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INTEREST AGAIN
IS CENTERING 1 I
KEYSTONE GUARD
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Plans Being Made to Establish
Unit of Field Artillery
in the City
With the announcement that Penn
sylvania is going to have a complete ;
tactical division with the reorgan- j
ization of the National Guard of the |
State, local interest naturally cen- !
ters about the assignments of units
to Harrlsburg.
Heretofore Harrisburg has had in- ,
fantry and cavalry units and nothing ;
else, but with the reorganization of i
the N. G. P., there has been a great |
deal of talk about town with regard j
to securing a unit of every corps in ,
the city.
There is every reason why this j
should be done, since Harrisburg as j
the Capital of the State should be ,
and is naturally the center of Na
tional Guard activity. Especially is |
there a great deal of enthusiasm in j
favor of allotting a battery of field j
artillery to this city.
Although a recent War Department
order only assigned one regiment of
light field artillery to the Pennsyl
vania Guard, it was stated that this
arrangement is only to be in force
until June 30. 1920. as there are not
sufficient funds to permit more or
ganizations before that time.
Need New Armory
Major General Price, the new com
mander of the Guard, was formerly
the commander of the Twenty-eighth
Division's Field Artillery brigade in
France, And of course is especially
interested in carrying on the work of
his corps in Pennsylvania. With
headquarters of the Guard on the
Hill. Harrisburg should be able to
receive great assistance In the re
cruiting of a battery.
The present armory is of course
out of the question from tho stand
point of a battery. In the first place
there is no adequate place, to house
the guns, and not sufficient room to
maneuver them. Therefore, the prop
osition would necessitate a new
armory, but as this is something
which Harrisburg has long needed,
It is assured that there will be a
unanimous response and assistance
towards Its erection.
Then the question of a drill field
comes up. There are any number of
vacant lots close to the city line,
which would serve admirably as drill
-fields for one battery; Island Park
has been considered and might well
be used if permission could be ob
tained from the City Council.
V. S. Has Field Guns
The Government has more field
guns now than it can have any use
for before some years, and would be
glad to furnish the material and fire
control equipment for a Guard bat-
Personnel is the easiest part of the
program, as there are many : men in
the city who served in the field ar
tillery during the war. and who
would like to keep up their actiM
tles In this line. There are enough
officers and men in Harrisburg a 10 "®
to farm a skeleton battalion of this
arm of the service.
Field artillery has always been
used with great effect as escort in
ceremonials, and the Harrisburg bat
tery could assist the Governor s
troop in their work as escort.
Those interested in the formation
of a battery are anxiously awaiting
some announcement from the State
as to the possibility of placing a
battery here.
No Doubt Remains as
to Feasibility of Maying
Susquehanna Navigable
Major William B. Gray was in
the citv to-day and discussed briefly
the Federal survey of the Susque
hanna river which is about to bo
undertaken by the engineers of the
War Department at Washington. He \
is deeply interested in the work and |
is more" than ever confident of the j
practical character of the naviga- f
tion movement. He does not think j
there is the slightest doubt about ,
the feasibility of the undertaking. '
Asked by a representative of tho
Telegraph how long it would proo- ,
ably require to make the river !
navigable once the government and
the State are ready to proceed with .
the work, he replied that within five j
or six years after the work was -
started navigation ought to be j
sible from tidewater at least to ,
Sunbury. He said a generation was |
given to the education of the peop.e |
of New York to the idea of the j
great barge canal w*hich was finally j
constructed at a cost of $200,000,- |
000. He doesn't think the opening
of a navigable channel in the Sus
quehanna river, from the ocean to
the New York line, will exceed the j
cost of the large canal, inasmuch
as long stretches of the river will I
require no dredging whatever.
Congressman J. Hampton Moore. J
of Philadelphia, and other promi
nent men of the State are deeply
interested in the Susquehanna river i
plan. They believe that inland ■
waterways are absolutely necessary |
to the development of the resources j
of the country and the reduction jf
high freight and transportation i
charges. Major Gray suggests there
•will be a saving of at least $1.50 a
ton in the transportation of an
thracite coal through the use of the
river for navigation.
Boys, Wbo Want to
See the World, Held
"They wanted to see some of the j
world."
This was the explanation given |
early to-day by Harry Grove and t
Kenneth Jcrhnson, who claim their j
homes are near Baltimore, when !
taken into custody by Harrisburg po- |
lice, after running away from their
homes yesterday.
The boys were arrested on sus
picion within a short time after
they reached this city on a Pennsyl
vania Railroad train about midnight.
They had left their homes about
six miles from Baltimore yesterday
morning at nine o'clock, went ,to
Hagerstown and there took a train
for this city last night, according
to the story they tell.
Police are inclined to believe they
are not telling an altogether straight
story and are holding them until
they can secure more definite in
formation.
VETERANS HONORED
The Harrisburg Recruiting Office
to-day announced that the French
government had made Captain Fred
erick Muhlenberg a Chevakier of
the Legion of Honor, for meritorious
service. The medal was forwarded
to him to-day. Sergeant Frank B.
Norton, Altoona, was awarded the
Italian War Cross to-day. Captain
Charles C. McClain, of Indiana, and
■Willis P. Snyder, of Reading, re
ceived the French Croix de Guerre.
TUESDAY EVENING,
PACKERS REPLY !
| TO REPORTS OF
TRADE BOARD
Unfair and Erroneous, Thcyj
Say to Charges of Price- i
Fixing
By Associated Press.
| Chicago. July 29.—Declaring that ;
| the statements issued by the Fede- 1
| ral Trade Commission regarding the
j packing industry were cunning pro- '
; paganda, and that they were as a 1
I whole unfair and erroneous, presl- 1
J dents of the big packing companies
i have issued statements in answer ;
ito the Federal Trade Commission ]
I latest statements issued last night.
Edward Morris, president of j
j Morris and Company, said:
"The present agitation against the ]
; packing industry is 99 per cent. ]
' premeditated, cold-blooded, cun- i
ning propaganda engineered by men
jif socialistic tendencies, who are
seeking to bolster up unjust and ini
quitous conclusions."
In his statement J. Ogden Armour |
declared that "this latest report of
the commission is both a rehash of
inferences and unfounded deduc
tions contained in similar reports."
The commission, he said. Is avowed
ly behind the legislation now pend
ing in Washington "which, in effect,
will cripple the packing industry.
"Tho whole contention of the
commission that we control and
manipulate prices," declared Louis
F. Swift, of Swift and Company, "is
simply not based on facts. In the
ownership of stock yards we are
proud of the fact that we have im
proved marketing methods and
thereby encouraged greater live
stock production."
Washington. July 29.—Ability of
the "Big Five" packers—Swift, Ar
mour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson
—to determine from day to day
tlie general level of livestock prices
was declared incontrovertible in the
third section of the Federal Trade
Commission's report on the indus
try.
Information obtained in the com
mission's investigation was cited to
show that the "Big Five" have on
interest in 2S of the 50 principal
market yards of the country and a
majority of voting stock in 22
others.
"They discriminate against and
put at great disadvantage indepen
dent buyers, who are their competi
tors," the report said. "They mani
pulate on occasions the livestock
market in such a way as to cause ex
treme and unwarranted fluctuations
in the daily prices paid for live
stock. They have eliminated many
competitors and prevented new
ones from coming in. They have
restricted the meat supply of the
nation by manipulating the daily
livestock prices and thus discourag
ing the producers of livestock.
Claim Americans Are
Smuggling Machines Into
Germany For Sale
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Monday, July 2S.—The
Deutsche Zeitung claims that the
Americans in the occupied territory
are attempting to sell their own
and the balance of the Army's huge
stock of automobiles by smuggling
them into Germany through the oc
cupied territory to avoid the Ger
man law against the importation of
manufactured products.
The newspaper says that if the
Americans succeeded in selling a
quantity it will ruin the German au
tomobile industry, although in the
same paragraph it belittles the
quality of American cars and warns
Germans that they are liable to
prosecution if they buy them.
Hoover Furniture Co.
Remodels Storerooms
The Hoover Furniture Company,
, 1415-19 North Second street, who
i for the past month or more have
j been doing extensive remodeling and
j altering of their storerooms, ex-
I pect to have everything completed
r and in readiness for the opening of
i their big August Furniture Sale
j which starts Friday morning,
j The remodeling of the storerooms
i was quite extensive, completely
j changing the appearance of the ex
■ terior and interior of what was for-
I merly the three rooms used for the
' display of their goods. These three
rooms have been thrown into one
! large room. The decorations and
, lighting effects are very pretty and
i are in keeping with modern furni-
I ture stores in the larger cities. Large
plate glass windows in the front
I give a view of the entire interior
j to passersby.
| The second and third floors have
] also been changed, with a stalr
' way on the northern side of the
I building. On the first floor, a room
i has been particularly fitted up for
I the demonstration of Detroit Vapor
| stoves and Sterling Electric Washers
for which the Hoover Company are
the Central Pnnsylvania distribu
tors.
Deaths and Funerals
JOSEPH E. liniHAKEU
Joseph E. Brubaker, 1101 hi Capi
tal street, died this morning, aged
|56 years. He is survived by one
| sister, Mrs. Jacob Burkholder; one
j brother, James Brubaker; two nieces
j and one nephew. Private funeral
i services will be held on Friday af-
I ternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by
| the Rev. Mr. Worden. Burial will
' be in the Harrisburg Cemetery.
MRS. MAGGIE A. HOPI'
Mrs. Maggie A. Hopp. 47 years
old, died yesterday at her home,
j 1627 North Third street. She is
survived by one son. Arthur C.
Hopp, and one sister, Mrs. Mary
Newberry, of Northumberland. Fu
neral services will be held on Fri
day evening at 7 o'clock, conducted
by the Rev. Henry W. Miller, of the
Wet minster Presbyterian Church.
The body will be taken to Northum
berland on Saturday by Hoover &
Son, and further services and burial
will take place there.
MRS. SARAH J. GKMPKRLING
Mrs. Sarah J. Gcmperling, 67
years old. died on Sunday at her
home. 204 Hamilton street. She is
survived by her husband. A. R.
Gemperling: two daughters, Mrs.
Mary Hoster and Mrs. Alice M.
Hirchner, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held from
her late home on Thursday after
noon at 1.30 o'clock, conducted by
the Rev. Clavton N. Ranck, pastor
of St. John's Reformed Church. Bur
lial will foe in the East Harrisburg
Cemetery.
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was fired on but the occupants were i
unhurt.
An exodus of negroes to the
North and West Side began as the
fighting was at its height. Some
fifty thousand more negroes already
live in those parts of the city and
the police took precautions to stop i
any resentment shown by whites
at the added population of Afri
cans. This hegira was stopped at
daybreak by the street car strike.
Escape in Disguise
A few whites were penned in their
homes by angry negroes and had to
telephone for police aid to escape.
AFFRAYS OWE INITIATIVE
EQUALLY TO BOTH SIDES\
The various affrays owed their 1
initiative about equally to the two j
races. although the Caucasians
seemed to be the prime aggressors, j
the Africans starting their assaults !
more as counteroffensives. Most of |
the white rioters were young men. |
Slow to Disperse
The police devoted much of their |
activity to clearing the streets of
negroes and many of the fatalities
resulted from the recalcitrancy oi ;
the negroes against the order to dis- j
perse. In one crowd at Thirty-fifth j
street and State street, former Al- ,
derman De Priest, a negro, was |
with a crowd of negroes ordered to
scatter. They refused, despite the j
pleading of the former alderman !
and two negro police sergeants, and j
the officers fired into the assem
bly, killing four and barely missing j
De Priest.
A police captain in the black bell
ascribed the trouble to the hoou
lumism of negroes who came to
Chicago during the last two years
to make up the shortage In labor
caused by the war. He said his ex
perience showed that the older resi
dents sanely refrained from such
clashes, having become accustomed
to the freedom allowed to negroes
without turning it into license.
Hospitals Fillet!
During the night hospitals In tho
region became filled and doctors
were all overworked caring for the
injured. A negro corpse was taken
into the establishment of a white
undertaker and soon a crowd
threatened to attack the place.
News of this spread and thereafter
dead negroes would not be accepted
by white mortuaries.
When the streets had been clear
ed in the negro section, the more
persistent rioters marched down
town and sought outnegroes at their
work. The police in these instances
did not offer protection to the
blacks. One band entered a restau- |
rant across the street from City
Hall, wrecked part of the furnish
ings, dragged a porter from the
kitchen and beat him unconscious
with a five-gallon bottle. After
wards several bluecoats arrived and
dispersed the crowd.
Governor Makes Appeal
Governor Lowden, before turning
back to help stop the riots, tele
graphed the following appeal:
"I appeal to all citizens, white
and colored, to obey the law. There
are no wrongs committed by eithei
race that cannot be better redressed
through the orderly processes of law
than by mob violence.
"The entire power of the State
will be used to restore order and
punish those guilty of lawlessness.
It Is time for all good citizens, white
or colored, to aid the authorities in
every way possible to uphold the
law."
Blacks Overtaken
A "flying squadron" of negroes
mounted a touring car and riding at
full speed through the section sent
a volley of shots at a group of
whites. One white woman was in
jured but not fatnlly. The negroes
were overtaken after a long chaso
and placed under arrest.
Shortly afterward a mob of sev
eral hundred negroes formed at
Thirty-fifth street and began stoning
HAHRISBURG TELEGRIPH
One family managed to elude the ',
negroes by blacking their faces and I
departing in disguise. But aside !
from a few such instances, persons •
living in or near the war zone were
unmolested physically if they re
mained within their domiciles.
Taxicab drivers as news of the
feud spread, refused to take persons [
into the disturbed district, and resi- I
dents who lived along the car lines '
that were stopped had long walks '
through the field of battle. As far i
as the police could learn these per- j
sons suffered no affronts if they I
went quietly along their way.
I a policeman. Gun fire was opened
' and four of the negroes fell, all
mortally wounded.
A white man in the same neigli
! borhood was dragged from a truck
! and stabbed to death. A nogio
| chauffeur was killed by whites a
i few minutes later In the same block.
| Scores of arrests were made, but
where the rioters were found to be t
unarmed, they were released.
Negroes began looting stores of j
! whites in one district shortly after
| the firing of revolvers by a squad I
, of policemen in an effort to break j
; up a fight over a small purchase of i
: groceries. The police soon emptied
j their guns. The looting continued
| until a special squad of police, arni
|cd with rifles, arrived. They fired
low, felling half a dozen negroes.
| A white woman was pulled from a
street car by a negro. He was soon
lying unconscious against the curb.
The angry whites left him for dead.
Use Razors and Clubs
Groups of negroes formed in foot
ball fashion and charged against
whites with razors and clubs. Oil i
one corner the scene was like a
miniature battle ground. Uncon
scious negroes and whites dotted
the street. As they regained con
sciousness they were arrested or
permitted to leave the neighbor
hood.
While the main battles were in
progress women, negroes and whites,
battled away in front yards wuh
brooms and missiles. In one of
these fights a white woman was
knocked unconscious and taken
to a hospital.
In one fracas on Thirty-fourth
street, negroes knocked two police
men unconscious and were drawing
pistols when a group of discharged
negro soldiers came to the rescue
of the whites. In another battle
soon after, three policemen were
shot. One may die.
In an effort to prevent quick dis
patch of rifle-bearing policemen
from one section to another, the ne
groes began cutting telephone and
telegraph wires.
The negroes began firing on street
car conductors and motormen when
they refused to allow negro passen
gers to board their cars because of
threats made by white passengers.
One conductor was reported shot in
the leg.
For more than two blocks along
one street negro snipers fired from
housetops and windows. Not a sin
gle death resulted from this method
of warfare, however.
NcgTOes Stoned
After threats had been made by
whites to "clean up" the stockyards
district, a small army of negroes
formed ready to meet the challenge.
An automobile load of negroes
started over the district to estimate
the number of whites present. They
were stoned. Then they drew re
volvers and, racing at top speed,
fired at whites along the road. A
white man was shot in the shoulder
and a bullet gazed the head of a
white woman.
The negroes were overtaken and
rescued from the mob by police
men.
While the "black belt" was seeth
ing with strife, negro educators and
church men sent out appeals that j
I the negroes go to their homes and
keep their peace.
It is charged in most outbreaks
! the negro had been hackled by the
j whites and pointed to the iirst
fights Sunday when colored bathers
| along the south lake shore were
• stoned by whites and one negro boy
j drowned.
, The attacks on street cars became
; so numerous that service was sus
i pended late last night on two line 3.
On the other lines, policemen
formed a part of the crews.
The disorders did not extend
1 north to the loop district, except for
( minor outbreaks.
i When the first dissension ap
' peared in this district loop, the pa
lice ordered sixty picked men from
j the detective bureau to arm wicn
1 rifles and form a lino about tlio
; City Hall and county buildings.
RURAL SCHOOLS
NEED TEACHERS
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• quirements of the rural school
| teacher. As a result because of ihe
| salaries, as soon as one has taught
j in a rural school for a year or two,
j she leaves either for the larger
j towns and boroughs, or leaves the
I profession.
I "I do not believe that more than
i two or three townships in the coun
! Tv have teachers for all the rural j
I schools, and the 1919-1920 session
opens late in August or early flt
! September in these districts. We
l have few applicants for any schools
| at present, another unusual situa
tion. During the last two weeks
cnly one teacher has applied for
a school in this county. All of the
teachers who successfully passed
the provisional and professional cer
tificate examinations have either
been elected by districts or have
applications on file to be acted
upon."
"Last year in 127 rural schools in
Dauphin couwty there were ninety-
I three new teachers who had not
j been in charge of the respective
rooms the previous year. During
1917-1918 there .were ninety-one
different teachers. This year when
the schools reopen there will be an
other big change in the list of in
structors and I believe it will be as
great as last year.
"During the' next few weeks the
schol boards in the various town
j ships will have the difficult task of
securing teachers. Many of the di
rectors have been busy for the last
two or three months preparing for
the fall term, but have not com
pleted their lists yet."
Athlete Gives His Blood
to Save a Man's Life
Sunbury, Pa., July 29.—Although
he does not know the man whose life!
he saved. Joseph Murphy, a star!
athlete and baseball player here, I
gave up a quart of his blood to
save John Mailey, for years a racing
horse trainer at James C. Packer's
! horse stables.
He had been a patient at the
George F. Geisinger Memorial Hos
pital, Danville, from
anemia.
Mailey's wife gave up some of her
blood, when the doctors asked for
her. In a conversation with friends.
Murphy learned of Mailey's further
need. I'll give mine said he and he
kept his word. Mailey is expected to
recover.
LOCAL MEN BID
Among the bidders on twenty-six
road construction projects, planned
for nineteen counties and two
bridges by the State Highway De
partment were G. W. Ensign. Ice.
and Whittaker and Diehl of this
city. The bids were opened late
this afternoon by Assistant State
Highway Commissioner George 11.
Biles.
BATHHOUSES OPEN
City bathhouses were opened to
day by J. K. Staples, playground
supervisor, after they had been clos
ed over the weekend because of the ,
j high river stage.
MAY ARREST TWO
MOREJN CRASH
Sensational Turn Given Penn
Bank Developments by
Announcement
Philadelphia, July 29. lnvest
igations by the State and county In
to the collapse of the North Penn
Pank at Twenty-ninth and Dau
phin streets, took a new and sensa
tional turn yesterday, when it was
revealed that District Attorney Ro- 1
itan's detectives are busy with certain
| information that may lead to two
additional arrests in the wrecking
'of the institution.
j No hint is given as to the identity
.of the men now under strict sur
|veillance, nor will James T. Cortcl
j you, chief of the county detectives,
give any inkling as to the line of in
quiry which is being pursued.
Ralph T. Moyer, the cashier ac
cused of ruining the bank, is at
liberty under $25,000 bail, and is
due to appear at the Central Police
Court late to-day for a hearing. It
is believed, however, that the cash
ier eithef will ask for a further con
tinuance. or will waive the hearing
and let the matter go directly to
court.
Joseph H. Taulnne, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, said last night that
ho was ready to go ahead with the
case, and did not hesitate to state
that he fully expected to establish
a prima facie case against the bank
official.
Tell It to the People,
Says Railroad Conductor
There is widespread complaint
among railroad patrons over the
crowded conditions which are al
most universal on passenger trains.
It is a common protest which one
hears that no seats are to be had
in hundreds of cases and passeng
ers are herded like cattle. "I stood
all the way from Altoona to Har
risburg last Sunday" said one Har
risburger, and another commented
on the fact that he had roosted on
a suitcase in the center of the aisle
from Millersburg to this city and
had a controversy with the conduc
tor over the fact that he was block
ing the aisle.
Prominent women of Pottsville
have sent a redhot protest because
they were packed into cars between
Atlantic City and their home town.
Hundreds of them had no seats and
women with children were com
pelled to sit on the dirty floors of
baggage cars in order to avoid col
lapse on the train. It was contended
that no adequate preparations had
been made to bring home the crowds
of excursionists.
Railroad officials explain that
hundreds of passenger cars are now
being utilized in returning to their
home stations the thousands of
overseas soldiers and that until this
movement of troops is over there
will be uncomfortable crowding on
| the ordinary passenger routes. "The
j trouble is," said an intelligent con
ductor, "the Federal Railroad Ad
ministration does not think it worth
while to take the people into its
confidence and explain by proper
publicity the difficulties growing out
of unusual traffic conditions. We
find people reasonable when they
understand and they ought to be
told the cause of the trouble."
Fair, Cool Weather
to Continue Some Hours
The weather will continue fair
and cool in Harrisburg to-morrow
at least. Forecaster E. R. Demain,
of the Harrisburg Weather Bureau,
says.
The mercury dropped rapidly after
the thunderstorm of yesterday af
ternoon and continued low through-
I out the night. The lowest tempera
ture recorded during the night was
71 degrees, but it is expected to go
as low as 68 to-night, Mr. Demain
says. The excess in temperature
yesterday was 7 degrees.
One heat prostration was reported
yesterday but the victim, Rueben
Dixon, 288 Indian alley, is reported
to be in a good condition to-day.
Some slight damage resulted from
the storm which came later in the
afternoon to reduce the tempera
| ture.
The cooler weather of to-day and
that predicted for to-morrow is
quite welcome to city ice dealers.
All were predicting a considerable
shortage in the city if the hot
weather, such as was experienced
yesterday and Sunday, continued.
The supply stored up for late sum
mer use has been drawn on more
than usual thus far and a period
of cool weather will do much to
avert a serious shortage, dealers
say.
Turks Deliberately
Destroyed Armenians
Berlin, July 29.—What is de
scribed as the "truth about the
Armenian massacres" is revealed to
the German public by the Tagcblatt
which prints extracts of a book
based upon diplomatic documents
which the foreign ministry commis
sioned Johanna Lepsius to write.
The writer shows that the Turk
ish committee of union and prog
ress deliberately decided to realize
national ideas by assimilating or de
stroying the Armenians, who in
Turkey number about 1,850,000. He
describes the arrest and massacre
of 600 Armenian leaders in April,
1915, and how the previous so-called
Armenian rising was provoked as a
pretext for young Turk schemes.
Dcpsius repudiates the charge that
Germany favored the crimes or that
German officials incited the Turks
to commit them, saying the German
embaasy was Impotent.
Find Three Girls Living
Primitive Life in Cave
Mount Carmel, July 29. Berry
pickers on a mountain north of hero
discovered three scantily clad girls
roaming about in the underbrush,
and after a time saw them enter a
cave. The police were notified, who
went to the place and found the
girls living a primitive life. All were
, aged about sixteen years, of foreign
extraction and admitted having left
their homes on the outskirts of the
town three weeks ago.
Clothing was secured to permit
their being brought back to town.
Their parents had been summoned
and the girls given into their custody.
All three were half-famished, having
existed on berries and leaves.
STEED IN EYE
With a piece of steel lodged in
his right eyeball, Alfred Martin, of
Enola, a machinist at the Pennsyl
vania Railroad roundhouse there,
was brought to the Harrisburg Hos
pital this morning. He was en
deavoring to remove the nut from a
bolt with the aid of & chisel at
the time of the accident.
JULY 29, 1919.
WANT PROBE OF
MOB VIOLENCE
OVERCOUNTRY
Taft and State Officials De
mand Congress Make an
Investigation
By Associated Press.
New York, July 29. Congres
sional Investigation of tho wave of
mob violence and lynching through- |
out the United States was demanded !
in an "address to the nation," signed j
by former President Taft, officials j
of several southern States and other j
nationally prominent citizens, made
public here by the National Asso- j
elation for the Advancement of Col- j
ored People.
"Patriotic citizens throughout the j
country feel the shame which lynch
ings have cast upon tho nation, but
they have assumed partial responsi
bility for this shame by their silence
and their acquiescence," said the
address.
"The time has now come when
citizens of the United States can no
longer contemplate without protest
the setting at nought of the funda
mental principles upon which their
citizenship is based."
Prominent signers included United
States Attorney General Palmer,
former Attorney General Charles J.
Bonaparte, of Baltimore; Elihu
Hoot, Charles E. Hughes, Judge Ben
B. Llndsey and governors and former
governors of seven States.
CO-OPERATION
TOJ.OWER COST
[Continued from First Page.]
purchase food supplies from the
country districts, usually there col
lected in another schoolhouse and
transferred from schoolhouse to
schoolhouse by trucks of the Post
Office Department.
"This is, the facilities of the Fed
eral government are used in a rea
sonable way to reduce the time and
expense of getting food from the
producer to the consumer.
"In very many western cities
there are co-operative buying as
sociations of long experience, am
ple capital, and with a successful
history. These are operated in
several ways. In one case, I am
informed, purchases are made by
the members of the association at
the current retail market rates, and
then there is a dividend, and a very
substantial one, arising from the
profits that result.
"In other cases the distribution is
at as near cost as can be comfortab
ly figured, though it is harder to
operate in this fashion than whero
fixed retail prices are assumed and
the profits distributed later.
Undoubtedly the working up of
co-operative buying relations in
Harrisburg would have a very
wholesome effect. It would elimi
nate the market forestalling which
has been complained of and is being
now legislated against. It would, if
properly managed, get good pro
duce, and ought to bring much lower
prices because items could be had
directly at the farms, saving the
purchaser the cost and delay of in
dividual marketing. It would give
equitable distribution to those con
cerned at the selling end. There
would also be the possibility of get
ting better things, for Harrisburg is
not a satisfactory market for many
things, by reason of the failure of
the dealers involved to buy the best.
Very many times Harrisburg has
either no good fruit or only poor
and second-grade fruit when Balti
more. Willlamsport, Wilkes-Barre,
and even smaller contiguous towns,
are enjoying the highest grade of
Georgia peaches, for example, and
other similar advantages. For some
curious reason, there is a belief
that Harrisburg purchasers do not
want the best and are content with
second-grade fruit items.
"It might be suggested that much
of the present high-price situation
is due to the uncontrolled food de
sire of a large majority of buyers,
who purchase things at inordinate
prices rather than do without them.
Countless instances can be brought
to mind of anyone who frequents
the markets, of how high prices are
stimulated by reckless spending. If
those complaining of these high
prices would purchase only absolute
necessities for a reasonable time, or
would agree collectively to offer a
fair price and no more, refusing to
purchase at extravagant figures,
there would soon be a changed
situation.
"Harrisburg lies in the center of
a richly productive region. A lit
tle organization could arrange co
perative buying and co-operative
distribution In such fashion as to
permit a considerable advantage to
those participating. Possibly the
Chamber of Commerce might un
dertake to lead in this matter. We
have schoolhouses as distributing
centers quite as convenient as those
in Washington. There are literally
hundreds of idle government trucks
within the sight of many of us any
day, and Uncle Sam might be asked
to help some of his children keep
the cost of high living down a lit
tle."
City May Employ
Expert to Provide
Needed Bathing Pools
Employment of an expert to re
port to City Council the best plan
to be used to provide a swimming
pool or pools in the city, giving lo
cations, is authorized in a resolu
tion read in Council to-day by Com
missioner W. H. Lynch, and unani
mously passed.
The resolution follows: "That the
Superintendent of Parks and Pub
lic Property be and he is hereby au
thorized and directed to employ an
expert for the purpose of determin
ing the best manner, including the
ocation, of providing the city of
Harrisburg with swimming pool or
pools, said selection to be approved
by Council; this resolution to be
followed by enabling legislation
with the view of appropriating suf
ficient funds in the next general ap
propriation ordinance to carry out
tho recommendations made by said
expert."
Commissioner Lynch said that he
believed the city should secure the
advice of someone in touch with
the provision of proper swimming
facilities before making any decis
ion to provide them and for that
reason introduced the resolution.
Ordinances passed on first read
ing to-day, introduced by Commis
sioner E. Z. Gross, authorizes the
following: repainting auto used by
fire chief; purchase of 300 tons of
coal for fire companies, sale of boats
In bad condition at Wild wood: pur
chase of new fire hose with fund of
$2,665.
The ordinance authorizing the
paving of Zarker street, from Nine
teenth to Twentieth, was passed
amJljfc
GOVERNOR WILL I
GO TO SALT LAKE 1
Plans to Tell What Pennsyl- j
vania Is Doing For 1
Roads
What Pennsylvania is doing lrl
the way of road construction and f
the millions of dollars which it will
spend to pull the State out of the
mud; the immense sums being de
voted to charity; the development
jof the compensation and rehabilt
| tation system and tho effort to ex
pand the State forests and conserve
water supply, Introduce modern bus
| incss system into the State govern
j inent and to make a civic center at
| the Capitol will bo told at tho con
| ferenco of the governors at Salt '
| Lake City next month by Governor
William C. Sproul. The Governor is
away from Harrisburg on a vaca
tion trip following his prolonged d
work on the bills left with him by )
the General Assembly and will visit
Spokane before he returns to Har
risburg. \
The governors' conference will be
held late in August and it is tho
Governor's plan to present to the
meeting in a way never done before
what Pennsylvania is doing and
what it plans to do. Mrs. Sproul will
accompany him and the State Exec
utive will take a prominent part in
the meetings. It will be the first big
affair to be attended by Governor i
Sproul since the adjournment of the
Legislature and he has been making
notes of what was accomplished in
tho way of appropriations and for
the general improvement of the
State in the way of constructive
legislation as he went along on the
bills.
"The immensity of the public bus
iness of this State, the great appro
priations it makes, the big road
building program we have under
taken are all matters which I shall
take pleasure in presenting to tho
governors at the conference," said
the Governor in speaking about his
proposed visit. "Everyone knows
how I feel about putting Pennsyl
vania on the map. I think I shall "
have something to tell."
NEGRO'S ARREST
MAY SOLVE ROBBERIES
[Continued from First Page.]
Hoskins that he lives at the Adams
street address. He has already given
them several different addresses in
Adams street, and this fact alone
has raised doubt in their mind.
Chief Wetlzel, however, does ,
not believe the man is a
stranger in this vicinity, but is of
the opinion that his home is either
in the city or Steelton.
Efforts to identify the man thus
far have proved unavailing. There
seems to be some doubt as to his
real name and every clue Is being
run down to secure definite infor
mation concerning him. He has
made assertions that he formerly
was employed as a waiter at the
Penn-Harris Hotel, but head wailcs
there declare that he has had no
connection with the hotel since its
establishment. One city contractor,
however, told police officials that he
remembered that the man had
worked for him, but was unable to
recall his name or address.
Efforts of the police to definitely
connect the man with the many
petty robberies have thus far borne
no fruit, although they feel certain
that he has been connected. The
method of entrance to the Fishc
residence is much the same as that
which has been employed in
of the previous cases. This, to
gether with the fact that he is evi
dently hiding his true identity and
real address, strengthens the opinion
of the police authorities.
The police ascertained this after
noon that the negrgoes real name
was James Martin and that he is on
pparole from the Western Peni
tentiary.
Japan Will Give China
Control of Part of Shantung,
Jap Diplomat Declares
Washington, July 29.—Mr. De
buchi, counselor of the Japanese
Embassy, in charge in the absence
of Viscount Ishii, conferred at the
State Department with Secretary
Lansing.
So far as is known, no formal
request has been made upon tho
Japanese Embassy by the adminis
tration to issue any statement re
garding the Japanese purposes as to
Shantung, but Mr. Debuchi was will,
ing to discuss the subject with tho
Associated Press, with the distinct
understanding, however, that he
was expressing his own personal
views.
In answer to a question as to
what was to be the final disposition
of the Japanese troops in Shantung,
Mr. Debuchi replied:
"Japan has firmly determined to
restore to China her sovereignly
over the leased territory of Kiao-
Cliau, which sovereignty was con
lerred upon Germany in accordance
with the stipulations of tho treaty
• Between China and Japan in 1908.
"Japan is not only prepared to re
store that property to China, but
also is ready to open negotiations
to that end with China as soon as
possible."
Cunard Line Denies
Montauk Point Story
By Associated Press.
New York. July 29. The Cunard
line issued a statement yesterday In
which it declared that it had no in
tention of constructing a steamship
terminal at Montauk Point in order
to enter into competition with- the
1,000-foot steamships projected by
the United States Shipping Board,
as previously reported.
SIX PROSECUTED
Six owners of vacant ground In the
city who did not heed the warning
of the City Health Bureau to have
weeds cut and removed, will be giv
en hearings to-morrow morning at
9.30 o'clock before Alderman C. E.
Murray on charges of Violating City
Health Bureau regulations. Dr. J. M.
J. Raunick, city health officer, said
that more prosecutions are to be
brought in a few days.
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