Commerce Chamber in
Position to Protect
Men From Imposters
The announcement that businessmen
of the city were swindled last summer
through the alleged machinations of a
man and woman who purported them
selves to be collectors of advertisements
for two local institutions actuated the
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce this
morning to call the attention of mer
chants and businessmen of the city to
the Chamber of Commerce ruling which
when properly applied prevents deal
ings such as are said to have swindled
the local merchants and afforded the
accused pair a rich haul in the city.
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce makes a careful investigation of
all solicitation schemes brought to its
attention and refuses to issue a permit
to the solicitors if the schemes do not
prove to be worthwhile from an invest
ment stand point for those who are
likely to be solicited.
The Chamber of Commerce this morn
ing also called the attention of chari
tably inclined merchnnts and business
men to the recent act of assembly which
forbids the soliciting of donations, sub
scriptions of money or other property,
or offering for sale anything to raise
money for any charitable, benevolent,
patriotic or private purpose, unless the
corporation or individual benefited holds
a valid certificate of registration with
the Public Hoard of Charities.
The provisions of the act do not apply
to any fraternal organization incor
porated upder the laws of Pennsylvania,
nor to any religious organization, school,
college, university labor union, muni
cipality or community organization. For
all legitimate charitable or patriotic
solicitations the State Hoard of Public
Charities will issue a certificate of reg
istration for a specified time. The as- !
sociatlon or individual benefited is re
quired to file seml-annualljCbeforo Feb
ruary 1 and August 1 an account of all
receipts and expenditures. The solici
tor must hold written authority from the
association or individual for which the
contribution is asked.
EXEMPLARY
Customer—But is he a good bird?
I mean I hope he doesn't use dread
ful language.
Dealer —'e's a saint lady. Sings
'yms beautiful. I 'ad some parrots
wot used to rwon r something atvful,
but, if you"' l believe me, this 'ere
bird convert " e lot.—Hondon Tit-
Bits.
G. E. Brestle
Undertaker
HABRISBURG OFFICE
1745 N. 6th St.
Also Middietown, Pa.
Botli Phones, Day and Night
MEDICAL
DOCTORS
One Month's Service Free
(Medicines and Vaccines)
Excepted to*all who call hefore 8
o'clock Wednesday Night, November
26 th.
1, Seat of Catarrh, Nose and.
Throat.
2, Eustachian Tube Catarrh causes
deafness, noises, vertigo, etc, |
3, Catarrh, Throat,
4, Catarrh, Larnyx,
6, Catarrh, Bronchial Tubes, Bron
chitis, Asthma, etc,
7, Cavities in Dung, Dangerous
condition,
H, Dung cavity and Grave State,
9, Infiltrated Dung.
10, The stomach, which Is a com.
nion seat of Catarrh, making
thousands miserable by Indiges
tion, Dyspepsia, Constipation,.
Nervous Disease, etc,
THE EAR AND ITS
INSIDE
If yoii ara troubled with deafness,
bead poises, or discharging ears,
consult us regarding your condition,
JUienipatism Neutritis, Neural-,
gio, Swollen, (tore and ptiff Joints,
ana a'l Rheumatic Alfeetions,
Kidneys —Diseases of the kidneys
and bladder, Pain in back,
Stomach —Chronic and Catarrhal
condition of the stomach, Gustritis,
Dyspepsia.
files —Fistula, Pruritis, Prolapse,
and ail diseases of the rectum,
S|in Diseases?* Eruption, Blotches,
Tetter, ftoaly Affections and all dis
eases Pf the skin,
Nervous Diseases, Epilepsy,
Fnrea, Insomnia, NeurisUlenla and
diseases r>t the nervous system,
Office Rours, 18 p. m. to la noon,
a to 4 p : m-, and mo to a night.
Sundays 13 tP 9 Pflly, (jpcfltal hours
fop ladips, 3 tp <i lady attendant.
jqßlf, if yon ean't call during the
day call evenings 6,86 to 8,
OFFICES, 329 Market St.
Second Floor, Harrisburg, Pa.
Main Office: Philadelphia, Pa, 1
MONDAY EVENING, f
YOUNGSTERS OF STEELTON SCHOOL TO GIVE PLAYLET
ChiMf in of the Slfcie wehool Build
ing will present "Mrs. Murphy's Mince
Pies" in the school auditorium this
evening at 7.45. The cast of charac
ters includes:
Miss Green, teacher in the boarding
school, Dora Kinderman; Dorothy
Ann, a naughty pupil,Araminta Gully;
Fairy Queen, Dnrot!%' Pettibone; at
tendants, Myrtle Davis and Helen
Buyer; Alinee Pies, Cleo McArthur,
Erma Swarr, Nola Faust, Geraldine
Butts, Ruth Gastrock, Sara Mae Ein
WETS CONFIDENT
SO ARE THE DRYS
Question of Constitutional Prohibition Causes an Outburst
of Opinions and CounteirfOpinions
JANUARY 16, 1920, is the. date
ofHcially proclaimed by thte De
partment of State upon which
constitutional prohibition is sched
uled to take effect.
Upon that date this nation "Will"
become bone dry, says the New? York
Anti-Saloon Reague through W.~ H.
Anderson, its superintendent. Upon
that date the United States "may"
become bone dry, says Deputy
United States Attorney Earl H.
Barnes. Upon that date the United
States "will not" become bone dry,
says Theodore Bell, chief counsel
for the Grape Growers Protective
Association of California. Between
these three opinions there is a wide
latitude.
The prohibition forces of the
country say that the United States
went on a prohibition basis the mo
ment thirty-six States had certified
their ratification of what is known
as the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Federal Constitution. Thirty-eight
States, through their respective
legislatures, had ratified the pro
posed amendment up to Jan. 16,
1919, the prohibition forces assert.
Throw out Ohio, they declare, and
the result will not be changed; the
amendment stands adopted as of
Jan. 16, 1919, by three-fourths of
the Stages of the Union.
The wet forces, represented by
Devi Mayer, Chicago attorney, insist
that the result of the referendum
election in Ohio on Nov. 4. by'which
the legislative ratification of the
amendment was disavowed by 542
popular votes, opens the door to
similar referendum elections in
twelve other States which have also
ratified the amendment but whose
constitutions provide for a referen
dum vote on any question demanded
In a petition Initiated by a qualified
number of electors.
The twelve States are California,
Oregon, Washington, Wyoming,
Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, Co
lorado, Kansas, Maine and Arizona.
Forty-five States in all have rati
fied through their respective legis
latures, the amendment, but In the
case of seven the action was taken
after Jan. 16.
Wots Need Ten States
The wots Insist that prohibition
cannot take eftoct until all of the
referendum States shall have had
an opportunity to vote upon tho
ratification of their legislatures, and
thnt if ton of the roferondum States
veto rejection the nmondment will
he inoperative, because It would not
be adopted,
The wets also assort that tlilrty-
HEALTH CLOWN COMING TO UARRISBVRG
M
Jt*"* hfi<i L th ft®*"* peeured by the Anti-Tuberculosis So
ciety of Dauphin county, to come to Harrisburg during the opening week
n*} jL *TS °* >ristmaa Heai campaign, wjlf make a number of
addresses at public health meetings to be held b* Binning December 8
(.no-Cho is a real circus clown, and is sfiown a*>'Jue with a backet of
fresh vegetables and fruit and a bottle of milk. health hints are
rhilH wlit now by thousands of residents of {fSegw York where the
culosisanl'maZSr COndUOting tt m,cceBs ' u " fiht ***•* tuber-
zlg: Words, Goblins, Paul Mc-
Caulej , Donald Jenkins, Eldridge
Zeiglep, Roy Hong, James Hotz. Mer
vin Hunk, Charles Black, Charles
Yingst. Calvin Hurst; French Doll,
Helen' Moore; Butterfly, Elizabeth Ja
cobytJummer Breezes, Helen Swartz,
Maryrjiiitzniiller. Mildred Jacobs, Mil
dred /lioban; Jack Frost, Kenneth, Ty
son ; iiuow!lakes, Marian Beatty, Eve
lyn 3 loffman, Dorothy McCaslin,
Gracul Bisline, Edna Mae Buckwalter,
Anna (Margaret Hoy, Mary Catherine
{ six Stdtts must bo shown to have
adopted the amendment by legis
lative (ratification at the time when
the Department of State proclaimed
its adaption. None of the thirteen
referenidaim States, the wets hold,
can construed to have adopted
the anwendment until the people
themselves shall have voted upori
the question, which "has not been
done except in Ohio.
In Washington a referendum has
been petitioned for and denied by
the Suppeme Court of that State;
in Coloinado the Secretary of State
has refused to accept a referendum
petition, and is now being sued in
mandanUus proceedings; suits of a
similar inature have been brought
in other "Western states.
SpeaWUng of the matter as it now
stands, "five Anti-Saloon Dengue says
that any decision on war time pro
hibition iatrad the Volstead act to en
force itfe provisions will have no
bearing onf .national prohibition un
der the" 1 " Eighteenth Amendment,
since that', amendment has already
been read by the Department of
State into, the Federal Constitution.
The cr*lx of the prohibition matter
is: Will rtfiie United States go dry on
Jan. 16, 11920, in accordance with
the official, proclamation?
TherenliS no certainty that it. will,
and thenefis no certainty that it will
not. certainty is that the.
interests .opposing national prohi
bition willtinvoke the referendum in
the states whose constitutions pro
vide -fr 'a reference of legislation
to the voters.
I)rys Admit Possible Delays
The prohibition forces admit that
there is possibility of delay in the
enforcement of national Jtrohibitlon
if the courts of the referendum
staVs order a referendum vote
within their Jurisdictions. The anti
prohibitionists contend that the en
forcement of? national prohibition is
now a mattfer solely for the courts
to decide.
In the (matter of was time pro
hibition tlrrpe cases are now pending
in tho Fexleral Supreme Court at
Washington, to be argued Nov. 24.
These cases attack the validity of
war time prohibition, principally on
tho broad ground that the emer
gency udr which the act was
passed by-Congress no longer exists,
and that it was a military measure
to aid in the mobilization and gov
ernment of an army called Into
being for a. /specific purpose.
On the Aground that there Is no
longer unjCpwrpose for the existence
of war timei prohibition, especially
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
•Gourley, Mary Hanawalt; Sleigh
Bells. Charles Reeser, Edgar Martin,
Kelsey Robinson, Luther Righter,
Harold Boldosser. Merle Bowman,
Donald IJeibler, Emerson Holtzman;
Children of Dong Ago, Irene Wagner,
Helen McCurdy, Bennie Hofstat, Rob
ert Albright; Flower Fairies. Marga
ret Moore, Mary Rathfon, Catherine
Wert, Helen Gaverick, and Margaret
Miller; Slumber Fairies, May Clark,
Edna Scholbin, Elizabeth Black, and
Ruth Deters.
J in view of President "Wilson's recent
utterance that the war was vir
tually at an end, the prohibitionists
believe that the Federal Supremo
Court will authorize pre-war liquor
regulations in states that were wet
when war time prohibition was en
acted.
In the matter of constitutional
prohibition it is the referendum
upon which the anti-prohibitionists
pin their hopes with respect to re
storing former liquor regulations.
But the drys insist that the refer
endum is immaterial because the
I Federal Constitution provides that
an amendment "shall be valid to all
I intents and purposes when the
| Legislatures of three-fourths of the
I several States shall have ratified the
; amendment."
Reading Quiet After
Citizens Halt a Mass
Meeting of Radicals
By Associated Press.
Reading, Pa.. Nov. 24. —After a
night of excitement as the result of
determination of citizens to prevent
a mass meeting, Reading calmed down
to-day and confidence was expressed
that no more attempts would be made
by alleged radicals to stir up unrest
in this city.
Much credit was given to the ener
getic measures taken by Mayor E. H.
Filbert, not only in calming the big
crowd that surrounded the headquar
ters of the Socialists last night, but
in having the meeting called off.
Socialists including James H„ Mau
ler, president of the Pennsylvania
Federation at Labor, had advertised
a meeting at;which the Rev. Irvin St.
John Tucker, of Chicago, was expect
ed to speak ion the amnesty of politi
cal prisoners in defiance of the city
authorities who had forbidden the
gathering. This defiance resulted in
an open air mass meeting in the after
noon at which the determination was
reached to prevent the Socialists'
meeting.
Five thousand persons gathered at
the Socialist headquarters in the eve
ning, and the threatening attitude of
the big crowd caused the meeting to
be called off. Mayor Filbert addressed
the crowd from a balcony of the head
quarters and counseled calmness.
Several hundred cx-servlce men then
marched past the building, the Social
ists hung an American flag from the
window and the crowd slowly dis
persed.
FINK ROADS
"How are the roads in this sec
tion?"
"Fine," replied Farmer Corntusscl,
"We've abolished bad roads",
"Big Job, wasn't it?"
"Not nt all. Wherever the going
Is 'specially hard, wo don't call it
a 'road.' We call it a 'detour.' "
Washington Star.
TO HOLD I'llS SOCIAL
The Ladies' Aid Boeloty of the
Camp Hill Methodist Church will
hold a pie social at tho Fellowship
building of the churoli to-morrow
afternoon, Lunch will he served at
the building between 4 and 8
o'clock. All sorts of pies and soup
by the quart will bo sold,
MANY UKASONIi
Mr, Lovelost—ls there any sense
of reason for your marrying old Mr.
Mu'tlrox? |
Miss' Malnehance—There are a
million reasons and each one worth
a hundred cents.—Houston Post,
FOR ill ECZEMA
Apply Zemo the Clean, An
tiseptic Liquid—Easy to Use
—Does Not Stain
Greasy salves and ointments should
not be applied if good clear skin is
wanted. From any druggist for 35c, or
sl.oofor large size, get a bottle of Zcmo.
When applied as directed it effectively
removes eczema, quickly stops itching,
and heals skin troubles, also sores,
burner wounds and chafing. It pene
trates, cleanses and soothes, Zemo is
a clean, dependable and inexpensive,
antiseptic liquid. Try it, as we believe
nothing you have ever used is as effect
ive ana satisfying.
71* &W. Rose Co.. Cleveland, 0.
Honor "Suicide Club"
For Removing Mines
By Associated Press.
New York, Nov. 24. The United
States navy's "suicide club"—3ooo of
ficers and men of 50 sweepers just
returned from the perilous task of
clearing the North sea of mines—was
honored to-day by high officials of
the navy and city.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels and
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, com
mander of the flotilla, reviewed the
craft in the Hudson this morning.
The flagship Black Hawk, fired the
secretary's salute as the reviewing
destroyer passed.
Reports of the officering of the flo
tilla showed that the sweepers, sub
chasers and trawlers succeeded in re
moving 50.000 mines planted in an
area of 250 square miles of the North
sea. The work began on April 20,
1919, and did not end until September.
The officers and men risked death
every minute during their work. Some
of the little craft were injured by ex
plosives and many*of the men were
injured.
The well known "Farmerette"
spontaneously produced through the
necessities of war, has by no means
passed out of existence, at least so
far the enrollment figures in the
School of Agriculture nt the Penn
sylvania State College are concerned,
Miss Margaret A. Knight, Dean of
Women at the college, has just made
the announcement that no less than
twenty-four enthusiastic young wom
en are enrolled in the various agri
cultural courses there, preparing
themselves to go "back to, the farm"
and manage it according tb the most
aproved and up-to-date scientific
methods.
But not all of these some-day
reul "farmerettes" liail from the na
tive soil, for about half of them
live in large towns and cities, and
doubtless received the incentive to
study scientific agriculture through
"doing their bit" on the farms near
their homes during the war. The
gq-lH enrolled tn agriculture arc:
1 landscape Gardening—Miss Elsie
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Dress Up For B jfl
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'MI Jnifr winter coats reduced to $32.75 and
■ M p / Jt l featured as a Thanksgiving special only.
gS ■■ the average $4O or $45 values. In this selection are suits and
SB| coats of every new material, color and style, a great many of which |H H
|H are handsomely fur trimmed. Remember, you can charge it
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B I T for Men and Young Men B '
I A wonderful array of stylish suits and over- C Sgo 00
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■ r ijli | ' store for real values. ' Very fine fabrics full of llftl
I warmth and wear. A mighty broad ranee of
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Well made sturdy suits —in cheviots, shade. Made of
cassimeres, worsteds, serges and corduroys. very fine quality
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lilliDlill^
F. Claire, Philadelphia; Miss Olga
Yerger, Patton,
Agricultural Education Miss
Anna E. Morgan, Philadelphia.
Horticulture Miss Katlierine
Baer, North Wales; Miss Mary Mum
ford, Philadelphia; Miss Agnes New-
I man, Waynesboro.
! Agronomy—Miss Emily Gray,
HARRISBURG'S GREATEST
#Pr TOY STORE
sl?'\\)s A Store Full of Toys
J I)/ Hundreds of Toys
ML 'J/ ) Toys That Swing- and Wiz and
Spin and Fly
See the new "Yankey Tank" at work
Building Toys, Musical Toys, Housekeeping Toys
and DOLLS—DOLLS—DOLLS
Hoffman's Toy Store
32 S. 4th St. Near Chestnut St. /qQ
NOVEMBER ;24, 1919.
Philadelphia; Miss Virginia Percy,
Prospect.
Agriculture, including those girls
in the two lower classes who have
not yet chosen their special
branches: Miss Josephine Hollings
worth, Ardmore; Miss Margaret L.
Still, Eliznbeth, N. J.; Miss Marie
Atkinson, Highland Park; Miss Eve
lyn Bond, Collegevlile; Miss liattie
Cretghton, Hammeraley Park;
Aileen M. Fell,' Beaver; Miss 'Ger*
trude Rheinhelmer, Germania, and
Miss Marguerite Houser, Meadville.
Two T#ar Course —Miss Marion
D. Snyder, Wllktnsburg; Miss Mar-
Jorie Graf, Cynwyd; Miss Marion
lllingsWorth, State College; Miss
Ruth Millqr, Waynesboro.
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