BIGHTS WOULD ■TOP ROBBERIES, | COUNCIL TOLD Ask For Standards |PI to Protect Shops From Thieves firms located in South street from Chestnut to Vine in a petition presented to to-day, ask the City Com- oners to provide as' soon as pos- for the erection of light stand along that highway, similar to now in use in other business IHects. petitioners caT> attention to robberies which have occurred KB this district and declare the pres- B' lighting system is inoiTecUve. He communication was referred to S. F. Hassler. ■rommlssioner W. H. Lynch was Hthorlzed in a resolution passed to ■y to make extensive repairs to the ■e walls at the bridge crossing ■ ring creek in South Cameron Mr. Lynch presented com ■mirations showing that he had or- the work started and that the ■trrisburg Railways Company pay a proportionate share of IBe cost of the repairs. ordinance permitting the Telegraph and Telephone ■mpany and the Bell Telephone Bmpany to use the same under- ducts for cables, which will ■place overhead wires, was passed The companies are planning BW remove all poles and wires in street from Front street Jo eastern city line. IB Upon motion of Commissioner E. 19 (iross the Councilmen awarded contract to furnish gasoline and for the Are department and oth city bureaus to the Atlantic Re- Company. The contract for Bbricaling oil was awarded to the ■me company. The terms of the for gasoline will be ten per below market price, with a price of 24.3 cents a gal- Bn, and for oil 4 4 to 46 cents a gal ffl Commissioner .Lynch introduced ■ ordinance providing for pav of Brensinger alley from Emer ■,| street to Camp street. Ivangelical Conference at Allentown This Week B Allentown. Feb. 25.— At the twen fifth annual session of the East Bennsylvania Conference of the Bnited Evangelical church, in the Bethany church, this city, much im- rtatu business will be transacted week. The comference proper Bill convene on Thursday morning 8.45 o'clock. B Two new presiding elders will be at this session. The terms Bf Bishop W. F. Hell, Allentown, and B!ev. F, E. Erdman, Reading, have B ' rhe following ministers will .also Beceive new appointments as their Bve year limit expires. Revs. R. F. ■ ndrew, Trevorton: S. P. Erisman. J. K. Freed, Mahantongo; B A. Heisey, Schuylkill Haven; C. B. Kichline, E. Weissport. N. X. Hower, Kinderhook: G. Wes Mar- Leighton; VV. J. Scheifley, Biaston; S. P. Sumpman, Shenandoah; M. tVlngert, Danielsvilfe; R. W. Blusselman, Plymouth Meeting. Ministers and Delegates from Biarrisburg and vicinity will atteifcl Bhe sessions as follows: the Rev. G. 81. Seidel. Berrysburg; J. M. Shoop, B>auphin; A. G. Flexer and Bruce Br. Wiley, Harris Street. Harrisburg; K. Hansen and S. W. Finken- Binder, 'Park Street, Harrisburg; 81. L. Burger, Millersburg; W. E. Botteiger and W. S. Harris, Pen- Brook and North Harrisburg; Elmer Brovn, Rutherford Heights; J. K. Bioffman, Steelton: A. W. Warfel, Bviconisco. ,ackawanna Businessmen Ask For Highway Help Representatives or various or ganizations of businessmen of Lac cawana county and northeastern J ennsylvania met at the Penn-Harris vhich will urge upon the State Jovernment to authorize transform tion of 30 miles of railway into a itate Highway. The railroad in question is a iraneh of the D. L. and W. It is aid that the railroad officials have ilready turned it over to the State Ugh way Department and as a dele rate expressed it this morning, "all we need is someone to take the llrt away." The proposed good listrict with leading cities of this ind New York state. A delegation \ was scheduled to neet State Highway Commissioner ladler today and it is probable they will meat Governor Sproul, also. Among those present at the meet ng are: D. L. Morgan, chairman, icranton, president of the Motor -lub of Lackawanna county; Wtl iam A. Jansen, secretary, Scranton; Thomas H. Saville, president of City iouncil, Scranton; William Worth, nember Scranton Council; D. Walt Wagner and T. J. Hensel, Merchants Association; W. A. Magee, Kiwanis Club: D. R. Reese, attorney for D. L. and "W., William P. Boland of the Board of Trade, and also R. Conrad, chairman of the good roads com mittee, Motor Club of Lackawanna county. McConnell Urges Pick and Shovel A dozen delegations to-day waited on: Highway Commissioner Sadler to sedure early action on road construc tion and information as to plans for primary roads and were told that bids would be asked at an early day on a number of projects. Owing to the rush of visitors some of them had a very brief time with the com missioner and Senator McConnell, of Northumberland suggested that if each one was given a pick and shovel sotye rapid wofk on roads could be seen red. Richard Heagy, of Camp Hill, who has just returned from service at Second Army Headquarters in Prance, has been appointed a clerk ship in the Governor's' office The legislative League composed of members from the smaller coun ties to-day arranged for Tuesday hieetings to discuss legislation. Com mittees were named to Investigate Various measures now pending in the lower branch of the legislature,- - Officers and attaches of the Legis lature were to-day invited to attend the reception to be given by Gov ernor and Mrs. Sproul to the Legisla ture at the Executive Mansion tOi bight. GOVERNOR'S 811.1. PASSES The state administration Mil, re organizing the Governor's office, was passed finally and without amendment in the House by 130 to 11, Just bofoio adjournment at 12:35 p. m. until t p, in. The Stadtiander bill flxlng\fsoo as the bail limit on pickpocket*, etc., was negatively reported. < TUESDAY EVENING, What the President Said Boston, Feb. 25.—1n the course of his address here yesterday. Pres ident Wilson said: Defers Report of Proceedings I have not come to report the pro ceedings or the results of the pro ceedings of the Peace Conference; that would be premature. I can say that I have received very happy impressions from this conference; the impression that whilo there are many differences of judgment, while there are some divergencies of ob ject, there is nevertheless a common spirit and a common realization of the necessity of setting up now standards of right in the world. Because the men who are in con ference in Paris realize as keenly as any American can realize that they are not the masters of their people; that they are the servants of their people and that the siprit of their people has awakened to a new purpose and a new conception of their power to realize that purpose, and that no man dare go home from that conference and report any thing less noble than was .expected of it The conference sterns to you to go slowly: from day to day in Paris it seems to go slowly, but I wonder if you realize the complexity of the task which it has undertaken. It seems as if the settlements of this war affect, and affect directly, every great, and I sometimes thing, every small, nation in the world, and no one decision can prudently be made which is not properly linked in with the great series of other decisions which must accompany it. And it must be reckoned in with the final result if the real quality and char acter of that result is to be properly Judged. What we are doing is to hear the whole case; hear it from the mouths of the men most interested: hear it from those who are officially com missioned to state it; hear the rival claims;,hear the claims that affect new nationalities, that affect new areas of the world, that .ffect new commercial and economic connec tions that have been established by the great World War through which we have gone. And I have been struck by the moderateness of those who have represented national claims. 1 can testify that I have no where seen the gleam of passion. I • have seen earnestness, I have seen tears come to the eyes of men who pled for down-trodden people whom I they were privileged to speak for; but they were not the tears of an guish. they were the tears of ardent hope. And I don't see how any man can fail to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to this feeiing. that he was not there to assert an in dividual judgment of his own. but to try to assist the cause of humanity. All Seek Representatives of TT. S. " And in the mist of it all every In terest seeks out first of all. when it reaches Paris, the representatives of the United States. Why? Because, and I think I am stating the most wonderful fact in history—because there is no nation in that suspects the motives of the Lniteu States. , Was there ever so wonderful a thing seen befifre? t\as there ever so moving a thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the nation that had won that esteem forever to deserve it? Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where it is thought nobody else will be wel come, thev ask for American sol diers. And where other soldiers would be looked upon with sus picion and perhaps met with re sistance. the American soldier is welcomed with acclaim. I have IVad so many grounds for pride on the other side of the water that I am very thankful that they are not grounds for personal pijde. I'd be the most stuck-up man. in the world. And it has been an infinite pleasure to me to see those gallant soldiers of ours, of whom the Con i stitution of the United States made me the proud commander. You may be proud of the Twenty-sixth Divi sion, but I commanded the Twenty sixth division, and see what they did under my direction! And everybody praises the American soldier with the feeling that in praising him he is subtracting from the credit of no one else. I have been searching for the fundamental fact that converted Europe to believe in lis. Before this war Europe did not believe in u.s as she does now, She did not believe in us throughout the first three years of the war. She seems really to have believed that we were holding off because we thought we could make more by staying out than by going in. All 4, alitor a sudden, in a short eighteen months, the whole verdict is reversed. There can be but one explanation for it. They saw what we did—that without making a single claim we put all our men and alt our means at the dis posal of those who were fighting for their homes, in the first instance but for a cause, the cause of human rights and justice, and that we went In, not to support their national claims, but to support the great cause which they held in common. 17. S. Holds Ideals and Acts Ideals • And when they saw that America, not only held ideals, but acted ideals, ] they were converted to America and became firm partisans of those ideals. I met a group of scholars when I was in Paris—some gentlemen from one of the Greek universities who had come to see me, and in whose presence I felt very young, Indeed. I told them that I had one of the delightful revenges that some times comes to a man. Ail my life I had heard men speak with a sort of condescension of ideals and of idealists, and particularly those sep arated. encloistered persons whom they choose to term academic, who were in the habit of uttering in the free atmosphere when they clash with nobody in particular. And I said I have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect frankness in the name of the people of the United States, I have uttered as the objects of this great war ideals, and nothing but ideals, and the war has been won by' that in spiration. Men were fighting with tense muscle and lowered head un til they cam* to realize those things, feeling they were fighting for their lives and their country, and when these accents of what it was all about reached them from America they lifted their heads, they raised their eyes to heaven when they saw men In khaki coming across the sea In the spirit of crusaders, and they found that these were strange men, reckless of danger not only, but reckless because they seemed to see something that made that danger worth while. Men have testified to me in Europe that our men were possessed by something that they could only call a religious fervor. They were not like any of the other soldiers. They hud u vision, they had a Ure-m tnd i . were fight ing in the dre<uu, and lighting in the dream they turned the whole tide of battle and it never came back. One of our American humorists, meeting the criticism that American soldiers wore not trained long enough, said: "It takes only half as long to train an American soldier as any other, because you only have to train him one way, and he did only go one way, and he never came back until he could do it when he pleased." And now do you realize that this confidence we have established throughout the world imposes a bur den upon us—if you choose to call it a burden, it is one of those bur dens which any nation ought to bo proud to carry. Any mail who re sits the present that run in the world will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem as if he had been separated from his human kind forever. America Must Not Fail World If America were at this juncture to fail the world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to any other great people when I say that America is the hope of the world; and if she does not justify that hope the results are unthink able. Men will be thrown back upon the bitterness of disappoint ment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will be set up as hostile camps again; the men at the Peace Conference will go home with their heads -upon their breasts, knowing * that they have failed —for they ware bidden not to come home from there until they did something more than sign a treaty of peace. Suppose we sign the treaty of peace and that it is the most sat isfactory treaty of peace that the confusing elements of the modern world will afford and go home and think about our labors; we will know that we have left written upon the historic table of Versailles, upon which Vergennes and Ben jamin Franklin wrote tlieir names, nothing but a modern scrap of pa per; no nations united to defend it, no great forces combined to make it good, no assurance given to the down-trodden and fearful people of the world that they ghall be safe. Any man who thinks that America .will take part in giving the world any such rebuff and disappointment as that does not know Americu. I invite him to test the sentiments of the nation. \Vc set this up to make men free and we did not con fine our conception and purpose to America and now we will make men free. If we did not do that the fame of America would be gone and all her powers would be dissipated. She then would have to keep her power for those narrow, selfish, provincial! purposes which seem so dear to some rhinds that have no sweep be yond the nearest horizon. I should welcome no sweeter challenge than that. I have fighting blood in me and it is sometimes a delight to let it have scope, but if ft is a' challenge on this occasion it would be an in dulgence. Think of the picture, think of the utter blackness that would fall on the world. America has failed! America made a little essay at generosity and then with drew. America said: "We are your friends," but it was only for to-day, not for to-mor row. America said: "Here is our power to vindicate right," and then the next day said: "Let right take care of itself and we will take care of ourselves." America said: "We set up a light to lead men along the paths of liberty but wo have low ered it, it is intended only to light our own path." We set up a great kleal of liberty and then we said: "Liberty is a thing that you must win for yourself. Do r.ot call upon us," and think of the world that we would leave. Mu.st Protect Weak Nations Do you realize how many new na. tions are going to be set up in the presence of old and powerful nations in Europe and left there, if left by us, without a disinterested friend ? Do you believe in the Polish cause, as I do? Do you know how many Poland, immature, inexperienced, as yet unorganized, and leave her with a circle of armies around her? Do you believe in the aspiration of the Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo-Slavs as I do? Do you knqw hoy many Powers would be quick to pounce upon them if there were not the guarantees of the world behind their liberty? Have you tliougnt of the suffering of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armen ians after they suffered; now set your strength so that* they shall never suffer again. The arrangements of the present peace cannot stand a generation un less they are guaranteed by the unit ed forces of the civilized world. And if we do not guarantee them, can not you see the picture? Your hearts have instructed you where the burden of this war fell. It did not fall upon the national treasuries, it did not fall upon the instrurrfents of administration, it did not fall upon the resources of the nation. • It fell upon the victims' homes everywhere, where women were toiling in hope that their men would come back. When I think of the homes upon which dull despair would settle where this great hope is disappoint ed, 1 should wish for my part never to have had America, play any part whatever in this attempt to eman cipate the world. But I talk as if there were any questions. I have no more doubt of the verdict of America in fhis matter than I have doubt of the blood that is in me. And so, my felloe citizens, I have come back to report progress, and I do not believe that the progress is going to stop short of the goal. The nations of the world have set their heads now to do a great thing, and they are not going to slacken their purpose. Idea Same in All languages I feel about you as I am reminded of a story of that excellent witness and good artist, Oliver Herford, who one day, sitting at luncheon at his club was slapped vigorously on the back by a man whom he did not know very well. He said: "Oliver, old boy, how are you?" He looked at him rather coldly. He said, "I don't know your name, I don't know your face, but your manners are very familiar." And I must say that your manners are very familiar, and, let me add, very delightful. It is a great comfort, for one thing, to realize that you all understand the language I am speaking. A friend of mine said that to talk through an interpreter was like witnessing the compound fracture of an idea. But the beauty of it is that, whatever the Impediments of the channel of com munication, the idea is the same; that it gets registered, and it gets .registered In responsive hearts and receptive purposes. I have come back for a strenuous attempt to transact bustneas for a little while in America, but-1 have really come bapk to say to you, in all soberness and honesty, that I have been trying my best to speak your thoughts. "When I sample, myself, I think I And that X am a typical American, teamisßbßg ijBfcTOBUHAPif GERMAN ARMY TO GIVE WAY SOON TO NATIONAL GUARD By Associated Preu. Berlin, Feb. 25. —The Conserva tive press laments the passing of the old Imperial army, which will become a thing of the past when the Weimar Assembly, per haps this week, adopts the na tional defense measure.) This bill provides for the organization of a national guard, which will be composed of one brigade for each former 'army corps. Conscrip tion will be abandoned, according to the terms of the bill, and vol untary recruiting will be conduct ed by a central bureau. At present, unofficial stations are receiving soldiers, being sup ported out of private funds. These organizations will be in corporated in the new army, which, it is declared, will be built up on "strictly democratic lines," but rigid discipline. and if I sample deep enough, and get down to what is probably the true stuff of a man, then I have hope that is is part of the stuff that is like the other fellows at home. And, therefore, probing deep in my heart and trying to see the things that are right without regard to the things that may be debated as ex pedient, I feel sure that I am in terpreting the purpose and the thought of America; and in loving America I find I have joined the great majority of my fellow men throughout the world. Red Cross Gets Praise of Harrisburg Seaman "There is noth- El Ing we would not do for the Red Cross," is the * K " T j| States Navy, son of Po 1 i cem a n |S| Henry Bucli, ex- BH|f presses the opin- V&/ ions of the crew Keolew, of which Harold A. Bueh he is a member. Young Buch was on board the Ixike Borgne, which strdek. a mine oft the coast of France early In September. 4ftcr nearly drowning he was res cued but all his possessions were lost in the sea. His letter follows: "Just a few lines "before we leave for one of the coldest parts of the world, and that is Nofthern Scot land. They have installed a tem porary heating system in our ship, so as to make our sleeping quar ters more comfortable. We have also been furnished full outfits of Arctic clothing from the govern ment base at. this point. "I want to express the crew's opinion of the Red Cross. That is, there is nothing they would not willingly do for the Red Cross. They heard of our going to a cold climate and so to-day sent us a Ford truck loaded with ail the knitted wear we need, books, maga zines, candy, cigarets, tobacco, two Viotrolas with a bunch of records, towels, face cloths and extra blank ets. All the boys were overjoyed at receiving these as we have been rather stinted, due to our Lake Borgne experience. So I wish you would let the Red Cross people know of this." The U. S. S. Keolew is bound for Incerness. Scotland, and eventually for the United States. BOROUGHS FACE FINANCIAL CRISIS [Continued from First Page.] lems confronting- boroughs was taken up. In his opening address. President T. F. Chrostwaite, of Hanover, pre sented some of, these problems. "Fi nancially," he declared, "the bor oughs of Pennsylvania are in a crit ical. condition. They are nearly one thousand In number with a popula tion of nearly two and a half mil lion people. They are the pr'oduct of the Industrial growth of the state, budding from townships and ripen ing into cities. There are more minor municipalities In Pennsylvania than in any state in the Union, and in fact these boroughs have greater popu lation and industrial wealth than the combined population and Industrial wealth of ten of our sovereign states. They are the centers of every indus try in th e state—coal, coke, iron, oil, steel, manufacturing and agriculture. As a group they have no form of gov ernment. Except through a volun tary association, they have no voice to speak for them and up to this time# no one has spoken for them. Cause of Bad Street* "There is a reason why main thor oughfares leading unto and through boroughs are worse than country highways. There is a reason why boroughs are poorly governed, and it is marvelous that they are not more properly governed. But it is their present financial condition that confronts us now and here are the facts: 1. A borough cannot raise Its gen eral tax rate above ten mills. 2. Assessed valuations are made by county assessors for county pur poses. These valuations are kept to the low standard of rural assess ments although assessed Valuations in boroughs rim into the tens of mil lions of dollars. There are more bor oughs entitled to be cities than there are cities. f An important subject to be brought before the convention late this aft ernoon will be discussion of public utilities problems with particular reference to the suspension of in crease in rates until action has been taken by the Public Service Commis sion. Good roads will also be brought up and It was predicted this morning by officers of the convention that legislation will be introduced into the Legislature bearing upon the projects mentioned. Classification of boroughs accord ing to population, into not moVe than seven classes is the substance of an amendment to the Constitution of the state proposed by the League of Third Class Cities. This proposed amendment will come before the bor 'oughs convention this afternoon to gether with other Important legis lation. SEVERELY BURNED Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 25.—While performing his duties at the plant of the Shippensburg Gas and Electric Company, Harry Harr was severely burned about the face and hands. DIRECTING BOARD TO MEET The board of directors of the Har rlsburg Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce offices to-night at 8 o'clock. The year's program likely will be adopted, • i AMERICA NEEDN'T FEAR BOLSHEVISM, BULLARD ASSERTS American JHome From Vladi vostok Says Uprising Possi ble Only Under Oppression By Associated Press. • Seattle, Wash., Feb. 25.—"People of America or any other real democ racy need have not fear of the Bol shevlc campaign being waged throughout the world," aaid Arthur Bullard, a representative of the Unit ed States bureau of public informa tion, who was here to-day on his way from Vladivostock to Washington. "Bolshevism," he continued, "can never thrive except in a state where the people are pitifully oppressed and where the masses have no other hope of righting their wrongs." Bullard upheld the testimony of John Reed, writer hnd Socialist, given recently before the Senate committee investigating lawless prop aganda in tn this country, that there had been no massacres in Moscow during Reed's stay there. , " But 1 am convinced," he added. there were many innocent people murdered later in the name of the government." Dr. Manning Denounces Appointment of Herron; Astonished at President New York. Feb. 25.—The appoint ment by President Wilson of Prof. George D. Herron, who it 1B alleged is an advocate of "free love," as the country's representative at the pro posed Bolshevik conference at Princes Island was criticised severely yesterday morning by the Rev. Dr. William T. Manning in a sermon the rector of Trinity preached In the chapel of Vassar College. "If any one is so unsophisticated," Doctor Manning said as e prelimin ary to his denunciation or the Herron appointment by the President, as to imagine the system of free love means advancement or the race or that It means freedom and elevation for women, let him read the provis ions of the Soviet under the Bolshe vik rule in Russia, as recently pub lished in connection with the United States Senate inquiry. "I cannot speak of this matter without expressing my astonishment and deep regret that the President should have seen fit to appoint an open advocate of free Jove to repre sent our country at the proposed con ference with the Russian Bolshevik. "Mr. Herron's opinion and his acts are well known. What he preaches in his classroom and in his pulpit he has practiced In his life." WILSON STARTS TAXES ON MOVE [Continued from First Page.] revenue bill, was taken to Boston by Secretary Tumulty. Meets Congressmen To-morrow The President was faced with a busy week before his departure about March 5 for the return trip to Paris. This afternoon he was to preside at a cabinet meeting, while to-morrow night he has a dinner engagement with members of the Senate and House Foreign Affairs Comnfittees to discuss The proposed constitution of the League of Nations. Thursday the President will review a parade in honor of returned Dis trict of Columbia soldiers. No other engagements had been made, so far as was known, but many requests to see the President on various matters were awaiting him. President Wilson has been absent from Washington nearly three months, having left December 3 for New York, where he embarked on the George Washington for Brest. Signs Bill on Train Announcement was made on the arrival of the presidential. party in Washington to-day that the Presi dent had signed the six billion dollar war revenue bill. The bllj was signed aboard the special train last night before the President retired. This measure carries a rider making the District of Columbia bone dry. Bill Now Operative Signing of the revenue bill by President Wilson on his special train enroute to Washington last night puts Into operation the machinery for collecting six billions of taxes this year. Higher taxes provided in the new bill go into effect to-day on liquor and soft drinks, Including near beer, grape juice, soda water and mineral waters and on tobacco and on so called luxuries. Anticipating the imposition of new taxes, thousands of gallons of whisky had been withdrawn from government bond ed warehouses within the last week, with tax paid at the old rate of <3.20 a gallon, to escape the higher rate of <6.40 a gallon now effective. Articles in Ijuxnry Class Articles in the "luxury" class on which new taxes go into effect to day include automobiles and mbtor accessories, pianos, sporting goods, chewing gum, cameras, candy, fire nrms, slot machines, toilet koaps and art goods. The tax is paid by the manufacturer. Other features of the tax bill which go into legal effect to-day, but which are.retroactive and which consequently are not affected by the time of the signing of the bill In clude the following: Taxes on incomes, excess profits and war profits; estates and inherit ances, and excess taxes on a number of special businesses, such as brok ers, bowling alleys, insurance com panies, theater and amusement place proprietors, and liquor dealers. Dras tic measures to prevent the nar cotic drug traffic become effective at once. New Taxes Kffectlve April I On April 1 new taxes on railroad and steamship tickets, pipe lines, in surance, theater admissions and club lues, and a variety of stamp taxes become effective. Levies against the excess of value of so-called semi luxuries, such as articles of dress, will be made after May 1. The soda fountain taxes become effective May 1. Taxes on products o'f child labor will be imposed in sixty days. Without awaiting signature of the bill by the President, the internal revenue bureau has gone ahead pre paring to administer the law. Tax return forms and regulations are be ing Issued, and Income and profits tax returns must he filed my March 16. DR. O. R. PHILLIPS will meet his patients and those of Dr. J. W. Ellenberger for the pres ent at 922 North Third street from 6.30 to 8.80 p. m. Other hours by I appointment.—Adv. < FORMER CONSUL , WILL SPEAK TO I COMMERCE BODY Chances of Getting More Busi ness to Be Told by Charles Lyon Chandler Harrisburg businessmen will hear afterwar problems of retail and wholesale trade discussed from a new angle at the luncheon meeting of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce in the Penn-Harris Hotel next Tuesday at noon. Charles Lyon Chandler, trade ex • pert of the Corn Exchange Bank of Philadedhpia, will address the businessmen on "The Business Out look During the Reconstruction Period." Topics vital to the busi nessmen confronted with after-war problems, will be taken up by the speaker. Mr. Chandler is well qualified to discuss the international aspect of aftcr-war-conditions. He has been in the United States consular service ten years. He was consul at Berne, Switzerland, during the war, and as such was in the center of much in ternational politics. While in Europe he made k careful study of the problems confronting after-war businessmen. He has been on the Harvard fac ulty for a number of years. For four years he was South American agent for the United States Rail ways system and associated com panies. During his consular service he served in Lisbon, Portugal; Tokio, Japan; Tamsui, Japan: Buenos Aires, Argentine; Callao, Peru; Berne, Switzerland; Dalny, Japtyn, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Girl Scouts Enjoyed Interesting Ceremonial A jolly bunch of Girl Scouts be longing to Holly Troop, No. 6, enjoy ed a delightful evening playing games and contests in the basement of Christ Lutheran Church. After an interesting ceremonial meeting re freshments were served to the fol lowing: Miss Mary McKee, Scout mistress; Miss HelSn Wallis, first lieutenant; Romaine Nell, "Dot" Nell. Genevieve Mitchell. Grace Brown, "Dot" Saul, Sara Wallis, Margretta Wallis, Ethel Kendlg. Catherine Gower, Harriet Wertz, Marie Nell. INSURANCE MEN DINE Following- a 6 o'clock dinner, last evening, the Surety Underwriter As sociation, of Harrisburg, held its quarterly meeting with President Wil liam S. Essick in the chair. O. L. Cullmerry read a paper on "Surety Business Development," which was latch discussed by the members. The next meeting of the association will be held the third Monday in May. Victor B. Myers Dies After Short Illness mm JBH h *< < VjH VICTOR B. MYERff Victor B. Myers, aged 27 years, died at 7 o'clock last evening at his home, 1000 Green street from pneu monia. He was active in the work of the city and was widely known here. He was treasurer of the Loyal Order of Moose, assistant treasurer of the Commercial Trust Company, former treasurer of the West End Republican Club and took a promi nent part in oivic activities. The Rev. Clayton Albert Smucker, pastor of the Stevens Memorial Methodist Church will officiate at funeral services to be held at 7.30 o'clock Thursday evening. The body will be taken to Shippensburg for burial by Hoover & Son, under takers. Mr. Myers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Myers, a daughter, Nel lie, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Myers, a brother, David E. Myers, both of Shipponsburg, and two sis ters, Mrs. L. V. Fergus, Denver, and Mrs. W. J. Hunter, Cleveland. MBS. SARAH AGNES DUNKLE Mrs. Sarah Agnes Dunkle, wife of George O. Dunkle, died this morning at her late home, 1857 George street. She was aged 4 9 years. Besides her husband she is survived by three sons and a daughter. Funeral ser vices will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial will be.in the Harrisburg Cemetery. MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON Buneral services will be held to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, 913 Capi tal street, who died yesterday morn ing. Mrs. Thompson was the widow of Charles H. Thompson, former city patrolman. Three sisters sur vive. MRS. LOUISA SHULER Mrs. Louisa Shuler. 80 years old, died at her home, 625 Race street yesterday morning after a three days' illness She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Louisa Heist of Har risburg. and Mrs. Louisa Fry, of Philadelphia, and two sons, Fred erick Shuler and Robert Shuler, both of this city. Funeral services will be held in the German Lutheran Church,on Thursday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Renihold Schmidt. Burial will be in the Prospect Hill Cemetery. PARIS TO SEE "810 BEBTHA" Paris, Feb. 25. One of the Ger man long-range guns which shelled Paris at intervals dhrlng the last few months of the war, is now on its way to this city and will be placed on ex hibition ltj the Place de la Concorde, according to La Vlctorle. ~ I Use McNeil's Cold Tablets, Adv., FEBRUARY 25, 1919. Murder and Holdup Add New Chapter to Crimes on Slate- of Big City New York, Feb. 25.—A murder In Manhattan and a hold-up in Brook lyn were added early to-day to the record of New York'p "crime wave." George H. Robee, a boarding' house keeper, was found murdered in his room, apparently by thieves who stole several diampnd rings. A yodng woman was robbed of\s2o after street thugs attacked her and her escort, who ran away. Ludendorff, Cast Out by Swedish Government, Starts Back to Germany lyondon, Feb. 25.—General Luden dorff, former quartermaster general of the German army, left Sweden for Germany on Sunday night ac cording to a Stockholmi dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company. The Swedish foreign office had re fused this request to extend his per mit to stay in Sweden, which ex pired Sunday. Paris Slaughter House Employes Strike; Want Tax on Meat Removed Paris, Feb. 25. —Three thousand employes of Paris slaughter houses have struck, their demands being, first, the abolition of the tax on meat, second, the prohibition of clandestine markets, which they de clare are allowed to violate thd regu lations as to the sale of meat. M. Vilgrain, under secretary of the ministry of provisions, has promised the men that the tax would be abol ished. Should the strike continue, Paris will be without meat in a few days. Mining Expert's Report Held Up For Few Days T. Ellsworth Davies. the mining engineer who was expected to sub mit his final report on coal land valuations in Dauphin county to the board of County Commissioners to day. was detained in Scranton to testify in court proceedings there and could not come to Harrisburg. |He notified the Commissioners he will come to the city in a few days, 'after which the assessments of the I coal fields will be fixed, j The county officials convened j again at 2 o'clock this afternoon as j a board of revision of taxes to hear I appeals from Third ward property | owners. No session was held this f morning as it had been planned to meet at 10 o'clock, but Commls | sioner H. C. Wells was not present at that hour and the board ad journed until In the afternoon. INDUSTRIAL HOME MEETING The Board of Directors of the Children's Industrial Home will meet Friday, February 28. at 2.30 o'clock, at the Y. M. C, ■A. Th e annual elec tion of officers will follow the busi ness meeting. Mrs. Charles B. Ret tew Is president of the Board. TO SELL DOUGHNUTS Camp lilil, Pa., Feb. 25. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Camp Hill Methodist Church will bake and sell doughnuts in the Fellowship Build ing next Tuesday, "Fasnacht Day." Increase of Pay io British Miners Would Boost Coal Price $1 London, Feb. 25. lt Is calcu lated that $200,000,000 will be added to the annual expense of the col lieries of Great Britain and $1 a ton to the cost of coal to the consumer if the miners are granted the higher pay, shorter hours and modern methods, which they demand and If they do not produce more coal un der those conditions. Although tlio miners in America are fewer, it is pointed out, the production there is enormously greater, owing to bettor working conditions, modern machinorjr and modern mine equipment. Sympathy with the demands of the miners in their demands is somewhat with held on the ground that they were given preference over others in de mobilization. Mine owners claim that, because of this, the workmen should place the supply of coal on a satisfactory basis before raising questions of hours and wages. Senate Legislation Approves Legislation For Meat Packers Washington, Feb. 25.—Legislation for the regulation of the meat pack ing industry was approved by the Senate * agricultural committee, which ordered reported the Ken driclc bill providing for regulation of refrigerator cars by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the licensing of packers' facilities and the di vorcing of stock yards from control by packing companies. Berks County Boy Gets Life Saving Medal Washington, Feb. 25. Forty one members of the gun crew and ammunition part of the American tanker Frank H. Buck have been commended by -Secretary Daniels "for their coolness while on duty during an engagement with an enemy submarine test September 1. Secretary Daniels has recom mended the following to the secre tary of the treasury for award of silver life saving medal: Jacob B. Miller, Birdsboro, Berks county, Pa. Ship Cloth to France For German Prisoners Coblenz, Jan. 25. Two hun dred thousand yards of German army uniform cloth, taken -over by the American Army of Occupation as abandoned material of war, was slilppepd from Coblenz recently to France to be used In clothl'ng Ger man prisoners. Part of the ship ment consisted of cloth intended for German officers and this Is to be made Into suits for German officers who are still prisoners at the sev eral camps i'n France. I Itching Rashes ' Soothed With Cuticura N.C.R. STOCK i PAYS 8 PER CENT. Dividends Amounting to $2,- 166,172 Were Earned Last Year Eight per cent, dividends were paid on the income of 1918 on Northern Central Railway Company stock, the report °t the board of direc- iJ' he total amount of divi 7-? d ? distributed amount to $1,166,- A. ot 9196 waa trans ral£fnn- ?hl h f ? r f dU ° f P roflt and I°BS. Sl-A. i°t al amount to the credit $1&5?887.83 "° n L>ecembcr '*• to Btp7J ,ns tbo ye V a -total of $1,421,- tiiP 6 nH r expe d for ®nulpment to terrlfo™ JL n 2 P S2 VOments made * n this rinio fee * ? costs thereof, are: -i™. ° la> 100-foot turntable for en ciiii*.?' "tandpipe. etc.. $30,367.66; jpeeceville to Clark's Ferry, relocat l"*, p - übl ' c ,, r K °ad. $34,610,64; Harrls "oKllL'S Sonbury, substituting tele- J " 1 " . f <V telegraph. $7,851.68; Marsh torPickinß*r.3r*d.4R 78: Lemonye - ln " Considerable rolling stock was nnr. o?°s a HH.^ Url ? g ' th ? yßar - * summary x? ?*\jo*ial stock taken is* *reif?ht train cars, $352,948 70* nap. ca?f 6r nnd ain r,^ ttrS ii 917 °a02.52; 'work 16 ar.i oj miscellaneous equipment. 94115 steam locomotives, $106,- Ffflnclmf v Gilbert, of this city, and pdSnTh Morris have been elect vacancies In the board of WilHnm Tfl aU S ed by th 'f death "f Small Barnea an<s Philip A. 3,000 CARS FOR P. n. H. of the Cambria Steel Com pany announced in Pittsburgh vester afternoon that instruction's have R B nr^ e A Ved from „ the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to resume work on ?nr? r M er , r 1 00 Bteel cars Placed be" fore the signing of the armistice, he cost will be about $3,000,000. Wl *AY CAR IN AI.TOONA of Providing: the means !jl, U • M 'ddle Division employe to bet thc-ir checks cashed, a pay car has beet: placed In service again and IL c? 0 " located at Tenth avenue ?. ™S! enth Btr *?t- Its hours being from 3:30 a. m to 6:30 p. m. The checks are not given out at the car; they are simply cashed. The machine shop employes are be ing paid to-day and as many of the employes are off duty becaus of the new live-day regulation, they were obliged to gq to the shop sometime during the day to get their monev, they, by this arrangement, being pre vented from going out of the city. FIRE AT BEISTIJE PLIANT Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 25.—A fire occurred at the Beistle Company wood shop in Seneca street yesterday morning. A shed containing lumber was destroyed. DID YOU EVER USE SLOAN'S? 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