14 MAJOR CASE IS HERE TO INSPECT SITE FOR DEPOT He and Committee Arc Going Over Ground at Middletown and New Cumberland "Major Case, of the United States Army, is expected in llarrisburg to day to go over the proposed avia tion and military depots to be erect ed near here," said Andrew S. Pat terson, president of the Chamber of Commerce. "When our comittee was in Washington, Major Wells promis ed us Major Case would go over the two sites, at Middletown and New Cumberland, with the commitee of the Chamber." Prom another source it was learn ed that Major Case had arrived in the city and has gone over the ground without calling on the Cham ber's committee. Whether or not he would do so before going back to Washington is not known. The committee to which Mr. Pat terson referred went to Washington last week in the interest of the Mid dletown site. This committee was made up of well-known Barrlsburgers, who have no other end in view than to see the lest site chosen. None of them are property owners at either place, but all are influenced by the belief that Middletown is the logical location. They are prepared to show the Army engineers that there is little flood danger and what there is can easily be eliminated at smal cost, the fill to be donated by the local steel com panies. The West Shore site is not well located from a railroad standpoint, traffic in and out after necessary yards being constructed at great de lay and expense interfering with the It.wgratle freight line of the Penn sylvania and the main line of the Northern Central. The Middletown site Is under lease by the Govern ment. lias adequate highway, rail road and trolley facilities and will not be subject to costly sanitary en gineering projects necessary to make the 'cross-river site fit for the en i ampment of a large number of men. For a rush job, engineers say, the Middletown site Is far superior. World's Cereals Valued - At $30,000,000,000 Koine. Thirty billion dollars' worth of the six chief cereals used tor food —wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn and rice—is annually produced by the farmers of the world, accord ing to the Year Book, just issued here by the International institute j of Agriculture. I "We find," declared the author of the book, "that the ascertainable yield of wheat throughout the world exceeds a thousand million quintals (one quintal being 3.0.7 bushels) and represents at present value more than £2,000,000,000. The yield of maize is nearly as large as of wheat and is worth £1,000,000,000. The yield of potatoes is over 1500 million quintals and of beet sugar more than 500,000,00* quintals. Every year the world has at its disposal a total of 150,000,000 quintals of wine, $lO,- 000,000 quintals of coffee, more than 3,000,000 of leaf tobacco, and nearly one million quintals of hops." The vast consumption of coffee, wine and tobacco may be understood when it is estimated that their total value exceeds £4,000,000,000. Comparing the number of cattle horses, mules, sheep, dogs, etc., to the world's population, the Institute estimates that Uruguay has eight head of live stock to each inhabitant Argentina more than four head, Au stralia more than two, the United States and Canada one head per per son, and Europe only one for two persons. The Year Book is said to be the most complete set of agricultural statistics ever compiled and covers ten years of agriculture throughout the world. In it are given not only estimates of production for all the cereals and ordinary food products, such a wheat, oats, potatoes, rice, wine, sugar, coffee, tea, but account is taken of products grown for tex tile industries such as cotton, llax, hemp, silk-worm, linseed and olive oils, as well as the number and kind of live stock —prices of all soil prod ucts and the use of chemicals and fertilizers. Commission Charges Unfair Practices Washington. Feb. 25.—Complaints charging unfair trade practices were issued to-day by the Federal Trade Commission against thirty-eight manufacturing llrms as the result of a long and intensive investigation which has revealed "a very serious and unhealthy condition in certain lines of industry." It was the largest number of complaints ever issued at one time bv the commission. The thirty-eight firms cited to-day were given thirty days to reply and ordered to appear for hearing on April 8. The (Hidden Varnish Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, was charged with attempting to and suppress competition by "systematically and on a large scale'' giving employes of customers, Drcspective customers and competitors' ' customers gratui ties such as liquor, cigars, meals, theater tickets, valuable presents and entertainment. "Secret pay ments" also were alleged to have been made to influence purchases from tho Glldden Varnish Company or to stop purchases 'rom the com pany's competitors 70,000,000 TONS IKON ORE Duluth, Minn.—The iron ore out put from Minnesota during the com ing year will approximate the 1916 record of 60,000,000 tons, according to preliminary estimates of mining experts made public to-night. Some officials believe production will total 70,000,000 tons, but it was pointed out that it would bo impossible lo move that amount in view of the fact that the Government has com mandeered 110 lake vessels. More over, furnaces at the lower lakes have not the capacity for handling so vast a quantity, experts de clared. The amount of ore moved will depend on transportation facilities and weather conditions late in the season. Independent mine operators on the Lake Superior range are hope ful of an Increase in price that will in a measure ofTset increased pro duction cost. Some operators of underground properties feel that $1 a ton would be a fuir Increase, while operators working open pit proper ties with modern equipment arc not expected to urge more than 50 cents per ton increase. MONDAY EVENING, TOJUOOSBUBSi FEBRUARY 25, 1918. MONDAY TALKS DISCONTINUED l)r. Dixon's Illness Interrupts the Series of Chats on How to Keep Well '"Minday morning health talks" have been discontinued for the pres ent by the State Department of Health, because of the serious ill ness of Commissioner of Health, Samuel G. Dixon, according to a notice issued to-day. These "talks" have been a weekly feature of the educational- work of the Department the last three years, al most 150 of them having appeared ano hundred of Pennsylvania news papers, as well as many in other states, have presented them to read ers on Monday mornings and even on ether days of the week. They have been written by the Commis sioner and have set forth his views on problems attending health and well being during the war, home sanitation and many other things entering into daily life. These "talks" have been printed in Al bany, Richmond, Columbus, Boston a'.'.d other state capitals as well as in Washington, while they have ap peared from time to time, and, in some instances regularly, in news papers in Canada, England and Aus tralia. The notice issued regarding the "talks'* is as follows: "Doctor Samued G. Dixon, Com missioner of Health, is seriously ill in the University Hospital of Phila delphia. Doctor Dixon was on one of his trips of inspection of the State's Sanatoria last summer, when he was stricken while at Mont Alto. Ile remained thare several weeks and later recovered sufficiently to gf) to his home at Br.vn Mawr. "During his illness, covering in all, about six months, Doctor Dixon has been in daily touch with his office and has each week written his little 'Talks on Health' in which he is so much interested. "For the present, however, his 1 Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart / Three More Days of Notable Value-Giving: Thursday the Last Day Of The Mill and Factory Sale an five work which we set out to do in the Mill and factory Sale and the February Furniture Sale comes to an end with the close of business on Thursday The homes of thousands of our natrons Have been replenished and brightened with fresh new merchandise at savings which we may not be able to match for months to come. their process f i er^ ) W ? s I . in act ' v ' t y °f buying which encouraged every section of the store to unprecedented value-offerings. Both these sales will be characterized to the end by the same kind of specials which marked "Lest We Forget" i Quality and Big Saving Possibilities Ruling ' Several Thousand New They tell us that four men are required at home to keep Tl A T q j- "V* I O\7 C? "f" "f" D Frocks For Morning one soldier in good trim at the front. That's pretty safe back- HC -LJ CX oU -L II XtJ Vl? 1J cX vJ-L LXlvl^ ing for the man who has been called upon to do our fighting " | In a Showing of Styles That Are Irresistible our way!* " - k -°" e - in rai " d - MKO /tfMSfr February Furniture Sale One good way of backing our soldiers is to remember our / /// j[ ft Trnj ;| Jj ,-s so exceptionally good that thrifty w °mcn meatless and our wheatless davs. H/ \u/* \ Three days of special values remain in the February Furni- J . c '° Avc '.' V* su PPb themselves now jSKWaHRrV 1 1. V"-; > A With several attractive frocks. The ma -1 o-morrow ought to be meatless in every home, at every j I Sale—and they promise to be days of rich savings to home terials are the best of their kind—ging- /aa | restaurant. I I A ham, chambray and sheer weaves. It Eat no meat tomorrow I I IOTP®SIH srtJ I " "" op l >ortum,y o( c " Joyme ,hc •". to MW ™, m,., ifeiSP meat to-morrow. JJ \ he-month attractions. ~ iSIP WXP . . -p -ii * t-v l There arc odd pieces and entire suites in richlv stained and gingham, in brown and white, blue and '// in H r\nf- I O lTlO* Knrku C AVI w/ . white and black and white, with white pique T. 7 7 -L Civ L JLJUUJ\O vJII j enameled finishes—all lower in price than you will find them band 1 " U 'f ( ' 'j 11 * 01 * pockets - finished with wide /' *//J° " J 1 TTT ■after the closing of the sale Morning dresses in solid colors of chambray or /J°i/J /„ J i cl fhp \A/Qy alter tne Closing OI tne saie. stripes, n. blue and White, black and white J'ffj* vllC VV Cv-L Card tables, 30x30 inches, in mahogany frame; Tapestry davenport, 78 inches long; extra soft " I J. p i"] k and . wh '* e: , c °' lar and cuffs of „„/ //ell \ snprinl o white pique; sizes 36 to 46, at $2.50 / . 7// /'„ I .. ll'/® I m-t rk r- tmc% jm.uu spring construction; heavy roll arms; spe- Morning dresses in Billie Burko stylo, made /.' 77 ° • h nrmpr 11 Hllhlishpn fit XI /.h tn.m/. °l d 'vdry chairs and rockers with cretonne cushion C i a i 553 00 of stripe and check ginghams, with large V. . /'" \ „ . I ' tIUL Lol 101 IUL tress, special 900.00 tons . -,n gJ hitherto inaccessible as to price, now shown at low enough cost Upholstered library rockers in mahogany frame; $125.00 davenport, 78 inches long, with loose spring Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor. L_ "* to permit everyone to possess them. special cushions; special $75.00 ~ When (lie Prussians Came to Poland, by de Turczynowiez Tapestry wing rockers in mahogany frame with 78-inch davenport covered with extra quality tap 'lighting In Plunders, by E. Alexander Powell. soft spring cushion seat; special $22.50 estry; looffc cushion spring seat; large pillow Ol J TnOdoUctPr QnAVfc^ T Accuse, by a German. Three-piece fumed oak living room suite with j arms; one of the richest and most luxurious OIICII 1 LLI II -L U. fcfeclllo QiL U fJUI Lib I'an-ficrinaiiism, by Roland G. Usher. genuine leather spring cushions; special. .$47.00 1 pieces in the sale; special $120.00 ' J- Tlic Kvldcnce in the Case, by James M. Beck. 04*1 1 • -1 • T _ 1 t The Challenge of the Future, by Roland G. Usher. Dives, Pftmeroy & Stewart, Fourth Floor. I 1 n attti rv* ' I L-\ n4- Adventurcs of a Dispatch Rider, by Capt. W. H. h. Watsoi* , * OIIIvO 111 d OHO W Illti X lICIL The Great Push, by Patrick Mac Gill. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Book Shop. T 1 • 1 if* 11 * Uncommonly Good Towel ' Colored Dress Cottons Ready For have come these luxurious weaves that promise to be in such —. _ , high favor when the south sends its warm breaths north. \/ HOC rN * Tl Plain Chinese and Japanese shantung in various weights: 33 v-aiutjo Sewing rCooms inchcswide - Yard si -°°' si - 25,5i - 75 - ?2o ° ands ~- 5 ° T ,1 t Ir\ j> ji yy "Rough pongee, in oyster white and natural; 50 inches wide. In the Last Days of the Sale Yard $4.00 ■r% •./• t-* , • tt * i i 1 1 Genuine tussah, in natural, khaki and white; 40 inches wide. !2 C f^, y .T u S s h wa u s , h ci° ths ; Mill and Factory Sale price, 7* Delwhtful Patter us in V oiles, t oulards and Crepes Yard #3.00 10c 1 urkish bibs, in blue or pink. Special a J * fnncv Turkish p-uest towels Soecial 1 Shanghia. a rough thread white Ruff-a-Nuff, a new Mallinson 29c fancy Turkish towels in stripe and ' check ' patterns As simplicity will be one of the foundations of the little frocks P, , * pm Ration m white navy, black, Special 1J)(} sweetmeats, B-lb, cans. ..$1.98 butter fat, 40c value lb' 81c Madras skirting, 30 inches wide; Wash suitings, in stripes and plain 45-inch bleached pillow case muslin. Yard 29^ pounds. ,V. reanler . y . Ü B3c Clover light honey, 1-lb. Jars.iiOo yard 23c "hades; po |yely fast colon,; 45x36-inch bleached pillow cases. Each 19c to 250 Rest pearl soup barley, 5 lbs. 43c Giant Cuban coffee, rich, smooth Percale, 36 inches wide. In good Gingham ih stripe patterns; yard, X. "<0 W' /Wi Baby Blankets in Pink and Blue Sliced peaches, California fruit, in drinking, lb 35c styles on white grounds; yd. 23c 20c S CJ t i i I i r i i i r,., rich, heavy syrup, four large Large can sauerkraut 15c Poplin in a mercerized finish with Dress ginghams, 32-inches wide, /f LOVeIV ami warm antl uellgnttlll to look Upon 1 hey arc SO cans sl.lO Sardines in oil or mustard 8c self colr> stripes and plain in fancy plaids and plain shades; . dainty they'll remind you of your little tot at home. Moderate Tomatoes, No. 1 can.... c Spiced sardines, 15c value, can 10c shades; yard 23c yard 25c /gi&r ill price Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart, Basement Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, * Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, liaseuicnt. physicians have requested him to conserve his strength, feeling that the writing" of these "talks" taken with his many other necessary du ties was not fair to the treatment, and, as a consequence, the weekly talks will be sufficiently improved to health . has sufficiently improved to permit his resumlngthe work with out unduly taxing his strength." 30,000,000 Soldiers Crossed and Recrossed Sea New York.—Those who have been led by the loss of the Tuscanla to consider the dangers attending the transportation of men across the water as something enormous will bo surprised to learn that the chance of losing one's life at sea on a British or American ship is so small nowadays that, in comparison, the perils besetting a man living in New York make him saem almost a hero. Nobody knows how many American troops there are in France. As suming that there are 300,000, which seems a fair estimate, and taking into consideration the loss of life among soldiers on the Tus cania, Antilles and Finland, we And that ttie chance of an American soldier losing his life while on the sea is only J in 1,829. On November 1, 1917, Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the British ad miralty, in reviewing the activities of the British navy since the be ginning of the war, stated that of 30,000,000 men who had crossed and recrossed the seas only 2,700 had been lost by the action of the enemy. This, it may be assumed, included troops, crews and all others having to take a sea trip on war work. The loss of life, according to these figures, was reduced to Vlie astonishing low level of 1 in 11,111. It must be borne in mind, however, that the great bulk of these mil lions transported under the protec tion of the British navy were con voyed across the English channel, where the safeguards introduced have proved so efficient that U-boats have failed to sink a single ship bearing troops. But, even allow ing for that, the percentage of loss of life is remarkably small and re flects great credit on the efficacy of the anti-submarine devices used. BOOSTERS REWARDED WITH BANQUET FOR FAITHFUL WORK ■Tj - '- g - m JL Kf Mr. and Mrs. Telegraph Reader, meet these fourteen real, live Boos ters. Perhaps you have already met one of this smiling party but at any rate you should know them all. A Booster, by the way, is any wide-awake member of the Tele graph's circulation department. His duty is to serve you better than you can be served by any other newspa per organization. It is because these fourteen Boosters have achieved just such a record that they gath ered at the home of W. H. Kaylor, 2134 Derry street, Saturday evening, for a little party. Mr. Kaylor is manager of the Elm street branch of the Telegraph at 1721 Elm street, and with the as sistance of these smiling Boosters serves all Telegraph patrons on the north side of the Hill. As a mark of appreciation for the loyal work of his assistants in boosting the Telegraph's circulation in this dis trict, Mr. Kaylor invited the boys to his home for an evening's enter tainment. That the affair was a delightful one is shown by the cameraman who caught the boys' expression a few minutes after the ice cream disap peared. Can you blame Mrs. Kaylor for smiling when she sees the ex pression of pleasure shown by each boy, each of whom insists that Mrs. Kaylor is really the very best cook in Harrlsburg. Those in the photograph are: Mr. Kaylor, Stanley Fellows, Edgar Erisman, John Carl, Arthur Eris man, Walter Eshenour, Paul Cover, David Demmy, Clifton Palmer, Ed win Clark, Elmer Place, Charles Moyer, Thomas Jones and John Graybill. SUNDAY SCHOOL 102 YEARS OLD \ Market Square Presbyterian Celebrates Special Event Ceremonies and exercises commem orating the 102 nd anniversary of Mar ket Square Presbyterian Sunday School were held yesterday in the main auditorium of tho church. Dr. J. George Becht, executive secretary of the State Board of Education, spoke on "The Bible as Literature and as the 800-k of Life." He paid tribute to the long life of t.he Sunday School, one of the oldest in the country. A rare instance of faithfulness In attendance was shown by the Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes, pastor of the church. William R. Steinmeier, 717 North Nineteenth street, lias missed but two Sundays In twenty-eight years. His wife has not missed a Sun day for the past year, the two small sons, two years, and the two daugh ters being present every Sunday in 1917. Membership of the school is 1088, dividefl as follows: Cradle Roll, 120; Primary Department. 174; Junior De partment, 162; Intermediate Depart ment, 139; Senior Department, 493. Contributions for 1917 were $3,- 145.99 divided as follows: Primary Department, $246.70; Junior Depart ment, $1,124.51; Intermediate Depart ment. $390.33; Senior Department, $183.&5. Tho following were prize winners in attendance during 1917: J. Henry Spicer, N. E. Hause, Frank G. Fahnestock, Jr.. Mrs. Wil liam G. Schooley, H. W. Wright, John A. Fries, Jacob Stouffer, Burton E. Commings, 10. P. Robinson. Mrs. Mary B. White, W. R. Steinmeier, David Charles, Chart; s W. Hartwick, Brenn Fisher, Mrs. W. R. Steinmeier, Miss Viola Bell. Miss Sarah Rauch, Miss Lile Fisher, Miss Ruth Ktter. W. G. Schooley, Ralph Byers, John De Gray, J. T. Harris, Clarence N. Wolfley, Miss Florence Fisher. Miss Mary Ferguson, Miss Weigle, Charles C. Getter. S. W. Fleming, 11. W. Fair, E. M. Stoner, Edmund Critchely, Maurice Taylor. Miss Caroline Keefer, Miss Wright, Mrs. Hubley, Mr. Anderson, Albert Sanders. Harry Sanders, Flo rence Van Horn, Klizabeth Fisher, Charles Craighead, Jack Glazier. Elizabeth Harris, Mildred Fisher, Kt ward Hawes, Percy Walker. Mr. McKinnte, Mr. lieid. Elsie Coi dron. Janet Thompson. Elizabet Nuncmaclicr, Ruth Ntoner, Josephlr Roberts. Robert Walker. Albert Taj lor, Edward Taylor. Hazel Fisher. Dorothy Myer Nancy Steele. Ulanche Italne, Leonar Looker. Russell Free. Delia Machj mcr, Vera Walkden, Mildred Bower Ella Nelson, John McCullough. Dot aid Millar, Miss Roberta K. Ortii. Mr George Roberts. George Robert Maria Mausteller, George Burne Louise Hickok, Claire Hartwick. Elizabeth Hteinmeier, Ruth Naon Steinmeier, Gertrude Imber, Robei Nunemaclier, Mrs. John Nunemaehe Erma Sclnniedel, Jacob Looker. Rot ert Steinmeier. Alma Steinmeier. A\ IMI'OIITANT I\