TWO DELEGATES FROM EACH POST TO GATHER HERE First State Cantonment of the American Legion to Be Held in This City in October Information relative to the first state convention of the American Legion was received this morning from state headquarters at Phila delphia. The convention is to be held in Harrisburg October 2, 3 and 4. The first State Cantonment, as it is called, will consist of one dele gate and one alternate form each post whose application for a char ter has been received and approved by the state headquarters ten days or more prior to the convening of the State Cantonment, and one ad ditional delegate and alternate for each post of one hundred member ships paid up thirty or more days prior to the cantonment. Each post will call a meeting of its members and elect its authorized delegates and alternates soon. One of those so elected shall be desig nated leader of the post delegation. Each leader will present himself at the state headquarters in the Fcnp- Harris Hotel on Thursday morn ing, October 2, at 9 o'clock, for the verification of credentials and reg istration of the delegation. Reduced Fare A reduction of one and one-third fare on the "certificate plan" will apply to members and their depend ants meeting at the cantonment. If members will inquire at their home stations they may ascertain whether certificates and through tickets can be obtained to Harrisburg; if not obtainable at that station, the agent will tell them where they may ap ply. Immediately upon arrival at the meeting present the certificate to the endorsing officer, Miller A. Johnson, as the reduced fare for the return journey will not apply un less the holder is properly identified as provided for by the certificate. A list of Harrisburg hotel rater, is comprised in the bulletin issued by the headquarters, but if any dele gate should fail to get hotel accom modations he may apply to Warien Jackson, secretary of the Harris burg Chamber of Commerce, who will furnish a list of desirable rooms. BIG CROPS BRING PRODUCE LOWER [Continued from First Page.] pear on many tables in Harrisburg during the next few days. Green beans were 5 to 8 cents a quarter; yellow beans. 8 to 10 cents a box, 15 cents a quarter; lima beans, IS to 25 cents a pint. Vegetables such as carrots, beets, radishes, and rhubarb were 5 cents a bunch. Large quantities of corn, most of the ears well filled and of good size, were found at many of the stalls. The prices were 12 to IS cents a dozen, with a few asking 20 cents for choice ears of the Evergreen va riety. Other prices were: Bananas, 30® 35c; butter, country, 00® 65c; cab bage, head, 3® 15c; cantaloupes, 5, 8, 10® 15c; Celery, stalk, 10® 20c; cu cumbers, l®3c; eggs, dozen, 48, 50, 52® 54c; egg plant, each, 10@20c; lemons, 36®40c; oranges, 40®60c; lettuce, head, 5® 15c; onions, box, 10c: peaches, box, 8 ® 15c; quarter peck, 15® 25c; basket, $1.25®1.75; plums, box, 5® 10c; potatoes, \' t peck, 15® 20c; sweet potatoes, 'A peck, 25c; watermelons , 40®65c; elderberries, 6® Bc, quart. CONFERENCE ADJOURNED The conference yesterday after noon between State officials and engineers and city officials relative to the construction of the new wa ter mains under the memorial bridge was adjourned until estimates can be prepared as to the cost of larger mains, changes and various details. J. W. Ladoux, the city's wa ter expert, will submit the figures. MRS. WILLIAM IIA AG Funeral services for Mrs. William Haag, of Lemoyne, will be held thi3 evening at her late home in Hum mel avenue at 8 o'clock. The body will be taken to Lancaster Sunday for burial. Mrs. Haag died Thurs day evening. She was 40 years of age ar.vl is survived by her husband and three sons. 0* TRUCKS 34 to 5 Ton Capacity See them at Williams Grove August 25-29 Keystone Motor Car Co. DISTRIBUTORS 57 S. Cameron St. Ilarrisburg, I*a. _ C. H. BARXEU, Mgr. SATURDAY EVENING. Government Tactics Are Keeping Prices of Men's Clothing Up, Says Dealer Philadelphia, Aug. 23. While the government with one hand is mak ing a great show of investigating the high cost of living, with the other it is holding up prices to prevent a drop in the high cost of living. Philadelphia wool merchants and cloth manufacturers openly charge that were it not for government in terference suits of clothes that now sell for S6O would be back to their normal price of from $25 to S3O. They charge the government with holding enormous quantities of wool, which it refuses to sell in quantities large enough to bring down the price, and, further, that when they have at tempted to buy cheaper wool in for eign markets agents of the United States Government have ordered the orders canceled. "A number of Philadelphia wool dealers tried to buy wool from Aus tralia a few months ago." Nathan T Folwell, president of the Manufac turers' Club, and a leading woolen cloth manufacturer, said yesterday. "When our orders go to Australia, where there is an enormous stock of wool, a Government agent. I under stand, had them canceled. England didn't like it much, but she couldn't help herself. "Virtually all the wool in this coun try is controlled by the government, which gives it out in small quantities at a fixed high price. "Early this spring." Mr. Folwell continued, "I personally wrote to Washington and urged this wool be placed on the market at a reasonable price in April and May. By market ing It then, as I pointed out in the letter, clothing dealers would not have been injured, because their stock could then have been bought at lower prices and it would have helped bring down the high cost of living." SAYS PLANT CHANGES ATTIRE 3 TIMES A DAY That plants eat and drink in their own way through the soil is a well-known fact. But in South America is a species of orchid which takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty simply by letting down a tube into the water. When not in use, the tube is coiled up on the top of the plant. In Mexico there's a plant that likes to change its attire thjee times a day just like any fastidious person—lt is white in the morning, red at noon and blue in the evening. At times it gives out a very strong perfume and at other times it is absolutely odorless. There's another odd Mexican plant, the odor of which causes people to lose their way and makes their sense of direction nil until the smell ceases. Central India owns a tree whose leaves are heavily charged with elec tricity and to merely touch them gives a person a distinct shock. In Brazil similar electric power is put to lighting purposes. Within the immediate vi cinity of such a plant a person can see well enough to read the finest print and another is so luminous that it can be plainly distinguished in the darkest of nights for a distance of more than a mile. But the most wonderfully constituted plant of Brazil is the ball-throwing one. It is a small fungus about the size of a pea Which projects a ball to a dis tance of several inches with a distinctly audible report.—Detroit News. HE IMPROVED RIGHT ALONG A student had a barrel of ale de posited. in his room, contrary, of course, to rule and usage. Ho received a summons to appear before the pres ident. "Sir, I am informed that you have a barrel of ale in your room." said the latter "Yes. sir." "What explanation can you make?" "Why, the fact is, sir. my physician advises me to try a little each day as a tonic, and not wishing to go to the various places where the beverage is retailed, I arranged to have a barrel in my room." "Indeedl And have you derived any benefit from the use of it?" "Oh, yes. sir. When the barrel was first taker, to my room I could scarcely lift it. Now I can carry it easily."— Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. MOTHER'S ART It was in the dt-awingroom at the school. "Sargent was a great artist." said the teacher. "With one stroke he could change a smiling face into a sorrowful one." "That ain't nothin'," piped up Johnny. "Me mother docs that to me lots of times." Chicago News. OIT AT I. YS'I'—HE'S INS Jackson: Well, old Tom Duffeller has stopped worrying about going to the poorhouse. Ullman: What do you mean? Jackson : I mean he's there.—Car toons Magazine. DEFINED What is the difference between an actress and an artist? An actress paints to kill and an artist paints to live. —Knoxville Sen tinel. CITY RESERVOIR IS GIVEN THOROUGH SCOURING For the first time since 1913, the ctty reservoir has been cleaned, under the direction of Commissioner S. F. Hassler, superintendent of the city water department. Above is shown a view of the reservoir after it had been drained and while the workmen were busy cleaning the bottom. Hopes to Reduce Cost of j Wheat to Consumer - - —— aaa R. O. LEFFJNGWELL Russell C. Leffingwell, of New I 1 ork, newly-appointed Assistant | Secretary of the Treasury, has been I appointed to the committee of ten , empowered to expend a billion dol | lars to reduce the cost of wheat. | Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss I. Do "emanations" from radium mean disintegration of the independ ent units of which the> particle is composed? If it takes 25,000 years before these units have alj escaped off into space, and the particle wholly vanishes, is that because of their inconceivable density in the original grouping? (2). If a can | non ball could be rendered equally dense, and compressed say into the size of a pinhead, and yet retain ail the matter of its more bulky form, would that convey a fair idea? In a word, is it their density that causes so many countless quadrillions of particles to be locked up in such small space? J. M. W. Emanations from radium repre sent one step in a kind of "natural alchemy," taking the word alchemy in its popular sense of a transmut ation of elements, or metals, one into another, as for instance lead in to gold. For a long time chemists, and men of science in general, smiled at the old alchemists as dreamers. "The elements," they said, "consist each of its own kind of atoms, and atoms are indivisible and unchange able. It is ridiculous to talk of an atom of one kind turning into an atom of another kind." But then came the surprising dis | covery—a scientific accident—that atoms—at least the "atoms" hither to known—are not indivisible and unchangeable. This put an entirely different complexion on the whole matter: alchemy, or the idea, un derlying it, began to loc-m tip' as a scientific possibility, or a possible practice of nature herself. And in a litt'e while—so fast do these things go when once started I —one element was actually seen producing another element in a modern chemical laboratory, where the mcoking face of the mystical Dr. Faustus might have been im agined grinning out of the corners. But a closer examination showed that what Was happening was not, after all, the thing that the alchem ists wanted to have happen. The wanted to take some cheap, base metal, melt it, or subject it to some other process, and see it turn into the one metal that was worth while —gold. What really happened was that out of a certain mineral came another. It was more like a birth than a transmutation. The original mineral was the "mother element," and the derivative one was its child. Professor Theodore W. Richards puts the matter in the form of a "sort of genealogica' tree," To start with we have c ''"-mental sub stance, or what has been regarded HARMSBtTRG g TELEGRAPH as an elemental substance, uranium —a rare thing upon the earth, by the way, and never much noticed until these strange happenings be gan. Of its own accord, an atom of uranium "loses" three atoms of an other element, helium, and thereby is converted into a third element called radium. The radium, thus brought into existence, or at least out into the light of scientific recog nition, proves to be a very lively child, far more active than its "mother," and it quickly loses one atom of helium—for there seems to he aplenty of that strange substance lurking in some form behind all these changes—and as a result of this loss the radium is converted in to the- so-called "emanation." This is still a livelier child, but of ex tremely brief vital span, for it al most immediately leases four more atoms of helium, and thereby is con verted into lead. So. beginning with uranium, we have a series of automatic expul sions of atoms of helium, three the first time, one the second and four the last time: and each time, what we may speak of as the original sub stance changes face or is converted into another substance, the final product being lead. The thing lo3t every time is shellum: the thing that finally remains, when all the helium is out is lead: so that there seem to be two descendants, if we may so call them, of the atom of ura nium. viz.: lead and helium. They remain, strange brothers, hut their mother atom has sacrificed itself and vanished in bringing them into existence. This looks like spontane ous generation in the mineral world. There are not many kinds of knowledge that people would more willingly acquire than that of the art of reading human faces. Some are born with this ability, more or less completely developed, just as some possess from birth extraordi nary gifts for the comprehension of mathematics, artistic form and har mony, or mechanical forces and combinations. Twice in my lifo I have been as sured by phrenologists that my bump of "human nature" (supposed to indicate that kind of divining power) was well developed, but my observations on myself have led me to think that the influence of the "bump" doesn't go much beyond awaking curiosity about the inner nature of my fellow beings. Still, there is no doubt that by intelligent use of curiosity one can learn much on this subject, but it is a kind of knowledge, or skill, difficult to teach to others. A good way to acquire some skill in "reading human nature" is, it seems to me. to begin by grouping your observations un der certain striking types. Sitting in a subway train recently, I was greatly interested by noticing that of eleven persons on the long seat opposite to me no less than five were strongly typical of as many different phases of character. Three of them sat side by side, and for the time being, owing to the con centration of my attention on their contrasts, they almost impressed me as representing three different species of mankind. I had many times in the past seen the same combinations of peculiar head forms, facial traits, hair cob, and quality, eye color and expres sion. and bodily bearing; so that these types were perfectly clear in my mind and I had my opinion fair ly settled as to what each of them phystca?ly. Dlental * If I could have exchanged a few words with them, one after another T would have been able to include another,very important element in the analysis of character, viz.. the quality of their voices. But even speak"! had \fu\ °i h ,? arin * speak I had little doubt that their voices accorded with their respec tive types as those types were indi cated by the visible signs "The voice," said Ernest I,e gouve, "is a revoaler." Yes that W so, and sometimes the voice reveals more than do the features or the shape of the head. and "worne^T*by"t hose is like Identifying different kinds °L™ Ck * and , mtntfrals by means o? their general appearance. After a great deal of practice it can be fl nn with high probability, but not with complete and unerring certainty. In each type there are manv varieties To recognize the type is easv; to distinguish the variations is difficult But this is the fine part of the art and to succeed in it a natural gift is probably needed. It seems to be more a matter of intuition than of inference based on conscious obser vation. When the mineralogist is in doubt about a specimen he takes his blowpipe, or his chemical reagents and makes an acid test. Something equivalent to this mils' bd done in forming find, absolute lodgments of lnd'"'dual human eha-reter. When, by practice you have settled | upon the principal types of ehar | acter. as they manifest themselves Ito your observation, you will And Latest Photographs of the Frince of Wales HRmiiMffi'lß jfIBBNB These two photographs of the Prince of Wales were taken just before he left England to visit Canada and the United States. The upper picture shows him In the uniform of the Prince of Wales' Lelnster Regiment (Royal Canadians) of which he Is colonel In chief. In the other this democratic heir to the British throne is attired as a captain of the royal navy, to which rank he was recently gazetted. that none of them is distinguished by only a single leading feature or characteristic. All will be made up from the combination of several co incident peculiarities. It is this co incidence of several elements that constitutes the type. You may see a long nose, but that by itself does not form a type, un less, accompanying it, there are other peculiarities in the face, the chin, the eyes, the skull, the hair, which, taken together, give an im pression of breadth and unity. A long nose in general seems to In dicate shrewdness, thoughtfulness and penetrating intelligence, but a long nose may go with a weak jaw, an unintelligent eye and other un promising features, which deprive it of much of its significance. On the other hand, a short, in significant nose may be combined with a highly intellectual facial and cranial development, so that again the nose loses its value us a deter minant of character. I have not much regard for the claims of phrenology as far as they rest on Gall's scheme of "organs," but the better kind of practitioners of the modern forms of phrenology show a good deal of ability in char acter reading, based on the combina tion of many indications derived from observation of features, form, color, physiological quality, gait, manner, nervous activity, etc. Feel ing the "bumps" appears to be .a'jpply & concession to old notions, or an awakener of the imagination like the magician's wand. But there is so much apparent intuition in the true character reader's proceed ings that one begins to think that men and women have their atmos pheres, developed from their inner nature, and in which some of their secrets may be read as we read the constitution of the sun in the spec trum of its gaseous shell. I stood with a crowd of people at Jackson avenue waiting for u trolley car. It was a magnificent night and where we were, with a wall behind and a projecting wooden awning overhead, Its edge framing the sky above like a proscenium arch, one had the impres sion of being In a vast theater. The footlights were represented by electric bulbs, spelling a name on one of a series of low buildings across tiie way and by other lamps lighting rows of colored posters strung along the walls which formed as it were the front of the stage. The curtain was raised, and in the vast expanse disclosed behind shone the universe, so grand, so magnificent, so indescribably splendid that I caught my breath and felt as if I had never truly seen it before. Three great figures were on the stage together, and behind them in the depths of immensity gleamed the countless multitudes of stars that pop ulate the boundless heavens with liv ing fires. The conspicuous three were the full, round moon, her face smiling with ripples of light that streamed from her fairy mountains and poured over her golden plains; the proud planet Jupiter, wrapped In his belted mantle, serenely conscious of his dig nity as the chief of the planetary con clave, and the great "Star of Egypt and the Nile," Sirius. whose rays, packed with the energies of a sun forty-fold greater than ours, bickered white and red and emerald, an electri fied diamond, a living Kohmoor. I looked round at my neighbors, to kindle my enthusiasm higher at thetr flame but not an eye among them saw the universe! Not a glance was uplifted to view the "City of Clod" dis played there for encouragement and Joy to the souls of men. When 1 step ped out from under the awning to ob tain a better view of the wondrous spectacle overhead two or three men hastily imitated me; but after a single anxious glance at the sky they turned and looked at me, wondering whether I had really seen something which they hat l missed. There it was, scintillating before them and over their heads, grander than Imagination can conceive, beauti ful as thought, and they looked right at it and never saw it! Was It fa miliarity that made them indifferent? No. they had never seen it in all their lives! It was the blindness of ignor ance, the blindness of a lack of educa tion. or of a false education. They found nothing blase in the electric lights across the way. Two admir-1 ingly discussed the ingenious arrange ment of the colored bulbs that spelled out the name of a little theater and many perused the posters, but Sirius, the might sun whose circling worlds would belittle ours, shone straight into their eyes and found them blind. The moon, "sweet regent of the sky," child of the earth's youth, wandered | but not lost; the moon that has looked down upon a thousand generations of | little men and beheld a hundred em-1 pires rise and fall, leaving only their ruins to be silvered iy her light, was nothing to them, absolutely unnoticed, non-existent. While I waited the crowd changed more than once, but the newcomers never saw the universe! They saw the electric lights and the posters; but, being only of the earth, they did not and could not look beyond the earth. Thus is man's greatest birthright cast aside. Born to dwell in spirit among the stars, millions grovel and perish in the dust of_ the earth, never caring evien to inquire what their relations may be to the vast cosmos about them. Gravity ties down their souls as well as their bodies. They are prisoners to mere material forces. Their eyes alone would emancipate them if they employed them wisely, but they will not receive the messages that light brings across the abysses of space. For them the sky is but a curtain and the earth is the only real thing. They tie God to the little globe of their ador ation, thinking that He, too, can have no other provinces. They are ignorant of the great law of relativity, which would teach them that the beginning of salvation, the first step away from annihilation, is the recognition of infinite dependency. God gave sight to man and backed it with supra-brutal intelligence in order that he might see and know that he was made a Citizen of the Universe. There ought to be public schools of astronomy, not to turn out astrono mers but to turn out men and 'women. That side of education which looks to our material well-being is abundantly provided for; the side that would feed the soul imprisoned in us is neglected. Some one will probably say: "That is the work of religionto which I reply, "Astronomy is religion." ECONOMY TO THE NINTH DEGREE Secretary of Agriculture Houston was talking about economizing. "We'd all economize." he said, "if it was pleasanter. I heard two men dis cussing the subject the other day at lunch. " 'Why do you live in the country?" the first man said. "Grub cheaper, eh?" " 'No, not much cheaper. I can't say I do much economizing along thMl line.' " 'How do you do it, then?' " 'Well, "you see, in the country there are no theaters to spend money on. There are no jazz dinners, no opera and no opera suppers, no taxicabs and no distractions or amusements of any kind. Do you get the idea?' "'Sure, old man; sure. But here's a suggestion for you. Couldn't you do a let better if you died?' " —Washington Star. JUST ARRIVED! 1,000 Pairs of Macbeth Lens 0 m Complies With All Law Requirements All Sizes M. Brenner & Sons Motor Co. Third & Hamilton Streets Bell 4945 Dial 4441 AUGUST 23, 1919. Wife of Former American Envoy Honored by France ji "W'- ' ** i tomMmssmsssssm .£g - ■■■■ . -■•- • -g| MHS. FREDERICK C. PENFIELD The French government has deco rated Mrs. Frederick C. Penfleld, wife of the former United States ambassa dor to Vienna, with the plaque and ribbon of .the highest class of the new Gratitude of France Order. Only the Queen of Belgium and Mrs. Sharp, wife of the former United States am bassador to Parts, have received the same decoration—the highest France can award to women. CON'tRETE SHIPS TO 1K USED FOR SALVAGING Concrete ships of extraordinary de sign are being built for the British Ad miralty to be used in raising merchant vessels sunk by the Germans near the coast of the United Kingdom. On a broad foundation, shaped like the hull of a ship, are placed a series of towers, constructed of hollow blocks and re enforced In such a manner as to be able to withstand great internal pressure. The towers are provided with water tight doors and pumps. These unusual vessels. Illustrated in the September Popular Mechanics Mag azine, are to be towed to the location of a sunken ship and lowered on either side of the wreck. Pivers will then at tach them to the wreck. When they are pumped out they are expected to rise to the surface, carrying the wreck with them. JUST 1.1 UK A (I.Kit lv "I've no doubt about this case," said the lawyer's clerk to his chief. "One look at that fallow over there convinces me that he is guilty." "Hush," said the lawyer, nervously. "That's the counsel for the defense."— From the Pallas News. MOTOR TRUCKS Williams Grove August 25-29 International motor trucks have proven their value for farm work to such a degree that there is very little doubt left in the mind of the average farmer but that International is the truck he wants. We will be glad to show you the Inter national next week at our exhibit at Wil liams' Grove. Crispen Motor Car Co. DISTRIBUTORS Salesroom Service Station 103 Market St. 27 N. Cameron St. TOURNAMENT FOR GIRLS PLANNEE Inter-Playground Tothcrbal! Championship Matches Will Close the Season J. K. Staples, playground super visor, for the closing week of the summer playground season, has ar ranged a team tetherball tourna ment for girls, the first to be held on the play plots. Each playground is to be repre sented by five players, two under It and two under 16 years of age. Five games are to be played by each player, matched against one from another playground, the one winning the majority of the five to be the winner of the match. The I majority of players winning for a | playground will place that play- I ground in the semifinal matchea. Most Popular Game Tetherball this year became one I of the most popular games for girls 1 and as all the other leagues have e.loscd the team tournament was j decided upon. On Monday the ! schedule will be: Emerald at Ma clay, Reily at Hamilton, Reservoir at Twelfth street. Sycamore at Pax tang, Harris at Penn. The winners in the first two scheduled games will meet on Tues day night, the winner of the Reser voir-Twelfth match, will play the Boas team, and the winners in the last two sets will pla-* each other. This elimination will continue until | one uptown and one downtown oe hill team remain, these two meet ing on Thursday evening for tuft championship match. Games will start promptly at 7 o'clock and the rules which have been followed throughout the sum mer will be used. SEES CRISIS IN RULE OF KOLCHAK tContinued from First Page.] his success or the triumph of thh Bolslveviki. • , Lack of Aid Hampers Lack of material aid from the Allies has been a tremendous handi cap for Kolchak, the report states, and this has led to friction between the military commanders of the Kol chak forces. Military authorities in Paris and here, however, agree that the Bolshevik! are making their last j desperate effort against the Kolchak ! troops and if they fail this time the I Soviet Government in Russia wljl collapse. Recognition of the Kolchak Gov ernment, if it succeeds in surviving the next 30 days, has been urged by Ambassador Morris, it is Understood. To make this recognition effective it is understood the ambassador lia3 urged that this Government be ready to assist in the negotiation of loans for the Siberian Government and to dispatch additional arms and am munitions and later food and cloth ing. 17
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