Their republication on the general ballot causes a greater outlay for printing, inconvenience to the voter, more labor in counting, and affords greater probability of error, or fraud. Taking these actualities and contingencies into consideration, why could not the ballot be simpli fied as hereunder crudely shown: "Let me say, in conclusion, that this proposed ballot would merely transform the present ballot by the omission of the names of the can didates, and still afford an opportun ity for individual voting. \ "Its adoption would encourage better representation at the primar ies and regular party-voting at the general elections. In non-partisan campaigns, a distinct non-partisan ballot should be used. foregoing is not, perhaps, fully explicit as I realize your space is limited. It is-given only for criti cism and to pass as a hurried sug gestion to other minds. "Very truly yours, C. P. QUINN, Secretary-Treasurer. LITERARY SOCIETY PROGRAM Landlsburg, Pa., Nov. 16. This evening Landisburg High School Lit erary Society will hold its regular weekly meeting in the High school room. The program for the even ing includes: Song, society; recita tion, Miss Freda Gibson; solo, Mrs. Saucerman; recitation, Leslie Egoll'; debate, "Resolved, That the Art of Public Address Is of More Value to One Than the Art of Music," affrma tive. Professor E. C. Dile and John McCoy; negative, Amos Dum and Oliver Keck. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION New Bloomfield,' Pa., Nov. 16. —• Perry county court has appointed • 'ounty Commissioner Allen R. Thompson, of Watts township, under the act of July 20, 1917, as Perry county commissioner of "The County Industrial Farm, Workhouse and Re formatory," of the third district, which includes York, Adams, Cum berland, Perry, Northumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon and Lancaster counties. Mr. Thompson will serve until the expiration of his present term. STROKE CAI'SES DEATH Hummelstown, Pa., Nov. 16.—Mrs.) Hell, an elderly woman who kept] house for Mr. and Mrs. Forney at the corner of High and Water streets,' was stricken with paarlysis Tuesday j morning, the stroke being slight and; merely a fleeting one arm. She got] somewhat better and ate dinner, lat- i er falling on the lloor with a heavy j stroke. A physician was summoned i and also her son by former marriage, | Thomas Leiter, of Middletown. Atj the physician's advice she was re moved to the home of her son, where she died a half hour after her arri val. She Is survived by her husband and two sons. MRS. ABRAHAM RECK DIES ?<lount Joy. Pa., Nov. 16.—Mrs. Joanna S. Beck, wife of Abrahairi R. lleck, died on Wednesday at her home at Lititz, aged 78 years. Mrs. Beck was a native of Graceham, Md„ where her father, the Rev. Samuel i lluebncr. was a Moravian minister.; Mrs. Beck's husband was a son of (he i famous pioneer educator and foun-| der of Beck's School For Boys. Her j husband, a daughter,. Mrs. Harry C. Miller, oft Lititz; two sons, Paul Beck, state superintendent of art and mu sic in the public schools, at Harris- j burg, and Herbert Beck, professor of chemistry, at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, survive. Funeral service?. will be held to-morrow af-| tcrnoon. LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS Marietta, Pa., Nov. 16.—Mrs. Amanda Hornberger, aged 86, a na tive of Lititz, died Wednesday after a long illness. Five children, ten grandchildren, two brothers and a sister survive. Mrs. Maggie Rinier. of Strasburg, aged 70, disd Wednesday. A daugh ter. a sister and a brother survive. Jere Kurtz, of Ephrata, aged 06, died suddenly yesterday while talk ing to a number of friends in the street. Death was due to heart dis ease. His wife and five children, and a number of grandchildren survive. SNEEZING CAUSES BLINDNESS Marietta, Pa., Nov. 16.—Miss An gelina Marley, 17 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Marley, of Co lumbia, has lost the sight of both of her eyes by sneezing while at school and the case has puzzled the physicians. It was at first thought she was suffering from a nervous affection, but it has been discovered such is not the case. She was re moved to the hosoital. NEW PLAN TO HELP SOLDIERS Nurse From Adams County in France Asks Refreshments For Soldiers En Route Gettysburg, Nov. 16.—Plans have already- been mapped out and contributions started to como In lor the citizens of Gettysburg and Adams county to "do their bit" in a distinc tive way. A letter was received from one of Adams county's Red Cross nurses who is now at the front, ask ing for a regular monthly contribu tion direct from the home folks to •enable her to do work that she feels ought to be done. The matter ready the first month's instalment is j Do You Remember— I —when they said "Saddy" for "Thank you"? aMF& A | —when cards were considered iniquitous? ®\ ✓ " —when the welfare of the soul was constantly con —when the lavender brandy was used in an emer —when pupils "graduated" at cube root? —when fiction was forbidden to children? : $Mp-' H H * —when ether first came into use? jjS —when they played "Copenhagen" and "knacks"? —when dominoes were considered a dissipation? * —when old clothes were woven into rag carpets? * —when lard oil and whale oil were the only illumi- ' OT I —when oranges were rarities and bananas were '-V jl —when ice cream was'first introduced? i 31 —when "ftps" and "levies" were common currency? ~ '• —when daguerreotypes first came in? ' '> && ■*' —when horse cars were introduced in Philadelphia? S ! f : i A-'ln ?.')/' /jj? *'"' —when the Fire Companies ruled the city? ,-vz> —when Lincoln came to Philadelphia ? \v|/' /ft(%■:] //■ " —when "Copperheads" were ridden ore a —when Ellsworth was shot? ' / ■ * H —— • / | The Opening Chapters of | j Gov. Pennypacker's I I l Autobiography deal with the habits and customs of the Pennsylvania of the fifties and sixties. They give amusing anecdotes of the boyhood of men who later became famous. Governor Penny packer's marvelous memory recreated with photographic clearness the scenes of that almost forgotten period. Those scenes are peopled with the fathers and grandfathers of the present I generation. Many a reader of the autobiography will find in it interesting bits of his own family history.. . p After Governor Pennypacker's death, a number of his former associates addressed a letter to his family requesting that his autobiography be published EXACTLY AS HE WROTE IT. They feared that a desire to avoid controversy, or to protect the feelings of some one bruised by Governor Pennypacker's plain speaking, would cause the suppression or revision of gg important chapters of the manuscript. In agreeing to the exclusive first publication of the autobiography in the Philadelphia * | it was expressly provided that no part of the book is to be omitted or changed. The only editing If) consists of verification of names, dates and an occasional minor incident all of which would H have been done by the author had not death interrupted him. Publication of Governor Pennypacker's r.ntobiography will commence in the issue of the Evening Ledger for Saturday, November 17, and will continue daily for about four months. Mail the coupon for the complete series. II I EVENING LEDGER, Box 1526, Philadelphia:— / i; I enclose $2.00. Send the Evening Ledger daily, for the period of Govenor Pennypacker's Auto- !; p biograph, to: — ' <[ j' Name *' City , i ! B <t R. F, D. or Street . . State 'j! !| If desired for a longer or shorter period remit at the rate of 50c a month. <[ A ':' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH: ready the first month's Installment Is speeding over the rails to be ship ped over the waters to its destina tion. The nurso has charge of one of the Infirmaries along the railway at which the trains bearing the American boys from the port to the camps and trenches stop. Many, If I not the most of these men, have not been In u camp, hut traveling on the ocean or on tho railroad on payday and consequently many of them do not have any money nnd rations uro getting low. When the men are In a camp they aro well fed, but It. is to help those travelers that the nurso asks for the aid so that who may glvo .to Undo Ram's tlrejl, hun gry boys a cup of coffee and a little something to eat, and tho first day's launching of tho plan to Just a few people promises a ready responso on the part of our citizens. I'I.AN FOII BOCHB WORK DlspriMn! DIKCII.HKIMI at Washington—- France Wants Them "Washington, Nov. IS.—The State Department , and the British and Krone h Foreign Offices have been discussing ever since the United States entered the war the question of bringing German prisoners of war to this country, it was learned at the £tute Department to-day. The question haa now become a lively one owing to the necessity of determin ing the disposition to bo made of prisoners taken by the United States tioopa. France, It was said, desires "that they lie held in France, as they can b" utilised there on the farms and In other employments, where labor is scarce. It was considered probable that. Inasmuch as the transportation of prisoners of war in laryo nunVbers would interfere with the shipping operations, this Government will de cide to let them remain in France. DURMN PI.ACE FOII PACIFISTS Socialist Mayor Snyn Wavering Oon grreKNinen Should Mtgr:itc Albany, N. Y., Nov. IG.—George It. Lunri. Socialist, mayor' of. Schenec tady and member of Congress, ad dressing the New York Federation of Women's Clubs, in convention yes terday, declared members of Congress ■who are wavering over war measures 'should migrate Immediately to Ber lin. "Giving every credit of sincerity to our I'-isgulded pacifists." he said, "it. nevertheless, remains true that they furnish us en example of the menace of ninUclU-hendodness. This is 110 lime for inudoN-headedness; it is the tlmo for courage and clear thinking. I I would rather see a Prussian victory than any compromised peace. A com promised peace would mean the dead ening f every moral fiber of the nation." NEW SPECIES OF WILD GOOSE FOUND Berkeley, Cal. —A new wild goose has been discovered by the Univer sity of California as distinct from the 1 common "white-fronted gsse.' with which for more than 70 years it has been confused. The discovery is an nounced by S. 11. Swsfrth and Harold C. Bryant < of the University of Cal ifornia bureau of vertebrate zool ogy, in a paper Just issued by the NOVEMBER 16, 1917. university in its publications in Zoo-1 logy, and has been reported in the j Sacramento Union. Examination at the tiniversltiy haul proved that there arc two well-de- j lined subspecies of tho goose hereto- : foro known as Anser albifrons. - CITY VOTES FOR LOAN Little Rock, ArlJ.—The city of | North Little Rock, across the Arkan sas River, from here, has voted to negotiate a loan of SOO,OOO made by a St. Louis firm. The money was] used to pay outstanding debts and place the city on a cash basis and will be repaid from a sinking fund. JEWS IN CAMP ORGANIZE Greenville, S. C. —Jewish soldiers in Camp Sevier recently met in the Y. M. C. A, building of Unit 82 and formed an organization for the study of the Bible and history. Privhte A. D. Waldover, of Memphis, was elect ed president, and Sundays were se lected for the meetings. I COUPLE STOPPED BY POLICE Hunbury, Pa., Nov. 16.—Susie Daz* j. zalia, and William Penn, of Kulp* [ mont, were taken into custody bj( I railroad police here, ppon a tele* I phonic request from the girl's par* [ ontf, just as they were buying ticketa [ for Elkton, Md. They denied'nm tn | tended elopement. i MARRIED El FTY-THREE YEARS Marietta, Pa., Nov. 16. —Mr. an<J I Mrs. Adam Koeliler were married I llfty-three years to-day. They are i among the oldest residents of Ma ; rietta, and. both are enpoying good health. ' They were the parents of ten children, several of whom era, dead. I CHILDREN Should not be "dosed" wHi for colds—apply "ex- tr&ffa W tern ally"—
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