Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 24, 1918, Page 10, Image 10
10 ALIEN TONGUES HERE TO BE MADE SPEAK IN ENGLISH Representatives of Foreign Races to Meet For Discus sion of the Plans Representatives of all foreign races in the city have been request ed to attend a meeting to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the City Council Chamber, when plans for the Americanization work to be done in Harrisburg under the direction of the school district, will be announc ed. The men who have been invited to be present will be urged to arouse interest among others of their na tionality and get them to enroll in the night schools which will be opened November 4. unless the in fluenza epidemic interferes. Plans made by Prof. John H. Bick ley, supervisor of special activities for the school district, will be ex plained at the meeting by both Mr. ! Bicklev and R. Ross Seaman, chair man of the Americanization Com mittee for the State Council of Na tional Defense. It is planned to have the night schools held on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings of each week at the Central High school. Capital and Forster streets, and the Harris building. Front and Vine streets. Classes will be open to both men and women and will be free. All necessary supplies for the men and women will be furnished with out cost also. The Americanization movement here is part of a nation-wide cam paign to teach all foreignborn resi dents to speak the English language entirely. A census which has been almost completed shows that about 4 per cent, of the parents of city school children use a language other than English at all times in the home and that in an additional two per cent, of the families English and a foreign language are spoken. In addition to the study of Eng lish, Mr. Bicklev has announced he has plans under consideration which will provide recreation also for the men and women. The hours for the classes will be from 7.30 o'clock un til 9 o'clock. The first part of the evening's work will be a study of language and American customs. The remainder of the time will be used for other activities which will include debating, glees clubs and probably the formation of a band or an orchestra. Red Cross to Show Picture of Activities in Wartime A special film entitled "For All Hu manity" visualizing the many activi ties of the American Red Cross will serve as part of the broad publicity plan for the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. The picture is intended to show the people of the United States what becomes of the service they give and the millions they subscribe to the Red Cross. It is in three reels, many scenes of which were taken under tire in France. The story of the picture was filmed in the studios of the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation, with such stars as Jane Vance, Jack Harland. Gloria Goodwin and Betty Clark in the principal roles. No definite date for the showing of the picture in Harrisburrr has yet been set. 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(Agents Wanted) THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING COMPANY Printing : Binding : Designing I Photo-engraving Die Stamping t Plate-printing HARRISBURG, PA. L •■=-=-===g= ======= 3B=i 1 THURSDAY EVENING, IMPROVEMENT IN GRJP EPIDEMIC [Continued from First Page.] or two are making those state- M ments without any authority," Dr. i Raunick said. 1 i Not Yet Safe He also explained that there has i been a general decrease in new cases i of influenza, but that he expects an ; increase in pneumonia cases and more deaths from pneumonia than I cases reported. The reason for this, according to DB. Raunick, is that a number of persons recovering from 1 influenza believe they are well and ! expose themselves, get sick again i and pneumonia develops. "Other ' cities are having that experience and Harrisburgers should profit by the warning. Those who are recov ering from influenza should he par ticularly cautious and do everything possible to prevent a second illness and the danger of contracting pneu monia." Undertakers in the city report in creasing difficulty in securing coffins with the result that many bodies are being held in morgues. In some in stances. funerals have been delayed. One undertaker said that coffins to be used to-day as the services were to be held this morning, had not reached the city until last night. Only 60 in 'Hospital At the Emergency Hospital there are only sixty patients now. Four were admitted yesterday. No deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours at the institution, but Charles , Stees, one of the patients who has been making a hard tight for life, is now in a critical condition. Eight deaths from influenza and none from pneumonia were reported to day for which burial certificates were issued by the local Bureau of Vital Statistics. Undertakers reported that the delay in getting coffins is one of the reasons for the decrease in applications for the certificates. Marked improvement in the influ enza epidemic situation in the last twenty-four hours was noticeable, according to city health officials who reported a decrease in deaths and new cases and a big Increase In re coveries. The exact number of new cases could not be estimated by the au thorities. but Health Officer Raunick said the situation has improved greatly. Of the new cases which are developing, it is believed that they in the same families, other per sons in the house contracting the disease because they came in con tact with those who are just recov ering. In addition to closing all stores again on Saturday night, churches and Sunday schools will remain closed. Dr. Raunick stating that the i ban on public gatherings must be continued until all danger is past, i Seventeen deaths were reported vesterday and nineteen on Tuesday, both records about 25 per cent, lower than on the same days last week. Gain in New Cases Reported Yesterday New cases of influenza reported yesterday were 1,500 ahead of Tues day, the total for the day being 5,839, of which Pittsburgh reported over 1,000 alone. The hard and soft coal regions continue to be cen ters of the disease, according to state authorities. A statement issued says: "The ! city of Scranton now reports a total of 8,477 cases and the disease is re ported to be spreading rapidly in Uarbondale, Taylor and Dunmore. The epidemic is apparently decreas ing in Adams county, and Montgom ery county and conditions are im proving in Delaware county and in i Northampton county. Harrisburg ! and the lower end of Dauphin coun ty continue to show improvement. The total number of deaths front influenza and its complications re ! ported up to 1 o'clock to-day is 14,- ! 451. The number of deaths from pneumonia. 5,68. A total of 20,134 deaths since October 1." In regard to Dr. Charles B. Pen rose's charges. Acting Commission- A nything Today, Madam ? 1 1 i er Royer said last night that at the i time the closing order was issued j he had not conferred with the state ] advisory board, but "subsequently ! had secured the written approval of five out of six of the members." Dr. Royer stated further that in dis cussing the matter of a meeting of the board a week later Dr. Pen rose had raised a dissenting voice. Dr. Royer in a formal letter ad i dressed to Dr. Penrose assured the j latter that he was at liberty to make a statement through the newspapers regarding his opposition to the or der. A statement issued by Dr. Roy er says: "Regarding the manner in i whicli the order has been received and observed throughout the state, the evidence tends to show that | these drastic regulations are meet- I ing with te approval of the best citi zens of Pennsylvania." Epidemic Grows in State's Coal Regions I The State Department of. Health j issued this statement to-day: I "Reports received at the State De ' partment of Health up until noon In dicate the influenza epidemic is ex tending rather rapidly in the coal ! towns in Cambria. Westmoreland, I and Allegheny counties. There is a j great need for doctors and nurses I in these districts and it is feared con -1 ditions will rapidly grow worse and i a larger number of cases develop be fore the peak of the epidemic is | reached. The epidemic is also in ! creasing in Luzerne and Lackawanna ! counties. The disease is apparently ! abating in the city sections of Ches- I ter, Philadelphia. Lancaster, Berks and Schuylkill, but is extending in the rural sections of Berks. Lebanon i and Lancaster counties. Dr. Draper Coming Here to Help in Epidemic "Dr. B. Franklin Royer, Acting Commissioner of Health, announced to-day that Dr. Draper, past assistant surgeon, of the Public Health Ser vice, who has been active in fighting j the influenza epidemic in Massachu setts has been transferred to Penn- PI A BHtflßmn TELEGRAPH sylvania to co-operate with the State Department of Health. He is ex pected to arrive in Harrisburg this evening." Three Deaths of Influenza at Harrisburg Hospital Three deaths were reported at the Harrisburg Hospital since yesterday as the result of the Spanish influ enza epidemic. Eight new patients were admitted. The deaths are: Mrs. Lizzie Schumaeh, 1201 North Front street, aged 33, died at 1.15 yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Maude Wilson, 1827 Susque hanna street, aged 22, died at 1.50 this morning. Francesco Chaves, New Cumberland, aged 34, died at 8.30 this morning. Miss Katharine Naughton, assist ant superintendent at the hospital, is seriously ill with Influenza. Miss 'Naughton worked every day. and late I into the nights,"Jduring the epidemic jof Influenza. Ignoring the danger of overworking among j influenza pa- Uients, Miss Naught kept at her | tasks until she herself fell a victim :to the disease. She has been ill all I week, and it was reported this mom | ing that her condition was no bet ! ter. Anarchist Band Is Convicted by U. S. New York. Oct. 24.—Five of the 1 six Russians who have been on trial in Federal Court on charges of hav- I ing violated the espionage act were found guilty by the Jury after an | hour's deliberation last night. The defendants, all avowed anarchists, tried vainly to introduce evidence designed to discredit the Sisson reve lations concerning German and Bol sheviki duplicity in Russia. BRITISH IX RAISMES FOREST London, Oct. 24. The Raismes forest, north of Valenciennes, has been occupied by the British. North of te forest the British have cap tured the villages of Thiers, Haute Rive and Thun. WILSON'S LAST WORD GOES TO GERMANY [Continued from First Page.] hrough with separate dealings with he German authorities. The whole s tuation is before the co-belligerent governments and the future an nouncements will be of the United States and' the Allied governments acting in concert. The decision of America's co-belli gerents is awaited with scarcely less interest than is the effect of the note on the German people, who plainly are told that the United States can not discuss peace with those who hitherto have been masters of Ger many's policy because the nations of the world do not and cannot trust them. If these military masters and monarchial autocrats must be dealt with now or in the future, the Presi dent said, the United States and the Allies can demand nothing but sur render. Allies to Name Terms In notifying Germany that its re quest had been transmitted to the Allies, the President said he had suggested to them that if they are disposed to effect peace upon the terms and principles now accepted by the present German authorities, their military advisers and those of ' the United States be asked if they j deem an armistice possible from a j military point of view, to submit 1 terms of an armistice that will in sure the associated governments un | restricted power to enforce peace I upon Germany. In the view of military observers ■ here, sucli terms would include oc cupation of strategic points in Ger > many; demobilization of the German | armies, the turning over of the : German navy and the removal of the means of equipping military and | naval forces. House Tax on Distilled Spirits Cut by Senate ' Washington, Oct. 24.—The new tax | on inheritances, proposed by the Sen ' ate Finance Committee in raising I war revenues proposes that inheri tances received by heirs, instead of estates left by deceased persons, shall be the subjects of federal taxation, after state Inheritance taxes are Im ■ posed. I The revenue of the government probably would be helf of the sllO,- 000,00 0 levy on estates proposed In the House bill. Returns from life Insurance policies under $25,000 would not be taxed under the committee's plan. Reduction of the rate on no-bever age distilled spirits and alcohol or dered to-day by the committee, was said to be in response to Interests urging it in order to stimulate pro : ductton of spirits needed for muni tions and also to reduce the coßt of medicines. The House had fixed the tax at $4,40 a gallon. Recently the Senate committee reduced that to $8.20 and to-day to $2.20 a gallon, which is the rate under present law. Bandit Flees Holdup Scene; Leaving $20,000 Booty Hamilton, Ont,, Oct, 24,—A lone bandit held up an express messenger and his assistant in the express car of a Orand Trunk Railroad train as it was leaving Sunnyslde yesterday, obtained a sealed bag containing $20,000 and leaped from the train. The greater part of the stolen money was recovered in the after i noon in a house near the scene of | the holdup, The bandit is still at j large. i ia HUN MACHINES DOWNED fly AnociaUd Prss With the American Army North west of Verdun, Oct, 04, — Reports of ! American air victories yesterday icontinued to peach the officials until I after dark, and It is known that at least twelve German machines have been brought down, while confirms-, jtlon of the destruction of several 1 other* la asked- i FRENCH HEROES HELPED SAVE CIVILIZATION These French heroes, hopeless ly crippled in the war for freedom, got their wounds in helping to save civilization from the Hun. They are cheerful despite their incapacity. It is going to be one of the problems of reconstruction to tind places in which men like this may continue to earn the living of themselves adn their families. YANKEE SOLDIERS' SHOES ARE TO FIT New System Adopted at Camp Dix Is to Be Used Generally •Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. — "The soldiers with the best feet are the best fighters!" is a slogan of the American armies. Uncle Sam al ready has the best-shod army in the field, but under the new plans of the War Department, adopted at Camp Dix and soon to be extended to ev ery post in the United States and its possessions, foot comfort will be a guaranteed factor in every American soldier's field experience. Not only is the War Department determined that only the very best of materials shall go into Army shoes, but the shoes of each fighter will be fitted 'with as great care as milady uses in choosing her gloves. Sizes to Be Recorded Recruits soon to report at Camp Dix for training will be introduced to this new system. They will learn that literally as well as figuratively Uncle Sam builds his armies "from i the ground up." The foot measure ments of each soldier hereafter will be personally responsible for the ac curacy of these measurements. The measure of his civilian foot will be taken when he comes to camp and this will be changed until it indi cates the measurements of his mili tary feet, developed by weeks of marching. There will be no guesswork about fitting the shoes . The Quartermas ter Corps is prepared to furnish foot measuring machines to organizations throughout the camp for the use of supply officers. Experience has shown the supply officers that many recruits do not know the size of the shoes that will fit theip feet. Often they think they know, when, from vanity's sake, they have been cramping a No. 9 hoof into a IVi boot and wondering why they con tinually suffer from corns and bun ions. Dame Fashion had no part in creating the Army shoe, and for the first time in many years these re cruits will learn the meaning of real foot comfort. Under the new system the foot measurers will need to become art ists at their work. Both feet of each soldier will be measured. If the feet require shoes specially mated, they will have them. If there is a troublesome corn or bunion, the proper stretching of the leather to cover it will be arranged. As the soldier will want his shoes to fit snugly on the march, the final measurements will be taken when the soldier with a forty-pound pack on his back puts his feet into his shoes of the size indicated by the machine. Experts will examine the fitted shoe to see whether it is suit ed to the wearer. All Army shoes must allow for sufficient vacant space in the front to prevent toe In- Jury. Under no circumstances must the vacant space In front of the great toe be less than two-thirds of an Inch, or the width of the wear er's thumb. Fitted With Great Care As great care is now taken in fit ting socks as in adjusting shoes. The home-knitted socks pf early war days, if soldiers were allowed to wear them, might have carried many a boy to defeat. Home folks who send socks to the recruits will be Interested in an abstract from the new orders which reads: Big Deficiency Bill Reaches the Senate; Speed Shown in Program Washington, Oct, 84,—The mill, tary deflctneoy bill, carrying $9,348,. 523,888, only a slight decrease from the original House draft, was re ported to the Senate to-day by the appropriations committee, Anticipating speedy passage of the bill by the Senate the House to-day Interrupted Its three-day recess pro gram and adjourned until to-morrow so that no delay might result in sending the measure to conferenoe, Among the increases agreed to by the Benate committee was an appro priation of $600,000 for interstate quarantine service by the Public Health Servioe and an additional $900,000 for contingencies of the army, A section amending the trading with the enemy act to give the alien property custodian autnority to take over property held by an enemy or an ally of an enemy not holding a license with the United States was inserted, The House provision giving the government, through the War De partment, the report to acquire lands .for hospital purposes was stricken lout, OCTOBER 24, 1918. SUICIDES FEWER IN TEN CITIES Pacific Slope Leads, San Diego Having 43.2 Per Cent.; 1917 Lowest Suicides in 1917 in 190 American cities showed a rate of 1C.2 per 100.- 000 of population, against an average of 19.2 for the preceding years since 1902. The subject was reviewed In a recent issue of the Spectator, an in surance paper, by Frederick U Hotl man. statistician of the Prudential insurance Company. He says the rate proves the rela tion of suicidal frequency to economic conditions, as reflected in the propor tion of business failures, which was exceptionally low during last year's commercial and industrial activities, in his opinion, however, the suicide evil affords a field for the corrective influences of prevalent medicine, of the churches and of society. Last year's rate was the lowest in seventeen years. The figure was 2L7 in 1908. 20.5 in 1911. 20.7 in 1914. and 17.6 in 1916. Suicides last year in creased in twenty-four cities and de creased in seventy-six. In Manhat tan and the Bronx the rate was 14.3, or 22.7 per cent, less than the aver age of the preceding four years. In ( Brooklyn it was 11.8, a decrease of 11.3 per cent.; in Hoboken 12.8. a de crease of 56.3 per cent., but in New port 22.9, an increase of 67.2 per eent (jolrirn Gate's Bad Distinction San Diego, San Francisco and Sac ramento. with 1917 rates leading the list with 43.2. 41.6 and 33.3. respec tively, prompt the reviewer to say that suicidal frequency is higher in California than in anv other section of the country, though each of these cities showed in 1917 decreases from I the preceding average. The urban suicide rate declined In every section of the country last year, that tendency being most pro : nounced in the Southern States and 1 next in the Pacific States. In the 100 i cities used for the tables, the white j rate last year was 22.6 and the negro . rate 5.6. The general rate was 13.5 ! per 100,000 in cities of less than 250,- 000 population, and 17.1 for cities of more than 250,000. The highest rate. 9.3. was in May. and the lowest 7.5 in December. Firearms caused 11.4 per cent, of the suicides; poison. 43; strangula tion, 10.9; asphyxiation. 17.7; pierc ing instruments. 3.3; drowning. 8.6; jumping from high places. 3: crush ing. 6, and other methods. 1.6. Sol diers and sailors supplied 76 suicides last year, and 266 in the period of 1913-1917. compared with 219 in 1908- 1912 and 179 in 1903-1907. Calls It Appalling Waste "Regardless of the fact that self murder has become almost common place." Mr. Hoffman says, "the sub ject is receiving practically no con sideration from church or sate. As a problem In social economics, the waste of human lives is more ap palling than the corresponding and largely Inevitable sacrifice of life In every day Industry. Against the esti mated number of nearly 17.000 sui cides in the continental United States during 1917, there were certainly not more than 25,000, possibly not more than 22,000, fatal industrial accidents. "Just as on the one hand, the church Is indifferent, for practically no suicide attracts the slightest at tention of the pulptt. so. on the other hand, the state is indifferent, for no qualified and thorough investigation of the question has ever been made by publlo authority. Equally Indiffer ent is the press, for it Is the rarest occurrence that a suicide attracts editorial attention. And fully as in comprehensible Is the apathy of ap plied psychology, which, though con cerning itself with practically every other aspect of the aberrant mind, leaves suicide untouched, as appar ently a subject of no publlo concern." City and County to Join on Memorial Roll For Dauphin's Men in Field City and county commissioners will hold a joint meeting to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock in the Council Chamber to decide on the erection of a permanent honor roll for the men from Harrlsburg and Dauphin eounty who are now in service, A few weeks ago plana for the ereotlon of auch a memorial were discussed In Council and It was de elded by the city officials to discuss the question at a conference with the eounty commissioners so that the entire district oould be represented. One of the honor rolls whloh has been suggested would previde suffi cient apace to include all the names of men from the otty and county who are in war service, A system of notalon also Is arranged so that when a soldier Is killed, wounded or missing It can be shown on the honor rolli As Age Advances the Liver Requires 3K occulonal slifht stimulation, GARTER'S LITTLE *• AKgB Bimi LIVER PILLS earrsct CONSTIPATION, ST CdoHm r Ple Facet Ctrt.r' Iran Mb Brtish Take Villages as Battle Continues London. Oct. 24. —Sharp fighting continued up to a lato hour yesterday evening on the battle front south of Valenciennes, where the British at tacked yesterday, morning, says to day's official announcement. The British have crossed the Ecall lon river and have captured the vil lages of Neuvllle, Salesches and Bc&udlgnies. A German counterat tack late yesterday was repulsed. This morning the attack was resum ed all along the front between the Sambre-et-Olse canal and the Scheldt. French Hold All Gains Despite Counterattacks Paris, oet. 24. —Southeast of Le Ca teau French troops have crossed the Sambre canal east of Grand Verly, says the war office statement to-day. The French maintained their gains east of the canal in spite of strong German counterattacks. South of Montcarnet further to the cast, the French have Increased their gains north of Nlzy-le-Comte. Along the Berre there was lively fighting north of Mesbrecourt. BCMANTAAS CLOSE PORTS London, Oct. 24.—The Btrtlsh ad miralty rcpor's 'list Germ in wireless dispatches picked up at Moscow are to the effect that the Rumanian gov ernment has declared all Roman tan ports on the Black Sea and on tha Danube closed. I Treat that Lumbago quictLly | Take ft at the outset. Go to fwr anr- ■ | est druggisr or dealer ia mrftinne aad get a V j bottle of DILL'S Balm of Life • ft (For Internal or E afdrnri tta) ' | A marvelous Gnfanent t**r 1 neuralgia, lambsgo, swell imp nl all antra, ■ sprains, sosmeaa. 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