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SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORK THEME IN
STATE SESSION
Evangelical Aspects Empha
sized by Speaker at Grace
Methodist Church
Evangelical "aspects of Sunday
school work in the Methodist churches
of the country, with particular ref
erence to the state of Pennsylvania,
comprised the keynote of addresses
and conferences this morning on the
second day of the Joint Centenary
and Sunday School Training Confer
ence held in Grace Methodist Church,
this city.
At 9.45. the Rev. H. C. Wilson, of
Chicago, traveling secretary of the
Sunday School Board of the church,
addressed a fairly large audience of
pastors and teachers on "The Evan
gelistic Opportunity in the Sunday
School." Following this the meeting
went into three sectional
conferences, viz: Tlementary, address
ed by Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner on
"Training the Children in Worship;"
young people, addressed by the Rev.
H. C, Wilson on "The Most Fruitful
Field for Evangelism," and adult, ad
dressed by the Rev. W. A. Brown on
"Recruiting Adults for the King
dom."
"The Lord never raised up an army
of such potential power for the King
dom of Christ on earth," stated Dr.
Wilson in the first address of the
day, "than the 400,000 Methodist Sun
day school teachers in the United
States. They are the most splendid
body of people Methodism has in this
country." The speaker declared the
Sunday school could be made and is,
in some cases, being already made, the
greatest evangelistic agent in the
world to-day. Alluding to the power
of the Sunday school in bringing
people into the church. Dr. Wilson
said:
"As I watch the development of the
church I feel the conviction that God
is raising up the Sunday school for
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In the conferences which followed
details and methods of application of
Sunday school work, as referred to
broadly by the speaker, were taken
up by those especially interested in
any of the three separate divisions
already mentioned.
Bringing the morning session to a
close was an address by the I\ev. W.
A. Brown on "The Teacher's Task,"
delivered after delegates to the con
ference had reassembled in the as
sembly hall of the church. Follow
ing is this afternoon's program of
the conference:
I.3o—lntercession; 1.45, address,
"The Foreign Survey and Oppor
tunity," the Rev. E. E. Count; 2.30,
address, "The Centenary Program in
the Sunday School," the Rev. Wil
liam A. Brown; 3.30, address, "The
Centenary Plan of Organization," the
Rev. N. DeMott Darrt-11; 3.30, Training
Conferences, (a Pastors and Repre
sentatives of Local Centenary Com
mittee. the Rev. N. DeMott Darrell;
(b) Sunday School Workers, Messrs.
Wilson and Brown and Mrs. Bryner;
4.30, address, "The New Church for
the New Day," the Rev. E. E. Count;
5.00, Intercession.
At the session to-night, which
brings the conference to a close, there
will be an lntercessional and testi
monial meeting at 7.30 to be followed
by a stereopticon address by the
Rev. E. E Count, whose subject will
be "A Cross Section of the World."
A stereopticon and world program
on the "Home Survey and Opportu
nity" by the ReV. John Watchorn,
of Philadelphia, occupied the night
session yesterday of training confer
ence. So far about 500 delegates
from seven counties in the state have
registered at the conference with
many more arriving to-day for the
final sessions. The centenary will
be brought to a close to-night with
an intercessional and testimonial
meeting to be followed by a
stereopticon address on "A Cross
Section of the World" by the Rev. E.
E. Count.
The scope and quality of the work
achieved by the Board of Home Mis
sions of the Methodist church in this
country were given vivid outline in
Dr Watchorn's address last evening.
Much interest attached to his rather
significant statement that 400,000
Mormons were actively at work in
behalf of their church in different
parts of the country, some of them
strongholds of Protestantism.
At the afternoon session yesterday
addresses were made by the Rev.
William A. Brown. "The Challenge
of the Present Sunday School Situa
tion;" the Hev. H. C. Wilson, "The
Call to Advance" and Mrs. Mary
Foster Bryner, who spoke, on "The
Children in a Growing Sunday
School."
Soldier Robs Grocery
of SIOO in Cash
Police are looking for the man
who, dressed in a soldier's uniform,
held up 13. H. Jenkins, 2300 North
Sixth street, at about 11 o'clock last
night, as he was transferring the
money from the cash register in his
drug store, and stole about SIOO. No
clue to the identity of the man nas
been discovered.
The alleged soldier is said to have
entered the store about 9.30, and
hung around until closing time talk
ing to the clerks. After they had
gone home and while Mr. Jenkins
was preparing to close his store for
the night, he is said to have staged
the hold up.
COMMISSIONED LIEUTENANT
New Bloomtield, Pa., Sept. 13.
Gordon Babcock, a former stutfent
of Carson Long Institute here, who
enlisted in the aviation section of
the Signal Corps, has been commis
sioned a second lieutenant. He went
to France last October..
W.C.T.U.CONDEMNS
SMOKES FOR ARMY
Mrs. M. M. Stees Again Heads
Organization of Dau
phin County
Adoption of resolutions effecting
war temperance activities and put
ting a check on the gratuitious dis
tribution of tobacco, cigarets among
the Army and Navy forces of the
United States together with the elec
tion of officers to serve for the ensu
ing year, featured the twenty-second
annual convention of the Woman's
Temperance Union of Dauphin county
which was brought to a close yes
terday afternoon at Augsburg Luth
eran Church.
All last year's officers of the or
ganization with the exception of one
were re-elected yesterday as follows:
President, Mrs. M. M. Stees, of Steel
ton; vice-president. Mrs C. M. Spahr,
of Harrisburg; treasurer, Mrs. S. A.
Fishburn, of Penbrook; recording sec
retary, Mrs Gertrude Leidich, of Har
risburg; corresponding, secretary.
Miss Grace Henry, of Harrisburg.
Mrs. O. J. Marsten, who was record
ing secretary last year resigned. Mrs.
Fishburn taking her place.
Reports of committees made yes
terday disclosed some valuable work
of a war-winning qature that is being
done by the county organization that
of the soldier and sailor committee
particularly shining in this respect.
Twelve hundred hours, this report
shows, were spent by the Union in
the workrooms doing much needed
labor in behalf of Uncle Sam's fight
ing men. A line on the war work
that the county W. C. T. U. has been
doing was afforded from the follow
ing figures showing the work of the
Harrisburg Union in Red Cross work:
Wristlets, 170 pairs; kits, 180;
sweaters, 195: surgical gowns, 46;
socks, 138 pairs; auxiliary coats, 5;
cash donated, $225.80; bouquets to G.
A. R., 68; 40 pairs of shoes, 53 pairs
to the Children's Industrial Home,
men's clothing to the City Mission, and
other garments to the Salvation
Army.
An almost equally interesting re
port was that on the essay contest
conducted by the W C. T. U. in the
Harrisburg Public schools read by
Mrs. Rollison. This contest, accord
ing to the report, netted 462 essays
written by pupils of the seventh and
eighth grades who had as their topic,
"How Can Prohibition Win the
War?" Prizes amounting to S3O werrf
given the winners of this contest. In
this connection yesterday, thanks
were extended to Mrs. H. R. Hartz
ler, chairman of the essay commit
tee, who had charge of the immense
labor of marking the essays.
Publicity's vital importance in help
ing to bring about prohibition in
every state of the Union was stressed
in a talk by Mrs. C. M. Spahr, vice
president and chairman of the Press
committee. Acknowledgements to
Harrisburg newspapers for opening
their columns to Dauphin county W.
C. T. U. activities, were forthcoming
by Mrs. Spahr. The deaths of seven
teen members of the organization
during the past year was taken"
cognizance of yesterday and especial
prayer and tribute were paid Mrs.
Alice Finley, president of the W. C.
T. U. of Steelton whose son Earl, fell
on the battlefield of France last July.
WEDDING AT NEW BLOOMFIELD
New Bloomlield, Pa., Sept. 13.
A quiet wedding.took place Monday
evening at 5 o'clock at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Singer Whitmore,
when their son, H. Lee Whitmore,
was married to Miss Oline Turn
"baugh, of near Newport, by their
pastor, the Rev. Homer C. Knox.
"HAJtRISBURa TELEGRAPH
CHAIRMAN HAYS
TELLS TUMULTY
AIMS OF PARTY
[No "Back Stairs" Politics to
Win; Quotes Letters to
Wisconsin Soldiers
New York, Sept. 13.—That Chair
man Will H. Hays, of the Republican
National Committee, mqans what he
says when he says the Republican
party is not indulging in any "back
stairs" politics to win .the coming
Congressional elections, but is con
ducting a campaign that is free from
subterfuge, is evidenced by a letter
he sent to Joseph' P. Tumulty, secre
tary to President Wilson.
The letter was written in reply to
a telegram Secretary Tumulty sent
September 11 to Chairman Hays at
htjs Indianapolis address. It was an
inquiry regarding the veracity of a
newspaper report of remarks Chair
man Hays was alleged to have made
at a conference of Republican state
chairmen held in Chicago on Labor
Day. Immediately upon sending the
telegram Secretary Tumulty gave it
to the newspapers before ilr. Hays
had received it.
Chairman Hays' reply follows:
"I have your telegram. On Sep
tember 2, in Chicago, I attended a
meeting of the Association of Re
publican State Chairmen called by
its president and attended by fifteen
of such chairmen. At that meeting
I made remarks referring in a gen
eral way to the length to which
Democratic leaders are going in their
efforts to control the Senate and
House, and also as to the irrevocable
stand of the Republican party for a
vigorous prosecution of the war and
against an inconclusive peace.
"I did not use the words quoted in
your telegram. What I said then,
which I now reaffirm and which I
shall continue to declare, was sub
stantially rfs follows:
"First, as to the means resorted
to by certain Democratic leaders to
get votes, I said:
" 'ln the special election in Wis
consin, the Democratic machine
leaders published advertisements,
undenied since by them, addressed
to the soldiers at Camp Grant, as
follows:
" 'To the Wisconsin Soldiers at
Camp Grant: Tuesday, April 2, you
are entitled to vote for United States
Senator from Wisconsin to succeed
Senator Paul O. Husting. President
Wilson, your Commander-in-Chief,
desires all loyal Americans to vote
for Joseph E. Davies for United
States Senator. Davies' election
means joy at Washington and gloom
at Berlin. Davies' defeat means
gloom at Washington and joy at Ber
lin.'
" 'I regard this as an infamous
prostitution of all .patriotic pro
prieties and the grossest violation of
the plainest civil duty, worthy of the
severest condemnation of all Amer
icans. In this crisis, when all pa
triots are striving to bring to the
aid of the country's cause every re
source in men and material, when
thousands of Republican and Demo
cratic boys are dying, side by side,
when both political parties are loyal,
such conduct is immeasurably repre
hensible. From such action it is evi
dent, and I regret to say it, that
these Democratic leaders will go to
any length to carry the Senate and
House. Such unpatriotic efforts to
use the war for partisan purposes
must fail. Such inevitable failure
was indicated by the Wisconsin re
sult, it was further shown in the
Michigan primary, and it will be
conclusively shown in the Maine
election next week. The American
people will not tolerate it. This is
the war of no political party. This is
the peoples war, and we demand
that the war be kept out of partisan
politics and that partisanship be
kept out of the war. And what we
ask from the party in power we
irrevocably pledge for ourselves.'
"Second, as to the imperative ne
cessity of a vigorous prosecution of
the war and a conclusive peace only,
and the need of a Republican Con
gress to that end, and in connection
with a discussion of the candidacy
of Mr. Ford in the Republican pri
mary in Michigan and his statement
as to why he became a candidate,
and while reviewing the service Re
publicans in Congress rendered the
major war measures which were op
posed by the Democratic leaders,
Chairman Dent, of the Military Af
fairs Committee; Floor Leader
Kitchin, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, and others, I
said:
" 'We demand the most vigorous
prosecution of the war and a peace
with victory. A Republican Congress
means a war Congress, and we
pledge our candidates to be men who
are supremely pro-American who
will give the country's all for the
winning of the war now, and who
will stand irrevocably against any
peace based on a compromise of
principles which would violate Amer
ican rights, interests and honor, and
make of our sacrifice a sacrilege to
be made again by our grandchildren.
I hope and trust the Democratic
party will work by the same token."
"Recognizing, as we all do that
there will always be politics, 1 am
pleased to advise you what I said
to these Republican state chairmen,
because I insist that our politics be
open and acknowledged and on a
plane and of a character that needs
no subterfuge, and that there be no
political partisanship in anything
that touches the war.
"Further, I now take the oppor
tunity to appeal to you directly and
to the Democratic organization, as I
long ago did in my reply to Colonel
George Harvey's letter, to Join with
us in this effort to keep partisanship
out of the war and the war out of
partisan politics. This is no time for
little things. The world is on fire.
Our duty to our soldiers, measured
by their marvelous accomplishments
and their supreme service, the mag
nitude of the task ahead for us all.
and the incalculable consequence of
the result, all cry out for the fullest
co-operation. Let not political par
ties spend their time accusing each
other of disloyalty when both are
loyal. I urge that there be no ac
cusation of disloyalty from either
one side or the other in this cam
paign. Such accusation will give a
totally false impression to the enemy,
and the party or the committee
making such accusation will be
guilty in that very act of the worst
kind of disloyalty.
"We have a heavy load to haul.
Let us, as far as possible, hitch up
both o.ur great political horses and
have them both used, unhampered,
freely to pull this load, each striving
to see which can pull the harder."
DEPUTIES APPOINTED
New Bloomtteld, Pa., Sept. 13.
William Dorwart, food administrator
for Perry county, has appointed C.
B. Adams deputy food administrator
for Newport; Jqhn S. Kennedy, Dun
cannon, grocers' lieutenant of the
county . and Frank Eckerd, New
Bloomfleld, meat dealers' lieutenant
of the county.
Earl Floyd Kelly U
Called to Naval Reserves
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EARL. F. KELLY
Enlisting in the Naval Reserves
several months ago. Earl Floyd
Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Kelly, 623 Relly street, has been
called into active service and left
yesterday for Pier 19, Philadelphia.
He will go to the Great Lakes Naval
Training school. He had been em
ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
before entering active service.
Dr. Bagnell's First
Public Address
Since Coming Back
"Americans- in France," will be
the subject of the Rev. Dr. Bagnell's
address at the patriotic meeting
whiah will be held at the Chestnut
street amk'torium Saturday evening
in honor of the employes of the Har
risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Com
pany and their friends to whom in
vitations have been issued. There will
be no admittance except to those who
have been invited and have tickets.
Dr. Bagnell has just returned after
several weeks with the American sol
diers in France and there its wide in
terest among those who have been
invited to hear his first public ad
dress since coming back.
WAGON HIT BY ENGINE
Columbia, Pa., Sept. 13.—James
Carney, driver of an ice wagon had
a narrow escape from being seriously
injured when his team was hit by an
engine on the Pennsylvania railroad
as he was driving over the Union
street crossing. The horses plunged
forward drawing part of the wagon
with them, knocking the driver off
his seat and saving his life. Part of
the Wagon was demolished.
How Much Longer
Gan Germany Fight?
We must beware of being too happy over the trouncing Germany is getting on the Western
Front. Victory is coming, but the earlier we expect it the later it will arrive.
While "we are on the last lap and close to the winning post," to quote a French leader, at
the same time we are reminded that it is in the last part of the race that a runner must make his
supreme effort. "Should the German military command decide to have the war carried into Ger
many and seek to delude the people into a frantic last resistance at or beyond the Rhine, upon
thie plea that they are actually fighting for the Fatherland and to drive the invaders from the
sacred soil," remarks the Boston American, "the Huns might prosecute the war still for a long
time to come."
The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week September 14th carefully
weighs the result of the Allies' victorious push during the past several weeks and balances against
their successes a computation of the further fighting strength of the German armies, drawn from
various sources. This article throws much light upon the present relative strength of both forces.
Other features of interest in this number are:
The New Taxes You Must Pay Uncle Sam to Win the War
An Explanation of the New Revenue Tax Bill, and How It will Affect Every Man,
Woman, and Child in the Country
Forging a New Hammer For Foch War-time Rise in Living Costs
Defeatism Growing in Germany Our Policy to Bulgaria
The Skeleton in the Huns' Cupboard Moslem View of Home Rule For India
Hay-Fever Resorts "Sea-Tank." at Pola
Our Waste of Fuel u ... CL . T • cL J 1
How the German. Camouflage Road. Handling Ship, on Tram Schedules
Chesterton on the Fourth of July ?.ee.ng the War Humorously
How American, Put Chateau Thierry Germany Strafes Her Statue,
.1 ryi _ ' £he Kaiser and the Kaiser s Church
To Exchange Pulpit Orators future Reward of the Soldier
How to Run a Hot Water Plant Economically M Urren c r?* ry j c*
(Prepared by the U. S. Fuel Administration) INewS Or Commerce and Finance
Many Half-tone Illustrations and Reproductions of the Best Cartoons
"The Digest" Serves At Home and at the Front
A recent dispatch from American headquarters in themselves and incidentally lending a poignant
France described onr boys in the trenches as eager
for news of the war, so much so that a dozen or an d Flanders there is nothing so helpful as to
more crowded together to read a single paper rea d weekly accounts in THE LITERARY
. , , ... ... x , DIGEST, carefully gleaned from the most authori
narrating the progress of the battles. We at home tative sources. You can first satisfy yourself of the
„ are no less anxious to learn how the fight, is going actual facts in this way and then mail the magazine
as a whole and how our soldiers are distinguishing to one of these news-hungry American boys overseas.
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Y. M. C.A. WILL
WIDEN DOORS FOR
SOLDIER GUESTS
Program Provides Greater
Scope For Entertainment
of Men in U. S. Service
Every comfort, convenience and
privilege of the Central Y. M. C.
A. will be thrown open to soldiers
and sailors as the result of a meet
ing of the social work committee
held in the assembly room of the
"Y" building at noon to-day. Fifty
cots have been purchased for the
convenience of men in the service
and it is probable a Sunday morning
breakfast will be served to the men.
A small charge will be made for cots
and breakfast.
Many association privileges al
ready have been given to the men in
the service, but the plan to give
them breakfast is new. Members of
the social work committee say this
is merely a beginning of their plans
FIREWORKS THAT PLAY
BIG PART IN BATTLES
American Aviators Have Flaxes Giv
ing 400,000 Candle-Power
The old-time Fourth of July even
ing, with its pinwheels and red
flares, Roman candles and rockets,
has bequeathed all its pyrotechnics to
the service of the American soldiers
in France. Fireworks —most of them
made by girl workers in New Jersey
—are playing a vital part in the war,
and Yankee ingenuity f has devised
many new ways of employing them.
For instance, our aviators on night
raids are now equipped with a new
giant parachute flare that hangs at a
height of 2,000 feet and with its 400,-
000 candle-power beams lights 94,-
776,560 square feet of enemy terri
tory so brightly that no objective can
hide from the aviator's bombs.
There are pistol rockets, ground
flares, smoke signals, fireworks of all
sorts, in nightly use. How they are
employed is told in a most interest
ing article in the magazine section ot
the Philadelphia Public Ledger next
Sunday.
The same issue tells how "Wonder
Man" Holden, as head of the central
supply station in Philadelphia, per
forms administrative marvels in
feeding, clothing and equipping a
large part of our overseas forces.
The issue will also contain the
latest dispatches from Raymond G.
Carroll, describing the activities of
Pennsylvania troops at the front and
many notable special articles.
Reserve your copy in advance, no
tifying M. Forney, Harrlsburg News
Agency, or E. Hoffman. 1
SEPTEMBER 13, 1918.
to make the "Y" building a live cen
ter for the year's social activities.
The men who chance to be in the
city will be entertained Saturday
nights at the Civic Club Hostess
House entertainment. Following
this they will be able to procure
beds at the "Y" for a small sum.
Sunday morning breakfast will be
prepared under the direction of the
far-famed "Maggie" Phillips and
meal tickets will be sold for a nomi
nal sum. During the morning the
men will have the shower baths, bil
liard and pooltables, library, reading
and writing rooms, pianola, victrola,
telephone, information, room to
mend and press clothes, shine shoes,
etc., thrown open for their use with
out charge.
A housewarming will be held Oc
tober 3 at which a special program
will be presented. Members of the
social work committee who were
present at to-day's luncheon were:
P. T. Barnes, chairman; M. V.
Hazen, Walter E. Dietrich, C. W.
Miller, R. B. Reeves, J. D. O'Neill
and Ross H. Swope.
Ice Prices
At Ice Stores
ON and after September 15, the price
of ice at our Alspure Ice Stores
will be as follows:
100 lbs. 30c
50 lbs. 15c
15 lbs. 5c
New Hours for Ice Stations — v
7 A. M. to 10 A. M. and 12 M. to 5 P. M.
Sunday Hours —7 A. M. to 10 A. M.
Ice Stations located at Forster and Cow
den Sts., 3rd and Delaware Sts., sth and
Woodbine Sts., 6th and Hamilton Sts., 6th
and Columbia Sts., 7th and Woodbine Sts.,
Green and Basin Sts., Boas near Third St.,
13th and Walnut Sts., 13th and Swatara
Sts., 15th and Chestnut Sts., 18th and Fors
ter Sts., Race and Nagle Sts.; 27th St., Pen
brook.
United Ice & Coal Co.
Grocers to Meet For
Shorter Hour Decision
The retail grocers of Harrisburg
at a meeting to be held in the Har
risburg Chamber of Commerce rooms
in the Dauphin building next Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock will tak&i
final action on the schedule of
shorter hours to be observed through,
the winter as a coal conservation;
measure. The meeting was called BX
W. A. Gernert, president of the Har
risburg Retail Grocers'
and notices are being issued by M. A
Morrison, secretary.
As a result of the meeting, it is
likely that Thursday afternoon clos
ing will continue throughout tha
winter. A business day not to exceed
opening at 7 a. m. and closing at 6
p. m., is part of the schedule. Tha|
7 to 6 o'clock day is to include Sat*i
urdays.