16 POOR EYESIGHT CAUSES TRUANCY Campaign Is I ntlor N\ y to Aid Low Visionotl Children The delinquent, nine times out of ten, is the defective. If your young offspring prefers fishing: to the halls of learning, if he lacks the avid thirst for knowledge which as the son of an intellectual father he should be expected to show, the chances are the cause is not just cussedness, hut perhaps* detlcient eyesight. Many and variously dire are the results of optical imperfection. Not only truancy and tiie want of am bition. but disturbances of the di gestion. stupidity and eveu convul sions may be caused by abnormal organs of sight. At the animal meeting of the Na- Heals Running Sores and Conquers Piles Also Stop. \lt lldiinc of Eczema Almost Immediately "T felt it my duty to write veil a letter of thanks for your wonderful Peterson's Ointment. I had a running sere on my left leg for one year. I began to use Peterson's Ointment three weeks ago and now it is healed."—A. C. Gilbrath, 703 Reed Street, Erie, Pa. I'd rather get a letter like that, says Teterson of Buffalo, than have John D. Rockefeller give nie a thou sand dollars. It does me a lot of good to be able 1o be of use to my fellow man. ..For years I have been selling through druggists a large box of PETERSON'S OINTMENT for 35 cents. The healing power in this ointment is marvelous. Eczema goes in a few* days. Old sores heal up like magic; piles that other remedies do not seem to even relieve are speed ily conquered. It stops chafing in five minutes and for scalds and burns It is simplv won derful. Mail orders filled bv Peter"n Ointment Co., Inc., Buffalo.'x. Y. , our favorite smoke can be had at your favorite place at the same old price of Seven Cents. King Oscar Cigars are sustaining their 27-year-old reputation for quality and in creased production is trying to keep up with increasing favor. , • At all dealers. J. C. Herman & Co. Harrisburg, Pa. " 3 w* MdJVdousTone jjj\ I VV7HEN the young folks come visiting, |j§jf jjojj VV-^ ust^ kick the ru gs aside and "on oughly enjoy the latest waltz or one-step JvVX if . its played upon the VITANOLA, the ■owl Phonograph of marvelous tone— because it Xj\ IVY/) plays dance music well. Aji I© Latest VITANOLA Models % If YOHN~BRoC | 13 N. Fourth St. VX Across From Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart SjlrA '(0)% Opr Kvrninßm I mil thrift <nmx I Plays ALL Records - Natural as life <*W| vx THURSDAY EVENING, tional Committee for the Prevention of Blindness Dr. Thomas 1). Wood, of Columbia University, chairman of the Joint Committee oil Health Problems in Kducation of the Na tional Council of the National Kdu cation Association and of the Amer ican Medical Association, brought o\it, too, t tie tragedy of the fact that in only a small proportion o the live or seven millions ot' sehoo. children with vision defects have these defects been recognized soon enough to prevent more or less pet muneiit. detrimental consequences. The child who sees only partially is being given mure attention ol late than of yore. The general tendency has been until recently to divut school children into two classes, the seeing and the blind, and the see ing. however little they saw, * ia '' e been expected to compete in the school room with the normal visioneil child. The result was discourage ment and finally lack of interest. Now there are being formed throughout the United States, the Philippines, Cuba. Porto Rico. Mex ico. .Canada and China what are called "sightsaving classes." for which tevt books are printed in headline sized type. These hooks for the low-visioned child are expensive, and because there is not the sentimental appeal in a child who sees at all that there is in the blind the public has not. so far., e ontributed lavishly for the benefit of the partially blind child, although they outnumber the blind four to one. Keeping: the low-visioned school graduate out of "dead end jobs Is another ntw. good work. Positions are found for them in which tne> are least handicapped and in which there is least eve-strain. Winterdale Dances Waring's Pep Instrumental and Vocal Orchestra OF TYRONE MALE QUARTET anil Two Soloists THI RS., FRI. AND SAT. EVES. DECEMBER 4, 5. 6 Admission 50c and 75c One of Nineteen Held in Election Fraud Pleads Guilty Brand Haplds, Mich-. Dec. 4. Twenty defendants, many of them prominent in the official life of Mich igan, appeared before Judge C. W. Sessions in Federal court yesterday to plead to indictments charging cor ruption. fraud and conspiracy in connection with the (lection of Truman H. Newberry, United States Senator from Michi gan. With one exception, the defend ants. who include a prominent • ■'.ergyriian, either stood mute or pleaded not guilty and were re leased on SI,OOO bait. Willis A'. Capron, of Frankfort. Mich, pleaded guilty to three, of six counts dealing with activities in the primary campaign. Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss A fourteen-year-old boy,- of New Tork City, writes me this*. "P am much interested in astron omy. To get my friends together so that X could teach them aud they could ask questions. 1 have started a club which I have called the Jun ior Astronomy Club. It is getting along tine, and we meet about three times a week, in a good place where we chn see the whole sky. I teach them what 1 have learned, but two things I- don't understand: (I) What are the rings of Saturn made of? and Is there a planet farther away than Neptune?" 1 should like to see a hundred or'a thousand such clubs as young Edward Maeaughey's Junior Astron omy Club, but since it will probably be a long time before they come into existence—after mankind has grown considerably wiser than it is at present—let me do what I can for this unique example. The resolution to met out of doors. I 'n a good place to see the sky. was j an admirable way of beginning. Yon must start with the stars, with the tun and the moon and the meteors, and a comet whenever one is on view.' The mathematics can wait, and one can do a great deal in as ! tronomy with very little mathe j matics. The first thing is to lift I both the eyes and the minds of the | observers to the sky. It is amazing (how little attention the vast major ity of men and women give to the I marvelous celestial spectacles dis played for them every clear night. If they notice the heavenly bodies at all it is only with regard to their terrestrial aspects. What I mean is this: Take Mark Twain's splendid stories of the ad ventures of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn." That fasci nating pair are frequently out un der the midnight moon, or the twinkling stars, but they never think of them except as shedders of more or less light on the dark and devi ous' - way of "Tom Sawyer's Gang." Their author made them, in this respect, as in so many others, ab solutely true to uninstructed human nature. Nobody looks at the moon as ln i teresting in itself, but only as a beautiful, skiey ornament of the night. Even the poets go no higher: •'The dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the skv. Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And manv an oak that grew there by." That is very beautifnl from an earthly viewpoint, and it pictures perfectly the ordinary impression that the moon with its light makes on people. It is the complaisant, sensuous, self-limited satisfaction and appreciation that cat has when lying on a Persian rug tinder a golden lamp before a comfortable tire, all these things being as naught except insofar as they contribute to her enjoyment. If you are going to teach astron omy you must make your students comprehend the interest that the heavenly bodies have in and by themselves. Explain whatever re lations they have with the earth, of course, but above all explain what they themselves are and make plain the fact that the earth is but a small affair in comparison with the majority of them. The moon is an attendant of the earth, though she has had a wonderful career of her own: the sun is the master of the earth: the stars are other suns, many of which are hun dreds and even thousands of times mightier than our sun. I once knew a man who protest ed against "this astronomical talk about the littleness of the earth." He didn't like it. He said that the earth, because it is the home of man. is really the biggest thing in the universal That Is like the king of a cannibal island, located in the midst of a vast ocean, sneer ing at and. from a safe distance, boastfully defying the great civil ized nation, far beyond the horizon, rumors of whose existence have come to his ears. "This is the cen ter of the world." says the king of the little island, "for am I not here!" Tt is not a good plan to lead your learners to suppose there are beings like us dwelling among the multitude of the stars. We know nothing about the inhabitants of the star depths: and it is not nec essary to speculate about them be cause the starry systems are so immeasurably vast and splendid that in themselves, in their won derful organization, in the varying colors of their members, in the evidence which they show of evolu tionary development, in the amaz ing grandeur that many of them have attained, they must make us tremblingly grateful that God has a thought to spare for so minute a cosmic speck as the earth! The rings of Saturn are evidently composed of vast numbers of small bodies, something like meteors, circling in an endless swarm around the planet. It Is not positively known that there is a planet beyond Neptune, but certain irregular movements of Neptune suggest that there Is an outer planet pulling upon it ENTERTAINS AT EVENING New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 4. East night Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Mc- Cfbe entertained at their home in Third street. The rooms were at tractively decorated with Christmas greens. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. Glenn Flckes, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Miller and son, Richard,, of Harris burg. POSTMASTER GETS DEER Oakvillc, Pa., Dec. 4. —D. Ray mond Fogclsanger, Postmaster at t.his place, shot a t point buck weighing irso pou ids, Monday morn ing near Miltrr',4 Sand Rank In the region of Shippensburg. Fogel sanger claims to have shot the first deer of the sofoon. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEWSY JOTTINGS OF THEATER AND SCREEN ORPHKUM . ; io-niglit only—George Broadhurst! | presents "She Walked In Her 1 bleep. a farce of a thousand laughs. . To-morrow and Saturday—"Cinde-; l'ella.' benefit of the Sunshine So-i ; ctety. : n S—lrvln S. Cobb's famous play. | i .i v . s AVill Be Boys." adapted from! I the .Saturday Evening I'ost story of! , the same name. I ! ru .AT, " ext . Thursday—"Oh! What a . uiri. l Positively the greatest inu sieal comedy of the season. I , , MAJESTIC cl\.. K . rad r yaudeville—Mullen and. ,w ° versatile comedians in. a novelty offering: four other Keith! acts and the tlrst episodes of "The White Secret '" featuring Pearl I Starting next .Monday and running! burg*"' "Who's Who in Harris-f „„ , COIXJNIAT. I,,V' p, to J? , ?C r, I ,w ,ind Saturday—' ■\t i ickford in "in Wrong." Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of "'n, Constance Talma.ige in Ihe I irtuous Vamp." ■ VICTORIA To-dav and all this week—Double at traction: "The Mystery of the Yel-i ■? w S 0o ?\ and the "rat two-reel iiTiV E Io >'d comedy, "Bumping into Broadway. \J1 d o? ' Tuesday and Wednesday—l William larnum in "Wings of "the Morning.' Thursday, Friday and Saturday of! nr. . .? re ''. k —.Anita Stewart in Mind the Paint Girl." _ . REGENT To-day. to-morrow and Saturday—l £?, Üb K a . t T actiou: Wallace Reid'in! „f;he Aalley of the Giants" and ' alty Arbuckle in "The Hav seed. ' | M V,!l day, J Tueaday. Wednesday and rhursday of next week—Oer&ldine larrar with I/OU Tellegen in "The! 1 lame of the Desert." "irrOttS' DID TOMORROW i I the endorsement of Presi- • deut Wilson. Actors'. Day to-morrow! promises to be a huge success. The Artists Fund of America is making a one-day drive in the theaters throughout the United States for $1,000,000. this money to bo used tot further their work of caring for old and dependent actors. The actors of I tho. American stage, thousands of! them, have added a wonderful story | to America's part in the war. More ; than 1.500 of them went overseas, withott pay, as entertainers to hole! keep the doughboys in good spirits.. Collectively they gathered several i million dollars in various war drives) and campaigns. They are now going' to he repaid but in an unusual man ner. A large percentage of all the I money taken in at the local Wilmer and Vincent theaters to-morrow twill i be donated to this fund. The fund was started thirty-six years ago and since that time has provided homes for thousands of destitute actors who have fallen in ill health or are too! old for further stage service. GOES TO WEST VIRGINIA FOR MISICAI, COM 10$' I C, Floyd Hopkins, general manag. r. of the Wilmer and Vincent interests! in Marrisburg, went to Martinsburg, I West Virginia, yesterday to make ar- I rangements with the Billie Allen Mu sical Comedy Company, who have: been presenting some wonderful mu sical comedies this season, to arrange their latest show for a vaudeville of- ! fering. The vaudeville offering is to be on the same order of those pre-1 sented by the Jimmie Hodge com pany. In case Mr. Hopkins makes negotiations the offering will bo | played in every Wilmer and Vincent theater in the State, including Har-1 risburg. JACK PICKFOni) IN "IN WRONG" Jack Pickl'ord starts a. three-day. run uV the Colonial Theater to-day in ! his latest starring vehicle. "In! Wrong.'' This picture Is a sure fire cure for the bluee and Is bound, it is j said, to set the most sedate, fans < roaring with laughter. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of next 1 week. Constance Talmodge, star of j numerous laugh rollicking comedy farces, will be offered in "The Vir-1 tuous Vamp." GERAI.DINK F ARK An COMING TO THE REGENT A notable cast appears with Ger- | aldine Farrar in her greatest tri umph. "Flame of the Desert." which will be shown at the Regent Theater the first four days of next week.] Foremost in the supporting cast is ; her husband. Hou Tellege.n. Harris-j burg audiences need no introduction to either of these celebrated stars. Macey Harlam. who will be remem bered for his performance with Mar jorie Rambeau in "Eyes of Youth." | and also for his appearances in "The i Wanderer" and "The Yellow Ticket." I i another noted star who appears in this photoplay. Edythe Chapman and Alec Francis are w ell known to ; local screen followers. The Housekeeper With Full Bins —is not worrying about the! appointment of a United States Fuel Administrator and the in troduction of war restrictions to meet the situation created by the, coal strike and the scarcity of coal in many communities. Everyone was advised to fill their bins when there was enough to go around. There is still an ample supply if house keepers get what they need to i see them through the Winter without further delay. The future is most uncertain. : H. M. Kelley & Co. 1 N. 3rd St. 10th & State Sts. tUHUnEBBK ' ' The Improved Way of Absolutely soluble, pure, j faking Coffee |I ll| coffee-always YOU would not use sugar cane in place of sugar, a . so why use old-fashioned coffee? G.Washington's fJ* . Ml j Coffee is refined from the coffee bean, just as sugar a A M * /^FT^A is refined from the sugar cane. It is the new im- I 'V . A *— —> >4 /jf'- '-IhWL proved way of making coffee- G. Washington's X M X fJ/ Jj JgT M r a * ' aM /j1 ! 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Hundreds of loeac people are well known to these moil as they considered Harriaburg their second home and always played the lirst engagement here when they had a new act, as they considered llarris hurg's vaudeville patrons a repre sentative audience and when Itarfis burg liked the sjiow. New York was bound to acclaim it. It is probably due to the interest and criticism of local vaudeville patrons in the early days that ever macje De Mille and l.asky household names to anyone when speaking of motion pictures. Although "Male and Female" is the greatest picture thus far produced this season. Mr. I>e Mille is anxious to know just what Hnrrisburgers and his former friends, will think of his latest contribution to the silver screen. MYSTKKY PICTUHK DItAWS II IK <*ltO\YD< "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" has been drawing enormous crowds at tho Victoria Theater this week, and has entertained them highly. This picture is of the mystery type and baffles nil attempts at solution. Fohpled with this attraction the lirst two-reel. SIOO,OOO comedy ever made by Harold J'iloyd is being shown, en titled "Bumping into Broadway." Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week William Farnum, the highest salaried actor in America, will be shown- in "Wings of the Morning." REGENT Today, Tomorrow and Saturday DOUBLE ATTRACTION WALLACE REID 'THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS' A picture of majestic power, of blood-stirring conflict, of tender appeal to the heart. You will find plenty laughs in seeing "FATTY" MMCKIE In his new comedy, "THE HAYSEED" Monday MPVT \\T IT 17 V Tuesday Wednesday 1 WLI LJ Thursday GERALDINE FARRAR Supported by her husband, LOU TELLEGEN J in "THE FLAME OF THE DESERT" Plan now to see Geraldine Farrar's greatest triumph. Better than "The World and Its Woman." Played one week at the Stanley Theater, Philadelphia, at high prices. A more costly production than any of the other great Farrar suc cesses. TAKE A FLIGHT IN THE AIR on our Canadian Cartlss Airplane. Sensational /nul healthful. One flight in our Airplane gives as miieh joy mul happiness as a six months' vacation. We are flying daily. Competent fljrer. ( In case you desire taking a special trip, call Hell 4931. A TRADER V I A , , \ \ We teach aeroplane operating, piloting ami construction, automobile mechanism, wireless telegraphy and radio telephone. Write for particulars. ALIO &. AIvKOI'LAMI MECHAMCAI, SCHOOI, Ilell 4831 llttrrlnburg Aerodrome Dlnl SOOti Olficc: 25 ,\. Cameron St., Uarrishurg, Pa. WIIE.V II Mllll I.EI I.V , PASSED Til 10 HAT "Do you know what 'buskin* Is?"! Harry Kelly asked 4 the interviewers lately. w The chief funmaUer in the' Messrs. Sliubert's latest musical | comedy, "Oh! What, a Girl." whhiit will be the attraction at the Orpheuiu next Thursday night, sat in his dressing room, wearing his rural i make-up. his ancient %frock coat ami trusty "plug" hat, awaiting his cue. " Buskin.' let'me explain." he con tinued. "is just another term for passing the hut. Ami that's the way I earned my lirst salary as a come dian when i was t n years "id. I ana three other hoys about the same age I decided we'd get up a quartet, and ■we went down to t oncy Island, and other outdoor places to try our luck with the crowds. Often we had to walk home, but that experience cer l tainlv did create an early appetite for the stage that has stuck to nie like a i elation in distress ever since. "At any rate, it wasn't any worse than my school day experiences. Nothing could have been worse. 1* or I was thrown out of every school on .the Frist Side of New York, where I was born I remember how my pool old grandmother used to cry to get I them to take me hack. She would scrub my face bright and shinv i\ l in ; laundry soap, and then lead me uatK to school where she would plead with (the teachers to give me anotner I thancp. But I continued going to the ! bow-wows. 1 was always fat ino !' j interested in stray dogs than in school books. I used to pick up all the lame and one-eyed mongieis jeould find and bring tlmm liome. l wasn't allowed to bring them into the house. Instead. 1 w<Mlld .lit. around outside on the steps with them, and I'm sure they 'V n-fa or sympathy for me as 1 bad tor them." jF.mv IKBUKLK AMI ' WAI.I.ACK HI M) AT HBChl I I "Fattv" Arbuckle will share t • honors if the double altratUonattlie i Resent Theater to-day. to-moi row 'and Saturday with Wallace Retd. Ih< celebrated comedian will -The Hayseed.'.' his n ewe stole lure 1 which was written and dir. i ted DECEMBER 4, 1919 " Fatty' himself. u l,s been rated a* a genuine laugh maker. Nt allure lleid will be seen lit ills newest Parnmount-Arteraft picture. "The Valley or the Giants.' It h.\ been said that this charming photo play will transport the spectator into the land of the bis;- redwoods of noithem California. The photography hua been especially praised. ORPHEUM THEATER -Tif cur *gg> KJ MM Mmd Performance WALKED IN HER SLEEP TIIK MOST BEAUTIFULLY (it)WXKI) SHOW IN AMERICA FRIDAY—DEC. 5. 6—SATURDAY MATIXEE SATOKI>.\V CINDERELLA BENEFIT SUNSHINE SOCIETY SEATS NOW SEI.I.INti Prices—.">oc, SI.OO, $1.50, $2.00 MAJESTIC THEATER TODAY. TOMOKKOW AND SATURDAY I irst Episode of ,5 __ KEITH ACTS 5 r™ 1 I I Everyone Ileadliners 111 l Just For I nit See ™NIII FN WHITE m in the last serial she will make I - 1 B | THE \nfl N \ BLACK SECRET 1 uni,u u THRTLLS! THRILLS! THRILLS! and laugh till it hurts SHOWING HERE ALL NEXT WEEK 'WHO'S WHO IN HARRISBURG' The picture showing several hundred local business men— also your chance to win some Christmas money—sso in prizes—Watch for it. COLONIAL THEATER TODAY, TOMORROW AND SATURDAY WERE YOU EVER IN JACK PICKFORD was and still is in liis latest farce of peculiar circumstances, entitled "IN WRONG" A picture that will make you laugh until tears trickle down your elieeks NEXT WEEK—CONSTANCE TALMADGE in THE VIRTUOUS VAMP Double VIPTADI A T ° day and Attraction f fV, 1 \JI\I A AH Week THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM A picture that you can't guess tlic ending until you have seen the end. The type of picture that will make you think. ALSO—A REEL LAUGH FEST HAROLD LLOYD IN "BUMPING INTO BROADWAY" M O N., T U E S., W E 1).: T H U R S., F R 1., 6 A T. WILLIAM FARNUM ANITA STEWART Highest Salaried Star In America Harrlsburg's Ever Popular Star "WINGS OF"MORNING" "THE PAINT GIRL" Two of the Best Productions Now Playing NEW SEItIAI. ST t UTS TODAY AT MAJESTIC The flrst episodes of a new and thrilling stunt serial featuring the greatest serial star of all times. Pearl White, will be shown at the Mujeetir Theater the last half of tins week, starting to-day. This is lha last serial Miss White will make be fore leaving the serial studios tor short feature productions in which she Is to he starred. " Five Keith acts complete the show at the Majestic. If you are looking for laughs then see Mullen ami Francis, the eccentric nut comedians who occupy fourth place on the bill. The entire show is of the highest type and is one of the best shows to play here all season.
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