PLAN TO CUT GRAIN LOSSES Fire Prevention Work of Grain Corporation Is Under Way *cw York, Aug. I.—Plans of or ganization for the grain dust explo sion and fire prevention work of the United States Grain Corporation, for which an appropriation of $30,- Tomorrow Will be a Big Day Of Our Great August Furniture Sale Selections are far better noic than they can possibly be later in the month. Save on Fall Prices-Buy Now WE WILL RESERVE YOUR PURCHASE FOR LATER DELIVERY. ONE-FOURTH DEPOSIT REQUIRED. THE FINEST COLLECTION OF HOME-FURNISHINGS IN HARRISBURG IS TO BE FOUND IN OUR Newly Remodeled Display Floors Prices That Cannot Be Equalled Elsewhere Open JTOO\/ WT> Libert y Every j—| U Jb~Lco. W\ Bonds Evening 1415-19 N Second St. Accepted Furnish Three Rooms For Special 3-room De Luxe housekeeping outfit as illustrated belotv when bought all together. Special ft JftJf If at This Adam Bedroom Suite, 4 Pieces, $125 Can be had in either Walnut, Mahogany, or Old Ivory Finish. Only a limited number. This Tapestry Covered Suite, 3 Pieces, $95 ftfr ==^3 W ell -finished Mahogany Frames. Good quality tapestry upholstery. Same suite in Real Leather, $ llO.OO. This Jacobean Dining Suite, 8 Pieces, $159 54-inch Buffet, 48-inch Table, 5 Side Chairs and 1 Arm Chair; seats of Real Leather. r Our Low Expense is Your Big Saving FRIDAY EVENING, 000 was made recently at the sug gestion of Julius H. Barnes, United States Wheat Director, were an nounced to-day. This campaign is being carried on in co-operation with the Depart ment of Agriculture in Washington, with David J. Price, of the Bureau of Chemistry, in charge. Dr. Price is the engineer in charge of the grain dust explosion investigations carried on by the Agricultural De partment. He will have the as sistance of Dr. H. H. Brown, organic and physical chemist, also of the Bureau of Chemistry. In order to carry on the safety first program for the grain trade the entire country has been divided into four districts. Headquarters for the eastern di vision will be at Washington, with Hylton R. Brown in charge of the district, assisted by George D. Wit mer and J. C. Reed. VICTORY niIUHtYS READY AUG. 0 Washington, Aug. I.—Distribution of Victory ribbon bars will begin immediately after manufacturers start delivering them on August 9, the War Department announced to day. Four hundred thousand bars will be sent to recruiting stations and army posts in the first shipment Victory medals will bo distributed through the same agencies later. BLAHHISBURQ TELJEGRXPBC JEWISH RELIEF NOW IN ORIENT Link Alsq in Siberia Makes Chain of Relief Now Complete New York, Aug. 1. —Relief work for Jewish war sufferers is now or ganized throughout the Orient and the vast stretches of Siberia, ac cording to a statement made public here to-day by Henry H. Kosenfelt, national director of the American Jewish relief committee. These two new links make the Jewish relief work chain complete, so that it now extends to every com munity in the world where Jewish war sufferers are to be found. The American Jewish Relief Committee, the chairman of whose executive committee is Louis Marshall, of this city, together with its co-operating organizations, is at present spend ing two million dollars a month for relief work. It will seek a total of $35,000,000 in state-by-state cam paigns this fall in order to continue its worldwide activities through 1919. American Jewish relief agents are now feeding more than 6,000,- 000 destitute people, both Jews and Christians, in Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Lithu ania, Palestine, Turlcey, Serbia, Greece, Siberia and the Orient. Four new bureaus have just been established in Yokohoma, Harbin, \ ladivostok and Irkutsk respectively. From these centers field agents go out to investigate and supervise re in evel 'y community. A part of their work is to remove refugees from the firing line to safe points eastward. A large part of the aid needed is for refugees who lost their homes at the beginning of the war and have been homeless ever sine. More than 10,000 war prison ers are also in need. Several hun dred stranded immigrants, tied up in Japan on their way to the United Mates and other countries and un able to go either forward or back arc also being regularly assisted. An Interesting Study of the Skies BY GARRETT P. SERVISS On a cool evening after a panting hot summer day what sight is more refreshing than that of the full moon tranquilly shedding its silvery rays down upon the reposing earth, while the lambent stars glow softly through the transparent curtains of the night.' It is no wonder that in the poetry of all nations the moon is figured as a goddess, or that in the folk-lore of every people she is the subject of the most romantic legends andof superstitions that lose their mischief—if any they have in their beauty. "Who is she that looketh forth, fair as the moon?" sings Solomon in his love-song. "I beheld the moon walking in brightness," admiringly recounts Job, the poet-philosopher of the desert. "And while I gaze thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my trou bled breast" (So writes a modern poetess), "And oft I think, fair planet of the night, That in thy orb the wretched may have rest; The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go, Released by death, to thy benig nant sphere, And the sad children of despair and woe Forget in thee their cup of sor row here." The astronomer knows that all this beauty of the moon, awaken ing so many charming thoughts and longings, is due to the enchant ment of distance. The moon is the only world in the sky whose fea tures can be seen with the naked eye, and thus seen they show no ruggedness and give no hint of the terrible spectacles of planetary dis aster and death which stare at the beholder in telescopic views. Seen by the unaided eye out of the shadow of the earth,, gilded by sunlight in the far depths of space, the bare lunar skull is rounded into the semblance of a face modulated with delicately graduated shades and graceful in its outlines. An opera glass view but heightens the resplendence of the impression made by the full moon upon the naked eye. The sight recalls an ancient cameo cut by some great artist out of a precious stone. But exchange the opera glass for a tele scope and all is at once different. The spectacle still possesses its elements of beauty, but now they are submerged in the impression of death-dealing violence that over whelms the mind as once it over whelmed that litle world. The fas cination of the scene is akin to that which one feels in looking from an icy peak over the snow-choked and life-abandoned landscapes of the in ner and higher Alps. Now, curiously enough, the same telescopic magnifying power which reveals the true aspect of the moon and banishes its seeming lifelike charm, is just that which brings the planet Mars virtually near enough to the observer to give it the appearance of a most idyllic world, appealing at once to the imagination and the desire for scientific investigation. It is not improbable that if telescopes could be constructed capable of magnify ing Mars 22,500 diameters, which would bring it, when nearest the earth, to the same apparent dis tance that a power of 150 diameters brings the moon, we should at once be able to settle all the puzzling and captivating questions that have arisen concerning the habitability of that planet, and the wonderful do ings of its inhabitants, because then we might see plainly, and decide be yond controversy, what the real state of Mars is. To return to moon superstitions —which may not all he absolutely without foundation—l have a letter from Gary. Ind., dwelling upon the question of the influence of moon light falling upon the face of a 6leeper. This, like the popular saws concerning the influence of the moon on plants, etc., is an exceed ingly ancient superstition, found in all parts of the world. Indeed, the word J'lunacy" describing a particu lar kind of insanity, is derived from the old Roman name for the moon, Luna. The antiquity of this notion is sufficiently attested by a paa.sage in the CXXIst Psalm, which reads: "The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night." We accept this evidence of an early recognition of the danger of sun strike, but the progress of science has not yet produced a conviction that the moon, too, can "smite," whatever the experience of individ uals may have Induced them to be i lieve WOULD PREPARE DAY OF REVENGE German Paper in Mexicoo Urges Propaganda of Hatred Mexico City, Aug. I.—A "Cate chism of Hate" was printed in the Deutsche Zeitung von Mexiko and revenge was threatened in an article accompanying it on the day when the delegates of the German repub lic signed the Peace Treaty at Ver sailles. The paper, printed in Ger man, is generally believed to voice the opinions of the Pan-German, ir reconcilable element of the German colony in Mexico. Translations in part of the article follow: "The day of revenge of the Ger man people is not far off. We shall do good to practice patience until the day of revenge has arrived. Re venge must be coldly consumated. In order to prepare ourselves quietly for it, we need a 'Catechism of Hatred.' " The "twelve commandments" of the catechism summarize in brief form many of the protests which have been heard from German sources since the terms of the Peace Treaty became known. They deny that Germany wanted war, assert that Germany was right in invading Belgium, attack England for the blockade of Germany, aver that Germany's armies were never de feated and declare that German honor is insulted by making Ger mans sign admission of their guilt. In conclusion, the article says: "These twelve commandments will suffice to prepare us mentally for 'The Day' on which the hour of re venge will strike." Asked if the sentiments express ed in the Deutsche Zeitung's article were those of the entire German colony in Mexico, one of the lead ers of the German socialist party in Mexico declared that they were held only by the older and wealthier colonists, who deminated both the paper and the colony, but that a large part of the colony were will ing to accept the verdict of the war and give their support to the new German government and to recon struction policies. ARCHIVES LOOTED EOR WRAPPING Russia is providing another ex ample of that destruction and dis persal of ancient and priceless his torical archives which one might have thought belonged entirely to the past and its dark ways. The treasurers of Petrograd and Moscow have been scattered to the four winds, chiefly through the activities of Marlcoff, Trotzlty's assistant, at the tjme of the publication of the secret treaties. The authentic letters of Catherine the Great have disappeared complete ly from the former ministry of the interior in Petrograd. Some of the documents were traced to a shop keeper in Moscow, who had been making use of them to wrap up his parcels.—Christian Science Monitor. THE LIMIT In a crowded street car a stout woman vainly endeavored to get her fare out of the pocket of her cloak, which was tightly buttoned as a precaution against pickpockets. After she had been working in vain for some minutes a gentleman seated on her right said: "Please allow me to pay your fare." The lady declined with some acerbity, and recommenced her at tacks on the pocket. After these had continued for some little time her fellow passenger said: "You really must let me pay your fare. You have already undone my suspenders three times, and I can not stand it any longer."—Dallas News. Lift off Corns! Doesn't hurt a bit and Freezone costs only a few cents. rek\f xLy With your Angers! You can lift off any hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the hard skin callouses from bottom of feet. A tiny bottle of "Freezone" costs little at any drug store; apply a few drops upon the corn or callous. In stantly it stops hurting, then short ly you lift that bothersome corn or callous right off, root and all, with out one bit of pain or soreness. Truly! No humbug! \"I Bought a j" ? $45 Frock ? For $24.95 j 0 at the last Twice-a- • 0 Twelvemonth. Remem- • 0 ber, it was last Febru- ; • 0 0 ary? j ? "There has been no an- t ? nouncement ye,t but Grace $ C heard one of her girls say j q to another: t 9 " 'So the big ad will run i 0 Saturday, August 2nd. j 0 That means a busy time j S i for us the week following. • ; Remember the Twice-a- " S Twelvemonth Sale in Feb- 0 ?, ruary?' 0 o ij j "It sounds to me as • jj though it were true." \ I j I 310 \ : SOUTTER'S 25c DEPARTMENT STORE 1 I j Cuy Here Not Alone Because Prices Are Lower, But Because Qualities Are Better I ► Choose Any Hat From Our jllllfe* fl ? Entire Stock of I SUMMER (f/31 MILLINERY 0 1 AtOne-Half Price I ► If you are in need of a new hat for immediate wear or B ► want an extra change for yonr summer vacation, yon will be Sj I quick to take advantage of this event. B ► Every conceivable style and shape for every occasion is fl ► to be found here. * B [ Large, small and medium B ► shapes in trimmed and un~ =g|||-Bj ► fr trimmed hats, sport and sail- Bj if \ or shapes, in hemps, milans, Bj t II \\ pineapple braids, panamas, B1 ► I */—. I ntalines and taf- Bf ► u T J fetns in white and colors, A Vs, '-B ► /| >/ ranging in value from $2.00 : XX y One-Half Price j I I: SOUTTER'S ] i f 25U1 25 Cent Department Store jfl j! Where Every Day Is Bargain Day S 215 Market St. Opposite Courthouse 9 % The Spinning Wheel w y® a * one time I the yarn to weave into cloth I & (5) ' n *k° se days women baked I of better bread each day, I It is as foolish to bake as it is to spin The care of the children is the highest duty, and no woman can give sympathetic care to children when she is dog-tired from hours at the stove, baking. She is losing the sweetest thing in life their little confidences. The wise woman now buys GUNZENHAUSER'S PI AMERICAN-MAID cl BREAD f PS/I because it is good for the little ones, makes them grow up strong and vig- \ I orous. Agrees with them. It is clean . ,/|>j I —and so good it never loses a friend. 11 i I Slices smoothly. Toasts perfectly. AUGUST 1, 1919. 11
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