„ BLAME FOR HIGH COSTS LOOMS AS ISSUE IN 1920 Charges Fly Between Old Par ties, With Democrats on Defensive WuHhlnKtoii, D. C., Aug' 4. Are the Democrats responsible for the high cost of living, and will the Re publicans or the Democrats succeed in cutting down exorbitant prices? are the questions which are go ing to agitate the political world now until December, 1920. And along with them will come a < struggle between radicalism and con servatism, of which the politicians to day are fearful lest it may mean the V entire obliteration of the old party lines and a reorganization that will shake the two political camps to their foundations. Dodging responsibility has already started. Attempts to obtain credit for reforms will follow in short order. Delusions Seem to Vanish The failure of Congress to realize earlier that the high cost of living , would bo the campaign issue and would require early consideration is | puzzling some of the most astute poll- ; ticians. All signs for months have ] pointed to the necessity for reducing j * the price sale. During the war the issue was dodged and the theory that when peace came the tension would be eased. With the cessation of hos- j tilities and the ever upward trend of i prices, Congress has been deluding it- ; self by believing affairs would some- j how adjust themselves, and that the I Legislators would not have to tackle j a problem which goes far deeper than j they are accustomed to look in Con- j gressional investigations. The Democrats are responsible for • , the present high costs, Rpublicans ! aye now charging. They assert the | policy of the War Department in dis- . posing of its surplus, the agreements ! * entered into by the the administra- | tion officials with packers, canners i and other manufacturers to protect j them on their war contracts, have held coats up high. Good food has been allowed to spoil instead of be ing on the market, it is said, in order that companies supplying the govern ment might be protected. Europe has j been supplied with foodstuffs at j cheaper prices than the American workingman, is the charge, and the i wheat guarantee was maintained for t the farmer at a ruinous cost to the j consumers. The Democratic party is combined with big business and the trusts to keep up prices, the Republicans are | contending, with a certain amount of j amusement to find their rivals aligned j with the interests which the G. O. P. I has frequently been charged with j favoring. Good Will Honors Its Returned Veterans The Good Will Fire Engine Com- j pany No. 7, of this city held their outing in honor of the return of the | thirty members of the company ] * who were in the service of the United States during the war, at their summer home at Perdix, which was enjoyed by 12 5 members and their wives. Speeches were made by John D. Berrier, ex-city fire chief. George W. Lutz, Mayor D. L. Keister and Wil liam Lynch, city .commissioner, and a very agreeable entertainment was made through the efforts of the committee in charge of the affairs, which included different games for the women and men,and a ball game between the married men and the , single men which was won by the j married men by the score of 27 to , 17. Mayor Keister umpired. The committee was composed of Miles DeSilvey, Harvey Dintaman, Warren Bretz, George Ellis, Lewis Tress, David Martin, Joe Erb, Stephen Cuppies, John Clark, Ralph Peters and H. L. Givcns. (( \ J| Teel \ °f Sorts.General]y Look around a little and see if the trouble is perhaps with the food. A lot of people need bet ter nourishment. N j Grape-Nuts Contains marvelous nutriment all the goodness of wheat and bar ky, including their rich mineral elements. Have Grape-Nuts as a daily ration with other food and see if life doesn't take on a brighter look. A delicious, economical food! You'll like it. There's a /Reason." • _ I MONDAY EVENING, 5,000 MARINES ARRIVE HOME ij FROM FRANCE | Forty-Eight of the "Devil Dogs" Bring War Brides With Them New York, Aug. 4. Approx imately 5,000 marines, vanguard of 16,000 "Devil Dogs" whose exploits in Belleau Wood, at Chateau Thierry, Soissons and other famous battle fields, make up a part of the record iof the Second (regular) division, to j which they were attached, arrived here yesterday on the transport George Washington. Led by Major General John A. Lejune, the marine officer who commanded the Second division, the troops came into port to a tremen dous ovation. The famous "Devil Dogs" it Was learned, were given a rousing fare well when they sailed from Brest. Two French gunboats escorted the George Washington out of the har bor, and fired salutes as they dropped the transport out at sea. Forty-eight of the "Devil Dogs" brought home war brides. Wants t< Fight Dcmpsey I ! Philadelphia, Aug. 4. Bringing I home 1881 enlisted men and 93 of- I fleers, the transport Mlnncsotan, j from Brest, docked here to-day. As i the big ship warped her way into j the dock she was greeted by, cheers | from the waiting crowd, tooting of I whistles and a serenade by the Navy ' yard band. The largest units aboard ] were the Fourth Sanitary Train of i the Fourth Regular Army division | and the 52nd Telegraph Battalion. Other units were the Third Corps | Military Police, 332 nd Military Train, I 311 th Repair Unit and the following casual companies: 2776 th, 2783 rd, i 2789 th, 2279 th, 3205 th and 3219 th. | The Fourth Sanitary Train tn j eluded among its members two box : ing champions, Sergeant R. E. Mar- I tin, of Akron, Ohio, winner of the j interallied heavyweight title, and j Private Ted Jamerson, Milwaukee, I the interallied lightweight title i holder. Sergeant Martin said he is j eager to arrange a match with Jack i | Dempsoy. He is 20 years old, is | more than six feet tall and weighs I 190 pounds. Valley Railways Pay $13,329 to Mechanicsburg • After eight years' litigation the Valley Railways Company on Satur ! day sent a check for $13,329 to i the borough of Mechanicsburg in j payment for the use of its streets. ! j This check covers the entire . amount for the eight years with I interest. I The case has attracted wide at ! tention, two appeals having been j taken to the Supremo Court. So I keen has been the interest jn Me- I chanicsburg about it that for sev- I eral elections the question of stand- I ing by the ordinance providing | payment by the company has been i a very live issue. j ENTERING BID.\ PEST liy Associated Press. \ j Parix, Aug. 4.—Rurfianian troops en | tered the suburbs of Budapest yester | day. according to a dispatch received j here frlni Vienna. A Budapest dispatch which was filed in that city on Sunday stated that Rumanian forces advancing to ward the Hungarian capital had been halted at Hatvan and Czegled. These towns are respectively northeast and southeast of Budapest and reach dis tant approximately 45 miles. HURT IN CRASH Caught beneath his automobile when it overturned on Saturday evening, Lawrence Fetrow, 47 years old of New Cumberland, is in the i Harrisburg Hospital with a frac tured shoulder, several broken ribs and. internal injuries. The accident occurred when Fetrow suddenly stopped his automobile to avoid a coi'ision when another automobile attempted to pass between his car and a third car, for which he had i turned to the side of the road. THIS STATE IS ACTIVE IN WAR ON 'REIT MENACE Harrisburgers in League Op posing Un-Amcrican Radicalism l*lttbiirgh, Aug. 4. Frederick Hill, of this city, former First Lieu tenant Infantry, U. S. A., and -a member of the Pennsylvania State Executive Committee of the Ameri can Legion, to-day notified the head quarters of thg National Security League in New York City of his ac ceptance of an appointment as State Director for Pennsylvania in the nation-wide Constitutional educa tional campaign being promoted by the Security League and the other great patriotic societies of the coun try. "Constitution Day" Pennsylvania is well represented in this movement, which is aimed at combating the spread of un- American radical doctrine by the nation-wide popularization of the Constitution of the United States. The campaign will culminate in a celebration in all the states of "Con stitution Day," on September 17, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. The allied societies have the co operation in the campaign of many of the leading citizens of the coun try in both public and private life, through two committees, the Con stitutional Celebration Honorary Committee and the Constitutional Celebration Organization Committee. Penn. Representatives Governor Sproul and Ex-Gover nor Brumbaugh are members of the former committee, which includes the Governors of twenty states and the Mayors of over 100 large cities in all parts of the country. Other Pennsylvania representatives on the Honorary Committee are: Daniel L. Keister, mayor of Har risburg. Alfred Conner Balch, State Secre tary for Pennsylvania of the Order j of Founders and Patriots. Alexander T. Conncll, mayor of Scranton. E. S. Hu'gentugler, mayor of York. Hampton L. Carson, representing the Law Association of Philadelphia. P. H. McGuire, Burgess of Home stead. M. J. Martin, Scranton, represent ing the Lackawanna County Bar Association. A. Carson Stamm, representing the Harrisburg Board of School Directors. Frank G. McPherson, mayor of Beaver Falls. A. H. Swing, mayor of Coatesville. John J. Franko, mayor of Forest City. G. F. Carling, Burgess of Sayre. J. K. F. Weaver, mayor of Tar entum. Richard Beaston, Burgess of Ty rone. The local members of the Consti tutional Celebration Honorary Com mittee in the various states will co operate with the State Directors in the spreading of the Constitutional popularization propaganda and in the organization of "Constitution Day" meetings. Directors have al ready been appointed in 33 States. The other States will be organized in a short while, so that "Constitu tion Day" will be observed by the loyal citizens in every section of the country. Wide Co-Operation Hill has announced his appoint ment of James F. Rice, of this city, as Assistant Director for Allegheny county. Rice saw active service overseas for two years as a line Sergeant, participating in the actions at Orcuq, Vesle and Argonne Forest. Hill will enlist the co-operation in the movement of all the many Pennsylvania posts of the American Legion and has also been promised assistance by the local members of the Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, G. A. It., Sons of Veterans, and Mothers of Dem ocracy. HAJRRISBURG TELEGRAPH BANK DEBTORS ARE TO BE SUED ! Men Who Aided in Failure' Arc Not to Escape, | Pusey Warns Philadelphia, Aug. 4.—Depositors! who connived with the wreckers of . the North Penn Bank to secure i overdrafts and obtain undue exten- j sion of notes will not escape "scot free," even though they make good / in full their financial indebtedness! to the institution. If the charge of ] ' connivance can be upheld, they will ! b% held accountable 11 court by the District Attorney's office for the part j they played in the downfall of, Ralph T. Moyer's linancial dream. ' "Payment of indebtedness will not j grant these men immunity if it can i be proved that they connived with | bank of&cials to overdrafts," ' Colonel Fred Taylor Pusey, the At- i torney General's official prober, de- j clared yesterday. "Their names witi be turned over to the District Attorney and they will be made the subject of all the prosecution , that law allows." "We have gone over more than a million dollars worth of accounts thus far but it is hard to say how many of them are good." But come what may, the depos itors' Interests are to be looked af ter, the Colonel stated. To relieve the hardship and sifffering caused by the bank's failure, he plans to make a partial, prorata payment j to all depositors just as soon as ho i can get- his hands on some of the f bank's outstanding collateral. The] rest will be paid off just as fast as | It comes in jje declared. Many Veterans Join New American Legion■ Applications to join the Harrishurg j Post of the American Legion arc j pouring in rapidly at the headquarters of the Camp Community Service, 307 Market street. t Mlss Viola Show- j ers, who is ready to receive them | every day from 9 until 5, has all that ' she can do to keep up with the rush of applicants. A colored post is going to be organ ized in the very near future, and pe titions are being signed now at the Wickersham Club, Briggs. and Calder streets. In Steelton similar petitions are being fixed up at the Club for Colored Soldiers in Adams street. Delegates from all local posts will jbe ready for the Pennsylvania con vention, which is to be held in this city the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October. Permanent charters will be applied for at that time. Everyone who can join the jLegion before the 11th of November will be a charter member, and it is the in tention of the Harrisburg organization to have every Harrisburg man who j was in the service enrolled before i that time. Contrary to the other vet eran organization, the American Le gion is only for soldiers of this last Great War, and does not include vet erans of other wars. It is described as the "G. A. R. of the World War." Denies Anti-Saloon League Opposes Tobacco Now York, Aug. 4. Andrew B. Wood, Assistant Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, denied yes terday that that organization would take part in any movement to pro hibit the use of tobacco. He said the campaigns mapped out by the league to bring übout prohibition in other countries and to enforce pro- i hibition in the United States were completely absorbing the energies of the league. "They have been saying that* we plan to attack hot bread, tea and coffee, tobacco and other things," he stir | up resentment against the said, "but this is merely a trick to league. We are fighting only one thing, and that is booz£.' The people have had time to find out by now that we are not bolstering up any other movements. I understand that the W. C. T. U. and perhaps some other organizations are getting ready to fight tobacco. "When we take our law enforce ment programs in this country and our programs abroad, where we are assisting local and national organ izations, who invite our aid, we have all we can do, and have no intention of scattering our attack. Madam Schumann-Heink to Adopt 2 Grandchildren New York, Aug. 4.—Wearing a ser vice bar with four stars, three for sons who fought for America and one for a fourth son who died in the ser vice of Germany, Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink sailed for Amster dam Saturday. The prima donna ex- i plained with tears that her mission' to Europe was to bring back to Amer- ! ica the two children of her boy who . had lost his life while in command of a German submarine. The submarine ] was blown to bits through striking a mine while on its way to the Medi terranean and all on board perished. | The two children, a girl of twelve i and a boy of ten, will be brought to the United States, Madam Schumann- Heink said, so that she may make "wonderful Americans" of them. When the Harrisburg Chapter of the National War Aid was organized at the Orpheum Theater in this city Madam Schumann-Heink was the principal speaker and her address on that occasion will never be forgot ten by the hundreds of women who crowded the theater that afternoon. 1 The great singer told of her four boys in the service—three with the Amer ican colors and one in the submarine service in Germany. Tears rolled down her cheeks during her earnest I and patriotic talk as she | feelings of a mother with on ! both sides of the fighting line. The foregoing dispatch from New York indicates the tragedy of war, but also emphasizes the Americanism of the famous prima donna. Rejected as Lover, He Blows Up Her Home Ity Asaorinted Press. Srrnnton. Pa., Aug. 4.—Rejected as the lover of 15-year-old Josephine Snlnko. of East Drinker street, Dun more, Tony Costisano, aged lfi years, was arrested on the rharge of dyna miting the home of the girl early yes terday morning. The porch of the house was blown off and the front of the house shattered. John Salako, father of the girl was painfully in jured. SENT TO HOSPITAL John L. Smith, of this city, is in cluded among the convalescent sol diers that have been sent for treat ment to the United States Army- General Hospital, No. 31. >'▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ TV > TNT T T V V T^TTTT^ T : SPUTTER'S 25 CENT DEPARTMENT STORE ► | Buy Here Not Alone Bechuse Prices Are Lower, But Because Qualities Are Better j ! ► * : Hundreds ot Sterling Economies in Seasonable Merchandise Make Present Day Buying Here Unusually Advantageous in Quality \ : Satisfaction and Money Saving I , ' Dry Goods Department j Ladies', Misses' and Men's Furnishings j Laces, Embroideries and •a. SO to 40-lncli Curtain Mar- Children' c Hntirrti Men's Hose, black and colors, I Trimminat ► quisotto, white^ ana cern, 25c, j s nosiery 13c J9<> 23c ' an<| , {9c - 1 rimmings I * ' Khaki Turkish Towels 89c I Fndlcs' Black Hosiery 15c, Men's Silk Hose, black and Val. 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