14 $3 WHEAT PLEDGE TO BE FOUGHT BY ADMINISTRATION Scheme Seen to Saddle Tax of *600,000,(XX) on tlic Masses Washington, Feb. 19.—Adminis tration leaders in Congress are to fight the proposals for a guarantee \ of $3 wheat to the farmers this year because they believe there is no ne cessity for the imposition of a tax of $600,000,000 on 85 per cent, of the American people for the benefit of the remainder. It was pointed out yesterday by leaders at the Capitol that $3 wheat would mean just such a tax. It would result in an increase of not less than two cents a pound loaf on bread. The wheat situation does not war rant such an additional burden, It is contended. The movement for a fixed guaran tee of $3 wheat already has gained some volume at the Capitol, and resolutions have been offered by Senator McCumbcr, of North Dakota, proposing a guaranteed minimum of $2.50 in all local markets and Sen ator Gore, of Oklahoma, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, advocating a $2.75 minimum. Both of these resolutions authorize the President to increase these prices whenever in his judgment it nniy be necessary to do so. A $3 minimum is being urged very strongly by that group of grain * reatment" withCuticura Clears Dandruff "I COULD NOT SLEEP just Felt Miser able," Says Mr. T. Dohoney, 633 Briggs St., Hurrisburg. "I was miserable, when I would walk any distance I be came nervous and unsteady, I just feared to sc: night come for I could not close ar.y aye and would lie awake fo- hot - , at a stretch and pray for daylight. "My stomach was bad, my food did not seem to agr.ee with me and 1 was always bothered with pains in stomach anc" s'de, and generally speaking. I felt all to the bad. "Sanpan restored me to perfect health an 1 feel that the least I can do is to recommend this won derful medicine to other sufferers." Sanpan is being at Keller's Drug Store, 405 Market fet., ilarrisbui t;.—adv. Beautiful Bust and Shoulders EtwjflTJi •' B< C if ,V on will wear a scientifically constructed S[ The dragging weight of an unconflned bunt no stretches the Hk .) supporting muscles that the contour of the figure is spoiled. WM\ JH W put the bust back where it be I Rsll M M fcyOUE having the appearance of flab < I' \ (be-an biness, eliminate the danger of ■ M'/ih. ' RD4 ??IFRF? dragging muscles and confine the Mr . ' v TO* DKAOJItIttO fl( , s h of the shoulder giving a B \j graceful line to the entire upper body. They are the daintiest and most serviceable garments imagi- XJ'J&'.urKl ,1 nable—come in all materials and styles: Cross Hack, Hook \' / A Front, Surplice, Bandeau, etc. Boned with " Walohn," the JE '-M'fJ rustless honing—permitting washing without removal. f$M/Have your dealershow you Bien Jolie Brassieres, if notstock- We w,li gladly send him, prepaid, samples to show you. The ——iT H T°a u y s ,or of HOTEL MARTINIQUE j lllto AD WAY, 3-1) STItKET, SEtV YORK One Block From I'enn-. 1" nylvanla Station. Equally Convenient for f/[ Y Amusements. Sliop- P' n £ or Business. *_]] 157 Pleasant Rooms, lltj ~"|l with Private llaUi, gftpjlf 52.50 PER DAY 257 Excellent Rooms, ! r /// with Private Batli, Jw facing street, south \Sk E'.'jnf crn exposure, $3.00 PER DAY Also Attractive Iloonm from 81.50. 400 Baths llcHtuurnnt Prices Arc Most Moderate I 600 Rooms I*— ■ i i % I "Food Will Win the War" -Don't Waste It~ Likewise conserve gasoline and oil —own and drive a Model "R" Hop mobile—the War Time Miser—rightly named "The Comfort Car.'' We invite any one interested for practical demonstration without in curring any obligation to purchase. Hupmobile Sales Corporation 103 Market Street i R. J. Church, Manager. i I ; • * ' *• • i ~*r -m. - wwrn*r * TUESDAY EVENING, 1 HXRBISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 19, ITO. " " growers which protested against the $2.20 price tlxed last summer l>y the President's price-fixing committee, headed I>y Dr. Harry A. Garfield, now the fuel administrator. Dcniuiid $3 For No. 1 Northern ! At the time the Garfield commit- j tee was considering the 1917 price representatives of the grain growers were in Washington demanding "" j for No. 1 Northern at Chicago, on; the ground that such a figure was necessary to guarantee them ,quate return, as the bulk of their wheat did not grade No. 1. That they really expected such a price was doubted, and their representa tives on the price-fixing committee asked for $2.50 at the outset. The price for the 1918 crop was fixed at $2 for No. 1 Northern by Congress in the food control act, and the movement now on foot presup posed, among other things, that farmers will not plant wheat this year on such a. guarantee—that they will grow corn, rye and barley. The present market price of corn is held by experts to be an entirely fictitious cne, due to transportation conditions which have resulted in the moving of only about 40 per cent, of the corn crop to date. Director General McAdoo has made every effort to get cars to the grain centers of the Mid dle West, but the movement has not been in anything* like the number necessary. Widespread reports have reached Washington members of Congress receiving them daily from farmers, saying they will sow corn this year instead of wheat. One very pertinent menace in the demand for $3 wheat is seen by officials in the almost in evitable decision of farmers to hold wheat at this time in order to ob tain the benefit of the high price, if such develops. liner's Seed Plan Supported Congress generally is very respon sive to the demands of the American farmer, and the President and other administration leaders have called for the greater possible crops this > ear in order to meet the deficiencies in the world food supply. Food Ad ministrator Hoover and other officials have urged support of the proposal of Representative Baer, of North Dakota, for financial aid by the gov ernment to the farmers to enable them to obtain seed grains, although Secretary Houston, of the Agricul ture Department, is held to be in opposition to any further steps than those provided in the faod survey bill, which calls for government dis tribution of seed. SIOO.OO REWARD : RHEUMATISM gout, sciatica, lumbago, neuritis or other uric acid disorder, if anyone proves after using refined alkia saltrates that this is not the equal of any treatment ever perfected for quickly eliminating the uric acid and any other impurities from the system, flushing out clogged kidneys, or stimulating a sluggish, congested liver. This standard compound, obtainable at little cost from any druggist reproduce* cer tain rNsentini constituents found In the Miller* of fiimotix nutiirnl ineilleinnl springs hence its won derful effectiveness even when numerous other treatments have failed. Get a trial supply to-day, dissolve a little in plain hot water, and notice the amazingly quick ef fects of what users term "Spa treatment at home." The refined alkia saltrates compound referred to above is always kept in stock 1 locally by Keller's Drug Store, G. i A. Gorgas, Clark's Medicine Store, ' H. C. Kennedy. U-BOATS SINK 7 PER CENT. OF FOOD HOOVER'S CLAIM U. S. Consumption Increased by Ten Per Cent., Saj's Administrator Washington, Feb. 19.—Food con sumption In the United States his increased ten per cent per capita since the outbreak of the European war. U-t>r>ats destroyed Jitwecn five and seven per cent, of tiie food s Kngland and France is only nine- ' tenths pound per capita per week, as ' against three and cr.c-tenth pounds in this country. / . In breadstuffs it is four pounds a week in Kngland, five in France and six pounds a week in this country, which normally consumes less bread than either France or England. In sugar the English and French ra tion is now threa pounds per month, as against an average consumption of seven pounds per month per cap ita in the United States. Mr. Hoov er suggested that a steak should not weigh more than six ounces per per son. Must Save on Itreads Mr. Hoover produced figures show ing that if present exports are maintained and no further curtail ment of consumption made in 'his country, the United States by Jure 1 will face a twenty-five pjr cent, de ficiency in breadstuff*, a ten per cent, deficiency in beef, a fifteen per cent, deficiency in pork and pork p-oducts and a somewhat smaller de:lcl\*:.cy in dairy products. Austrians Not to Fight in North; Reluctant to Continue War Anywhere Amsterdam, Feb. 19. —An agree ment has been reached between Ger- I many and Austria-Hungary where by, in the event of military action being necessary, the German troops will be confined to the frontier of Great Russia, and the Austrians to Ukraine only. This announcement is made in a Vienna dispatch. Eondon, Feb. 19.—A deep, serious Schism has been created between Germany and Austria-Hungary by the termination of the armistice be tween the Central Powers and Rus sia and the renewal of a state Of ■war, according to the Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Tel egraph Company. The Austrian press, continues the correspondent. Is warning Germany against the reopening of hostilities in which Austria does not wish to par ticipate. The semi-official Fremden bl.att is silent, but the Neue Frele Presse is quoted as pointing out that the Austrian monarchy no longer borders upon Russia and Is not. like Germany, compelled to resume war fare. The only tiling Austria might [do against its will, says the news paper, is to protect the free con nection between the monarchy and the Ukraine. Die Zeit, which has. intimate con nections with the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office, is reported by the correspondent as contending that Count Czernin, the Foreign Minis ter, can continue to act as a ne gotiator with the west. "For our monarchy," it says, "the war is in the mai nfinislied. and for one of our antagonists it has virtually not be gun. Millions of thinking people now point to Count Czernin and President Wilson." The article con [ eludes with a sentence which the correspondent interprets as being plainly addressed to Germany, read ing: "From our side the predisposition to positive negotiation has never been interrupted, and it is to be hoped that the negotiations will not be interrupted from the other side." Y. M. C. A. Convention to Open With Dinner The fiftieth annual convention of the Pennsylvania Young Men's Christian Associations will open Thursday night with a Complimen tary dinner for delegates, to be held in the Board of Trade Audi torium. Governor Brumbaugh and W. D. B. Ainey, chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Service Com mission, will speak. Other interest ing features are being arranged. I Several prominent Canadian Y. M. I C. A. workers will be present at the | following sessions. Bishop Euther B. Wilson, one of the Methodist Church's most prominent clergymen will speak. The Bishop spent a long time speaking and reviewing the work among the soldiers in France, under the auspices of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. Robert B. lleevos, general secre tary of the Central Y. M. C. A. urges all Y. M.' C. A. members to attend the sessions of the conven tion, to be held in Zion Lutheran Church, Friends of the Y. M. C. A. arc also invited to attend. To Address Commerce Chamber on the War "Personal War Observations" is the topic which •William G. Shep herd, war reporter for a press asso ciation, will discuss at. the noon luncheon of the Chamber of Com merce at the Board of Trade next Thursday. Shepherd "covered" the Hecond battle of Ypres; traveled over the whole German front; was with the Serbs on the retreat from Monastir and was in Petrograd when the Czar was deposed. This is ex pected to be the most entertaining talk given for a long time. All Mem bers expecting to attend should phone immediately to No. 4120. i FIVE-CENT FARE ORDINANCE LAW Borough Attorneys Contend Authority Rests With Municipalities Attorneys for several cities, twen ty or more boroughs and a num ber of associations and individuals crossed swords to-day before th? Public Service Commission on the proposition whether the commission has jurisdiction to decide complaints of increases of trolley fare from five to six cents when a five-cent rate is stipulated in franchise ordinance. The municipalities strongly contend ed that the commission is without power, a position to which counsel tor some of the big traction sys tems of the state took exception, saying that the situation was one to cope with which the commission was created under "police pow r ers" grant ed by the constitutional convention. The hearing was opened by the presentation of the views of the counsel for Wllkinsburg and a num ber of other boroughs in Allegheny county, who had filed demurrers to the consideration of fare ordinance propositions by the commission. The borouglis hold that the franchise ordinances were passed under con stitutional authority and that they can not be set aside either by courts or commission as they are purely lo cal affairs, control of which is grant ed to municipalities by the organic law. A number of amendments to the records were made to emphasize the contention that the commission is without authority. John C. Bane, of Pittsburgh, counsel for the Pitts burgh Railways Company, against which the boroughs had complained, follbwed. The State Eeague of Bor oughs and the State Street Railway Dives, Pomeroy Worth - While Economies Are Offered For To-morrow In the Mill and Factory Sale we are willing to save the fovd- With Only Eight More Days of The February Furniture Sale D ress Fabrics There's Not Much Time Left Great Economics thc Mi - 11 and tactory Salcare ofakind tllateveryw ° manwdi The opportunities to realize big savings in furniture arc greater in the February Sale Suiting for youths suits and rompers, in stiipc.-, and l d,d " than they're likely to be at any other time this year. Exceptional values will be offered dur- shades; extra fine cloths in fast colors. 1 ard >.JO ing thc eight remaining days of thc salc. * Pongee skirting in white grounds and colored stripes. Yard, Bed R.OOTH Flirnitlire Ginghams, 32 inches wide, in fancy paids and plain shades. Mahogany bed room suites of dust-proof construction; cannot be duplicated again at Yard 250 this price , $129.00 Galatea cloth in plain shades. Yard iJJtO Four-piece American walnut bed room suites, with dust-proof partition throughout. Ginghams in neat stripes. Yard 200 Special $10.1.00 Challies, 36 inches wide, in Persian and floral designs. \ard, For Living Room and Library 18^ , r . ... •./ .. . .J . -.i , • r. Victoria serge; 36 inches wide; in floral designs for house 1 hree-piece library suites in fumed oak and golden oak with leather spring seats; 54- . , , -u- . .>•✓ inch settee, chair and rocker. Special $47.00 waists and dresses. ard Two-piece living room suite of chair and 78-inch davenport; loose cushion seat; one of the ' Dives, Pomeroy & stenart, Basement. most luxurious suites we've put on sale :.... $95.00 * Three-piece mahoganv living room suite with tapestrv spring seat; 54-inch settee, chair /->t , -r*\ • 1 • A 1 and rocker. Special . .. ... HS.SO (jOrSetS DeSlgned 111 ACCOFCI rour-piece Sun parlor suite of chair, rocker, settee and table, in grey enamel, with fancy ° cretonne upholstery. 5pecia1......... $58.00 T TT'ii il n A -n Three-piece living room suite in Queen Ann period with mahogany frame; loose spring anee w ltn ine season s cushions, upholstered in extra quality tapestry. Special $1(59.00 Suites and Pieces For the Dining Room Style Tendencies incheSln%aW^ g SpLi d a i ;" ng r °° m Period; The arbiters of fashion have sanely decreed in favor of the Nine-piece Jacobean dining' room 'suite* in Wm.' and 'period'; 54-inch'buffcf 48-ind nat . ural % urc ; a / s " r ] n & f the . charms of f aceful i,lcurve at the extension table. Special $149.00 wa l st h , ne and ft 11 f , recdonl ° f movement. Jacobean tea wagons with rubber tire wheels. Special $10.50 Th ? charm of a modish frock or a well-tailored Brown fibre tea wagons with two extra shelves and rubber tire wheels. Special, $11.95 suit depends so much upon leir la us ca urc canno Nine-piece American walnut dining room suite in Oueen Ann period; a well-balanced w overlooked. .... . . ~. . , ... well-matched suite. Special T $195. W Beautiful corst models designed in strict accordance with ' season s stvle tendencies and made with that extreme at- Dlves. Pomeroy & Stewart. Fourth Floor. marks thc pcrfect corsct are now being shown in a great profusion of styles. Among the Art Goods Are A Polish For | you for thc benefits which we know it will bring to you. The ° . experience of our fitter guarantees your satisfaction. Found Many Attractive Mill Wood Work & ** A 'j 1 •! Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor. and Factory Sale Specials u omobl,es 25c stamped cushions; top and back. Special 15, 1.0 Zn- Men'S UnderWear 39c stamped cushions, top and back. Special £ss „ . -r-v t m. i , . . ' . ers as well as 111 many homes X? 50c and /st stamped cushions, in round, square and oblong |\ l |-(i 1 Jftf-*(1 shapes. Special 350 whcrc a safc P ol,sh 15 de " iVCUUtCU $2.00 white pajamas, in pink and blue trimming. Special, 980 sir^ d " ... Men's heavy Egyptian cot- .?'■-? medium weight " SI.OO long crepe kimonos. Special 490 • Specially priced in the ton r jbbcd shirts and draw- Egyptian .cotton ribbed 50c short crepe kimonos. Special 350 Mill and Factory Salc. crs . fi eecc lined Mill and shirts and drawers. Mill and SSSr&SfiZt.. ■ pccia !.::;:::::::::::::: \U * tf u* I,ac,ory Sak ' Prfcc ' •& 75c satin slippers, stamped. Special 250 ff , r ? lZC ' ° 7 ' sl-2o Egyptian cotton 10c Yapcrs tapestry needles. Special, paper 20 SI.OO size, 16-oz <>.<• $1.95 heavy grey cotton ribbed union suits; fleece 10c ball Macramc cord. Ball 30 $1.50 size, 32-oz 950 ribbed union suits. Mill and lined. Mill and Factory Embroidered initials in pink nnd blue. Each 10 Dlveß . Pomeroy & Stewart, Factory Sale Price, $1.50 Sale Price sl.lO 1 Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Third Floor. Basement. Dives, I'onieroy & Stewart, Street Floor. DRAFT BOARDS TO' USE MORE CARE Government Wants Informa-J tion About Color and Race j Placed on the Cards State draft headquarters has is-i sued a Earning to all local draft! boards to not only speed up tliei completion of the industrial occu-; pation cards, but to use the utmost care in specifying race of the per sons registered. The occupational! cards are urgently needed at Wash-i ington, say state draft officers, be cause of the demands for men with special training for Army service. Pennsylvania, they point out, is a state of diversified industries and it is highly important to get the information to the War Department so that calls for them can be made as the necessity arises. MRS. J. S. K. HIVNKR Word has been received here of I the death of Mrs J. S. E. Hivner, 29,1 jat Bloomlngton, Neb. She was the wife of the Rev. Mr. Hivner, former ly a member of the Nagle Street Church of God. and Is survived by her husband and a son. Funeral services will be held at Bloomington. Association, the latter composed of practically every street car system in Pennsylvania, were also repre sented. The Scranton situation was taken I up after the Allegheny cases and | will be followed later In the day : by complaints from Reading, Leba non, Conshohoeken and Philadelphia, I which is affected in its Roxborough I and Manyunk districts, Meadville and other places. There will be no de cision to-day. MIDDLETOWN ) 1 Funeral Services For Two Middletown Residents The funeral of Addison Robinson was held from the home of his sis ter-in-law, Mrs. George Baumbach, East Water street, yesterday after noon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. H. F. Hoover, pastor of the Church of God, at Elizabethville, officiated The pnllbearj'.'s were .Toha U.uyc- Charles Mumma, John Martin, J. Brownwell, Harry Herman, W. Mc- Gutre, members of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, Harrlsburg. The funeral of Sirs. Frances Sher riek was held at the homo of her daughter, Mrs. Harry M. Hess. Emaus street, on Sunday evening. The Rev.. I. H. Albright, pastor of the United Brethren Church, officiated, assist ed by the Rev. W. Romig, Florin. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Young are spending the week at Philadelphia, where Mr. Young is undergoing treatment for rheumatism. The Junior Red Cross, which was started In town last Wednesday aft ernoon. has a membership of 500. The Poketa Tribe of Red Men do nated $5 to the Red Cross fund and Mrs. Charles Stroker, of the Jednota, also donated $5. Holy baptism services will be held in St. Michael's and All-Angels' Episcopal Church, Emails street, this evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. Wil liam Dorwart, Harrlsburg, will have charge of the services. Charles Hickernell, who had been working at Magnola, Mil., for the past several weeks, has returned home. H. 3. Roth is confined to his home in Spring street with the grip. D. H. Palmer, of Columbia, is vis iting his sister, Mrs. Raymond Con dran, Commercial avenue. Harry Mayer !s spending two weeks at Sparrows Point, Md. The Mitfdletown Praying Band will meet at the home of Kobert Spring er, Spring street, this evening. A service flag containing thirty one stare has been displayed at the Keseue Hose Company building in honor of their members who are in the service. H. S. Roth is ill at his home. Miss Catherine Raymond is ill at her home with measles. Mr. and Mrs. R. Coble, of Eykens, are the guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Brinser. John Krodle, an employe of the car works, sustained a badly man gled foot while at work. Isaac Coble, Addison and A. E. Erb attended the mid-winter meeting of the Dauphin County School Directors held at Millersburg. The Oaklane Terrace and Improvement Company has opened an office at Musgrave's barber shop. George Aughinbaugh, a member of Company F, Engineers Corps, now in France, ltas been promoted to corporal. Mr. ad Mrs. Miles Brandt spent Sunday at Dillsburg. Mrs. Alexander Kohr, of First Eock, spent Sunday at Philadelphia, the guest of her son, John E. Kohr, who is a member of the Coast De fense Corps of the U. S. federal serv ice. George I. King, Jr., a student at Mercersburg Academy, lias returned to his studies after spending a few days at his home. Grant Gerbericli, of Mercersburg Academy, is the guest of liia par ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gerbericli. David Zorger and son, George, are visiting the former's son, Charlfes Zorger, of Altoona. Iva Hardy, 38 West Water street, Middletown, is in the Ilarrisburg Hospital with a fractured right leg which she sustained yesterday while running for a street oar in Middle town. She slipped and fell. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad VETERAN PUBLISHER DEAD Scranton, Pa., Feb. 13.—Marsnall Preston, 71, dean of tlie printing craft in Scranton, prominent Civil War veteran and publisher of the Si nday Free Press, the second Sun day newspaper published In the United States, died at his home hero last night. Good Advice For Nervous People WIIAT WORN', rKA/7,1,K1). UN'. STKUNG. "JUMPY" NERVES RKAIXY NEED When you nre run down, out of sorts, tiro easily, have lost eonlidence in your ability to do things, and am bition seems to have deserted yon, it's a sure sign your nerve force has run down and that your nerves noo.il a stimulant to restore to your system its old-time strength and energ\ k and bring back the good old pep that used to make you famous. Kennedy's Cut Rate Medicine Store and many other of the leading drug stores in Ilarrisburg and vicinity, are selling a wonderful nerve remedy called Margo Nerve Tablets on a positive guarantee of satisfaction or monev back. It's amazing how quickly these Margo tablets tone up the eijtire system, calm and steady the nerves, and put vim, vigor anil vitality into men and women who are fagged out. nervous, despondent and ambitionless. Thousands testify to their remark able value in cases of severe mental depression, nervous prostration, nerv ous dyspepsia, trembling, "jumps." "lidgets," and the generally unstrung nerves that eotne from excessive work, worry, lack of sleep or over indulgence in drinking, eating, 01 smoking. They never fall to benefit. If you are blue and feel as though you didn't give a hang, or are cross irritable, and your nerves are right on edge, get a package of Margo Nervi Tablets right away. They come 4i tablets to a box. Bat one with every meal for a few days, and see whal a wonderful improvement they makt I. in your whole nervous system.