The Hershey Press 1918-02-28

              More Than 2,000,000 Pounds of Pow-dered
Chocolate Burned. Will
Not Check Operations
. The destruction of more than two mil-lion
pounds of powdered chocolate and
the damaging of a number of machines
and other materials by fire in building
No. 25 of the Hershey Chocolate^Com-pany,
on Sunday morning, did not stop
work in any part of the plant.
The building in which the blaze occur-red
is a concrete structure of fire-proof
construction, and four stories high. There
is no doubt but the fire-proofing prevented
more serious loss, as it confined the fire
to the fourth floor , where it originated.
One of the watchmen at the plant had
made his rounds and had examined the
room at about 4 o'clock in the morning.
Continued on page 5
Big Fire Loss at
Chocola te Plant
High School Play Will be Given at the
Hershey Central Theatre Tues-day
Evening, March 12th
The pupils of the Hershey High School
gave a very interesting play in the Her-shey
Central Theatre last Thursday
evening, entitled "Tompkins' Hired Man."
They have decided to repeat the perform-ance
on Tuesday evening, March 12, at
eight o'clock, as a benefit for the Hershey
Red Cross. The admission tickets are
85 cents. Any child above the primary
room may buy tickets at the door for 15
cents. Of course, the sale of tickets will
be large, and you will do your bit when
asked to buy a ticket, by buying one or
more. There will be special musical
numbers of unusual merit between acts.
WILLIAM S. HART IN
"THE SILENT MAN"
William S. Hart is acknowledged to be
the greatest delineator of western char-acters
on stage or screen, and will be seen
at the Hershey Central Theatre on Sat-urday,
March 2nd. As "Silent Budd"
Marr he interprets a role teeming with
tense dramatic interest and sensational
achievement. While prospecting he makes
a rich "strike," and his claim is taken'
from him by unscrupulous scoundrels
through unique methods. To add to
his misfortunes, the girl he loves is about
to marry the leader of the dishonest gang,
who runs the local dance hall and saloon.
Marr discovers that this man already
has a wife, and decides to save the girl
from her impending fate, and to recover
his property.
Single-handed, Marr finds that he has
undertaken a tremendous task, and thril-ling
incidents are shown as the desperate
man uses all means to accomplish his
purposes. Situations arise in which his
life is saved only through feats of physical
strength, amazing horsemanship and ac-curate
shooting. He is saved from the
hangman's noose in a sensational manner.
"The Silent Man" is the most absorbing
spectacular and thrilling vehicle Hart
has ever appeared in, and the reckless
and death defying feats he performs eclipse
anything he has previously done.
Benefit for Hershey
Red Cross
Larg e Crowds at the
Hershey Dept . Store
The Washington a Birthday Chop-
Down Sale Was a. Success from
Every Standpoint
The Washington's . Birthday Chor*-
Down Sale' at the Hershey Department
Store last Friday was a success, and the
people of this vicinity are looking for-ward
to the next year's event
The store was filled with buyers from
the time the doors were opened until the
closing hour in the evening.. Every trol-ley
car that came in from Palmyra, Hum-melstowri,
Elizabethtown, Campbelltown,
and Lebanon, were filled with women and
they all came "with basket^. .Without a
doubt there were more women with bas-kets,
seen on the streets' of Hershey last
Friday than were seen during the entire
year.
It was simply impossible to handle
more trade at the grocery department.
The sales force worked like beavers all
day. To get waited on, one had to elbow
one's way to the counter and draw the
attention of the clerk. However, every-body
was in a good humor, there was good
reason to " be, for the bargains offered
would have made old father Grouch in a
good humor, if fie had been there.
Not only the grocery department, but
the dry goods department, the shoe de-partment,
the furniture department, the
meat department, in fact, all of the various
departments were busy, and it was a red
letter day for everyone of them.
S. D. Clark, the manager of the Her-shey
Department Store does not wish to
mention the aVnount of business done,
that is in dollars and cents, as it would
seem like boasting, but it was stated that
it ran into the thousands of dollars.
The store was packed in the evening to
hear the patriotic concert given under the
direction of Joseph Coangelo and Miss
Dorothy Zellers, as follows:
Opening Song, "My Country 'Tis .of
Thee," by Children's Chorus.
Selection Orchestra
Joesph Coagelo, leader; Miss Doro-thy
' ¦ Zellers, pianist; Miss Myrle Smith, Noah. Klauss, violins; Sundro
Magnnni, cornet; Ed. Harkins, trom-bone;
Miss Melba Keiffer, drums;
Frank Magrinni, saxophone; Gionni
Magrinni, clarinet; Nick Dauri, oboa.
Clarinet solo .Joseph Coagelo
Selection ; Orchestra
Violin solo Noah Klauss
Quartette .....
Messrs. Clark, Sartazahn, Light, Smith
Selection . Orchestra
Violin solo. Myrle Smith
Baritone solo Fred Clark
Selection ,..: Orchestra
Cornet .., '.' . Sundro Magrinna
Selection ..... Orchestra
Star Spangled Banner
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NOTICE TO WAR
GARDEN WORKERS
All families living in Hershey that want
to plant war gardens should hand in their
applications to Jno. F. Suavely, at the
Hershey Men's Club, before Saturday,
March 9th. •
All boys and girls wanting the smaller
war gradens are also requested to hand
in their applications. *:'
BEFORE you fill in your subscnption to the third
Liberty Loan, I ask you to take a look at Malines
and Campenhout. •
It is all written in a book—just a matter-of-fact little
book filled with official documents.
Open it at the pages that deal with Malines, and read :
In Malines itself they (the Germans) destroyed 1500 houses, from
first to last, and revenged themselves atrociously on the civil popula-tion.
A Belgian soldier saw them bayonet an old woman in the
back, and cut off a young woman's breasts.
Another saw them bayonet a woman and her son.
They shot a police inspector in the stomach as he came out of
his door and blew off the head of an old woman at a window.
A child of two came into the street as eight drunken soldiers
were marching by. A man in the second file stepped aside and
drove his bayonet with both hands into the child's stomach. He
lifted the child into the air on his bayonet and carried it away,
he and his companions still singing. The child screamed when the
soldier struck it with his bayonet, but not afterwards.
Another woman was" found dead with twelve bayonet wounds
between her shoulders and her waist.
I do not often ask you to read unpleasant paragraphs
like these: I do it now because, when it comes to writing
about Liberty Bonds, I feel like throwing aside all the fine
words and telling you the whole truth as it appeals to me.
And the truth is that I am not buying a nickel's worth
of bonds to give Trieste to Italy or one single added colony
to England or Alsace^Bbrraine to France.
Other folks may rally around these battle standards
if they find satisfaction in them.
I buy Liberty Bonds because there is a two-year-old
boy in my home—as there was in that nameless home in
Malines:
And because—so small has the world become—Malines
is only just across the street from where I live.
Prices are high. It. is hard these days for a man with
even a good income to buy food and clothes for his family.
But I ask myself over and over again, what good to
my youngsters are food and clothes, if the spirit that fired
Malines comes out of this war unrebuked ?
What sort of parents are you and I if we take care of
the minor matters, such as food and clothes, and send our
children out into the world where children may fetitl be
bayoneted and women ruthlessly slain ?
I hate war. If we were at war with England or
France I would fill this column so full of cries for a peace
conference that they would put me in jail for doing it.
But this is not a war of nations: it is a grapple of ideals.
The ideal that respects pledges and the lives of women
and children, battling with the ideal that counts pledges
and the lives of women and children as mere pawns in the
game of empire. ¦ ¦, v
"At Campenhout," says the book, "they rifled the wine
cellar and shot the mistress of the house in cold blood as
she entered the room where they were drinking. The other
officers continued to drink and sing."
Only a woman being killed. It was nothing. They
did not even look around. They continued to drink and
sing.
So long as they who bayoneted the child of Malines go
singing through the streets of Belgium, there must be
Liberty Bonds.
So long as the terror that stalked through Campenho ut
continues to hang over my house, there must be Liberty
Bonds.
I do not know how it may be with you: but, with me
this third Liberty Loan cuts down through the luxuries
into what we used to think were necessities in our house-hold.
And we make the sacrifice gladly, for the sake of the
great necessity.
The necessity for establishing safety in the world, for
little children.
For making it clear, once and for all, that, while
women are being slain, no men can ever again with im-punity
contmue to drink and sing.
Bruce Barton, in "Ev ery Week."
" The Other Officers Continued to
Drink and Sing"