12 BAKERS PROMISE "PREPOSTEROUS" SAYS HITCHCOCK War Secretary's Statements ■ Would Convey Wrong Im- | pression, Says Senator Washington, Feb. 4. Secretary linker's recent statement to the Sen ate Military Committee that the United States would have half a mil lion soldiers in France early this year and that prospects were noti unpromising for ships to carry a million more who would Vie ready j during the year were characterized! by Senator Hitchcock in an address to the Senate today as "absolutely | preposterous and * * * * so exag- i gerated as to convey an entirely ! false impression as to what we can] do and what we are doing-" I Supporting the committee's billsl for a war cabinet and munitions di- j rector Senator Hitchcock declared' Secretary Baker was no doubt sin-] cere, but was misled by lack of in- 1 formation regarding scarcity of the j ships into making sanguine predic tions. He said President Wilson | himself "does not know the real sit-| nation." and cited this situation ns an illustration of the absence of government co-ordination. Administration leaders prepared i to reply to Senator Hitchcock, whose | speech launched the debate which | has been impending since Secretary i Kaker made his statement and the] President made known his opposi-1 tion to the military committee's plans for re-organizing the govern- j ment's war machinery. Conceding that much of a big Simple Way To End Dandruff There is one sure \. ay that has never failed to remove dandruff at once, and that is to dissolve it. then you destroy it entirely. To do this, just get about four ounces of plain | common liquid arvon from any drug store (this is all you will need), ap ply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications will completely dissolve and entirely de stroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find all itching and dig ging of the scalp will stop insta.t ly, and your hair will be fluffy, l*s trous, glossy, silky and soft, and j look and feel a hundred times bet ter. —Adv. J 432 Market Street I'nltcd State* Food Admlnin (ration lJceime Number (i. Specials For Wednesday, Feb. 6,1918 Sliced Liver, "1 QJL lb IL2V Butter Fish, 12k Boiling Beef, 15c 1 Lean Pot Roast, Of \ lb ZUC Our Own Frankfort T b ausage : 20c Our Own Garlic i Sausage Our Own Smok- _ ed Sausage .. | Our Own Liver . Sausage Our Own Blood I k Sausage ljU * I Our Own Head Cheese J Dry Salt Pork, BUTTERINE Swift's O Lincoln, lb. .. . / C Swift's Premium, *"> *"> lb ooc Market In .VI Principal Cities of 14 States. >lliit Office Chicago, 111. Packing Plant lVorla, 111. 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He as ! sorted the President and Secretary Baker has tried, but failed to at tain the object and that the govern ment's system was obslete. The com mittee's legislation, he urged, would not embarrass or interfere with the President's direction of the war. Sharp criticism of many govern ment war activities was made by the senator in Illustrating his arguments Plunders that almost surpass be lief, have occured in the War de partment, he said, and the ship building situation, lie described as a "farce and almost a crime." 110 declared the transportation system has "broken down," and is a "gi gantic wreck." with 2,000,000 tons of freight piled up at New York without shipping facilities; that the fuel administration's orders have paralyzed war and other industries and that food distribution also has been inefficient. Committee Thunderstruck In flatly denying Secretary Bak er's statement that the government has a plan for the war, the senator said the military committee was thunderstruck by the war secretary's optoinistic assertions. "I am afraid to go too deeply in to shipping figures," he added, "for one might be charged with giving information to the enemy. All who are informed as to the present sup ply of our Shipping were thunder struck at the statements of Secre tary Baker. Ills sanguine predic tions as to our ability to ship men to Europe and supply them when there are exaggerations of the wild est sort. "To supply a million men in France, supposing we could tret them over there, it will require five mil lion tons of shipping in constant use. We all know the total tonnage now available is nothing like that amount. We all fear it will not ap proximate that a year from now. The senator summarized the enor mous burdens on the President, in cluding his formulating a foreign policy, designing all the legislation for Congress to pass, dictating the industrial and political activities of the country and looking after ex penditures of $250,000,000 a week. "In the first place the President belongs to the school of political philosophers who adhere to the be lief that all important legislation should originate with and be pro posed by the executive. I cannot subscribe to this scheme of govern ment although it has some obvious advantages in that it prov'.des lead ership order and program. "Since he became President, Mr. Wilson has enforced his view upon Congress to a large degree and gen erally with good results. In the main, I have been one of those who have followed his leadership and supported his policies and I expect to do so in the future. Now and then, however, an ex-j ception must be made. Confusion of Authority The War Department's obsolete" methods, the senator said, had brought the expected results, "con fusion of authority, red tape, cir cumlocution and incapacity" and he cited evidence given in the military committee's inquiry of clothing, rifle and equipment shortages and sickness and deaths in camps as the result of overcrowding and lack of clothing. "We found we must depend on | I overstrained France for machine; j suns for ground use until nearly tliej I end of this year," he said, adding i that first American-made heavy ar-| tillery will not be received until July J and "not much before 1919 can we expect to use in France American heavy artillery In any great quan tity." "I do not deny we also found much that was creditable and satisfac tory. Two courses were open to the com mittee as a result of the investiga tion said Senator Hitchcock—to re port ' conditions, "making a few scapegoats and ignoring the greatest evil of defective machinery" or rec ommending legislation to give the President "an up-to-date war-mak ing organization." Senators Reply Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, and Senator James A. Heed, of Missouri, both Democrats, replied to Senator Hitchcock. The former, in a highly sarcastic and biting address, virtually accused Senator Hitchcock of aiding the enemy. He ridiculed the principle of the war cabinet bill He declared | it unconstitutional and a mere in i vasion of the President's constitu j tional powers. He challenged Sen i ator Hitchcock to name three men CHILD GETS SICK CROSS, FEVERISH | IF CONSTIPATED Look at tongue! Then give fruit laxative for stomach, liver, bowels. | "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm children and they love it. Mother! Your child isn't naturally I cross and peevish. See if tongue is I coated; this is a sure sign the little stomach, liver and bowels need a I cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full .of cold, breath bad, throat sore, ' doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, re member, a gentle liver and bowel cleansing should always be the first treatment given. Nothing equals "California Syrup of Figs" for children's ills; give a teaspoonful. and in a few hours all the foul waste, sour Dile and fer ' menting food which is clogged in the bowels passes out of the system, and ' you have a well and playful child . again. All children love this harm less, delicious "fruit laxative," and it never fails to effect a good "in side" cleansing. Directions for ba bies. children of all ages and grown ups are plainly on the bottle. Keep it handy in your home. A little given to-day saves a sick child to-morrow, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "Cali fornia Syrup of Figs," then see thTtt | it is made by the "California Fig I Syrup Company." HOW THE SNOW FLEW BEFORE ATTACK * In the above picture is seen a squad of workmen in charge of Charle H. Tunis at work at Front and Paxton streets. The picture was taken as soon as the men alighted yesterday from the truck and began to do their bit in the snow-removing day program. whom he would recommend for seats in the war cabinet and then as serted the Senator would not dare to do so. "The criticisms you have heard are specks." he shouted. "You have drawn a circle and filled it with specks and you call it the sun. Has not every one, the President, the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy done his best? Has not every man and woman in the nation done theii best? You are merely trying to strengthen a chain by adding another link to it." "Unconstitutional,'' Assorts Reed Senator lteed, a member of the Military Affairs Committee, an op ponent of the Administration in many instances, and, as he' said to day, "an insistent advocate of the independence of Jhe legislative branch of the Government," took on entirely different view of the situa tion from Senator Williams, but he as strongly and insistently opposed the bills. Senator Reed declared the war cabinet measure was unconstitu tional. HP agreed with Senator Wil liams in that. He also agreed with him in the statement—and he said this should settle .the question for all time—that If the President was not wise enough to appoint capable men to handle the war, he might not in the future appoint three capable men under the war-cabinet bill, and that if the men he has in power are capable, are doing their best, it would be impossible to create three more competent men by legis lation, just as it would be impossible [to make the President wiser bv legislation. Senator Reed differed widely with l Senator Williams on other points. He declared the mistakes that had been committed were by po means specks; that the misfortunes vhich have come about through the na tion's hasty preparations for war are not specks. MAY AX I) OCTOtIEB Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 20, and deeply in love with a man 45. My parents object to my going out with him because they think he is too old, and say I will never love him. Miss Fairfax, do you think this difference in ages could not end in | love? It is your reply that my parents are waiting to see. R. B. Of course > J ou and this man are a whole generation apart. You are at the threshold of life and youth and he is a mature man—probably as old as your fnthev. Naturally your tastes and inclinations are different. It is perfectly possible for a happy marriage to come in spite of this, but fifteen from now, when you are thirty-five still a young woman—he will be sixty, and when you are just his present age he will have reached old age—"man's al loted span." I think a marriage like this has a great many attendant risks, but in spite of them love is possible, and love "conquers all things." Commander of Austrian Forces on Italian Front GEi-TKISAV EOROEVIC. In the recent sliakeup of the Aus trian staff on the Italian front, Gen eral Szetozar Boroevic was appoint ed to succeed Archduke Eugene ns commander of the entire enemy front against Italy. The new Aus trian commander is noted for de te 'Five tactics and his appointment is construed as confirming reports that Austria intends to maintain a defensive attitude along the Italian front. HARRIBBURG TELEGKXPH SHE ADMITS SHE i HAD 4 HUSBANDS "And It's None of Your Busi-! ncss," She Tolls Attorney —Court Sustains Her San Francisco.—A woman is en titled to as many husbands as she can get, provided she has only one at a time, according to Mix Jo sephine Fraser, 1915 Fifteenth street, who has had four of them. Mrs. Fraser was before Judge I Morgan with a petition for tempor- | ary alimony from Thomas R. Fraser, her fourth husband, pending trial | of her divorce, in which she charges [ neglect. She was awarded S3O a I month over the objections of James \ P. Sweeney, attorney for her hus band. Sweeney asked Mrs. Fraser j how many times she had been mar- i rled. "That is none of your business," she replied. "Judge Graham once told me that it made no difference how many husbands a woman had, provided she only had one at a time. I agree with him and go him one better by declaring that she is entitled to as many as she can get. 1 have had four, and if my luck holds 1 may have a few more." Sweeney insisted upon further in- j formation regarding the husbands. She divorced the first, and he is somewhere in San Francisco, she said. The second she also divorced, but he died subsequently. The third died while they were living together. I Sweeney asked what was the "real" reason for her asking a divorce from her present husband. "That is none of your business," j she replied, and the court sustained her. Deaths and Funerals ALFRKD M. HAIVN Word Jias been received here of the | death of Alfred M. Hawn, 4633 San- J som street, Philadelphia. Mr. Hawn was formerly a resident of Harris- j burg, and was assistant to the late j Frederick C. Gore, chief clerk of the j railway mail service. He later re- I moved to Philadelphia, where lie J died. He was on the run to Ship- j pensburg and was hurt in a wreck i on that division. During his resi- | dence in Harrisburg he lived in i North Thirteenth street. KARL. H. THOMAS Karl H. Thomas, 39, died yester day afternoon at the home of Mrs. j W. H: Weaver. 1013 Market street,! after a short illness. The body will j be taken to Morris by Charles H. j Mauk, undertaker, Thursday after- j noon. Funeral services will be held ! 1 from the home of his parents, Mr. ! and Mrs. George It. Thomas, at 10 ! o'clock Friday morning. Burial will j be made in the Salem Church eeme- | tery. AI.OXZO JOHVSOV Funeral services for Alonzo John- j son, 33, who died in the Harrisburg ! Hospital Sunday morning, will be | held front W. J. Hooper's funeral j parlors to-morrow afternoon at 2 I o'clock and burial will be made in j Dincon cemetery. WII,I.IAM SCOTT William Scott. 19, died at the Har risburg Hospital yesterday morning. | His body will be shipped to Schol- ■ letsville, Virginia, to-morrow, by W. J. Hooper, undertaker, and burial will ! be made there. NO HEADACHE OR j NEURALGIA PAIN Get a 10 cent package of Dr. j James' Headache Powders and don't suffer. Wherr your head aches you simply j must have relief or you will go wild. It's needless to suffer when you can I take a remedy like Dr. James' Read- | ache Powders and relieve the pain t and neuralgia at once. Send someone j to the drug store now for a dime i package of Dr. James' Headache • Powders. Don't suffer. In a few moments you will feel fine—head- ' ache gone—no more neuralgia pain. ; —Adv. . j THAT STUBBORN COUGH OR COLD which does not quickly yield to or- j dinary measures must be dealt j with as dangerous. Try ECKMAN'S ALTERATIVE Taken in time, this Calcium pre i partition may prevent chronic con- i | ditions involving throat and lungs. ; Contains no Alcohol, Narpotlo or 1 Habit-Forming Drug. nlxr. now 91.n0. VI nine, now MOc. Price Includes war tax. All druggists. I Kekmnn Laboratory, Philadelphia, i MAYOR MAY CALL FOR SNOW BRIGADE [Continued from First Pane.] i open the streets at many of the lire- Plugs and intersections. Commis sioner Lynch had the regular force out to-day to continue the snow removal and scores of truck and wagon loads of snow are being emptied into the snow hole at Mar ket street. Mayor Keister is planning to hpve printed small digests of all city or dinances for distribution to the mem- ; hers of the city police force, he said to-day. Mayor niadev the sug gestion to some of the other mem- j hers of Council to-day and they ap proved it. For some years the pa trolmen have had no printed copies giving city laws in brief. City Solicitor Fox will be consult ed on the question and the City So licitor's office will prepare tile di gest. According to Mayor Keister, it is necessary in returning suits for court to give the date the ordinance was passed in all penal cases. The digest will be a big help for city aldermen, for this reason, the official said. Sergeant Russell Brightbill Reaches France in Safety "Landed safe; well and happy." is the brief but encouraging message that .Mrs. William Brightbill, of lleckton Mills, has received from her : son. Hussell Brightbill, who went to i France with Pershing's expedition. Young Brightbill has made swift pro , tfress in army life, being now advanc ed to the title of sergeant, lie is at i taelied to Company D, Ith Battalion, Second Division. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart Remarkable Winter Coat Values A Sale of Several Hundre Regular Embracing Materials That Cannot Be Duplicated For Next Winter This final clearance of our entire remainingstock of Women's and M-vses' Wir. f .*i Coats brings one of the most opportune occasions of the long winter seasons to women who are anxious to own a coat of line quality at a fraction of its regular price. The woolens used in these garments are far superior, we believe, to any that will be brought into use for next year. Bolivia Broadcloth Velour. Kerseys PomPom The sizes and colors cover a very satisfactory range and the styles go to make the most interesting group that you have seen at a lowered price. Some with fur collar; others with large, warm self collars. $12.50 Coats of black kersey, in desirable sizes; extra fIJQ CA i $35.00 Coats of line quality pom pom with a full gathered hack and special in the January Clearance inverted patch pockets; pockets and bolt trimt&ed ftO $25.00 Coats In kersey cloth made in a high-listed buttons. J-Mnal Winter CUara^.. _._.. . . * model and finished with broad belt with a convertible collai or ered back and finished with •> hroad beit; lined throughout with self material in navy, black and brown. Final €152 satin shawl collar of nutria. Final Winter ftfl Winter Clearance Clearance iPOU.UU s uinn Coats in brown black nnd navv made in n belted -l.Ki.lel $45.00 Coats in Sllvertone In gray and beetroot, made In a hlgh s3o.oo < oats in broun, black and na\j. made in a betted model waisted model with full plaited skirt; lined throughout with fancv with a large cape collar of kit coney.. Final Winter COfl Oft l' (a " flt ' cygne; convertible collar of self material. d>QC f|fl Clearance ° 6U,UU Final Winter Clearance ®JO.UU Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart, Second Floor OWENS WINS SERGEANCY ON POLICE FORCEj: i 1 Mayor Keister Explains Pro-j ! motion Should Always !, Come From Hanks i Council to-day unanimously . a|i- 1 pointed H. Morris Owens, 1834 ' Green street, a sergeant on the city , police force. Patrolman Owens has i been an otlicer for years, and in malt ig the recommendation for his ap pointment Mayor Daniel ij, Keister made a statement to the other com- ; missioners explaining his reason for the action. Officer Owens was one of the four uniformed men to pass the civil service examinations and! was third on the list submitted when the Mayor asked for names. The list of successful candidates with percentages follows: George W. Petrow, '1253 South i Thirteenth street, B'J. • Paul G. Sehelhaus, 67 North Six-] i teenth street, 84.6. H. Morris Owens, 183 4 Green street, 84.1. S. Herman Kautz, 646 Dauphini street, 82.6. Mayor Keister's statement follows: Mayor Gives Views I "it has been my opinion, and no doubt the same decision has been reached by others, that in a compett | tive examination for promotion in | the police department the man se ! curing the highest average should be i appointed regardless of previous ser ; vice. Upon careful consideration of i all the facts in the case 1 can hardly | agree with my opinion formed upon i iirst thought. Police promotions un- I der civil service regulations should be made from the ranks and tlie I system of examinations now in vogue is entirely wrong, inasmuch as the man Who has served the city as patrolman for fifteen or eighteen I years, who has labored diligently for 1 promotion, without a black mark i against him in all his service, can not, and should not be expected to | pass an equal or better examination I with an applicant who has served j possibly one or two years. To pro ' mote on competitive figure*, such at j these, would be to eliminate the man [ oldest in the service and probably | the most efficient, so far as knowl i edge of duties is concerned. I "The life of a patrolman Is not a j pleasant one at all times. He is called upon to perform duties not I conducive to good health, and I ven i ture to say that no matter how good i his physical condition may be at the i time of his appointment, his expo ; sure to all kinds of weather and the I fact that he is required at all times | to be on his feet, that at the end of ten or fifteen years of service he will I not stand the same physical test as he I would at the time of his appoint ment. "In my opinion the law should be changed so that promotions should only come from the ranks and so far as an additional examination is concerned, that examination should consist only as to 'knowledge of du ties.' If my thoughts along this line meets with the endorsement of the Civil Service Commission, if they will prepare an amendment to the law FEBRUARY 5, 1918. anil have It introduced in the Leg islative session of 1919, I will prom ise my untiring efforts in further ing its passage." Other Co!ip tout Men "In th three names submitted to 1 m at this time by the Civil Service Commission, are not included some of the most competnet and efficient men on the force, and who prob ably are more entitled to promotion than those mentioned, not because of lack of knowledge of duties, but because they know that after fifteen or twenty years of service they could not stand the physical test required of them. If these rules and regula tions of the board, in regards to ex- j animations for promotion are to be j continued, the best an old employe I can expect Is dismissal when he ! reaches the "old hoss" stage in life. This is not as It should be and I hope the condition will be changed by ?ome remedial legislation. "I desire to nominate with your advice and consent at this time the man longest in the service and a | man in whim I have the utmost con- i fidcnce, in so far as capability and I reliability is concerned and in plac- i ing his name before Your Honor ain-l body for confirmation I desire to say that I am sorry 1 cannot name all three of them, as they are till equally capable, efficient and ' trustworthy. "I name for the position of ser geant of police in my department, 11. Morris Owens." Weber's First Report City Treasurer Clarence K. Weber submitted his first report since tak ing office. Receipts during January were $30,884.52; expenditures, $31,- OliS.Ol, and the balance February 1, $219,474.CC. The annual reports of City Build ing Inspector Grove and Harrv I). Rod, city weight and measure In spector, wore read. Commissioner Lynch introduced an ordinance au thorizing him to purchase a small auto truck to be used for street cleaning work. My Lynch said he , I expects to save money by using the . truck instead of carts. Tl.t two contributions from S. MIChICVitS and T. T. Wiorman for i 'ow- c'e.ir.ing were trar.aferre! to i the fund for that work. Specifica • tions for paving a small alley south of Muench street, and Bailey street ■ to the Messiah Home were approved, i I fussier Makes No lleport i Commissioner Hassler made no I report to-day to Council either on • any action which should be taken to ' prov'de for ash collections or on the 1 water department situation. ' It is reported another firm is con ' sidering making a proposal to the city for ash collections on regalar schedule, but none of the officials • hail heard anything definite, they said. A communication- was re j'ceived from J. W. l.edoux, of Phlla 'jdelphia, who is to prepare a new j sehdule of water rates. Commis.-iin ijc.r llassler replied to Mr. l<odou\ to s I day a. king for detinite charges he f! will make for a survey of the do- I partment, and submitting cost es'i- L , I mates on p in;ping water It is likely Commissioner Hassler will make a report next Tuesday to I I Council in connection with the need 11 of ash collections. The last vouchee ilfor the Pennsylvania Reduction g! Company has been withheld be ll cause of failure to make regular - | coilolons in January. Commissioner ei Hassler will probably com'er with a' Health Offieer J. SI. J. Rauniek 1 fore making any statement, to the v other commissioners. Awaits Call From U. S. For Active Service in Navy With examinations finished tor petty officer in the United States Navy, \V. S. Miller, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Mioler, 1207 Nortli Front street, is now waiting orders berk nt his home. Miller graduated from Tech in the class of 1016, and was associated with his father in the contracting business until he en listed. He expects that he will be at tached to a unit in the Third Naval' District of New York. BEST LIVER AND BOWEL LAXATIVE FOR FAMILY USE "Cascarets" regulate women, men and children without injury. Take when bilious, headachy, for colds, bad breath, sour stomach. Instead of nasty, harsh pills, salts, castor oil or dangerous calo mel, why don't you keep Cascarets handy in your home? Cascarets act on the liver and thirty feet of bowel; so gently you don't realize you havt ! taken a cathartic, but they act thor oughly and can be depended upor when a good liver and bowel cleans ing Is necessary—they move the bil and poison from the bowels withoul griping and sweeten the stomach You eat one or two at night like candy and you wake up feeling fine the headache, biliousness, but health, coated tongue, sour stomach constipation, or bad cold disappears Mothers should give cross, sick, fe\ erish or bilious children a wholi Casearet any time—they are harm less and safe for the little folks. llr. 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