FOOD DELAY NOT FAULT OF ROADS, CLAIMS M'ADOOi jl ionics That Ships Arc Held! Over Time For Allies' j Supplies Washington, Feb. 23,—Complete lenial of Herbert Hoover's state nent that food for the allies and for •onsumption in the eastern portion if the United States is lacking be ■avise of the failure of the trans location system was made by Sec etary of the Treasury McAdoo yes erday as director general of rail-1 oads. Mr. McAdoo insists that the short- j ge of grain is due to the fact that j he farmers are holding it in expec- J ation of higher prices. He says, if ir. Hoover will specify any particu ar.food supplies that lie wishes ransported, the railroads will han-l lie them promptly. It is also de iied by the railroad administration, I vhich, of course, mekns Mr. Ac- j Vdoo, that there are any British hips awaiting a cargo in Aineri an harbors, and he even declared hat there are cargoes of foodstuff* t some of the ports awaiting the hips to carry them across the ocean. Public confusion regarding actual onditions is greatly increased by I his wide difference of statement be-1 ween the food administration and I he secretary of the treasury. Until •esterday 110 one had questioned hat Food Administrator Hoover new what he talks about. Asks Hoover Where Food Is Mr. MeAdoo, in a letter to the ood administrator, called on him to how where the food was. The let ?r read: "Dear Mr. Hoover: You are, as I nderstfuid it. the sole purchaser in his country of food supplies for the Hied governments. You must, there ore, know the location of the food upplies which you from time to [me purchase, and the ports in this ountry to which you desire such upplies shipped. If you will notify lie from time to time of the lo ation of the specific supplies and he port or ports in the United tates to which you wish to have uch supplies transported, T will uarantee the necessary tr;insportil - subject alone to interruptions rom blizzards and floods. "I wish to reassure the country y saying that so far as transporta on is concerned there is no danger f suffering from a serious food iiortagc in the eastern nart of the ountry. Cordially yours, "W. G. McADOO." In a statement issued Thursday iglit, lloover indicated that the dif culty was due to the failure of the -ansportation system to move tjie aod supplies. MISS GREGORY GOT .TOK ttor"cy General's Daughter Needed j (HO Post for Belgian "Dependents" Washir.ston, Feb. 23.—Miss Janej regory, daughter of the Attorney | eneral, applied at the food admin- I tration this week for an SBO-a-| onth job giving as references Col- | lei E. :'il. House and the Attorney eneral himself. In response to a perfunctory lestion by the employment clerk, iss Gregory said she had three de sndents. "Three dependants?" gasped the erk, incredulously. "Oh, yes." she replied: "I've lopted and am supporting three elgian children." .Miss Gregory got the job. ■ YOU , I ftp SCHENCKS I !£i± MANDRAKE I of liver derangement and stomach trouble. A bad 'HT TBT liver reflects its disorder ■ Bj I I ID a giddy, thumping H H H head; the shocked stomach H nerves electrify the brain JHk • with pain. Treat the liver and the head is cured. ■ One dose will relieve the worst case H of sick headache over night—perseverance in their H use will remove the cause and give entire freedom H from this distressing ailment. Schenck's Mandrake I Pills are constructive tonic, so strengthening, reviving, I comforting stomach, liver, bowels, that these organs are freed from tendency to disorder. Wholly vegetable; absolutely harmless, I they form no habit. PLAIN OR SUGAR COATED PROVED FOR MERIT BY SO YEARS' CONTINUOUS SALE DR. J. H. SCHENCK & SON, Philadelphia ' - --ym I Wise i never "take chances." Merely because you have never lost an im portant paper or other valuable article by fire or theft is no assurance that you never will, 7 unless your valuables are kept in a modern burglar and fire proof bank vault. ■ Rent one of our Safe Deposit Boxes and place ■ your Liberty Bonds and i' other valuable papers, you will KNOW they are l safeguarded against loss CMI SW I ill V If' E)N SAVINGS ACCOUNTS capital and surplus *600,00(XQ0 SATURDAY EVENING, FLYING WITH SHAFFER THE RESOURCEFUL COOK LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO HIS MOTHER Somewhere in France, Jan. 6, 1918. Dear Mother: Started a letter to you., this morn ing at the hangars, but it was so un satisfactory that I threw -it away. Was expecting; to go on a protection, but low, fleecy clouds prevented, as it's impossible to take pictures in such weather. Sitting around like that all morning is very tiring, and one could not go far from the tire, for it sure is cold. Just a promen ade of about ten feet and those hob nail conductors in my shoes made my tootsies "tres froid." Ila! ha! I l'ear if I keep 011 springing French words on you, you will have to learn French. I only hope you don't have as much trouble as I, for it sure is difficult, and these Frenchmen are often quite amused at my construc tion of sentences. However, their use of English is just as amusing. Somebody taught one of these Frenchmen rooming with me an English cuss word, and you never saw anyone so proud of his command of the language, as he uses it on all occasions. It's a cinch that the first time lie springs it on a girl, as he surely will, somebody's going to get shocked. The fact that I told him it was never used in good society made no difference, for he continues springing it. The French Comedian Had to stop for dinner—no. it didn't take me two days to eat it, •but we have one Frenchman here that is so amusing that one cannot write when he is around. I nearly laughed myself to deatli at him yes terday. He lias a comical face to 1 begin with and now that he has a ' bealed tooth and his lip lias swollen t(, abnormal size, he is funny even to look at. It's his little manner ; isms that are so funny, so I can't 1 very well explain them. It was rain ing all day yesterday and we all sat around the fire, trying to write let ters; he among us. Only he was gravely pulling the hobnails out of his slioes and filling up the holes made thereby by pounding in matches with the heads out. When someone asked him why he did this he an swered in his droll way: "To light the way as I walk." Then his cigarets were nearly all, and to prevent passing them around as etiquette demanded, he goes out in the hall to light up and comes back wearing his usual innocent "I didn't do anything" expression. Pretty soon he and another French man began a duet, each one singing in a different key. I suppose now you begin to understand why I stop ped writing. Some Ilnth My taking a bath in the morning caused quite a lot of amusement also, for, aside from it being a rare treat ' —1 mean the bath, not the tigure it. was rather difficult, since only a washbasin was available, which would not even hold my small foot. Therefore. I had to stand on a chunk or oilcloth, which just about ruined imy feet. Golly! but it was cold. Imagine taking a bath with a wash j rag which was frozen stiff and you ! will understand why it takes cour ! age to be a soldier. It just took one I hour to warm my feet again, and it ' jest occurred to me that the twenty | days' coat of dirt must have had a j warming effect, for I never had cold ! feet before. Plenty of Snow In France After the rain had melted all the snow it began snowing again and continued thus off and on all last night and to-day. Which sure makes it look wintry around here, there be ing some seven inches of snow on the ground, and still she falls. Walked to L'epine to-day to buy some socks, all mine being out in the heels and toes. That kind are all right in the summer, but in winter I want more warriith than ventila tion. Not knowing what the word was, I looked it up in the dictionary as I walked. The word was "bas," and not only did it mean stocking, but it was "a vile thing," according to the dictionary. I guess old Noah was right, too, because some of mine are that. However, the use of that word didn't get me any hosiery and I found out why when I came home, for they use another name for it, "bas" meaning a woman's stocking. No wonder the woman said she would not have them in stock for several days! He'n Wearing Wooden Shoe* I'm a real Dutchman now, for I have a pair of wooden shoes. The government donated them also, seeVn ing to think them necessary, which ttiey surely are, making wonderful house slippers—a little noisy 'per haps and hard to break in, but very handy, indeed, to. slide around my chateau in. Indeed, most Frenchmen wear nothing else—l mean the office force, carpenters, etc. —for they are very warm and stay dry longer than leather ones. A thick woolen slip per goes with them, so you see where the warmth comes from. Have not tried them for sliding in the snow yet, but I bet they would work fine. Having h(id some experience on a dance floor. I think I could keep my feet—if not my shoes. This snow sure would tickle Donald, for there is plenty for skiing, although there are no hills, the country being very flat. Of course, he could find hills if he went closer to the "lines," for T have seen many big hills as I flew along looking for Boche, but he might get a hill made over him, too. Woodchopplnjc For Ewrcluc For the last two days it* has been bad weather, so all I have to do is eat, for that's about .the only event one can look forward to, since your packages never show up and nary a letter, either: which would make life rather dismal if one did not have to chop wood. One cannot eat all the time, for even the most enjoyable habits grow tiring if overdone. As for woodcutting, I think I have cut more wood since 1 came to the "front" than during my whole boy hood. I'll leave it to Dad to say how much that was, for in my youth ful fancy I might overestimate. How ever. the eexreise is good for me, for if this keeps up I'll get fat loafing, for we have nothing to do when the weather is bad. | That just reminds me that during the last day we flew one of the Americans that came here with me brought down a Boche. The funny part of it was that he got lost from his "patrol," as we always travel in groups called patrols, and followed this German around for five minutes, thinking it was his leader, all the time keeping a sharp lookout down below, up above and to either side for Boclie planes. Finally, he looked at the plane ahead that he had been following so faithfully for five min utes, and noticed the iron cross. To put it in his words, he was so ex cited he couldn't shoot straight. He finally got him, though. These Fnenchmen are quite re sourceful in some ways, especially where the cook don't relish washing ; dishes-glisten closely, "Sis;" the idea may be of use. Jam is served as dessert here and if the plate is too full of the remains of the former courses for it, they simply turn it upside down and use the botom. Of course, this would not work very well on a tablecloth, but such a lux ury is about as strange to us as white bread—or pretty girls. WALTER. Fulton County Dry by Order of Court McConnellsburg, Pa., Feb. 23. Fulton county is dry. Judge Don ald P. McPherson yesterday refus ed to grant a license to Charles Ehalt, proprietor of the Fulton House in this town, the only place in the county where liquor had been sold. At the January term of court Judge McPherson heard charges against two hotels which had been granted licenses the previous year. One of these was the Fulton House. The other was the Hotel Jefferson. Pro prietors were accused of selling li quor to minors and to men of in termediate habits. At that time the Jefferson was refused the right to sell liquor. Ac tion was deferred in the case of Ehalt's place. Yesterday's decision by the court wiped out the last re maining wet spot in Fulton county. CAMP LEWIS PLOTTERS MAY FACE FIRING SQUAD Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 23. —Four National Army sol diers were held in the guardhouse yesterday awaiting a presidential warrant from Washington, which will mean their internment at least as enemy aliens who plotted not only to shoot their officers the first time they got into action in Europe, but also to deliver all the American soldiers in their organization to the German army. A general cleanup of enemy aliens at Camp Lewis is in full swing, offi cers said to-day. Thirty-four were discharged to-day from the service. Washington, Feb. 23.—Officers of the Judge Advocate General's office said yesterday that any National Army soldier charged with plotting treason would be tried by military court-martial, and if found guilty would be liable to the death penalty. MACARONI MAN C FACTT RKR CHARGED WITH FOOD CRIME Philadelphia, Feb. 23.—Learning that the Kurtz Macaroni Company here was operating without a license from the United States food admin istration, Jay Cooke, administrator for Philadelphia county, has sum moned Max and 1 Robert Kurtz to show cause why criminal prosecu tion should not be instituted against them. In his proclamation of Janu ary 10, President Wilson required that many manufacturers, including makers of macaroni, should obtain licenses from the food administra tion in Washington. The Kurtz firm is the first to feel the pressure of the food administration in Pennsylvania. The penalty provided for those who fail to apply for the licenses Is $5,000 fine two yearn' imprisonment or both. "A FAMILY AFFAIR" AT PILLOW Pillow, Pa., Feb. 23.— A play en titled "A Family Affiiir," a comedy in three acts, will" be given in the Band Hall, Saturday evening, March 2. 7.30, under the auspices of the Pillow Red Cross Auxiliary. —Frank Schreffller spent Sun day and Monday at Sh&mokin.— Misses Jennie Bobb and Rosie Schreffler visited friends at Dalma tia.—Private James of Dal matia, now at Camp Meade, Md., spent a day with relatives here.. HARRISBURG Q&Mfr TELEGRAPH! EVEN THE HUN FEELS NEED OF GOOD TOBACCO Americans in France Depend Upon Folks at Home For Smokes When the charms of spring awaken I feel, sometimes forsaken So far from all my dearest friends and folks. But clouds soon pass and birds sing; The whole world has a glad ring— Headquarters has just called us in for smokes. The inside story of the new in vasion of Russia by the Huns was tipped off to the tobacco editor by "some one, somewhere" and it is too good to keep. The Germans, said this tip, have hurled themselves into Russia for nothing else than tobac co. There is not a wisp of the weed in Kaiser Hill's land, and his soldiers are on the point of mutiny because he has foisted a camouflage on them. The Germans have been using what is called "ersatz tobacco." Until re cently German tobacco rationed out was composed of tobacco stems and a mixture of chopped leaves, princi pally cabbage or chicory. This new tobacco makes its ap pearance in packages marked "Deut scher Taback, 50 Der Preis sixty pfg." It ,is composed of a mixture of dried hops, fennel leaves, mint, verbenia, wild oats, heather and bul rushes, and extracts its coloring from elderberries, fruit skins and fragments of Pernambuco wood. All this trouble the Germans went to for a tobacco substitute, and then the Hun soldiers would not stand for it. Hence the Russian raid, for they have very choice tobacco in Russia. All the prisoners, of course, will con tinue to be fed that "ersatz" stuff. Lest our brave boys come to this, you should instantly send in your contribution to the Telegraph. To bacco makes the boys cheerful and they will need plenty of cheer when the spring drive starts. They should never suffer, like the Germans, with make-shift tobacco. We Jiave plenty of the best in this country. Show your generosity and patriotism by shooting in a contribution,.small or large. The following contributions have been received for the Harrisburg Telegraph's Tobacco Fund: Previously acknowledged ...$928.15 <l. M. Guyler, Iluncannon. ... 1.00 $92-1.15 A MUCKS ASSOCIATION TO HAVE PATRIOTIC MEETING On Monday evening at 8 o'clock W. Frank James, Congressman from Michigan, will address the Alrick's Associations, Nineteenth and Market streets, giving a patriotic talk on war from the. Congressman's standpoint. This will be ladlles' night. No ad mission charged. Mr. James, while a member of the Michigan Legislature introduced and had passed a mothers' pension bill and a workmen's compensation bill. WORKMEN'S CIHCI.E TO HUM) SI'ECIAI, MEETING J. L. Entin, New York City, and other speakers will address a meeting in the Colonial Theater, to-morrow evening, to be held under the aus pices of the Harrisburg branch of the Workmen's Circle. "For the Freedom of the World," a patriotic motion picture, will be shown at the meeting. There will be no admission charged, and the meeting is open to the public. Pennsylvania Soldiers Parade in Augusta on Washington's Birthday Augusta, Ga., Feb. 23.—Marching to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," just adopted by the Twen ty-eighth Division as its battle hymn i to be used later in their drive' against the Germans, the khak'i-clad, j stalwart men from Pennsylvania, 30,000 strong, swung evenly into i Broad street at yesterday morning amid cheers from 10,000 ci vilians. Passing around the Confederate monu.iient, in the heart of the city, with bands playing ''Dixie,hundreds of the men were seen to raise their eyes to the immobile forms of Lee, Jackson, Walker and Cobb, grouped in statue form above the shaft. Men in the crowd were moved al most to tears when Miss Mary Hall, 80 years old, known throughout the I South as an unreconstructed rebel, cheered the men from the North in keen, fervent tones and clapped her hands until almost exhausted. General Charles H. Mulr, who re viewed the march, had no comment to make as to which unit made the best showing. The (leld artillery bri gade went through the streets at a trot, at times with horses galloping, ar. the parade of the two brigades of infantry ahead of them had taken up nearly two hours' time and the offi cers wanted their units to reach camp in time for mess. The infan try made the most impressive spec tacle, and, while no criticism could be made of any regiment, all appear ing well-trained and disciplined, the One Hundred and Ninth, made up largely of Philadelphians, probably presented the best appearance. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. FEBRUARY 23, 19T& BOMBARDMENT IS MORE INTENSE IN THE U.S.SECTOR : Enemy Party Attempting Raid Is Driven Off by Rifle Fire By .Associated Press With the American Army in France, Feb. 22.—T0-day the artil lery bombardment was still more intense on the American sector northwest of Toul. Night and day enemy projectiles are falling in towns and have been directed at a number of strategical points. The damage done has been unimportant. Three American artillerymen have been "vounded. The Americans replied to the en emy with three shells for one, firing jiceurately on roads and enemy works. Shells were dropped on a party of seven Germans repairing wire entanglements. Some were wounded and the rest scattered. Early to-day u small enemy party attempted to raid American iines and was driven off by rifle and machine gun Are, after which artillery fire, chased them back to their lines. A trench mortar projectile fell on one of our trenches to-day, kill ing three and wounding four. Rain has prevented aerial , activity and trenches and dugouts are flooded. "SKXI.r. AMI HONRS" CI.IB PI'AXS FOll ANNUAL DINNER The "Skull and Bones" Club of the Harrisburg Academy met last evening in the Academy Hall. An important! business meeting was held followed by a banquet and speeches by th 4 members. Plans were made for m dance at the Colonial Club In tha near future. The announcement wilj be made at a later date. The foW lowing members partook of the re-, freshments: Parker Geisiwhite, Jacks Liescure Donald Wren, Mennert New-* iin, Ted Morgenthaler, Jack pen, Mavin Hawkins, Albert Ramey* William Liescure, George DeVor'e* "Parkie" Beckley, Frank Francis. 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