6 FIERY RUSSIAN HITS AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM Pittsburgh Teacher Is Ordered From Platform at New- York Meeting / t Ry Associated Press New York, Dec. IC.—General M. K. OberoutchctT, who formerly com manded the military district of Kiev, but who yesterday presided at a , meeting here of the federation of Russian societies, sternly ordered a speaker to leave the platform when he would not obey his rulings and then threatened to clear the gallery if tho "booing" which followed did not rense. He finally was forced to suspend the session until the dis turbance ended. Proposed establishment in this country of a "people's university" was fieing discussed. After Professor Alexander Petrunkevitch, of Yale, had opposed the plan and Professor M. Galatzky, of the Russian society for Unity, had endorsed it, M. Vor onetzevitcli, a Pittsburgh teacher, mounted the rostrum. * He was wildly applauded when he attacked "the school board system of the emintry." which lie declared al lowed "insanitary" conditions to pre vail in the schools. He was called to order on the ground, that "criticisms of systems were put of order," but soon launched another attack on tho schools of New York, Chicago, Phil adelphia and Pittsburgh for their "lack of liberality." It wak then that he was ordered to leave the plat form. • Tree Committee Searches Mountains For Evergreen Big Enough For Christmas Members of the committee to se lect the large tree to be used for the municipal Christmas tree celebra- J tion expect to locate one late this j afternoon or to-morrow. This morn- | irig the committee went to Cove i Allen and spent several hours look- ! \ ing for a suitble specimen. One large j •same size as the first one located, it | tance from the road and there may ] be some difficult in moving it. If an other one can be found about the i same size as the first one locaed, it j will be taken. On the committee are | Prank R. Musser, chairman: Arthur | H. Bailey, Warren R. Jackson, I George G. McFarland and S. S. i Rutherford. J'"inal plans for the celebration j will be made on Friday evening' when the general Christmas tree committee will meet. Reports will be received from all the sub-com mitfees and it is believed arrange ments will be complete at that time so that the program can be made. Tiie site for the tree has been select ed in Market Square and as soon as it is placed a small platform will be erected for the band, chorus and others who will be in charge of the program. FIXED FOR BOOTLEGGING W. H. Head was fined $25 at police court to-day. 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Count Von Reventlow believes Mr. Wilson's consent to the 11 armistice conditions imposed on Germany is "bound to prove inimical to the in fluence of the United Sttttes. in Eu rope and among its associates." ; Social Eveningsymd Movie Entertainments to Begin at the Y. M. C. A. Social evenings and moVie shows for boys will be again on the pro gram at Central Y. M. C. A. begin ning Thursday evening of this week. This announcement was made this morning by A. H. Dinsmore, secre i tury tot boys' work. The program this week will be for members and I their specially invited guests. Tick ets of admission are distributed free , to each younger boy member. Each member of proper age has two tick ets to give to friends. The program the coming Thursday will consist of j five reels of good moving pictures j and some special attractions not al ways announced in advance, j I-ast season these social nights ! for boys proved mighty popular j with the younger boys of the Y. M. C. A., sixty to seventy-five boys be- I ing on hand long before time far the event to begin. From time to time | the boys have the opportunity to j hear a good ten-mjnute talk on an interesting theme. Businessmen have enjoyed talking to the boys, [ who are good listeners. On special j occasions, refreshments are on the | bill, and there is always a change iof program. The social night this I week will be held in the Y. M. C. A. assembly room on the second floor of the building. SOLDIERS AT MARSH RUN WANT XMAS DECORATIONS The soldiers at Marsh Rlurf are making a strong appeal to the citi zens of Harrisburg for Christmas tree decorations. The men are anxi ous to celebrate Christmas in true home style and have appealed to the public to help in this matter. If Christmas decorations of any kind are left at Red Cross headquarters Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert will have them sent to Marsh Run. RETURNING TROOPS PILLAGE IN RUSSIA Cracow. Dec. 16.—-Tens of thou sands of soldiers are moving back and forth across the old Russian frontier. .They come from many nations. All are re*u ruing to their homes and some of them arc pillaging as they go. The further the correspondent penetrated eastward from Vienna, it became more evident that the disease of Bolshevism was threat ening to overturn the normal life of the population. Banking Branch Begins New Year's Work Under Most Favorable Auspices The Harrisburg branch of the Amgfrican Institute of Banking held Its first meeting of the season in the recitation room at Technical High School Friday evening*. A. G. Eden, retiring president, called the meet ing to order and reviewed the work accomplished during his administra tion, and®spoke on tie prospects for the coming year after which F. M. Gilbert, the new president, was introduced. Mr. Gilbert gave a number of timely suggestions and expressed his confidence that at least sixty bank employes would be enrolled in the second year's class. 'The women employes have shown a great interest in the national or ganization, he declared. The class has again been honored by the leadership of John R. Guyer, the attorney, who outlined the work for the coming year and started the class in the book on elementary banking. Mr. 1 Guyer is arranging to have an expert demonstrate the proper use of the adding machine, book posting machine and modern filing devices which go to make for greater banking efficiency. Last year's law class will meet from time to time with Mr. Guyer for review work. The board of governors has strongly urged that all . hank em ployes upite with the institute /and join the class in banking. SCHOOL GIRLS' VACATION- Miss Helen Dunlap'is expected home Friday from Northampton. Mass.. for a holiday visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Dunlap, of the Rodearmcl apartments. Accompany ing Miss Dunlap will be a classmate at Smith College, Miss Margaret Me- Claln,.qf Duluth, who will remalnfcfor the vacation. \ HARXUSBURG v i*ELEGIOPH ARMY AVIATOR LEAVES THE CITY [Continued from First I'uge.] guess was ventured that ho is plot ting proposed aerial mall routes. An interesting bit of information came to light this morning before Lieutenant Tappan left the city. The committee in charge of his recep tion had received no word yesterday of the lieutenant's proposed arrival, consequently the arrow marking the landing place was not set up as a. ! guide to the aviator. A description : of the field, however, had been sent i him by mail. With only this guide | in bis mind, the big plane skilfully was guided over the city and brought to a stop at exactly the spot selected by the committee. Delayed several times during the past few 4ays by storms, during which time Chamber of Commerce I officials bad several times made or ! rangements to meet him. Lieutenant Tappan arrived in Harrisburg, un announced yesterday afternoon. He landed in the large field adjoining the Dauphin county almshouse from which he set forth at 11.40. Leaving Jersey Shore yesterday afternoon at 3.10 o'clock with his mechanician, Roy Yowl, he covered the intervening 100 miles in less than an hour. Entirely unexpected, he had difficulty in finding a land ing place when he reached here and did so only after flying close to the ground during which time he nar rowly escaped colliding with tele graph and telephone poles. He spent the night with A. Carson Stamm, 333 South Thirteenth street. Lieutenant Tappan, flying a two seated Curtis H-4 model machine, was scheduled to leave Ruffalo on December 4; but unfavorable con dition* prevented his departure. Last week he did make ono attempt and got as far as Leldy, near Lock Ha ven, whdre his gasoline supply be came exhausted and he was obliged to land to replenish it. The follow ing day he again started here, but unfavorable conditions caused liim to land at Jersey Shore and one of the wheels and a blade of the plane's propeller were broken when he landed on ground softened by the rains of several preceding days. V. Grant Forres Is of the local reception committee. Other members are E. Clark Cowden, Clark E. Dlehl, Anson P. Dare and R. W. Dowdell. Youthful Robbers Grow * Tired of Stay in City; Are Taken at Reading At a hearing before Justice of the Peace Roush, at Sunbury, on Saturday, Clarion Speering, Ralph Wagner and Paul Docky, three boys charged with breaking into a gar a&e and robbing a Sunbury Store, said they had come to this city after the commission of the crimes, had tired of wandering about the capi tal and then boarded a Philadelphia and Reading freight train for Rend ing. in which city they were taken while trying to dispose of the stolen goods. They testified they ahandoned a stolen Ford car near Sell negro ve, ! stole a flat from along the river and \ rode to Millersburg, where they | bourded a freight train and came! to a point near this city. On the outskirts of the city, they say, they met several other boys wiio had I soien a Ford car and rode with ! them into Harrisburg. They were ; held for trial. J WOMEN ACTIVE FOR RED CROSS MEMBERS [Continued from First Page.] gan the "mopping up" of tlio city and outlying districts this morning. They were determined to surpass last year's total In memberships, and this will not be hard to do, It Is believed, because only 35,000 of the 175,000 people of the district Joined the Red Cross In 1917. That | total, distressingly small as it was, | was an eye-opener at the time. But a lot of water has run under the fridge since December of 1917, and the people of the district have learn ed some very real things about wur work and selfdenlal. Firms Volunteer Drives A number of well known firms in the city Saturday and to-day volun | teered to conduct industrial drives i among their employed. They were: Pipo and Pioe Bending Company. Devinc & Yengle Shoe Company. Sanitary Family Washing Com pany. Indications for a lnrge member ship were so bright that Chairman Jennings did not think industrial drives would be necessary, but in asmuch as the firms named volun teered to canvass their employes, permission was given thcin to go ahead. Bulletin (locs Out Boy Scouts to-day and Saturday distributed niatfy thousand copies of the Red Cross Bulletin issued by Harrhtburg Chapter. This bulletin contains detailed information about what the Chapter has been doing, and about the work that lies ahead of the Red Cross. Hundred Per Cent. Blocks The large city map in front of the courthouse is being used by the lied Cross to show how the city is "carrying on." As a city block gets into the hundred per cent, class — every house on the block displaying the flags indicating membership, that block will be painted green on the map. Not Money; Membership The Red Cross docs not ask for money in the drive which began to day. It seeks memberships. These memberships are only sl. It urges that as many members of a family as possible join the organization. There will be no more campaigns for money. The Red Cross will be supported through the money de rived from memberships. City Needs a llourt "There are 15,000 families in Har risburg,' said Mayor Daniel L. Keister last night. "There are win dows in the home of .each of these 15,000 families. Th6re should be a Red Cross service flag in each of these windows before the week Is over. And the majority of these flags should bear crosses indicating that three or four members of each family belongs to the Red Cross. "We were all loudly patriotic on November 11, when we learned that the armistice bad been signed. The time lias come to cash in that verbal and outward patriotism. Did we mean It? If we-did we will join the Red Cross. "I think (here can be nothing more rlduculous than a form of patriotism which is not evidenced in some other way than by cheering and parading. Consequently I ask every man and woman and child who took part in our big impromptu celebration of November 11 to evi dence his or her feeling of that day by joining the J'ed Cross this week. "We have tig dollars. "Have we ths heaWs?" DECEMBER 16, ms. WILSON PLANS TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH THE TROOPS Great Inner Courtyard of Paris City Hall to He Scene of Ceremonies This Afternoon; Celebrated Singers As semble in Salon of Building; Will Give Banquet fly* Associated Press Q Pnrls, Dec. 16.—President Wilson | anil Premier Clemenceau touched in j only the most general manner the problems of the peace conference in the course of a conversation they had at the Murat residence last eve ning. Mr. Wilson was most im pressed with the premier's person ality and is reported to have ex pressed himself in the most flatter ing terms, remarking: "He is a most prepossessing man." Mr. Wilson accompanied the pre mier to the door, shook hands long and heartily with hint and said: "Thank you: thank you. Good-by till to-morrow." The American President will not! be present at the fetes in honor of i King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, who j arrives on Thursday, but it is prob- j able he and the king will exchange, calls. f It Is understood Mr. Wilson may j visit the American troops on Christ- i lixas and day with then. I at Treves. President Poincare will go to the Murat residence at 2.45 o'clock this, afternoon to conduct President Wil- i son to the city hall, where cere-! monies will take place. The speech-1 making will occur in the great inner j courtyard of the city hall, which has been covered oVer for the occasion and decorated with flags and bunt ing. After the exchaivgV of ad dresses, Mr. Wilson will go through the corridor and up the stairs to the first floor buffet, where luncheon will be served. On the way to the buffet, the party! will pass through the salons, where guests of the day will be grouped. In one of them will be stationed the •'9lngers of St. Gervais," a choir cele brated for its unaccompanied sing ing of the ancient polyphonic music. This assemblage of singers Is at- BIG BUILDING BOOM IS NOW FORECAST [Continued from First Page.] ter slightly, but with the opening of the new year, the movement will assume real proportions. Officials are busy working out their plans, President Gipple, of the Harrisburg Real Estate Hoard, announces. These will he put in operation im mediutely after the first of the new year. Plans are now being made for the opening of headquarters in the central part of the city. To furnish real information to property owners ' and to arouse greater enthusiasm, a real estate booster meeting is plnnned, for the near future. Efforts will be made' to have William A. Garland, presi dent of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and other prominent real estate men come here to address interested persons. Defi nite information will be made with in a short time. . I DANIELS OPENS PRISON FOR 200 Portsmouth, N*. H., Deo. ,16. — Two hundred prisoners were per mitted to leave the naval prison here yesterday in order to reach home by Christmas through the , special •lomoncy ot' Secretary of the Navy Daniels. All of them received dishonorable discharges. They represent nearly every state in the Union. At the same time it was an nounced that at the request of Dieutenant Commander Thomas Mott Osborne, former warden at Sing Sing Prison, 120 men will receive releases on Tuesday as i Christmas presents and will bo restored to full duty in the Navy. I tnehed to the church of St. Gorvnis behind the City Hall, which was • ruck. Us* shell from the German long-range gun on Good Friday, just as Die singers were about to begin I Palcktrina's "Stabat Muter." i On Thursday the President will at i tend n recoptlon given in his honor by the France-America committee. He will give a banquet to President Poincare and eminent politicians and diplomats on Saturday evening. Covers will be laid for seventy. Home, DeC. 16. Pope Benedict I'may request President Wilson to ! coifiient to act as mediator In an effort to rench a reciprocal pact which wiy solve the dissent which has eSclsted between the quirlnal and the Vatican, according to the Popolo Romano. This question, the paper states, will In no case be brought before tho pcaeo conference. NAB AUTO THIEF WHO DASHES LIBERTY [Continued from First Page.] the policemen gave chase. The pa-1 trolmen gained Aipidly and Smith, who had turned into the Mulberry | street bridge, began to climb the railing. Smith's nerve failed him there and ! the patrolmen threatened to shoot j liim if he jumped, lie fvus again j handcuffed and taken buck to jail. A I thorough search of the room showed ] that ho did not have a cent. He was given another hearing in police court) this afternoon when it was said that j several additional charges may be lodged against him. TO HEAR KRtSU OPERA Mrs. Frank Payne and Miss Rnth Fayne. of North Front street left to- ! day for Philadelphia to attend grand I opera. The three short, new Puccini | operas given in the Metropolitan | Operahouse, New York City, Saturday i will be repeated in Philadelphia this evening, and they will hear them. I • 1 i Claim; of United Jewry of World to Be Made at JPeace Table in France By Assoeialtid Press Philadelphia, Dee. 19.—A commit tee to present the claims of the United Jewry of tho World will bo sent to the peace conference abroad. Judge Julian W. Muck, of Chicago, who was elected president of tho American Jewish Congress nt the opening session of the meetings be ing held here, made the announce ment at to-day's session. He declared that he had no ad ministrative power, buf. said the need of such a committee to represent the Jews was manifest and that tho committee would porbably be up pointed before the meetings came to an end. To-dqy's session of the congress, which is meeting here for the pur pose of defining methods whereby," •In eo-operatloh with the Jews of the world, full rights may be se cured for the Jews of all lands and all law's discriminating against them may he abrogated, was gives over almost wholly to business. The various rules which will gov?, ern the proceedings were presented' and adopted by the four hundred delegates front all parts of the Unit ed States. An ovation was accorded Jacob S. Schlft, of New York, when he arose to quite a heated discussion which arpse among the delegates over the adoption of one of governing rules promulgated by the t committec.. He vyns forced to wait .several minutes before he was able to state his views. His suggestions were speedily adopted. , PHILA. DIVISION BREAKS RECORDS [Continued from First Page.] | oArs, if coupled together, would make I a continuous train more than 2,000 | miles in length. Tho average dally I movement was 8,044 cars, or an j average of about one car every ten seconds. On June 2d, 1918, 9,531 cars passed- Columbia, exceeding all previously reported one-day move ments on the Pennsylvania Railroad and establishing what is believed to be the world's record for the great est number of freight cars.that ever passed a given point in 24 hours. The employes of the Philadelphia I Division of the Pennsylvania Rail road, to whom the credit for this record making must bo given, are naturally proud of' the accomplish ment, which was due to their efforts gnd a hearty co-operatiou bptween all departments, The fact 'that they have been placed in the limelight, and tho operation of their own Division I brought to' the personal attention of the President of the United States, has not only quickened their inter est, but has acted as an inspiration to still further effort to keep tho Philadelphia Division at the top of the list of all railroads operating un- I der Director General McAdoo, and to hold the record for heavy -ear movement on the railroad that has been so prominently mentions. Superintendent W. Smith, Jr., of the Philadelphia Division, is ex tending congratulations to the em ployes of his division, who in large numbers are citizens of Harrisburg, t and 'is himself being heartily con gratulated uppn the unusual honor that has come to the division of which ho is the head.
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