By BERNICE GRISWOLD. tRENCH women hare under- j gone stupendoua suffering because of the war. True. I But picture to yourself, If you can, Ihelr sufferings; now that peace has come and labor is! at a standstill. Over a million French women were' employed In munitions factories during! the- war, and already they are being displaced, not because men will take the work over, but because of a tem porary clogglug of the wheels of In dustry, according to Miss Mary Dlng man, director of W. C. A. work for French industrial women, who Is In this country on a short furlough. The barren, cheerless factory dormi tory has been home to these women for the past two years. The cantc-iment compound, devoid of trees or grass, a sea of iaud in rainy weather nnd a sheet of burning clay, plteously scorching every one who crossed it during summer, has been their recrea tion ground, and they were thankful for even that. The women who worked In muni tions were mostly refugees. Now that war is over and the factories are clos ing down —for France was far ahead with its munitions program due to the tireless efforts of these women—wo men convicts, women from the oldest and most aristocratic families of j France and peasant women are alike being turned out into a world which' holds nothing for them —neither hap piness, homes or loved ones. They were hound together by bonds of duli, dazed suffering before. A new sort of democracy holds them together now. They have no place to go. Their homes were destroyed. Houses may he rebuilt, but without money, without family, without worldly goods, with a | memory which is seared by four years! of suffering, what hope is there for 'hese women unless Amerlcun women reach forth nnd prove to them the sis terhood of the world? Factories, after the temporary lull in labor, will be reconstructed to. pro duce the things which were considered necessary to comfort before the war swept all before it and munitions be-' MURDER CHARGE MAY YET GROW OUT OF FIGHT Roy Hicks in Serious Condi lion After Being Badly Beaten and Clubbed A searching police Investigation >f the causes that led to tho almost fatal injuries to Roy Ilicks, aged ibout 30 years, 52 4 Forrest street, S'ill be made by the police depart ment in answer to the repeated itatements by residents of the neigh- | fiorhood of Forrest and Turner' itreets, that his injuries are the re- ! tult of an assault by two companions ! irlth whom he had been drinking, j Hicks was discharged front the | hospital late yesterday. His con- j lition was so bad, however, that ho j fainted in Market Square, and was :arried to a nearby store until a! axi could be summoned. Terribly Clubbed His injuries were sustained in a Ight. Neighbors of the corner on Mtich he was found, about 3 o'clock 'esterday morning, declare he was and Happiness Women of today seem to listen to every call of duty except . 7 e . su P reine on e that tells them to guard tiieir health. Home / duties, church duties, war activities, and the hnndred-and-orie I ifli \ • 'l*f x * or c h ar itable enterprises soon lead women to overdo. headaches, backaches and female troubles are the ways tired, ray back ached, and 1 felt sickly - J~i3i most of the time. I went to a doctor and he ■ "aid I had nervous indigestion, which, added flf *jfnfijnMh / L to ray weak condition, kept me worrying most p'dSßTUffijf kTPSsj" of the time—and he said if I could not stop f that, I could not get well. I heard so-much f 1 about Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Com g. V (. pound my husband wanted me to try it. I M V' \ took it for a week and felt a little better. I B \vaL 1 heot it up for three months, and I feel fine all 111 Avx W.aApWSfek- can ea ' i an ything now without distress sB \\ or nervousness. Health and happiness? B | \\ \\ V ' M\A"*> Yes, I have both now."—Mrs. J. Wortulink, [|B_ ll\oY'>33\ \ yfjjj 2842 North Taylor Street', Philadelphia, Pa. majority of women nowadays |lt -y Mwl (A overdo, there are so many' demands MIIiSq 7 / \ \ HnJ n upon their time and strength; the result Ml''Wmm Yifci.l " ii <L \ VV7IBJi is invariably a weakened, run-down V' i |!|\ \ \3CtV nervous condition with headaches, back j! pi* Vj** 1 A \ ac^e irritability and depression and 1 ''Bill frrdi, Aui iif- —-a. Iv'/r \ soon more serious ailments develop. •\ " H hK ptn Avoid them by takftig in time Lydia L Pinkham's Vegetable Compound WEDNESDAY EVENING „ • ■ - .... - , JANUARY. 1!, 1919, came more important than silks and | velvets. Undoubtedly women will op j erato a great deal of the machinery in these new factories. The return of men will displace a certain amount of woman labor. The return of men will, on the other hund, relieve a cer tain percentage of women from the necessity of supporting themselves and their children. But In the meantime something must be done to help (hese women keep their poise, to help them bridge the difficulties which confront them and to take care of them. While the world rejoiced at the news of peace, while men and women of all ages and all faiths,. cheered, sang, embraced and danced up and down Fifth Avenue, Piccadilly, the Champs Elysees and other streets of the world's three largest cities and up and down Main street of every town in the United States, these wo men went to the Y. W. C. A. secreta ries, and, wringing their hands, cried: "The war—it is over—but we do not know where to go next! What is to become of us?" Thousands of women are being re i leased from war Jobs every day, Miss j Din groan says, and they literally do j not know where to go next. Because of this Miss Dingraan prophecies that the Y. W. C. A. will continue its work in France, though the matter is not definitely decided. French officials are requesting tha,t the Y. W. C. A. con tinue to develop Industrial welfare work for women—the first ever known in France. ! The problem is one which has never | been faced before in France. Women j did not work in factories and an op- I port unity for social welfare work umong women had not come as It had in England and America previous to the war. When women went into in dustry they were unused to it and forced to It. Employers were unaccus tomed to it and therefore not able to j cope with the situation. It was thus! I that the Y. W. C. A. was requested by j beaten and clubbed into unconscious ness by two men who left him, bleeding and unconscious, In the snow. Patrolman Xalen, of tho po lice force, discovered him and sent him to the hospital in the police I patrol. He was unconscious for ! hours. j He had a hole in the back of his ' Itead, serious body contusions, cuts and bruises, and both eyes were closed. Patrolman Xalen said that at 1 o'clock yesterday morning he passed ait uptown poolroom, and saw Hicks, with the proprietor of the poolroom and a railroader, drinking from a quart bottle of whisky. The next time the policeman approached the neighborhood'it was to tlnd the un conscious body on the pavement, and the poolroom closed. Chief Wetzel said he would see Hicks as soon as his conditions had | improved, and learn the cause of i the fight and the identity of the 1 other two men. ! RESCUED FROM DROWNING i Suiibury, Pa., Jan. 15. Four j children were rescued from drown | ing in tne Susquehanna river here yesterday. Benjamin Grief, 11- William Grier, 7, and Betty Grier b', were pulled to safety by Charles Rebuck, 15. Lieutenant Charles E. Streich, Philadelphia, just returned from France, jumped into the icy waters and rescued John Schultz, aged 10. a group of French women to go to France and begin industrial work. Large Foyers des Alliees were es tablished as soon as investigation showed to Miss Dingman, the pioneer of the work, that .what the women needed was a place for recreation. Moral conditions were serious be cause of the utter hopelessness of the women—many of them refugees, oth ers repatries—and because of the I male labor employed, Chinese,.Cinga lese and Moroccan. The. government furnished necessities in the way of food and lodging, but at most- living conditions were hard. Foyers were opened in sixteen fac tories. A new secretary, "stumbling along the road In the pitch darkness of a cantonment giear the front one night, stopped a woman worker to In quire the way. "Oh." she breathed, | "it's the house with the light!" And : j State "War Board" Will ; Revoke Action Making . Governor Historian The State "War Board" will not meet until after inauguration, it was said on Capitol Hill to-day, and when it does its previous action electing j Governor Brumbaugh to the position of state historian for the war will be revoked. The membership 'of the board will change next Tuesday by ttie substitution of Governor-elect Sproul and Lieutenant Governor-elect Beidleman for Governor Brumbaugh and Lieutenant Governor MoClain. State Treasurer Kephart is authority for the statement that the Governor has 110 Chance of retaining the office of historian. \ The Governor would not comment to-day upon the story from Phiiadel phla 'that he has been tendered a position with the federal government in somewhat the same capacity us he served when he reorganized the j schools Of Porto Kico after the Span- ! ish-American War.' It was said, how-' ever, that the Governor would not be averse to such a position, if it were forthconiingg, but that it is doubtful if there is any such plan afoot. CLASS TO MEKT The evening class in surgical dress ings will be held Friday, evening of each week, beginning this Friday, it was announced at local Red Cross Headquarters this morning. Surgical dressings will be made for local in stitutions. so the Foyer des Alliees, which means in English Hearthstone of the Allies, became known as "the house with the light," for inside it was cheerful and It was bringing happiness back into the grief-crazed eyes of these un fortunate victims of the war. Inside the Foyer during the two hour luncheon period there is always an en tertainment by the girls themselves or by professionals. There Is always mu sic and always Blue Triangle letter paper, magazines and books, and at night the women may play games, sing, write letters, read, sew, wash or iron their clothes, for electric irons, boards, washtubs- and sewing ma- i chines are an indispensable part of every Foyer equipment. French employers began soon to realize the financial value of keeping i women, workers as comfortable and . happy as possible and seeing that they 5 MEN UNHURT AS AUTO GOES THROUGH FENCE | Driver Steers Car Off Road to Avoid Head-on Crash Five men from the ordnance do pot at Marsh Hmi, escaped serious injury at 7 o'clock* this morning, When their automobile plunged* through the fence antj o'ver the em bankment of the Market street road on Island Park, and stood straight up on end. Private A. F. Kull, of the ordnance motor transport department, driver of the automobile, turned off the road ahd through the fence to avoid collision with an oil truck, which he declared was coming directly toward •hint . * The other men in the automobile were B. E. Seitz, electrical superin tendent at the depot, and Electri cians Scott, Bucas and Maurquitz. All five tnen braced themselves in th„ .car when it went over the bank, and the top kept them from being thrown out. Seitz declared that as they got across the Market street bridge go ing towuru the West Shore, they saw another machine, owned by Samuel Miller, East Main street,/ Newville, standing in the stretch of road con necting the two sections of Market street bridge. As they approached the stranded automobile, the oil company truck,' coming toward Har. ■ •risburg, is said to have turned to the i left of the road, to pass it. To avoid I a head-on collision, Private Kull steered into the fence at the side of the road and crashed over tlio em bankment. The Miller automobile had skidded last* evening, on the road and receiv ed a. smashed mudguard and damag ed front wheels. The ordnance 'de partment automobile was badly damaged and it was necessary to prop it on a truck and convey it to the caipp at Marsh Run. . RRUMBAI'GH TO SPEAK Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh will deliver a farewell message to the •men of Harrisburg at a mass meet ing to ee held in Fahnestock Ilall Sunday afternoon, under the auspices of the Central Y. M. 'C. A. Several musical features will be included up on the afternoon program. Miss Mar garetta Kennedy*, 'cellist, will plav* Miss Ruth M. Krayblll will preside ta the. prgan, and Mi's. Robert B. Reeves will sing. A Single Application. Banishes Every Hair (The Modern Beauty) Here is how any woman can easily and quickly remove objectionable, hafry growths without possible In- Jury to the skin: Make a paste with some powdered delatone and water, apply to hairy surface and after 2 or 3 minutes rub off, wash the skin and the hairs are gone. This is a painless, inexpensive method, and excepting where "the growth Is un usually thick, a single application is enough. • You- shoUld, however, be carolul to gat genuine delatone. r • had proper recreation. Andre Citreon, the big French munitions manufactur er, was soon convinced of the prac ticability of the work and built or turned over a pnrt of some building in each of his factories for a Foyer des Alliees, equipping each completely with anything which Miss Dingman felt was necessary. He has commend ed the work highly and advised that it be continued.' Recently M. Loueher, the French minister of arms and munitions manu facture, wrote Miss Dingman as fol lows : "I must express to you the very great satisfaction and most sincere gratitude of the French government for the service rendered to the women working in government factories through the establishment of Y. W. C. A. Foyers des Alliees. "These Foyers have been an excel Prominent Churchmen Begin Organization of Federation of Churches , Prominent clergy and laymen of Harrisburg met at the Central Y. M. I C. A. at noon to-day to formulate further plans for the organization of a Federation of Churches. The con * stitution proposed was read and in formally approved. The Rev. Edwin A* Pyles. presidbnt of the Harrisburg Ministerial Association, announced that a committee,' composed of the Rev. H. W. A. Hanson, the Rev. B. S. Mudge and himself, had nominated a committee to nominate officers for the federation, with the following personnel: The Rev. Robert Bagnell, chairman; . the Rev. Rollin A. Sawyer, the Rev. J. B. Markward. the Rev. G. E. Halves, the Rev. A.. E. liangen. Mr. Clip pinger. Dr. G. W. Hartman. C. A. Meek and H. D. Jones. It is planned to ra'ise a contribu ,tion of $3,000 toward the state quota of $lO,OOO for the work of the Fed eration. The plans for securing this amount were discussed by tile mem bers present. . Another meeting of the committee will be held February 10, when, it is probable,, definite arrangements will be made for the organization. FAVORS SUFFRAGE 8188 Albany, N. V., Jan. 15.—The New Ycrk assembly to-day without op position adopted resolution which would request the state's representa tive's in the United States Senate to voto and work for tho pa stage of the federal suffrage amendment. Deaths and Funerals ROBERT Iff Pl* BE Robert Hippie died this morning, at his home, 633 Muhantongo street, after a one week's illness of pneu monia. aged-32 years. He was a fore -1 man on the Pennsylvania Railroad, j His wife, Mrs. Nettie Hippie, and ono | daughter. Edith Hippie, survive in addition to his father, two brothers and two sisters. He was a member of Capital City Bodge, No. 70, Inde pendent Order of Foresters; Brother hood of Railway Clerks, Camp Curtin Fire Company and Firemen's Veter an's Association. Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, at 2 o'clock, from .his late home by the Rev. 11. 11. Baldwin, assistant pastor of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. Burial will be made in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. MISS SELINA BITTLE Miss Selina Blttle died at tho home of her niee, Mrs. W. B. Gourley, 803 North Eighteenth street, on Monday, aged 83 years. Funeral services "will be conducted on Thursday evening by the Rev. H. E./Hallinan, Baptist min ister. The body will be taken to Waterford, where burial will take place on .Friday. MRS. MARGARET MILLER Mrs. ' Margaret Miller, wife of Charles R. Miller, died at her home* at 1727 Walnut street. on Monday evening, aged 57 years. Private funeral services will be held to-mor row afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from her home, conducted by the Rev. C. A. Smucker, .pastor of Stevens Memorial Church. Burial will be made in the East Harrisburg Cemetery. MRS. SUSAN L. UPPER Mrs. Susan B. Bupfer died on Tues day evening at her home, 1102 Green street, aged 71 years. She is surviv ed by two daughters, Mrs. Robert Watts and Miss Anna Bupfer. of Har risburg, and one son, J. Elmer Bupfer, of Altoona. Funeral services will be held on Saturday morning, at 8 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Alfred N. Sayres. pastor of the Second Re formed Church. The body will be taken to Blverpool by Hoover and Son. Burial will be made in the Blverpool Cemetery. i lent means for bettering the physical conditions and the morale of our work ers. They have been constantly used by the women workers who have found there new elements of dignity and so cial education. "I must thank you for bringing this to pass, and I hope that Y. YV. C. A. work will not disappear with the war, but will be carried on in order to de velop the principles of social solidarity which it has inspired." And from M. Firmin Roz of Jhe Com missary General's office: "After visit ing two of your Foyers des Alliees al low me to tell you how much I admire your excellent organization and the happy results which It produces. I have never seen brighter faces than those of the young French women to whom you extend such beneficial, cor dial and gracious hospitality. "I was particularly struck by the slngihg and dancing classes. The young girls who were seated quietly at their needle-work also seemed so satisfied at being there, that I under stood, merely on looking at them, how you had changed the ordinary course of their days in affording them so agreeable a rest during their hours of recreation. "It would, indeed, bo unfortunate If such an organization were to stop with the war. lam quite sure you can find French lqdles who aro competent to continue your work if you will stay long enough with us to train them and inculcate them with the spirit of the Y. YV. C, A. "YVo have In France nothing com NATIONAL BANKS ELECT OFFICERS Directors Elected Yesterday Organize at Annual Meetings The National Banks of Harrisburg and Dauphin county continued their program of organization to-day, with the election of officers by the directors chosen yesterday. A num ber of trust companies and commer cial organizations also elected direc tors and officers at the same time as the national banks. John E. Fox was elected president of the Mechanics' Trust Company, to succeed Charles A. Kunkel, de ceased. John C. Motter was elected vice-president and treasurer; John F. Sweney, trust officer, and W. V. Davies, secretary and assistant treas urer. Officers of the Harrisburg and First National Banks were eleted at meet ings of the directors scheduler for late to-day. The Merchants' National Bank directors will elect officers Fri day afternoon. The Penbroolc directors re-elect ed H. S. Plank, president; John A. Ebersole, vice-president, and I. B. Unger, cashier. The directors are: J. if. Allwine, A. C. Beck, E. M. Crum, J. A. Ebersole, O. E. flood, I. D. Horstick, H. 8. Plank, I. B. Swartz, William Book, S. Washing ton Shaeffer. The officers elected at the First National Bank, of Elizabethville, are: [ President, I. T. Bufflngton; vice-pres ident, S. B. Romberger; secretary, A. M. Rombergr, and cashier, IB H. Hassinger. The directors are: I. T. Bufflngton. S. B. Romberger, A. M. Romberger, C. T. Rombergr, S. .H. Knisely, B. H. Zeigler and H. H. Has singer. The bunk lias paid a divi dend of eight per cent, for the six months ending December 31, 1918, and adding $4,000 to the surplus, making that fund $50,000, The cap ital is $25,000. The Gratz directors elected yes terday are: I. M. Bufflngton, J. A. Willier, F. E. Hartman, Harvey E. Miller, all of Gratz; C. G. Updegrove, Heglns; Abe Gross, Harrisburg, and 8. B. Wiest, Pillow R. D. These di rectors elected the following officers: President, I. M. Bufflngton; vice president. John A. Willier; cashier, R. H. Snyder, and assistant cashier, I, M. Bufflngton. The officers elected at the Bykens First National Bank are: President, R. Coble; John H. Eby, vice-presi dent; J. M. Seibley, cashier; J. Eu gene Duncan, assistant cashier. The directors are: ' R. Coble, John H. Eby, George W. Eby, J. 8. Relff, J. A. Bogar, W. H. Cooper, Charles A. Holt, G. W. Myers and Frank W. Boyer. The First National Bank of Mll lersburg announced the election of the following officers by the direc tors: President, B. M. Shepp; vice president, William D6uden; secre tary, Charles P. Polk; cashier, J. W. Hoffman; assistant cashier, H. S. Hoffman; teller, 8. 8,. Jury. The usual twelve per cent, dividend was PAld for the year and a substantial amount placed to tho undivided profit account. Isaac .W. HofTman, after serving a number of years aH di rector, declined a, re-eleotlon, Mr. parable to your work. Consequently it is absolutely necessary that our wo men enjoy the benefit of a social work such as yours. All those who have seen your Foyers think as I do and very much hope that the Y. YV. C. A. will leave some of its members here, now that War is over, so that their ex ample may be followed in France." . Such tributes are. typical and ex-, plain why four departments of the French government—Finance, Com merce, War and Labor —requested the Y'. YV. C. A. to do social and recreation al work for the girls and women em ployed by them and why they assisted the Wbmen at Y. YV. C. A. headquarters in Paris In getting buildings for Foyers and parks, such as the Island in the Loire at Tours, for recreation centers last summer. The needs of the reconstruction pe riod —while these French women are readjusting their lives to a new order of things—are greater even than dur ing war. YVhile they are learning to begin a lifelong work in factory or of fice such as was unknown to women in France five years ago, it is more necessary that American women stand by them and help them than it has been during these eighteen months past, says Miss Henrietta Roelofs, di rector of Y. YV. C. A. in France. It la because of this that Miss Dlngman Is returning to France at once to develop the work which she began and to tell these women that the women of Amer ica are stretching forth their hands in sympathy and encouragement To'"TKe women of France, Shepp, on behalf of the directors, presnted him with an ebony gold headed cane in appreciation of his services.' The Allison Hill Trust Company re-elected its old directors as fol lows: Frank J. Althouse, D. M. Hooks, Dan F. Miller and W. M. Hoerner. The Security Trust Com pany also re-elected its old officers and directors. The Penbrook National Bank elected the following directors: J. H. Allwiney, A. C. Beck, K. M. Crum, J. A. Ebersole, O. E. Good. 1. D. Horstick, H. S. Plank, I. B. Swarta, William Book, S. Washington Shaef fer. The 801 l Brothers Manufacturing Company elected Charles S. 801 l president, and other officers as fol lows: Samuel Gardner, first vice president; John P. Melick, second \ ice-president; W. A. 8011, treasurer, and C. Day Rudy, who, with J.' Markward Peters, compose the board of directors! The Halifax National Bank elected officers and directors last night as follows: President, A. Fortenbaugh; vice-president, A. M. Smith; cashier, Percival S. Hill; assistant cashier, R. F. Dandis. The following are the di rectors: A. Fortenbaugh, A. M. Smith, James M. Hoffman, John E Nace, Calvin P. Scholl, Hiram Yeag cr and Edward Bailey. The Middletown directors re-elect ed the following officers: John J Landis, president; A. E. Etter vice president; A. R. Geyer, cashier- Claude Sohn, Pearl Condran and Em ma G. Dolson, clerks; John R. Geyer solicitor, and P. Etter Irwin, notary. State Board Advises That General Electric Company Give All Employes Old Jobs By Associated Press Plttufleld, Mass., Jan. 15. Follow ing a hearin'g before the State Board of Arbitration and Councilation into the strike of employes of the Gen eral Electrc Company in this city the board recommended that the com pany receive back within two weeks from this date all its employes who went on a strike on December 19 and that they be taken back without dis crimination. Both sides wore in structed to report to the board in writing at the expration of the two weeks what progress had been made. Y. M. C. A. Hard Put to Find Sufficient Room The present membership of the Central Y. M. C. A. is 1229, an in crease of twenty-throe during the mont hof December, it was reported at the monthly meeting of the board of directors held in the "Y" build ing at non to-day. Finances aro in good condition and activities are daily increasing. The present prob lem facng the officials is that,of pro viding accommodations for the many members. Rocker room Is now very urgently needed, It was stated. fROUP Btwroedle crrrn* fa uouahy relieved with SEbjfljV on* application of— jßfcy) fO ifaUHMI AEWnUCES~.*to9*fUN> I Don't Let Soap Spoil Your Hair When you wash your hair, be care ful what you use. Most soaps ami prepared shampoos contain too much alkali, which is very Injurious, as It ' dries tlio scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is Just plain mulsilled cocoanut oil, for this Is pure and entirely greaseless. It'n very cheap and beats the most ex pensive soaps or anything else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in, about a tea spoonful is all that is required. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly; and rinses out easily. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and takes out every particle of dust, dirt nnd dandruff. will heal that dis&oriiw rash so you can wear this dress "I know, because I have used It, and found that it stopped the smarting and itching when I made the first applies*, tion, and in a short time the eruption was gone. I used Resinol Soap with Jf and it quickened the action of Resinol Ointment. You can get both fro your druggist." - 1 Sore Throat Wisdom To relieve Sore Throat you must get at the seat of the disease, removing toe cause. TONSILINE is prepared ana sold for that one purpose. A dose bt TONSb LINE taken upon the fint appearance of Sore Throat may save long days of sickness. Use a little Sore Throat wis* dm and buy a bottle ,of TONSILINE today You may need* it tomorrow. TONSILINE is the National yw* Sore Throat Remedy best r-yjT known and most effective and hi most used. Look for the long ff necked fellowon the Dottle when f . UNDEHTAKEH 1748 Chas. H. Mauk *£***• 7
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