20 17-YEAR LOCUSTS ARE COMING OUT Began Emerging in Consider able Numbers on Wed nesday Night I Washington, May 23.—After sev enteen years underground, the per iodical cicadas—"l7-year locusts" — of brood No. 10, are coming out. They began emerging in considera able numbers Wednesday night. The great swarms will come out during the next few nights. The largest emergency probably took place last night. During the next few days, tree trunks, bushes and chunks will bo thickly studded with cast pupa skins. The period during which the ci cadas do damage to trees by splitting •the branches to deposit eggs will not begin for ten days or so. say entomol ogists of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. Within that period. It will be easily possible for the individual orchardist or farmer to determine whether or not the insects are present in sufficient numbers to make protective measures necessary. The one sure means of protecting young trees, entomologists say. is to place a bag over each tree. Sprays and similar measures have not been .found particularly effective. The entomologists of the Depart ment of Agriculture are undertaking a series of cicada studies in connec tion with this emergency to deter mine some points not fully investi gated heretofore. Additional experi ments wilt be made with sprats. A •great deal of additional illustrative material will be gathered, particular -3v photographs of the activities of the •Insects during the night. A series of might studies will be made, also, to determine just when and under -what conditions the insects emerge 'from the ground. REGENT THEATER LAST DAY WALLACE REID in "Alias Mike Moran" ADDED ATTRACTION'S TODAY" AND TOMORROW Motion Pictures or the Welcome Home ol' the Boys of the 28th Division anil a PARAMOUNT-DREW COMEDY ••Harold, the I.liHt of the Saxons^ TOMORROW ONLY VIVIAN MARTIN "You Never Saw Such a Girl" Vivian Martin is the kind of a girl that makes you want to stay for the second show. MONDAY" AND TIKSDAY Marguerite Clark In "Three Men and a Girl" Coming Four Daya, Starting Wednesday DOVGI.AS FAIRBANKS in "KNICKERBOCKER HICKVROO" wiMSMaaNi Crowds Will Come to See TOM MOORE In the role of a traffic police man to-day and to-morrow. ONE OF THE FINEST You had better come early, In order to get a seat. It's a Clever Picture WIlKMSffNir Salvation Week Rnjr t)eV?S* "SPANGLES" FOR JUNIOR LEAGUE Order For Uniforms Will Make These Lively Lads an Extra Attraction LEAGUE STANDING W. L. P.C. I East End Juniors ... 5 2 .714 I Swatara 6 3 .666 Algonquin® 2 4 .333 West End Juniors ... I 5 .166 Rain again had the say in the City Junior League, last evening, so the Algonquin-Swatara game was added to the rather lengthy list of postponed games. Friday evening, Algonquins vs. West Kiul Juniors, at Fourth and Em erald streets, at 6:30 o'clock. "Ches" Strine, a noted ballplayer in lliis neighborhood, has signed to play with Swatara the rest of the season. He was formerly with the East End Juniors, and is loading the league in lilting and base-stealing. Eight clouts in eighteen times up, and eleven stolen bases in seven games is his record. "Fisky" Faust has hit the Swatara team a severe blow by getting a call from Uncle Sam to return to camp. He played at one time in the Dauphin- Ferry The Swatara team was measured for their new uniforms last evening at Shenk and Tittle's. A large festi val is to be staged at the Webster school grounds on Decoration Day, for which all arrangements are being made. A permit was given to the City Junior league by members of the East End Athletic Club for the use of the the hasfhall diamond at Nineteenth and Greenwood streets during Mon day. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs dav evenings. Friday evening's games being undecided where to he played. Saturday afternoon games will be staged at Seventeenth and Chestnut streets. The West End Juniors are fast drawing their team together, and Manager Simmons states that he will have his team out of the cellar with in the next few weeks. The Swatara management announc ed to-day that It wants a Decoration Day game with any first-class ama teur team averaging from 16 to 20 years. A game is desired for out of town. All communications should ho addressed to 'E. H. Matehett, 1543 Swatara street, or "Micky" Shover, Dial 6111 When writing or calling, state what guarantee you are willing to give. Alpine Club to Climb White Mountain "Sink" Ijcwisbnrg, Pa., May 23.—The Pennsylvania Alpine Club members will climb the famous "Sink" of the White Mountains in Snyder county, June 14. it was announced to-day by J. Herbert Walker, secretary of the organization. Members of the club, which in cludes a number of Harrisburgers and many people from Central Pennsylvania, will gather at Middle burg Friday evening, June 13, for a get-together meeting around a bon fire. Edwin Charles and George W. Wagonseller will be the hosts at this occasion. Saturday morning, June 14, the party will proceed from Middle burg to the point of the climb in automobiles. The ascent will be made and a brief service will be held on the summit. Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, noted naturalist and writer, will speak, and John H. Chatham, "the mountain bard," will read a poem. Other features are be ing planned. ARMY ABROAD HAS SOLD $50,000,000 SUPPLIES Washington.—Sale of surplus sub sistence supplies held by the army overseas have totaled $50,000,000, the War Department announces. The American relief commission taking goods valued at $10,000,000, the Czecho-Slovak government, $16,000,- 000; Rumania, $14,000,000, and Po land $10,000,000. The sales includes 22,000,000 pounds of bacon to the three governments named. Announcement also was made that the department would sell by July 1 all the horses and mules now with the army in France, and that nego tiations were under way for the sale of oil and gasoline storage tanks and distributing stations with the railroad tank trucks used by the A. E. F. in France. ONLY POWERFUL MEDICINE WILL END RHEUMATISM It matters not whether you have had agonizing pains from rheuma tism for twenty years or distressing twitchings for twenty weeks. Rheu tna is strong enough and mighty and powerful enough to drive rheumatic poisons from your body and abolish all misery or money back. Kennedy's Drug Store and all druggists aro authorized to sell Rheuma on a no-cure-no-pay basis. A large bottle is inexpensive, and after you take the small dose as di rected once a day for two days you should know that at last you have obtained a remedy that will conquer rheumatism. For over seven years throughout America, Rheuma has been pre scribed and has released thousands from agony, pain and despair. Summerdale Park Dances Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evenings Cars leave Market Square 7.45, 8.00, 8.15, 8.30 and 9 o'clock. Also 9.15, 9.30 Saturday evenings. Admission 40c and OOc Spring Racing Meet HAGERSTOWN FAIR GROUNDS May 27 to 31 inclusive Races Each Afternoon, Rain or Shine <3 Finest Horses ever in Ha gerstown. All Running Races, six or more each day. Q Pari Mutuel System of Wagering. Special Rates on All Railroads ! to snd from llsgrrstown during I jitet PLANS RETURN OF NATION'S WIRES Burleson Recommends Legis lation Providing Co ordinated Operation By Associated Press. Washington, May 23.—Recom mendations of the Wire Control Board that legislation returning the | telephone ad telegraph system of I the country to private ownership j provide co-ordinated operation of the various systems and fixing of rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission were forwarded yester- Ida by Postmaster General Burleson | to the House post otfjee committee. The wire board's recommenda tions also include creation of a tribunal to hear all controversies be tween employers and employes, and j that changes in wage schedules shall not become effective until submitted | to the Interstate Commerce Com mission so that corresponding changes my be made in rates. Mere rettirn of the wires to their owners will not solve vexatious problems confronting the compa nies. Mr. Burleson said in his letter to Representative Moon, of Ten nessee, ranking Democratic mem ber of the committee, transmitting the recommendations. Extraordi nary costs of operation and mainte nance "fastened upon them as a re sult of war," the Postmaster Gen eral said, "will continue for some time after control passes from the government." WALKINGACROSS THE DRIED-UP ATLANTIC By GARRETT P. SERVISS Here is an odd question which has a certain geographical interest and which leads to unusual thoughts: "If a genius could find a way to evapor ate all the water from the ocean, could one walk to Europe?" The doubt underlying the ques tion seems to be based on the sup position that the ocean's bottom would be found impracticable for locomotion. As a matter of fact, the bottom of the Atlantic between the United States and Europe consists mainly of a slightly undulating plain, which would offer no topographical difficulties for roadmaking except along the edges of the continental "shelves," i. e., the submerged fringes, only a hundred miles or so in breadth, which border the continents and slope very gradually downward. When their outer border is reached the descent sometimes becomes steep. For instance, in going eastward from New York the water deepens very gradually for about a hundred miles to a miximum of something like 500 feet, and then the bottom begins to descend rapidly, sinking in the course of the next ten miles to 3,000 or 4,000 feet. Thu3 the descent al most abruptly changes from five feet in a mile to 300 or 400 feet in a mile. After that there is still a descent, but more gradual, upon the whale, though, no doubt, with steep places, to a depth of between 16,000 and 17,000 feet in the center of the "west ern valley" or "trench" of the North Atlantic Ocean. This valley, sinking more than three miles below the level of the opean yhores, is irregular in breadth, but averages about 500 miles. On its eastern side it slopes upward until it attains the level of ,the "Central Ridge." which is covered by water averaging only 6,000 feet in depth. This is a remarkably level surface, which has been called the "Telegraph Plateau," being crossed oy the princi pal cable lines. It continues to within some 500 miles of the continental shelf of Europe, where the water again deepens to an average of over 14,000 feet. There are places along the outer edge of the European shelf where the pitch becomes very steep, as. for instance, to the west of Brest, where the slope is as much as thirty' or forty degrees. At forty degrees slope the ascent, or descent, would bo about 3,390 feet in a mile, and there are very few rrvountain peaks which have as steep an angle as that. Of course, immediately after the ocean was dried up the bared bot tom would be impassable on account of the mud, which is generally deep.' But after a sufficient time this would harden and the passage could be made on what, in many places, might re semble a friable concrete floor. In this dried carpet of the Atlantic would be f-ound many Interesting things and some of tragic interest. All the secrets of the deea that had nqt perished would be revealed to i persistent search. The lost ships are j there, sunk in the mud, consisting J principally of the shells of minute or | microscopic organisms. The lost treas • ures would b< u.ere, except so far as j they might hs.e been dissolved by i the water and redeposlte.l in another j form during its evaporation. . The clues to many an unsolved I mystery would be there, if only they I could be interpreted, which in many | cases would probably be easy enough, t The whole mystery of the animal i'fe I of the ocean would be thrown open 'to investigation. If the "sea-ser- I pent" exists his haunting form would I be found somewhere, exposed to the demystifying sunbeams, his enigmas all laid bare. A thousand forms of creatures never seen or dreamed of by man might be displayed before his as tortished gaze. The keys to geology and paleontology might be- discov ered by expeditions of scientific men descending into the vast abyss of the emptied ocean, measured from whose greatest depths New York would seem to stand in an upper world, above the cloud which would float at and often far below the for mer level on which ships sailed. From the bottom of the great "Nares Deep," seventy miles north of Porto Rico, a bottom which it might not be easy to attain, the West India Islands would tower like mighty mountains, and peaks only 7,000 feet over the old sea level would raise their tremendous heads a mile higher than the present elevation of Mount Everest. One most astonishing effect which might after all make tile exploration almost impossible, would be the great increase in atmospheric pressure at the bottom of a depression two or three miles deep. The air would be so dense there and the temperature perhaps so high as to be humanly unbearable. At the lame time, since all the oceans would be drained if the At lantic was, the atmospheric pressure over the continents would drop to the rarity found on lofty mountain basins would be like tremendous cal drons of clouds, for the greater part of the atmospheric condensa tion of water vapor would take place at a point below the present sea I' level. STODART P'nno, used. Mahogany case, in fine condition. Cheap for cash, or easy , payments. Yohn Bros. 13 N. 4th St. ,/ : FEAST OF WEEKS BEGINS JUNE 4 Jewish Holiday Commemo rates Old-Time Fes tival Shabouth, the Feast of Weeks, falls this year on Wednesday, June 4. Originally a festival of the first fruits as enjoined in Deut. XVI: 9 "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unta the Lord thy God after the measure of the free-will offering of thy hand which thou shalt give according as the Lord thy God, bles seth thee. And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these sta tutes.". In Biblical times the feast of weeks was merely a farmer's holiday at the end of the seven weeks of harvest and its ceremonial, the simple agri cultural offerings brought as a thanksgiving token for the new crop they gathered. In common with other agricultural festivals the feast of weeks under went a gradual transformation. As the Jewish people began to enjoy a historical consciousness, they link ed traditional events with surviving festivals and institutions transmitted from a remoter ancestry. Through the intercession of Rabbinical Juda ism. the Feast of Weeks was enlarg ed into a historical festival, in which the giving of the Decalog was com memorated. By this- transfer a universal sig nificance was attached to the festi val in which the ripened fruits of the spirit were offered in praise and thanks, as an offering front the Peo ple of the Covenant. To this day the Ten Words are read in the synagogues and the pledge of loy alty made by the fathers of old to the covenant of Israel renewed by their sons In love and faithfulness. Withinin the last century the Feast of Weeks obtained an added charnt by introducing a confirma tion ceremony in connection with observation. This ceremony was sponsored by the leaders of Reform Judaism, who made of it a feast of consecration of the Jewish youth, hoys and girls, to the ancient cove nant of their fathers. Yearly the children of the religious schools of our reform congregations attest their loyalty to their ancestral faith, which is the intent and purpose of he confirmation service. This serv ice does not exact from them any other confession than that of a be lief in one God. and in His justice and truth as manifested in history. The service also symbolizes a grad uation from the religious school where boys and girls have been taught Biblical and Jewish history. Jewish ethics, Hebrew and Jewish literature. DOG SNTFFS AT GRAVE IN TOUCHING FAREWELL London. —Following the funeral of the late Harold Bannister, outfitter, Leyland, the dead man's favorite dog, went into the church and sat by the bier. While .the service was read the dog sniffed occasionally at the coffin, and when the body was lowered into the grave it put its paws on the edge and looked down as if taking a farewell view of its master. A BITING DOG ? For stripping timber an inventor has patented a motor driven barking ma chine. 432 Market Street License No. G-35305 Specials For Saturday, May 24, 1919 Specials Until 12 Noon Regular Hams, any size, lb 39c Picnic Hams, any size, lb 29c Sirloin, Club, Porterhouse Steaks, lb. 30e Choice Chuck Roast, lb 22c Choice Veal Roast or Chops, lb 25c Fresh Pork Roast, lb 28e Ritter's Catsup, 2 bottles for 25c Frankfurters, Smoked or Fresh Saus age, lb. 22c All-day Specials Sliced Liver, 5 lbs. for 25c; lb 6c Pot Roast or Fleshy Boil, lb 20c Compound Used as Lard, lb 27c Large Can Tomatoes, 3 for 40c; can 14c Large Can Peas, 3 for 40c; can 14c B. B. Special, Lincoln Butterine, 2-lb. rolls, 56e; lb 30c Sliced Bacon, lb 38c Cooked Tripe, Pigs' Feet, lb 10c Markets in 65 Cities of 14 States Main Office, Chicago Packing Plant. Peoria, 111. All Meat Government Inspected. All Goods Purchased Guaranteed or Money Refunded TECH TEACHER TELLS OF FRANCE Tours the Devastated District Throughout War Zone Sergeant John D. Itenninger, a teacher at the Technical High School, who is acting as an interpreter at the office of the Provost Marshal General of the American Expeditionary Forces, has written an interesting letter to Dr. Charles B. Fager. Jr.. that sheds some light on the destruction that was suf fered by the French throughout the Marne Valley. Just when the Germans are shouting that the peace terms are "horrible," Renninger gives Harrisburgers a chance to see the de vastation as it was completely wrought by the Hun. Prior to entering the service, the Tech tutor taught German at Tech. Two months after entering the Army. Iten ninger was sent across to interpret the German prisoners. The Sergeant spent several summers in Germany prior to the war, and is thoroughly conversant with German manners and language. He expects to be teaching again at Tech next fall. The text of the letter Is as follows: "It was my privilege to take a 350- mile auto trip over the last week-end into the famous war-ridden and war wrecked "Marne Valley. We left from Chaumont and proceeded to St. Dizier, Vitry le Francois, Chalons, Rhoims, Reaumont. Fismes. Chateau-Thierry. Epenay, thence to Chalons and back to Chauniont. Everywhere in this nar row. beautiful valley one sees heaps of shattered and crumbled houses where once lived the contented and thrifty peasants who were now driven out; his home and his vineyard destroyed. It is a pitiful sight to see aged men and women walking forlornly through the wrecked streets searching vainly for some of their prized household goods or perhaps a room in which they may place their meager rescued property and try to begin life anew. "But not until one sees Rhelms is he really conscious of the horribleness and completeness of the destruction wrought by the Germans. If you can conceive of a city the size of Harrisburg shat tered so that not a single house re mains intact and most of them crum bled to dust and heaps of broken rocks, you may get some idea of the thorough ness with which the Hun did this job. One is filled first with awe and than pity and finally with the greatest anger as he looks upon this sight and reviews the story of this city's fate. The Cathe dral which for centuries has been one of the proudest gems of architecture and the greatest expressions of art that had been handed down to us from the Mid dle Ages, now lies humbly in a pitiful pile of blasted ruins. Hundreds of the small statues of pious religious char acters which silently preserved the beauty and sacredness of this famous structure, too have been thrown from their quiet nooks and corners and lie EXCESSIVE ACIDITY is at the bottom of most digestive ills. Ki-naiDS FOR INDIGESTION afford pleasing and prompt relief from the distress of acid dyspepsia. MADE BY SCOTT ft BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTTS EMULSION ' s H pitifully pinned in the pit under tons of crumbled rock. Stripped of her or naments, her beauty and her sacredness this great skeleton stands there hope lessly calling to the genius of modern art and architecture to rescue her and restore her former glory and beauty." 810 WHEAT ACREAGE Cliambersburg, Pa.. May 23. With wheat commanding $2.70 a Factory to Yoa Stores Coast to Coast I UNITED HAT STORES Inc. : Third and Market Streets Get Your Straw Hat Early STRAWS PANAMAS $2.50 $5.00 $3.00 $6.00 $3.50 $7.50 We have them in all styles and variety of braids. All the finer hats at $3.50 and $4.00. Ask to see the hat with the Air Cushion Sweat Band CLOTH AND SILK CAPS $ 1.00 —$ 1.50—52.00 THE LATEST AND NOBBIEST OUR PANAMA HATS ARE GUARANTEED TO BE GENUINE SOUTH AMERICAN PANAMA NONE BETTER United Hat Third and Market Streets bushel in town to-day the news comes that the acreago in Franklin county this year exceeds that of all time. The frequent rains have not washed the rapidly growing wheat and it has no' yet been hurt and the prospects are now for an enorm ous crop. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets Aav.