10 Postmasters of State to Meet in City Between two and three hundred postmasters of the State are expect ed to be in this city September 3 and 4 for their annual convention. Frank C. Sites, local postmaster, made the announcement yesterday that the convention would be held at the Penn-Harrls. Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal mer will be the guest of honor with William B. Wilson, the Secretary of Both will speak at the ban quet to be held on the fourth. An other well-known guest will be . Colon M. Selth, postmaster of St. 1 Louis and president of the National ! Association of Postmasters. The presiding officer will be Hor- ! ace M. Lehr, of Eustoiv, president of the State association. Fred M. I Obley, West Newton, is secretary I and treasurer. Postmaster Sites • Economy Service Buying parts for your car entails a lot of expense. To buy wisely is to buy economically. This is why you should investigate the extremely low prices we maintain on Used Cars, Parts, Bodies and Tires WE BUY, SELL AND EXCHANGE Get Our Prices We Specialize in Repairing Electrical work and all kinds of repairing given prompt attention by experts. A. SCHIFFMAN, Mgr. 22—24—28 N. CAMERON ST. FARMERS! See the Wonderful Moline Universal Tractor at the State Tractor Demonstration at Boyd's Bonnymeads Farms next Tuesday and Wednesday, August 12 and 13. The Moline Tractor is doing absolutely perfect farm field work, such as plowing, cultivating, mowing, harvesting, spreading manure, etc., as well as perfect belt work on most of the largest farms in Dauphin County. Mr. John Runkle on Cumbler's Dairy Farm, Highspire, says: "My little 'Red Lady' (his pet name for his Moline Tractor) is a wonder. I just finished cutting 38 1 / 2 acres of wheat" wjth a seven-foot Deering Binder and used exactly 34 gallons-of gas at 26 cents, or a cost of 23 cents an acre. That beats horsepower, and I did it myself." FARMERS Order your Moline now and farm the modern way. It saves time, it saves dollars. It means better crops —at less cost — See us now or at the Demonstration. Walter S. Schell QUALITY SEEDS MODERN FARM EQUIPMENT 1307-1309 Market Street Harrisburg Don't Fail to See the j FRICK at the State Tractor Demonstration! h ; fTI HIS tractor is built to do the work you would expect - - I your tractor to do. It is design-ed to successfully and Z ; economically furnish power for the various kinds of - 7 work for which you require power. - In pulling, hauling or plowing it will do the work of 9 - 7 heavy horses, yet it weighs less than 3 and can be handled ~ 7 as easily as 3. It will pull 3-14 inch bottoms in stiff plow- - 7 ing and is light enough for discing, harrowing and seeding. - 7 It will turn short so it will work well up into the corners. ~ 7 When used for belt power, it will drive a mediumly large 7 separator, furnish power for feed cutting, silo filling, bal- ~ 7 ing, shredding and sawing. The power is delivered to the j; 7 belt direct from band wheel at end of crankshaft: this insures a maximum of power with a minimum of loss and Z 7 a consequent saving in fuel. ~ The .Frick Tractor will burn kerosene or gasoline. It Z 7 gives full efficiency on either fuel. When burning cheap Z 7 kerosene the Frick excels ordinary motors because it does z 7 not use more kerosene than gasoline and it virtually Z 7 remains clean and free from carbon when: cheap kerosene z Z is used. - Z The Frick is entirely practical in design with maximum z Z power, but light In weight consistent with durability. It is z Z adapted to the needs of the farmer who is not looking for z Z the cheapest in first cost, but the tractor that will provide - Z • the widest range of service with the smallest upkeep z Z expense. Z The Frick Tractor is built to do your work in a way that ; Z will suit you and give the same long wear and durable ; Z service which has characterized all Frick machinery for - Z 65 years. 7 | Frick Company | 75 South Tenth Street. Harrisburg, Penna. SATURDAY EVENING. heads the committee of entertain | ment and is assisted by Fiske Good ; year, of Carlisle, and Stiles Duncan, of Duncannon. The entertainment I committee of the Chamber of Com | merce will co-operate with the post- I masters' committee. Brakeman on Local Crew Has Fractured Right Leg ; Roy W. Filbert, a Beading Railway j brakeman, residing at Robesonia, ; met with a serious accident at Con j shohoeken and is now at the Bryn ' Mawr Hospital, at Philadelphia, with a compound fracture of his right leg. The accident was caused by the ! blowing out of a cylinder head of en gine 1718 while en route to Harris | burg. The unfortunate man was ; picked up and hurried to the hos i pita! four miles away. He is 25 I years of eve and single. He belonged ! to a Harrisburg crew. CONGRESSMEN HEEDING PRESIDENTS ADDRESS ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Mondell Calls It Confession of Failure By Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 9.—Members of Congress are to-day giving sober j thought to President Wilson s ad- I dress yesterday on the high cost of ! living. Although without little In- J dication of what action would bo taken, varying comment on the ad ! dress is for the most part favorable. Although some Senators and Rep-1 I resentatives disagreed with some ol I the President's specific recommen- ! j dations, there was an almost unani- | | mous expression that his address \ probably would have a beneficial et- | I feet on conditions. His references to ] sober second thought on the part I I of labor leaders were generally ap- ] | proved. Republican Deader Mondell. lr. , j the House, however, characterized : i the President's address as a "con fession" that the administration had failed to realize the seriousness of the situation and use its powers u> curb it. Speaker Gillett declared he found little thoughtful suggestion lu the address. Peace Times Must Return President Wilson laid several spe- i cific proposals before Congress for I checking the high cost of living, . but at the same time declared per manent results could not be expect- | ed until peace time basis were fully I restored by ratification of the Peace Treaty. I High prices, the President told j Congress, were not justified by I shortage of supply, either present ov i prospective, but were created in j many cases "artificially and delib ! erately," by "vicious practices." Re- I | tailers, he said, were responsible in large part for extortionate prices. Strikes, the President warned the I labor world, would only make mat j ters worse, and those who sought to I employ threats or coercion were i only "preparing their own destruc i tion." Leaders of organized labor, ! the President said, he was sure i would presently yield to second i sober thought. "Illegal" and "criminal" were the words the President used in char- I acterizing the methods by whicb some present-day prices have bee.i | brought about. Present laws, he 6aid, would be i energetically employed to the limit I to force out food hoards, and meat j the situation so far as possible, but to supplement the existing statutes i he specifically urged enactment of ! new laws. The President had no panacea to i suggest. Frankly ( he stated that "there is no complete immediate ! remedy to be had from legislation and executive action, but what we | can do we should do and do at ! once," he added. He told Congress that the sur i plus stocks of army food and cloth ' ing will be sold at once; that sur- I plus stocks in private hands will be ; drawn out of storage; that suits will I I be instituted by the Department of Justice against combinations of pro ducers and traders who control sup- I plies and prices; that the public i will be kept fully informed regard i ing supplies and prices, wholesale t and retail, through the medium of the Government departments. Congress Should Work These are the steps which the 1 Administration is taking to beat j down the constantly rising cost of I living and curb the upward trend ; of prices for the necessities of life, j But Congress, too, should do its part, | the President declared. A stern admonition of organized ! labor to abandon its present method was by far the most important fea ; ture of t.he President's address. ! "There must be no threats," he said. "Let there be only intelligent coun sel, and let the best reasons win, • not the strongest brute force. All | that is arbitrary and coercive is in ' the discard. Those who seek to em j ploy it only prepare their own de i struction." ; For the first time during the en i tire reading of the address, the end of which he was approaching, Mr. Wilson seemed to strike a responsive | chord. His entire audience, Repub licans and Democrats, Senators and Representatives, applauded, and then cheered, and the galleries joined in applause unreproved by the two presiding officers. Opposes Labor's Plan When he continued that this coun i try could not and would not over night revolutionize our economic j life, the applause broke out again. !It was made very evident to the | various leaders of organized labor I who sat in the galleries that their \ efforts to bluff the nationalization : ot' the railroads through Congress ! and then perhaps of all the other great basic industries, will fail. The President obviously irritated the Republican Senators by making it clear at the very outset of his address and carried the idea throughout that he regarded the de | lay in the ratification of the peace | treaty and the unwillingness to ac- I cept his covenant for a League of j Nations as one of the underlying ; causes for the distress that Is over ! powering the world. He insisted that i there is now neither peace nor war, j and accordingly there could be no j confidence in industry, no normal j restoration of business and no re ! sumption of the old commercial ; relations with Europe until peace ; had been established and guaran i teed. Should Provide Funds j First, the President said, on the '< food situation, Congress should pro ! vide the necessary funds to enable 1 the executive branch to carry its ! plans into execution. He recom | mended as amendment to the food control Act "as the period of time j during which it shall remain in op i eration and as to the commodities ! to which it shall apply." | Its provisions, the President said, | should be made to apply to food | stuffs, fuel, clothing and to many i other necessaries of life. It is now ! essentially a war measure but the ! | President expressed his confidence [ I that under the commerce clause of j j the constitution Congress has full > | authority to make it permanent. ! And he particularly suggested that ! the profiteering section of the Act | be provided with a penalty for its j I enforcement. Other recommei\dations of far t reaching Import were put forward >j by the President. He suggested that ! j Congress pass a law regulating cold | j storage fashioned after the New j j Jersey law, limiting the time that > 1 goods may be held In cold storage [land stipulating that goods released j : from storage should be labeled with | ! the selling or market price when j I they went into storage. Federal Lleeii.se ! j Another radicul suggestion was ( 1 for the enforcement of a law under j which all goods destined for in'.e.- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Ten Steps to Cut Living Costs PRESIDENT WILSON in addressing Congress yes terday on the high cost of living, presented ten rem edies which he thinks would reduce the cost of life s necessities. They are: The passage of the Peace Treaty. The sale of surplus stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the Government. The drawing out of storage and putting upon the market certain stocks in private hands. The extension of the present food control act both as to the period of time during which it is to remain in operation and as to the commodities to which it shall apply. The passage of a statute providing a penalty for profiteering. The passage of a law regulating cold-storage as it is regulated by the laws of the State of New Jersey which limits the time during which goods may be kept in storage, prescribes the method of disposing of them if kept beyond the permitted period and requires that the goods released from storage shall bear the date of their receipt. • Passage of a law providing that all goods released from storage for interstate shipment should have plainly marked on each package the selling or market price at which they went into storage. Provision of law providing that all goods destined for interstate commerce should in every case where packages make it possible, he marked with the price at which they left the hands of the producer. Formulation of a law requiring a Federal license of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce and embodying in the license or in the conditions under which it is to be issued specific regulations designed to secure competitive selling and prevent unconscionable profit in the method of market. Passage of the bill now pending before Congress proposed by the Capital Issues Committee for the con trol of security issues. state shipment should be marked with the price at which they left the bands of the producer. He alsi advocated the adoption of a Fed eral license for all corporations en gaged in interstate commerce, with regulations compelling them to sell in competition. And he urged the passage of the bill now pending be fore Congress, and proposed by the Capital Issue Committee for control of security issue. These constitute the principal points touched upon by the Pres - (lent in his discussion of the cost of In ing and they were heard with deepest interest by Senators and Representatives who now find themselves confronted with a very important part in the task of pro viding a remedy for the food prob lem. Intertwined with these recom mendations was an insistent plea for prompt ratification of the Peace Treaty. The President declared that until the war is formally closed and all nations are free to devote their energies to the tasks of peace, there con be no restoration of nor mal conditions. "The free processes of supply and demand will not operate of them selves and no legislative or execu tive action can force them into full and natural operation until there is peace," he declared. "There is now neither peace nor war." Coupled with his discussion of the food situation was an optimistic ex pression regarding the future of his country and a stern warning to rad icals and their Bolshevistic theories which evoked long and enthusiasti; applause. "There is no ground for some of the fearful forecasts I hear uttered about me," the President said, "but the condition of the world Is un questionably very grave and we should face It comprehendingly. It is in this supreme crisis, this crisis for all mankind, that America must prove her mettle," he continued. "In the presence of a world con fused, distracted, she must show herself self-possessed, self-contain ed, capable of sober and effective action." To the covert threats of a general railroad strike if the demands of the brotherhoods for increased wages are rejected, President Wilson ut tered this solemn warning: "Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place in the counsels of a free people. We need light not heat, in these solemn times of self-examination and saving ac t'on. There must be no threats. Let there be only intelligent counsel and let the best reasons win. not thn strongest brute force. The world has just destroyed the arbitrary force of a military junta. It will live under no other." Against Plumb Plan With a few vigorous words, which brought cheers from his hearers, ho sounded absolutely the death knell of the so-called Plumb plan for government purchase of the rail roads and operation by the em ployes, so far as the present Con gress is concerned. In the same breath the President denounced those who seek in times like these to attain their ends by means of threats. That he had in mind the recent talk of some of the Notice to Automobile Owners THE DAY AND NIGHT GARAGE Successor to MUFF BROS. GARAGE 244 S. Front St. Stcclton ra. is now open for business. Our ambition is n large and satisfied patronage secured by reliable service and reasonable prices. WELDING AND BRAZING by an expert mchanic VULCANIZING and tl.e repairing done by expert repairmen having had a number of years experience in one of the largest lubber mills in the country. Your Patronage Is Earnestly Solicited THE DAY AND NIGHT GARAGE WcaGer and Kline Pro. 244 S. Front St. Steelton, Z*a. railroad brotherhood leaders, thero was no chance of doubt. Amid re newed applause the President added: "The world has just destroyed the arbitrary force of a military junta. nwiUliveunder no other. All that is arbitrary and coercive is in the discard. Those who seek to employ it only prepare their own destruc tion." Republicans Crltlsr President Wilson, Republican lend ers said to-day, deliberately compli cated his recommendations to Con gress as to the high cost of living by stating repeatedly in his address mat nothing rtt rmancnt could be accom plished along that line until peace has been declared. They accuse the President of attempting to use the high cost of living as a club to drive through the ratification of the Treaty of Peace and the ratification of the League of Nations, in much the same manner that the railway brotherhoods attempting to use the same issue as a. club to drive through their plan for a "socialization" of the railroads. Throughout his address the Presi dent sought to convince the Senators and Representatives that the affairs of the United States are "inextrica bly interwoven" with the affairs of the world. He said the plight of the United Males was less urgent than that of most other countries, and that "we, and we almost alone, now hold the world steady." Further, the President's address might be characterized as a remark able personal appeal. It was an ap peal which he hoped might bring speedy relief, for he frankly admitted there is no complete, immediate reme dy to be had from legislative or ex ecutive action. He appealed to Congress for reme dial legislation. He appealed to the profiteer to cease demanding exorbi tant profits. He appealed to the food hoarders voluntarily to disgorge their surplus stocks. The Republicans as a rule, how ever, are loath to give the President any additional power. There will be a long and bitter fight over an at tempt to extend both the final limits and the scope of the food control act so as fto bring all commodities classed as necessaries of life within its pur view. The Federal licensing of cor porations would raise an issue which would require months, if not years, to settle. The Republicans base their oppo sition of an extension of the execu tive power on the ground that it has failed thus far to prevent hoarding and profiteering in foodstuffs on a scale never dreamed of. They ••ay the food control act will not expire until the proclamation of peace, and they seem to regard that proclama tion as some distance away. If in the meantime, the President can show that effective action can be taken un der the act, the Republicans will lis ten to further argument as to its extension. President Wilson himself seemed to place great reliance upon publicity in the fight against high prices. He believes publicity will arouse the people and awaken slumbering con sciences. "To have brought it all into the open will accomplish the greater part of the result we dbsire," he said. All of the administration officers are convinced that if publicity will succeed In pointing out to every man and woman in the country that all must do their share In bringing down the coat of living, the slow methods of resorts to courts and legal pro cess may not be necessary. The Pres j ident himself believes that one or I two court actions only may be nec i essary to oring all dealers and manu , facturers into line with the new ] i thought of fair profits and fair play. For Fair Price I.lot* He appealed to Congress for more j money tp enable Government agencies ! i to investigate and publish the pro- j | duction price and a fair sale price of j | commodities in all communities. I j He appealed to the consuming pub- I lie, and especially the housewives of ; the country, to be more careful in j their marketing, assuring them that' the concerted action on their part can : accomplish much. He appealed, "with entire confi dence" to producers, to middlemen and to merchants to deal fairly with the people. He appealed, with great eloquence, l to the more extreme labor laders of j the country to yield to a second sober I thought and, "like the great mass of j their associates, think and act like I true Americans." Strikes, he declared, j would make matters worse, not bet ! ter. "We are all Involved in the dis tressing results of the high cost of I living." said the President, "and we must unite, not divide to correct it." The President's plans and recom mendations as to the high cost of liv ing met a partisan reception, as was to be expected. His declarations that I nothing approaching the normal could be accomplished until the world was officially at peace was loudly ap plauded by the Democrats. His re sentment against attempted threats and his assertion that strikes would be fatal at a time like this brought wild applause from Democrats and Republicans alike. The President was vigorously criti- I cised by the Republicans for not hav ing done long ago all the things he announced he proposed to do under existing laws. They accused him of remaining idle while vast stocks of food have been hoarded and stored when the means were at his disposal to prevent such action. The Presi dent himself told Congress how food stocks had accumulated during the last few months and how prices had continued to rise in the very face of the surplus supplies. Rendy for Speedy Action Congress as a whole seemed willing to agree on speedy action to give the President all the money he desires to prosecute profiteers and to give full force and effect to the powers already reposed in him by Congress. Many of the Republicans profess to believe the President has at his command all the means necessary to cope with the high cost of living. They say he can be convinced of this, just as he was convinced that he had sufficient power,to deal with all questions af fecting railroad rates and wages. No Motive Found to Explain Girl's Suicide No motive has as yet been dis covered for the suicide of Eva Co!- ver, the 17-year-old Speecevtlle girl who took her life yesterday after noon. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Colver, are unable to ac count for the act. Miss Colver had been spending the morning assisting in the housework and about the middle of the after noon went up to her room without saying anything to her family. A few minutes later a shot was heard and the girl's aunt, Miss Jessie Speese, ran upstairs and found her lying across the bed, a revolver clasped in her hand. The girl died in a few minutes without speaking. Coroner Eckinger visited the home but could find no motive for the deed. Besides her parents. Miss Colver is survived by four brothers, Raymond, Clinton, Floyd, and Wil liam, and a younger sister. The 1920 Stephens Is Here! See it at Our Salesrooms and The owner of a Stephens Salient Six realizes 'y Economy to the fullest degree, the many advantages which A GAIN the Stephens salient a motor car can yield. Beauty—that's a treat to Angeles Economy Run. the eye. Comfort—that elds rest and decrea- This year It traveled 21.4 .• r% r . i • t 1 , miles for each gallon of fuel. tion. Safety—which protects the occupants and and won over all watercooled in rß ioiß Stephens "salient safeguards the pedestrians. Reliability—which fon of tt fue?*and Il won ove/aii takes you over the hills; lets you creep at the gas? oiTand 1 water COnomy of crossings; leap across at the signal, and travel These records establish the tirelessly for hours and days without lessened Stephens Salient Six as the - most economical motor car of performance. its class. Such performance is perfected overhead valve en- Such a car is the Stephens Salient Six. gine, which is not only the most economical but also the most powerful engine of its rrr -II 1 J1 J IVe will gladly demonstrate to engine'is'd'ue to VOU Olty time • Call "Bell its perfected overhead valve ir\r\3 r . construction, its superior gas' lUUJ JOV at>t>ollitmetlt preparing and handling sys- J rr tcm and its unusually large 't;; ,h„ Stephen. T G CfBI T Six Is Just as beautiful and (111* comfortable as it is powerful 7 and economical. 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