The Hershey Press 1916-11-16

              LIVELY DAYS IN
THE BIG FACTORY
Running to Full Capacity to Fill
the Inrush of the Orders from
AH Parts of the United States .
Unprecedented Popu- .
ularity of Products
There is not a busier place in America
today than the great plant of the Hershey
Chocolate Company and everyone of its
fourteen hundred employees feels the
impulse and swing of the race to keep
¦within distance of the incoming orders.;
For that is the problem of the company,
to meet the demands pouring in from
the every part of America. It seems as
though people everywhere had appreciated
the fact that all the Hershey products
stood in a class by. themselves. The
policy of the company in building up a
chocolate and cocoa, business on lines of
the highest quality has won the country.
There are so many points of superex-cellencein
the Hershey plant that in. the
merits of the products there is no real
competition. No other factory in Am-erica
or elsewhere can match the equip-ment.
For example, the final ex-cellence
of milk chocolate is in the grind-ing
in the longitudinal machines which
insure the fine flavor and velvety smooth-ness.
These machines are big and ex-pensive
and they are difficult to get.
The Hershey plant has over 200 of
them. The other chocolate factories
in America have not half that number
and no other plant has a fifth of that
number. Moreover, of the new machines
being installed the majority are being
added to the unrivalled outfit of the
Hershey factory.
This leadership is duplicated in other
departments. The Hershey company
has the .best milk supply in America;
it has its own sugar refinery ; it is the
largest buyer in almonds, in the world.
So, it is not surprising that orders
are coming in far beyond its former
business. There are daily inquiries
about foreign business and the Hershey
company is mentioned in the newspapers
as being offerred million dollar contracts
from Europe. As a matter of fact, the
Hershey company is not considering
foreign business unless the conditions
be unusual, because the domestic bus-iness
is taking its entire output and
is calling , for more.
Running 100 per cent the Hershey
plant offers opportunities . for workmen.
The wages are good and the employment
steady. It needs girls and boys over 16
and pays them well. The work is at-tractive
because of its healthfulness and
the modern accommodations. .
UNION SERVICES
BEGIN NOV. 26
First Speaker Will lie the Eloquent
Bishop Cyrus K. Kephart of the
United ^Brethren Church
One of the Foremost of
Pulpit Orators
The first of the Sunday afternoon
Union Services will be held in the; Hershey
Central Theatre Sunday, November 26,
at 3 o'clock, and the speaker will be
Bishop Cyrua J. Kephart, one of the
most eloquent preachers of the United
States.
In previous seasons these services
have drawn thousands of • people to
Hershey on Sunday afternoons. The
experience has been that the people
prefer orators and speakers of the first
rank to the usual talks and entertainments.
For example last winter the largest
audiences were on the three Sundays in
January when the speakers were Rev.
Dr. Haas of the Lutheran Church, Bishop
Bell of the United Brethren Church , and
Rev. Dr. Rosa Stevenson of the Presby-terian
, men of high standing not
only in their respective denominations
but in the affairs of the country, This
year it ha J been decided to follow this
lead and the three churches of town have
been asked to select their most eloquent
and interesting speakers for the first
three Sundays. ¦
Bishop Kephart opens the season and
it was through Dr. Bultcrwlck's personal
acquaintance and persuasion that the
bislwp consented to come cast for his
Ilewihcy address. lie has charge of
the great southwestern territory of his
church and is a man of largo influence
and popularity. Ho is known to many
Ilcrshcy people and to the people of
the Lebanon Valley and it Is likely that
crowds will come from nearby towns
and cities tp hear him, His subject will
be undenominational and fitting to the
times. All will . enjoy it.
The Union Service Is one of Mr. Ilcr-shcy's
ideas to make Hershoy a usefu l
center of this part of the slate. The
affair Is free of expense to those who
attend and not oven a collection la taken
up. It will be made additionally attract-ive
by good mimic, All arc cordially
invited to bo present.
The Union Services arc under the di-rection
of the Men's Club.
TOWN TAKEN BY
THE DEMOCRATS
They Got Up Just About the Finest
Parade That Ever Lit Up the
Leba non Valley. Two Bands
And a Big Procession •
. Lots of Cheering
Aloug with > the rest of the country
Hershey awoke "Wednesday morning of
last week convinced that Hughes and
Fairbanks had been elected, and the
Republicans were happy. But through
the day the changes began and the
Democrats took hope, although most
of them thought the news too good to be
true. But the reports persisted anii the
probabilities grew so strong towards
evening that a few enthusiastic spirits
led by James Murray; Thomas Black
and others got out a drum and made a
noise. Then others with horns and
things joined and by eight o'clock there
was enough to make a fair-sized pande-monium,
which was promptly expended
along the streets and especially in front
of the homes of the leading Republicans.
Oh Thursday, when the news grew
reasonably certain, the Democratic spirit
humped itself and the Democrats be-gan
to ask William F. R. Murrie what
they should do to give proper expression
to the volcanos that surged within them.
Very promptly he told them to go the
limit on a parade and send the bills to
him—and that is how Hershey had the
biggest, loudest, finest , musicalist,
shoutingest political procession that ever
raised the roof of Lebanon Valley. .
There were two bands, the Hershey
band under Director Feese, and the
Palmyra Band and they played their
full lung power. Frank Crist dressed
as Uncle Sam carried an American flag
and rode the mule. Herman Schweers
carried a big American flag and aroused
enthusiasm everywhere. There were ten
banners, such as "Our Choice," with a
large picture of President Wilson; "Peace
Not War," "Four Years More of Pros-perity,"
and many clever phrases.
The parade, with Mr. Murrie as chief
marshal, James Murray as aid and
Joseph. Hills as cheer leader, formed
opposite the planing mill and took this
route: Chocolate avenue to Cocoa, to
Areba, to Homestead Avenue, counter-marching
on Areba, to Cocoa, to Caracas,
to Java, countermarching on Caracas,
to Ceylon, to Chocolate, to Park Avenue,
to Deny Road, all through Derry and
countermarching and reaching the east
end of Chocolate avenue, then to the
planing mill where it disbanded.
Along the route houses were brilliantly
illuminated and several flung out their
flags. The Glynn home was particularly
fine and in front of it H. A. Newton
waved a big flag. There were many
exchanges of pleasantries between the
victors and the vanquished and every-body
was in good humor. Cheer Leader
Hills' voice gave out but he had assistants
who kept up the work. Marshal Murrie
was warmly greeted everywhere. The
parade lasted from 7.30 to 9.30 and
there were nearly two hundred in line.
ZINNER PLAYS THE ORGAN
Saturday was a great day in Hershey
beacuse Frantz Zinner played the organ
from 12 to 4. It was in fron t o! the
post office and he had lost the bet made
with Frank Zentmeyer , who saw to it
that the organ was properly decorated
with such lines as, "The greatest presi-dent
this country ever had" and "He
gave us peace with honor," and Wilson's
picture between them. It was a clever
outfit and Zentmeyer made the most of
his opportunity, Zinner was a good
loser and he gave delight to the hundreds
who crowded around him. To make
the bet still more interesting a benefit
for the Harrlsburg Hospital was added ,
and this placard was conspicuous: "A
Dollar Makes The Dutchman Sing, "
Zinner lived up to the card and every
dollar brought a song with the organ
music. The result was $40 for the
hospital. This Incident attracted largo
attention in the newspapers and the
Harrisburg Patriot had a two column
Illustration showing the organ and Zinner
and Zentmeyer.
SUCCESSFUL HUNTERS
Killing 16 rabbits with sixteen shells
out of a possible 19 Herbert Straub, a
local hunter, claims to bo the chnmplon
hunter of the season. Mr. Straub mis-sed
his three shots the first clay, but
since has laid his prey low with only
one shot each. Ho has also shot several
quail,
John Daniel has also had a very suc-cessful
season and bagged two largo
cottontails thin week. Ralph Floro wan
out last week and shot 4 rabbits and
2 qunll. . .
REFORMED MENNONITES
The Reformed Monnonitcn will hold
services at their meeting house in Derry
Church this coming Sunday morning,
November 19.
WOULD FOLLOW
HERSHEY MODEL
Lebanon Girls Enjoy Thirty Mile
Hike and Learn Interesting Things
About the Hershey Young
Women's Christian Asso-ciation.
A Letter
Mrs.. Charles D. Weirick chaperoned
a party of Lebanon's finest girls on a
hike to Hershey and return. They
spent a night at the Young. Women's
Christian Association and so they were
made fully acquainted with its merits
and services. After they returned home
Mrs. Weirick sent to the Hershey Press
an account of their trip and with it a
note saying, "We hope Lebanon will
establish and maintain a Young Women's
Christian Association as successful as
yours. The time is coming when the
girls of Lebanon will have to be consid-ered
as well as the boys." There is a
Young Men's Christian Association in
Lebanon. Mrs. Weirick says Lebanon
badly needs the Young Women's Christian
Association.
Lebanon claims a population in excess
of 25,000. Hershey s population is about
1700. Thus Hershey has in full oper-ation
modern facilities which a city of
wealth and thousands does not possess.
Indeed it is only by comparison that
one realizes the significance and value of
an institution such as the Hershey Young
Women's Christian Association. It has
250 members and room accommodations
for 60. The rooms are models of com-fort
and cleanliness. The occupants are
employees of the factory and the store.
These , accommodations are equal to
those of first-class hotels. The whole
equipment is on liberal lines. On the
first floor is . the Cafeteria, finished in
mission, and here food of first quality is
served. There are reading rooms, tennis
courts, a new baseball diamond and
a gymnasium. Camp life is popu-lar.
The several active organiza-tions
include a Glee Club. The Association
gives excellent entertainments. Its work
in the factory is very interesting. It
gets up programs and finds speakers
and conducts classes in English.
At the meeting of the board of direct-ors
Monday evening, Mrs, M. L. Hershey
presiding, further consideration was given
to the choice of a new executive secretary,
but no conclusion was reached , The
president, Mrs. M. L. Hershey, has been
giving the Association close attention
during the past few months and this
direction along with the capable work of
Mrs. Chase has been very successful.
The association is in fine shape and
arrangements are made for the carrying
the class and social programs, All the
rooms are taken and the cafeteria is
very popular.
Work for the Winter
Senior work outlined is as follows:
Monday—7:00 to 8;00 P. M., Gymnasium
Class—Marching, free work, folk dancing,
apparatus and games. Tuesday—2,30
to 3,00—Swimming Class. 7.03 to (3,00
—Meeting of the Industrial Clubs. A
business meeting is held. Then the
clubs unite and courses in ancient history,
literature and current events are pursued,
Miss Lloyd and Mrs. Hauck , teachers
of the Hershey High School, have
charge o! the educational work, Thurs-day—
7 to 8—Gymnasium Class.
Junior Work outlined is as follows:
Tuesday—3,30 to. 5.00-Loyalty Club,
ago 10 to 13. Gymnasium work, bas-ketry
work will bo started ; Thursday—
3.30 to 130—Sewing Class for Juniors,
Mrs, Mowers with several assistants has
charge of the class and usefu l articles of
wearing apparel are made; Saturday
—10 to 11—Sunshine Children, age 6
to 9. Gymnasium Work. A simple
course in raffia work will be started .
Evening Classes are as follows: Tues-day—
7.30 to 9.30—Sewing Class, Mrs.
Bacastow, Teacher. Wednesday—6.30
to 7:30—Crocheting Class. Teacher,
Miss Catherine Mumma. Thursday—
7.30 to 8.0O—Bible Class—The De-votional
Committee has charge ; Friday1—
6.30-^Vesper services, led by the different
pastors of Hershey.
The Thirty Mile Hike
The account of the hike to Hershey
sent by Mrs. Weirick quotes the Leban-on
News and tells the following enter :
taining story:
"Exceedingly happy and not a bit
tired from their 30 mile, two-day, hike,
the Swatara Camp Fire Girls arrived
home from Hershey about three o'clock
on Saturday afternoon. The weather
had been glorious,' Friday and Saturday,
ideal days for hiking and as they all put
it they, had an "absoluteluy wonderful"
time, Starting at 3:30 o'clock on Friday
afternoon, all. wearing the red and blue
high school or the crimson and steel caps
of the Senior class, in highest spirits,
they were enough to cause any one to
Young Women's Christian Association
doubt whether there was a bunch any-where
to beat them for huskiness. They
arrived at Hershey around 7:15 o'clock.
"An incident these Indians will re-member
happened on the hike up. They
"put one over" on the two fellows who
thought they could scare camp fire
girls. Between Annville and Palmyra
while the moon was shining brightly they
passed . a field in which were immense
shocks of corn and there the "ghost"
appeared. Sliding from the shadow of
the largest shock of all, wrapped in
white with flashes of light coming forth
from under , its garments, it made a
"bee line".for the Campies. The road
was covered with small stones just
where the girls stood and without utter-ing
a word, the girls started the hurling
process with vengeance. The tables were
turned, and two pairs of legs suddenly
seen to come into use as the ghost hur-ried
back to the seclusion of the shocks
again. The girls stayed at the Y. W.
C. A. and Mrs. Chase, the acting secre-tary,
and Miss Hornsby, the physical
director, had plenty of entertainment
planned including special music and
dancing in their honor and the evening
was pleasantly spent. The Campies were
allowed sole use of the gymnasium
Saturday morning and they proved well
that they were no strangers with the
apparatus. The girls fully appreciated
the kindness of Mrs. Chase, the matron,
and Miss Hornsby, who is a graduate of
the New Haven School of Gymnastics,
and they' showed their appreciation
most by their enjoyment of it. The
hike home was started around 12:30
and nothing as stirring as the ghost
episode of the night before happen-ed.
Those participating in the hike were:
Mrs, Charles D. Weirick , guardian;
Marion Zellers, Elvira Ward , Miriam
Bowman, Blanche Berger, Nancy Ham-mond,
Roxie Phillips, Josephine Mack,
Margaret Ward, Edith Stager, Eliza-beth
Evans, Katharine- Funck, and Mar-garet
Matthews!"
MOTHERS' MEETING TUESDAY
The Mothers' Club will hold a meeting
next Tuesday evening, November 21,
in the kindergarten room of the M, S.
Hershey Consolidated School of Derry
Township, Attractive speakers will dis-cuss
"The Training of Fathers." The
hostesses will bo Mrs. Thomas L. Mc-
Hcff y and Mrs. Linn II. llnwbeckcr .
All ladies are cordially Invited to bo
present.
HERSHEY LIVES
ON THE TROPICS
Remarkable Figures .Showing the
Increasing Dependence of the
United States on the Pro-ducts
of the : Tropical
American Countries
If it were not for the cocoa and the
sugar that are obtained -front tropical
countries Hershey would not exist.
So there is peculiar interest in a state-ment
of facts and figures which the
Department of Commerce at Washing-ton
has kindly supplied to the Hershey
Press.
Note the marvelous increase in the
importations of cocoa:
1905, 74,000,000 pounds of cocoa
imported.
1915, 192,000,000 pounds of cocoa
imported. . .
1916,. 243,000,000 pounds of cocoa
imported.
¦ In the same period sugar almost
doubled.
The full statement of the Department
of Commerce is as follows:
More than a billion dollars worth of
tropical products were brought into this
country during the fiscal year 1916.
The exact total was - $1,060,850,416,
according to official figures of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of
the Department of Commerce, and this
was a decided increase over $807,642,182
of 1915, the $505,511,552 in 1905, and
the $303,476,706 in 1895'.
These large and rapidly increasing
purchases of tropical products consist
mainly of foodstuffs and raw materials
not produced in the United States and
of certain others grown in our insular
territories. Sugar heads the list, with
imports valued at $314,000,000 in the
fiscal year 1916. That sum represents
an increase of $57,000,000 over 1915
and of $156,000,000 over 1914, India
rubber, gutta percha, gutta joolatong
and other substitutes showed imports
in 1916 valued at $159,000,000 as against
$86,000,000 in the preceding year. Im-ports
of raw silk amounted in value to
$124,000,000 a 50 per cent increase over
1915; coffee, $116,000,000, an increase
of about 8 per cent over 1915; fibers
other than flax, $56,000,000, an increase
of almost 50 per cent; fruits and nuts,
$55,000,000, a very slight increase; raw
cotton, $40,000,000 an increase of about
70 per cent; tobacco and manufactures of,
$38,000,000, a decrease of $2,750,000;
and cocoa and chocolate, $36,000,000 an
increase of 50 per cent over 1915. Other
important items in this group are vege-table
oils, $34,000,000, against $25,000-,
000 in 1915; tea, $21,000,000 compared
with $18,000,000 last year; gums, $15,-
000,000, against $12,000,000 in 1915;
dyewoods and extracts, $10,000,000, a-gainst
$5,000,000 in 1915; spices, $9,-
000,000, against $6,000,000 in 1915;
indigo, $8,000,000, against $1,600,000,
in the preceding year; rice, $6,200,-
000, against $6,400,000 in 1915; and
cabinet woods, $4,000,000 against $4,-
300,000, in 1915. Feathers, ivory, sago
and tapioca, vanilla beans, licorice roots,
opium, quinine-bearing barks, and
sponges, in sums varying from about
$3,000,000 down to less than $1,000,000
each, complete the list of the more im-ported
tropical and subtropical products
imported.
The following shows the remarkable
growth in the quantity of specified trop-ical
products imported into the United
States from foreign countries and its
tropical islands, Porto Rico and Hawaii:
Tropical Imports into the United
States
(In millions of pounds.)
Articles 1905 1915 1916
Sugar 4,517 7,288 7,618
ColTce 1,051 1,12(1 1,204
Fibers 665 788 1,066
Rubber 68 196 304
Rice 109 280 2C8
Cotton 85 19C 233
Cocoa 74 192 243
Tea 103 97 110
Spices 53 60 83
Tobacco, leaf.. 30 53 G5
Silk , raw 22 31 42
MR. DIEHM'S NEW CAR
Mr, and Mrs, John B. Dielim spent
Saturday on a motor trip through the
upper part of Dauphin county. The trip
was made in their now Cloverleaf Elgin
car which they purchased last week.
MR. COPENHAYER'S CHANDLER
George E. Copcnhaver, of the Hershey
Industrial School, purchased a Chandler
six cylinder car last week, It is a lata
model and a beauty, The purchase
was mado through an agency In Harris-burg.
TWO NEW MACHINES SOLD
J. C. Hess during the past week sold
a King "8" machine and n Ford touring
car. The- King car was purchased by
Ira J. Bacastow of Horshey and tho
Ford went to a parly at Swatara Station.
CUSTOMER PAYS
ALL IN THE END
Simple Lesson In Modern Merchan-dising
That Is of Large Import-ance
In These Days of the
High Cost of Things
Policy of This . Store
Prices of all commodities are increasing
so rapidly that everybody will soon have
to study ways of economy. The . time
has come when the saving of the penny
is important to every family.
One of the evils that increase the cost
Of goods is the abuse of the delivery
system. Some people think that it is
nothing to put a store to extra trouble.
They forget that the store has to pay
and in order to live it must pass this
expense to the customers.
It is the greatest mistake to think that
the merchant who promises free de-livery
is not including the cost of it in
his bill. . Common sense ought to show
anyone how plain that is.
And yet customers would have the
delivery wagons making extra trips all
day for their special convenience.
In Hershey the Department Store has
outlined a system of deliveries that
will serve the largest number at the most
convenient hours, and it is striving to
cut out'all the special trips unless there
be absolute urgency for them. There
will be a saving in this poliicy and it
will be put in the lower cost of goods.
In other words the Hershey. Store and
its customers are about to enter into
a plain, common sense cooperation that
will save money.
This delivery question is now a big
one in the merchandise business every-where.
One of the great merchants of
the country is thus quoted by the leading
business paper of America, The Journal
of Commerce:
"Good, efficient, prompt delivery is an
asset to a store, and it is good advertising.
"Practically nothing can be done except-ing
to educate the public up to a point
where it will endeavor to be fair to the
stores as the stores are to . their customers.
There are cases where a customer will see
an attractive rug and order it sent home to
see how it looks on the floor. Perhaps the
next day we will be asked to send for it
and take it back. It adds to our delivery
costs, and we get nothing out of it, but
what can we do?
"In cases like this it is also unfair to
the salesman, for when the merchandise
is bought and then returned and credited,
it decreases their earnings, or the earnings
they expect, but we cannot refuse to
accomodate the customer.
"The delivery department is for the
convenience of the people purchasing
in our store. THE PRICES FOR
GOODS IN THE DEPARTMENT
STORES ALL HAVE TO BEAR THE
DELIVERY COSTS ANYWAY, SO
IN THE END THE CUSTOMER
PAYS THEM. Still it is true that
some people make this delivery cost
still higher for t,he stores through being
unfair."
An illustration of how unfairly some of
the stores are treated may be seen by the
following incident: A woman phoned the
hat department of a big shop and asked to
have a man call for one of her items of
headgear that she desired trimmed over,
The hat was called for and taken to the
store. The woman appeared next day
and ordered it trimmed with a bow of
navy blue ribbon; the trimming was
done and the hat sent to her residence.
A day later she had the hat returned.
Another example of the unreasonable-ness
of some requests for the delivery of
merchandise is the following; A woman
ordered some wooden button molds, tho
total amount of the sale being about 6
cents, and she asked to have them sent
to her home on 180th street and wanted
them sent "special." Car fare for the
delivery boy alone would have amounted
to more than ' the sale, and tho store
pointed out this to tho customer that her
request was "slightly unreasonable."
Tho woman had to bo handled diplo-matically,
however, or the store would
have lost her permanently as a customer.
Tho manager of the store was wonder-ing
if one of his competitors would have
delivered that 6-ccnt sale.
An official of another store, discussing
tho high cost of deliveries and tho prob-lems
confronting thorn, said: "The only
thing we can do Is to try to get tho public
to give our stores as fair a deal as wo
try to give to everybody who makes a
purchase from us. Wo only ask them
not to bo unfair , and wo can only attempt
to point out to them, when unfairness la
apparent , that wo ought not to bo obliged
to put up with it."
LUTHERAN , DELEGATION
E, L, Bomgardncr, Dr. H. G. Mumma,
A. T. Heilmnn and Rev. John I, Mock, as
representatives of tho local Holy Trinity
Lutheran church , attended tho meeting
of tho Zlon Lutheran church , Harrls-burg,
last week. An organization will
bo effected to obscrvo'tho Quadrlccntonn lnl
of tho Reformation in tho Lutheran
churches of Harrisburg and vicinity.
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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 glrla over 16 in tho
factory of the Herahoy Chocolate Company. Tho work is very desirable be-cause
tho wages arc good, employment; la steady and tho surroundings are
healthy and cheerful. Apply by letter or in person to tho Hershey Employ-ment
Bureau.