The Hershey Press 1916-07-13

              PUSHIN G THE
FLY CAMPAIGN
Just Now is the Time For Attention
; and Cooperation and the Com- .
mittee Calls on all Citizens
to Help in the Big Fight
Fine Meeting
One of the most interesting meetings
of the Fly Eradication Committee was
held in the reading room of the Men's
Club Tuesday evening. There was a large
attendance and the reports and discus-sions
took up more than an hour. William
F. R. Murrie presided and W. L. Dubois
•was secretary.
Reports from the special committees
showed ¦ that there were weak spots in
the situation and it was decided to hold
a special get-together meeting. This meet-ing
will be held early next week and the
call will be issued as usual;
The one big fact in the committee's
work is that it has wonderfully reduced
the flies of Hershey. arid with the reduction
of flies has been the reduction of illness.
At the present . moment neighboring
towns and cities have plenty of-flies, while
there are -very few in Hershey.
With this showing the work of the com-mittee
ought to be easy, for they have
given a practical demonstration of their
success, hut complete success is being
barred by a few people who. will not co-operate
in the keeping of their premises
clean and who resent outside attention.
The committee realize that much diplo-macy
is needed here, for this is one com-munity
and- there is no disposition to
trespass upon the prejudices of anyone,
but at the same time it is hard lines - for
the progressive citizens of the town to
almost accomplish a great work and then
have it balked by a few.
This is the problem that will engage
the committee next week and it is being
considered with the greatest good nature.
In the meanwhile there is no doubt that
the flies are fewer, than they have ever
been On Hershey at this time of the year.
The hope is that "they may be kept down
and to that end the committee will keep
oh working. Among those who spoke at
the meeting were Mr. Murrie, H. N. Herr,
Dr. Zimmerman, Mr. Putt, Mr. Reinhold,
Mr. Heilman, Mr. Klippinger, E. M.
Hershey and others.
Special committees were appointed for
the meeting next week. In the list of
committees recently printed . the name of
Dr. H. G. Mumma was omitted by mis-take.
Dr. Mumma is a member of the
East Chocolate Avenue committee and is
one of the good workers in the cause of
a flyless and spotless town.
Accoutrements for Gen. Herr
At the end of the meeting Mr. Murrie
announced that while the , fly campaign
was a community interest there was bt fore
those assembled a large matter of national
duty and he was commissioned by his
fellow citizens, to say a few words, These
words were in eulogy of the engineering
genius of H. N. Herr. in so directing' the
works at Hershey that they 'might be
turned into a military camp. He said
Mr. Herr had become the apostle of pre-parededncss
and his colleagues had been
pained to hear him complain that .if he
wanted to march forth to war his govern-ment
would not properl y equip him.
Therefore, the citizens had acted and out
of their generosity had purchased an out-fit.
Then very dramatically Mr, Murrie
undid a large parcel and produced the
flag and the accoutrements which he pre-sented
to Mr. Herr amid great applause,
Mr. Men was equal to the occasion, He
accepted the gift in the spirit of the
giving and promptly asked for enlistments,
Up to the hour of going to press nobody
had step lied forward,
MISS TRACE'S RESIGNATION
Will Specialize in the Industrial Work
of the Y. W. C A.
Miss Martha Tru ce, who has been exe-cutiv
e secretary of the Hcrslioy Y. W, C,
A, hIii co the beginning of the present
year , haa resinned. She Intends to special-ize
in the industrial work of the Associa-tion
, ont! of the most interesting and most
promininif fields of Y, W. C. A. effort,
It is differ ent from institutional niiinnge-menl
and is more in line with MIbh Trace 's
trainin g.
Miss Truce has «renlly endeared her-self
to the people of Hershey by her
personal qualities unci by her faithful
and huccwhhiI direction of the Y, W. C, A,
and her hivin g will bu deeply regretted ,
She beltings (o a prominent NttiTtoburg
family mid she received her training In
Y, W, C. A. work in Philadelphia ,
AFTER THE FROGS
Local llHli ermnn iiro now devoting much
of llieir I lino to (nigging in tin; nearby
Htr emiiH mid Miveml fine mlches have been
reporlwl, I.iihI weolf IC(hvli ) W, Hclnvenls ,
C, 1„ Mender , William Houwiw orlli , James
McShi'iry mid Mr. Hughes caught hi Inrge
1'rogn along 'the Miuiiidii Creek, William
Il oiiHuw cirlh mul I.)r , Wlndlu were out
for frogH on Montlny evening hint, and re-port
ii big entch,
BIG CROPS FROM
HERSHEY FARMS
Much Hay Already iiv and Harvesting
of the Wheat Crop Begun This
Week. How the Labor Prob-lem
is Handled. Over 16,- •
000 Bushels of Wheat
Oh Tuesday the harvesting of wheat on
the Hershey farms began, the first fields
to be cut being those of the old Rudy
farm. Owing to the heavy soil of this
section the harvest is later than that of
Cumberland Valley and other, parts not
so very distant, but the difference is.not
enough to be serious. •
For some time the cutting of the hay
has been going on and magnificent yields
have been put- in. On one of the farms
just south of Hershey 100 tons were gath-ered—
a really wonderful lot of hay, and
this week the cutting will begin on forty
acres of alfalfa on the old Rudy farm,
probably- the finest lot of alfalfa ever seen
in this state. This year's hay crop on the
Hershey farms is of record propor-tions.
As everywhere else there is a lack of
farm help. In many places I farmers are
in dispair because they simply cannot get
men to put in their crops. Here the situa-tion
is much better because the forces on
the seventy-odd farms in the Hershey
proposition cooperate! One farm crowd
go over and help the other fellows and
thus the James Millard won't-come-off
smile'is still on, and the harvest proceeds
merrily.
From present indications . the yield of
cereals on the Hershey farms will be over
160,000 bushels, as follows: corn, .124,000
bushels; wheat, 16,000 bushels and oats,
25,000 bushels.
In addition will be the crops of rye,
potatoes, beets, arid soja beans. The grass
crops are mixed hay, red clover, alfalfa
and' alsyke. -
It is gratifying to note that there is an
increase in flowers, vegetables and other
home raising on all the Hershey farms.
MANY AUTOMOBILE SALES
Ream and Son, automobile dealers of
Palmyra' are' doing an extensive business
in Lebanon and Dauphin counties. Last
week they made a record when they' sold
twelve cars including Fords, Mitchells
and Overlands. Those who purchased
machines were: E. G. Basehore, Lick-dale;
R. K. . Shaffer, Campbelltown;
Robert E. Shenk, Palmyra; William
Laudermilch, Lyonsville; Ira Kreider,
Ono; Engle Estate, Palmyra ; Clayton
Laudermilcli, Palmyra ; William Bright-bill,
Hershey R. F. D. No. 1; C. K.
Witmer, Palmyra ; .James Yorty, . Jones-town
and a Mitchell car to a party at
Lickdale,
MARRIED BY REV. MR. MECK
Rev. John Irvin Meek performed his
first wedding ceremony since becoming
pastor of the Hershey-Palmyra Lutheran
charge on Saturday last when he united
in marriage Martin J, Shepley and Miss
Mary M. Kolb both of Palmyra.
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SUMMER CROW DS
FILL ALL ROO MS
Increasing Number of Persons Who
Want to Come to Hershey for
Their Vacations. Attracted by
Health and Many Recrea-tions.
Recent Visitors
. It is almost impossible to find d vacant
room in Hershey this summer. Usually
there are a few at the Hershey Inn for
transient travellers, • but very often all
are taken and there is no place for the late
comers to be accommodated.
. All the accommodations of the Hershey
Men's Club are in demand and there is
a waiting list. The greatest pressure,
'however, is on the Young Women's Chris-.
tian Association. All the rooms are oc-cupied
and many more could be used.
There has not been a day in- the past
month when applicants were not refused.
These applications came.from persons in
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Reading and
other points, who wanted to spend their
vacations in Hershey.
Hershey has a special appeal to the
young woman who wants a change and a
good rest. The fine air, the mountain water,
the many convenient recreations and the
high character and safety of the whole
community make an appeal to her. Those
who have tried it have received remark-able
benefits. ¦ -
Hershey s summer population would be
very much larger if it had the rooms.
Of course most of the summer visitors come
for the day or for a few hours.' Many of
the women go to the Young Women's
Christian Association and they are loud
in their praise of the excellence and aU
tractive features of the building and they
say if they could get rooms they would
come for a week or longer. In Hershey
preference is given to employees.
THE GERMAN SUBMARINE
The sensation of- the week was the ar-rival
of the German submarine at Balti-more
after a journey of nearly four thous-and
miles from Germany- . Her voyage is
an event in history and the whole world
applauded the captain and his crew of 29
men. The boat cost $500,000. and brought
a cargo of dyestuffs worth $1,000,000.
The boat is 315 feet long and about
60 feet wide. An idea of her size can be
gathered from the dimensions of the Her
shey Press Building which is the largest
single building .in Hershey. It is 332 .feet
long and 90 feet wide; so if you consider
a craft almost as long as this great struc-ture
and about a third as wide you get
a fairly good impression of the freight-carrying
submarine that has astonished
the world and made a.new score for the
Germans.
Hershey is deeply interested in the suc-cess
of this submarine traffi c, for it needs
the dyestuffs in the huge quantities of
paper it uses.
BACK FROM THE CAMP
Miss Martha Trace, Miss Ethel Burrage,
Miss Jess Neibert , Miss Helen Spahr and
Blanch Cooper returned from , a delight-ful
two weeks at Camp Nepahwin. They
were the Hershey delegates to the big
conference.
HARRISBURG CONVENTION
Misses Mabel Carpenter and Edith
Habaker are the delegates from the First
United Brethren Church, Hershey, at
Harrisburg this week attending the twenty
second annual Pennsylvania Christian
Endeavor which opened in that city on
Tuesday. Others from Hershey who were
there on Tuesday included Mrs. Jacob
Gingrich, Miss Anna Gingrich, Victor
Gingrich and Cyrus Garman. Many
others from here are expected to be pres-ent
at the different sessions during the
week, Pennsylvania has 2500 Christian
Endeavor Societies" and every branch
will be represented at the convention.
PREFER HERSHE Y
TO THE BORDER
No Enlistments From This Place
' A Lesson in the Equipping and
' Transporting of the Militia
What Would Happen if we
Had a Real War?
So far as can be found done of the two
thousand employes of the Hershey in-terests
has gone to Texas as a member
of. the new troops nor has there been any
enlistments from this place. There' Was
considerable interest but young men who
thought of going were discouraged by
the stories they read of the bad treatment
of the Pennsylvania troops by the rail-roads.
Some of the Pennsylvania^ were
sent south in little better than cattle cars
and three men were compelled to sleep
and live in the space of the narrow double
seat. The scandal is now under investi-gation.
, One young man of Hershey who
had about decided to enlist said :
"Not any for me. If they treat them like
that on our own trains what won't they
do to them after they get them on the
Mexican sandhills."
Both the government and the rail-roads
have now realized their mistake
and the more recent handling of the
troops has been better done. It was an
outrage that the Pennsylvania men got
the worst of it
Until the troops left Mt. Gretna there
were many officer sBand soldiers in Her-shey.
¦ They came to see the place and to
get something to eat. Their private
opinions did not encourage the local
patriots to put on uniforms.
' Pennsylvania in spite of the' treatment
of the railroads has done its part mag-nificently
and its men are now away,
practically all of them being on the border.
A month of mobilization activity
has sent 38,000 militiamen to the South-ern
border from the twenty-one States
in the Department of the East and has
placed 53,000 in the home camps of those
States. The 38,000 now encamped along
the border are the pick of the guardsmen of
the country, the best trained and best
equipped , but it required an enormous
amount 6T effort to get them started.
Staff officers ' of the regular army point
to these figures as sufficient evidence of
the lack, of coordination in the National
Guard and as proof that the system of
equipping and transporting militia troops
is outworn and inefficient. If it required
three times as long for the United States
to put 38,000 men in the field as it took
the French Government to get 3,000,000
men ready for service, what would hap-pen,
staff officers ask, if the War De-partment
found it necessary to hustle
150,000 men to a ' given point at top
speed?
It is estimated that there are 90,000
soldiers guarding the border. 40,000
militiamen from the Department of the
East, 20,000 from the rest of the country
and 30,000 from the regular army,
. Figures of Mt Gretna
According to figures given out by
General Stewart, approximately $2,500,-
000 was the cost to the federal govern-ment
for the mobilization of the Penn-sylvania
troops, the transfer of state
property to the war department , the feeding
of the men, telegraphic and telephonic
service and transportation to camp and
then to El Paso.
In the sixteen days the camp existed ,
300,000 "rations" were issued the soldiers
makin g a total cost of $90,000 or about
30 cents a day to feed each man. Twenty-seven
"war correspondents" who repre-sented
Pennsylvania dailies and news
service bureaus sent out millions of
words telling of the camp news, The
telegraphic companies transferred to
soldiers over $100,000 in money and the
hotels did over $75,000 worth of business.
Add to this the ' thousands of dol-lars
spent in automobile hire, the thous-ands
spent in railway fare by visitors to
th e camp and you will have an approxi-mate
estimate of what the mobilization
movement cost, Pennsylvania has sent
12,711 officers and men to the border.
Orders were received by the tele-graphic
and telephonic companies from
the war department not. to disturb their
wir es and equipment. This is because Ml.
Gretna will be used by the federal govern-ment
fonm eastern concentration wimp,
The engagement of Miss Mabel Garrett ,
daughter of- Mr. and Mrs. John Garrett,
of Stoverdale, and George Spire, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spire of Hummels-town,
was announced Tuesday evening,
Ju'.y 11, at a gathering of the W. K, C.
club, of which Miss Garrett is a member,
at the home of John Frey in Palmyra.
It ca ne as a great surprise to their many
frien ds. Miss Garrett is connected with
the Hershev, Chocolate Company in the
billing department of the general office
and is very popular. Mr. Spire has
just completed an enlistment in the I niled
States army and at present is employed
by the Reading Railway Company at
Rutherford. ¦ •¦-..—¦ <'¦< -¦'
Positions open. Steady work. Good
pay. See Help Wanted, page 4.
MISS GARRETT'S ENGAGEMENT
Girls of the Onward Club had an auto-mobile
ride to Annville and the membei s
of the Loyalty Club had a p.'cni:.
CLUBS ENJOYING THEMSELVES
TWENTY MORE
I WILL BE ADDED
Mr. Hershey Plans to Enlarge and In-crease
the Hershey Industrial
¦ School. It Means New Build-ings
and Twenty New
Boys.. The Health
Before leaving' for Cuba last week Mr.
M. S. Hershey decided to add another unit
to the Hershey Industrial School. This
means new buildings and twenty more
boys. The school is organized in groups
of twenty. ¦ At present there are three
groups. The equipment includes more than
a dozen buildings and nearly a thousand
acres of land.
This school was founded November 15,
1909, for the purpose of providing a
good home and a suitable environment for
the maintenance and education of de-pendent
orphan boys. It is Mr. Hershey's
favorite interest and its very remarkable
progress has been under his personal at-tention
and direction . In the six years there
has been practically no serious illness
and the health of the boys living the sane
life amid beautiful surroundings has been
extraordinary. Before leaving for Cuba
Mr. Hershey gave all the boys automo-bile
rides, some of .them being taken to the
State Capitol and up the Susquehanna
drive and they had the time of their
lives. '
As is well known the school is the
old home and birthplace of Mr. Hershey
and it is visited by people from all- parts
of the country. The leading newspapers
have devoted many columns to it and
of the three hundred institutions in Penn-sylvania
for the care of dependent child-ren
it is the most praised. Mr. Hershey's
idea is .to get away from the-old insti-tutional
routine and to give the boys a
home life and a practical training that
will develope their character as well as
their minds and bodies. The results so
far are splendid and nowhere can there
be found a finer or more vital, lot of
youngsters.
Pennsylvania State Outing and Re-union
Being Advertised in Every
Corner of the State by a Live
Body of Officers Who'Want
to Make it Big E-vent
An excellent example of live manage-ment
is seen in the-work of. the Central
Pennsylvania, Alumni Association of'the
Pennsylvania State College. The officers
are T. V. M Nary, president; H. A.
Moffitt , vice-president, and H. D. Buck-waiter,
secretary, all fine representatives
of the kind of men the college has furnished
to the business and public life of the state.
They are alive arid progressive and so
the publicity campaign for the big event
on Saturday, July 29, is far out of the
ordinary. Here are a few quotations from
their broadly circulated invitation:
"Penn State Outing and Reunion at
beautiful Hershey Park.
1 "The marvelous home of a stupendous
industry.
"Everyone interested in Penn State is
invited—^-Alumni, their wives and families;
Students, their parents "and sweethearts;
Friends of the College and especially
the Ladies. Come, by automobile, aero-plane,
trolley, P. and R. railroad , or shank's
mare—BUT COME.
"Eat and enjoy your lunch in the open.
Bring a basket or dine in a public restau-rant
with your own party. Ample. facili-ties
for either plan.
"Sports: Baseball—Married men vs.
single men, running races, swimming
races, tug of war, sack race, potato race,
Mexican cock fight and others.
"Talk: President Sparks, members of
the faculty, of the Board of Trustees and
other prominent men will give short
snappy addresses.
"Inspection of Chocolate factory, danc-ing
and other amusements.
"Don't miss the -movies. Five reels of
excellent pictures of college life. "
This shows how the committee has
caught the Hershey spirit and how every-thing
is shaping to a good time. The
Penn State College is strong in this sec-tion
and the reunion will bring many
good people to Hershey.
COMING HERE
WITH HURRAH
An unusual visitor this week was Adum
Humwukl , a prosporoiiH business man of
Allen lowii,- Mr, horowskl is big unci hnnd-j
some mid he: found mi interest here that
! was uni que, Ah a small boy ho lived and
played iiIoiik Spring Creek unci haunted
th e blacksmith shop where the blacksmith
, in long whiskers piled his trade, He swum
LhoSwiiliirii mid picked blackberries , lie
climbed I'iiI 'h Hill when the view i\rouncl
hiinv few farm houses. "It 's n wonderfu l
chiingo ," he said , "mid Mr , Homhcy has
i done a wonderful thing ," li e was deeply
interested in the new Ilerslioy aintl found ' ,
J considerable difficulty in picking out some
of the Hpoln of his boyhood. With his
wife iuhI childr en he visited his sister,
Mrs, I) , II, Hui gol of I himnielslown,
| AFTER. MANY YEARS