CORN LARGEST
CROP IN VALUE
State Figures Show It Led the
Field During Pres
ent Year
Corn is king of Pennsylvania crops
this year, not only in yield, but in
value. It has broken records and
advanced the Keystone State several
notches in the list of the corn-grow
ing states. Wheat has been supplant
ed as the most profitable crop and
hay is the only rival of corn. The
aggregate value of the crops shows
that corn and hay account for over
half.
Figures compiled at the State De
partment of Agriculture from the re
ports of the counties show that the
sood Gppetite
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food into red blood corpuscles, muscular tissue,
brain and nerve force, thus replacing weakness, ner
vousness and lassitude with strength and vigor.
Proof That There is Nothing Like Vinol
Scranton, Pa*—"l used Vinol for Jacksonville, 111.— "I was weak,
general weakness, poor appetite and nervous, all run-down and had no
loss of strength and flesh. At times strength or ambition to do anything.
I was simply-too weak to work. With- My doctor told me about Vinol. I
in ten days after taking Vinol I could took it and the result is lam strong
see an improvement. It gave me a and well again, I now look after my
splendid appetite, I have gained in baby, do all my housework and feel
flesh and feel in every way." like" a new person."— MßS. G. H.
MRS. L. A. MEATFS. LAMSON.
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feeble old people and delicate children, there is no remedy like Vinol.
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mas business in the history of the
CJS store. We sincerely hope that our !
fag-g! efforts to please you have been as / jSB
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JVew Year
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I, is well as the many new ones we have made dur-
II ng the past twelve months, for the greatest
I ear's business that this "Big, Live Store" has
|i vcr enjoyed and wish for all
j! A Very Merry Christmas
THEI GLOBE ;
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
total value of the nine big crops
which are the mainstays of Penn
sylvania agriculture went close to
$370,000,000, a decline as compared
with 1018, owing to labor and other
conditions. Of this ligure the corn
and hav crops account for over $107,-
000,000 each. Wheat is given us
worth $62,875,000. Potatoes from
the fourth crop being worth more
than half that of the wheat.
The data assembled by the State
authorities Is the first to show the
acreage, production, average yield
per acre and prices with total values
estimated in collaboration with Gov
ernment officials. It runs as follows:
Yield
Crop. Acres. Per Acre.
Wheat 1,637,884 17.8
Corn 1,535,797 45.6
Kye 228,<050 17.0
Oats 1,188,794 29.5
Buckwheat . 255,598 21.7
Barley 16,095 24.0
Tobacco 41,288 1302 lbs.
Potatoes .... 253,865 102 bus.
Hay 2,991,727 1.41 tons
CAPITOL BEGINS
BIG HOLIDAY
Most of Departments Will
Transact Very Little Busi
ness Until Next Monday
-to-day for Chester
j mas and most of.
1 partments except 1
i 1 tlG3e re ? ' ' n K
offices closed to-day until Monday, j
enabling attaches to go to homes in j
distant parts of the State. Offices
will be open Friday only to handle
emergency matters.
In many of the offices Christmas
trees were erected and decorated by
clerks and stenographers and Christ
mas cards circulated by the hun
dreds in the big gray building. Be
fore leaving Governor Sproul tele
phoned the compliments of the sea
son to officials.
The men in charge of the public
grounds have been instructed to give
the squirrels and pigeons which live
in the Capitol park an extra allow
ance of the nuts and corn which the
Commonwealth provides for its self
imposed guests.
Steps to meruit up the State
Police force to full strength will be
taken at once. A number of vacan
cies have occurred through expira
tion of enlistments and applications
have b'een filed by a number of men
with overseas records. An examina
tion will be held early in January.
Over a thousand applications for
the State's Mexican border service
medal which the Commonwealth
gave to men who served on the bor
der in 1916, have been received by
Adjutant General Frank D. Beary
in the last few weeks. Some of the
applications have come from
families of men who were killed in
France, while others have been made
by returned veterans. There are
still hundreds to be claimed.
War and coal clauses ami the
ready-to-serve charges are ordered
stricken from the tariffs of the Pine
Grove Electric Light, Heat and
Power Co., and the company ordered
to -forthwith change its delinquent
rule for the payment of bills so as
to provide for a reasonable period
of time for payment without pen
alty" according to a decision given
by the Public Service Commission in
dealing with half a dozen com
plaints. In regard to the two
clauses, it is held by Commissioner
Milton J. Brecht that "neither of
these conditional clauses is com
patible with the. spirit and purpose
of the Public Service Company law
and both should be eliminated from
the tariff of the defendant."
In dismissing complaints against
the .rates of the Hegins Water Co.,
of Schuylkill county, Commissioner
S. R. Shelby says: "It is evident that
the new rates will not at the present
time yield more than a fair return
upon the fair value of the property.
Under the disclosed circumstances
it is natural to expect an increase in
the number of consumers which
with economical management should
produce a larger net revenue than
respondent now receives."
•SHARI.KY SHAIM.fX' IX ZANZIBAR
On every night in Zanzibar town
within a canvas temple—where gath
| i-r wrinkled Arab sailors from Muscat
lor Madagascar, or red faced, burly
j English sailors from where the Sev- I
i ern flows; black aekaris from the Ulo
j goro hills; bearded sepoys from the
; Junjab; hilarious Tommies from Bat
j tersea, or precise Parsis in linen
I dusters with round, varnished hats;
1 squatting, half naked Banians with
| loincloths tucked between their knees
i Goancse dressed like mid-Victorians
J and speaking Portuguese; Swahilis in
red tarbushc J""and white kanzas and
immeasureable grins across their
black faces; natives of Seychelles; ab
original Wahadimu Khojas and
Japanese—old, young and middle
aged, their children, their mistresses,
and giggling painted ones, coquet
tishly rolling their eyes behind their
yashmaks or brazenly unveiled—all,
all await with the same emotions the
coming of the god. And the high
priest, standing on a chair, waves for
silence.
He is sightless in one eye, his crat
ered face indicating that smallpox
was to blame. Old blue and white
striped pantaloons and well worn san
dals, a discarded tw-.s! waistcoat, a
dirty, badly rolled turban, set him oft
and lend dignity to the impressively
raised hands as he mokes his an
nouncements in a cracked voice In
four languages, ending with Kis
swahili and English:
"Juma-na-moja, walu wote watacuja
hopr! Shahli Shaplin ! Cheka-cheka
chekaa Satteraday ni-ight.
shoatlemens will all come! New pro
grom! Sharley Shaplin. Larf- Larf
larf! . ..
And the babel of languages sudden
ly becomes harmony. Each under
stands all, and all understands to the
depts the groat roar that shakes the
temple walls when a figure—mainly
boots, a stick, a little bowler hat, a
mustache and vitalizing spark—sud
denly appears on the wall, trips and
lands on its chin amid California
scenery.
STANDS BY ALLIES FLAGS
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Mayer
are about the most patriotic folks
along upper Third avenue, as the win
dow display In their little confection
ery store indicates. When the war
started Mr. Mayer painted a neat lit
tie sign to the effect that no German
would be spoken in his place of bus
iness nnd his wife busied herself pre
paring elaborately trimmed windows,
with the flags of the Allies much in
evidence.
There chances to be a German col
ony of considerable size near the
place where the Mayers earn their
I living, and all through the war there
| were strong objections to his ban an
the German language. But he con
tinued his sign and his window dis
play right up to the present.
The other day Mr. Mayer was dis
turbed. A man who said he was Irish
entered his store and demanded that
the British flag, be lowered. The pro
prietor told him he could se no reason
for doing so, and refused. I.ator In
the day he received an anonymous
letter repeating the demand. Mr. May
er didn't notify the police, but he ex
pressed his opinion in no uncertain
terms:
"No one is going to tell me to take
down the British flag or any other
Allied flag. I'm half Irish myself—
my mother was born in Tlpperary.
No sir, the Union Jack will stay right
there with the rest." —New York
Tribune.
JUNIORS AT CAMP CURTIN
The Rosewood Juniors will moet
j the strong Camp Curtin Section 887
team on the Steele floor Friday night
| Both quintets have been going at a
fast clip and a hard fought game
is >:xpected A small admission will
be charged.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
SOLDIERS OF YEAR AGO
LOOJC BACK OVER THEIR V
CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE
I Twelve short months ago scores
jof young soldiers from this city
| gathered their overcoats (O. D.
j profiteered, thin) about them and
i wondered how soon it would be be
; fore they hit the docks at Brest or
St. Nazaire. For the war was over
j and nobody had a thing to do ex
cept argue which division won the
war, und how much cognac they
could consume per evening.
The Twenty-eighth Division. Penn
-1 sylvania's own, and the Seventy
[ ninth Division, also made up largely
jof Pennsylvania soldiers, didn't
J spend the world's best Christmas
last year. The Twenty-eighth was
; still practically in the same place
a line southeast of Verdun, and the
Seventy-ninth was occupying No
Alan's Land north oti that same
famous citadel.
At Damvillers the 315t1i Infantry,
Seventy-ninth Division, did its best
to remember a little bit of the old
Christmas. Major Samuel W. Flem
ing, Jr., at that time commanding
the second battalion of the regi
ment, assisted other officers In send
ing to Bar-le-Duc for turkeys and
other food. When Christmas Day
dawned there was no fatigue, no
drill, and only the necessary feeding I
of animals and guard. The tired
out and homesick doughboys of the
outfit sat down (or at least stood
around) and were fed on a good,
honest to goodness American meal.
The company funds were recruited
and filled Gut by popular subscrip
tion to buy their Christmas cheers.
The enlisted men gave the officers
a vaudeville show in the officers
mess, decorated with pine trees for
the occasion.
Some Wine Too
According to Major Fleming there
was no official issue of rum, as with
the British, but according to popu
lar report, a great deal of the best
stuff made in France was consumed,
the resulting hilarity surpassing the
best efforts of the vaudeville enter
tainers.
Back at Seventy-ninth headquar
ters in Vaucherville, the staff offi
cers sat down to their lowly meal of
turkey, spuds, haricots verts, vtn
rouge and blanc, and all other things
which appertain particularly to di
visional P. C.'s.
The Twenty-eighth had a pretty
good time, all things considered.
Drawn back a little from the lino
which they occupied on the west
.branch of the former St. Miliiel
salient, the headquarters at Heudi
court had a royal time. Per order
from G. H. Q, A. E. F., a large
cross about fifteen feet high, lighted
by electricity, was mounted on the
top of the headquarters, situated in
the Mairie at Heudicourt. At night
the cross gleamed brightly and could
be seen by practically every cle
ment of the division, from their d g
outs in the hills to the north and
from Buxerlles and Buxleres, the
little towns to the southeast.
Band Concerts Help
A biff Christmas tree was set up,
too, with electric lights decorating
it. Christmas . Eve the orchestra
from the 112 th Infantry came
around and serenaded General Hay
with carols. On the Day of days
there was a special dinner in every
regimental mess, with turkeys pre
dominating. Later band concerts
helped to while away the time for
the Pennsylvanians who would much
rather have been within the con
tines of their own Keystone State.
Captdin John M. Smith, of the
104 th Sanitary Train, Twenty-ninth
Division, was enjoying the enter
tainment put on by the 116 th Am
bulance Train and the Sanitary out
fit, at Bourbonnes-les-Bains. Other
elements of the division entertained
a huge crowd of French children
from the town of Voisey. a com
munity Christmas tree with gifts of
food, clothing, and every imaginable
present. A band concert too, help
ed to enliven their day.
Up in Luxembourg, where an ar
tillery outfit of the Thirtieth divi
sion was attached to the Thirty
third division, the homes of many
Luxembourgois were made bright by
the Yanks. Soldiers from North
and South Carolina rode many miles
to get toys and food for the little
youngsters who had won their
hearts. Chrlstthas trees were set
up in many homes, and when the
kids piled downstairs in the early
morning, the wagon soldiers were
all ready to play Santa Claus and
band out the presents. Fortunately
for the outfit, too, the Christmas
packages from the States come in
just the day before Christmas, and
nothing in the entire service in
France caused so much joy.
Ollicers Gave Dance
The officers of the 113 th Field Ar
tillery gave a dance to the people
of one little town in Luxembourg.
. and after the dance was over and
the regimental band had been filled
with schnapps and sent home to
' bed, the party adjourned on invita-
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H I'.'/fHBH While W. B. Nuform Corsets are popular
life priced corsets, they are not in any sense
cheap corsets, but combine In Fit. Style.
qflalgTTV At W Material, Workmanship and Trimming, all
qualities of tnucb higher priced corsets.
For Sale by BOWMAN & CO.
tion of the mayor to a little cafe,
wliefe a long table was set. Here
a tegular dinner was served, includ
ing regular beef from the regi
mental mess, good French Sauterne,
and various beverages which only
the Luxembourgeis know how to
concoct.
With the divisions of the regu
lar army of occupation, including
the veteran First, Second, and Third,
nothing that could be secured from
the surly boches was too good, j
From away back in the S. O. S.
stuff was shipped up to the Rhine,
and every regimental headquarters
became a group of Santa Claus to
the outfits.
311 th Field Spends Desolate Day
Another artillery outfit —a portion
of the 311 th Field of the Seventy- i
ninth also spent a desolate Christ- I
mas in Luxembourg. The day be- j
fore they had returned from Ger- :
many where they had turned a con- I
voy of horses over to the 89th, after |
a five hundred mile trip irv the !
saddle through weather which has j
made France infamous.
Far removed from a commissary, |
for at that time lines of supply were j
not established, this outfit break
fasted sparsely Christmas morn on
rice, without sugar, milk or even
salt and hardtack. Christmas din
ner at 3 o'clock because there had
been only rations for two meals a
day for six weeks consisted of
barely warmed, red soup beans.
The next meal was partaken of the
following night at 9 o'clock and
consisted entirely of "slum," with
out the "gullion."
Making Up Tills Year
This gang had been six weeks out
doors, through pouring .rain and
driving snow, wet to the skin all the
time, ignorant of the feel of heat,
without a word from home or any
place else in all that time, with but
six hours sleep a night and on two
meals a day—rice and hardtack for
breakfast and slum for a late sup
per.
Do you wonder they arc trying to
make up for some of the Christmas
cheer they lacked last year?
Occupational Survey
For Women Planned
The Young Women's Christian As
sociation is conducting a survey of
I New York City and vicinity to inves
j tigate opportunities for women train
|ed in employment and personnel
work, in publicity work, and in work
requiring linguistic ability. During
the war a great many women de
veloped capabilities never before sus
pected by themselves. Having be
come expert during their period of
war srvice, they are now able to fill
similar positions in civil life, and the
i Y. W. C. A. employment service has
received many applications from them
for work along these lines.
The first survey to be completed was
that in department stores, to investi
gate the opportunities for education
al directors, employment managers,
and so forth, and also for buyers. An
other similar investigation is under
way in all the factories employing
200 or more women in Greater New
Ycrk and vicinity, including the big
fuctory belt in New Jersey. This in
vestigation i 3 discovering some very
interesting opportunities not only in
employment and personnel work, but
also as production managers and fore
women'. The number of trained wo
men employed in New York in such
positions is very small as compared
with those in some other parts of the
country.
Little Lines From Nearby
left leg was fractured when coal fell
on him at Big Lick colliery and he
was taken to the Pottsville hospital.
Lcwistown—To-morrow evening
high school students will present
"An Old Fashioned Santa Claus."
Lewistown—Poor people of this j
town will be remembered to-morrow .
by the Kings Daughters and Elks.
Liverpool —Charles I. Barner has i
been named census enumerator for I
Liverpool borough and township. j
Columbia—William Zimmerman,
a shifter brakeman. who d /'i't see
a train bearing down on him in the
yards here, was knocked to the track
and would have been killed had not.
the rails been icy and the wheels
shoved his body ahead until the
train could be stopped.
Columbia.—-Ten-year-old Edward
1 Doyle narrowly escaped death when
Ihis sled crashed into Aaron Nagle's
automobile truck near the Doyle
, home in South Second street. A
. j physician found only a bruise on
; the lad's forehead.
'■ Marietta The Columbia and
Marietta turnpike company will sell
. their tool bouses between this place
and Columbia at public sale on Sat
- 1 urday afternoon.
IMPORTERS GET
WEALTHY AS THE
EXCHANGE DROPS
Americans Buying at Low
Foreign Prices and Sell
ing High
Now York, Dec. 24. —American I'
Importers now purchasing goods in •
England, France and Italy for ship
ment to the United States, are wax- <
ing fat as a result of the deprecia
tion of the pound sterlthg, the
franc and lira, according to stories ;
now going the rounds of the New
York wholesale district.
The only "fly in the ointment" for
the American buyers abroad is the
fact that, by a Presidential order
several weeks ago, United States j
consuls are required to keep tab on
big purchases, ascertain the selling,
price and cable these facts to the i
United States customs authorities, j
Then, by figuring the rate of ex- |
change on the date of purchase, the
Government is enabled to set a pro- ;
per value upon the goods for the c<}l- j
lection of import duties. A Court of :
Claims passes upon what are alleg- j
ed to be unfair appraisals.
How It Works.
The situation is said to be some- j
what like this: An American buying j
pound sterling say, on December 12, |
needed to pay in Americun money,
only $3.66 for British currency nor-!
mally worth about $4.87. Now he ;i
goes, to a factory in Nottingham, '
Eng., to buy laces and there, al- i
though prtcqs of course are higher j
than before the war, he pays for i 1
them in this depreciated British j
money and makes a "handsome" I
profit. Then he ships the laces to |
the United States where, by reason ,
of the inflation of the American dol- j
lar, they are retailed for from 100 j
to 150 per cent, above pre-war!
prices. .
The same importer, on the same j
date, we w ill say, goes to France. In i
Paris he has exchanged his Amer- j
lean dollars for francs. Normally j
there are 5.18 1-8 francs to the dol- j
lar but now he finds one yankee
"simoleon" will buy 11.52 francs, i
over 100 per cent more than before j
the war. The price of silks has gone :
up but he goes to Lyons and there, ;
with his depreciated French money, j
he buys more than he has ever,
bought before at "bargain" prices, j
The silks reach New York where
they are sold to the consumer at,
double their former retail price.
The same financial conditions ex- t
ist all over Europe and in the for- ;
mer Central Empires, of course, j
they are reported much worse.
Pay in American Money.
American manufacturers, mean- |
while, who desire to sell their pro- !
ducts abroad are demanding pay-i
ment in American dollars at par. I
Recently the Belgian government, it
is said, bought 20 American locomo- j
tives, for which payment instead of ;
being in Belgian money was de- j
manded in American dollars, thus!
adding from 15 to 20 per cent to the j
manufacturer's normal profit. Nat- ;
urally this discourages foreign buy- 1
ing.
On the other hand, a big Amer-1
Pieplant
Christmas Duties
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CHRISTMAS with its attend
ant festivities and prevading
atmosphere of good cheer, brings
with it numerous duties which it
is a pleasure to perform.
AMONG these the Dauphin Deposit Trust
Company finds one which it is particularly
pleased to take upon itself—that of extending its
thanks and appreciation to its customers not only
for the business they have brought to the Com
pany, but also for the consideration and co-opera
tion they have displayed during the past year.
Equally pleasant is the duty of assuring them that
in the future as in the past, our facilities, advice
and experience will be entirely at their disposal
and that whatever service we are able to offer in
matters of trust and banking will be gladly given.
•MEMBER-FEDERAL-RESERVE-SYSTEM*
DECEMBER 24, 1919.
[ lean locomotive concern, appre
hensive of the turn of political af
fairs abroad due to delay over the
Peace Treaty, is reported practic
ally to have cancelled all foreign ad
vance orders.
There are committees of the most
prominent United States bankers
and businessmen, representing the
ft This is the time—the X
ft season when your ft
friends are thinking
\QOyV °f y° u an< L wishing : M
you all kinds of bless- ft
i' l K s —the best of life's £
. joys and happiness; M
// hence our greeting— ft
Jj A Merry Christmas ft
■ // A Happy New Year ft
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I To One—To All 1
i|T W The officers and direct- ft
/'j jffl ors of tiiis bank extend to #
Mril * ts P atrons everybody ft
if in and about Harrisburg, ft
X 4j|j| |m|M their wishes for a genuine, jjft
t isLllll! Merry Christmas |
aEßpffispg with all the joy and liappi- ft
liess that the term im- w|
4 Allison Hill Trust Company |
, t Service—lts Watchword
ft 13th and Market Streets, Harrisburg. a-
American Bankers' Association, th
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the International Trade Con
ference who have been at work on
this problem of foreign exchange
for months and who will be ready
to remedy the present situation as
soon as the Peace Treaty becomes
a fact for the American Nation.
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