George Ade and the Y. M. C. A. (October Cosmopolitan) ONCE there was a world-weary cynic who had come to be 24 years of age, and who, looking hack over the years and checking tap his multifarious experiences, was (■racly to make affidavit that nothing • hatsoever was on the level. , You know—the kind who smokes h|s cigarfet in a long holder and knows women. The characteristic specimen we are picking onto was named Wendell. There is no tirst-class reason why we should hop him, because all the rough stuff could just as well be hung on Davy or Oliver or Bertrand or any one of a million of the well groomed products of refined homes and higher institutions of learning. Wen was not a wrong Indian, mind you. No; his only wobble was that, hav ing got beyond growing pains and a change of voice and arrived at the molting period, he thought he had seen the works and that the busy world ought to pause from its labors and put one hand behind the ear and listen every time he got tuned up. He was along just far enough to be very severe in his judgments and darned caustic. When the intellectual fodder is half digested, various toxins may de velop and visions probably will flout before the eyes. If the highbrow happens to be in a lodginghouse cubbyhole during the time of distemper, he is apt to break out in spots with socialism and discover something fine and manly in the attitude of the I. W. W. toward the classes. He decides that all problems will be solved if every man having more than SIOO in his possession is taken out and burned at the stake. In fact, he will continue to be very Bolsheviky as long as he is broke. But if 'he young person has a father at work and a mother trying to think up something good for him to eat and a room of his own andl dress clothes and a set of clubs and : everything, he does not go in for! self-pity, the same as the Edgar Al-1 lan Poe in the garret. His transitional ailment develops j an ingrowing superiority, the main ! symptom of which is 'contempt for things in general. One pet hallucination is that every I person past the age of forty who cannot keep step with a talking ma chine is a fuzzy old yap- Whatever happened in the world i previous to 1910 doesn't count. A man who wears detachable cuffs | cannot square himself by practising j domestic virtues. The supplanting of the cottage or-1 gan by the Jazz Band proves that the | world is advancing. An ounce of complexion is worth a j ton of tact. It is better to run down fifteen balls than to know the names of I the presidents. A chap's real worth is determined j by the name on the package in the I side pocket of the coat with the belt, j Give the flappers a treat every I day, even if you wear out the mir- j ror. And so on. Now, Wendell was one of the above. He mistook his pin-feathers for plumage. Being roughly* constructed up to Jtoout the first story, he thought the rZof had been added and all the elec tric lights turned on. Never did he suspect that he had a loose rattle some eighteen inches above the watch chain. When a man gets to be 55, he will not lay four to three that Friday comes after Thursday, but the squan There Never Was a More Promising Time Than NOW to Learn Automoblie Repairing Mechanics Are in Big Demand at Big Wages THE AUTOMOBILE AND AEROPLANE MECHANICAL SCHOOL No. 260 S. Front Street, Steelton, Pa. Tenchc* yon to ndjuat your own motors, anve gasoline and repairs ENROLL NOW New Classes Starting All the Time LESSON NO. 1 Chassis, ports, LESSON NO. 18—Seating valves uses and construction. and fitting connecting rod LESSON NO. S Wheels, lining, bearings. use of pneumatic and solid LESSON NO. 10 Fitting piston tires. rings and grinding and seat- LESSON NO. 3 Transmission, lug valves. differential; parts and con- LESSON NO. 20—Assembling nio struction. tor-timing valves as for 4- LESSON NO. 4—Differential and Port cycle system for high transmissions, uses. and low speed motors and LESSON NO. s—Analysis of parts speed oiling. of motors and uses, LESSON N'O, 21—Putting on car- LESSON NO. o—ll nd la tor, water- " ,aKnet °s "•' pumps -nd use. t"o° usf; LESSON NO. 7—Construction of also soldering tin, brass and air and cooling systems. copper pipes; tempering LESSON N'O. 8 Carburetors, springs. uses, application and construe- LESSON NO. 22—Soldering aln tlon. minum. LESSON NO. 0 The electrical LESSON NO. 23 Connecting system, construction, uses and clutch and the eonstrnctlon appliances. 0 f Ma me, and when It is In use; LESSON NO. lO Magneto, Delco. also transmlsslon and Its pur- Itemmy & Splitdorf Igrnitlon pose. system. LESSON N'O. 24—Testing of the LESSON NO. 11—Putting: In plat- pulling: of the motor and reg- Inum points and adjusting ulutlng carburetor for same. Ignition system. LESSON NO. 25—How to make n LESSON NO. 12 Testing colls motor start easy whether It and vibrators. in cold or hot. LESSON NO. 13 Bu' erics and LESSON NO. 2®— Road Instruc tion to recharge same. tlon of hacking up, turning LESSON' NO. 14— SetttDig brushes ""• changing gears. In generators and how It gen- LESSON N'O. 27—The conatruc erates Its current. tlon of aeroplane motors, LESSON NO. 15—Regulating and LESSON NO. 28 The different adjusting cutout switches, parts of aeroplanes and what also connecting and testing tliey are used for. ""'■lf® "" D '<"■ LESSON NO. 20—Repair of aero. LESSON' NO ?i-Th B e different rlTulrrd tOTn dltU " nt o1 " design, of self-starters and LESSON NO , 3 0-Revlew of .11 LESSON NO. 17 Dismantling lessons, entire motors. I.caaon Honrs—o.3o to 11.30 A. M fI.SO to 8.30 P. M. Men—Monday, Friday and Saturday Ladles—Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ———^■———— STEPHEN^ SALIENT SIX k-* , M „ Kl ;, A ,^|;|^! L ics i " i J. S. Sible, Jr. THIRD, AT CUMBERLAND ST. BELL ISSSW EVENING, BAJRJRISBXJRG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER "" 1918. can tell you anything you want to know—quick, off the reel, just like that! He is infallible and has second | sight and can analyze motives I one hand while adjusting his cravat ' with the other. 1 The devices which fool the old I folks cannot put anything over on Charley Wiseman. It has not been so long since a pa rade of G, A. K. veterans would have handed Wendell a real hearty laugh. In fact, he joshed all of the low ' comedy misfits who flaunted their • phony initials, such as I. O. O. F. I and W. C. T. U. and K. P., not over j looking the prize butt of all, the Y. | M. C. A. In fact, the only initials he used in ! his business were C. O. D. and I. O. U. He never could understand why people had to get out in the street ■and parade, just to advertise their convictions. He panned all reformers and up lifters. The scathing comments he made when he saw those resolute women marching for equal huffrage! He said the settlement workers were boobs. Any guy running for office was a stick-up, either now or as soon as he got a chance. Why take him seri ously? Anyone whe became feverish in support of a cause was probably a lit tle bit crossways under the bonnet. The easiest trick in the world is to dismiss with a wave of the hand the appeals of those who have been classified conveniently as not worth while. Take the case of the Y. M. C. A. Wendell nad lined up with a con siderable faction which looked upon this widely touted organization as a Joke. He knew-that easy marks had come across in large chunks to boost the game and that each building was a kind of denatured club, without any slaking department or a slot for the kitty. He had heard that the main hand shaker at each of these salvation fac tories was called the secretary, and it was his lay to rope in juveniles who had weak natures and would stand for the rollo stuff- Even as the tall unmarried lady j with specs herds the helpless infant: class, so was the godly secretary sup- j posed to round, up and control the pale faces who were shy on rational instincts. Wendell and a good many other men about town between the ages of 18 and 80 couldn't have been dragged into one of these asylums with a chain and windlass. When they were all set to jollify, they didn't hunt up a morgue. No investigation was needed to, convince them that the main grotto of the Y. M. C. A. was draped in black and bad icicles hanging from the chandeliers. Probably the walls were covered with verbotens about breathing out loud or bursting into a smile. They could not understond why anyone should voluntarily register at a penal Institution. Seated in the Jovial cabaret, with the air full of syncopation and sa chet, the bucks and blades thought of the Y. M. C. A. as something re mote and terrible, the same as Si-1 beria. They were off of it, the same as; they were off of many antiseptic in- ' stitutions devoted to putting the lid! on instead of taking it off. Let us give the once-over to Wen and his cronies as we find them in an after-the-play madhouse on a cer tain midnight early in 1917. If the bunch had been turned up side down suddenly, the. only assets fulling to the floor would have been those provided by fond parents. The boys were exceedingly pleas ed with themselves while hitting it up, for they had a hunch that they had rubbed against all the experi ences that make life real. They had been through the mil', and acquire! a certain line of wise dope beyond the reach of the mutts and the muckers. They thought they had arrived, whereas they were Just getting ready to start. Life seemed to be all plush and perfumery, end tbey had no Intima tion thut it might soon become Hell and repeat. They did not know that down the road a piece they were going to get chummy with a lot of strangers, among them the following; Draft Nonexemption Reveille Hikes Gas masks Transports Front line Shellholes Shrapnel Water wagon Khaki Mess kits Rifle pits Trenches France Ambulances Base hospitals Y. M. C. A. When a clean haymow begins to look like the imperial suite at the Ritz, and mamma's pet, accustomed to making a complete change every a. m., becomes merely a swell sum mer resort for cooties, a good many opinions become reversed and previ ous misconceptions are knocked gal ley west. Borrowing, for a moment, the chaste vocabulary of the book re viewer, it is a far cry from an over heated lobster parlor in the home town to a lonesome roadway in per secuted France. There are no white lights to guide the night hawk and no slave in but tons to summon a taxi. Let us take a hard look at the sergeant who is dragging his way into a battered village, carrying \Vi tons of equipment. The entire German army has been blazing away at him for three days, but that is all in the past tense. He has only one large thought pulsating in the bean at present, and that is to follow a trail leading to a warm fire and a scuttle of United States coffee. Scrape away the mud and you will find underneath our old friend Wen dell. He has shed the pale silk hose with the clocks on the ankles, and the glove-fitting coat with only one button, and the dinky little butter fly bow. Also, he has shaken off the bind ing shackles of error and prejudice and probably is one of the most fair minded young fellows to be found anywhere. Here is a trampish-looking boy who is all through having fun with the G. A. R. It seems to him that forty-five years back in the past a rathskeller rodent bearing a name somewhat similar to his own had sat round in various dumps and made a show of himself. For that which we give up, we ac quire something else. Wendell had lost the regalia which you see the slender,* sad-eyed hound wearing in the advertising section of an illustrated weekly, but he had been given a suit of working clothes by his indulgent uncle, and, even in his smeared-up condition, he looked more of a man. Likewise, since having the cock sure opinions kicked out of him, he had stored the cavity with a lot of hard and useful facts. • He could not remember just how or when he got shut of his enormous reserve supply of snobbishness, but he always suspected that he sweat it out on the first forced march. He is now a regular ging, even if he isn't much to look at. Ahead of him in the smudgy gloom is a dull glow. He and the other buddies are pain fully plodding toward the hut. What do you mean —hut? Why, the "Y," to be sure. In oth er words, the improvised hangout of the Y. M. C. A. Is it possible that our young patri cian, commonly known as the proud prince of the brownstone section, has forgotten so soon that only the swobs and lizzies go in for early piety. Yes; they got the poor lad at a disadvantage and trapped him. They'pushed him away out toward the front among the barbed-wire entanglements and the ruined vil lages and the gas attacks and other nonattractive incidents. They worked on him until he was blue and homesick and possibly a lit tle cold between the knees. They waited until he was simply honing and yearning for warmth and light and cheer and music and com panionship and entertainment and something different in the way of chow. Then, having him on the hip, us it were, they let him know that he could not get the things he craved ex cept by compromising all of his sturdy convictions and going back to slavery days, when he attended Sunday school. He was having a lot ft new ones handed to him—but of all the jolts! A real high-roller doing a sneak entrance into the Y. M. C. A.! He couldn't stand outside when the whole gang was inside, showing the piano how to take a joke. Two things he dreaded when he nerved himself and walked through the doorway. One was meeting the secretary and the other was leading In prayer. But he wculd have preached a short sermon in order to get a plate of ham and eggs. To his Intense relief, he was not called upon to invoke- He and the secretary had been pals for twenty minutes and were rag timing together and everything was Jake before he identified the live wire as the main squeeze. It took a world war to get Wen dell acquainted with the "Y." As soon as he found out that the secretary had no Spanish moss on the Jowls and did not address him as "brother," he began to acknowl edge that possibly he had failed to call the turn on the Y. M. C. A. He always had supposed that one would wait in the anteroom to be baptized before entering the dimly lighted sanctuary. He expected to be loaded up with religion, but instead he received merely kindr.esß, and, after he was outside, he began to wonder if there was much difference between the two after all. He decided that a good man Is not onewho goes around assuring people that he is good, but rather It is the scout who gives gloom a kick on 'the shins and holds out a welcome to happiness, and orders old pessimism to go 'way back and sit down while courage Is delivering a recitation, and slips the weary sojourner a quart of coffee instead of a bushel of spirit ual advice, and Is not afraid of a noise, and likes little children, whether he knows their parents or not. He began to find out why the Y. M. C. A. had a million prominent men and influential women plugging for ROAD BUILDING MAY BE CHECKED National Restrictions Upset Plans of State For High way Improvements State Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil in a statement issued to-day announced that unless the National Highways Council recedes from its present position, road con struction in Pennsylvania will prac tically cease until after the war. There are sixty-four roads now un der construction in Pennsylvania. Mr. O'Neil in his statement says; "The highways council has disap proved, or taken no final action on all except nine. This means that work must stop, as no material of any kind can be secured, unless the highways council approves the same. The importance of the roads under construction can be gauged from the fact that local authorities are pay ing one-half the cost. "The Highway Department is of the opinion that the National High way Council has failed to realize the importance of road work in Penn sylvania and the great hardship that will be imposed upon the local com munities by leaving the roads in an unfinished condition. "George S. Oliver, of Pittsburgh, regional director of district number five, War Industries Board, has ap proved and requested the construc tion of all roads located in his dis trict, and he has arranged for a hearing in Washington next week, to be attended by himself and Com missioner O'Neil, to try to have the action of the Washington authori ties modified, so that the roads now under construction, particularly those which have a large percentage of the material on the ground, will receive their approval. "No one can question the willing ness of Pennsylvania to co-operate with the Washington authorities. Pennsylvania is doing her full share and will continue to do so, but good roads are not only esesntial and nec essary as a war measure, but they are a vital economic necessity, par ticularly in a great industrial, manu facturing and mining state like Pennsylvania. This was demon strated last winter when many of the large industries of the state were seriously handicapped, only being able to operate by reason of their ability to transport their coal from the mines and various other sup plies over the highways of our state, in trucks. Manufacturers and whole sale dealers in Pittsburgh, Philadel phia and other large centers now deliver their merchandise by trucks over the highways within a radius of forty and fifty miles. A great ma jority of all the army trucks pass through Pennsylvania. "Last winter, notwithstanding the fact that it was one of the most se vere on record, the Lincoln highway ] was kept open and a continuous j stream of army trucks, loaded with munitions and supplies, passed through the state to the seaboard, and those trucks and supplies now are being used on the battlefields, of France. Approximately two and one-half million dollars has been spent by the State Highway Depart ment during the past six months in rebuilding and repairing roads used by army trucks and by manufactur ers engaged in war work. Over six hundred thousand dolars have been spent upon the Lincoln highway, and this road now is in good condition and will be kept open during the present winter. Snow fences are now being erected; additional snow plows placed along the road, and snow gangs being organized. "The State Highway Department has made a study and is ready to present evidence that the greater percentage of the men on road con struction are men who are unfit for army service and for work in muni tion factories." Tractors to Take Hold Again Monday Noon on Marsh Run Farm Lands The winning tractors on Thursday in the national contest which is in progress on Government, property ad joining the Marsh Run plant were an nounced this morning as follows: Parrett, International Harvester Company, Case, Titan (I. H. Co.); Waterloo. Frick. These machines completed the task allotted them on Thursday. Their records and those of the nine tractors which did not make good are printed in a separate column in to-day's Telegraph. It was decided early this morning that wet grounds made the tourna ment impossible to-day and the whole program has been postponed until Monday. Only one of the entries is out of commission, namely the Reed tractor. The handler of this machine, after making four rounds on Thurs day, had a smash up and withdrew from the drive. Very precise instructions were is sued to-day at the Department of Agriculture for operations on Mondav. and W. R. Douglass, statistician, was hopeful that the road from the end of the New Cumberland trolley line to the battleground would be fixed so as not to be a terror for motor cars. Wm. M. Hargest Talks at Italian Rally Italians of Harrlsburg and vicinity yesterday celebrated the anniversary of the unification of Italy, which was accomplished on the 20th of Septem ber, 1870, when Italian troops, under King Victor Emanuel, entered Rome, thus ending the temporal power of the Pope. * Avoiding a parade, because of the expense, which they deemed unneces sary in war times, the Italians held exercises in the Market Square Pres byterian Church, where they were ad dressed by William M. Hargest, deputy attorney general. Dr. Bagnell to Speak Before the Rotary Club The Rotary Club will hold a wo man's luncheon in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, on Monday at noon, when Dr. Robert Bagnell, lately returned from Europe, will speak on "Great Britain's Part in the World War." More than 200 members have already signified their intention of attending, and all members who have not done so before, should notify the secretary for reservations. CHIMNEY FALLS ON WORKMAN Dlllsburg, Pa., Sept. 21. Joseph Crowell had several ribs broken on Wednesday while working on a chim ney for Lewis Deardorff, in Wash ington township. The upper part cf the chimney had been built and was propper up while Mr. Crowell was building a sectiton from below to Join the top. The upper part came ing down, striking him. WORKMAN'S ARM BURNED New Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 21. Clarence Brinton, of Market street, who is employed at the Bethlehem Steel Works, had his arm badly burned and will be unable to work .for several days. i STATE SEALERS WILL MEET HERE Old Laws and War Conditions in Regard to Commodities to Be Discussed tmmmmmmmmmmmam Just what shall V \\ m /// constitute the du k\ \\ ties of inspectors' measures of Pen n -1 food ' coal, ice and I cord wood during j principal matters to be discussed at the sixth annual conference of thei inspectors of the cities and counties in this state to be held in the Seh ate chamber Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. James Sweeney, the chief of stand ards, will make the opening address on Wednesday morning but he will be the only speaker not a city or county inspector. The first day the questions attending packages, bot tles and containers, such as who is to be prosecuted, packer, jobber or retailer, the determination of net weight, application of variation and shrinkage and suggestions for uni formity will be discussed. These subjects are so important that they will be the business for the first day. The second day baskets and con tainers for dry commodities, the con ditions attending meat and coal sales, including standardization of the sale of coal will be taken up, while Friday will be devoted to talk ing over the best methods of weigh ing and delivery of ice to the house holder and the application of the act of 1817 regulating size and dimen sions of cord wood to present day customs and sizes of wood used. Remedies to correct conditions in the purveying trades which the in spectors supervise, especially prob lems arising out of the war will bo the principal themes for discussion and it is probable that some of the suggestions will be suggested for consideration by the Legislature. The experiences of inspectors in handl ing food and fuel in the situations produced by war and the relation to the Federal authorities will be much discussed. The Armory Question. —The ques tion whether the State Armory Board has authority to turn over armories which are used by the Re serve Militia, the successors of the National Guard, for hospital uses is to be considered by state legal au thorities. Some requests have been made, but they have not come from the United States Army and the pro position will be discussed by the State Council of National Defense which will arrange a plan whereby action can be taken by the Governor in event of an emergency. Mr. Hargest Named. — Announce ment has been made by officers of the American Bar Association of the appointment of Judge W. H. Staake, of Philadelphia, as vice-president for Pennsylvania and these members of the local council for this state: H. A. Knapp, Scranton; William M. Har gest, deputy attorney general, Har risburg; F. M. Abbot, Philadelphia, and Judge J. McF. Carpenter, Pitts burgh. Many at Fairs. Attendance at county fairs and agricultural exhibi tions held thus far has been of good character according to men con nected with the Department of Agri culture \vho have been giving at tention to such matters. The num ber of exhibits of agricultural pro duce has shown a big jump in some sections and owing to withdrawal of many racing horses local trotters have been coming into their own as an attraction. No Real Substitute.—Frank Hall, deputy chief of the State Depart ment of Mines, who has been making a study of the problems attending finding of a substitute for coal, says in a discussion of the problem that the substitutes in present use are affording and will afford only slight relief in the matter of coal saving. "What is really needed," says he, is a real substitute for coal." Mr. Hall has made an exhaustive study of The proposition. Inspecting Fisliways.—Nathan R. Buller, state commissioner of fisher ies, has been summoned to Massa chusetts to make inspections of fish hatcheries and fishways in the streams of that, state. He will make some studies of the way the Bay State is meeting, the problem. One Dollar Payments.—These are the days of the one dollar check at the State Treasury as the state au thorities are clearing up the old ac counts and taxing the inactive com panies, Some of the concerns hold valuable charters and while not do ing business Father Penn makes them pay a share of the cost of gov ernment. The sums they pay are small, some not more than a dollar. Much to Do.—Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh will be back in Harris burg Monday or Tuesday for the first time since the first days of July and he will And awaiting him dozens of applications for charters, numerous state contracts and other routine business. The accumulation of char ter applications is the greatest in a long time. Springfield Cases. Hearings In I the complaints of various boroughsi and townships in the vicinity of Philadelphia against the new rates Uncle Sam Says "ECONOMIZE" ' iois Packard Twin The real motor economist is the fellow j*s. vf3T Six Touring. 3-25, who selocts a dependable, moderate mechanically perfect; priced used oar, uch as our stock is , used very little A entirely made up of. WHY PAY HIGH PRICES for a new oar, when for half w lDift rsnii lat Tmir the price you can enjoy the aame com- in. ~*d * fort and sendee in one of our slifhtly M Y MMm used cars. M&M&m otß of extras; splen- r M WHBJ did equipment. L 191* MURRAY 8 Tour inr. divided front * /"/y iiS cr LOCOMOBILE 1000 c v to SeUct vP'co\£k' e "£ from. extra cord tirea. J/ r* • * -r ,ai * BUICK 6 Road- YSyj Convenient Term a ter. equal to new; •" •••■ / Arranged. "J?™"tire. wear ' 2 1918 CHANDLER Tour- 1918MITCHFI.L Sedsn - 1' \ Al■. * Ik In*; 7-p*s.. run 1700 Beautiful body, wire nnmpjig vGrmtry*a :? rolls*; new tire., lot. wheels; lots of 1918-17-16 lIUICK Tour- 1017 MARMON Tourlnr. ,l } C \ r * nd Road- 7-psss„ tlp-top shape, vii*• "? * er> lots of extra equip ••• y^/^vAvv.models; excellent con- ment ,o?i t ', 0 , n i IO Ss& r i£Sr , i 19,8 OLDSMOBILE . 'Jnp<*fsKv:y 1918-17-10 MAXWELL Touring. >-cyl., run •' Touring Cars an/1 1200 miles; 2 extra Ron deters; one of the tires -"-r- X' X '-s£yg.,k \ best h*h' c ' r * 1918 HAYNES Touring. . ' - ..iM2sws%\ ,„?2 - ,,7S 6 - c y'- aplendld con- I:;■. 1918-17-16 DOOOE dltlon; equal to new. Vy.-x-r.ft: gTlll Touring Cars and a bargain Roadsters: all models 1918 HTUDEBAKKR \ , "t , . Six Sedan, equal to \: >117GR - 1917 REO 4 Roadster, new; shows no wear \ YfPy a splendid hill climb- 1917 VEI, I E SIX \i S "• p r. r £Ki,£a" lp S? ent ' chummy Roadster, i -1917 MERI ER Tour- pass, splendid condl- Ing; 4-pass.; wire tlon; a snap. 1'" K;° a . pouring; 'nZZfnLS £'n;wVe.;ir - 1.fe.6 CHEVROLET L" .RM..T2 SK *t -•- .026 Touring Cars and gain. x. JT\ ou I? n * Cars, Roadstera: all mod- 1017 IICP Touring- tip- Roadsters Coupe, and els; tip-top shape; at top ahape. usiS' only Sedans at low prices. low prices. months; a snap GORSON'S AUTOMOBILE EXCHANGE 238-240 NORTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA CLOBED SUNDAY. SEND roB FREE BULLETIN. AGENTS WANTED for lire hydrants of the Springfield \ Consolidated Water Company are, scheduled tc be heard by the Public, Service Commission tn Philadelphia next Thursday. The complaints arose out of the filing by the com pany of a new schedule of rates af ter the commission had made an or der in the original complaints against rates. The commission will hear arguments on Monday on Schuylkill county trolley fare cases and also give hearings on complaints from Northumberland, Crawford. Schuyl kill and other counties. Special hear ings will be held in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie and Scranton in addition to the Harrisburg list. To Go Further.—The State Insur ance Law Revision Commission lias adjourned its sessions until Novem ber to permit gathering of additional data. At the meeting this week cor respondence as to the manner in which the war is affecting insurance laws and matters in other states wus ordered. Age l.lmit Changed. The mini muni age limit for operators of mo tion picture machines in Pennsylvania has been changed by the Industrial Board of the Department of Lauor und Industry from IS to IB years. Tills amendment to The Motion Picture Ma chine Operation Code is announced by tho Industrial Board as strictly a war measure and the minimum age limit of 16 years is to be effective during the war period. Mothers' Pension Trustees. The board of trustees for the Mothers' Pension Fund of Berks county was to-day appointed by the Governor, as follows: Mrs. Isaac Heister, Mrs. Frances F. Beard, Mrs. Daniel Ancona, Reading; Mrs. Solon Bausher, Ham burg; Mrs. Charles B. Spatz, Boyer town; Mrs. A. D. Belson, Wyomissing; Mrs. C. C. Boyer, Kutztown. Attack Fare Increase. The in crease of fares of the Waverly, Sayre and Athens Traction Company, from five to seven cents was attacked as unnecessary and unreasonable in a complaint tiled with the Public Serv ice Commission to-day by residents along its line. The hearing in the complaints against the Shamokin and Mount Carmel Company, fixed for next week has been postponed until November 7 to permit an engineering conference. The commission has or dered a grade crossing on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Lehigh Gap. complained of by Representative W. M. Benninger, of Northampton county, to be uDotished and request ed the State Highway Department to prepare plans. Prohibition Changes. H. F. Ditt mnn to-day filed a withdrawal as Pro hibition candidate for eongress-at large and F. P. Isherwood and C. W. Catlin were substitued for the Pro hibition Legislative nominees in Mc- Kean county. Two Promoted. Adjutant General Beary to-day announced promotions of Harry K. Hayden, Easton, to be the first lieutenant of Company A. Second Infantry, Reserve Militia, and Russell Hahn, Easton, to be second lieutenant. Borough Complain*. —The borough of Freeland to-day filed an official j complaint from -its borough council with the Public Service Commission ! against the service and rates of the j Freeland Water Company, which says that the company has an exclusive franchise and that its supply is im pure, quantity defective and rates un reasonable. The first hydrant rate is declared to have been advanced from sls to S2O for each of forty hydrants and the domestic rates to have gone up 25 to 33 1-3 per cent. tins Kntes Pp. The Wilkes-Barre Company has filed notice of increase of unit rates for gas ten cents a thousand feet in Wilkes-Barre and Ashley and Hanover township. Lu zerne county. Orders to Hoard. Specific instruc tion for members of local draft boards in preparing vouchers for pay under the existing regulations were issued to-day from State Draft headquarters. The headquarters also issued notice that, registration cards received after to-day shall not be assigned serial i numbers at the present time. Future regulations will cover the cards. "It is imperative that all cards received on or before September 21 be immediately serially numbered and lists prepared as required by the regulations," says the notice. In Some Trouble. People at the Capitol are trying to figure out just where and when Edward Parks Dight, of Philadelphia, will get his freedom. Dight is in the Eastern Penitentiary and his case was heldl up by the State Board of Pardons on Wednes day. This is his status: Seventeen and a half years to serve in the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia for larcenry and burglary, breaking of parole, etc., seven and a half years in the New Jersey State Penitentiary at Trenton and an indictment for burglary and aggravated assault and battery at Bridgeton, N. J. Hush of Cases. The situation in regard to complaints against trolley companies, electric corporations and others which have advanced rates against which complaints have been filed is commencing to cause some anxiety at the Capitol. As high as three complaints, based upon different advances have come in against one company in some instances. The Com mission has been overwhelmed with protests against advances in service rates and first complaints have not been heard in some cases where sec ond ones have come against new in creases. , IMtclier Milken Address. Captain Leon K. Pitcher, deputy superinten dent of State Police, delivered an ad dress before the Home Defense unit at Lansdowne, last night, at the invi tation of the committee in charge. Crossing Abolished. The Public .Service Commission last night issued an order abolishing the crossing on the National Pike, at Claysville. Wash ington county, and apportioning the cost of SIIO,OOO among the State Com mission, State Highway Department, Washington county, Donegal township and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Defense Society Slogan 'Unconditional Surrender' Washington, Sept. 21.—The Ameri can Defense Society, with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as its honorary president, has adopted as its slogan "Unconditional Surrender by Germany and Her Allies!" O'NEIL TURNS FORCEFORLOAN Directs That the Men Help to Sell Bonds and Suggests That They Buy, Too The entire Pennsylvania State Highway Department force of eight thousand employes—equal to eight lmttalioi.s—will be marshaled to aid in the drive for selling bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil has directed a letter to each division head, astistant en gineer and county highway superin tendent, suggesting that they get in touch with the chairman of the local Liberty committee and work In harmony with him; also, that each and every employe of all divisions of the department be impressed with the vital importance of making the loan a notable success. The commis sioner especially requests all em ployes, not only to buy bonds them selves, but to exercise all of their in. fluence and ability, in co-operation with the local committee, in selling Liberty Bonds to others. He said that while all of us are not privileged'to go to France to tight, we can do our duty right here at home and have a splendid opportunity to show our patriotism. The letter sent out is as follows: "My Dear Sir: "Some one has said: 'They also fight who help a fighter fight.' We cannot all go to. France but we can do our duty here at home. We all have a splendid opportunity to show our patriotism. The Fourth Liberty I-ioan, to raise five or six billion dol lars, will start on September 28, and I want to make a special request of each and every one of the eight thou sand employes of the Highway De partment, not only to buy bonds themselves, but to exercise all of their influence and ability, in con i junction with the local committees, in selling Liberty Bonds. "I suggest that you take this mat ter up with the employes in your di vision and impress upon them, each and every one, the importance of making the loan a great success. "1 would also suggest that you get in touch with the chairman of your local committee and work in har- JA; Always have one eye open for opportunities. :Sal': : l|l IjBK That' why we have sold so " r T 1 MM' many new Reos. The inevit j JjJffij:: able shortage of cars that is ;pf f , j sure to come has created a big demand for Reos. We have :ME| " H traded in some used cars that have been put in first-class me- ::U cahnical shape and are being sold with the same guarantee rgn^rrrirJ REAL BARGAINS | BE If you can't put a lot of sSSj|?::r.:: '; mto but The Above Cuts Represent A Real One Man Top ' Simplicity, durability and ease of opera tion—one man with two hands can operate it. We install the outrigger part on any kind of an old top at a small expense. CURTAIN REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Get Your Order in Before the Fall Rush We Give Service on All Kinds Blacksmithing Wood Working Repairing Wrecked Bodies and Fenders Auto Painting Spring Work Building Commercial Bodies CA FAIR CARRIAGE & AUTO WORKS • ii. r/\IIV 1135 MULBERRY STREET mony with him. He will furnish you with literature and instruct you how to sell the bonds. Of course. It ie un derstood that all subscriptions made in any of our departments will be turned into the local committee in whose district the subscription is taken. "With best wishes, I am, "Yours truly, "(Signed), J. Denny O'Neil, "State Highway Commissioner." WILL LIVE AT LANCASTER Mcclianicsburg, Pa., Sept. 21. — Mrs. Annie Boss, East Keller street, who has lived here the greater part of her life, left yesterday morning for Lancaster, accompanied by her niece, Miss Anna Hiestand, where she will make her home in the fu ture. Mrs. Boss is aged almost eigh ty years and a fall which injured her last winter, from which she has never fully recovered, brought about the change in her home. She will live with her nieces, the Misses Hiest and. WHY WASTE TIME AND MONEY in buying and waiting for automobile parts from the factory ? We carry a complete stock of second-band parts of all kinds for any make of car Carburetors Magnetoes Batteries Gears Crankshafts Axles, etc All Sizes' Used Tires Give Us a Trial Used Cars Bought and Sold Chelsa Auto Wrecking A. SCHIFFMAN, Prop. 22-24-26 N. Cameron St. Both Phones 7
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