4 LAUDS SERVICE OF Y. M. C. A. TO YANKSOVERSEA tWas Money Well Spent, Says \ Moderator of Presbyter ian Assembly Pittsburgh, June 20. The service Tendered by the Young Men's Chris tian Association to American soldiers overseas is characterized as "one of the most wonderful things of the war" by Dr. Maitland Alexander, formerly moderator of the Presby terian General Assembly. Dr. Alex ander recently returned from Prance after serving one year as director of religious work both in American cantonments and with the Army of Occupation. "In my opinion the money given to the Y. M. C. A., to carry on the war Those who have used Firestone Gray Sidewall Tires the past - year have discovered an unusual tire value. You see Firestone Gray Sidewall # Tires everywhere. And an accom modating tire man selling Firestones 4 ij is always just around the corner. £ \ He's there to give you service. So \ are Firestone Tires. Tfretfotte TIRES Most Miles per Dollar mrn.rrTmmmmmmmmyrog ™ kes ™ "">* "• y*wmmmmmr!TmmmmmTy ,New Bargain Courthouse n „. Harrisburg, . 217~ Market Street-217 Pa - , A Special "Low Price" Sale Of Ladies' Lace Oxfords / $6 and $7 Values at djyi QA 1 Every smart new style for Summer LM|i V \M ' V including the long slender Parisian i \ vamp lasts. High covered and leather W ItN. Louis. Cuban and medium heels. Made in tan. brown and ■ M V- black kid and calf and patent colt. Perfect, well made ■a> | grades; really worth $6 and $7. All sizes. Ladies' $7.50 Oxfords Beautiful new lasts perfectly _ .. . fl> „ _ , , x made in all the smartest summer Tar. and black calf high. styles. All leathers. d I - A A military and me- An Jr* \ Vll I dium heels; plain & Jki 4j i VVoi/v/ winged tips. Special bpecial $6 311(1 $7 Grades Ladies' White Canvas Oxfords, LADIES' PUMPS Pumps and Shoes A special sale of white \ Embrace every new . _. . Summer pump style shoes, lace oxfords and //$ lS§fcMftß in aI! the desired pumps. All the new I W J m\nHii leathers and colors; Summer styles. Neolin A J B I with Louis and and leather soles and" A gfOM welt and turn a good 54 value yCtj& s\) / leather sole; All sizes. f 11/ BOYS' ELKSKIN SHOES BOYS' DRESS SHOES Boys' Black CALF SHOES A $2.50 Value Tan and Black Calf Gooa „ .Strong black Narrow English lace and wearing black calf; 1 " 1 elkskin uppers. rounded toe. blucher lasts: solid lace and hnttnn I with extra strong makes. Sizes to 5Vi; $5 value. Sizes 9 to 5V>; $3.50 "17*/ 1 soles. Wide toe/JCT^ 1 <h n AP values. " M m l I , „ 'ZSJZZJZZJtS* Girls* Pumps and Oxfords ('Ft button models. Cft New Summer styles—one strap 1 pri B< > ,e - Sizes to 2. A I.3U pumps and lace Oxfords. Made fi"W grade at T j n tan anc j black calf tf*r| AN I PA. Children's Two-Colored Shoes sTvalues^ 1 rii7l Made In fancy combination crav- 1 ST en , ette - High lace styles. $l.OO Children's White Skuffers Jane pa^ Girls' White Pumps Barefoot Sandals Play Oxfords One strap Mary Jane and "Ked" For Boys, girls and children. For boys, girls and .I,IM. styles. Rubber soles. All sizes Strong, double stitched sole and Soft tough elkskin Lao. L£ i to 2. $1.50 values, uppers. Sizes to 2. $1.50 value. All sizes to 2 Specialat tyles ' 98c^j^g pyfyyyyyyy?tyTTyy?yytyyfip>K's SHOES—sir MAHKKT stwht-BOOK S .. ; i w : - ' - ' ' * > ' K* ' ' • 4 ' L .'- ,'I . I ■ ' v • f ■ . ' , • ■ . - . ' ■ '• 7.'. " = - i FRIDAY EVENING, , SARRISBTJUQ TELEGRAPH JUNE 20, 1919. work of the association was money w ell spent," Dr. Alexander said. Dr. Alexander, in his review of "Y" war work,, says that the organisa tion provided enough baseball equip ment for American soldiers overseas to supply both tne National and American Leagues for 100 years, one item alone being 2,250,000 baseballs. Foch Has Big Army Ready to Advance if Germans Do Not Sign Coblenz, Wednesday, June 18.— The concentration of American, Brit ish, French and Belgian troops be gun by order of Marshal Koch, pre paratory to advancing further into Germany, will be completed Saturday when several hundred thousand Alied soldiers will stand ready to march toward Berlin if the Germans do not sign the Peace Treaty. Berlin, June 20, Via Copenhagen. —The German National Assembly will make its final decision on the Peace Treaty Saturday, according to private advices received here from Weimar. In all probability, it is said, the assembly will decide to or der that a plebiscite be taken. DECLARES MOST DOCTORS OVERSEA MEDICALLY UNFIT Army Surgeon Makes Plea For Higher Plane in Medical Colleges By Associated Press. Philadelphia, June 20.—The b'ulk of the young doctors who went over seas with the American Army were medically and surgically inefficient. Colonel Pearce Bailey, of New York, an army surgeon, declared in an ad dress before the American Medico- Psychological Association here to day. "It is a fact," said Colonel Bailey, "that not six out of a hun- i dred doctors sent to France could perform a decent surgical operation. This is surely an argument for the better education of our physicians : and the raising of standards in our medical colleges." ' Criticism was made of the over crowded conditions on the transports bringing home troops by Colonel Thomas W. S. Salmon, U. S. M. C., who said that many shell-shocked men, apparently recovered, suffered relapses because of the overcrowd ing. Treatment of nervous and mental diseases, so prevalent among the sol diers of the American armies in the form of shellshock or nervous break down, must not stop now that the war is over, said Dr. Tom A. Wil liams, of Washington. "Valuable lessons, which we have learned in the treatment of cases among the soldiers must be advanced and ap plied to the still greater army at home —the army of industry," he declared. "Psychiatrists must work among the men and women of the country, who are engaged in indus try, whether it be manual or intel lectual. The need here Is just as great as it was during the war, and there is nothing else which will so help to build up the national morale." Dr. Henry C. Eyman, of Massilon, Ohio, was elected president, and Dr. H. W. Mitchell, Warren, Pa., secre tary-treasurer. GROWTH OF CITY IS TOLD OF BY FRIEND (Continued From First Page) turn decorated with an occasional bowknot of tfh cans and other rub bish. "The main thoroughfare—Market street—on that unforgetable Fourth of July was deserted except for a few groups of young fellows and girls, the latter dressed in white, carrying baskets containing ma terials for a picnic. The busy square was a market place, empty and de serted. "The courthouse, with its colonial suggestion, was the most Imposing building in the town next to the squat brown structure on the hill with Karnak-like columns known as the Capitol. "Some kindly soul informed me that the only amusement was a pic nic 'on the island.' I was rowed over in a skiff, stayed an hour or two watching some girls and young fellows dancing, returned to the town and spent the remainder of that disconsolate and disappointing day around the Pennsylvania station down in the hollow waiting for a train home. <(T 'VE often wondered eince I where the Harrisburg of 1873 kept its fire horses! Possibly it hadn't gotten beyond the man power and the buck brigado'etage! "Twelve years later when I made my first entry into Harrisburg as a legislative correspondent, I discov ered that they then kept the fire horses at pasture somewhere out on Third street, now a populous region of pretty homes. In those days fires were infrequent and the volunteer department was email.. "There was one engine company, down on Chestnut street, I think, that pastured its horses between fires. It was cheaper to pasture them than to pen them up and feed them in the firehouee. "When an alarm was sounded two volunteers would leap on a spare horse, bareback, and go clattering and smashing out to the pasture. "Ten minutes later they would return on a dead gallop, one on each horse, with an escort of yapping dogs and shouting urchins in the rear, while crowds lined the street and hung from the windows watch ing the fire conquering heroes come. "It was a great day in Israel for the Harrisburg populace when the fire tocsin called the horses home from pasture. ( iTT ARRISBURG had the finest J - 1 farmers' market in central Pennsylvania thirty years ago. Two or three times a week Market square, now the throbbing heart of this wonder city, was abloom with masses of old-fashion "ed flowers and redolent of the earthy fragrance of early fruits and vege tables beyond compare. "Rolls of butter in white cloths; smear case—it's cottage cheese now, smear case is vulgar—Dutch cheese in little 'pats,' and saucer cheese flanked by gallon crocks of apple butter; split baskets of dried apples —apple snits—with now and then a jar of golden honey strained, or it might be honey in the comb, were set out in lavish array. "The market opened at daylight with the dew still on the flowers. The odor of it all, suggestive of the wide river-fields and glorious sun shine of old Dauphin, is in my nos. trils yet Never was there such a market. "As for the farmers, they were mostly Pennsylvania Dutch; Men nonites, men in their broad-brimmed hats, and their women in queer lit tle black poke bonnets; River Brethren, Amish and Dunkards were mixed up with a liberal sprink ling of the desc3ndants of the Scotch-Irish of the post-revolution ary period. 6(T> UT the farmers' market of |~| Market square disappeared long years ago. Its existence is a legend to the present genera tion. "In its stead downtown Harris burg finds a substitute within the walls of a huge double brick struc ture on Chestnut street. At 6 o'clock one morning last week I found the plain, thrifty, early-rising citizens, converging toward it as a matutinal center of attraction, basket on arm, I followed th'e crowd. "It was an interesting and busy scene at that hour. There was the same questioning as to prices and the character of the fruit. It was a bigger market than the old alfresco affair in Market square; there was greater variety in the display of food and a vastly wider difference in the sellers thereof. "There were products on sale that were never heard of in the old mar ket. Spaghetti and Camembert cheese; Florida oranges and Canta loupes from Texas; Spanish mack erel and California lettuce, and all the other exotic luxuries of sea and soil. "Instead of the quaint caps of the Mennonite women were bare-headed Greek and Italian goddesses in cal ico. One looked in vain for the square cut- whiskers and* clean shaven upppr lip of the River Breth ren, the butter bowl hair cut of the Amish. Now and then I overheard a bit of conversation in Pennsylvania Dutch, but modern English, with now and then the accent and grace ful gesture of the Italian, prevailed. "By these tokens I knew the old Harrisburg had passed away. years since the ma il gician of twentieth-century progress touched the mu nicipal pride of the capital city and wakened it to a new and radiant ex istence. The transformation has been proceeding each year with ac celerated impulse. "The cobble-stream water's edge and the clayey banks of the Susque hanna have disappeared. In their stead is a magnificent revetment, or river wall, that holds suggestions of Venice near the Arsenal. Above and behind it is a boulevard whose stately trees, minus the bordering residences, recalls the ancient Toltee Highway of Tula in the heart of old Mexico. "This Riverside Drive, with its gray retaining wall, is the most beautiful and imposing work of its kind in the United States. "A few blocks in the center of the city hold the only memories that now remain of Harrisburg as a three-story-red-brick country town. "Up and down the river and back over the hills are stately homes and well-kept avenues, while the trolley's fingers of steel reach out in all di rections to fetch and carry their tens of thousands. "Everywhere one stands in the presence of great municipal enter prises; schools, bridges, viaducts, parks and boulevards. They are the hall-mark of the intelligent discrim inating, art-loving spirit of the peo ple. "But to appreciate this wonder ful advancement one- must have known the city and watched it grow as I have run the gamut of progres sive change, and the graceful pro cess of its transformation. "Great j* Harriaburg, the City Beautiful!!" GYPSY SEER _ GETS WEALTHY BANKER'S PURSE Chambersburg, Pa., June 20. A woman with a band of auto mobile gypsies entered the of fice of Col. George H. Stewart, Shippensburg, president of the Valley National Bank, this place, and owner of more than 100 farms, and importuned him to peer into the future. He got rid of her, but found his empty purse in his hip pock et, which had contained over $lOO. Police and Col. Stewart followed the banu. The woman gave up $55 and was allowed to go. NEW YORK GUARD ANSWERS CALL TO PROTECTTHECITY Ten Regiments Out in Test; Must Not Leave City Until After Fourth of July New York, June 20. —Ten regi ments of the New York State Guard demonstrated last night what they could do to protect the city. They answered a test mobilization call and .quickly threw cordons of armed guards about public buildings, power houses, car barns, public utilities and the homes of prominent citizens. Automobile trucks filled with armed men, dashed from armories to spots theoretically held to be in danger, and the Guardsmen carried out the practice drill grimly. 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