2 OCH BUILDING REAT RESERVE I ARMY FOR CRISIS Counterattack May Be Long Delayed Because of Waiting Policy Washington. April 20.—The policy! fcf Foch to-day seems to be like the polity of General Thomas at Nash- j ville in the Civil War. He is waiUng' before striking: back until he cans build up an army with which to| etrike a winning blow. To the great! reserve he is accumulating will go' lh>> men drawn from Italy, the men j who are being shipped from this rountry, about twice as fast as they Her were shipped before, and the men rushed from "England from the forces in training there, whose places will be taken by the men whom the cxt.nsion. of the draft in Kngland. just about to become a law. makes available. May Be Delayed The blow which Foch will strike, muv be long delayed. It will be re-j called that Petain did not strike back st Verdun until the German offensive j had lasted months. When he diil strike back he recovered in a fe' days all the ground that the Ger mans had taken months to capture. | The present German positions in Pi-i cardy and Flanders are of that sort. They may be retaken quickly once. Foch has his army ready. Information has just come here which explains the situation with re ,{u*rd to Flanders. The delay of. French reinforcements in reaching| the northernfront and some unfor- J tunate remarks of General Maurice.. who talks to the press for the Brit ish army in London, have led to i doubts about the allied reserves. Matt Power Problem The French were slow in com::i np because the main allied railroad lack of the front is under lire from; German shells south of Amiens. The French had to be brought tip by some other route further from the front, and this route appears to have been inadequate for the rapid move ment of reserves. The Germans, in . effect, cut the British off from the French by their southern drive. Their northern effort was probably dictated | by the knowledge that French aid [would be slow in reaching the Brit-; Lih in Flanders, and. perhars could not be sent there in large numbers without laying the southern battle j area open to a sudden attack, f On "the question of man power.; now uppermos' .military men here> have attempted to analyze recent! [statements about the armies of Great [Britain. This goes to show '.hat the; I empire has 6.000.000 men in her! forces. Of these it is estimated that 2.000.000 would be in England in training and acting as a reservoir to ! make up for wastage at the front. Shipping considerations compel .he Ijeeping of this reservoir at home rather than in France. Of the other 4 000.000 probably at least 1.000.00 nre nontighting men. engineers, mechanicians, etc. Need Many Worker* In our forces thus far sent over rlie < percentage of nonughting men runs n* bigh as 48. Of the remaining fW'O.OOQ British probably at least 1.- f 00.000 are in garrison, or in Salon ica or lighting against the Turk in the Orient. So that it is doubtful if England has 2.000.000 in fighting units in France, and of these a con siderable portion must be kept in re-' serve. The figures illustrate how large, an army we must maintain if we sre, to have 2.000.000 fighting men in' France. Congress is now awaiting the figures from the War Depart ment indicating how many it is pro posed to call this year. General; Wood said we should have 2.*00,000 ' men in France and an equal mm-, her here, an army of 5.000.000 in all. and Washington is slowly coming to that view. But even an army of 5.000.000 would give us less iha.~, 2.000.000 fighting men in France, for in an army of that size there would be more than 500.000 nonfightin? men. Germans Seek to Ban Study of Mother Tongue Allraionn. Pa. April 20. Tha* German-speaking may be eliminated in the Pennsylvania German belt, the homeland of the German tongue in America, is indicated by an extraordi- • nary move made by Dr. J. P. Erdman president of the Allentown school ! board. Dr. Erdman called the Board . of Education into special session and presented a resolution providing that 1 the "school program be divested of l German studies.'' Xot long ago it was discovered by • students that in a German textbook I in the high school was an elegant ; portrait and a glowing biographical ' sketch of the Kaiser, which was not in the sample book from which the purchase was made by the school j board. The students held an indigna- J tion meeting and tore out the offend- I ing pages, burning them. The action of Dr. Erdman came simultaneously with a movement atj Muhlenberg College yesterday to make German elective. The move is sentimental rather than ■ n aterial. as not a single Pennsylva nia German is known Who is traitor- I ous. seditious or lukewarm. The Penn sylvania Germans are the descendants • mostly of Bavarians, who emigrat ed to America about 1730 for religious freedom, and if their ansectors had • not come to this country the men now 1 known as "Pennsylvania Dutchmen" i would be soldiers in the Bavarian Army. A sa mass they followed Jef- ; fre son and Jackson and are great be lievers in religious and political inde pendence and personal liberty. Thev furnished any number of soldiers in i the Revolution and every other war ! the country has engaged in. including ' the famous First Defenders in the i Civil War. i II Bring Your Films to | || Your Druggist jt Bring them in to-day, get <| [ them to-morrow evening j! f after supper when you !! ! have the whole evening to ! | | | look thtm over. Then too, j [ \ ; it's so handy just out to |! ! the corner. Don't hesitate !; ; if your druggist has RUPP j; ; ; do your developing and JI I printing because there's no ! j guesswork about our meth- < | ; ods and carelessness is not 11 L permitted in our work- !! ' ! rooms ' !' < | R. W. Rupp |i i; 1911 Chestnut St. * RESERVES TOLD TO GET ON JOB Too Many Disloyal Remarks Are Passing Unchallenged; Will Work Out Plan Men who attended the meeting at the courthouse las* aight arranged by the officers of the Harrisburg Re serves to discuss ways and means of rooting out disloyal or pro-German sentiments from the community. weiA jolted by some of the questions asked by speakers. Members of the Reserves, for instance, were asked why men who had enrolled as mem bers and attended a few drills had failed in their duty and why they were indifferent to conditions: why people were allowed to utter disloyal remarks without being called to ac count: why persons -who showed gratification at German gains were not boycotted and why the patriotic citizenship of Harrisburg did not un dertake educational work to help the food and fuel administrations. But ope of the most of all was why recruiting officers are allowed to speak in the High schools of many places, but have not yet spoken in Harrisburg High schools? The meeting was called for the purpose of enlarging the scope of the Reserves. formed primarily for home defense, and after a series of addresses it was decided that a com mittee pf seven should bp named to devise a plan to form committees of men interested in stamping out dis loyalty: aiding the governmental of ficers and preserving law and order, either at large or by wards. To Investigate These committees are to investi-, gate all charges made and -to co operate with authoriUes, at the same time helping to build up the Re- 1 serves. In the course of the discus- i sion members of the Reserves who; went to the "movies" or attended to ' other matters not connected with the] Liberty Loan or other patriotic I movements instead of realizing their j duty to the community and attend ing meetings or drills were scalded 1 by remarks. The committee will be; named by Henry M. Stine. the major; commandant, and will be asked to! meet immediately and report a plan, i Major Stine opened the meeting with a few comments upon men who insisted upon remaining upon rolls of the Reserves and falling down on drills when not engaged on loan committees or other patriotic work. Robert McCormick was chosen chair man and Jesse E. B. Cunningham, the first speaker, launched his ad-i dress by saying this was no time tor' words, but to prepare to meet anyj emergency which might arise as a result of the war and to curb the [ seditious and disloyal. Mr. Cunning ham. who has been making nightly Liberty Loan speeches, declared that he was surprised at the indifference of the people, especially in the coun try. Peace is out of the question until j after Germany is beaten and people' have got to quit going about their ways as though there were no war "We have oeen too liberal, too toler ant with a lot of people who ought to have been strung up to lampposts in this country early in the war." said the speaker. "We need to look after ourselves: we need more than mili tary drills, which we need bad enough. Xo one can foresee what emergency may arise." Industrial Slackers Mr. Cunningham said that there were industrial slackers who did harm because they only work four days a week when their duty is to work six: that there are wasters, in tentional and unintentional, of food and fuel who should likewise be call ed to account: that there are too many unoalled-down disloyal words, and it is high time some one takes the seditious to account and that there are people sending money abroad to get a higher rate of ex change when .they should be buying Liberty Bonds. "There is no ntiddle of the road left," said the speaker. "People are on one side or the other now. Our course is plain." Mr. Cunningham de clared that the war is wiping out political and religious lines and that the country is behind the President to win the war because if America does not there won't be ar.v liberty. Large Scope I'rged E. J. Stackpole declared men were getting tired of hearing disloyal re marks passing unchallenged and said that the Reserves offered the nucleus for an organization which could be military and also keep a grasp upon the bers could investigate reports and the older men could counsel. Com plaints and reports can be investi gated in a spirit of fairness, the law upheld and the mob spirit checked if it ever showed itself in a blind, tin reasoning. unjust way. He suggested a committee for each ward, saying that the community would supporj it. Charles H. Spotts urged the im portance of education and suggested the use of schoolhouses and halls for community meetings to explain what must be done and how to do it, es pecially in regard to food and fuel. Captain E. Laubenstein in the course of his own remarks made the meeting sit up when he said: "Why is it that recruiting officers can go all over the Cumberland Valley and through this part of the state and speak in schools and they are never heard in the Harrisburg High schools? Is our school board weak kneed? Why is it? Why are they not invited to address the students?'' A. Reeder Ferriday offered sug gestions as to the forming of a platoon of Reserves in each ward and after a general discussion a mo tion made by A. Boyd Hamilton for a_committee of seven to arrange a plan to meet the needs of the hour, was adopted. Mr. Cunningham was given a rising vote of thanks for his speech on motion of Walter John | ston. School officials said to-day that the big service flags in front of the Centra! and Technical High School buildings was proof positive that the school managements are mot averse to enlistments and that the students are doing their full part in the war. Pr. Fager, principal of the Technical school, could not be reached for an interview, but it is believed the statements before the Reserves last evening were the out come of an ili-advised effort not au thorized by Washington to conduct a special aviation enlistment cam paign among the 16 and 17-year-old boys of the local schools. Those in charge then felt that it would be wrong to make this canvass before boys who could not enlist without their parents' consent and while several addresses were permitted it was thought only proper to let the actual work of recruiting be done through the homes of the lads, wheer the parents of the boys could be consulted. The local schools are co-operating heartily in all manner of war work and Dr. Fager is head of the Boys' Reserve movement hrre. WITNESS TELLS COURT HE WAS SPIRITED AWAY [('onllnuod from First Page.] shtenographer to transcribe the tes timony given by Burnish, intimating further action would be taken on the "criminal interference with court procedure in Dauphin county." Bur nish was one of three witnesses sub i poenaed but who did not appear yes ■ terday. Attachments were issued for j them by the court, Clarence S. llain ' and George W. Meiran being brought ito Harrisburg by the Sheriff. Bur- Inish came to his home in Reading from Philadelphia last night, he said, [and learned then that he was wanted lin court here. He came to the city 1 this morning to report. Olk*r Wltaeaoca Approached i Burnish also testified that while he i was in Philadelphia Shick called up | M. J. Gibney, a factory inspector at Heading, to get more information about what was taking place in Har risburg. Gibney is said to have told Shick attachments were out for some of the witnesses not present yester day. Other witnesses on the stand this morning told the court Gibney had asked them not to appear here in answer to the subpoena and that nothing would come of the contest. Burnish's testimony was the most I startling of any given in the fight to j have James Woodward, of Ashland. | not certified as a Republican candi ; date for Secretary of Internal Affairs. tiave HuralKh Kallroad Fare j He told the court Shick came to ] him Thursday and gave hltn $3, tell ing him to purchuse two tickets for Philadelphia and to meet Shick on the train, as it would not be wise for both of them to be seen together. Burnish also explained Shick told him the purpose of the trip and kept him in Philadelphia all of yester day. , Clarence S. llain and George W. i Meiran, who were brought here also . by attachment proceedings, said they 1 did not sign the Berks petition. Bur ' nish said he did. and that he had | been paid to get ten more signers, j making an affidavit to that effect I before the signatures were secured. I William Texter, Charles C. Miller, ! Alderman Harry I. Focht. of the ] Sixth ward, Reading, and William S. [ Hoffman all said their names had i been forged on the Berks petition. | some of them also stating Gibney had • told them not to obey the subpoenas. J. E. B. Cunningham argued the i plaintiff's side to the court, closing .shortly after noon, after which M. A. Kilker argued for the defense, asking permission to amend the Lu zerne and Philadelphia county peti tions. The objections to the petition of Morris Einstein, candidate for the Democrat! cnomination from the For tv-second Senatorial district. Pitts ! burgh, were heard this morning be fore the Woodward case was re i opened. It is alleged the affiant to j the Einstein petition did not see the majority of signatures attached by the electors whose names appear. Ob jections to the petition of Frank X. Brady. Tenth Legislative district. Philadelphia, were heard this after i noon. O'Nell Worker I Shick is a prominent Republican j in Reading and has been identified ! with the O'Xeil campaign work in , Berks county, according to word com ' ing here, lie has been in Harrisburg frequently and is well known on ! Capitol Hill. Gibney is also well known at the Capitol, as he has been i a state factory inspector for some I time. . , It is probable that some official I cognizance may be taken of the ac tion of Gibney during the time he 1 was supposed to be working as a ' state factory inspector. CITY ASHES MAY BE USED AS FERTILIZER [Continued from First Page.] the second week in April the firm which is making ash collections in the city assured Inspector Sheesley to-day that the entire cleanup will be completed on schedule time. May 1. after which regular collec tions will be made ever)' two weeks according to a schedule to be issued to householders on cards which will be printed by the bureau. Fewer Complaints Inspector Sheesley said to-day the uptown forces are working in the vicinity of Reily street and Cowden street, while the gangs on Allison Hill are in the district from State to Berryhill and Thirteenth to Fif teenth streets. On Monday an ex tra force will be put on. starting at Walnut street and working to the southern city line, and more men will be added to the Hill teams. Fewer complaints are being re ceived daily. Mr. Sheesley reported, but there are scores of inquiries from persons asking when the teams will be in the various districts. Mr. Sheesley said this was due to the lack of regular schedules and would be remedied after May 1. The garbage collection situation is in still better shape, the inspector said. Hagv Brothers, contractors for this work, are giving the best of service, he continued, with the result that very few complaints are received each week, and these are •reported at once and the garbage removed. The complete schedule for both ash and garbage collections to be followed during the remainder of the year will be issued within a week or "two. v lnspector Sheesley has written to"" a number of cities for ordinances and regulations in force there, from which ideas will be taken for the Harrisbnrg rules. While Council has established a number of new regulations, it is not likely the complete ordinance will be printed, but a digest of the restrictions will be furnished on the card to house holders. The rules will notify the residents what may and may not be included in ash and garbage receptacles, and will also give the telephone number of the Rureau of Ash and Garbage Inspection, which is 4854. Hell. Be Sure To Order From Your Dealer Schmidt's Victory Bread The Bread That's Patriotic All the Way Through C—L * Ji. and Down to the Last Crumb. 15c a Loaf DCrilftrfl FLYING WITH SHAFFER fl: I ! PLEASANT, IF PAINFUL t' t,KTTERS FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO IHS MOTHER ——————————— ______ Somewhere in France i Feb, 23, 1918 | Giving Vp Hope. Dear Mother: 1 was just beginning to give up' hope of ever receiving anymore let-t tors when one finally arrived, also several cards to congratulate me on my ripening years. Thanks for tel ling me how old I ani, you know. 1 stopped counting long ago. To-day I had the old adage proved | that "Satan finds work for idle 1 hands to do," only this wasn't what I would call work, it was too pleas ant, even if painful. Now. you see.' there are four Americans in this es cudrllle and one of theni being of fered first lieutenancy in the Ameri-; can army, accepted it, and also a; prolonged permission to celebrate it. t Incidentally an enormous number of packages a rived for him. one resting in our room for some time.. So to-day after dinner we three Am-' ericans having finished all our eat able packages long ago became sud- i denlv hungry for candy, and natur- j ally we soon began to wonder if that' lone package contained any. Well you can imagine how our curiosity soon overcome our scruples. One unwrapped the string, another the paper and then we all ate the enor mous box of candy, and now I have the head and belly ache: which ad-; mission. I know will please your sense of humor and gives you a lot of pleasure in saying: "Served you j right for stealing." Xot Stealing. But it wasn't stealing you know. We were merely preventing the candy from getting stale, for you' know in those hard times it is a: virtue to prevent waste. We had quite a lively time endeavoring o find which one would take all the blame. Xobody wanted it, at least: not all, so we finally unanimously! decided to blame it on the censor. | So when our American comrade! wants to know where his candy went' we can suggest quite indignantly 1 that it was censored. As for our "Zangs" they are liear-j ly all armed now. and we should j soon a-hunting go. "Mine will be the last done, of course, but the mount-1 ing of the camera is coming along rapidly now and I am hoping forj plenty of exciting things to happen once 1 get awing. It makes me; chuckle to think of using my ma-j chine gun to make Fritz sit up and, take notice and then shoot him with j the camera. We still have the wail! of the bass fiddle and tlute nextj door, but fortunately the "fluter" de parted this morning to "checker"! another Zang. He has tried twice now to fly over; the 200-mile cross-country journey' betwee"n the factory and the camp. I but both times failed. No Hard l.uck I don't wish him any hard luok, but t hope he goe* "en panne" again, tor have yet to discover any melody in a flute. The place where we get these new machines is situated near Paris, as I told you before, but 1 don't think I dare name the town. Anyway, every plane there is brand new. even to having price taps on. (I believe mine is still on. and I tiew it home that way) and since thy pull all the Zangs out of the hang ars every morning and line them up outside, it means considerable work for the mechanics. So to save the men they had horses to do this work. It was indeed a strange sight to see one horse pulling an enormous 200- horsepower artiflcipl bird around, but the sight changed to an amusing one when a horse ran away with a Zang one day. One could't help laughing. Everybody did. For it' was most comical to see the expres sion on that horse's face when the; enormous bird gaining momentum from said horse's frantic efforts.; caught up to him and gave him a boost with the propeller. Now. most people and animals appreciate a, boost, but not this kind, for it only; served to make the horse mor" eager to get further away from *.hisi bird which insisted cn following him. The mechanics finally caught him. j and that made us laugh some more., for they seemed to be as much afrai'l of the horse as said animal was of the Zang. I never did credit in jny letters to that cross-country trip 11 made when I came home, but then I i was so busy looking for landing places and wondering when my mo tor would go on strike, that I did not enjoy as much of the beauty asj I would have liked to. You remember I told you I had no map. so had to eommit to memory j as much as possible of the coun'ry. before I went aJoft. There wasn't' a whole lot of that information that j stuck, except that there was a rail-j road which led to "Meaux" and 'romi there we flew between the Seine< river and a road. It seemed very! simple from the ground, but when I 1 looked down from 1,000 meters there! were railroads all over the place ■ and I was all balled up. Fortunately, I was following a pi-: lot who had a map so I soon found myself and the direction. And as I ■ told vou. having a bad acting motor 1 was looking for landing places all J along the line. So I had a good look at the country anyway, when I j couldn't And a lot of open fields in fcn> open bunch. I looked around for a chateau within gliding range, and! even with all this watchful prepara tion I wondered as I looked 2.000 me-! ters below whether those brown ; strips were plowed fields and whether the very green ones were filled- with high grass. And then we came to a bunch of swamps and I knew we were getting near "home," and I be-1 gan looking the ground over even, more carefully, for landing in a; swamp is dangerous in more ways, than one. for If you happen to upset: you may be drowned in six inches of water or mud, neither of which appealed to me. Swampy ground is very deceptive to the eye from above. also, as it seems the smoothest of landing places, but when one gets down close his wheels sink in and j over he goes on his back, too late to; see his mistake. I can distinctly remember three accidents of this! kind at Pau, where the pilot came! down in a swamp, promptly turned at sumersault and had to wade ashore.) < TheSe were humorous because thoy, 1 were not tragic, for when one don't have to pay for the busted Zang he can afford to laugh if he only pets a ducking:. So you can belteve 1 was carefully getting the lay of the land and when my motor did finally stop ' when I was nearly at camp you can imagine 1 was one surprised man, j for t was so close 1 had stopped i looking for landing places. A Fortunate landing Fortunately, there were all kinds; of fields under me, so 1 came downj all right. It is utterly impossible to! describe how beautiful the earth' looks front above. I have tried very hard sometimes, but I know 1 have always failed. One can't draw a pen picture of the wonderful coloring of the ground beneath, the blue tracery of the rivers, or the little fatry-ap penring bunches of houses which de note towns. These things must be seen to be appreciated, and nothing' would please me better than to show; these beauties to you some day. I am quit* sure you would like the sensation of flying. As for Dad, from ' the reports I am getting on his ac tivities he's petting to be quite a bug, 1 and taking him up w'ould be the be-1 ginning of the end for he would sure- ] ly want to fly himself, and then 1| know you'd <lie of heart failure. i As for writing about things around j here now. it's no use. as nothing hap- j pens—but rain, for we are still wait-} ing to get our machine guns mount- I ed. After that, things should begin l to happen and you can look for morel interesting .letters. WALTER, j Somewhere in France, ; March 3, 19lg. i Dear Mother: Spring has not arrived officially as' yet. but its been here literally for some time. Just now It's raining and: making slush of the snow which fell yesterday. Having such weather, | naturally we did not fly, and for that! matter 1 am not ready as yet. How-; ever, we are slowly acquiring all thej delights of civilization, that with' eating fruit cake with honey and! having our afternoon tea cr choco-l late quite regularly, thanks to thei soldiers' many friends in the states. One of the Americans here was sim ply swamped with packages, so not! wishing to see him suffer we very, kindly ottered our appetites to his I disposal. That was a week ago and I the disposing is still going merrily) on. Maybe you, won't believe it, butj yesterday we attended moving pic-1 tures right here in cam p. They werej very interesting, showing photos taken from airplanes and what use was made of them. The sad part of, it was I did not understand any oft it. for the lecture accompanying it! was all in French and spoken very: quickly, but my roommate explained! the important points to me. It's quit?; easy to account for my interest, as you know I am going to do that type of work as soon as they get my cam era mounted. Judging from their present rate ofi speed that won't be until next Chris'.-, mas. Golly. but these Frenchmen] can kill more time than I used to; when 1 was young and had to cut' wood. Since we have nothing to do now but loaf and cat we naturally! are getting mighty choic.v about thej grub. It's hot quantity we want now, t ! it's quality. And I defy anyone toi . find quality in carrots and cabbage. which seems to be the chief article' j of diet nowadays. Carrot*, you know. I are such a disappointing food, for! . they resemble sweet potatoes so 1 much, and you know how 1 like them : —sweet potatoes, I mean, not car rots. I say they look like sweet po- j tatoes. but that's as far as the re- semblance goes for they give the palate an awful shock. Did I ever tell you about the bread? It don't come on. the table all nicely sliced and stacked. Oh, dear me! Eveiy j fellow pulls out his pocket knife uml cuts off his own hunk, and inciden tally a mathematician would have! some job figuring out the contests of some of those chunks. For while one bird cuts oft a square, another will cut off an obtuse angle, or a lop- j 4!ded cube. I'm preparing you for what may happen some day, so if you see me absent mindedly pulling out my pocket knife at the table, don't think a murder is contemplat ed. I might ruin the bread but noth ing else. ■ Yankee Ingenuity Received your birthday card with the imprinted kiss and it made me pause and wonder at the ingenuity of the Yankee. What won't they j think of next?- And now since a pro cess has been patented for sending, kisses. I wonder how many girls will ' i Dauphin Deposit Trust Company | at the close of business April 15, 1918 | s f •" Required by the Commissioner of Banking ''KBBfM, Due from Banks 615*836.33 Surplus '! $ 30oSo!oO % t : Mr ' ! Investments 3,392,139.55 Undivided Profits 39,218.30 ♦ j My TRUST FUNDS, $659,338.74 s4 ' 7 °'" 9 ' Bs J I | I 1832-1918 MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM * £ send the Bertillon measurements of a pair of tulips? Now that he has the foundation, however. I would re spectfully suggest to the inventor that he Improve his patent and send the thrill also. But now lam getting naughty, so 1 better change the sub-' ject, else you will urge nve to readl an extra psalm. Speaking about Ribles, 1 received another one yester-1 day from some admiring friend in ; Middletown. It came packed in a wooden box along with a variety of other things that would have done j credit to a wedding present—the useful kind, I mean. For there was everything there from a rattrap to a clothespin. 1 haven't decided >et how to use the rattrap, as no rats have appeared to date in our new barracks, but if it was only a little smaller 1 might use it to catch tho.-e other nnimhls that insist on sleeping with us at times. Even they haven't bothered me yet. The American that received all ( those eatable packages I told you about, also received a small phono-; graph which plays those little "Won der Records," so now the strains of' "Oh. Johnny. Oh Johnny. Oh." and j "Eve Wasn't Modest Till She Atej That Apple" float through the room , quite often. Indeed, we sure are some musical escadrille, what with! a flute, bass fiddle, sweet potato, j mandolin, phonograph und mouth organ. Don't you think so? Rut of j •course you never heard the whole, orchestra, fortunately. so you i couldn't say yes even if you wanted' to. I fear I made a mistake by call-1 ing it a "musical escadrille." It should have read "musically inclin-l ed." There is a difference, you know, j One has instruments and makes mu sic, while the other has hopes and makes noise. Maybe I will get used! te noise some day, if I once get into j the air—and war—again, but if these | letters don't come up to par blame [ it on the sweet potato, the flute or-; the fiddle. They speak of an enormous Amer-! ican Army being here now. but I j have yet to see any of the privates.! Officers? Oh. sure! Plenty of them, and I am beginning to think all thei Americans are officers. And th"n> 1 am just inconsistent enough to want I to be an officer myself, having ;'ust turned down a second lieutenancy. i (■one and Forgotten T haven't tasted cereals since 1 came to France, and as for pie. I have forgotten what it looks iike, all of which makes me all the sorer against tlie Roche. I don't think my hands have ever been colder than to-day. and I won der if some pretty female would warm them for me. Just now we are having our regu lar afternoon feed with Putman as cook. He is some cook, and with| sweet chocolate, cheese, marshmal lows. condensed milk, fruit cake and honey, he sure makes us some feed —don't you pit ythc suffering sol diers in France? However, the days of plenty are nearly over, for tho good things come in bunches and are nearly used up. If some of my boxes would only come through, especially: that camera, for 1 could get some pictures that sure would please you. Tea is served so I'll have to stop. WALTER. Two Fires Cause Damage of S6OO in Early Morning Property damage to the extent of about S6OO damage was caused by two fires early this morning. The two-story grame house at 112 Ann alley was damaged by flames . which partially destroyed the second floor in the rear. The wall and roof were damaged. The damage was j confined to house, as the furni ' ture was saved. The flames started at an overheated pipe leading from the kitchen stove. The house is oc cupied by the family of E. May. Tlie other lire started at 12.30 on the Fourth street side of the third lloor of the Alva Hotel, Fourth street and Blackberry alley. The roomers left the hotel without accident. They were aroused by the cries of a wait ress. A partition of the closet, the ceiling and part of the floor were burned. Pillow Band Buys Bond at Rally in Upper End Kimmcll. April 20.—This little place held a rousing Liberty Loan rally last* evening when nineteen of i those present signed up for more Liberty Bonds and the Pillow band, which gave its services free for the occasion, announced it would put S3O of its funds into a bond to j be held in the name of the band. Phil S. Moyer, County Solicitor, and James E. I.entz. County Re corder. were the speakers, and Cal | vin Grimm, head of the public schools, presided. The rally was held i in the Lutheran Church and was well I attended. 4 MURDER CASES , FOR COURT TRIAL Thirty-nine Prosecutions Are i Listed For Special Crim inal Session i i Th'irty-nine cases have been Includ- ; ed in the trial list for the special ' j session qf criminal court beginning April 29. Tlie list was issued by Dis- ; 1 trict Attorney Michael K. Stroup, to day. Four colored defendants, clung- j ed with murder, are listed for trial j and it is believed that at least two of the eases will be disposed of, proli- | ably those of Charles Kyler and Wll- i 1 ini>i Evans, on Monday's list. The court yesterday appointed counsel for 1 Evans, naming Thomas C. McCarreii i and William 11. Karnest to defend his| case; and for Andrew Cary, also col- ored. appointing Horace A. Segelbaum ; ; and William F. Houoinan. A number lof minor cases on the list will lie ; tried aljo. Tlie petit Jurors from lite March session or criminal court will serve at the special session. The trial list follows: i Monday, April "!>.—Charles Kyler. I murder: William Evans, murder; ' i Howard C. Gordon, ad. and b.: John j Slaughter, lar. from per.: Joseph Hed, ct. al.. fel. entry and la'r.: Mary Chigo, ; • nial. mis.; Isaiah Washington, liurg. I and fel. a. 1 Tuesday, April :>o.—Robert Wilson, i lar.: William P. Strawheeker. a. and , b.; Charles Brunei', lar. as b.: Charles! i Bruner, fal. pre.; Israel J. Brenner. | two charges, fal. pre.: Leon I'. Ben i nett, a. and b.; Nick PaehefT, furn. ; obs. lit. to min.: Howard Hilton, lar.: , ! Charles Umholtz, ad.; Conrad C. Crone, I i agg. a. and b.; Mead Geiger, et. al., ! fel. e. and lar. Wednesday, May I.—Jack Kills, I murder; Andrew Cary, alias Andrew i I Carey, murder: Frederick Brown, lar. I from per.: Edward Ewenson, lar. us I cl.: William Chromer. sale of eggs I I unfit for food: John Miller, for.; Mar-] i gaiet MertJi, ad. | Thursday. May 2. Max Reiter. et. | I al.. false adv.: Anna Hand. et. al., b, li., j I John Trulas. agg. a. and b.; Joseph: | Verbos. et. al., sell. liq. without, lie.; I j Katie Stauffer, fel. en. nnd lar.; Vin- ' j cent T. Poticher, as. and b. ! Friday. May :s.—Sarah Heller, fel. en. and lar.: Sarah Heller, lar. as b.: ICdward Adams, lar.: 11. Rubin, rec. I : s. g.: Morris List, rec. s. g. Saturday. May 4.—A. 1.. Shearer, et. a 1., abortion. Middletown Soldier Dies at Camp Merritt, N. J., on ; His Way to Join Pershing Edward Stipe, aged 24, son of Mr. , and Mrs. McClellen Stipe, of North; j Catherine street, Middletown. died j at a base hospital at Camp Merritt, \ ! New Jersey, yesterday morning at 11 j i o'clock, from acute loher pneumonia, j Young Stipe was a member of the ! Thirty-fifth Engineer Corps of thei United States Army, and was just! ' recently transferred to Camp Mer- , | ritt from Camp Gordon. Georgia, ; I where he was awaiting orders to sail , for France. • His parents received a telegram ! on Thursday morning stating that ; I their son was seriously ill, and they j left immediately for the catnp lios- I pital. They arrived at Camp Mer- ' ' ritt on Thursday evening at 9 o'clock | and remained with their son until he ' j died. j I • ) Stipe was home recently on a i ■ I short furlough and was in good: j health. On his return to camp, be- j ;iing late, he said in a recent letter' ; j to his parents, that his Company I II had sailed for France nnd that it j ; might be some time before he would j ; leave. He also stated that on his at - - ! . rival on French soil he would be ' I transferred to his original- company, j ! Stipe was one of the first men from j . Middletown that were selected for ' | the new National Army. ii He is survived by his narents, two i [] sisters. Mrs. Robert Beshears, of j t Highsnire, and Mrs. Donald John-I jison, Middletown. No funeral ar-I ! rangements have been made. S SHOPETALK NO. 1 | COSTS REGULATE PRICES \ | The selling price is governed by the costs of pro j duction.. j . My establishment is conducted along modest lines, in a convenient location just outside the high-rent district. All our costs are cut to a minimum. We buy our I > ! materials from a large house, thus giving our custom- ■ ers first-class goods for the lowest possible cost. R. M. SHOPE, Tailor I , 1250 Market Street | Ground Is Broken For Biggest Powder Plant Wnxliiitittun, April 20.—Ground lias born broken for the largest powder plunt in tho world for the United States Government. AVlthln two month* tho dully out put will bo from !>l)0,000 pounds to 1,000,000 pounds of smokeless pow der, and the plant, which is being constructed In nine sections, will- be three and one-lmlf miles long anil one and one-half miles wide. It will cover live and a quarter square miles and will have a work ins force of more than 25.000 men. Each of the nine sections Is capable of turning out in excess of 100,000 pounds of smokeless powder every twenty-four hours. The plant Will cost the Government $75,000,000, and the builders, when their task is completed, will have re ceived a protit of exactly sl._ Do TOU see this beautiful circa? Well, fa we have a great maay more like it. bj You on't Need The Cash | These dresses range in prices from H sl4 96 up to $33.50. We hare just I your style, the material you like at a ■ price that will fit your pocketboo|c. Every new style and color ia to be p found here. A little eacV week will R keep you dressed in the height ef fashion Rj 1P55563 36 N. 2nd. Sl., cor. Walnut j vjamMßMs KDOCATIONAJj School of Commerce j AKD fiarrisbnrg Business College j Troup llulldinu, 13 X. Market S. t Klell plume 485; Ulal -fiJU3 Bookkeeping, shorthand, Steno- j type, typewriting. Civil Service. 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