8 Plan to Raise Taxes on Profiteering Landlords Washington, Aug. 17. Raising of tar valuations on the property of landlords guilty of charging extor tionate rents to war workers, it was announced yesterday, is one method by which the Bureau of Industrial Hous ing, through the co-operation of local city government, is undertaking to check rent profiteering. FARM WORK FOR SOIJDIERS Washington, Aug. 17, —The way has been opened for soldiers in camp to get away for emergency work on the farm. The War Department announced yesterday that enlisted men may ob tain furloughs to engage in agricul tural work by making application to their commanding officers or by hav ing relatives or other interested per sons apply through the local boards at which they registered. © The supply of Hupmo biles is very limited. Necessity for more steel by the government may j curtail this supply entirely for the duration of the war. It is advisable to order your Hup now. HUPMOBILE "The Comfort Car" Harrisburg Agency Co. R. J. CHURCH, Mgr. 103 MARKET ST. C. A. FAIR, Have Expert Repairmen For ALL KINDS OF AUTO WORK Making and Repairing Tops • Curtains and Lights . Auto and Carriage Painting Repairing Wrecked Bodies and Fenders Blacksmithing and Woodworking Commercial Bodies Made to Order We Can Save You Time and Money, See Us First Office and Works EAST END MULBERRY STREET BRIDGE WWWWVWiWVWWWWMWWVWWMWWVWWWMWWW Copyright registered, 1918 Don't Guess —Be Sure Guessing at battery conditions is like guessing whether there's oil in your crank case. If you guess wrong you may have to call for help and pay for repairs. And you can't always guess right. You ought to know that your battery is charged—■ that it has plenty of water —that you're not working it beyond its strength. There's no guessing around a Willard service station. We know. If your battery isn't up to the scratch we'll tell you why. If you want to know more about batteries ask us for the booklet, "A Mark with a Meaning for You." Front Market Motor Supply 109 Market Street SATURDAY EVENING. HOW STARTING BATTERYSTARTED Interesting Data Given on the Origin of the Storage Battery of the oldest forms of storage r ba'tteries," says Mr. Wildermuth, L president of the Front Market Motor Supply Company, "was composed of [ two sheets of lead with a strip of flannel between, all rolled up like I a jelly roll and stuck on end in a j bath of battery solution." "Battery builders of those early days did not have any lead oxide to i use in making the plates," said Mr. I Wildermuth, so what the early ex- I perimenters and builders did was to connect two plates in a direct cur rent circuit and let the battery I charge until it made one "of the | plates a positive and the other a I negative. j The first battery of this style was | used in a lecture given by a French j scientist, Plante, who created a | great sensation because he was able I to keep a little arc light going for j a few minutes with the current de veloped. It was a remarkable thing. | but as an automobile battery, such a device as this would not have been ! worth the trouble of attaching to the car. j One of the weak points about this early battery was the fact that it 1 had poor insulation. It was really I two long pieces of lead with one in sulator. and when this insulator j broke down, as it did in a very short j time, the battery would not oper ate. It was from this beginning that I the art of battery building grew to i its present state. From that single 'strip of flannel between <Jie two rolled-up plates, the wonderful [threaded rubber insulation that is so j widely used to-day has developed. ! There have been a great many steps j of improvement between the two ex tremities, but the whole history of | starting batteries, from the first j Plante hattery. insulated with flan j nel, to the latest one, insulated with threaded rubber, has covered a re markably short time. BERRY CROPS SAVED BY BOYS Teachers and Pupils Went to the Country and Camped Near the Farms New York,—Few who have enjoy ed their strawberries, currents and raspberries during the last three months realize to whom they owe thanks for the privilege of eating them at all in these war times, nor would they rapidly guess. The con ditions which made it possible to pick the berries at a time when labor was almost nonexistent constitute a remarkable chapter in the history of the schools. For it was the school children who did the work—school children taken from the heart of the City of New York—and it was the school teachers who made it pos sible for the children to spend their time in the country. It is in these men, whose sacrifice and efficiency has had little notice beyond official reports, that the war has developed latent abilities that were never be fore suspected. The reports of the work done in the schoolboy camps in the fruit sections of New York centering in Ulster county bestow the palm for versatility on the school teacher, who until these times has been held to lack all adaptability to life and who has been supposed to know only how to conduct recita tions. When he has not been charged with incompetence in his own pro fession he has been accused of an utter lack of sympathy with the realities of life. Yet these very teach ers, immersed in I.atin, English and algerba in the public schools, have gone into the country, and without training, without any illuminating precedent, have filled the multiple role of housekeeper, cook, employ ment agent, strike leader, entertain er. athletic director and moral in spirer. For each man, in his camp of thirty boys ranging from 12 to 22 years, has been compelled from sheer necessity to "go it alone," has had to be a]l things to all men. and without question he has succeeded, not only hecause berries have been picked that would otherwise have rotted on the bush, but the social, moral and economic influence upon the boys has been tremendous. So say the reports of the supervisors, and such is the testimony of the farmers. The boys from city homes have replaced a kind of labor whose eco nomic status has been much lower— itinerant Italians and hoboes from Bowery lodginghouses. So the youngsters have naturally been dis satisfied with the wages and living conditions. To convince the farmer that his customary 1% cents a quart for currants did not meet the boys' ordinary requirements for food and clothes was not a matter of figures or reason, or patriotic exhortation, (for none of these availed), but of a threatened strike. And the teacher, who had done the figuring and knew the Justice of the boys' claims, had to become both strike leader and ar bitrator. In his dual role he secured from the farmers the coveted 2 cents and at the same time convinced them that it was a fair wage. It was not the good fortune of each group to move into an established camp; in each case a new home had to be founded, even built. Some of the boys lodged in berry hoqses, nothing more than wooded shells. They had to provide their own beds, quilts, linen, wash basins and the like. The teachers had to organize a kitchen and during much of the time had to do the cooking, for student cooks would often spoil the dinner and the women in the neighborhood were unreliable. The teacher would arise at B o'clock, set the table, start the breakfast, prepare the boys' lunches, which they took with them to the fields, help serve the meal, and then dispatch each youngster to his particular job. And then there was nothing to do but wash the dishes, sweep the floor, and walk to town to order supplies for the day. During the day accounts had to be balanced, wages computed, and expenses de ducted. and then a visit to the farm ers to adjust grievances, receive esti mates of future work, and to secure cash for the tickets with which boys had been paid. And yet the day was not done, for after supper, when all but the dish washing squad were free for the day, even closer supervision became nec essary. The leader must know where the boys are at night, and he must see to it personally that they are in bed at 9.30. Brewery Closes Down; Business Too Slack Hazleton. —The Rochester Brew ing Company, which had a branch here for a generation, has shipped its horses and equipment back home, having closed its agency, owing to the slackness of business. All of the brewers teport great falling oft In trade since America entered the world struggle. AUSTRIA YIELDS TO MAGYAR Washington, Aug. 17.—Informa tion from Swiss sources transmitted in an official Rome dispatch to-day says the Austrian government, yielding to Magyar pressure, has decided to take the most severe measures in an effort to repress the Jugo-Slav movement. Dillsburg Youths Arrive Overseas With Regiment 7 " ' CORPORAL CHARLES GRIMES BENJAMIN KNAUB Corporal Charles Grimes and Ben jamin Knaub, of Dillsburg, have ar rived safely overseas, notifications to relatives there say. Grimes was for merly employed In the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Enola and Knaub for seven years was a baker ut the Pennsylvania State Hospital, of this cits; HXRRISBURG TELEGRSPH FRESH CALL IS MADE FOR RED CROSS NURSES War Society Wants 1,000 Nurses Every Week For the Next Two Months "Nurses, nurses more nurses and still more nurses!" I This is the substance of a fresh ap j peal from the American Red Cross for 1 nurses for Home Defense and war [ service. A thousand nurses each week for the next two months is what Surgeon General Gorgas of the United States Army has appealed for. A statement made public to-day rela tive to the campaign, follows: "Surgeon General Gorgas of the United States Army has called upon the American Red Cross to enroll, for military service at home and abroad, a thousand nurses a week for the en suing eight weeks. The Bed Cross announced to-day that it had set its organization machinery in motion for the purpose of complying with the Surgeon General's request. , "The nurses for military service have been enrolling through the Red Cross since the United States entered the war., at the rate of about one thousand a month. During the re cent special effort put forth to ob tain nurses, the enrollment Increased about threefold. In order to meet the most recent request of the surgeon general, that rate will not only have to be maintained, but increased ma terially. The Surgeon General's Call In view of the great need for a large increase in the number of nurses required for service with the army at home and abroad, I call upon your organization, as the chief nurse recruiting agency of the army, to employ every possible means to in crease the enrollment of nurses for immediate assignment to duty. With the contemplated increase in the army, both at home and over seas, there must be a proportionate increase in the number of nurses in the service. The army to-day is growing faster than the nurse corps is increasing: and. as the armies over seas enter the frontline trenches in greater numbers, the greater will be the need for nurses in the army nurse corps. I, therefore, urge upon the Ameri can Red Cross, through its agencies, to bring to the attention of the train ed nurses of this country the necessity of immediate offer of service, and their enrollment in the army nurse corps. I hesitate to deal in concrete num bers, but I desire to emphasize the fact that I need to-day a very ma terial increase in the army nurse corps ,and desire this increase in the ratio 6f at least a thousand a week for the next two months." Mlas Delano's Statement "With reference to this emergency call for nurses, Miss Jane A Delano, director of the Department of Nurs ing of tjie American Red Cross, made the following statement: The eight thousand graduate nurses called for by the army, in groups of one thousand per week, are in addi tion to more than twelve thousand nurses already supplied by the Amer ican Red Cross to the United States government for active war service. With complete confidence in the an swer which the fifty thousand grad uate nurses, not yet enrolled in the United States, will make to this sum mons to care for our sick and wound ed, I have called upon the Red Cross agencies and all training school su perintendents to carry the message quickly to every graduate nurse re maining in their communities. We plan to bring this call personally to each of the nurses not yet in war service and I feel that all who are physically able to render this mili tary service will enroll at 'once. I know the sterling character of the American trained nurse. Over many years, I have seen her self-sacrificing consecration to duty. She is intelli gently patriotic. She is proud tA he chosen from millions of women, anx ious to care for the sick, as the representative of American woman hood permitted to wear the army and navy uniform In our military estab lishments. There will he no need to draft nurses; American nurses would not thus belie the traditions of their pro fession. In all wars, they have been the prompt volunteers of mercy and the spirit of Florence Nightingale is still alive. I would, however, urge upon each graduate nurse eligible for active service tne great neces sity for immediate decision and en rollment. The army must have these one thousand nurses a week and I am hopeful that, within a month, the - Red Cross will have the entire eight thousand listed for awaiting orders." ~—? "SELF-SERVE TRUCK AGENCIES IS POSSIBILITY H. M. Lee Reports a Great Scarcity of Salesmen in the East H. M. Bee, president of the Duplex Truck Company of Lansing, Mich., who has Just returned from a trip through the east, asserts that indus try along the Atlantic seaboard has been hit much harder, because of scarcity of labor, than in the central west and the western states. "Some of the large automobile dis tributors in eastern cities told me that their sales organizations have been practically depleted of men," says Mr. Lee. "While there is a big demand for motor vehicles, many of the distributors and dealers aro un able to attend to the wants of pros pective customers because their sales forces have been disrupted. "If the condition continues I would not be surprised to see 'self serve' agencies replacing the sales forces. Manufacturers, contractors and other businessmen must have motor trucks and already many have brought their own drivers to dis tributing agencies and demonstrated and sold trucks to themselves. "I was greatly impressed from talks with distributors and manufac turers with the fact that motor truck buyers aro coming to look into the future more and more when select ing motor trucks. They are demand ing trucks that will stand up—that will not require new parts and ser vice after pinking trips totaling a few hundred miles, "They want trucks that are built of the highest grade materials—steel that has been tested in the truck manufacturer's own plant. They want trucks that are built as nearly as possible under one roof and not assembled with parts from scores of factories throughout the country. They want a truck that the manu facturer will stand behind—not a truck that is dependent upon dozens, of parts manufacturers for service. They realize that the manufacturer who builds his own truck has a big advantage over the assembler. And I believe that many truck manu facturers will be forced to build mo tor trucks, rather than assemble trucks, if they are to stay in the business. "One large distributor told me that lack of standardization upon the part of the truck manfacturer whose line he sold, would cost him hundreds and hundreds of dollars this year. He stated that a shipment would in clude trucks with two or three differ ent kinds of axles. One make of bearing would be used in one front wheel, another make of bearing in the other. Anything was used in assembling the trucks that the manufacturer could secure. "As a result, this distributor was forced to carry unusually large quan tities of extra parts of various makes to assure his customers of prompt service. Then, too, some customer might call up and report a defective hearing or a damaged axle. And unless the customer knew something about motor trucks, it would be necessary to send out a service car to first find out what make of part was required. This distributor declared that although he had sold hundreds of trucks this year, the cost olWkeeping new trucks in service—a cost that could not be charged against the buyer—would be so great that it would leave him no profit on his immense business." London Apologizes For Bad Telephone Service London, Aug. 17. So many girl telephone operators have been mar ried lately that the officials in charge of the telephone service in London have issued a statement to clients apologizing for delays and explaining that all the exchanges are very short handed. "The claims of love have proved too. strong for many of our girl employes," says the statement, "and we are now in urgent need of a large number of operators." fi - Passenger Touring . $9251 3-Passenger Clover-Leaf (QOC Roadster Ensmineer Motor Co. THIRD and CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Phone 3515 UNIQUE METHOD IN CAR DELIVERY Peerless Motor Car Company Makes Study of Drive- Aways R. J. Schmunck, general sales manager of the Peerless Motor Car Company, has given a great deal of thought and study to the matter of overland shipment of cars during these times of congestion. A happy combination of circumstances per mits exceptionally economical han dling of trucks and passenger cars for the Peerless Company even to far distant points. This consists in the delivery of truck chassis and passenger cars in one trip. Company officials state that this has been accomplished dur ing the severest weather at a good average express shipment time and at practically freight cost. This sys tem of delivery was carefully con sidered by Mr. Schmunck aiid the passenger cars crated and secured to the truck chassis. By this method of shipment, dealers have been kept supplied with trucks and motor cars all of which have arrived at their destination without hitch or scratch. This system has done its part in aid ing in relieving congestion and help ing to free the railroads from the great burden thrust upon them by hitherto unknown shipping demand brought about by the needs of war. In delivering passenger cars over land where trucks are not included in the order, the finish is preserved by protective coating of oil which, when removed at the point of des tination leaves the high gloss finish as perfect as when the car left the factory. The working out of these new methods has served a double purpose in keeping the Peerless deal ers well supplied with cars and in patriotically aiding in keeping the tracks clear for the needs of war. For business, for recreation, driving through city traffic or on long trips, there is no car like the CADILLAC for ease of control and solid comfort in riding. Each owner of a CADILLAC will tell you this is a fact. Dependability in operation and comfort is a big CAD ILLAC asset. Durability for an indefinite period is an added asset in these war times. • CRISPEN MOTOR CAR CO. 311-315 S. Cameron St. Ffga- I A Truly Remarkable Achievement in the ImT'S CONVERTIBLE flp ; ppj TRUCK BODY On a Reo Speedwagon Chassis All kinds of farm work is now done with the one —machine when you use an "8 in 1" Convertible ffjfß Truck Body on a Reo Chassis. This body is com- ESSl 1 ": 1 . " plete in one outfit and is easily adjusted to the vari -1 ous forms shown in the illustration; changeable in a moment's time by simply adjusting braces and ' sides. This is indeed a great benefit to the farmer 4" or contractor; for he can haul any kind of material W with the one machine. It is a big money-saver as well as time atid labor. The reputation of the Reo <£=jgMß is solidly established, thereby assuring the pur rUMt.-, n r , chaser that he is not getting an experiment but an article that has been tried out and proved its worth. * There Is No Other Farm Utility the Equal of This Truck I—THE FLAT RACK-SCOOPBOARD DOWN. This ar rangement is adapted to carrying lumber, water pipes, 'JJ" 18 po,es or slmilar articles of longer length than the \j[J I' / 2 — THE FLAT RACK-SCOOPBOARD UP. A serviceable ™ —type of express wagon, adapted to hauling most any g* 5y material too numerous to mention. * B—GRAIN-TIGHT BODY. Adapted to carrying loose t rain. It is almost watertight In construction, solidly braced with thannel steel. 4—HOG RACK. An Ideal hog or sheep rack formed by folding the side section over the top. T/fl I&SEBL 6—FLARED BODY. Designed to carry a bulky load of -IT L loose grain. Increasing the capacity by use of the 7* ®—BASKET RACK. The range of usefulness is almost unlimited in this form of the body. Almost anything can be hauled with the body in this form. 1 £2 l .' Tr-, —— 7—FLARED RACK BODY. This Illustration shows the irty-—-, ;I_l I body suitable for hauling light bulky produce and ma ul. _j ' |IJ terlals. It is exceptionally strong. J1 f{£ B—STOCK RACK The top secti<jp Is straight up In this body, making a serviceable body for hauling stock. Q We Will Be Pleased to Send Yon • • v: Literature or Show You This L—l Machine at Your Convenience HARRISBURG AUTO CO. Fourth and Kelker Streets Duplex 4-Wheel Drive, Hurlburt Trucks Cleveland and Beeman Tractors AUGUST 17, 1918. Treatment of Prisoners So Good Foes Surrender GrecnnburK. Pa., Aug. 17. ln a letter received from Lieutenant Paul Abraham, member of the Westmore land County Bar, an Incident concern ing several German prisoners is relat STEPHENS SALIENT SIX k-F MBiil^^ F. <. ll.'moli'XK \" IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES v, X J. S. Sible, Jr. THIRD, AT CUMBERLAND ST. BELL 1555W Rex Garage I I And Supply Co. j THIRD AND DELAWARE STREETS ) IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Mr. L. L. Shettcl and Mr. S. S. Pomeroy announce that they have purchased the entire interest in the above company and . that they will continue to operate this garage under an up-to- , date plan. Every convenience and facility for the benefit of the ' . customer is installed. Patrons will find that every means will ' be taken by the management to insure protection for the cars | being stored here. I Live and Dead Storage , 1 Repair Work and Complete Overhauling J We are equipped to store your car or repair It or overhaul It, for f we have the best-equipped garage and repair shop in the city & i Accessories and Supplies 1 We Have a Complete Stock of K GOODYEAR AND RACINE CORD TIRES ? 1 SERVICE STATION # KING—CHANDLER—JACKSON } OAKLAND—VIM TRUCKS J Rex Garage and Supply Co. { L. L. SHETTEL, MGR. f THIRD AND DELAWARE STREETS / ed. It seemc that on a certain date a captured German made his escape from the command with which Lieutenant Abraham is connected. A few days later the escaped prisoner returned with five of his comrades, who after hearing of the treatment given Ger man prisoners by the Americans de cided it was better than strafing the Yankees.
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