6 PROHIBITION IS GIVEN STUDY State Chamber of Commerce Puts Out Result of Survey Without Any Conclusions The Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce to-day made public a special report of the Legislative and Research Bureau dt the Chamber on the prohibition issue. The report does not take sides and the general tenor may be judged from the in troduction, which points out that "if the states to have sessions in lilß and 1919 vote as they did in Con gress on the Sheppard bill and all the states that did not vote for the amendment in both houses of Con gress are excluded, the amendment would not be ratified, as the total vote would be only thirty-one, "but that, "including those states which had a divided vote in the Senate and an affirmative vote In the House, the amendment will carry with three votes to spare." "The national prohibition decision as to the prohibition amendment can, of course, be made regardless of the vote of Pennsylvania, though there is email doubt but that the outcome in the Keystone State will be closely scanned." the report continues. "It is doubtful whether any public For Constipation! Physic Purge or L axati Everyone now and then becomes constipated, and millions are chronically in that condition. The perplexing question arises—what to use. Purgatives and cathartics are drastic and usually cause a reaction. Saline waters are rapid in action but do no more than empty the bowels. Jist as certain an effect; and certainly a much more - pleasant one; can be obtained by the use of a combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin sold by druggists under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It acts gently, without griping. It is an especially ideal medicine for children, women, old people and others who find purges too powerful. S Only a teaspoonful is required, and by morning the move ment is free and complete. A bottle in the house is insurance for the whole family against constipation, indigestion, head aches. flatulency and other digestive ills. The druggist will refund your money if it feils to do ma promised. S * Dr. Caldwell's YRUP DEPSIN coats due to the Wir r£" ?*, n J u, *n' ur "* Trie Perfect JL Laxative Dr. Caldwell • Syrup Pepsin are Menacing mmmm ——— their profits and abeorb- FREE SAMPLES Dr. CaldwaU'e Syrup ing the war taxes, so ffepein is the largest selling liquid laxative that this family lixtiive in America. If you have never used it. eeod may remain at the pre- your address for a free trial bottle to Dr. W. war price of 50c and $1 B. Caldwell. 468 Washington St.. Monticello. a lar.9Bl Special Sale of Women's & Misses' Spring & Summer Dresses I Taffetas, Serges, Silk Poplins, Crepe de Chines, Jerseys, Crepe de Meteors, Satins, Voiles, Ginghams Organdies, etc. —all colors —all styles—all sizes— Remarkable values. * - /OWli®. $8.85 Dresses ££ QQ $ 15.00 Dresses qo $8.85 Coats .". $5.98 $15.00 Coats . $9.98 $20.00 Coats ..$14.98 $6 00 Waists 98 $10.75 Coats $6.98 $16.50 Coats ..$10.98 $22.50 Xoats ..$16.98 Waists s4*9B $12.50 Coats ....-...57.98 SIB.OO Coats . .$12.98 $25.00 Coats . .$18.98 $8.85 Waists .... ! ! "$5.*98 FRIDAY EVENING, question so vitally affects ths wel fare of mankind as does the liquor question,'' says Alba B. Johnson, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, In a foreword to the pro hlbltlon report. According to Mr. Johnson, due consideration should be given by the voter to the following questions: "Will prohibition promote the cause of temperance, of security and obedi ence to law? "Is constitutional provision an In vasion of the reserved powers of the states, the maintenance of which, as part of our system of government, should be jealously guarded? "In seeking to effect a moral re form, Is there danger of committing an injustice by the destruction of the value of property long lawfully used for a purpose now to be declared un lawful? "Will the removal of the open and lawful sale of liquor under prohibi tion make it less likely" that the young will contract habits of intem perance? "As people cannot be made virtuous by statute, is there danger of men •nacting measures unsupported by a substantial majority which tend to make violations of law common, and to bring all law into disrepute? "Will prohibition prove advan tageous to the nation, the state, the community, the family and the indi vidual?" The report points out that 9.470 people are employed in the making of manufactured and distilled (before whisky was banned) liquor in Penn sylvania; that the capital invested In the trade is $59,861,000. and the year- ly valuation of the same $67,504,300. The subject of taxes and consump tion per Individual Is gone Into at some length. It being shown that the federal taxes from Pennsylvania amount to 11.671,716.3> and that the drink bill of the state Is 1200,000,000 a year. The report points out the wide differences of opinion apparent with respect to prohibition and concludes with this observation: "Certainly the provision in the second section of the Sheppard bill for concurrent power of enforcement and the legal definition oof the term 'intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes' in the first section of the Sheppard bill will call for somewhat prolonged atten tion should the amendment be rati fied." Misery In Austria; All Yearn For Peace „ Amsterdam, May 17.—The Tijd prints the following much-censored letter from its Vienna correspond ent: "The reason why all classes of the population have regretted Count Czernin's departure (from the For eign Office) is that in him they saw the herald of peace, and the people want peace above all. The misery is extreme. Hundreds of times daily one hears the lament: 'How long is this crazv destruction to last?" "Only the conviction that the Em peror honestly desires peace and has given evidence of this in recent in cidents keeps the people going." SHIMMEI.L CK\TER PROGRAM ATTRACTS BI<; CROWD To help cover the deficiency in the fund for the motion picture machine recently purchased by the Shimmell Community Center, the Reformed Salem Sunday school class of M. L. Foutz last evening gave an entertain ment, attended by approximately 500 persons. Three reels of high-class motion pictures were shown and the Reformed Salem Church quartet took care of the musical end of the pro gram. Mulligan and Ikey gave some sleight-of-hand performances. A short talk on War Savings Stamps was given by E. N. Hershey, president of the center. MORE THAN 9100 RECEIVED I'OH CAMP HUTU WORK More than SIOO was received last night at the summer camp festival for the benefit of Camp Boyd, Losh's Run, the event being held in the Boyd Me morial Building, of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. In addition to the cash contributions a number of articles which can be at the camp were received. Exhibitions of first aid work, knit ting. photography and a play. "Our Flag First," were included in the pro gram. Refreshments were served also. TO INSTITUTE TEMPLE Koraz Temple, No. 204. Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, a side order of the Knights of Pythias, the fifth temple to be located in Pennsyl vania, will be instituted May 29 at the Pythian Castle with Nelson R. Potts, imperial representative of the Kash mere Temple. Reading, as the presid ing officer. Plans to this effect have just been announced by Charles W. Erb, who is acting as chairman of the general committee on arrange ments. Installation plans provide for a short parade of Khorassan Knights as well as other Pythian members, with the Commonwealth Band in line and Harry A. Boyer as grand marshal. After the institution of the temple, a i war-time luncheon will be served. ' - -< V,- y HARRISBURG tdSSk TELEGRXPIi HISTORY'S HERO AND HIS GREAT DAY International Sunday School Lesson For May 19 Is "Jesus Exercising Kingly Authority" Mark 11:1-13. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Hundreds of thousands of persons < have seen the large picture, "The Conquerors," which was exhibited at the Chicago Fair, and has since been on exhibition in Philadelphia. No one who has ever looked upon It can ever forget it. The canvass portrays the world's great conquerors mardh ing. with banners and insignia, in a solid column that dwindles off into the indistinguishable distance. There we see Napoleon and Caesar and Alexander and Charlemagne and Cyrus and Xerxe3 and Ptolemny and the other men who beheld the world at their feet. Two facts about the great picture at once suggest themselves to the thoughtful observer. The first is that these conquerors come to glory by a pathway of death, destruction and desolation. The canvas is repellent to some sensitive natures because of the two long lines of stark, grim, gray corpses that flank the conquer ors on either side. What a price humanity had to pay that these men might wear the laurel! The other obvious remark Is that the greatest of the world's conquer ors is not represented. The victories of Alexander and Napoleon were in consequent and ephemeral beside the conquest of Jesus. The veriest tyro in historical study must peroeive that the outstanding hero of the past nineteen centuries is the gentle Nazarene, whose sway has increased and extended until to-day 600,000.000 of people who in turn rule the world bow the knee to Him. Truly, as cried Julian the apostate, "Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean!" And the conquests of Jesus have not been along a gloomy course of sorrow, suffering and death. Life and light have walked in His, footsteps. Civ ilization has been His handmaiden. Health, knowledge and happiness have followed In His train. His tri umphal procession down the ages has been accompanied by the hosannas of the myriads who have felt His help or witnessed His life-giving touch. Even the great war, when consid ered in its loftiest aspect, is but a phase of a triumphal progress of history's Hero. Does it not signify the ending of immemorial wrongs, the emancipation of whole peoples and the putting of life on a higher and more Christian plane? Our Sun day school lesson tits into the day a thinking most opportunely. The t.reatest Triumphal Entry This triumphal entry into Old Je rusalem on the first Palm Sunday suggests stirring thoughts. For it has prefigured Christ's triumphal en try into human hearts and into all the phases of life. Individual char acters ascribe all their goodness to the perfect One. learning lays its laurels at the feet of a humble Teacher who kept school at blue Galilee. Medicine esteems as its highest honor the fact that it walks in the footsteps of the great Phy sician. Art has reserved its ablest brushes for the delineation of the person of the Saviour. The lawyer harps back to the dicta of the Messiah for the noblest code that can govern the conduct of men in their relation one with another. Philos ophy confesses that the greatest of Philosophers was He whose teach ings were so new that they startled the philosophers who first heard them, and whose gentle speech ex pressed the highest wisdom. The religious impulses of mankind find in Him "the one altogether lovely." The continual coronation of Christ is the subiimcst spectacle of the cen turies. "Bring forth the royal diadem And crown Hini Lord of all." Of all this, how little conception had the multitude which eagerly car peted His path with their garments and with branches hastily stripped from the palm trees! And how lit tle the baffled Pharisees understood that their disappointed comment, "10, the world has gone after Him," was in truth a prophecy of that day, now arrived, when Jesus should be the center of the stage of the uni verse. m Men do not understand themselves and their own actions, much less their neighbor and his deeds. No body, save the lonely and sad-heart ed Man who rode at the center of this demonstration, received its sig nificance as a startling fulfilment of the inspired Scripture. Even His disciples needed the light that came by the Spirit's descent after the as cension of Jesus to enable them to Interpret it. To-morrow is always needed to illuminate to-day. We walk all unseeing through life, there fore, we should walk gently and humbly. Hate For Hero To-day It is the fashion to praise Jesus. Even the men who honor Him least in their conduct, and deny Him the allegiance of their lives, are quick to pay tribute to His charac ter and to His teachings. In this at mosphere of universal laudation of the Son of Mary it is not easy to realize the intense, bitter and un reasoning hatred with which Jesus was viewed by the Pharisees and priests. He was hated for himself, because He was a nonconformer and a newcomer with unconventional teachings. The old is the enemy of the new; "things as th?y are" are the worst foe of things as they should be. The ossified religiosity of the ruling class among the Jews could not understand or tolerate for an instant His fresh, vital spirit from the hills. The crowning act that evoked Pharisaical enmity was the raising of Lazarus from the dead. For this they hated both Laz arus and the Lord since it increased the latter's popularity. There is a direct connection between the tri umphal entry and the fact that the Bethany home had given of its hos pitality and friendship to Jesus. So popular had the Master become, for the moment, at least, that all the snarling dogs of envy and bigotry had to slink back, baffled. Into ob scurity. "Behold, how ye prevail nothing; 10, the world has gone aft er Him," they said among them selves. For in front of their eyes as t they gathered in sullen groups was this tremendous ovation, which meant that Jesus was the idol of the hour. He could even be crowned king should He so desire. The dan ger of popularity, in which flood many a promising hero has been en gulfed, beset Jesus in full tide. But He was not disturbed. There was not an extra beat to His pulse because of it and not the slightest flush of exaltation upon His cheek. "He knew what was in man," and He appraised the demonstration at its true value. He accepted exalta tion as He accepted humility, merv ly as a part of the work which the Father had given Him to do. To Him the triumphal entry must have been unspeakably sad, for He recog nized that the fitful multitude— many of these very same persons who were shouting themselves hoarse with "hosanna"—would within the weak be crying as lustily "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" The palm branches were but preliminary to the tree upon which He would shortly suffer. Ah, heavy was the cross that the gentle Jesus bore! A Conqueror'* Scourge Conquerors get their name from conquests, and conquests mean strife. Jesus was a warrior. There is ever need to recall the danger of over emphasizing His passive virtues. To stress His own low.liness and His identity with the plain people and his nonmilltary character, Jesus rode a humble donkey, instead of a fiery charger. Yet He came from one se ries of conflicts and was facing oth ers. Immediately after the Tri umphal Entry He was to cleanse the Temple. * The world has not many paintings or statues of Je:;us with a whip In His hand. We do not like the atti tude, yet it was, in a degree, char acteristic. He came to cleanse as well as to save. His love for a pure church is typified by His driving out the traffickers from the Temple. He cares for the purity of God's house and God's people almost as much as He cares for the salvation of a lost world. That is why He has in every age called some men to be reform ers, to call the church back to her first estate. Only a pure church can serve a sinful world. And Christ's conquest Is Incomplete so long as His own friends are living contrary to His plain teachings. 'MEANEST TimCF" STEALS EARNINGS OF NEWSBOY Santa Monica, Col.—The cham pion "meanest man" has been oper ating In this city. He has been sys tematically stealing pennies from George Herrod, a fourteen-year-old newsboy, who partially supports his widowed mother and a large brood of small brothers by his earnings. Sums ranging from 18 to 42 cents at one time have been abstracted from under the lad's pile of papers in front of the bank of Santa Mon ica. These sums are sometimes the fruit of an entire morning of hard work. The Santa Monica police are in vestigating the thefts, and several prominent men in the community have promised to see that the of fender is prosecuted to the full ex tent of the law, if caught. STEERS RUNAWAY TRUCK When the brakes belonging to a Highway Department truck became loosened while standing on the hill at Cameron and Mulberry streets, yes terday, the truck crashed backwards down the hill, narrowly averting a collision with an automobile coming down Cameron street. In which were four women and a man. The driver of the truck. Leonard Dickey, ran after the runaway truck and climbed aboard while it was backing down the hill. In order to avert a collision with the automobile, he upset the truck in the effort to turn around the bther machine. Dickey was not injured. The New Store WM. STROUSE BE SURE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE RED CROSS It's not the price alone that counts—it's the sure enough quality built into Wm. Strouse Clothes Twenty-five dollars is a popular You don't have to stop with a few price—many fellows pay that rn_ , . , , r I *, suits. I here are plenty of them price lor their clothes —but don t always, get the utmost in value for at price and they are all the amount expended. So when choice. We have seen to that end of you come to buy your the transaction. Some suit and try on a few of men like one style, some the nobby models we W another, but take the have to show you at this W whole line at this nrice - price just take time to W and you are going to inspect the fabric and Jggcome mighty near to tailoring and finish of getting the best suit the the clothes. It will be a treat to whole town can boast of. We have „ * . i had men come here and look over your clothes —sense to see with .. ... , „ . . . , our line at twenty-live dollars and your own eyes just how far we have 11 i • * ♦ J J J really stand in amazement at the gone in the development of clothes beauty of the clothes and the al value at this popular price. most limitless assortments. Naturally, Your Boy Wants Wm. Strouse Clothes You've got to give the boy credit for as much judgment as you have. He sees a few things as he goes around with his friends. He's up to the minute in style—knows the ropes —knows when his associates are well dressed. He sizes things up his own way—and naturally comes to the right conclusion: WM. STROUSE CLOTHES FOR HIMSELF. Always Something New in Boys' Suits Here ' $ 5 to s ls Peculiarity in Where? For Straw Hats Underwear no not in straw hats but in the —now that the hot weather is on heads that wear them. Some heads the main platform and you are take to sailors best some to soft roll fairly itching to get into summer styles. Some heads get it into underwear—make up your mind themselves that they never look to wear something that will give right in a straw hat. Peculiarity you service along with comfort and in heads —not in hats. Whole comfort along with service. Don't point is the fellows who think they merely buy some kind of light are hard to please are those who weight underwear. Buy the kind haven't worn Wm. Strouse Straws. that is best suited to your makeup Those who wear them are always and preference. You can get YOUR pleased. What's the answer? Tl\ere kind here. is a Wm. Strouse Straw here that Rockinchair will become you. T Sennits $2 to $3.50 B- y. a Underwear Italian Mllans $5 ...any of them will fill the bill Panamas $5 and $6.50 SI.OO to $4.50 The Man's Store of Harrisburg~3lo Market Street MAY 17, 1918.