4 GROCERS FORM .WAR COMMITTEE Retailers Hear State Secre tary Declares Business Is Poorly Paid A grocers' war association was or ganized last night, following an ad dress to grocers of Harrlsburg at the Technical- High School auditorium. William Smedley, of Philadelphia, secretary of the Retail Merchants' Association of Pennsylvania, was the > p'eaker of the evening. Following an address by Mr. Smedley, replete with facts of interest to grocers, It was decided that the war organiza tion be formed, in conformance with the suggestion of the local Food Ad ministrator. No permanent name was selected, but, instead, a temporary title. The liarrisburg Grocers' War Association, was selected. Directors of the organ- 1 v.ation are: A. H. Kreidler, \V. A. < iernert, Daniel Folleck, J. H. Frantz, i. E. Deppen and 11. Sherman. The Food Administrator suggested that the organization be formed, with HEADACHE STOPS, NEURALGIA GONE • I Dr. James' Headache Powders' give instant relief—Cost dime a package. Nerve-racking, splitting or dull, I throbbing headaches yield In Just a few moments to Dr. James' Head- Hche Powders which - cost only 10! rents a package at any drug store.! It's the quickest, surest headache re- • lief in the whole world Dor't suffer! I Relieve the agony and distress now! j You can. Millions of men and wo- j men have found that headache or 1 neuralgia misery is needless. Get j what you ask for. Stomach Dead Man Still Lives People who staffer from sour stom- | nth. fermentation of food, distress i after eating and indigestion, and seek I relief in large chunks of artificial di- I gestors, are killing their stomachs by inaction just as surely as the victim of morphine is deadening and injur ing beyond repair every nerve in his I body. What the stomach of every sufferer j from indigestion needs is a good pre scription that will build tip his stom- | ach. put strength, energy and elas ticity into it, and make it sturdy; enough to digest a hearty meal with out artificial aid. The best prescription for Indiges-1 tion ever written is sold by druggists '••verywjiere and by H. C. Kennedy and is rigidly guaranteed to build up the stomach and euro indigestion or money back. This prescription is named Ml-o-na, rind is sold in small tablet form in large boxes, for only a few cents. Re member the name. Jli-o-na stomach tablets. They never fail.—Advertise ment. Driving takes a lot of patience to teach the intricacies of mechanics and pliiloso ■lt phies of the old masters. Hoillie One reason is that most people are not interested in them. It's different with CLOTHING from ns. We play the game open, get the best qualities, the correct styles and price them right and men have easily learned that the merchandise we sell is the kind they want. Back of your purchase is the high standard of service we maintain at all . times. New Spring Suits and Top Coats sls to $35 - WMSTROUSE Bigger Cheerfully Values Refunded WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAKRJSBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 20, 1918 representatives who can confer with the Administrator over war prob lems. The directors will eat In this capacity and will also select a suit-, able name for the organisation. Mr. Smedley, in his address, told .the grocers that they were tho poor est-paid men en earth. "We don't know what profit is," he exclaimed, declaring that the average profit Is only ten and fifty-nine-hundredth per cent. Ho declared that the watch words of this war are "Economy, Efficiency and Co-operation." He I urged co-operation, showing the i benefits derived from It. He urged that grocers charge for delivery of goods. Donald McCormick, the local Food Admirf strator, also addressed the n.eetiilg, explaining various regula tions and rulings of the Food Ad ministration. He thanked the gro ! cers for their co-operation. He j strongly urged sale of potatoes and i prophesied that it was possible that j potatoes may be sold with wheat [ flour and the present authorized sub { stitutes. Huns Plan Revolts in Countries of Allies Through Lenine's Aid WaNhington, March 20. •Author itative information has reached this Government that Germany, with the aid of Nikolai T.enine, head of the party, and the Bolshevik leaders in Russia, is about to start a new and insidious offensive against the Allies and the United States. Plans for this have been secretly but subtly engi i neered by Germany and have reached the point where the tirst signs of the [ new offensive are already appearing in some of the allied countries. The plan which lias been unmasked I by secret agents of tiie Allies and this Government is directed toward j starting a Bolshevik revolution aimed : at capitalism in Great Britain, France, 1 Italy and the United States, and even j in some of the neutral countries. The design is to make the masses believ.e that the Allies are waging the war to perpetuate capitalism and keep the laboring classes under subjection. I Germany's chief object in the cam paign of Bolshevikism. which is to be captained by Eenine, is to bring about a social revolution in the principal countries now at war with Germany that will so add to their troubles that they will be glad to make peace on a German basis. Cocoanut Oil Fine For Washing Hair If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash it with. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful. Just plain mulsi lied cocoanut oil (which is pure and entirely greascless), is much better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use for sham pooing, as this can't possibly injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with I water and rub it in. One or two tea- ! spoonfuls will mako an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thoroughly. The lather rinses out easily, and removes j every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff I and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves It fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy 1 to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil : at most any drug store. It is very j cheap, and a few ounces Is enough j to last everyone in ilie family fori months.—Adv. i NEWS OF STEELTON MAKE PLANS FOR PLAYGROUNDS I Meeting of Commission Will Be Held Shortly to Discuss Summer Activities Plans for the summer's work of i the Parks and Playgrounds Com j mission will be discussed at a meet | ing of the commission to bq held !in the near future. An officer of the body said this morning that no defl ! nite plans have been made but It is likely meeting would be held ! shortly! The commission this year is some- I ' what late in mapping out the work. I ' No meeting has been held so far and | nothing said in regards to getting •la man to supervise the grounds. It is s J understood that Supervisor Irwin ; will return this year if he is not in II the army by the time the grounds I ; open. i j An officer of the body said that i j tlie grounds would be operated : j along the same lines as last year. A , I revision in the plans will likely he • [made at the request of council to re ' trench in expenses. I The annual appropriation of sl,- I! 000 has been made by Council. This [in addition to slioo from the local ! steel plant, will give the commission II its usual appropriation on which to • | run the playgrounds this year. Give St. Mark's Church Property to Orphan Home | The congregation of St. Mark's ' : Lutheran Church last evening de | j oided to turn the property at Sec ! end and l.incoln streets over to the . I Tress! en Orphans' Home at Eoys'ville. The congregation disbanded more J t'nana year ago. Since that time ef forts have been made by officials of the church to dispose of the prop ; erty. These efforts prove futile and 1 ; the property was turned over to the ! home officials to dispose of it as they J see fit. The property consists of the I church building and parsonage and i the plot of ground. SPKCI.U/ CHUHCII MUSIC j The First Methodist choir, under j the direction of J. Elmer George, will j sing the Passion Week story, "Olivet Ito Calvary," by Mauder, Gwilym I Watkins, soloist of Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, j will assist. Other soloists of local j reputation who will have a part in i the jendition of this impressive story | of the Passion Week experience are: I John Bethel, Mrs. M. J. Bethel, K. j Evans and Benjamin Sellers. The service \ylll begin promptly at T. 30. METHODIST CHVHCH PASTOR j Tho Rev. 11. A. Sawyer has been I appointed pastor of the First Math j odist. Church to succeed the Rev. W. | IT. Shaw, who was made pastor of j a Philadelphia Church. Tho change j was made at the annual session of I the Philadelphia conference in Phil i adelphia this week. Sale of Recital Tickets Is Rapidly Increasing Sale of tickets for the Robert Tempest recital to be given In the High schoi auditorium Friday evening for the benefit of the Junior Red Cross organisation of the High school building, Is Increasing, accord ing to reports this morning. Those In charge of arrangements expect to j have the large auditorium tilled to Its capacity to hear the well-known musician. Prof. W. M. Harclerode, supervisor of music in the local schools, will sing, assisted by Mrs. Harclerode at the piano. CLUB SERVICE FLAG A service flag containing six stars was unfurled "by the Steelton Club yesterday. Members of the club in the army are: Captain G. W. H. Rob erts, lieutenant Abraham Shelley, Benjamin Brandt and Francis Smith, bouh in officers training camps; Pri vates Roy Thomas and Harry Maurer. ABEKCROMBII] IMPROVES A slight improvement in the con dition of W. E. Abercrombie, man ager of the Steelton Store Company, who has been ill for some time, was seen this morning, according to a J member of the family. JOIN* STATE ASSOCIATION The Businessmen's Association In monthly session last night decided to become a member of the Retail Merchants' Association of Pennsyl- ! vania. This matter was pending for several months. Burden of Prohibition Referendum in N. Y. Now Up to the Senate Albany, N. Y.. March 20.—The As sembly, although deemed by the drys as hopelessly committed to tlie refer endum on the Federal prohibition ratification, passed the buck yester day to the Senate. And strange as it may seem the move was engineered by the temper ance forces. They realized that with the stage set as it was at the begin ning of yesterday's session the best they could get tills year was a refer endum. They preferred nothing at all. The result was that when the refer endum bill, which was a <-oecial order for yesterday, was reached on the cal endar a motion was made by As semblyman McNab, of Schenectady, one of the dry leaders, to postpone ac tion for a week. This threw the' whole works into confusion. The west at first balked, apparently not knowing just what was coming. There followed a .long debate on the floor, conferences in Speaker Sweet's room and hurried consultations be tween Assemblymen and wet and dry backers who were in the chamber. Assemblyman McNab finally substi tuted a motion to postpone action on the bill indefinitely, which was carried by a vote of 109 to "5. The adoption of this motion puts the burden of ratification right up to the Senate. Speaker Sweet said when it was introduced that if it were acted favorably upon the question could not lie broucht up again in the Assembly at this session unless it came in tlie form of a message from the Senate. Senator William Hill, who introduc ed the original ratification resolution and who has been one of the prin cipal champions of the temperance cause, said afterward he was delight ed with the outcome. Steamer Sterling Sunk Following Collision Bcrnc, Tuesday, March 19.—1t has been learned through official sources that the steamer Sterling, with a large cargo of grain for Switzerland, has just been sunk as the result of a collision. Coming so soon after the torpedoing of the Planish steamship Sardinero, which was sunk on Feb ruary 26, while conveying 3,000 tons of wheat from the United States for Switzerland, loss of the Sterling con stitutes a serious blow to the Swiss revictualing operations. WRITES PATRIOTIC SONG "When We Get Into Germany" is the title of a brand new patriotic song written by a Harrisburg man, Samuel E. Johnston, 28 linden street. He has copyrighted it but not published it yet. f MIDDLETOWN j Junior League to Hold a Missionary Benefit Friday Arrangements have been com pleted for the missionary benefit, to be held Friday evening by the Junior League of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in West Ann street. A col lection will be taken at the doors, and the money obtained will be used in a fund to maintain a mission child in India. The following program will be presented: Music, Sunday School or chestra; prayer, the Rev. James Cun ningham; recitation, Benjamin Cun ningham, entitled, "Funny Ted;" reci tation, Miss Blanche Yost,' entitled. "Whom I Love Best;" "My Friend," class of girls: recitation, Miss Vivian Tritch. entitled, "Hattles" Letter;" piano solo. Miss Harriet Garver; "Morning Papers," class of boys; reci tation, Merle Campbell: song, class of girls; dialog, "Jennies' Call," Helen Moore and Hester Cunningham: vocal solo, by Miss Harriet Swartz; "Temp erance," by a class of girls; recitation by Miss Helen Henry, of Royalton; duet, by Miss Pauline Delhi and Miss Catherine Beachler; recitation. Miss Vlncietta Tritch; violin solo, Miss Mil dred I!. Botts: recitation. Miss Grace Geiberson; select reading, by Miss Blanche Churchman; piano solo. Miss Helen Seiders; dialog. Miss Naomi Yost, Miss Grace Boyer and Miss Bar bara inley; vocal solo, Miss ljorraino Gale; "Tenting To-night on the Old Camp Grounds," by a class of boys. A St. Patrick's party was held Mon day evening by Miss Elizabeth Baker at the home of her mother, Mrs. Min nie Baker, in North Pine street. Re freshments were served to Helen lloffnjan, Lorraine Gale, Marthas Belt, lleleen Seiders, Elsie Stephy, Helen Gotschall, Sara Llndemuth, Christian Jackson, . Hazel Weidner, Helen Brandt, Wilma Force, Mildred Parthe more, Naomi Yost, Aurora Wickey, Elizabeth Beck. Romaine Kllnger, and Louise Fox; William Moore, George Laverty, George Elberti, Edgar Thomas. Francis Douglas, Syrian Bortner, Donald McCord, Harold Gil bert, Rusael Kuntz, Raymond Bow man, Floyd Herman, Carl Pickle and Charles Hanna. F. T. Atkinson, local agent at the Philadelphia and Reading station in South Union street, suffered a stroke yesterday afternoon just as he was about to leave his home after lunch hour. He was removed to his home after which Dr. J. F. Blecher and Dr. J. C. Lingle, of North Union street, were summoned. A call by the Red Cross chapter for clothing for Belgian and French sufferers is meeting with Rood suc cess. The teachers of the various schools are urging pupils to bring anything in the clothing line which then in taken to the Red Cross rooms where they will be packed and ship pod March 25. Boy Scouts who have been collecting books and magazines did fine, having collected nearly two hundred books. Ralph Clouser, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Clouser, resid ing in State street, severed a blood vessel in his left hand while cutting a piece of wood. He was taken to the office of Dr. J. F. Blecher, whe > the flow of blood was stopped. GREATER FLOUR SAVING PLANNED Division of Supplies and Big Educational Campaign to Be the First Steps Washington, March 20.—The Food Administration last night announced the first of a series of steps planned to stretch flour supplies sufficiently to feed the country and maintain shipments to the Allies until the next harvest. Beginning with the baking trade, which uses forty per cent, of the \\heut flour consumed in this coun try, the administration lias approved pians for a division of flour supplies tetween shops, sharing of wheat sub stitutes and for a nationwide educa tional campaign to eliminate waste, which will be worked out at a meet ing in Chicago next Friday. Further restrictions on the con sumption of wheat, which were an nounced last weeik as under consid eration, will be put into effect next, Af'de from the shortage of wheat in the United States, another ijeeious problem is confronted by the Food Administration in making i.'ood promises to the Allies, Not a single week's shipments of grain and ceretls abroad has equaled the an nounced program since January 1, so tha : " there remains a deficit of 812 - 000 tons to be made up in addition to the regular supplies. Even with clear weather it has been impossible to transport the 270,000 tons promised every seven days. Since January 1 shipments have totaled 1,416,917 tons. Inas much as the allied peoples abroad are being rationed strictly officials here do not contemplate any cur tailment of exports. HELD AS MASQUERADING Frank Hurlburt, arrested 'orae time ago as a deserter, was held for United States court yesterday to ans wer the charge of masquerading in the United States uniform. Hurlburt said a soldier stole his civilian clothes, leaving the uniform in their stead. if yi strich 9 s |i 308 Market Street KM Food Will Win the War—Don't Waste It K|jlj Authentically Styled Easter ||| J We arc proud to be able to announce that we can now place before our patrons UiyM the final decrees of the Style Mode for Spring and Summer. To be able to do this KjM I under the present abnormal merchandising conditions, such as shortage of cloth I and the dozen other conditions with which the purchasing public is familiar can , rightly be considered a notable achievement which very few merchants have been I Our new Spring Suits and Coats for Women and Misses with their definite RUSSIAN LAUDS STATfe HIGHWAYS Observer Praises Manner in Which Pennsylvania Sticks to Its System E. S. Zalk, chief of highways de-1 I partment of the Russian Mission of; Ways of Communication, which is in j I the United States for the purpose of j I collecting information and data as! |to American methods in building i and operatin gratlways, highways! and operating railways, highways, | ter to.the Pennsylvania State High-! way Department, which states in p&rt: "We beg to acknowledge receipt !of your valued communication of j March 0 and also of the literature you have been so kind to send us. iWe must frankly say that wo never received such complete literature about the organization and work of i a state highway department as that I furnished by you and we are very I much obliged to you for your kind i ness in undergoing the trouble of j giving us such complete informa j tion about the manner in which the I State Highway Department of Penn | sylvania is conducting its very im portant work. We really feel that tho information furnished by you will enable us to get absolutely com plete knowledge ot' highway con struction in Pennsylvania." G. Eomonossoff, president of the Russian Mission of Ways of Commu nication, who recently requested data from the State Highway Department, stated that "one of the most import ant problems of Russia is the de velopment of its highways system, a task which will be really tremen dous, and which only a thoroughly worked out. scheme and the employ ment of the very latest and best methods of construction and man agement will be able to master effi ciently." President Lomonossoff said also that he had been sent over with his engineers to study American high-j ways conditions and to collect ull | sorts of Information about road con struction and maintenance and also about questions of transportation' over highways, so as to facilitate the working out of the aboVo scheme and the construction investigate reports of the arming o£ prisoners of war. There have been persistent reports from Harbin, Peking and Tokyo re cently that Austro-German prisoners ir. Siberia had been armed and were assisting the Bolsheviki in putting down opposition. Armed German prisoners were said to havo assisted rhe Bolsheviki in their campaign against General Semenoff, the Cos sack leader, near the Manchurian border.