The Hershey Press 1918-11-21

              President
Wilsons
Thanksgiving
Proclamation
Washington , not. 17.
President Wilson's Thanksgiving Day
proclamation , dated Saturday, was made
public here today. It follows:
It has been our custom to turn in the
autumn of the year in praise and thanks-giving
to Almighty God for His many
blessings and mercies to us as a nation.
This year we have special and moving
cause to be grateful and to rejoice. God
has in His good pleasure given us peace.
It has not come as a mere cessation of
arms, a mere relief from the strain and
tragedy of war. It has come as a great
triumph of right.
Complete victory has brought us, not
peace alone, but the confident promise of
a new day as well, in which justice shall
replace force and jealous intrigue among
the nations. OJur gallant armies have
participated in a triumph which is not
marred or stained by any purpose of self-ish
aggression. In a righteous cause they
have won immortal glory and have nobly
served their nation in serving mankind.
God has indeed been gracious. We have
cause for such rejoicing as revivifies and
strengthens in us all the best traditions
of our national history. A new day
shines about us, in which our hearts take
new courage and look forward with new
hope to new and greater duties.
While we render thanks for the per-formance
of those duties, and divine mercy
and forgiveness for all errors of act or
purpose and pray that in all that we do we
shall strengthen the ties of friendship and
mutual respect upon which we must as-sist
to build the new srructure of peace
and good will among the nations.
Wherefore, I Woodrow Wilson, Pres-ident
of the United States, do hereby des-ignate
Thursday, the 28th day of Novem-ber
next, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people throughout
the land to cease upon that day from
their ordinary occupations and in their
several homes and places of worship to
render thanks to God, the ruler of nations.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my Hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia this
sixteenth day of November, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen and of the independance of
the United States of America the one
hundred and forty-third .
By the President:
WOODROW WILSON
Bug Attraction
for Thanks-giving
Eve
On Saturday evening, November 23d,
"THE GIRL PHILIPPA," the special
eight-part Blue Ribbon Feature from the
novel by Robert W. Chambers and which
was directed by S. Rankin Drew is com-ing
to Hershey Central Theatre. Dainty
Anita Stewart, the versatile Vitagraph
star scores the greatest triumph in her
entire career in this picture. She was
only a will-o-the-wisp girl, a bespangled
cashier in a cafe on the Franco-German
border. But she was destined for bigger
things. This is a smashing, red blooded ,
love drama. The picture that broke New
York Theatre Records. Merry Mer-maids,
a two-reel comedy will also be
shown. Show starts at 8:15 o'clock.
There will be no show Wednesday even-ing,
Nov. 27th, but there will be the next
evening, Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 28th.
Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 28th, "JACK
AND THE BEANSTALK" will be the
feature picture. This is a Fox Kiddie
Feature in ten acts. A stupendous Spec-tacular
production by children, for chil-dren
and grown-ups. This picture was
filmed at a cost of $500,000. Big Jim
Tarver, height 8'-6" plays the part of the
giant in this production. Bring the chil-dren
to see this wonderful Kiddie Feature
Show starts at 7:45 o'clock.
Union
Thanksgiving
Services
The United Churches of Hershey will
hold their usual Union Services on Thanks-giving
Day this year in Holy Trinity Luth-eran
Church at 10 o'clock in the morning.
The Rev. R. H. Taylor of the Presby-terian
church will preach the sermon.
One of the features of this service will
be the music furnished by a Boy's Vested
Choir of 17 voices from Elizabethtown.
Let us keep the day in its intended
way by gathering in the church to return
thanks for victory and all other blessings
of the year.
Hershey
Chocolate Go0
Secures Big
Govtfco Order
Last week the Hershey Chocolate Com-pany
secured a large order from the Gov-ernment,
putting the responsibility on
this community to place a half-pound
cake of chocolate in the hands of every
one of its 2,000,000 soldiers overseas on
Christmas.
It is essential that this chocolate be
wrapped and ready for shipment by Dec-ember
5th, and the Hershey Chocolate
Company made an appeal for 300 addi-tional
women to, wrap this chocolate.
The women of Hershey and vicinity res-ponded
nobly and more than the required
number volunteered their services for
this work. They are doing splendidly,
too, and the Hershey Chocolate Company
wish to thank each and every one of them
for helping to fill the order.
To give one an idea how large amount
of choco.ate this order amouats to, would
state that it will take more than 60
freight cars to ship from Hershey to New
York.
Bridge Meeds
Repairing
Who pays for the clothes spoiled and
the broken springs in the autos that meet
their fate in the mud holes in the roadway
of the bridge over Spring Creek at the
foot of Bowling Alley Ml?
If we have a road-supervisor in this
township—a certain family in Spring
Creek would like to know him so they
can send him a bill for the clothing that
was ruined on a child that was going to
school on Monday morning. As usual
after a rain the holes were filled with
water and a machine came along and
splashed the child so badly she thought
she had fallen into the creek.
This is one of many such incidents.
Now somebody—get busy—even if it
is a load of ashes—fill up the holes.
Endeavors
toMeet
Arrangements are about competed for
a rousing annual Christian Endeavor
rally to be held under the auspices of the
Dauphin county and Harrisburg C. E.
Unions, in the Second Reformed church,
Harrisburg, on Tuesday, November 26th.
Two sessions will be held in the afternoon
and evening. A luncheon and social
hour will be held at six o'clock in the
social hall of the church where the En-deavors
meet for the regular sessions.
Every society in Dauphin county and
the city unions will send at least two dele-gates
and the names are urged to be sent
to Miss Bessie E. March, 410 S. Thir-teenth
Street, Harrisburg. All persons
desiring accomodations over night are re-quested
to send to Charles R..Bartley>
Bellevue Road, Harris,burg, for further
information.
The Rev. Charles E. Schaeffer, P.D.,
of Philadelphia, a prominent speaker and
a popular missionary secretary of the Re-formed
church in the United States, will
be the principal speaker in se evening;
Soldiers and sailors in active service
crave chocolate, not as a treat to the palate
but as the satisfaction of "sugar hunger,"
which is the direct result of hard, muscular
work in the open air. To them, chocolate
is food; the quickest and easiest means of
restoring the energy and heat just bur ned
by hard labor.
In the field an emergency food ration
consists of ten ounces of hard tack and
six ounces of hard chocolate; The solid
mixture of sugar and fat supplies strength
and endurance on short notice.
The materials for the best candies are
sugar, milk, cream, butter, nuts and can-died
fruits and flavors. Every ingredient
is high jm caloric value, and, in combina-tion,
eandy is about the richest food poss-ible
to obtain.
Dr. J. E. Leikauf recommends the use
of candy as a concentrated food- under
special circumstances, where other foods
are nor easily available, but, for general
use by civilians, candy is food in a very
expensive form, and, in the light of the
present sugar shortage, its use should be
much restricted for patriotic civilians.
Such candy as is purchased should be
regarded as a food and .be sent to the
soldiers, who need it as extra energy.
When buying candy as an extra food
to send soldiers, it is well to know the
forms which supply the most energy per
pound.
Plain hard chocolate cakes or tablets
contain 2860 calories per pound, nut cen-ter
chocolates contain 2498; chocolate
dipped caramels, 2155; plain chocolate
creams, 2092; fudge, 1587; caramels, 1451;
and stick candy, 1745.
If candy is ever served at home, it
should be served only as a dessert, at the
end of a meal which has been lacking in
other sweets. No other dessert or pre-serves,
or sweets of any kind, should be
served at the same meal. ¦'
Candy is not a luxury, but a food in
itself.
Chocolate Is
a Food~==
Soldiers
Crave Hit
One of the immediate effects of the
closing of the war, the lifting of the em-bargo
on building materials, will be the
greatest building boom Hershey has ever
seen.
Plans are now under way to erect 100
dwelling houses, and if the weather con-tinues
mild, there is no doubt but what
work on these houses will begin immedi-ately.
The houses will be constructed of brick,
of hollow tile, of timber, and a number of
them will be combination houses.
It is planned to erect these houses in
the southern part of Hershey, below Areba
street.
Hershey is very much in need of houses,
and it will do much to relieve the labor
scarcity prevalent here.
Join the crowd at the Store Friday.
Hershey to
Have Building
Boom By
Spring
No doubt there will be a large number
ot our boys home over the holidays and
a suggestion has been offered that instead
of a Community Christmas trep on Christ-mas
afternoon all of the churches com-bine
in a real old-fashioned mass meeting
in the Hershey Central Theatre, in the
Press building or in some other place
large enough to hold the crowds—and do
honor to the boys who will be with us.
Now, don't read this and forget it. If
you approve of this suggestion, and we
hope you will, why write your suggestion
on a sheet of paper as to what sort of a
celebration you consider suitable, and
mail it to this office.
Think what a big jollification could be
had if everyone in Hershey would get
together on this.
We could have music, dancing, and
possibly some of the boys who have been
across would relate their 'experiences, or
an entertainment by either local or im-ported
talent—altogether a big day.
What say you?
Write your suggestion and send it in.
Lets hear from the:
Hershey Reserves.
Hershey Boy Scouts.
Hershey Red Cross.
Hershey Men's Club.
Hershey Y. W. C. A.
Hershey Consolidated School.
Hershey Industrial School.
Hershey Dept. Store.
Hershey Transit Co.
Hershey Chocolate Co.
Do you want to honor your boys? If
you do—Get busy now on your suggestion.
Peace Jubilee
In Hershey
for Xmnias