PRESIDENT PAYS HOMAGE AT TOMB OF FRENCH HERO Visits Lafayette Grave and Lays Own Wreath as Tribute to Memory By Associated Press , Fat-Is, Dec. 16. Entirely unan nounced. President Wilson yester day drove to the old Picpus Ceme tery to visit the tomb of Lafayette. The amazed aged gatekeeper was almost too flustered to unlock the gates when he learned who his call er was. The President insisted on taking his own wreath, contrary to the custom here by which the florist delivers the wreath and the donor makes the visit and leaves his card. The President sent Admiral Gray son to buy the wreath and after some difficulty in explaining to the florist, who could not understand why the traditional custom was be ing broken obtained it and drove to the tomb. On his personal card. President Wilson wrote this inscription: "IN" MEMORY OF THE GREAT LAFAYETTE FROM A FELLOW SERVANT OF LIBERTY" The news of the President's visit spread rapidly to the convent near by, and as he left he pasped through lines of aged nuns, who came out to pay their respect. Colcnliagen, Dec. 16.—At a mass meeting of citizens yesterday presid ed over by the mayor of Copen hagen, the following resolution was adopted: •President Wilson, a great assem bly of Danish men and women, rep resenting all classes of society, wel come you to Europe. They thank you for your work up to this time for a just and continual peace, they wish you luck in carrying out your program to secure peace and wish you luck in carrying out your pro gram to secure order, liberty and progress in the world. 'As Danish citizens we greatly ad mire you because the realization of one of your principles—the right Of free determination shall reunite again all peoples who are Danish." Stockholm. Dec. 16. Ernest Trygger, leader of the Swedish Con servative party, and Admiral S. A. A. Lindnian. former foreign minis ter and a member of the same party, have sent the following message to President Wilson: "Considering the close ties of friendship, gratitude and admiration connecting the people in Sweden with your noble nation since the declaration of independence of the E'nited States, we beg on behalf of the Swedish Conservation party, to render you homage when setting foot on the soil of Europe. " May the noble principles of truth and justice impressing your personage lead to a peace of reconciliation between the peoples." BRIEFS FROM THE BIG NEWS EVENTS By Associated Press New York. —The steamship Stock holm. of the Swedish-American the Statue of Liberty last night on Line which was forced to anchor oft account of the fog, brought home a number of American refugees who were badly treated by the Bolsheviki in Petrograd. New York. —Passengers on the French steamship La Lorraine which arrived here to-day included Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Mrs. Vin cent Astor, Mrs. W. K. Yanderbilt and Mary Garden. Quantico, Ya.—Secretary Daniels to-day awarded commissions to 430 marines who havo completed the sixteen weeks' course at the third marine officers training camp here. Washington.—Expansion of the government's facilities for promot ing foreign trade was urged in the annuat report of the chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, made public to-day. DR. LAVERTY RETURN'S TO HOSPITAL EN IT Lieut. G. L. Laverty, Harrisburg physician, formerly of 404 North Third street, who had been suffer ing with pneumonia and had been sent to Nice, France, has fully re covered and been returned to his hospital, the largest in France. makes Its own way. living makes the smile. INSTANT POSTOM instead of coffee puts many a man on the way to smiling health and success. "THERE'S A REASON" MONDAY EVENING, BURLESON CUTS COST OF TELEPHONE TALK New Rales Establish Night Service Charge; Prevent Phone Swindlers Using Lines to Converse Without Paying For Connection Established; Many Heavy Reductions By Associated Press 1 Washington, Dec. 16.—Effective on January 21, long distance and toll telephone rates are to undergo sweeping reductions, according to an announcement jnade by Postmaster ; General Burleson last night. IhO; most striking change is seen in the, restoration of the night rate, dis-; continued by the American Tele-1 phone and Telegraph Company a; number of years ago because of the; bulk of business placed on the wires, after 6 o'clock in the evening. A, basic charge of 6*4 mills a mile air-j line mileage and half the day j for night service up to midnight and one-fourth the day rate after that hour are announced by the Postmas ter General. The effect of the new rates is to equalize the toll and long distance j charges over the country, remove i disparities and provide a scientitlc | basis for future reductions contem- j plated as unification of telephone j and telegraph wire' proceeds. , "A night service rate," said the ; statement, "which is one-half the dav rate, is established between 8.30 ' and 12 p. m. Between midnight and ; 4.30 a. m., the night rate is one- j fourth the day rate. These are great- j er reductions in night rates than; have ever been made in any country, and doubtless will be extensively used, especially for social and fam- [ ily purposes. A erson might talk' from San Francisco to New York for about $4 whereas the day rate is j approximately sl6. "A station to station service is l established such as now exists in the j balance of the world, that is. when | a connection is established with a j man's house or office, the opportun- j ity to converse is provided and the i station to station rate, which is the J basis rate, applies and is payable ; whether the particular person de- > sired responds or not. This rate up to twenty-four miles is at the rate of • five cents for six miles and for greater distances five cents for each j eight miles, or about six and one- , fourth mills a mile. The distance is' computed by air line methods and | not by pole line or public highways, j The airline distances are commonly j about 100 miles, when the others j would run 150 miles. "It requires about two and one- | half times as much work to estab- j lish connection with a particular per- i son than the station to station serv- j ice. Hitherto the rates have been the • same for both kinds of services. | nothing being paid, however great ■ the services performed on the fail-; ure of the telephone institution to; secure the particular person. The < particular person service has also; been used to defraud the govern ment out of its toll revenues. Design- | PATRONS NOT TO BE SELECTED Public Service Commission Renders Decision in Im portant Service Case | In deciding that the Shenango Valley Electric Company must fur ! nish service to a resident of Farrell who complained that the company had refused because of the cost of extension, Public Service Commis sioner John S. Rilling jrules, "It can not choose and serve only the sec- I tions immediately remunerative. ! Whenever required to do so it should, at its own cost and expense, make all reasonable needed exten sions. The law does not contem plate that the patron provide the capital to make reasonable addi tions or extensions. • • • The lo cation, future prospects and all other conditions must be considered. ♦ * • The high prices prevailing, as well as the scarcity of labor and the difficulty in securing capital do not alone constitute a sufficient ground to determine a- proposed extension to be unreasonable." Mr. Rilling says that under no circumstances should the burdens imposed by ab normal conditions be placed on the shoulders of the patrons. In another opinion Commissioner Rilling dismisses the complaint of the Bedford-Fulton Telephone Co., ngainst "the Chapman's Run Mutual Telephone Co., an unincorporated company, finding that both had built lines along a road prior to enact ment of the public service company law in 1913 and saying, "Where two telephone companies are operating in the same territory there is no authority in the commission to pre- 1 vent a patron from changing from one to the other." NEW PHONE RATES Re-establish the night rate dis continued a number of years ago. Make the night rate one-half i the day rate from 8.30 to mid- | I night. Make the rate after midnight t one-fourth the day rate. Permit a New Yorker to talk . J to San Francisco for $4, as against | i the present rate of sl6. Abolish the three-minute rate in short-distance talking. Reduce the smallest toll rate for short-distance talking from 15 cents to 5 cents and 10 cents. Discontinue the practice of ob taining free service by fraud, liaise the particular person ! service rate to a basis that will ! yield the Government a return for i the extra expense involved in es tablishing the connection, i Show that it requires telephone operators more than twice the i time and work to establish a P"?* I ttcular service connection than it does a station-to-station oall. Discloss that designing persons I use a code whereby they obtain free service on the pretext of S wanting a particular person con -1 nection established, thereby de ! livering their message to the per ; son answering the 'phone without I charge to themselves. ' ing persons employ codes under I which, although the desired tele- I phone is reached, the particular per j son is said not to be there but words i of explanation given from his phone I answer all the purposes of the call ! under the code arrangement. "The particular person service is | not discontinued, but the rate, there- I fore, is so modified as to prevent • these abuses and compensate the 1 telephone service in part for the ex- Itra expense of labor and plant in volved. and a charge of twenty-five • per cent, of the station-to-station rate is made for such service, when ; the particular person'is secured, and | a report charge of twenty-five per I cent, of the station-to-station rate is ; made when the house or office tele | phone is obtained and his where i abouts or refusal to talk is reported. ! "In many large sections of the • country the smallest toll rate has ! been not less than fifteen cents. Un ' der the new scheme for short dis | tances the rates are reduced to five j cents and ten cents for the eheap ' est form of service and the person | can talk five minutes as compared ; with three minutes now, or in some ' cases only two minutes or one tnin ; ute. Free toll areas where the ex j chango rate was designed to cover j the free service or a low charge therefore are not affected by this or- I der." HUGE GROWTH IN OLEO LICENSES Commissioner Foust Makes Statement Showing Way the Business Jumps From January 1 to December 5, I according to statement given out by i Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust, j 78 licenses were issued to sell oleo j margarine at wholesale, 6,160 to | sell at retail, and 221 issued to j hotels, restaurants and boarding ! houses, making a total of 5,459. j During the entire year of 1917, ; there were 4,364 licenses issued, j Twelve years ago, when James Foust was appointed commissioner, there were less than 400 licenses in the entire state, scarcely any east of the Allegheny mountains, To-day there are dealers in every city, town, hamlet and crossroads selling oleo margarine under a license in accord ance with the provisions of the oleo- I margarine law. The high price of butter and the elimination of fraud I through prosecutions have taken ! away the odium from the product, j It is conceded to be wholesome and lis a cheap substitute for butter. During the last two years vegetable j fats have been used in the manu j facture of oleomargarine in addition to animal fats. | The commissioner further states that a process has been discovered in Norway by which a butter substi tute can be manufactured exclusive ly from Norwegian fish oils. Accord ing to a report in a Norwegian news paper, a committee of Norwegian provisions department has succeeded in manufacturing a butter substitute from fish oils which is as good as any of the befit kinds of margarine hitherto placed on the market in Norway. The production of the sub stitute will, it is stated, be under taken by a refinery which alone can produce sufficient to cover the re quirements of the country. The pro vision director will purchase the | fish oils required. In addition to ; whale oil, all kinds of fish oils will I be used, and particularly oil from | herrings. It is anticipated that the [ new butter substitute would be placed on the market about the mid dle of December. It will probably be | dearer than ordinary margarine. Revolt in Mexico Is Near; Carranza to Be Overthrown Washington, Dec. 1C. —Latest ad vices reaching Washington to-day from Mexico say that a new revolu tion is brewing in that country and that the Carranza government will be overthrown'. i The storm center of the new revolt is Carranza's effort to. seize the oil wells and shut out American invest ments. Disturbed conditions in the coun try south of the Rio Grande were revealed when the American steam ship Monterey reached New York yesterday and reported tbat when it was at Tampico there was a clash between the navy guard on the vessel and the Mexican customs guards in which a Mexican was killed and an American wounded. 1 CO-OPERATION NEEDED BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR A plea for co-operation between the employe and employer, was voiced by Dr. Robert Bagneil, pas tor of Grace Methodist church, in an eloquent sermon last night. Dr. Bagneil spoke on "The New Outlook for Capital and Labor." "The public Is entitled to protection," he declar ed. He urged that there be no more strikes and that the manufacturer cease from fixing exorbitant prices. HAJURISBURG QMR> TELEGRAPH: Ex-Crown Prince Flees Wrathful Dutch Women Amtcrdam, Dec. 16. —A crowd of women from Amsterdam recently went to the island of Wteringen and made p. hostile demonstration against the former German crown prince, who is interned there, ac cording to a report published by the Telegraaf. Frederick William, it is said, saved himself from the hands of tfye women by fighting. The police force on the island later took action which resulted in a Ger man baron, who was staying at a hotel there, and the Amsterdam wo men leaving the island. OFFICER ASSAULTED When Officer Whiting attempted to arrest Frank Dean. 1106 North Cameron street, on Saturday night, for being drunk and raising a dis turbance about his home, he suf fered several severe bruises abqut the face and body inflicted by the intoxicated man. In the melee one sleeve as torn from the officer's coat. Dean was finally landed in the Dauphin county prison with the aid of other officers. *T T▼ T W t'tTTT'T'TT ▼ TT▼T▼>' ▼TTT T "▼ T.T.TATT T_~T r.!T.T. V'.VJW T_T .▼ .▼. SOUTTER'S 25c. DEPARTMENT STORE ( | Bay Here Not Alone Because Prices Are Lower, Bat Because Qualities Are Better. ; A Myriad Of Gifts For Every Member Of The Family Converts The Gift Buying j Problem From One Of Perplexity To One Of Pleasure Here ! ► ; Qualities Are The Best—Prices Are The Lowest— ; |jf Insuring Worthy Gifts At Liberal Savings •; | J ► . _ '•< j ► Thousands of gift articles gathered here this season afford the widest range of selection we have ever offered. It is doubtful < ► indeed, if you, will find a wider range of appropriate gifts anywhere in the city so economically priced as you will find at this big store. \ ► These suggestions may help you to make up your gift list: j< For "Mother" For "Sister For "Father" For "The Kiddies" " 2 APRONS. # SHEET MUSIC, | FOUR-IN-HAND TIES, IRON TRAINS, ? 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Sadler, of Cumberland county, is to be the next State High way Commissioner, according to in formation gleaned Saturday from close friends of Governor-elect Wil liam C. Sprout, declares the Phila delphia Inquirer. Mr. Sadler and members of his family have been stalwart Republi cans for years and have been sup porters of Boies Penrose since the senior Senator succeeded the late Matthew Stanley Quay in the leader ship in Republican politics in Penn sylvania. Mr. Sadler is not looked upon as a politician in the generally accepted version of that term, although,'like Senator Sproul, he is credited with giving attention to public nffnirs 365 days in the year. .His most recent activities have been as executive manager of the Pennsylvania Com mittee on National Defense and upon him has devolved much of the re sponsibility for the work at the headquarters of this committee in the Finance Committee in this city. Ever since the United States en tered the war he has given practi cally all of his time to this patriotic service. He is a tireless worker and has shown executive ability to a re markable degree. He Is a man of affairs In his home county and in the town of Carlisle where he re sides he is looked upon as the lead ing citizen among the younger men of the community. Ho is interested in banking, DECEMBER 16, 19IS. ' manufacturing. in transit lines, farming and in other lines of activ ity and has been one of the leaders in the Cumberland Valley in the de velopment of good roads. The Lin coln Highway, which passes through that district, hns' been among the other good rood enterprises which have had his special fostering friendship, and his admirers say that official announcement of his ap pointment by Governor-elect Sproul will immediately meet with hearty approval by all who have been in terested in state highway develop ment. In view of the fact that Governor elect Sproul has been a champion of good roads for years and that to hint more than to anyone else must be given credit for tho ultimate passage of tho $50,000,000 good ronds constitutional amendment the selection of Mr. Sadler may be taken as u personal one as he and Senator Sproul have been intimate friends for years. I Governor-elect Sproul has In con templation an elaborate program for the Improvement of state highways, and with a mun of the character of Mr. Sadler at the heud of the State Highway Department, he will be as sured of a faithful and successful fulfillment of his ambition in the way of publio road development! throughout the state. Mr. Sadler is chairman of the commission which was authorised by the State Legislature to select a site to/ the establishment of a home for inebriates. LARGE AUDIENCE ' J HEARS "Y" LECTURE "We go Just where we look," de clared Captain Will Arthur Dletrlck, commanding officer of the S. A. T. C. at Temple University. Philadelphia, addressing the Sunday afternoon men's mnss meeting in Fahnestock Hall yesterday nfternon. His subject wns "Where We Go and Why We Go," a study in the psychology of temptation. He painted f '®* quent words a picture of Christ s temptations and drew from it a les son. "The bes ay to control tempta tionw is to look in the right direc tion," lie urged. The afternoon program at next Sunday's meeting will be of a Christmas nature, it was announced. Stereopticon pictures will be used. Prof. C. A. Ellenberger, organist at the Camp Curtln Memorial Metho dist Church is working out the program. J. Horace McFarland will read Christmas stories and Christ mas carols will be sung by the men. 7
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