10 MERGER IS ON HIS WAY TO U.S. Tells How Telegraphic In quiry Prevented His Ar rest by Germans Parlo, Sept. 3. Cardinal Mercior, primate of Belgium, left Paris yester day for Brest, whence he will sail for the United States. Cardinal Mercler told the Associated Press that he was visiting America because, having been in contact with the great work of the Americans for relief of the Belgiuma during the great war, he wanted to thank them on their own aoil, and because he was glad to accept invitations received from virtually all the universities of America. The Cardinal added that the name of the Associated Press recalled to him one of the dramatic incidents of his experiences during the war. The Germans had threatened ;o arrest him. and policemen were even at his door ready to take him Into custody, when the German commander inter cepted a dispatch from the Associated Press to the cardinal, asking him if the Germans were arresting him on aecount of his public utterancc-s. "That telegram," said Cardinal Mer cler, "made the commander hesitate long enough for Berlin to reflect and think better of it." After the ruthless invasion of Bel gium by the Germans, Cardinal Mer cler at the close of the year 1914 Is sued his famous Christmas pastoral, In which he said Belgium was bound in honor to defend her independence. She has kept her word, he said; Ger many had broken her oath. Great Britain had been faithful to hers. Toward the invaders the Belgians owed no obedience. On the appearance 'of this pastoral the German military authorities took great offense and virtually placed the cardinal In durance at his palace at Malines. An effort was made to se cure a statement from him for the As sociated Press, and the message was transmitted to an Associated Press correspondent In Belgium. Ij response the following message was received: "January 10. 1915. "Von Bissing (then military gover nor of Belgium) wires has delivered to Cardinal Mercier Associated Press' NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO DRIVE OUT CATARRH It May Not Be Troubling You During the Warm Weather, But It is Still In Your Blood. Catarrh is not only a disgust ing disease but is a dangerous one. and you should never let up in your efforts to get it out of your system until you have done it thoroughly. Get rid of it, whatever it costs you in trouble and money. There is no use in permitting yourself to be deceived. Per haps, like thousands of others afflicted with Catarrh, you are about ready to believe that the disease is incurable, and that you are doomed to spend the remainder of your days hawk ing and spitting, with no relief in sight from inflamed and stopped-up air passages that make the days miserable and the nights sleepless. 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Palmer's Diive to Bring Down Living Costs in State Fails Philadelphia, Sept, 3. Almost a month has passed since the Gov ernment began its agitation against food hoarders and profiteers, but the cost of living in Philadelphia to-day, according to prominent merchants and experts, is as high as before if not higher. In this city the first instructions from the United States Attorney Gen eral to proceed with "vigorous ac tion" against the extorters were re ceived at the office of Francis Fisher Kane, United States District Attorney, August 7. Since that time nothing has been done by the De partment of Justice in this district that has had the slightest tendency to reduce the living cost. The only "action" taken by local Federal authorities thus far has con sisted of a seizure of quantities of chickens and calves from a storage warehouse two weeks ago on the charge that they had been kept in storage over the legal time. May Have Raised Prices The greater part of the stocks seized was fit for consumption, and it is the contention of some unbiased experts that this one lone outburst of activity on the part of the Depart ment of Justice may have increased rather than decreased the price of meat. If the Federal agents had left the meat in storage, they say, it might have been placed on the mar ket. By holding the foodstuffs the authorities to an extent are helping the profiteers in keeping prices at an abnormally high level. Negro Membership Left to Legion Post Members New York, Sept. 3.—Negro vet erans of the World War are eligible to membership in the American Le gion. but the composition of local posts and State organizations will be left to the members themselves, according to instructions made pub lic here yesterday by Henry D. Lindsley, chairman of the National Executive committee. Separate white and negro State organizations .each with representa tion in the national convention, the chairman said, were also feasible if it should be deemed necessary. I ing your Catarrh is gone. The | first touch of winter weather will bring it back with all of its discomforts. The blood is laden with the : Catarrh germs, which direct ' their attack against the tender I and delicate membranes of the j nose and throat. These germs ' cannot be reached by sprays or j douches, which, of course, have no effect whatever upon the ! blood. Mild weather will aid the ! treatment and this is an excell j ent time to thoroughly cleanse ' the blood of the germs of Ca tarrh and be forever rid of the troublesome sprays and douches that can only relieve you for the time. S. S. S. is a purely vegetable remedy, made from roots and herbs direct from the forest, I which combat promptly disease germs or impurities in the blood. 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Arrange ments for the reception of General Pershing and the parade of tho First Division of the Regular Army with the American Commander-in-chief at its head on next Tuesday were completed at a conference between Major General Shanks, commander of the port of embarkation, and the Mayor's reception committee. Gen eral Pershing's ship, the Leviathan, is expected to reach New York, next Sunday, or Monday, and from the time he lands until lie leaves for Washington a few days later, he will be the guest of the city of New York. In the First Division parade Gen eral Pershing will have for his staff all tho Generais who have com manded the famous unit since the declaration of war. They will in clude Major General William Sibert, who took the division overseas and later returned to take charge of the Chemical Warfare Service; Lieuten- | ant General Robert L. Bullard, who left the Division on July 12. I9IS, to take command of the second Army; Major General Charles P. Sumnierall, who succeeded General Bullard; Brigadier General Frank Parker, who relieved General Sum merall In October, and Major Gen eral E. F. McLachlin, the present commander, *- First Gun to Fire One of the most interesting fea- | tures of the parade will be the pres ence of the first American field gun fired in the great war and the first American gun borne on the front. These historic relics will be brought from Washington where they are being preserved as national sou venirs of the tremendous struggle. Another novel feature will be the present of the welfare workers who were attached to the division. At Division Headquarters it is esti mated that between 23,000 and 25,- 000 men will take part in the pa rade which will take five to six hours to pass a given point and will be 14 miles long. All former mem bers of the Division are invited to take part. They are requested to re port to headquarters two days before the pparade in order to draw the necessary equipment. Ist Division Lauded in Message From Capital Washington, Sept. 3. The record of the First Division furnishes "a splendid chapter in history," the , War Department said in an official message of greeting to the Division. "The War Department sends greetings to the First Division on its arrival home after a career and with a record unsurpassed by any division in the American Expedi tionary Force," said the message. "This superb command contains the finest types of American manhood— men whose services have been of incalculable value to the country. The record of this division furnishes a splendid chapter in American his tory and will always be dear to the hearts of all Americans." Willing Workers to Hold First Annual Reception The First Annual Reception of Mrs. McNeill's Willing Workers As sociation will be held in the Wes'.ey Union Church on Forster street to morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The evening will be spent in listen ing to the music of "Vennie's Or chestra," and the singing of a mix ed chorus under the direction of Mrs. Louise Williams. There will a'so be solos and readings by Emma Vennie. Sterling Grant, Alice Snead and Lester Woodson. William Qpreen, of the Plaza, and Henrv Sharp, of the Penn Harris will be in charge of the dinner arrange ments. The Willing Workers As sociation is the biggest community circle of the colored people of Hur risburg. The reception committee is com posed of Annie Davis, Helping Hand Club; Mary Jackson, Mooreland: Helen Williams, Willing Workers; Minnie Taylorr Emergency: Emma Wilson, Bishop Smith and Margaret Marshal, Leonidas. Clarence Wil liams, Regimental Sergeant-Major In the 92nd Division will be the head usher. Willis H. Johnson will be In charge at the door, where admission is to be nominal. Refreshments will be sold. The general committee is composed of Louise Johnson. Re becca Cuff. P.osa Henry, Fanny [Hurst, Annie Shaffer, Helen Swain, Elsie Cornick, Lulu Jackson. Alice Banks. Isabella Winters, Lizzie John son, Julia Rose. Fanny Queen, Ruth Henry. Virginia Motley. Mamie Pow ell. Lizzie Johnson, Mnzte Barnes, Catherine Jones, Alberta Henry. Sophie James. He'en Smith, Dora Cooper, Ella Simmons. Margie Man field Viola Nail. Bessie Sharp, Tonae Phillips. Sadie McCallahan. Willis H. Johnson, Harvey Ross. Charles Jones, Morris Motley, Milton W. Mercer William Spil'mnn, Lorenzo Royles, Henry Sharp. William Queen, Eugene Vennie, John Thomas, W. J. Powell, Lawrence Phillips, Pvts. Jackson, Harden, Corp. Cornick, and Sgt. Herman Barnes. WHOLESALE MARKET TO BE STUDIED The possibility of establishing a wholesale market for the sale of farm products will be considered at a meeting of farmers who have been attending city markets, to be hold on Saturday morning at 10.30 o'clock in the Chestnut Street Hall. Notice of the meeting has been is sued by County Farm Agent Nieslcy, a member of the recently-appointed committee of Donald McCormick. Guy Smith, director of the Slate Bureau of Markets, will be In at tendance and address the meeting. Mr. Smith has had a wide experi ence along these lines. Stanley G. Jean is chairman of the general committee considering the propo sition of establishing a wholesale market In this city. HIT BY Al'TO DIES IS HOSPITAL Struck by an automobile early yes terday morning George Rupp, of Shlre manetown, died last evening in the Harrlsburg Hospital. Rypp stepped from behind a truck In Camp Hill di rectly Into the path of a machine owned by Frank Payne. 1901 North Front street, and was knocked down, bis leg broken, and his face and scalp severely lacerated. Funeral arrange ments have not been announced. BACK HURT IN DIVE Although William J. Chambers, one of the three young men who dove from the Peoples' bridge Mon day landed on his back after his 110-foot plunge, he is none the worse for his experience, he de clared to-day. His back is wrenched slightly so he applied at the Har rlsburg Hospital for an examination ' to-day, but he declares he is feeling Quo. Gen. O'Ryan .Urges Citizen Army of Million and a Half Young Men Washington, Sept. 2.—Character izing a regular or professional army as "an absolute Institution" In which men enlist after they have failed in civil life and turn to It as an "asylum." Major General John F. O'Ryan, of the Twenty-seventh Division, proposed before the Senate Subcommittee on Military Affairs the creation of a citizen army of a million and a half men. He was giving his views on the administra tion's army bill. "I am opposed to any bill which ' will perpetuate a large standing I army." General O'Ryan said. He add- ; ed that he regarded as unnecessary a professional army except for duty on the border and a few minor pur poses. As for garrisoning the Philip pines and other insular possessions, he declared it was not only unneces sary but unwise since that was guard work essentially the part of the Navy. Criticising the character of tlie enlisted personnel of the profes sional Army he declared that such an army was "incapable of effici ency." General O'Ryan's plan for a citi zen army provides for three montli3' i training with one weekly drill for three years of 500,000 men and three years' service in the reserve. He said he would utilize all the of ficers of the National Guard ar.d National Army divisions that exisi- I ed during the war and as many of the men as would re-enlist with the ! understanding they would belong to their old organizations and these organizations would be perpetuated "with all their traditions." While the army he proposed, he said, would be national in character, its units would belong in a sense to tho different states to foster "locality prides." Living Cost Falling, Says . Armour; Predicts Great Drop of All Foods Later St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3.—"The crest in the high cost of living has been reached, prices have already started downward and will con tinue. The drop later will be con siderable," said J. Ogden Armour, the Chicago packer, in an interview here yesterday afternoon. "Not only will the products of the packers fall, but all other food stuffs will decline in price," said Mr. Armour. "Conditions now ooint to a considerable drop later on." i I Is Backache Wearing I |jj S suffer daily backache, dizziness, and sick | : '- r headache? You shouldn't! Too many g | folks drag along day in and day out, thus r look the kidneys which are likely at B EVery^U^ St fault. Weak kidneys cause many queer aches, pains and kidney irregularities. 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In urging adoption of the name, | speakers declared Ihe term Socialist had been discredited, and that the word communist fittingly expressed the revolutionary objects of the new political party. l'aitn-ii After Soviet The party will adopt a constitution, which, it is said, •.rill be patterned It rgely after that of the Soviet of the republic of Russia. Every men tion of the Russian Republic and Bol shevism was greeted with cheers. One of the first acts of the new par ity was to approve a plan for a gen eral strike in the United Slates on October 8 to compel release of Thomas J. Mooney, Eugene V. Debr and other alleged class war prisoners. It was docldeu to h )ld future meet ings in the Industrial Workers of tho World hall, several blocks away. This is to accommodate the increasing crowds, it was explained. "We want to get as far away as Ipossib e from the corpse," shouted ] one delegate, referring to tho Na- J tional Socialist party ulilch was in i session in a hall on an upper floor of the same building. Sing Soviet Songs Tho new party which claims to have representatives from every state In the Union at the convention, decided to use pnor.tigrrnn records of "The In ternational" and other Russian Soviet songs to spread the radical propagan da. Among the resolutions adopted was one demendirg the immediate with drawal of American t.-oops from Rus sia and Hungary. The communist group of ultra rad icals, recently expelled from the Na tional Socialist party, which is meet ing in another West Side hall, ex pects to form another political party before it adjourns at the end of the week. This faction consists of for j tlgn language Socialists and others | who regard the parent body and the ] left wing faction as too oonserva- I live. i OUTLET CLOTHING CO. 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Stone, prothonotary of the Supreme Court and former Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, last night pleaded for the adoption of the Covenant as a guarantee against lu- | ture wars. Speaking before members of the Wellsboro Walking Club, the former Governor insisted that petty differ ences which may arise in the Senate must not prevent the American public from viewing the Covenant in its true light and giving it an unbiased and intensive considera tion. ORANGE JvOPGES MEET Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—Three hun- dred delegates representing the Grand Orange Lodge of Pennsylva nia, Universal Loyal Orange Insti tute, began a two-day session hero yesterday. A Single Application Banishes Every Hair (The Modern Beauty) Here is how any woman can eas ily and quickly remove objection able, hairy growths without possible injury to the skin: Make a paste with some powdered delatone and water, apply to hairy surface and after 2 or 3 minutes rub off, wash the skin and the hairs are gone. 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