10
PROFITEERING
SCORED; EIGHT
DAY IS URGED
National Mediation Commit
tee Has Plan to Quiet In
dustrial Unrest in U. S.
Washington, Feb. 11.—Elimination
of profiteering, the eight-hour day,
less inconsistency between "our
democratic purposes in this war
abroad and the conduct of some of
those guiding industry at home,"
and the recognition of some form of
collective relationship between cap
ital and labor as a principle in a
national labor policy, are the'prin
cipal recommendations of President
Wilson's Mediation Commission,
which just has finished a survey of
the labor unrest west of the Mis
sissippi river, which the governmem
considered most menacing to success
ful prosecution of the war.
In return for this, the commission
holds, labor should "surrender all
practices which tend to restrict max
imum efficiency" when it is assured
of sound conditions and effective
means for just redress of grievances.
The commission, headed by Secre
tary Wilson, of the Department of
went west principally to look
into the copper strikes in the Ari
zona district and the 1. W. W. activi
ties in the lumber districts of the
Pacific Northwest. It included in its
investigation, however, the dispute in
the California oil fields, the threat
ened strike of Pacific coast telephone
operators, the threatened strike of
packing house workers in Chicago,
and the street railway trouble In
Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Causes of Difficulties
Generally the commission found
that uncorrected specific evils and
the absence of a healthy spirit be
tween capital and labor, due partly
to the evils mentioned and partly to
"an unsound industrial structure,"
were the main causes of the indus
trial difficulties arising since the war
began. The commission says that
while "sinister influences and ex
tremist doctrine" have availed them
selves of those conditions, they have
not created them.
"The overwhelming mass of the la
boring population is in no sense dis
loyal," says the report.
A means of correction suggested
l?y the cuases of the unrest itself, the
(Commission outlines as follows:
"1. The elimination to the utmost
practical extent of all profiteering
during the period of the-war is a
prerequisite to the best morale In
industry.
"2. Modern large scale industry
has effectually destroyed the per
sonal relation between employer and
employe—the knowledge and co
operation that come from personal
contact. It is therefore no longer
possible to conduct industry with
employes as individuals. Some form
of collective relationship between
management and men is Indispens
able. The recognition of this prin
ciple by the government should form
an accepted part of the labor policy
of the nation.
"3. Lnw, in business as elsewhere,
depends for its vitality upon steady
enforcement. Instead of waiting for
adjustment after grievances come to
the surface there is needed the es
tablishment of continuous adminis
trative machinery for the disposition
of industrial issues and the avoid
ance of an atmosphere of contention
and the waste of disturbances.
Eight-hour Day
"4. The eight-hour day is an es
tablished policy of the country; ex
perience has proved justification of
the principle also in war times. Pro
vision must, of course, be made for
longer hours in case of emergencies,
will readily meet this require
ment if its misuse is guarded against
by appropriate overtime payments.
"5. Unified direction of the labor
administration of the United States
for the period of the war should be
established. At present there is an
unrelated number of separate com
mittees, boards, agencies and depart
ments having fragmentary and con
flicting jurisdiction over the labor
problems raised by the war. A single
headed administration is needed
with full power to determine and es
tablish the necessary administrative
structure.
"6. When assured of sound labor
' conditions and effective means for
the just redress of grievances that
may arise, labor in its turn should
surrender all practices tend to
restrict maximum efficiency.
"7. Uncorrected evils are the great
est provocative extremist propagan
da, and their correction in itself
would be the best counter-propagan
da. But there is need for more affir
mative education. There has been too
little publicity of an educative sort
in regard to labor's relations to the
war. The purposes of the government
and the methods by which it is pur
suing them should be brought home
to the fuller understanding of labor.
Labor has most at stake in this war,
and it will eagerly devote its all if
only it be treated with confidence
and understanding, subject neither to
indulgence nor neglect, but dealt
with as a part of the citizenship of
the state."
At length the commission records
\ its search for the "real cause" of the
labor unrest, and says:
"The conclusion cannot be escaped
that the available man power of the
nation, serving as the industrial arm
of war, is not employed to its full
capacity nor wisely directed to the
energies of war.
"The effective conduct of the war
suffers needlessly because of inter
ruption of work due to actual or
threatened strikes, purposed decrease
in efficiency through the strike on
the job, decrease in efficiency due to
labor unrest, and dislocation of the
labor supply.
"We need continuous administra
tive machinery by which grievances
inevitable in industry may be easily
and quickly disposed of and not al
lowed to reach the pressure of ex
plosion.
"On the whole, wage Increase?
asked for mostly' in order to meet
the increased cost of living and such
demands should be met in the light
of their economic causes.
"The I. W. W. has exercised its
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THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE ATONEMENT OF THE SON OF A MAN
WHOSE GREEIJ DROVE A FACTORY GIRD TO THE DOOR OF DEATH
Why is augur so scarce?
Why is it necessary to mix a cereal with flour in your bread?
Questions such as these of vital interest to every man, woman and child
in Harrishurg in the great 1918 William Fox cine melodrama, "Cheating the
Public," which is being shown as the feature picture at the Victoria Thea
ter to-day and Wednesday.
This is, first of all, an intensely human story. Robbed of the privilege
even of working for a living, a factory girl is dragged to the electric chair
by the ruthless hand of greed. "Cheating the Public" is said to be a story
of actual life and conditions as they exist to-day.
"The producer," says the prolon, "has chosen a locale typical of the
great industrial United States." In seeing Millvale and Mary Garvin and
.Tohn Dowling and "Bull" Thompson, one is but watching passing reflec
tions in the mirror of life.
Said a former manager of Drury Dane Theater, famous for the melo
dramas it has produced: "The successful dramas of to-day must be realistic;
for to be realistic is to be true to nature; and to be natural is to be ar
tistic."
"Cheating the Public" is realistic;its scenes are chapters from the book
of human experience. It will be misunderstood by any man, or any woman,
or any child. It is a story of you; of your neighbor; of the family around
the corner. It is melodrama—magnificent melodrama—yet it is not over
drawn, not exaggerated; it is just life; life as all men know It to be.
In addition, there is a continual laugh in the William Fox comedy, en
titled, "A Hungry Lion in the Hospital." And there is a special musical
program on the $25,000 Hope-Jones pipeorgan by Professors Mcßride and
Mcintosh.
RAISE MORE POULTRY! IS
PLEA OF NATION AT WAR
Great Flocks Now Being Killed Off Because of Meatless
Days; County Commissioner Appointed
The Food Administration, in order
to save meat, now urges people to
eat more eggs and poultry. Meatless
days are in vogue. As a result of
this, a great deal of poultry is being
killed to meet the increased demand.
Many poultry-keepers think that it is'
more profitable to kill their poultry
than to keep it. As an instance,
there are 2,000,000 less hens in Penn
sylvania alone than there were a
year ago.
Realizing the situation, the Food
Administration and the Department
of Agriculture have been urging
people to raise more poultry, and
to carry out this program, the Penn
sylvania War Poultry Commission
has been created. F. W. Delancey,
York, is war commissioner for the
state, and Ehrman B. Mitchell, 109
North street, Harrisburg, has been
appointed as Dauphin county com
missioner. Prominent men through
out the state have been asked to
co-operate with the movement, and
they have pledged their support to
take up the various phases of the
work.
Ehrman B. Mitchell, Jr., is in
strongest hold in those industries
and communities where employers
have most resisted the trade union
movement and where some form of
protest against unjust treatment was
inevitable.
"So long as profiteering is not
comprehensively prevented to the
full extent that governmental action
can prevent it, just so long will a
sense of inequality disturb the full
est devotion of labor's contribution
to the war.
"The overwhelming mass of the
laboring population is no sense dis
loyal. Before the war labor was, of
course, filled with pacific hopes
shared by nearly the entire country.
But, like other portions of the cit
izenship, labor has adjusted itself to
the new facts revealed by the Euro
pean war. Its suffering and its faith
are the suffering and the faith of the
nation. With the exception of the
sacrifices of the men in the armed
service, the greatest sacrifices have
come from those at the lower rung
of the industrial ladder. Wage in
creases respond last to the needs of
this class of labor, and the meager
returns are hardly adequate, in view
of the increased cost of living, to
maintain even their meager standard
of life. It is upon them the war pres
sure has borne most severely. Labor
at heart is as devoted to the pur
poses of the government in the
prosecution of this war as any other
part of society.
DETAILS OF NEW
GERMAN TREATY
[Continued from First Page.]
potentiaries engaged in the negotia
tions are then set forth and they are
declared to have reached an agree
ment on the following points:
Article I—Germany, Austria-Hun
gary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the
one hand and the Ukrainian peoples
republic on the other, declare that
the state of war between them is at
an end. The contracting parties are
resolved henceforth to live in peace
and friendship with one another.
"Article 2. Between Austria-
Hungary on the one hand and the
Ukrainian peoples republic on the
other hand as far as these two pow
ers border one another those fron
tiers will exist which existed before
the outbreak of the present war be
tween the Austro-Hungarian mon
archy and Russia. Further north the
frontier of the republic beginning at
Tarnegrad will in general follow the
line of Bilgerey to Sroezeberzszyn,
Krasnostair Pugaszce, Radzyn, Me-
Bhiretschei. Sarnaki, Selnlk, Wysek
elitowsk, Kamietslltowsk. Prushany
and to Wydozowskyesee. This will be
fixed in detail by a fixed commission
according to ethnographical condi
tions and with a regard to the de
sires of the population. Should the
Ukrainian peoples republic yet have
common frontiers with another of
the powers of the quadruple alliance.
charge of the drive for more poultry
in this section and will be glad to
consult with anyone who wishes to
undertake to raise poultry. Poultry
can be raised economically by hav
ing a few chickens in the backyard
• and feeding them with the scraps
from the table. Everyone who has
facilities for doing so should con
sider it a patriotic duty to raise a
few chickens and to help increase
the meat supply.
It is a matter of small money in
vestment to purchase a few hens
: and a few settings of eggs to begin
[ with, or a small incubator can be
obtained at small cost. An excei
, lent way to begin is to buy a num
ber of day-old chicks.
i The Department of Agriculture
i has volunteered to publish monthly
i bulletins for the information of the
• beginner, free < f charge. These will
provide infori tion and help lor
< raising of small chickens.
1 The feed committee has worked
i out a system and schedule of various
! feeds, and more about this will be
published in later issues of this
i newspaper.
special agreements will be made
thereon.
"Article 3.—The evacuation of oc
cupied territories will begin imme
diately after the satisfaction of the
present treaty. The manner of carry
ing out the evacuation and transfer
of the evacuated territories will be
determined by the plenipotentiaries
of the interested parties.
"Article 4.—The diplomatic and
consular relations between the con
tracting parties will be entered upon
immediately after the ratification ot
the peace treaty. The widest possible
admittance of the respective parties
to consuls is to be reserved for a
special agreement.
"Article s.—The contracting par
ties mutually renounce the reim
bursement of their war costs—that is
to say the state expenditure for car
rying on the war, as well as indem
nification for damages, that is to say
those damages suffered by them and
their subjects in the war, as through
military measures including all re
quisitions made in the enemy's coun
tries.
"Article 6.—The respective pris
oners of war will be permitted to re
turn home as far as they do not de
sire, with the approval of the state
concerned, to remain in its territories
or proceed to another country. The
regulation of the question connected
herewith will follow by means of
separate treaties provided for it in
Article 8.
"Article 7.—The contracting par
ties undertake mutually and with
out delay to enter into economic re
lations and organize an exchange for
goods on the basis of the following
prescriptions:
"(Section missing).
"Article B.—Restoration of public
and private legal relations, the ex
change of prisoners of war and in
terned civilians, the question of am
nesty and the question of the treat
ment of merchantmen in enemy
hands will be regulated in separate
treaties with the Ukrainian peoples
republic, to form an essential part
of the present peace treaty, which so
far as practicable will take effect
simultaneously there with.
"Article 9.—The agreements made
in this peace treaty form an indivis
able whole.
"Article 10.—For the interpreta
tion of this treaty the German and
Ukrainian texts are authoritative in
regard to relations between Ger
many and Ukraine, the German.
Hungarian and Ukrainian texts for
relations between Austria-Hungary
and Ukraine, the Bulgarian and
Ukrainian texts for relations between
Bulgaria and Ukraine, the Turkish
and Ukrainian texts for relations be-1
tween Turkey and Ukraine."
The concluding part of the treaty;
provides:
"The present peace treaty will be
I ratified. Ratified documents shall be
| exchanged as soon as possible. So far
as there are no provisions to the
contrary, the peace treaty shall come
1 Into force on ratification."
SHARE SOLDIERS'
WORK BY GIVING
HIM TOBACCO
Split Fifty-Fifty With Yanks
in France Who Need
Smokes
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These war times are perplexing,
There is no end in sight
And when I sit and ponder
I half t link Sherman's right.
But, still, I'm eating buckwheat;
No sugar in my tea,
And I'm going to cut tobacco
To send smokes 'cross the sea.
Down In the deep mud of the
Flanders trenches and the cold rains
of autumn and winter, soon will be
standing thousands of our boys.
They will suffer from trench feet
and colds and pneumonia and
cramps and every other ill that is
induced by wet and inclement
weather. When a soldier boy has
stood in icy water till his feet are
numb and the horrible numbness is
creeping upward to his vitals, when
the on his thighs knot with
ciamp and his throat is beginning to
gather a raw soreness and the night
seems endless, you can do something
to help him wait with patience.
What? Why you can split fifty
fifty with him. Not in standing
grimly ready to fight, not In watch
ing the hell fires of battle. You can
not grip a rifle with a sharp bayo
net attaqhed to its muzzle and race
with him to the other trenches and
rip up a Boche who screams horribly
as you do it. Oh, no. not that at all.
You will be in your office or your
bed while he is doing that, which
makes your part seem all the small
er. What you can do, and you
should do it right now, is to make
an estimate in generous figures of
the money you spend for tobacco ev
ery month. Let the estimate take
in all your own smokes and the
box of cigars you gave your brother
in-law last Christmas and those you
hand out to business associates and
others with whom you wish to curry
favor.
Then, when you have made the es
timate, and are sure you have, not
fudged the thickness of your thumb
nail, then split that amount in half
and say to your soul, "Soul, rest
content with the half portion which
is your portion hereafter. The other
half goes to the boys in the trenches
every month as long as the war
lasts, God bless them. Because they
are there, I may escape getting into
a trench on this side, and I don t
begrudge the sacrifice."
Two Fast Cage Contests
Feature Boyd League Series
In Boyd Memorial Basketball
series Saturday night the Achilles de
feated the Spartans, score 2 4 to 10.
Trojans wallowed the Apollos, score
27 to 25. The lineup and summary:
ACHILLES
F.G. Fls. T.P.
Carl, forward 3 0 6
Towsen, forward .... 1 0 2
Weidman, center .... 2 0 4
Krebs, guard 1 10 12
Kindler, guard 0 0 0
Totals 7 10 2 4
SPARTANS
F.G. Fls. T.P.
Schmidt, forward ... 1 0 2
Bowman, forward ... 0 4
Fenstemacher, center 0 0 0
Williams, guard 0 4 4
J. Snyder, guard .... 0 0 0
Totals 3 4
Referee —Miller.
TROJANS
F.G. Fls. T.P.
McFadden,forward .. 0 5 5
Blizzard, forward .... 0 0 0
German, center 8 0 16
Black, guard 3 0 G
Huber, guard 0 0 0
Totals 11 5 27
APOLLOS
F.G. Fls. T.P.
B. Snyder, forward 3 3 9
Towsen, forward .... 1 0 2
Hagan, center 6 0 12
Kindler, guard 1 0 2
Dreese, guard ...... 0 0 0
Totals 11 3 25
Referee —Miller.
Independent Five Defeats
Trenton in Fast Contest
The Independent five defeated
Trenton on the Chestnut street audi
torium floor Saturday night in a fast
game, score 4 3 to 39. The game was
the fastest and most closely con
tested on the local floor this season.
Both teams played exceptionally fast
ball and alternated in leading in the
score. Trenton gave a fine exhibition
of ball and won the applause of the
many spectators. The score is as fol
lows:
TRENTON
FI.G.FI.G. Pts.
Barlow, forward .... 5 0 10
Watt forward 4 0 8
Lloyd center 1 0 2
Kerns, guard 4 0 8
Hough, guard 0 11 11
Totals 14 11 39
INDEPENDENTS
Wallower, forward . . 4 0 8
(Crane)
N. Ford, forward .... f> 0 10
McCord, center 0 19 19
McConnel, guard .... 1 0 2
G. Ford, guard ..... 2 0 4
Totals 12 19 43
Fouls, Independents, 19 out of 20;
Trenton, 11 out of 24. Referee, C.
White.
THE LETTER LIST
LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post Office, at Harrisburg, Pa.,
for the week ending February 9, 1918.
Ladies' List Mrs. George H. Ar
bogast, Mrs. Albert Burnett, Mrs. R.
Coehn, Mrs. H. M. Corrigan, Bell Con
way Anna Corson, Miss Fagan, Mrs.
Sarah A. Huntley, Mrs. Lisle Jacobs,
Mrs Fanny Johnson, Mrs. James C.
Law Mrs. Sarah McGowan, Mrs. J. H.
Morton. Mis. 11. Moyer, Bertha Panick,
Florentina Puente. Mrs. Mary Ray,
Mrs. Gen. H. Shearer, Margaret Smith,
Mrs A. C. Thompson, Mrs. Cona Was
erman. Edna Wegner. Mrs. Charles
Welsh, Mrs. Whipple.
Gentlemen's List Laurence Bldi
man. Jim Bryan. Alexander Cosgrove,
Antonio Didotto, Elbert R. Everhart,
Henry Glaspher, E. C. Hicks, David
Holly, C. JefTerson, M. Krlm. John
Lentz, Jos. R. Merrlman, W. R. Minor,
Howard Moyer, J. Murray. O. F. Pat
eron, Ebner H. Pisle. Wm. Price, Ed
ward Robhins, C. J. Romsey, Philip
Saddler. John W. Stewart, G. H. Wal
ter. C. O. Zeigler.
Foreign—M. Himelfarl.
Firms Production Department
Qulncy Engine Co.
w FRANK C. SITES.
Persons should Invariably have tlielr
mall matter addressed to their street
and number, thereby Insuring prompt
delivery by the carriers.
I Postmaster.
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To-day and Wednesday Pauline Frederick will appear in her very latest
Paramount photoplay, "Madame Jealousy," at the Regent Theater. This
was written for her by George V. Hobart, author of "Experience," "Every
Wife" and other allegorical plays. "Madame Jealousy" sits brooding in her
stately home, known as "The House of the Heavy Tears," and at the com
mencement of the story does her best to disrupt file love affair between
"Charm" and "Valor." Her parents, "Treachery," "Mischief," "Sorrow" and
"Rumor," surround her and aid in causing the separation of the young peo
ple.
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ORPHEUM
Wednesday, matinee and night, Feb
ruary 13—"Peek's Bad Boy."
MAJESTIC
High Grade of Vaudeville.
COLONIAL
To-day Return engagement of Har
old Lockwood in "Paradise Garden."
Wednesday and Thursday Earle
Williams in "In the Balance."
Friday aivd Saturday Eftle Shannon
in "Her Boy."
REGENT
To-day and Wednesday Pauline
Frederick in "Madame Jealousy."
Thursday, Friday and Saturday—Lina
Cavalieri in "The Eternal Temp
tress."
VICTORIA
To-day and Wednesday Enid Mark
ley and an all-star cast in "Cheat
ing the Public."
Thursday and Friday Bessie Bar
riscale in "Madame Who."
Thursday "Vengeance and the Wo
man."
Saturday Sonia Markova in "Hearts
Revenge."
Lovers of good, wholesome comedy
have a treat in store in the coming
of the now "Peck's Bad
Boy," which has been en-
Bnd tirely rewritten and set to
Boy" music by the famous com
poser, Irving Berlin, who
has no end of successes to his credit.
The situations are laid in and around
Shultz's grocery store and are funny
to the extreme, as the clever comedi
ans never let an opportunity pass to
create laughter, and the pretty girls
go to maKe the picture complete.
Jacque Baulin has been especially en
gaged l'or the title role, and is cap
ably supported by a well-selected
company of fun-makers. The attrac
tion is booked to appear at the Or
pheum Wednesday, matinee and night.
By special request, that, there will be
no disappointments among the many
school children who wish to attend
the performance, the matinee curtain
will be held until 3:30.
A feature heralded as the "greates
t thriller ever filmed," is the attrac
tion at the popular
"Chentlnu; he Victoria Theater to-
I'ulilie" nt day and Wednesday,
the Victoria and is called "Cheat
.ng the Public." In
these days of a gouge here and a
there one would think there
was amole material to create a motion
picture of considerable interest-com
pelling value. "Cheating the Public
is presented by a cost of an excep
tional character, and features Enid
Markley.
So many demands have been made
for a return engagement of the Har
old Lockwood
11 ii ro l<l I.ockwooil In picture, "Para
"l'nrmlise Garden" aise Garden,"
that the Colo
nial management has secured it for
to-day only. No more congenial role
could have been given Mr. Eockwood
than that of the boy, according to the
provisions of his father's will, was not
to come in contact with any member
of the female sex until he became of
>!ge. When he is about to attain his
majority, r. sweet and charming young
girl enters "Paradise Garden" and the
two become attracted to each other.
Another woman steps in between the
two lovers and almost succeeds in de
stroying their happiness, but in the
end everything is as it should be. Vera
Sisson makes a very beautiful and
charming Una Habberton, and sht
puts that touch of human appeal into
her acting that is always so much
appreciated by a moving picture au
dience. "Paradise Garden" affords de
ilghtfol entertainment and the pleas
ing personality and drawing power of
the star makes the picture doubly at
tractive.
Wednesday and Thursday Earle
Williams, assisted by Grace Darmond,
will be seen in "In the Balance," a
picturization of E. Phillips Oppen
heim's novel, "The Hillman."
Beautiful Pauline Frederick will be
seen In her latest Paramount photo
play, "Madame
Pauline Frederick In Jealousy," at
"Maritime Jenlousy" the Regent
Theater to-day
and Wednesday. This play was writ
ten by George V. Hobart, author of
"Experience." "Every Wife," and other
allegorical plays, and was directed by
Robert Vignola. In it Miss Frederick
portrays brooding "Jealousy," and
nybollcaily carries out her part in
breaking up a love affair between two
young people. Charm and Valor. Valor
is played by Thomas Meighan, who
lias often appeared with Miss Fred
erick.
Langdon McCormick's great Inter
national success, "The Forest Fire,"
will be the attraction at
"The Fore lit the Majestic all of this
Fire" at week. It is a drama of
the Majestic the timberland—found
, ed on fact, which, in
this instance, is far more romantic
than the fancy can fabricate. Twelve
people are involved in the working of I
the story, which chooses for Its locale i
the far silent places of the North
west, with a background of giant
trees. Its story possesses all of the
rugged heart appeal of people who
live in the open. It is nature flrst
handed. Its situations are said to be
intense, Its scenic effects among the
most daring ever attempted on the
stage. From the rise to the fall of
the curtain the story Itself Is grip
ping, holds the audience spellbound
with Its love, heroism and adventure.
"The Forest Fire" Is In three scenes,
and thriugh these different scenes the
progress of a forest Are Is shown. The
closing son', which shows the moon
shining through cold, gray clouds,
produces one of the most realistic
stage pictures ever made in the his
tory of the American stage.
Uangdon McCormlck. who wrote and
staged "The Forest Fire," was also
the creator and Inventor of "X £Ula a
Minute," a vaudeville sensation of a
few years ago, in which a locomotive
and an automobile were seen racing
down the mountainside at terrilio
speed.
Three other vaudeville acts are
scheduled to appear in conjunction
with "The Forest Fire."
False Alarms May Compel
Change of Carlisle System
Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 11. —This town
may have to reorganize its firo alarm
system as a result of a series of
false alarms. Rewards have been
offered and police officers are on
the alert, but so far have been un
able to arrest the perpetrators. The
latest alarm was sounded about 2
o'clock Sunday morning from a box
on the outskirts of the town and
the fire engines plowed through
snow and ice, with several narrow
escapes from smashups, only to find
that the alairm was false.
These alarms have occurred sev
eral times recently, due to a change
in the system, from a former meth
od of keeping keys at nearby houses
to one which makes every alarm
box a unit with a small glass-faced
receptacle on the front of the main
box to hold the key.
HI'MMELSTOWN
Miss Beatrice Zeiters has been
brought home from the Harrisburg
Hospital after a two weeks' stay
there caused by injuries sustained
in the sleighing accident of Janu
ary 24.
Miss Helen Zerfoss will spend the
week at Clearfield, visiting her
brother, Superintendent George Zer
foss, The Cape May schools, of
which Miss Zerfoss is a member of
the teaching force, are closed for
a month owing to lack of fuel.
Miss Mary Fox and Mrs. Caroline
Nissley spent several days with their
sister, Miss Elizabeth Fox, who is
very ill at the Harrisburg Hospital.
Miss Beulah AHvein, Red Cross
nurse stationed at a base hospital in
Arizona, has arrived home and is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Alwein, of Railroad street.
Miss lone Bomgardner spent
Saturday at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Russell B. Stoner left on
Saturday for Camp Meade, where
she will visit her husband, who is
stationed at that camp.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Norman
Helff and Lieutenant John Helff
have returned to Anniston, Ala.
after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man Helff.
Samuel Kauta spent several days
at Philadelphia and Malvern Hill.
Mrs. Levi Ebersole visited her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Brinton, at
Harrisburg.
Miss Hazel Blackburn, a nurse in
the Homeopathic Hospital at Allen
town, Pa., spent the past week with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Blackburn.
William Nissley, of Philadelphia,
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Nissley.
AMUSEMENTS
TO-DAY ONI.Y
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
Harold Lockwood
"Paradise Garden"
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
Earle Williams
PRESENTING
"In The Balance"
A Picture version of E. Phillips
Opprnhelni'H widely read novel,
"The Hillman"
Adults, 15c. Children, 10c.
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TODAY AND WEDNESDAY ONLY
B® Also a Fox Comedy—"A HUNGRY LION IN THE HOSPITAL" [|
. Admission at All Times —Adults, 15c Children, 10c
FOUST BREAKS
ALL RECORDS
His Receipts Show Big In
crease; Has Prosecuted Many
Cases of Adulteration
Receipts of the State Dairy and
Food Division during 1917 not only
broke the record, but went almost
$70,000 beyond the best previous
record made in 1916. According to
a statement issued to-day by Dairy
and Food Commissioner James
Foust the receipts of the division in
1917 were $373,150.48 or $291,830.17
more than the expenditures. In the
period between 1907 and 1917, in
clusive, the division revenue has
amounted to $1,049,303.17 than the
expenditures. The aggregate of the
revenue has been almost $2,000,000.
All of this money goes to the State
Treasury through the Department of
Agriculture.
Mr. Foust's statement says:
"The wonderful growth in the
Bureau's business, which was a
record breaker last year, was due to
the number of special laws enacted
lln 1907 and 1909. Through them
there was an increased number of
prosecutions and the oleomargarine
licenses increased from 380 in 1907
to 4,364 in 1917. The enforcement
of the laws brought about the break
ing up of wholesale fraud and de
ception practiced by moonshiners
and peddlers who, without a license,
sold colored oleo as and for butter.
A large number of defendants were
sent to prison and heavy fines were
imposed. This class of dealers have
been dri%'en from the business and
the industry has been transferred to
merchants conducting high grade
htores. The effect took away the
odium which formerly was attached
to the sale and consumption of oleo
margarine.
j "To afford an idea of the growth
of the Bureau's work and of its cost
to the people, the following com
parative statement, covering the
years 1907 to 1917, inclusive, has,
been prepared:
Expendi-
Year. Receipts. tures.
1907 ... $55,732.63 $78,455.88
1908, 54,580.62 69,968.20
1909 .. 86,594.15 83,700.00
1910, .. 110,802.95 79,661.65
1911, .. 120,993.48 83,083.15
1912, .. 136,125.49 81,858.55
1913, 173,789.76 75,587.12
1914, .. 225,910.78 73,271.41
1915, .. 279,055.40 85,901.36
1916, .. 303,367.03 77,931.97
1917, .. 373,150.48 81,320.31
$1,920,102.77 $870,739.60
TO EXI.IST COMPANY
Steps will be taken and applications
will be received for the organization
of Company I', Second Regiment of
Pennsylvania Reserve Militia, to-mor
row evening. The place of enlistment
will be at the City Grays' Armory,
Second and Forster streets.
IKOX WORKS CLOSED
Recause of the impossibility of se
curing shipments of its products at
the present time, the Duneannon Iron
Works closed Friday night, and will
be closed for a week or ten days. It
has also been difficult to secure coal
for the plant.
AMUSEMENTS
"II W A ■ BJI winner & Vincent
Vaudeville
T nnyi HKKK FOR A Fru, WEEK LOOK!
V AUDEVIIiLE'S SCENIC SENSATION
" The Forest Fire"
A I) It A >1 A O P T HE TIMBER h A N I)
* I .auction MeCormick's Greatest Story
:}_OTHER BIG KEITH ATTRACTIONS—3
R-E-G-E-N-T
"Foremost Stars, Superbly Directed in Clean Pictures"
A Unique Theme Grippingly Presented
To-day and Wednesday
Pauline Frederick
In
"Madame Jealousy"
The most powerful, convincing find nl>*orblnjr drnmn of the
year. By llic fniuoiiM nuthor of "Kxprrlfncc," and •'Everywlfe" and
a number of well-known ullevorlcal piny*.
I*laycd by the *tar of **The llimnry Heart," "The Eternal City"
and ninny other production** which inoNt everyone ha* neen and
admired.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Lina Gavalieri
—IN—
The Eternal Temptress
I.lnn Cavalier! In known all over the world an "Europe's Mont
Beautiful Woman.*' Her debut In Paramount Picture* will make
her known n* "The Mont Beautiful Woman In Picture*,*' for her
beauty 1m of that ritre, dark exotic type that Ncem* actually to *tand
out from the acreeii in It* vlvldne**. You can't afford to ml** her,
in thin, one of the moat powerful drama* of the year.
Austria-Hungary and
Russia Reach Agreement
Relative to Civilian*
By Associated Press
Amsterdam, Feb. 11. —A dispatcH
from Vienna says that negotiations
between Austria-Hungary and Rus
sian commissioners at Petrograd re*
suited on January 31 in an agree
ment to the effect that Austro-Hun
garian civilians detained in Russia
and Russian civilians detained in
Austria-Hungary of specified cat°
gories shall, as far as they
be repatriated as speedily as possible.
The specific classes include giria,
women and males under sixteen, op
over 45, and males between the agea
of 16 and 45 who are unfit for mili
tary service, doctors and clergymen
regardless of age also are included in
the agreement.
Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv.
AMUSEMENTS
Basket Ball
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 12
Independents
vs.
The Hassett Club
Special Dance After the Game
!
i Chestnut St. Auditorium
ADMISSION 30c
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[ORPHEUM
WED. mat. FEB 13
I MATINEE, 3.30. NIGHT. 8.15
Peck'sßadßoy
Everything New But the Name
16 - Musical Numbers - 16
j PRICES—Mat. Chi'dren, II
Adults, 28
EVENING, 15, 25, 35, 50c
THUR. mat. FEB 14
TIIE WHIRLY GIRI/V SHOW
The Darlings
of Paris with
MATT AND TOM
KOLB HOWARD
I LADIES at t 10c |