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South Prospering As Is
Evidenced By Auto Sales
Due to the high price being paid
for cotton the sale of Maxwell cars
and trucks has increased enormous
ly during the past few months.
The entire'South is experiencing
more prosperity than it has since
the Civil War. Cotton planters are
getting a bigger margin of profit on
their staple crop. Negro renters
on the cotton plantations for the
•rst time in the history of the race
in the United States have bank ac
counts.
As cotton prices soared the de
mand for Maxwell products in
creased. Owners of big plantations
are purchasing Maxwell one-ton
trucks to replace the-time honored
cotton mule as a means of hauling
cotton to gins and the market. Cash
payments are more numerous than
In previous years.
The strong demand for the Max
well line, both trucks and pas
senger cars, extends throughout
the South from the Atlantic Coast
to thf Pacific Coast, as cotton is
grown in most of the southern
states. In Southern California cot
ton is grown as a staple crop. This
fall Maxwell trucks have been im
portant factors in moving the cot
ton crop of California. The scarc
ity of labor in the valley where
cotton is grown has been overcome
by planters transporting pickers
from the industrial centers to the
cotton plantations in Maxwell truck
caravans.
In South Carolina the increased
sales of Maxwells has been far be
yond a normal growth. As an in
stance of the rapidly increasing
Maxwell business is the sales rec
ord of J. W. McKee, the Maxwell
distributor at Columbia, S. C.
"Since July 1 my company has
handled more than 1,000 Maxwell
cars and trucks —and that is ,lust
double, the amount of our business
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for the previous yenr," declared
McKee.
Kailrjad officials have informed
McKee that in the last six months
the railroads have shipped by freight
more cars to his company than to
any other one company in the en
tire state of South Carolina. So
urgent is the need of more cars to
hundlc the demand in South Caro
lina territory that McKee visited
the general offices of the Maxwell
company in • Detroit, November 19
to insist that a rush order for an
additional 100 passenger cars and
26 trucks be shipped to him at
once.
"Even the negroes in the South
are buy'ng cars", he said. Further
more they are buying them with
the cash they have earned from
the cotton crop raised on shares
with the white planters, he informed
Maxwell officials.
Wider Use Of Motor
Trucks Now Practical
"Extensive motorization of the de
livery and huulage departments of
many business concerns, made more
necessary by the increasing scarcity
j of horses, is now considered prac
\ tical because of the wonderful de
; velopment of the four-wheel drive
! type ot" truck during the last, few
J years," says George McFarland, of
of Harrisburg Automobile Company.
"Heavy loads, such as logs, ce
ment, brick, coal, oil and minerals,
which heretofore it has been prac
tically impossible to haul overland
I on the almost impassable highways
in many sections of our country, are
now being transported long distances
\by four-wheel drive trucks more
1 economically than by railroad trains.
"The government has awakened to
the wonderful possibilities offered by
four-wheel drive trucks and thous
! ands of these motor vehicles will
play important roles during the war.
"George W. Dunham, president of
! the Society of Automobile Engineers
and civilian member of the commit-
I tee having charge of motorizing the
Field Artillery of the Army, says a
JIMMY BRITT RIDES MOTORCYCLE
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large number of four-wheel drive
trucks will be provided for the
handling of American ammunition.
"In an address at Buffalo recently,
Mr. Dunham said: "The four-wheel
drive vehicles are comparatively
modern developments, suitable for
operation over rough grounds and
under conditions where the ordinary
vehicle of road type would find it
difficult to secure the necessary foot
hold. 1
"We are finding that numerous In
dustries are now enabled to motor
ize- for the first time with our four
wheel drive truck. This is especially
true in lumber and mining sections
without railroads, and where horse,
mule andox teams have been the
only practical means of transport
ing the various products to the
market centers. The four-wheel I
drive truck is performing a great j
service in various lines of industry,;
more important perhaps than that|
rendered by ordinary light delivery
trucks for retail merchants."
Shell-Torn Cadillacs
Still Doing Service
Writing from France on the 19th
of October to Hyslop Brothers, Tor
onto. Charles J. Feaver, Thirteenth
Canadian Field Ambulancp, says that
the Cadillac Eight ambulances aken
to France early in the war are still
in the field and rendering excellent
service.
"Oui Cadillacs are still going fine,
he sa.-s, "in spite of the fact that
some of them have had some rough
times recently. Every one of them
; has been riddled with shrapnel, and
one was put out of commission al
together by a high explosive shell."
Hyslop Brothers, as Cadillac dis
tributors in Toronto, supplied the
Canadian government with a large
numbei of cars, \Vhich were shipped
to the battle front with the early
Canadian contingents. They were
especially fitted with bodies and
equipment for ambulance service,
and been in continuous use,
under battlefield conditions, for
close to three years.
Feaver thanks Hyslop brothers
for a letter and a parcel. "It is
the main thing one has to look
i forward to out here," he says, "a
| letter or a parcel from those at
home.
"It will soon be three years since
I I left and, believe me, Toronto
j seems a long way off just now.
I However, we are proud of the work
| we are doing and confident that it
| will not be long until we are on
i our way to dear old Canada again."
Prescribe Motoring
For War Wounded
During the early part of the war,
J. W. Thompson, a young Canadian
enlisted in the Canadian forces and
was sent to the battle front in
France. He had been there but a
Short lime when he sustained a
shell wound so serious that it was
necessary to send him back to Can
ada for recovery. The young man
did not recover quickly enough to
suit the physician, and a long motor
trip was preucribed in the hope
that health would be found.
Last week Thompson, with three
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
friends, reached Los Angeles in a
Velie Six. after having covered al
most every state in the Union and
visited practically all of America's
natural wonders.
The Velie was purchased in Buf
falo, and Niagara was the first of
the great scenic spots to be seen.
Kstes Park in Colorado, Yellow
stone National Park and the Yo
semite were included in the itiner
ary. Before the journey is com
pleted visits will be made to the
Grand Canyon and *to Mammoth 1 1
Cave, and the car will then take
Thompson back to Canada.
"I'll he back in the trenches
within three months", said the bouy
ant. young officer today, and from
his appearance one is lead to believe
this is true.
Saving Human Capital
Under Better Conditions
The struggle of nine of the warring
countries to strengthen their human
resources by making labor conditions
tolerable for children who must work,
and by providing schools to teach
them how to do better work, are re
counted in Child Labor in Warring
Countries, a brief review of foreign
reports just issued by the National
Children's Bureau.
The prospect for better industrial
education for England has lately been
strengthened by the bill introduced in
the British Parliament by Herbert
Fisher, president of the Board of Edu
cation. The bill fixes compulsory
school attendance age at 14 without
the present exemptions and requires
that all working children under 18
spend at least 320 hours a year in
•continuation schools.
In Italy, as well as in Prance and
England, standards of labor protec
tion were relaxed at the beginning of
the war only to be restored and
strengthened as experience showed
that long hours, night and Sunday
work, with their evil effects on health
and efficiency, did not pay.
And Russia, according to informa
tion received since the bulletin went
to press, has found it necessary to
withdraw the power given her Min
ister of Labor and Industry early in
the war to grant exemptions to con
cerns doing war work from the laws
regulating hours and the employment
of women, and children under 17.
Canada, New Zealand and Australia
have maintained practically unchang
ed through three years of war strain
their high standards of protection for
working children.
Ruth and Naomi Class Has
Pleasant Evening at Enola
Enola, Pa.. Nov. 24.—0n Thursday
evening the monthly meeting of the
Ruth and Naomi Sunday School Class
of the Methodist Church was held at
the home of Mrs. Percy Branyan, at
Overview. After tho regular program
and usual class business was trans
acted, a delightful social time was
enjoyed. Airs. Charles Hepford en
tertained with' special musical num
bers. Several contests were features
of the social hour, and were won by
Mrs. Roy Bitner and Mrs. Charles
Hepford. Refreshments were served
to Mrs. George Keller, Mrs. Claire
Shaffer. Mrs. W. C. Smith, Mrs. Wil
liam Murphy, Mrs. Chester Baer,
Mrs. Lighty, Mrs. Roy Bitner, Mr.
and Mrs. Boyd and son. Mrs. C. A.
L'aas. Mrs. Ralph Shaffer, Joseph
Baer. Edgar Branyon, Mrs. Roth, Mrs.
Charles Hepford, Mrs. Russel Bitner.
Mrs. Charles Mrs. Percy Bran
yan.
100 Guests at Reception
to Wormleysburg Pastor
Wormleysburg. Pa.. Nov. 24.—The
Rev. A. B. Mower and family were
tendered a reception on Thursday
evening in ' the church auditorium.
Addresses were made by the Rev.
S. E. Vance, of the Church of God,
and the Rev. F. T. Kohler. of Grace
I'r.itcd Brethren Church. West Fair
view. Mrs. R. c. Sparrow, president
of the Ladies' Aid Society, welcomed
the pastor and his family and pre
sented them with a bouquet of chrys
anthemums in behalf of the congre
gation. Miss Nerissa Sadler sang and
the Misses Eleanor Baker and Mar
garet Dopke and George and Irvin
Boose gave instrumental selections.
The pastor thanked the congregation
and 'friends for their kindly recep
tion and expressed his hopes for a
period of fcrood work while here. The
audience was then Invited to the
townnall, where refrerhments were
served by the Indies' Aid Society to
about one hundred guests.
Woman's Club Has Guest
Evening at Mechanicsburg
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Nov. 24.—A
pleasant event was the guest even
ing of the Woman's Club at the home
of Mrs. William E. Kouyh. West
Main street, last evening. "A Little
Nonsense" was a feature of the af
fair with readings from humorous
writers by Miss M. Lulu Coover, Miss
Vada Castle and Miss Ida G. Kast.
This was followed by conundrums
and humorous stories by club- mem
bers and guests. Refreshments were
served by members of the hospital
ity committee who included Miss
Mary Clark, Mrs. Samuel Basehore,
Miss Marguerite Uhrlch, Mrs. E. A.
Burnett and Miss Marian Bell.
BELIEF CORPS ANNIVERSARY
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Nov. 24.—The
Woman's Relief Corps celebrated the
anniversary of their
organization with a dinner on Thurs
day evening. The speakers were Mrs.
Alice 8. Houck and Mrs. Margaret
Eberly. One new member was admit'
ted and a contribution of $5 to the
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. war fund
wu made.
HANUKAH FEAST
OF MACCABEES
Jewish People to Celebrate
Holiday on December
Ninth.
Sunday evening, December 9—ac
cording to the Hebrew Calendar,
Kislev 25th—the Jewish people will
usher in the observance of the post-
Mosac festival of Ilanukah. also
known as The Feast of the Macca
bees and The Festival of Lights.
It commemorates the splendid
heVoism of the Hasmonean House
of Mattathias, of his son Judas, the
Maccabec and his valiant brethren:
their loyalty to the faith of their
fathers, and their victory over An
tiochus, King of Syria, who had
waged a relentless war of extermi
nation against the religion of Israel.
Other rulers and races had sought
to destroy the Jew, Antiochus was
bent on the Eradication of Judaism.
To accomplish this end the Temple
was seized and denied by the Syrian
hosts: idols were set up in the sa
cred shrine dedicated to the worship
of tho One God; the priest - hood
profaned by the enforcement of
Idolatroi-s practices, and the Israel
ites ordered. under penalty of death
to bow before the idols of the
Syrians. Under the Military leader
ship of Judas Maccabee. the Israel
ites waged heroic warfare against
their powerful adversaries for the
right to worship God according to
the dictates of their conscience
After three years of war—on the
same dav, Kislev the 25th, on which
three years before the Syrian idol
had been placed in the temple
i the Israelites celebrated the birth of
their religious freedom, cleansed the
Temple which had been profaned
by the Syrians, and rededijeated it
to the God of liberty and light.
Hanukah is a Hebrew word that
means rededication. In the temple
and heme, the seven - branched
candlestick is lighted and special
prayers are The suggestive
symbolism light, ever held in rever
ence by Israel-, is variously em*
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PHca *ubj*ct to tkaata mithavt mattta
ployed to express the lessons of the
festival.
The f{Lst is associated with a
charming legend: It is said that
when the Jewish heroes had re
claimed the sanctuary from the un
holy touch of the heathen, a single
cruse of oil was found, insufficient
to supply the large lamps of the
Temple. "Yet is sufficed to fill all
the lampß of the Temple during
the eight days of the celebration of
the festival. God's light never fails
those who look to Him for spiritual
and mcral illumination.
In the synagog, in addition to
the customary ritual, portions of the
First and Second Books of the Mac
cabees (Apocrypha) are read. Tra
dition says, the name Maccabee is
derived from the initials of the four
Hebrew words which formed the
battle -ry of the Hebrew Patriots,
j M K B I, and which in English
are rendered, "Who is like unto
| Thee, O God, among the mighty"!
Sheep Shipped by Barge
To Mountain Ranges
Washington.—By the use of a
three-decker barge capable of carry
ing 2,700 sheep at a time, hitherto
unused range for approximately 75.-
000 sheep at the bend of Che
lan, on the Chelan National Forest,
Washington, has been made avail
able for use. This, according to
grazing experts of the Forest Serv
ice, is an example of the way in
which new range on the national
forests is being opened up In an ef
fort to increase the country's meat
supply.
Chelan, which, officers of the
Fores* Service say, is one of the
most heautiful bodies of water in
the West, is fifty-two miles lonp.
While the head of the lake is acces
sible only by boat and narrow moun
tain trails, the lower end is con
venient to a railroad and also to the
bunchgrass, ranges of enstern Wash
ington upon which the sheep men of
that region have for many years
wintered large numbers of sheep.
They lacked summer range, how
ever. The summer range at the
head of Lake Chelan, it is explained,
is particularly good, but is cut off
from the nearest ranches by a long
stretch of exceedingly rough country
over which sheep can not be driven
without severe losses.
Officers of the Forest Service sug
gested the construction of a barge to
NOVEMBER 24, 1917
be towed by a small steamer, which
would make it possible to transport
the sheep to the head of the lake.
The suggestion was carried out with
the aid of the railroad, and 37,000
sheep were put on this practically
new range the first season. Not only
was the national forest land utilized,
but the route up the lake offers a
satisfactory way to a large adjoin
ing area in British Columbia, which,
though Inaccessible from the Cana
dian side, may now be reached from
this side.
The plan was so successful that
the stockmen Intend to construct
another and larger barge for use
next season.
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TURNPIKE TAKEX OVEH
Waynesboro, Pa., Nov. 24. —1t is
reported that an agreement has been
effected In respect to the taking over
of the Waynesboro, Grcencastle and
Merccrsburg turnpike, satisfactory to
all parties concerned, the State Hlf?h
way Department, the county com
missioners and the turnpike com
pany. The pike will be taken over
and the tollgates abolished.
EVAXGEI,ISrs WIPE TO ASSIST
New Cumberland, Pa.. Nov. B%.—■
Mt- Arnold, wife of Professor Ar
noM, arrived from New York yester
dnT, and will assist In the evangel
istic services In Trinity United Breth--
len Church.