12 BRITISH MEET ARAB ALLIES AT JERICHO'S FALL Assistance Welcome After Long Contest Against Su perior Enemy Numbers DX BANKS OF JORDAN fEeneral Allenbv Now Free to Choose a Line For Advance London. Feb. 23.—Muoh impor tance is attached to the arrival of the British on the banks of the Jor dan, Renter's Limited learns from #n authoritative source. General lAllenby's advance from Jerusalem V'as carried out under great diffi culties. It was made during heavy rains and when the British had to Snarch over hills comparable only to masses of slippery soap. Possession of Jericho is an impor tant step toward establishing touch ■between the British and their Arab allies. The British will be in direct contact with the Arabs for the first time, which should be a great en couragement to them as they have fought a long and hard contest ©gainst superior enemy numbers. British Position Defined General Allenby's force is now (encamped along the Jordan, which (probably is fairly high. It is a swift, deep and narrow stream with a very treacherous current and is in a Country which will supply food and fodder. With the latest advance the British position is quite well defined. The right flank rests on the Dewd Bea and the left in the Mediterra nean, so if the enemy wishes to attack he can only make a frontal assault. The British now control the Dead sea and have access to the J'ich lands east of the sea. They also menace the railway running toward Damascus, while the country Jias better roads than that around j Jerusalem. Capture of Jericho, the military! Correspondent of the Daily Tele- | praph says, deprives the enemy of! one of the chief local points in his' defensive scheme in Palestine. Motor l'lotilla Endangered "The advance," the writer adds, ! •should result in the clearing out ] ®f the enemy from west of the Dead Bea since it gives the British a line ; right across Palestine. It endangers | the enemy's motorboat flotilla which i !has had its base at the mouth of the ! Jordan, and cuts off from any Turks' Jiow left west of the Dead Sea, as 'well as from those 011 the east where they are exposed to the bold raids j >f the Hedjaas Arabs, their means of Support from this source. Arabs East of Dead Sea It must not be forgotten that the £rabs are working their way up the Hedjaz railway and already have been in action directly east of the Dead Sea. Turkish forces acting in Hedjaz and southern Arabia already ■virtually are cut off from the out- Bide world. General Allenby. hav ing scattered the Turkish' forces concentrated west of Jericho, now is ifree to choose a line for an advance northward by whatever route seems k>est." The Daily Chronicle in its editorial •comment says: "Much depends on how the Jeri cho advance is followed up. So far 1 it has been pushed forward with ; anost encouriging rapidity in spite *>f the handicap of rainy weather. I "We may perhaps hope that the im petus of General Allenby's move ment will carry him forward much tfarther." The newspaper adds that the first 1 troopers^to water their horses in the historic Jordan were Austrian cav telry. New Cumberland Is Making Bid For Big U. S. Military Depot New Cumberland, Feb. 23.—New Cumberland hopes to be considered Jn the matter of locating big gov ernment warehouses near this place and has been assured by the War that the site in this vicinity will be decided purely 011 its Hie rits. At a meeting last evening plans •vere discussed as to how to meet the local housing problem should the depots be located near this town and p. committee was appointed with that Jn view. At the session in the fire- Jiouse a New Cumberland Municipal was formed with S. X. Straub p.s president; Kirk Wire, as secre tary. ami I,like Butt, as treasurer. The New Cumberland speakers ex pressed the opinion that the site ilear that place is superior to the others under consideration and will Jay their views before any govern ment agents who may be sent here bo seek them. HOUSEWIFE NOT LOYAL AS THE HOTEL MAN I Continued from First Page.] fceat and 87N.000 pounds of flour frining one month. Iloom For Improvement "If the housewives of the state *rere nearly as willing to help win this war as the resturant men. Penn sylvania's food saving would be sev eral times as great as the above re port shows," says Mr. f'ra/.ier. It is estimated by Washington that fifteen per cent of meals eaten in the United ptates are served in public eating places, so that until we obtain the heartiest co-operation of the women the kitchens of 22.000,000 homes Df America, we cannot hope to reach |. maximum of food conservation." The food administration to-day is sued the following definition of "Meatless, Wheatless and Porkless" (Lavs: Wheatless—On "wheatless" days pnd in "wheatless" meals of other flays, use no crackers, pastry, maca roni, breakfast or other cereal food containing wheat, and use no wheat Hour in any form except the small amount that may be needed for thickening soups and'gravies or for |l binder in corn bread and other cereal bread. If you bake your own bread use other cereals than wheat. If you buy it, buy only Liberty bread, po not put bread and butter on the table until the tirst course is served, fctake the portion of bread and but per as small as possible and serve ad ditional bread and butter only upon bequest. Meatless—"Meatless" means with out any cattle, hog or sheep prod ucts. On other days use mutton and lamb in preference to pork. Porkless—"Porkless" means with >ut pork, bacon, ham, lard or pork >roducts. fresh or preserved. Use in Mace of these, fish and sea foods of til kinds, poultry, eggs and game, or ( (übstitutes procm-able in local mar kets. SATURDAY EVENING, RAILROAD PENNSY EXTENDS "SHIPPING DAY" All Divisions East of Pitts burgh Are Now Included in the Order The "shipping ilay" or "sailing date" plan for accepting and for warding less-tlian-carload freight on the Pennsylvania railroad has been extended to cover the service on all of the twenty-five divisions east of Pittsburgh and Erie. Schedules pro viding "shipping days" for each di vision have been worked out and the new method placed in actual operation on all portions of the east ern lines. Jlarrisbui'K Included in the Order While the management of the Pennsylvania railroad believes that further study of less-than-carload traffic, and longer experience with the "shipping day" plan will prob ably point the way to additional economies, beneficial results have already been achieved, with the gen eral co-operation of the shipping public in making the plan success ful - , Reports from all divisions, which have just been compiled, show that a total of 654 cars arc being saved daily in the transportation of less ttyan-earload freight on the lines east of Pittsburgh, through the operation of the "shipping day" plan. In addi tion. twenty-five distributing local freight trains per day have been dis continued altogether, by substituting tri-weekly or semi-weekly "pickup service for daily service on divisions and branches where traffic is light. The crews of these trains have been transferred to other and more essen tial duties elsewhere in the freight service, and the locomotives and cars are being similarly utilized. Started in September The "shipping day" or "sailing date" plan for handling less-tlian carload freight was first put into ef fect by the Pennsylvania railroad on September 4, 1917. when it was in augurated in this city. It was short ly afterwards established in Balti more. Buffalo. New York, Pittsburgh and other great traffic centers, and was then extended as rapidly as practicable, to cover all portions of the Pennsylvania railroad east ol Pittsburgh. The purpose of the plan is. as far | as possible, to concentrate less-than carload freight automatically into carloads, each for a single destina tion. at the point of origin. With this object in view, shipping days have been established for each station, to various specified destinations. Bess tlian-earload freight is accepted j "only on the dates named and the j cars "sail" at definite hours as perj (tublished schedules. Five and a half months' experi-1 ence with the "shipping day" plan j lias shown that it not only econo- j mixes in the use of car space, but J gives .shippers more regular service ; and reduces the length of time ship-j ments are in transit. Moreover, byj largely eliminating rehandling at' freight transfer stations it has less ened loss and damage and the j amount of freight going astray. It! has also been effective in reducing congestion of teams and trucks at freight stations, and has economized I in the amount of labor required.] both by shippers and by the railroad, in handling less-than-carload freight. 700,000 Army Rifles Have Been Made Since U. S. Entered World War By Associated rress Washington, Feb. 2 3.—Seven hun dred thousand army riflefc have been i produced in the United States since this country entered the war, says a statement made public to-day by the I Ordnance Bureau of the War De- j partment. During the week ending I February 3, the daily production was j 7.805 Enfields and 1.442 Spring- j fields, or a total of 9,247 service | rities added to the stock every day. I In addition the government received j 13,115 Russian army rifles during j the week, making a total weekly i rifle output of 72,152 weapons of this class. Summarizing the work on rifles, it la shown that $400,000,000 is be ing spent for that arm alone and that 200 army officers, 80,000 men and 10,000 women are employed on the manufacture of rifles and cart- ; ridges. There are two government and three private plants making rifles and one government ai)d nine private plants making cartridges. It is pointed out that the modi fied Enfield rifle has been fully test- ! ed and "more than justifies the | claims that have been made for it," I As to its accuracy of fire, it is noted | that a regiment of colored troops j made forty-four out of a possible I fifty score with this weapon at short range, although many of the men 1 had never fired' a military rifle be- j fore. No More Jump? in Salaries of R. R. Heads; McAdoo Makes Ruling By Associated Press Washington. Feb. 2 3.—A general j order restricting the creation of new j official positions by railroads or the ; raising of officers' salaries was is- i sued to-day by Director General Mc- 1 Adoo. Under the order a railroad may not till a vacancy above the grade of general manager or even create such an office without the Director General's approval. Railroads also will be required to make monthly reports of increases in salaries, appointments to vacancies and creation of new positions in volving salaries between $3,000 and SIO,OOO, beginning with January, 1918. Officials Court-Martialed For Death of Private By Associated Press Bouisville, Ky., Feb. 23. News dispatches received here to-day from Washington assert that Bieutenant Colonel J. H. Allen, medical reserve corps, and Major Milton Board, medical corps, officers at Camp 7.ach ary Taylor, the new National Army cantonment near here, have been ordered by the War Department to appear before a court-martial for 1 trial in conrtection with the death of Private Otto Murray, a selectman, from Cumberland county, Ky. Murray, it was said, was ordered back Into training before he fully had recovered from an attack of measles. The case against Bieuten ant Colonel Allen is understood to be based on the technicality that as head of the medical reserve corps, he was responsible for the acts of his subordinates. January Coal Record Lowest Since September Bituminous coal production in the United States during January fell to the lowest rate since September, 1916, and this "alarming depression," as it is called in the bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, which gives the figures, is attributed to "unprecedented congestion of the transportation system of the coun try, induced in part by the unusually severe weather. The January output, including lignite and coal made into coke, is estimated at 42,727,000 net tons, or but 57,000 tons more than the De cember output, though January had one more working day. The first month of this year is about 5,000,000 net tons behind January, 1917, in face of the fact that coal is now un der government control and the need for it is greater than ever. February, so far as the record goes—and it i s carried up to Feb uarv 15 —indicates that production has been at the rate of 1,703,000 tons per working day. This is a distinct advance over the 1,643,000-ton aver age for January, but it is a falling off from the 1,777,000-ton average for February, 1917. Standing of the Crews lIAHKISBI'HG SIDE l'hllndelphin Division Tile 103 crew first to go after 4 o'clock: 129, 1)8, 124, 121, 108. Fireman for 129. Conductors for 129, 121. Flagman for 108. Brakemen for 121, 108. Engineers up: Ryan, Shocker, Small. Firemen up: Smith, Dressier, Watson. Briggs, Kuntz. Conductor up: Stark. Brakemen up: N. F. Miller, Har per, Pisle, Fritsch, McNeils, Buford. Middle Division —The 17 crew first to go after 1 o'clock: 34. 217, 37, 256, 22, 16, 251, 250, 41, 221. • Engineers for 17. 34, 37, 41. Firemen for 17, 34, 37, 32, 16. Conductors for 22, 41. Brakemen for 17, 16 (2). Engineers up: Swigart, E. R. Sny der, Titler, Earley, Kistler, Beib, Mortz. Firemen up: Rudy, Huss, Book, Busk, Johnson. Brakemen up: Walter, Shojley, 1 Banner, Fensterinacher, Wolf. Yurd Hoard—-Engineers for 2-7 C, | 4-7 C, 32C. 1 Firemen for 4-7 C, 5-7 C, 2-14 C, i I-15C. Engineers up: Shcrlter, Barkey, I Boyle, lieffleman. Buffington, Lack ey. Bostdorf, Schiefer. Firemen up: Parker, Wengel, Me- j hargue, Carman. ENOI.A SIDE Philadelphia Division The 223 j crew first to go after 4.15 p. m.: 206, 225, 221, 210, 201. 241, 255, 253, 230, 240, 209. Engineer for 255. Firemen for 210, 255, 253, 230, 209. | Flagmen for 206, 241. Brakemen for 225, 221, 210, 241, 255, 230. Brakemen up: McKee, Tennant. Middle Division— The 111 crew first to go after 1.15 p. m.: 105, 304, 235, 248, 110, 117. Kngineer for 110. Fireman for 117. Flagman for 110, Brakemen 111, 117. Yard Honrd —Kngineer for 3rd 129. Firemen for 2nd 126, 3rd 126, 135, ' 109. Engineers up: Quigley, Butz, Hin- \ kle. McNally. Shcafter. Bair, llerron, Hanlon, Bruaw, Gingfich, Zeiders. ■ Firemen up: Brubaker, Jones. Haverstick, Thompson, Morris, Conly, I \\ hitehill, Eichelberger, White, Wick- j ey, Garlin, Rider. Haubecker, Miller, I Peitrick. "ASSEXGER DEPARTMENT Middle Division —Engineers up: J. Crimmel, A. A. Delozier, R. M. Crane, G. G. Keiser, O. B Miller, D. Keane, W. C. Graham, O. Taylor, J. J. Kel ley. R. E. Crum, W. D. McDougal. Firemen up: S. H. Wright, V. C. Ayers, A. 11. Kuntz, G. E. lluggins, B. ' E. Book, 11. Nay lor, Roy Herr, J. N. Ramsey. Engineers for 9, 19, 59, 601. Firemen for 13, 25, 665, 19. 59, 11. I'hiliidelpliln Division Engineers up: C. R. Osmond. B. F. Lippl. A. Hall, W. S. Bindley, 11. W. Gilliums, V. C. Gibbons, M. Pleain, B. A. Ken nedy. Firemen up: W. M. Welch. B E. Everhart, .1. Cover. F. H. Cook. Fireman for 578. No Philadelphia crews here. THE READING The 24 crew tirst to go after 12.15 o'clock: 62, 16, 22, 63, 73, 12, 17, 9, 10, 1, 2, 70. 67, 65. 4, 19, 21. 57, 11, 55, 72, 68, 15. Engineers for 05, 57, 63, 67, 70, 4, 11. 17. Firemen for 55, 57. 62. 63, 73, 2, 4, 9, 12, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22. Conductor for 72. Flagmen for 85. 63", 70. 73. 4. Brakemen for 55, 57, 62, 63, 70, 72, 73, 4. 9, 10, 17, 21, 22. Engineers up: Bruaw, Minnich, Heckman, McKefever, Mentzer. Firemen up: Stoner, Ellenberger, Kreisgre, Shaver, Miller, Booker. I-luntz, James. Conductors up: Keifer, Patton, Daub, Yard, Raisner. Flagman up: Donley. Brakemen up: Swope, Markley, Morrow, Bong, Gallagher, Spies, Ma thias, Adair, Swartz, Kirsh. Residents of Stockyard Districts Spend $4,500,000 For Liquor, Says Report By Associated Press Chicago, Feb. 23.—Packers repre sented at the stockyards wage arbi tration to-day introduced evidence bearing on welfare work done among their employes, pension systems and even summer resorts maintained for women employes. Swift & Company, for instance, ac commodated 900 women at Fish Bake, Ind., last summer. Elbert Beeman, of Wilson & Com i pany's welfare department produced a map of the polyglot section known locally as "Back of the Yards." The witness said only 40 per cent, of the residents of this district were em ployed in the yards. The map show ed 225 retail food stores and 300 saloons. Mr. Beeman read a report made by the Y. M. C. A. in 1912 showing gross receipts on their saloons aver aged $15,000 a year. Residents of the district, he said, spend $4,500,000 a year in those saloons. Since 1912 he added, the number of saloons has increased 25 per cent. WASHINGTON BANQUET The annual banquet of the Wash ington Chemical Hose Company was held last evening at the Elks Club house. Mayor Daniel L. Keister, Colo nel H. C. Damming, Clark Diehl, DeWltt Fry, Howard Holstein and A. B Patton. president of the Veteran Firemen'F Union, and A. Stevenson, of Ixick Haven, were speakers. The banquet is held on Washington's Birthday each year. HAKRRHUKG QggjsgjjjT TELEGKXFH HARDSCRABBLE IS ARGUED AGAIN All Legal Points in Park Case Arc Gone Over in Court All the legal points which have been reserved in the Hardscrabble proceedings were argued before Judges Kunkel and McCarrell this morning by attorneys for the property owners and by City Solicitor John E. Fox. George R. Barnet, counsel for some of the owners, was the first to take up the various points of law in con nection with the city's proceedings to open Front street from Herr to Calder street. While Mr. Barnet discussed mosu of the phases in question, he devoted mi ch of his argument to the appli cability of the act of 1871 and also as to its constitutionality, lie quot ed conflicting statements from "pro ceedings at that time, one showing that Front street was to be only sixty feet in width, the other that it should go to the low-water mark. The repoi't of one board of commis sioners fixing the width at the low water mark has never been fljially approved, it was argued. William M. Hargest was the next to take up the argument for the owners, devoting much of his talk to tiie unconstitutionality claims. He declared the act of 1871 deprives all owners from property rights and from receiving sufficient damages for structures built on public high ways after that date. Decisions in other cases were given in support of the claims. City Solicitor Fox depended the act by declaring that it is a state law, similar in effect to others, and de clared that it gave the owners due notice that Front street was a pub lic highway in which they could not erect any structures except at their own risk. A number of questions were asked by the court during the proceedings, us a number of acts of Legislature passed from 1860 to 1874 were brought into the argument to show the relevancy of certain clauses in connection with the laying out of the city at that time. Ambassador Will Leave Petrograd Only When Compelled to Flee By Associated Press Petrograd, Friday. Feb. 2 2.—-The . allied embassies will leave Petro grad in the event that the Gernjan advance threatens the city. They are ready, however, to aid Russia to tight. Washington. Feb. 23, —Ambassa- dor Francis advised the Sta'e De partment to-day of the intention of the diplomatic corps in Petrograd to leave the city with the Bolsheviki | government If the Germans menace the city. The American Ambassador gave no details as to the plans of the diplomatic corps, but added that th£ Soviet government was planning to make n defense of the city if neces sary. Spanish Steamer Sunk by German Submarine; Second Vessel Detained By Associated Press Madrid, Friday, Feb. 22. The Spanish steamer Maria Caspio has been sunk by a submarine, on her way to New York with a cargo of cork. The crew was picked up by the Spanish steamer Claudio Lop'-z y Lopes, which also was stopped bv | the submarine but later allowed to I proceed. The captain of the Caudio Lopez I y Lopez had the greatest difficulty in inducing the commander of the submarine to allow him to continue the voyage. The submarine comman der wanted to sink tj|e liner because she was carrying a uumoer of cars consigned to the Spanish northern railroad, which is partly French owned. TROI.I.F.Y t Alt \M> At TO FIUUKK IV COI.I.ISIOX Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Keffer, 2112 Green street, figured in a motorcar and street car collision this morning that inflicted serious bruises on both of them and broke the radiator, front lights, mud guards and windshield of the automobile tliey were riding in. Mr. Keffer said be was driving north in Third, and because T>f the snow along the side of the street could not turn off the track. The car struck him while going along at a fast rate of speed. The accident happened in Third, north of Harris. Mrs. Keffer is confined to her bed as a result of the accident. Literary Woman to Speak Before People's Forum ajwT " Ik j . MRS. ALICE DUNBAR WILSON Mrs. Alice Dunbar Wilson, one of the most widely-known colored lec turers and writers in the country to day has been secured to speak before the Forum in Wesley Church, Fors ter street, to-morrow afternoon. Mrs. Wilson is widely-known as a lectur er of note, and thoße who have heard her before know that she comes with a message worth hearing. The subject of her talk to-morrow "His Country," is one of interest to all and a large attendance of Forum members and friends is requested and expected. The lecture will take place at 3 o'clock to-morrow after noon. There will be music suitable for the occasion by the Messiah Lutheran Church choir. SNOBS THRIVE IN CAPITAL SOCIETY The Ordinary Washington Man Finds Nearly All Doors Are Closed to Him Washington—"Let me tell you an experience I had here last night," said one who, like myself, was a visitor in Washington. "I went to what I thought would be a very simple and intimate little dinner party. But, to my amazement, two great celebrities were present." He mentioned the names, not es sential to this narrative, both known the country over. "Well, what do you suppose hap pened? The rest of us—we were a dozen altogether—were submerged, lost. We sat around the celebrities in two groups before dinner and we deferred to them during dinner and we turned ourselves into an admir ing court after dinner." "Did you enjoy It?" I asked. "X won't say that I was modest enough to enjoy it. I felt as if I had been relegated to the chorus. I It takes a very fine nature to enjoy | that. But I was entertained and j amused.'' "Did the celebrities enjoy it?" Wutclied the Clock "Apparently. But they both show ed they wore getting tired toward the end. 1 caught them glancing I covertly at the clock. One of them j gets SSOO a night for lecturing. He J gave us the material for several lec- | tures in the course of the evening." "How did the others enjoy It?" "Oh; they acted as if they hung on every word spoken by the celeb rities. They were delighted to be in such company." 1 repeated this conversation to my friend, the seasoned Washingtonian. "Oh, yes," he said, with a sigh Of weariness, "there's a great deal of rank and title here." "Do most people like it?" I asked. "Of course they like it. Don't you know that most people are snobs? If Thackeray were alive he'd find some choice material in this demo cratic capital." "Do you think the snobbishness is in any way associated with the in fluence of the titled diplomats who come here to live?" "No. Some of them are more democratic than most Americans. I have heard them laugh at American snobisliness." "Because it's founded, on money?" Not Based on Money "Xo. It isn't wholly founded on money in Washington. It's founded on what is considered success, indi vidual ' importance. People have pretty definite rank here. The stars at great dinner parties, for example, are often men in public life who haven't anmmoney at all'and who when they riie are likely to leave an extensive heritage of debts." "Are foreign titles very much sought after in Washington?" "Xo, not for their own sake. In this particular, Washington snobs have grown more sensible of recent yeqrs. The titles have become lieupened. Too many have come here and often they have been as sociated with fortune-hunters and adventurer's. Unless a title has money to back it up with it doesn't count for much." "How about military titles?" "Generals are at a premium in Washington just now. And what a crop ot titles we are having. We ' shay become the greatest titled j democracy in the world." —John D. j Barr.v, in San Francisco Bulletin Virtually Every Boy and Girl in City to Enroll in the Junior Red Cross livery indication points to a Junior lied Cross enrollment in llarrisburg of about 12,500 and that is the total number of pupils In the city schools. There arc about the same number of pupils in the schools of Dauphin county outside the city. And Super intendent Shambaugh of the county schools believes that his pupils will do just what the city boys and girls ale doing. Shiinmell school is another hundred percenter, it develops, livery pupil in every room in the big building belongs to the Junior lied Cross.* The officers of the auxiliary at Sliim mell are Anna V. Crowl, chairman: Margaret Sullivan. vice-chairman; i.iliab Zug, treasurer, and Gertrude Huber, secretary. Cameron school is also 100 per cent. Of tile pupils only 8:i.1 are members of the Junior—and 122 of them are Seniors, too. During the last few months the Cameron build ing's twenty rooms full ot pupils have contributed over SI,OOO to the various l-larrisburg war campaigns. Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert is very mticH pleased with the success attending the efforts of the pupils. She would like to hear just how each room "put over" the campaign; and let ters with this information addressed to Red Cross headquarters. Front and ] Walnut streets, will reach her. j The Junior campaign will continue | for several days. : Bachelor Chums Wed; Each Learns Secret Chicago.— Two bachelors, Harry D. Alshuler, a Waukegan manufac turer, and William G. Jackson, a Milwaukee bank cashier, a few years ago took solemn oaths together nev er to marry. For weeks Alshuler has been trav eling about in gum-shoes so Jack son would not discover his inten tions with regard to Mrs. Fernie Schulz, a Racine divorcee. They were merried and the event was to have been kept a secret from Jack son. Then Alshuler learned that Jack son had been married for some time. WISE M ION OF GOSHEN Cl'T PATH THROUGH SNOW Louisville, Ky.,—The wise men of Gotham of old have been eulogized; now it is the turn of the wise men of Goshen to come in for their share. Goshen is a hamlet in Oldham county, four long country miles from Prospect, just inside the Jefferson county line to the east of Louisville. Recently these men of Goshen, fifteen In number, congregated at the top of the long hill which re cedes from Goshen to Prospect, and found that the four-mile stretch of road was, like the surrounding coun tryside, buried under seventeen Inches or more of snow. Not a track was to be seen breaking the mo notony of the endless blanket of white. TO TELL OF THE ORIENT Webster "5 Kohlhaas, baritone soloist at Zion Lutheran Church, will sing at the Men's Mass Meeting to be held in Fahnestock Hall, under the auspices of the Central Y. M. C. A. to-morrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Mr. McLachlin, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Foo Chaw, China, wijl talk on conditions' in the Orient. YOUNG COUPLE MARRIED AT NEW CUMBERLANi I EL <* fi < k. HP '%^HH MR. AND MRS. EARL F. SMALING New Cumberland, Pa., Feb. 23. — A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Flurrie list evening when their youngest daughter. Miss Erma Catherine Flurrie became the wife of Earl F. Smaling. Only the im mediate relatives were present .to witness the ceremony which was per formed at 8 o'clock by the Rev. F. L. Ifcerr, pastor of the Reformed church at Lebanon. Miss Lillian Grove played Lohengrin's wedding i march as a processional and during the ceremony "O, Promise Me." The NEED OF CLEANUP NOW RECOGNIZED [Continued front First Page.] venient to dump, or pay private col-j lectors to do the work. (Inly an Oral lteply Council, although it notified the | Pennsylvania Reduction Company I and the firm bonding tliat corpora- ! tion that a cleanup must be made, | lias received no reply, other than a | verbal promise to one of the Com- j ■missioners that the work will be | done. When it will be started or to I what extent it will be carried out was not intimated. The attitude taken by some of the members of Council indicates tliey I will* not wait on the company, but) wilf order the cleanup, then charge it to the bonding company. Commis- j sioner Lynch declared himself in fa- i vor of this plan almost two weeks j ago, and maintained his stand for re- | moval of all the refuse which has I been dumped in the streets and in j vacant lots. ••Must Be ■■ Cleanup" Commissioner Gross, in speaking of j the situation to-day, said: "There j ii.list be a cleanup and at once. We ( can not decide what to do about fu- I ture collections unti the new bids j are received, but the piles of ashes I which we saw on the Inspection trip I should be- removed as soon as pos- j sible and action taken to prevent a i t petition of such conditions." Dr. Hassler said to-day Council ' will be given a report ®n Tuesday! of the bids he receives for district! and aso favored the clean- j up move. Mayor Keister and Com- j inissioner Burtnett have added their | endorsement, too. CHORISTER SPEAKS TO BOYS IN GYMNASIUM j Charles M. Alexander, convention j chorister of the State Y. M. C. A. | conveniton, which closed here to- j day, spoke to a crowd of 4 0 or 50 boys assembled in the Central Y. M. C. A. gymnasium this morning, urg- j ing the boys to join the Pocket Tes- j lament League. Thirty-three boys | signed pledge cards, agreeing to i read a chapter each day. and J. Wil- j liam Bowman presented each of j ' tbelli with a copy of the New Tes j tument. The boys had just finished | 1 a Bible study, and had gone up to ; j the gymnasium when Mr. Alexander | chanced into the building. The Bible study class is a regular ' feature of the Saturday boys pro- j 1 gram. Two teams have been f chosen. They are the Iroquois team, with Stewart Taylor as leader, and the Sioux team, with Stewart Xissley as leader. YOUR 'lnhere will be no better time than the present to buy your enclosed Cadillac motor car. Every day you miss means one more day when you might be enjoying Cadillac comfort and reliability. We honestly believe the Cadillac is the finest car ever produced, and that there will be none equal to it for a long time to come. The value of your dollar is shrinking rapidly, so that an immediate purchase means a purchase at the lowest price. A year ago a shipment from Detroit was a matter of a few days; now it is measured by weeks and months. We can imagine no series of circumstances which would make it more imperative for you to make an immediate purchase. Shall we send a salesman or may we expect you at the showroom ? CRISPEN MOTOR CAR CO. 311-815 S. Cameron Street FEBRUARY 23. T9lB/ bride wore a costume of white chif fon over pink silk and carried a shower bouquet of white sweet peas and lilacs'. Her sister, Miss Mar garet Flurrie. was bridesmaid and wore white voil over white silk em broidered in pink and carried a sheaf Of pink snapdragons. Millard ! Phillips, Clearlield, was the groom's j best man. A buffet luncheon was j served. The decorations consisted of I ferns and pussywillows. The bride I is popular among the younger so- I cial set and the groom is a son of ! I Mrs. N. F. Reed. SAVING OF FOOD A WAR DEMAND [Continued from First l'age.] | that is actually here to-day. The i wheat must be taken now and dur l ing the next sixty days and shipped abroad as fast as ships can carry it. lor we shall fail in our support of the armies and civil population of England, France and Italy; and to fail now is to invite disasters to our i own arms and to the great cause in j which we are enlisted. 'lt is not a question of the price jof the substitutes or other charac- I ter of the substitutes obtainable, or | whether their use in bread making lis acceptable to the consumer. We can get along with less bread with no injury to the health of the peo- I pie, and to consult mere convenience or preference f taste in time of 1 grave war emergency is neither pa triotic nor prudent, j "If our people do not wish to j mix oatmeal and cornnieal with | flour in bread making, let them eat | oatmeal, breakfast cereal, corn muf- I tins and fried mush and reduce their , bread consumption correspondingly. I being thankful that these whole some foods are obtainable in Amer- I ica in abundance, and that our own j ' supply can neither be jeopardized j J by hostile U-boats or made depend-' i ent upon the generosity and sense I of duty of the people of another j nation. •It is time for tlie American |ico j pie to realize that we are at war ! and that demands <I|M>II us for sac rifice and self-denial are war do i mauds.*' Coal Driver Is Charged With Attempting Fraud Howard Hilton was committed to jail for a hearing Monday by Alder | man James DeShonjf, last night, on la charge of having defrauded the j Cniteil Ice and Coal Company. Hilton | is a driver for the firm. It is alleged j that Hilton delivered coal io a resi dent living on the Hill, without giv ing a slip. The resident asked for a i receipt for the money, and the driver j save him a written receipt for $4.45, but it is alleged that he failed to ! turn the money over to the coal I company. The case is one of several j where drivers have attempted to de ' fraud the company. Information was j brought by Sidney Sible, Jr.. one of j the directors of the company. NOT AHRKSTKD IN HOTEI, It was stated in a recent issue of i the Telegraph that Raymond ! was arrested at the Hotel Aiwa on a charge of desertion and nonsupport. I The proprietors of the hotel stale that I,eese was at one time a guest at | their hotel, hut that he was not ar rested there. HOTEL FOOD MAY BE REGULATED BY NEW HOUSE BILL Agriculture Committee Favors Measure Giving President Wide Powers By Associated Press Washington, Feb. 23.—Compulsory food conservation is necessary in the opinion of members of the House Agriculture Committee which to-daj submitted its report on the bill giv ing the President power to regulat public eatinghouses and the distribu tion and manufacture of foodstuffs. I The bill does not directly affecl householders. The report recalls that the Presi dent lias 110 power to enforce 000 nomic consumption under the exist ing food law and that the succesi of conservation plans depends entire, ly upon the voluntary co-operatior of the people. The appeals to sav< food have met with gratifying re sults the report says, and adds "bin there is a small per cent, of peopl< who either wilfully or for lack'of understanding fail to respond to the call made for patriotic duty." Compulsory Methods Necessary "The food situation as it affect! us and our allies," the report con t'nues, "is becoming so cr'tically so rious as to warrant the committee it the belief that the necessity is upoi us of adopting compulsory method! of conservation in certain well de lined directions. It would be foolisl for us to shut our eyes to the facts U would be cowardly in us to fai to attack the problem of waste it foodstuffs in the most vigorou! manner. "The bill is designated to meet 1 situation which is closely allied t< conservation. If we ship to Europ all of our exportable surplus of cer tain foods, there is never going to b more tharr Just enough of such food available for consumption in th I United States. In order to proven i local shortages, it is necessary tlia this normal supply be distribute* with absolute equality tliroughou the country, and such distribution i further essential In order to enabl tlie best possible use of our surplu products. From time to time tlier may be temporary shortages in cer tain foods. In such a case the Fresi dent should have power to contrc the distribution in such a way tha the shortage is spread out as evenl as possible." Waste in Eatinghouses In discussing public eatinghous control it is charged in the repor that the consumption, particular! in "high priced restaurants an I hotels, per capita is nearly double o I normal." "The hill authorizes regulations t 1 eliminate unnecessary use of essen I tial foodstuffs by manufacturers o j food products." said the report. "I I would be possible to effect a grea | saving in food products by requirin ! higher milling of the mixture of in j giedients in bread which cannot b so readily shipped abroad." Although it does not authorize j rationing system for consumers i 1 the language of the report, "it woul permit the President to limit th amount of any given product whic may be shipped into a particula district or delivered to a particula distributor." The President can, i effect, ration the distributors so tht a threatened shortage can be sprea out as evenly as possible throughoi the entire country. EXPECT \% tTEIt ItEi'ORT I'-KOM .1. W. I.Knot I A report from .J. W. Ijedoux, 1 Philadelphia, who has been engage to make an accurate list of new vrau ■rates for the city, is expected in I few days. Commissioner Hassler sail I As soon as the revised rates arc ri • rived they will be submitted t Council for action. it was announced also by the d( partment that the peculiar taste < j water pumped through city mains due to the increase in the amour of chemicals used at the tliltratin plant because of the high water; an also because the reservoir is parti frozen over. preventing the usual deration of the water which taki away traces of this treatment.
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