The Hershey Press 1916-11-30

              CROWDED HOUSE
GREAT ADDRESS
First of Union Services in Herstiey
Central Theater Draws One ' of the
Finest Audiences in Town 's
Hist ory. Next Speaker
Rev. Dr. Jacobs
A remarkably eloquent and vital
address, a program of fine music and an
audience that filled the Hershey Central
Theatre made the opening of the
Sunday ' afternoon Union Services a
splendid success.
There were visitors from every part of
Lebanon Valley. They came on the
Hershey Transit lines, in automobiles
and in carriages and the result of this was
the livest Sunday afternoon Hershey has
had since the closing of the Park.
Bishop Cyrus . J. Kephart spoke on
"Lessons From the Great World Crisis."
It was the kind of address the people
wanted, an able, eloquent, non-sectarian
discussion of a tremendous theme by a
man who could rivet the attention of
his hearers. This he did for almost one
and a half hours. Bishop Kephart has
Bryan's qualities of popular expression
and appeal, and his success in holding his
audience by the force of his thought and
personality was complete. He did not
depend upon stories or anecdote to carry
him through, but made his theme and its
lesson grip the people and hold them.
Everybody pronounced it one of the
finest addresses ever heard in Hershey.
Preliminary to the address Bishop
Kephart told how he passed through this
particular part of the country many times
in the nineties. The site of Hershey was
then a field and a railroad crossing. He
was amaied to see the changes. It
scarcely seemed possible. He paid a
high tribute to the vision and enter-prise
of Mr. M. S. Hershey and congratu-lated
him and the men who had helped
him in the work that has become known
throughout the world. He made several
references to Hershey in his address , and
told how in every corner of his far west-ern
territory he had found its products.
Our Wonderful Age
The bishop said we are living in a
most surprising and interesting age.
Past ages said the same thing but we
really have reason for the expression.
Think of the world at large as known
today and then think back one or more
centuries ago. Today all the continents
of the world are discovered and explored.
Man has explored the oceans, rivers,
lakes, mountains, We have a map of
the world presenting with accurate full-ness
all lands and waters. We did not
have such 50 years ago.
All the races have been discovered
and their characteristics are known.
In the past hundred years the greatest
number of wonderful discoveries and
inventions have been presented,
One of the things before our eyes at
the present time is the development of
popular education as never known in
the past.
We have wonderful institutions of
learning. The President of a college
deplored the fact that the growth of
his college was hindered because it was
endowed for only seven million dollars.
Harvard is endowed for forty millions
and is looking for thirty millions more.
Princeton is endowed for forty millions.
These matters change the whole com-plexion
of society. Situations arising
must be controlled and adjusted. We
are in a critical period , a period of inten-sive
development,
Woman has entered into public life
and who can predict what effect this is
going to have? Woman suffrage is
coming, whether you want it or not.
Women will compel us to make some
great changes politically, and there are
going to be some great clean-ups. Woman
has fought her way to her present position
and will never recede from it. She will
never hold the position she once held either
here or abroad. In Europe she lias taken
the place of the man in every vocation of
life to permit him to enroll in the various
armies,
Our country is increasing in wealth
with tremendous rapidity. Wo stand the
marvel of the world in the developcment.
of wealth ,
Aaa boy I thought n man in our country
town who owned a bride house was a
wealthy mini. Wo never hoard or thought
of n millionaire and yet. today in New
York Slate alone statistics show that
there arc 44 men who have nnnunl in-comes
of n million or over; 91 men have
annual Incomes of .11500,000 and over,
A report Issued just a short, time ago
showed Dial. !)!) per cent, of this country '*)
wealth was owned and controlled by
3 per cent, of the population. One of
owners wild at a meeting a short time ago
that all the industries wore practically
controlled by 11 men of whom ho was
one, , There niimt bo an adjustment, of
some kind or ' these thing*! will bring
disaster,
Now to gel '<> the main issue. Wc
are at a crisis—tho present, war. I
pray God no ono will again ever bo called
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EXPERT PRAISES
HER SHEY OUTFI T
Professor Kraege Finds Much to
Admire in the Town and Dairies
s Paid Particular Attention to
the Round Barn. Visit '
to Cloverdale Farm
A prominent visitor .to Hershey Sun-day
was Professor F. G. Kraege, of'Wis*
consin, who is making a tour of the
United States studying dairy conditions
and lecturing on agricultural topics.
He has come across the continent from
California, visiting most of the states,
and he came to Hershey from a visit to
Cornell University. He was taken-over
part of the Hershey farms and dairies in
an automobile and he expressed his
astonishment.
"Of course, I had heard of Hershey
and I had it on my list, but I had no idea
of the extent and importance of the
work you are doing here—I never real-ized
the size of Mr. Hershey's plans.
It is. a revelation. Every other place
in America I have seen claims all it has
and often a great deal more, but you
have much "mofe ~thah you advertise.
I have enjoyed my day hugely and am
coming again.'"
Professor Kraege was particularly .in-terested
in the Round Barn. There
was much discussion in the. West as to
a round barn 's merits and it had not
become popular. .He wanted to know
why. So, he had Mr. Christie take tiim
over, every part of the structure and he
snapped pictures of the outfit and the
cows and other details. He pronounced
the round barn the most interesting ex-ample
of its'kind he had ever seen.
He was much pleased with Cloverdale
and thought Chocolate Segis Pontiac
Alcarta a prince of a bull.
A detail that caught the attention of
the professor was the overhang of the
banri roof and he took pictures of this to
show farmers and dairymen in the West,
for he lectures to many thousands and
he gathers the latest ideas by personal
investigations. "My ' visit to Hershey
today has been very profitable," lie said.
He remained to enjoy the address of
Bishop Kephart.
Professor Kraege came with the high-est
recommendations of leaders in ag-riculture
and education. He has been
very successful in conducting institutes
and in lectures to granges and other
farmers' organizations. He was born
and brought up on a farm in Winnebago
County, Wisconsin. After attending the
district school, he entered the Berlin
high school from which he was graduated
with the class of 1884. After serving
two years as principal of the village
school at Waukau , Wis., he entered the
University of Wisconsin, in which he
completed a four years' course in three
years, and at the time of graduation
was awarded special honors and a
Commencement appointment by the
faculty. Five years after graduation ,
he returned to the University aiid took
a post graduate course, at the close of
which the degree of Master of Letters
was conferred on him. In addition to
this he attended the summer session of
the University in 1913. While attend-ing
the University, Mr, Kraege received
special training in agricultural subjects.
For many years past, Mr. Kraege has
taught agricultural subjects, including a
course in animal husbandry and dairy-ing,
in high schools, in teachers' institutes,
in farmers' institutes, and in other gather-ings
of farmers, He has owned and op-erated
a successful creamery.
A HANDSOME HOME
Mr. and Mrs, D, Frank Magee moved
on Monday into their handsome new
home in ' East Hershey. The Magee
residence is a commodious and distinctive
work of architecture which iillractH
very unusual attention. It is the largest
of recent additions to the residential
architecture of Hershey and It adds
grimily to the beauty of East^Icrshcy,
Mr, and Mm, Magee have received many
congratulations upon their new home,
WILL BE A GREAT GAME
Interest is "being centered on the foot-ball
game at Palmyra on Thanksgiving
morning when the team of that place will
have for their opponents the Hummels-tow
aggregation, Both teams have
splendid records this season unci a great
contest is looked for, lhimroelstown
will bo strengthened by the Ilelff brothers,
Herbert Scluiflner and Phillips. All
those players are volcnins and will add
ntveh to tho playing , These tennis are
old rivals mid the game always drawn
bl« crowds.
A THRIVING CAMP
I lorohoy Camp No. 705 P, 0. S, ol
A. lias been busy the past your adding
new members, On Monday evening last
the degree team initiated six now members
and t\vo weekn previous the snmc number
took the Initiation ,
NEW CAR BARN
ALMOST READY
Cars Have . Been Run Into It . But
The Formal Opening. Will Not
Take Place Until the Begin-ning
of the New Year
Complete Buildin g
Hershey has added another valuable
building to its large and unique equip-ment.
The addition is the car barn of
reinforceed concrete and brick at the ex-treme
end of the town, The structure is a
beautiful piece <5T work that has been in
the course of erection since January 1916.
Plans were to have the building completed
last summer, but the scarcity of labor
hindered the progress: It has been
modeled after some of the best car barns
in the country and new ideas were added.
The building is 100 by 275 feet and has
a capacity for housing 40 cars. All
the Hershey cars are manufactured by
the Brill Car Company, Philadelphia,
and are built for smooth riding and
comfort.
The structure is absolutely fire proof
and has all modern conveniences. In
the building are: Commodious rest
rooms for employes, modern shower
baths, handsome private offices , splen-did
lighting system, excellent ventilation.
A machine shop with all the latest
devices and with a large drill press has
been installed. All repairs will be made
at the barn and a master mechanic will
be in charge.
Cars were run into the barn last week
although the moving from the old barn
proper will not take place until the end
of the year. The old barn has been
crowded , and it was necessary to leave
some of the cars stand on the tracks
outside of the building over night. When
the old barn is vacated work will be
started at once to remodel the. barn for
a public garage. Many machine owners
in Hershey are anxiously awaiting this
improvement as it is centrally located
and will ' be much more . convenient
than going to the one over the railroad.
All the Hershey lines are well patron-ized.
The new line to. Elizabethtown
has a heavy traffic and is far ahead of
what was first expected. The new route
to Manheim through Bachmanville is
progressing and the surveyors have
almost finished their work.
The schedules of the Hershey lines
are well kept. The new high tension
system which was added last year has
helped much in this end of the work.
NEXT UNION SERVICES
Will be December 10. Rev. Dr. Jac-obs
the Speaker
The next union services in the Hershey
Central Theatre will be on Sunday after-noon,
December 10 at 3 p. m. All are
invited,
Another brilliant speaker has been
secured, Rev. Mr. Meek and his as-sociates
in the Lutheran church have
secured Rev. Professor Charles M. Ja-cobs,
D. D„ one of the ablest and most
eloquent men in the Lutheran church ,
He will speak on "What Makes Men,"
His address is said to be a masterful
exposition that every man and especially
every young .man, should hear.
FIRE ALARM TUESDAY
An alarm of fire just after the noon
hour Tuesday caused some excitement
which promptly subsided when it was
known that the lire was in Union De-posit,
The Hershey Fire Department
turned out but the flic was not serious,
It was in the residence of Mr, KnufTmnn.
FRED CLARK IMPROVING
Fred Clark is improving daily, It was
not necessary to amputate tho arm.
Scores of people from Hershey have
called to see him, Me and his family
have had the deepest sympathy of the
whole town ,' mid there Is general grati-fication
that he will escape loss seriously
than was at first feared .
FINE CONCERT DECEMBER 15TH
One of the finest eoncorlH of the aimson
will hu that of llui Mothers' Club and the,
Hershey Umid in the Hershey Central
Theatre on December lfi. In addition
to n rich program by the bund will bo
brilliant solos on the cornet and violin ,
Dr. Jacobs is a graduate of the Univer-sity
of Pennsylvania with post graduate
work in the University of Pennsylvania ,
and the University of Leipsic, Germany,
specializing in church history and phil-osophy,
Me was pastor of St. Peter 's
Luthera n Church , North Wales and
Christ Lutheran Church , Allentown,
He was professor of history in Muhlen-berg
College, In 1913 he was called to
be the graduate professor of the Lutheran
Theological Seminary at Ml. Airy, Phil-adelphia
, which position he occupies at
the present time, He is one of the staff
of writers producing a standard English
edition of Luther 's works, known as
the Philadelphia edition,
TURKEY SOARING
OUT OF SIGHT
Prices in This Section Have Gone
Beyond All Previous Figures
And Only the Rich Will be
Able to Afford the Nation-al
Bird Thursday
In Hershey this week turkeys sold at
35 cents a pound live weight. This
means that a turkey dressed would
cost 50 cents a pound and if you wish
to go further and calculate on the loss
in cooking and in bones the precious
white meat you may be able to put
into your mouth Thursday will represent
a dollar or more a pound.
There never were such prices as these
in the whole history of the turkey tribe.
A Hershey man who engaged two
thirty pound gobblers some weeks ago
had to pay 30 cents a pound. Nine
dollars for a turkey is going some and
yet it would have even more if it had
not been ordered in advance. John
Yorty sold ten turkeys for $48 and
could have sold more.
In Harrisburg turkeys sold 30 to 40
cents live weight and 40 to 50 cents
dressed.
"There is no apparent reason' for the
increase save the general advance in
prices and the wild scramble of people
to get the limit in prices for everything
they have to sell," said a dealer :
. We understand that this was a dry year,
a good 'turkey' year. But so far they're
pretty scarce. Lots of farmers killed
off all their birds to get fancy prices
and they couldn't afford to keep them
on account of the high price of corn
and other feed. It looks like we'll eat
more chicken this Thanksgiving than
last year."
The chicken market is very brisk, the
fowls ranging in price from twenty-two
to. twenty-eight cents a pound, according
to the grade. Housekeepers find some
encouragement in the abundance of
cranberries from New Jersey and Cape
Cod, which are selling for eight and ten
cents a quart. A plump rooster, fattened
for killing and disguised with plenty
cranberry sauce, they argue, can with
ease masquerade as a gobbler. More
chickens than turkey will be eaten in
Hershey this year,
OVER 700 PU PILS
IN THE SCHOOL
New Activities in the M. S. Hershey
Consolidated School of Derry
Township Include a Literary
Society And Various Ath-letic
Activities. Notes
At the M. S. Hershey Consolidated
School attendance has a high average
and many new pupils are being added.
Over 700 pupils are enrolled and all are
in school at the present,
The High School organized a Literary
Society last week and elected Willis
Dressier, president; Miss Myrtle Hershey,
secretary; and Miss Verna Stuckey,
pianist. A 'Thanksgiving program will
be rendered this afternoon , Wednesday.
Music School
Recitation , "The Pumpkin "
Lydia Wcltmer
Piano Solo Violet Wagner
Paper , "Our First Thanksgiving "
Ruth Runkle
Violin Solo Josephine Furnicd
Recitation , "A Thanksgiving Dream"
Walter DeVerter
Paper , "Why the United States Should
Have a Thanksgiving Day "
Chester Ebersole
Piano Solo , ,, Martha Kecney
Address Rev, It. H Taylor
Vocal Solo Russell Clark
Recitation , "November 's Come"
Lillian Shopo
Current Events Myrtle Hershey
Budget Elva Gruber
Music School
Athletics are booming at the school.
The football team played only a few
games, but in those they linil lots of real
sport. All the players finished the
season in excellent condition and there
was hot one accident during the season,
The boys and girls have both organized
basketball teams for tho coming season,
Willis Dressier him been elected manager
of the hoys' live unci is busy booking
strong attractions. The outlook for a
good five is promising and many of
the larger high schools will be played,
The team will open Its season on December
8 at York with tho High School Five of
that place,
Miss Myrtle Hershey is manager of
the girls quintet unci a big schedule will
bo nrrnnRccI , Miss Ruth V, Englc, who is
couching the team, anticipates a' good
season, Tho girls wi|l open their season
with the Hanover High School.
.¦Misses Anna II, Lloyd and Esther
Moyur and Viola Grubor attended tho
Clio Anniversary at Lebanon Valley
College last Friday evening,
Tho school vacation extends from
Wednesday until Monday, December 4.
It Holds Its Own With the Remark -
able Progress of Trust Companies
In the United States. Some
Figures That Are Import-ant
and Interesting
The Hershey Trust Company 's re- .
port under date of November 17 pub-lished
in full in this, issue of the Hershey
Press is an unusually fine one. It sho-ws
resources of $2,084,219.42, with individual
deposits of $1,422,262.03. Its capital
stock is $125,000; it has a surplus fund
of $125,000, and it also has undivided
profits, less expenses and taxes paid, of
. $144,348.04.
There has been a splendid increase all
along the line in the business of this admu'r-:
ably managed institution. This means ah
increase in the number of depositors* in
the number of persons served, in the
totals of moneys handled and in all the
various services performed by the.modern
trust company.
In view of the wonderful , success it
seems curious and even amazing to re-call
that when Mr. M. S. Hershey started
the company there were many in this
neighborhood who said it could never
live. Not only has it lived but it has
become a center of indispensable service
to a large area of the Lebanon Valley
and it is one of the most popular com-panies
in the country with as handsome
a home as can be found anywhere.
The New Dividend
At the regulr meeting of the board
held on the 23rd a semi-annual dividend
of five per cent was declared, payable
December 1. This is the tenth dividend
of 5 per cent paid by the Hershey Trust
Company. Thus there has been re-turned
in dividends to the stockholders
$62,500, or one-half of the original
capital since the company was organized
twelve years ago.
TRUST. COMPANY RESOURCES
Now Exceed Seven Billion Six Hun-dred
Million Dollars
The fourteenth annual edition of
"Trust Companies of the United States"
issued by the United States Mortgage
& Trust Company, New York , is being
distributed.
In the preface, President John W. Plat-ten
says: "The Trust Companies of the
United States during the year just closed
have had exceptional ' opportunities for
service to the financial and commercial
interests of this country and to foreign
nations as well. The problems incident
to tho new position of the Trust Com-panies
in world affairs have been met and
solved with courage, while the business
openings resulting therefrom have been
availed of with enterprise and good
judgement, A noteworthy increase in
the business of acceptances, both foreign
and domestic, the establishment of well
equipped departments for the handling
of foreign transactions, especially with
with Central and South America , and
liberal pnrtlcipatiqns in foreign loans,
are till deserving of special mention,
The work of unifying and improving
existing laws for the safeguarding of the
Interests of these companies and their
clients is progressing satisfactorily, while
tho administration of corporate -and
probate trusts ever increasing volume is
continually evidenced.
"When If Isconsidercd thnUho aggregate
of trust company resources reported
during the year increased one billion ,
three hundred million dollars and now
totals over .Seven billion six hundred
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million dollars, the vital and growing
importance of the part played by Trust
Companies in national and international
affairs will be fully realized and these
institutions continue to receive a deserv-edly
increasing measure of recognition
and support." .
Thestatementsof 1937 Trust Comanpies
are contained in the book in addition '
to officers and directors, stock quotations,
dividend rates, etc, while the names of
95 companies, are shown that did not
render a report for' publication thus
making a total of 2032 Trust Companies
listed.
Just five years ago the aggregate re-sources
of these companies reported in
this compilation were $5,168,00O,0O0>
showing an increase of- 47 per cent for
all trust companies in the United States.
The showing of trust company growth in
the United States is interesting :
New York State increased $531,000,-
000 or 25 per cent. •
Pennsylvania increased $139,000,000
or 15 per cent.
Illinois increased $117,000,000 or
eighteen per cent.
Massachusetts increased $110,000,000
or 26 per cent.
The total resources of the Trust Com-panies
of Pennsylvania, amount to $1,-
075,745,000 a gain of $141,409,000 or
15 per cent during the past year.
MOVING PICTURE PROGRAM
Thursday—Thanksgiving — night will
see one of the finest picture shows of
the year at the Hershey Central Theatre.
Saturday, December 2, will be Lillian
Walker in ' 'The Blue Envelope Mystery,''
a Vitagraph picture.
Wednesday, December 6, will be a
Bluebird picture, "The Secret of the
Swamp" with a cast of film stars. All of
these are superexcellent features and
there should be crowded houses.
CLASS STARTS WELL
The engineering class with A. Bowman
Snavely as instructor has started well,
It promises to have twenty members or
more, There was a fine meeting Friday
evening and there will be another meet-ing
Thursday evening of next week in the
Public Library.
TOO BUSY TO TALK
, "Please go away. We are too busy to
talk. " This is the greeting one gets at
the Hershey Chocolate Factory these
days, It seems that most of the world at
this particular time wants cocoa and
chocolate and everybody prefers the
Hershey products, So the big plant is
working 100 per cent and is still miles
behind its orders, Among the shipments
this week were several hundred tons of
cocoa to Europe.
WEDDING AT Y. W.C A.
• /
About fifty happy young girls gathered
in the Reading room of the Young Wo-men's
Christian Association on Satu r-day,
November 25, at the noon hour to
witness the marriage of one of their
girl friends , Miss Lily Wiggins to Harry
Fasnucht of Coatsville. Miss Dorothea
Sellers played tho wedding march.
With Miss Chase as matron of honor , tlic
bridal couple entered the reading room
and presented themselves at the altar
which as beautifully decorated with palms
and ferns, Rev, R, II. Taylor performed
the ceremony. After congratulations ,
dinner was served in tho Cafeteria.
The couple left immediately on a trip
among friends in Lebanon Valley.
HOME OF HERSHEY TRUST COMPANY
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HERSHEY TRUST
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Men and Boys and Girls Over 16
CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WAGES IN THE
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY
There are places now open for men and boys and girls over 16 in tho
factory of the Hershey Chocolate Company, Tho work in very desirable be
causo tho wngica arc good, employment Is steady and the surroundings nro
health y and cheerful. Apply by letter or In person to the Hcrahoy Employ-ment,
Bureau.
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