The Hershey Press 1917-05-24

              NEW BUILDING
TO BE 6 STORIES
Will Take the Place of the Four One-
Story Buildings in the Heart of the
Hershey Chocolate Factory
Manufacturing Purposes
Increase Floor Space
A month ago it was announced that
visitors would not be admitted to the
factory of the Hershey Chocolate Com-pany
until further notice because of ex-tensive
building operations. There has
been much curiosity to know what these
improvements would be.
The present factory has about 35 acres
of floor space. It is a group of many
buildings finely coordinated and . system-atized.
All the buildings except four are
3, 4,- and 5 stories. .
The four exceptions are one-story
buildings- in the heart of the . factory.
They will be replaced by a splendid
modern six-story building of structural
steel, and the work is now under way.
This new structure will have many de-partments
and rooms which will be de-voted
to "refrigeration and manufacturing
purposes.
At the eastern end of the factory the
big cocoa and sugar warehouse is near-ing
completion. It will have a capacity
of 45,000 bags.
These improvements and additions
will increase the floor area of the factory
to more than 40 acres.
OLD FAVORITES
R ETURN HERE
Dan Malloy And Hazel Corrinne And
Their Company Will Begin Four
. • Weeks' Engagement At Her-shey
Park Theatre Next
Week. New Plays
The siimmer season for Hershey Park
will officially open Monday evening with
the appearance of Dan Malloy and Hazel
Corrinne with their company in the Park
Theatre. This will mark the sixth
successive year in which the local theatre
patrons have been , fayored -with this
clever company during the opening week,
and the members are always as certain
of getting a warm welcome g^itfee patrons
are of seeing clever shows.
This company will appear f or four
weeks following a thirty-five weeks en-gagement
at the Mozart Theatre in Elfhira.
Malloy and Miss Corrinne have surround-ed
themsejves with a splendid acting
support. The opening play, May 28,
29 and 30, will be "Little Peggy O'Moore,"
a society comedy drama which abounds
with quaint Irish wit that makes the
audience wish to be in the land of the
shamrock. "The Bluffers," a rolicking
comedy, will follow for the last part of
the week.
Although the present unsettled con-dition
of the country may effect the picnics
this year, the management is preparing
to handle large crowds of excursionists
throughout the entire summer and many
improvements are being made in the
various sections of the park. ¦ A large
force of mechanics is at present busily
engaged in laying a new cement bottom in
the swimming pool which when completed
will result in Hershey having one of the
most modern and up-to-date pools in the
state. An addition has also been placed
to the bath house making it possible to
accomodate three times the number of
bathers as formerly. The large restaurant
has been further enlarged and will be
open to the public next week. Dinners
will be served at popular prices,
The dance floor is being put in good
condition for the Fourth Annual May Hop
this evening, Men have been busy for
several days waxing the floor and ar-ranging
beautiful decorations throughout
the building. This dance promises to
surpass in all respects the ninny previous
affairs. One fcaluro of the dance will be
the music which will be furnished by
Myers' Orchestra of Ilarrisburg, This
orchest ra is one of the best musical organi-zations
in Dauphin County, During the
winter months it furnished .music for the
Winlerdalo Dance Pnvilllon in II/irris-burg,
A large attendance la expected
from Ilarrisburg, Lebanon , Reading, and
Lancaster. As Iiiih been the custom in
the past souvenirs will be presented to nil
of the dancers, ladies and gentlemen,
Ilcrshoy anglers are having excellent
luck this sensou. They nro cntclilng
flno strings of suckers, perch , catfish
nnd eels, Excellent places are the Swn-tn.
ru nnd Mnnadn Creole, The flnliin« In
the Conowngo is the best for years,
GOOD FISHING THIS YEAR
ALUMNI MEETING
A mooting of the 'llerslipy High Sclionl
Alumni Association will b'u held Friday
evening May 25th, at 7:.'10 o'clock , at. the
Ilersliay High School Building. All mem-bers
are requested to bo present. Im-portant
business will bo transacted,
HERSHEY CLUB
LIBERTY LOAN
Trust Company Makes It Easy For
Everyone to Join in Duty of Saving
And Investing For Victory And
Liberty. Bonds Secured
By Weekly Payments
Beginning June 1 the Hershey : Trust
Company .will forth a Liberty Loan Club
which will not only enable anyone to
save and invest wisely but will give to all
an opportunity to assist their Govern-ment
in its noble fight for freedom by
furnishing supplies and munitions for
the Army, and Navy. Full details will
be found in the last two columns of page
4 of this issue of the Hershey Press.
The Hershey Trust Company is handling
free of all charge subscriptions to the
Liberty Loan bonds. The subscriptions
in and around Hershey will exceed $50,-
000, but they should be even more than
that. To answer the many questions
the Hershey Press gives below the author-itative
information received by it from
the Treasury Department of the United
States:
What Is the Bond?
A Liberty Loan Bond is a solemn
promise of the United States to pay at
maturity the amount of the bond to the
holder thereof, and to .pay interest semi-annually
each.year -from the date of the
issuance of the bond until-it is fully and
finally paid.
What Is the Security? <i
The . faith and honor of . the United
States, backed by all the resources of
the nation and the American people.
A Liberty Loan Bond is a mortgage on all
the resources and taxing powers of the
Government and all of the resources of
the American people.
The Nat ure of tlie Bond
There are two kinds of Liberty Loan
Bonds. Bearer Bonds are to be issued
in denominations of $50, $100, $500, and
$1,000. These Bearer Bonds, which are
made payable to bearer, have interest
coupons attached which are detached by
the holder when the interest installments
they represent are due, and can be cashed
at any bank the same as a United States
Treasury Note.
Registered bonds are to be issued,
which are registered as to both .principal
and interest, in denominations of $100
$500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000,
and $100,000; checks for the amount of
interest due will be mailed out semi-annually
to the holders of these registered
bonds.
What Are the Terms?
Liberty Loan Bonds of the first issue of
$2,000,000,000 are to bear date of June
15, 1917, and to run for thirty years,
except that the Government reserves
the right to pay them fifteen years after
date. If this right is not exercised by
the Government fifteen years from date,
the bonds will run the full thirty years.
These bonds bear interest at 3 1-2
per cent, annum, and the interest is pay-able
semiannually on the fifteenth day of
December and the fifteenth day of June
in each year.
What Special Ad-vantages?
One special advantage no other bonds
National , State, municipal , or corporate,
have is that if the United States during
the continuance of this war shall issue
other bonds at a higher rate of interest ,
the holders of these Liberty Bonds have
the right to exchange their Liberty bonds
for bonds bearing the higher rate of in-terest,
dollar for dollar.
What Other Advanta ges?
. They are non-taxable. If your city,
county, and State taxes aro three mills
on the dollar, n not unusual tax, these
bonds arc equivalent to ordinary corporate
bonds or other investments benring 6 1-2
per cent.
In addition , no Federal *tax which war
conditions may later make necessary
will effect these bonds. The only tax
these bonds arc subjept to is the inherit-an
ce lax , which applies to all property
of all kinds whatsoever.
It Is earnestly desired thai , this loan
shall bo a popular loan , n loan by and
from the people at large of the United
States,' and not alone from hanks , trust
compiwicH, smc] financiers, To that end
bonds are to bo issued of small denomin-ations
, and subscribers for smnll amounts
aro to be supplied before the subscribers
for large amounts aro ftrsinted their full
subscription.
Patriotic to Purchase
Every American who loves America
nnd Is Jealous of America 's honor should
subscribe to the Liberty Loan Bond issue,
The real success of the loan Is to be mora
determined by the- number of Americans
participating in It Limn by the amount,
subscribed, The spirit of the Nation
Is going to bo judged abroad , especially
by our enemies, more by the number of
Its American men and women who support
this bond Issue than by the mere amount
of money subscribed.
Why "Liberty Lonr>"?
The $F),(KX),0(H),()00 bond Ismio of this
year is named "The Liberty Loan of
1017" because it is to ho n loan from a
free people to bo used in freeing tlio world.
BISHOPS CHOSEN
BY CONFERENCE
Dr. Butterwick of Hershey Among the
Prdminent Delegates. The. New
Bishop is Well Known in Her-shey.
What Governor
of Kansas Said
¦ Rev. Dr. R. R. Butterwick of Hershey
and Rev. Dr. Gossard, president of
Lebanon Valley College, have been prom-inent
in the sessions of the general con-ference
of the United Brethren Church
at Wichita,. Kansas. The conference is
the finest and largest in the history of
the church.
The five bishops of the United Brethren
Church for the next quadrennium, elected
are: William M. Bell, H. H. Fout, C. J.
Kepharf , G. M.. Matthews and W. H.
Washinger. Bishop Washinger, the new
member of the Board of Bishops, is from
Ghambersburg, Pa., and has been super-intendent
of the Pennsylvania Confer-ence
of that denomination for the last
fifteen years. During the time he has
served in this capacity he has beerran
important cog in the workings of his
department and it is said that no district
has had better supervision . He has been
in the ministry for the last thirty-five
years. He is a graduate of Lebanon
college and has a remarkable personality.
Other officers elected were Dr; W.
R. Funk, publishing agent; Dr. J;- M.
Phillippi, editor Religious Telescope; Dr.
C. J. B. Brane, associate editor of Re-ligious
Telescope. ,.,
Enthusiasm which marked the first
meetings continued in other sessions.
Crowds packed the various classrooms
and lecture halls of the church and listened
to some of the foremost church workers
of the country.
Efforts to simplify work and coordinate
the forces of the church were brought
strongly to the fore.
Governor Arthur Capper was intro-r
duced to the conference as the first
governor born in Kansas and as belonging
to the Quaker persuasion.
"I bring you my friendship, " good
will and a good Kansas hand shake,"
said the governor. He said Kansas
was the greatest state in the union for
moral leadership. "This is because we
accept Christ for our leader," said Mr.
Capper. No people are more happy
than those accepting Jesus Christ for
their leader. The churches have done
more for the uplift of Kansas than all
other things combined."
He paid a high- tribute to his parents,
who were Quaker Christians, whom he
said had the true faith in God. He said
by voting prohibition in Kansas the people
had driven out the evil.
"We have a place in the fron t row,
we people of Kansas. The dominant
spirit of our people is found in their
ideas for fair play. Kansas is made
of the best Christian people. During
the past seventy years it has formed
from a solitary to a mighty state now
claiming one and . three-fourths million
people."
To show the perfect condition of
Kansas, the governor said "we send
more boys and girls to school than any
other state our size."
"We have 68 empty jails, 52 empty
poorhouses, 27 counties without crim-inals
from the effect of drink and a half
million boys and girls who never saw a
saloon,"
He prcdicLcd a saloonless nation in
five years.
"The bone dry law has done won-ders
for our people," said the governor.
"Our criminals have fallen off about one-half
since it went into effect. On a
recent trip to New York state the governor
there told me I had reason to be proud
of being governor of a state to put John
Barleycorn out of business.
Mr. Capper said Kansas is doing
everything possible to provide, food for
her country and other countries. He
said he had sent messages to Washington
insisting that; prolilbllion be adopted as
a war measure- to save grain. He said
he has also sent messages to forty-eight
other governors asking them to do the
same.
The goals pf the denomination for the
next quarronium were sel by the confer-ence
at a 100,000 increase in membership,
25 per cent. Increimo in the Sunday School
enrollment , 2000 more students in the col-leges
of Lho denomination and the prepara-tion
of 500 ministerial recruits nnd mis-sionary
workers.
The financial alms were expressed in
$150,000 for education and missionary en-dowment
and $1,000,000 for advancement
of the benevolent ; work of tlie church.
The movement to merge the Sunday
School and Christ Inn Kntlenvor depart-ments
was defeated ,
HUNDREDS OF CARS
Truffle al. the local slat Ion Is Lhe heaviest
In Lho history of Ilershoy, Hundreds
of cars aro turiviuK and departing every
week, Most of this business consists of
materials for the factory and shipments
of its productH l.o every part of the coun-try,
NEW STATISTICS
OF CHEWING GUM
Government Collects Figures That
Show the Enormous Increase
Annual Output is 175,000,000
Five Cent Packages. The
Habit Is" Growing
Well over a million dollars worth of
American chewing gum will reach foreign
buyers Ln the current fiscal year, accord-ing
,to estimates made at the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, De-partment
of Commerce.
During the first nine months of the
fiscal year the shipments aggregated
$926,500 in value or more than $100,000
a. month; and, if kept up, will make for
the complete year a total trade 500 times
as large as in 1894, when chewing gum
first appeared as a separate item in the
published official statistics.
The chewing of gum chicle is a habit
peculiar to the United States, and its
introduction into other countries has
been slow. In 1894 exports totaled
$2,658, only to drop to. $1,709 in 1895-and
$289 in 1896, and to disappear altogether
in 1897... .In 1898 the. trade revived, with
shipments amounting to $805. The next
year witnessed a jump to $19,991, but this
figure could not be maintained, and ex-ports
in 1900 amounted to'but $8,725, in
1901 to $11,686, and in 1902 to $9,062.
Since that date the trade has experienced
sundry xips arid downs, exports amounting
in 1903 to $27,242; in 1904, to $10,865; in
1905, to $14,923; in 1906, to $16,431; in
1907, to $25,223;. in 1908, $24,131;
in 1909, $42,806, in 1910, $53,483; in 1911,
$89,129; in m&; $164,311; 'in - 1913, $186,-
944; in 1914, $178,630; and in 1915,
$281,433. In 1916 the trade more than
doubled, reaching a value of $574,423,
and this record total has already been
surpassed in the first nine months of 1917.
, The use of American chewing gum has
gradually spread until this confection is
now found in every quarter of the globe.
Of the exports in 1901, $4,711 worth went
to Europe, $3,821 to North America,
$305 to South Ameu'ca, $297 to Asia,
$1,029 to' Oceania, and $1,423 worth to
Africa. Tne years later Europe took
$23,662 worth of American chewing gum,
North America $35,783, South America
$2,197, Asia $2,445, Oceania $21,299,
and Africa $3,743 worth.
In 1915 the shares of these six grand
divisions were Europe $96,949, North
America, $52,829, South America $5,630,
Asia, $3,424, Oceania $116,432, and
Africa $6,169; in 1916, Europe $251,058,
North America $66,168, South America
$54,384, Asia $32,463, Oceania $160,310,
and Africa , $10,040; in 1917 (first nine
months of fiscal year), Europe $696,049,
North America $103,997, South America
$17,951, Asia $14,538, Oceania $78,020, and
Africa $16,005.
The growth of the exports to other
countries of North America up to 1916
represents in large measure the changes
in the trade with Panama and Cuba, for
Canada 's trade fell off with the establish-ment
of chewing gum factories in that
Dominion, permitting Panama gradually
to usurp first rank on this Continent.
The South American shipments are
mainly to Argentina , with Brazil , Chile,
Columbia, and Peru also participating to
some extent.
Asia has proved a difficult market ,
radical differences in Lhe customs of the
people and the small amount of money
which they have for spending on any-thing
save necessaries making the intro-duction
of luxuries a tedious process.
Still , consular officers stationed in Asia,
particularly in China , sny that the
market doqs exist there, and urge the
packing of gum in smaller packages
(or even sending it loose , for sale by the
single piece, as more within the pur-chasing
power of the masses) and the
providing of suitable wrappers (for ex-amplc
, having the printing on wrappers
on gum intended for China in the Chinese
language) as means of exLcnding sales.
The Philippine Islands have been an
important factor in tlio growth ot the
trade with Oceania , exports thither having
risen from $1, 130 in 1906 to $15,904 in
1910 and $37,927 in 1010; and in the Inst
four or five years Australia and New
Zealand have purchased heavily.
Tlio African trade Is mainly with the
British South Africa , though a trade
with Egypt in developing ,
While chewing gum is neither munition
nor ration , the increased cxporLs to
Europe during the past two years havo
generally been attributed lolhe "soldier "
demand, and offlciul statistics bear out
this view ns the European shipments went
principally lo England and Franco, In
1912 England imported American chew-ing
gum to Lhe value of W1B3; in 1913,
$81,042 worth I In 1014, 540,538; in* HUB,
11192,075; In 11)1(3, $203,4 14; ' and In the
first nine months of Hie fiscal year 1917,
$582,204 worth , during which period
Scotland took nn additional $10,032' worth.
The French Lrado lum developed from a
total value of $73(3 In 1912, $198 in 1013,
$1,103 In 1914, and $2,073 In 1915, to
$40,18fmncl $90,201ln ninomonthsln 1917,
Continued on pngo 4
Membershi p Now Almost Three Hun-dred
And the Finances Improvin g
Will Be Need for Help All the
Time. Workers Invited
Meet ing at Theatre
Hershey's Red Cross is progressing in
every detail of its vvork. The member-
-ship is almost 300. Over $54 was realized
at the Park dance and contributions are
coming in. The community now appre-ciates
the importance and significance
of the cause and the response grows more
cordial every week'. The great need is
more workers at the room in the Hershey
Central Theatre Building. The call is
repeated for old linen, old muslin, old bed
covers, all of which should be clean. If
the donors of these cannot take them to
headquarters they may notify any member
of the committee and the goods will be
called for. There is not a person in or near
Hershey who cannot take part in this
patriotic effort. The country calls and
you should do your bit.
There will be need of revenue all the
time. Materials must be purchased.
The making of these materials into hos-.
pital articles and helps for the soldiers
will all be done free of cost. The workers
contribute their time and skill. Attend
the meetings of the workers and get in
touch with the fine spirit that prevails
v.mong the women of Hershey.
This afternoon at 4 o'clock a meeting of
the Auxiliary will be held in the rooms
at the Central Theatre Building, Mrs. C. V.
Glynn, president; Mrs. Linn H. Haw-becker,
secretary; Mrs.' John E. Snyder,
treasurer. Reports of committees will
be heard and further outlines of the work
will be decided,
Work days in the Red Cross rooms are
Mondays and .Thursdays, from 1 to 5,
and Tuesday evening from 7 to 10.
A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Don't forget the contribuLion box in lhe
Drug Slore.
Why the Need
President Wilson Tuesday afternoon
warned the nation to be prepared to make
heavy- sacrifices to insure victory over
the Central powers,
Addressing the committee on labor of
the advisory commission of the council of
national defense, labor representatives
and capitalists at the White House, the
president declared the United States
must steel itself to meet "the terrible
pressure of suffering and pain of war."
The Four One-Story Buildings in the Heart of the Hershey Chocolate
Factory Will Be Replaced by a New Six-Story Building of Structural
Steel. The Work Is Now Under Way.
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PUPIL'S RECITAL
The first of a series of recitals will be
given in the. Parish House of the I-Ium-melstown
, Lutheran Church Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by lhe pupils
of Miss ViolcLlc Cassel. A silver offering
will lie taken for the benefit of Lhe Red
Cross Society. The following program
will be rendered :
Symphony VII , Hayden—Elizabeth
Brown and Violctle Cassel,
Songs "Without Words, (Op. 102, Nos.
44-45) Mendelssohn—Miriam Wagner,
The Four Leaf Clover, Englomnn—
Lucille Ilamm,
Papillon , Lavalie—-Mary Blnklcy.'
Spring Blossoms, Lichner—K atharine
Brightblll ,
Shorzo (b) Lea f for Life, Gurlill—
Dorothy Soiilt,
Serenatn , Moszkowski—Pnulino Lniick,
April , Tschalkowsky—Grace Sfauffer.
Polonaise, Muller—Mary Light;.
La Fouiilulne , Bobm~-My iiiu Ilamm,
A Rura l Wedding, Mason—Bernlce
Nlssley.
Spanish Dance, Moszkowsld—Miriam
Wagner,
Rondo Caprlciiofio, Mendelssohn—Eliz-abeth
Brown,
A PLEASANT PARTY
The members of I ho eliiss of Lho United
Brethren Sunday School taught by Mrs.
W. .], Rankle wore oiitorlnined at Lho
homo of Mr, and Mrs, George GecHnmnn
Tuesday evening in honor of their daugh-ter
Ruth, The ovont commemorated
Lho birthday of Miss Gcesnmnn.
RED CROSS WORK
IN FINE SHAPE
Hershey Organizations Unite In the.
Observance . of Next Wednesday
Over Five Hundred Will Be In
Line. Decoration of the
.Graves. . Interest
Memorial Day in Hershey will be fitting-ly
celebrated by a parade and by exercises
in Hershey Park as well as by the decor-ation
of the graves of the soldiers in
the cemeteries of Old, Derry. Presbyterian
Church aiKi the First United Brethren
Church
"It will be under the auspices of the Grand
Army and of the Patriotic Order of the
Sons of America, Hershey Camp 705.
Albert Snavely of the Hershey Trust
Company is acting as general secretary
for the committees and he may be con-sulted
in any matters 'connected with
the program.
Much will be made of the ceremonies of
decorating the graves of the soldiers in
the cemeteries of Old Derry Presbyterian
and the First United Brethren Church.
There will be many flowers and a firing
squad will a.ct.
In the line of the parade, will be the
Hershey Band, Members of the Grand
Army, Hershey Camp 705 P. O. S. of A.,
kindergarten children, the hoys from
the Hershey Industrial School, the pupils '
of the M. S. Hershey Consolidated Public
School of Derry Township, the uniformed
Boy Scouts of the Hershey Men's Club
and others. There will be. between 500
and 1,000 in line. V_
The formation will be made in front of
the public school on Granada Avenue;
The exercises will be in Hershey Park
with an address and music at the Band
Stand.
Governor Brumbaugh asks; "As a part
of the observance of Memorial Day I
request and urge that all bells be tolled
from 12 noon to 12.05, that flags be placed
at half-staff and that all our people stand
with heads bared and in solemn silence
during this .period, " This will be part
of the program in Hershey.
PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
List of Those Appointed For Dauphin
County Completed
Hon. W. H. Ball, private secretary
to the governor, writes as follows to the
Hershey Press:
"As you no doubL are aware Governor
Brumbaugh rccenlly appointed a Slalc
Commiltce ,of Public SafcLy, numbering
almost three hundred reprcsentalivc citi-zens
of the Commonwealth for the purpose
of faking an industrial inventory of Lhe
resources of Pennsylvania,
"In addition to the State Committee,
work is now going on rapidly in the
organization of Local or County Com-mittees
to work in conjunction with the
State Committee.
"I am enclosing herewith list of per-sons
appointed by the Governor for your
district nnd would appreciate any co-opertion
and assistance you may be able
to give in this important matter,"
The members for Hershey. arc M. S.
Hershey and Albert Shcnk.
CHILD SWALLOWS POISON
Sharon , the two and a half year old
son of Mr. and Mrs, Hurry Scott of Pal-myra
, had a narrow escape from death
Monday morning when he swallowed the
contents of a bottle of snlacyllc acid,
The fact that it was an overdose saved
the child.
The add which had been used for
household purposes had been placed on
the table presumably out of reach of the
youngster. While the mother was In the
adjoining room Lhe youngster secured
lho bottle and drank the contents, Dr,
Bordner was summoned,
WOODMEN AFTER MEMBERS
At a mcuLlng last week Lhe Hershoy
Woodmen decided to open a campaign for
members. The order la strong In Her-shey
and It has attractions to offer thosu
who desire Its cheap Insurance.
GREAT PARADE
MEMORIAL DAY