4 TO VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE ALL FOOD HOARDERS Palmer in Conference With Kane at Philadelphia Pre dicts Drop of Prices By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Aug. 15. Attorney General Palmer after a conference here to-day with United States Dis trict Attorney Kane issued a state ment promising vigorous prosecu tions of all food profiteers, large or small. "As a result of the action con sidered to-day," said Mr. Palmer, "the price of food in Philadelphia will be decreased to a marked extent within a short time." The Lever bill will be made ap plicable to the smallest retailer by Congress within a week. A severe penalty will be attached to the bill, which will make it dangerous busi ness for the small dealer to charge prices. ' Wants Results Before the conference Mr. Palmer said it had come to his attention that immense quantities of food stuffs are being held in storage in Philadelphia and nearby cities. This, he explained, is one of the reasons for his visit. "Every State in the union is co operating with Washington in the high cost of living probe," said Mr. Palmer. "This is a vital question and I want to know what has been done in Philadelphia. We want to get results here the same as we have gotten from dozens of other States and cities. It will not be dif ficult to bring about the release of hoarded good and to punish every one guilty of violations of the law. "The various States will have to take up the rent profiteering ques- , tion. We are regulating the evil in Washington and we hope to estab lish a "just system shortly which all the States can use as a model. Cases have come to my attention where the rentals have jumped 150 per cent, over night, even though the cost of maintaining the property had not increased. Conditions are bad throughout the country, I am informed, but there is no relief for tenants through Federal action. It must he done by the individual States." 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It was not sufficient, he said, that a showing should be made of the ris ing costs of operation alone. State and municipal authorities might heed that showing and order increased fares in.vain, the witness testified, if the people exercised their "veto power" of denying patronage to the lines at Increased rates. Chairman Ainey insisted that the •companies should "set their houses in order" and come before the pub lic with a definite project. The public fears that there is much over-capitalization and much poor management involved in the difficul ties of the companies, he added and until the people have received as surances that these situations have been cleared up, it is not to be ex pected that they will look favorably upon increased fares. Fair valuation of the properties, Mr. Ainey said, is the only sound basis for rate-making and he ex pressed confidence that the people were fair-minded enough to pay rates on that basis no matter what they might be. Troops Man City Walls to Suppress Demonstrations By Associated Press. X Londonderry, Ireland, Aug. 15. — Troops manned the walls of Lon donderry to-day, for the first time since the historic siege of the city inn 1689, as part of the military ef fort to prevent the Nationalist and Sinn Fein "Lady Day" demonstra tion and prosecution ste for to-day. The demonstration has been for bidden by the British commander, General Hackett-Pain. Orangemen and Unionists, it is said, have declared their demon stration not to permit the holding of the parade, which they termed anti-British. First Reports on the Effect of Prohibition HAPPY 1 ls~f=f™£=a==J rfWHiaS, ,- — nwf A vrr abacus f I \¥'-+. [' f CI • MBit *shJ& \™ ir j0& V N V j Fi?£>M 7W£ USUUOJZ -DCALEfii AS&OC/AlfOtJ Advises U. S. Labor to Keep Out of Politics as Party; Calls It Rotten London. Aug. 15. —"Rotten," wad the comment of Havelock Wilson, president of the International Sea men's Union, on the forthcoming trip of Arthur Henderson, the labor leader, to America with a view to helping in rhe establishment of a labor party in the United States. "If American labor is misted nd forms a political party," 3*id Wil son, "they will doubtless find that like the British trades unionists, they have injured their own cause and thereby become tool 3 of self seeking politicians. "The British trade unionists found that their moneys often were devoted to purposes with which the majority does not sympathize. Knowing what I do, I think the best advice to the American workmen is to stay out of politics as a labor party, which would simply divide the American trade unionists." Arthur Henderson, when asked how large an element of American labor invited him and who was fi nancing his trip, refused to answer. SAYS DEATH ACCIDENTAL Mrs. H. L. Stine, of Chicago, sis ter of Edward J. Graham, of New York, who was killed early Tues day at Marysville, has written to officials here expressing an opinion that the death was entirely acci dental. She believes that he got off the train at the wrong point. EABRISBURO (Mtl TELEGRXPS PHONOGRAPHS TO BE USED IN NEXT CAMPAIGN Both Republican and Demo cratic Parties Will Operate Them Now York, August 15.—Phono graphs will be used by both the Republican and Democratic parties in the approaching presidential cam paign, it is announced, the plan em bracing a program which will per mit the residents of small towns and remote hamlets to hear the speeches of eminent orators at the same time that the records are released in the large cities. The phonographic campaign will be opened on September 1, when re cords containing utterances by At torney General Palmer, speaking for the Democrats, and others register ing the speech of United States Sen ator Lodge, voicing the sentiments of the Republicans, will be released. These speeches will be reproduced at clubs, societies' headquarters, churches, noonday meetings aad in the homes of the party workers. Following the release of the speeches of Attorney General Pal mer and Senator Lodge, other re cords will be distributed monthly and it is expected that the meeting places and homes throughout the country will fairly echo and re-echo with the words of the orators as conveyed by means of talking ma chines. The extent of the part which phonographs may play in the cam paign can be estimated by the state ment that two manufacturers of the machines are known to have more than 2,000,000 phonographs in use in the United States. Among the speakers scheduled for phonograph oratory by the Demo cratic National Committee are Presi dent Wilson, Secretary of War Bak er, Secretary of the Navy Daniels, former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and William J. Bryan. Former President Taft, Major General Wood, Elihu Hoot, Chaun cey M. Depew and United States Sen ators Johnson and Borah are on the list of speakers chosen for talk ing machine oratory by the Repub lican National Committee, Scientific Discussions By Garrett P. Scrviss When we see a mighty warship, or a huge Atlantic liner, moving majestically through the water at a speed of many miles an hour, throwing aside great waves from its bow, and piercing like a projectile through vast ocean billows, we get the impression of a practical solid body driven onward with resistless force, and itself capable of with standing a greater shock than it would inflict u|>on an obstacle in its path. But this impression is instantly dissipated when such a vessel en countered, say an iceberg, as hap pened seven years ago to the ill fated Titanic, and, again, to the steamer Grampian. In one case the side, in the other t/ie bow, of the ship was caved in like an egg shell, and in both cases hundreds of the people on board were so little disturbed by the shock that they were afterward astonished to learn of the disaster that had really happened. Members of the creW were crushed to death in the wreck of the forward part of the Grampian, where the stem of the ship was driven back into the hull nearly forty feet, and yet the occupants of the smoking room felt the blow so slightly that they were not stirred from their seats. On the Titanic people unconscious of dan ger played cards after the great vessel had received its death-blow. For the physicist, calculating the forces at play in such an accident, there is something of the pleasure of the sportsman noting the effects of his shot without considering the suffering or death inflicted. But any one may derive advantage from a study of the laws that govern these blind and, on occasion, calamitous forces. From an understanding of their workings one may be able to choose the way to safety. Take the ordinary case of a collision of ve hicles, where the most common im pulse is to pump out, although to follow the bidding of this impulse may be the strongest invitation to serious injury or death. Every moving body possesses a certain amount of kinetic energy, and if the body is arrested this energy must be disposed of some how. If the motion is slowly and gradually arrested the energy will be dissipated without producing any violent effects, but if the stop page of the motion is sudden, or instantaneous, a disaster may be the result. In other words, the kinetic en ergy of a moving body may either do a certain amount of quiet, use ful work, or it may cause a smash, according to the manner in which it is expended. The man who jumps from a run away car carries with him the kinetic energy which the motion on the car has imparted to him, ajid when he strikes the earth his i body must endure all the stresses put upon it in the sudden dissipa tion of the arrested enegry. But if he remains in the car a part only of the latter may be smashed by a series of shocks, which will furnish all the "work" needed to take up the released energy, while the passenger escapes with little or no injury. The facts concerning kinetic en ergy look more formidable when put into figures. Thus, a man weighing 200 pounds, moving at n speed of 60 feet per second (40 miles an hour), has stored up in his body an amount of kinetic energy equal to 11,250 foot-pounds, and if the motion is arrested in one second he will have to dispose, as best he can, of the 20% untamable horsepower that he carries. Going back to the steamer Grampian running against an ice berg and having her whole for ward part smashed and her stem driven forty feet backward, while passengers in the center of the ship were hardly disturbed at all, we see that the safety of the latter arose from the fact that the kine tic energy of the blow was used up in the destruction wrought near the bow, the fore frame of the ship yielding, and thus serv ing as a cushion to take up the shock. But if the ship had been as rigid as such a vessel looks to the eye, the force of the blow would have sent everybody tumbling, from stem to stern. James Verne had the right principle in mind when in his "Voyage to the Moon," hav ing to contrive a way by which the passengers in the projectile to be shot from the 900-foot gun could escape injury from the tre mendous shock, he Imagined a series of cushioned partitions in the projectile to use up the energy, lit tle by little. TO MEET IN SCHOOL The Wickersham School Building has been selected as the meeting place f<fr the mass meeting of colored citi zens to be held under the ausp'ce* of the War Camp Community Service this evening. Among the speakers will be Charles H. Jackson, of Youngs town, Ohio; Mrs. Ellen Ford Broows. of Brooklyn, nnd Miss Gertrude John son, of Rochester. All three are now in this city to organize different ac tivities for the colored people. Horlick's the Original Malted Milk —Avoid Imitations &Substitutes LOWER PRICES TO COME THROUGH NATURAL LAWS Senator Reed Declares In crease in Production Greatest Factor Washington, August 15. Hißh cost of living is the result of oper ations of fundamental and immutable laws, and lower living costs will come to a large degree, only from operation of these natural laws, Senator Democrat, of Missouri, declared In an address in the Senate to-day. Many of the remedies being pro posed to reduce living costs, Senator Reed asserted are futile because they are artificial and designed to disturb operation of natural economic tenden cies. Increase In production, the Mis souri Senator declared, would be the. greatest factor toward reducing prices. '"There are two great principles in economics and finance which cannot be disregarded, and which no amount of legislation can effectively control," said Mr. Reed. "First, whenever the demand for any great necessity ma terially exceeds the supply, an in crease. in price is inevitable. Con versely, when the supply exceeds the demand, a decrease in price fol lows. The latter condition may be temporarily effected by combinations artificially withholding the supply and controlling the market. But, r.o combination of men and no decree of government have ever been able to transmute a deficiency into plenty, or to remove the natural longings for a necessary article which cannot be obtained. "Second, a radical increase in the number of dollars in circulation i sults in a decrease in the purchasing power of the dollar. "Any advice, plan or scheme, there fore, which will have a tendency to lessen production, to discourage en terprise or to arrest industry, will, instead of bringing lower prices, in crease present excessive prices by un der-production." The war, Senator Reed said, stop ped production throughout the world to a largo extent, except for articles needed in its prosecution. With the end of the war, the natural result is increased demand before production can be brought up to normal. "All this is elementary and obvious, but in a crisis like that which now confronts us, even the wisdom of statesmen is likely to overlook the obvious," Mr. Reed observed. "The raise in prices in the United States has been made to all of the people of the United States ali of them being consumers. Likewise the benefits of high prices have been in part dis tributed to nearly all of the people of the United States for nearly all of them are producers." MAURI ACE LICENSES George M. Murphy and Rebecca J. Baker. Dlllsburg. Urban K. Ketterhoff and Caroline M. Fry, Harrisburg. James L Hitchens, Jr., and Ethel M. Carrico, Baltimore. 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August 15.—That nil talk of an existing coal shortage or the predictions of one to come are out of place at this time, Is shown by figures Issued to-day by the Anthra cite Bureau of information, the of ficial mouthpiece of the anthracite operators in Pennsylvania. Only a shortage of freight cars or a tie-up of the railroads due to a hard winter will make it Impossible to secure coal. So far as the supply is con cerned, figures ror the first four months of the current year, snow there will be plenty of it. The statement as issued by the nn thacite Bureau is as follows: Production Hints 101 "Production of the three most want ed domestic sizes of anthracite, which are nut, stove and egg, has been kept so satisfactorily during the first four months of the current coal year beginning April 1, that the markets have received more than 15 per cent, in excess of the total for the corres ponding period in 1916, which was the last normal year in the American coal business, and which was taken by the United States Fuel Adminis tration as the basic year upon which all anthracite allotments were deter mined. "For the first four months of this coal year, ended July 31, the total shipments of the three sizes men tioned have been in excess of 13,400,- 000 tons, while in the corresponding period of 1916 the total shipments were but slightly over 11,600,000 tons, leaving a difference of nearly 2,000,- 000 tons in favor of this year to date. Under a continuance of existing con ditions there is no reason to believe that the anthracite industry will not maintain a good production record during the late summer and fall. All Sizes Increased "The increased tonnage noted above has not been confined to any one size. Of the total increase as compared with 1916, nut coal has more than 1,000,000 tons to its credit, egg coal shows about 500,000 tons gain, and stove coal more than 250,000 tons. I "In view of these facts, talk of an I existing coal shortage or predictions |of one to come are out of place at this time, so far as domestic sizes of anthracite are concerned. Indeed, so far as one ordinarily very popu lar size, pea coal, is concerned, there is a surplus available. In their eag | erness to stock up with egg, stove lor nut, some parts of the market I have been overlooking pea coal, which I is a first class domestic fuel, not only in kitchen ranges, but in furnaces. Almost any furnace burning the larg er sizes can be banked at night witli pea coal, and in the milder days of winter it is frequently feasible and profitable to fire exclusively with pea COLLINS STYLE SHOP coal in furnaces which ordinarily use stove or nut. "Buckwheat coal is also available in considerable amounts for immedi ate shipment, and No. 1 buckwheat is finding a larger place in domestic economy. Some very satisfactory re sults were obtained last winter by burning a mixture of egg and buck wheat in heating furnaces, and buck wheat is a cheap and efficient fuel when used in almost any of the self feeding domestic furnaces now on the market." ELEVEN 11F.1.D FOR FREIGHT CBl THEFTS Eleven men of this vicinity, either ralroaders or former railroaders, are awaiting trial at the October session of Federal Court in Scrnnton, charged with stealing from freight cars. Much of the goods was recovered at the homes of tne men. HAS IMPORTANT MESSAGE The Rev. William Moses, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, is anxious to communicate with Dr.' Archibald Campbell, Bridgeport, Conn., whi is said to be in Harris burg or on his way to the city to give a lecture. The Rev. Mr. Moses has received word of the death of Mrs. Campbell. His telephone No. is 1649-M. Bell. RICH & PURr RED BLOOD FOR THE CHILD IF CREATED THIS SUMMER WILL, MAKE THE YOUNGSTER STRONG AND FIT FOR SCHOOL THIS FALL. For the cross, inactive, peevish child whose disposition is sulky, whose play is languid, a vital thing to look to is the blood. Novo-San (New Blood) will redden their poor blood, enrich and renew weakened blood and put the vital elements of red and white corpuscles into the child's blood veins. Nourishment to the blood is necessary in a rapidly growing child to add energy and power to this fluid which gives strength and life o the body. 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