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HERSHEY SYSTEM THE CLEAREST State Representative Inspects the •Way Things are Done Here. Her - shey's Interest in . Coming Conference Which is to he Held- in Harris burg; A representative of the employment bureau of the State - Department of Labor and Industry visited Hershey on Monday and spent several hours in the Hershey Employment BureaTi. The State Bureau has been working in co-operation with the Hershey Bureau and all organizations like it' and lias been particularly courteous to the - Hershey bureau, so the visit was greatly appreci-ated. The verdict of the State's repre-sentative was that the Hershey system was "the clearest." That is to say, it is the simplest. In fact it is so simple there seems nothiag very remarkable about it, for it is essentially a crossing and a countercheck of the alphabet and the numerals. But all genuine efficiency is simplicity applied to- work, and the Her-shey system, is different in that it does the trick: with fewer cards. Within the past two months there has been a procession o>f efficiency students and . experts in Hershey, seeking facts about e-verything from welfare and em-ployment to housing and landscaping. They all praise the. simplicity of the Hershey methods. Hershey has a deep interest in all efficiency work and it will be well repre-sented at the Fourth Annual Welfare arid Efficiency Conference, in the Capitol at. Harrisburg, this fall, one of the greatest symposiums . ever held in this State dealing with the relation of employer and employe and the effect of State legislation on that relation. This conference, to be held under the auspices of the Department of Labor and industry with the co-operation of the Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania, will attract to Harrisburg officials of industrial establishments, large and. small, throughout the State, leaders of labor and individual employes, sociological workers, attorneys, physicians and safety engineers. Under the direction of Commissioner John Price Jackson, a program is being prepared for the three days' sessions of the conference, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 21, 22, and 23. National and State officials will partici-pate with the representatives of labor and industry in the discussions centering about recently enacted legislation and measures proposed for legislative action, bearing on conditions of labor. The entire first day of the conference will virtually be given over to discussions of the Workmen's Compensation Act. Ev-ery phase o"fr this new measure, vitally affectin g every worker and employer in Pennsylvania , will be analized and the operation adopted ' by the State for en-forcing the law will be explained . Every State law affecting employer and employe will be dicsussed. Members of the Workmen's Compensation Board and the ten compensation referees will attend the sessions as will also the mem-bers of the Industrial Board , the staff of the Department of Labor and Industry, including the inspectors from the Bureau of Inspection , the physicians and engineers of the division of Industrial Hygiene and Engineering, members of the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, tlie officials and statisticians of the Bureau of Statis-tics an<l Information arid the staff of the Bureau of Employment. LIBRARIAN RESIGNS Lynn W. Mccldns, librarian of the Hershey Free Public Library, has re-signed to accept a position with the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, which is now one of the most active and important bureaus of the Government. He will be attached to the New York office. The appoint-ment, was made by Secretary of Commerce Rcclfielcl after a rluicl civil service examin-ation taken by many college men. Mr. MceltliiH is a .graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Ho Installed the Hershey library in Its present quarters. Since ho hna been librarian thci membership has more than doubled and the increase in the number of books and In the cir-culation hits been over n hundred per cent, It.H present condition is nourishing, Last June the Bureau of Information was placed In the library, This was preliminary to Ilia consolidation of the library unci the bureaus of information and employment under one organization, Hereafter they will bo operated together. SUNDAY MUSIC The Ottcrbeln Guild of the United Brethren Church will render a special progrnm Sunday evening at 7:110 In the church, The exercise is entitled "If They Only Knew, " It. presents the work and needs of the parts of the mission fluid in which the Guild is especially interested, About thirty girls arc taking part in the exercise, TIio Guild invites their friends to this special programme. GREAT SINGER BUYS HES SHEY'S Noted Singer Gives a Treat to Child-ren in California After Seeing • the Moving Pictures of This Town and Big Industry A Model Community ' In various parts of the United States the Hershey Chocolate Company has talented and eloquent young men. who show the moving pictures of the factory and the town and tell the facts cf Herr shey's rise and interest. Thus thous-ands far away are finding out about Her-shey. The Hershey movies seem to be par-ticularly popular on the Pacific coast. At La Mesa, Cat, the theatre was filled and in the audience was the noted singer, Madame Schumann-Heink. She prais-ed the pictures and said she wished to see the town. So interested was she that she bought a large quantity of Hershey's chocolates and almond bars and gave the children a treat. The jingle books and the recipe books were, distributed and the whole affair was a huge success. One of the local druggists made a special window display of Hershey pro-ducts. . • ¦ ' Crowds in Sari Diego In San Diego it was necessary to give two performances to accommodate the crowds. The students of the High School ' took a "deep interest and several of the teachers held recitations on in-dustry and social and welfare work and other points brought out by the lecturer. Today the Hershey lectures are among the most popular performances in Amer-ica. So great is the demand for them that another lecturer with , a . new equipment was sent to California last week. BY WAY OF HERSHEY Philadelphia Masons to Visit Eliza-bethtown • Another interesting instance of the attractiveness of Hershey and the Eliz-abethtown line of the Hershey Transit System is found in the route of a train-load of Philadelphia Masons who will make the trip from Philadelphia to .the Masonic Home at Elizabehtown next Sunday. The organization is Radiant Star Lodge No. 606, F. and A-. M. and the special train will Leave the Reading Terminal at 8 a. m. There will be 500 or more in it. They will come to Hershey making a through run, and shortly after 10 o'clock will take special cars over the Hershey Transit Company for. Eliza-bethtown. They will spend most of the day in the. Masonic Home where there will be special services under the auspices of the Radient Star Lodge. The return will be in time to allow the party to see the town and the Park . They will leave for -Philadelphia in the early evening. HERS HEY HOMES ARE INCREASING Properties Sold Within the Past Week. New Buildings for-Cocoa Avenue. People from other * Towns. Hershey 's Pro-gress on Lines Desired People who want to live amid right surroundings are turning . to Hershey. The number of visitors who are investi-gating the home proposition has increased remarkably of late and there are many inquiries by mail, but most persons come here quietly and look over the situation. What they find.is a .new kind of town with unusual educational advantages and pure water and. good health and the other things that make life worth living. There, has never been ' any effort to "boom" Hershey. It does not belong to the boom class. Jt is not seeking all kinds and conditions of people but it wants those who have some of its ideals and who take pride in their environment and who -will make good neighbors. So what growth Hershey has is a very select growth—good people in good homes, Many such homes have been built within the year, More are on the way. Hershey's progress is on the lines desired and is proceeding- satisfactorily. John R: Potts and family have occupied their new home on Cocoa Avenue just south of Areba street. Mr. Potts after retiring from the iron business in Mechan-icsburg selected Hershey for residence and built a very attractive house. The cottage . formerly occupied by Al. C. Kraft has* been purchased by W. W. Mish of Lewiston, who lias settled in Hershey because of its ' residential advantages. It is a very desirable prop-erty on Caracas Avenue and the lot is 50 by 150; Mrs. Susan W. Kemmerly has purchased a lot on Cocoa Avenue, being parts of lots 318 and 319, with a 50 foot front. She will erect a handsome residence. In . East Hershey, the imposing resi-dence of D. Frank Magee is nearing completion; the fine limestone dwelling of Rohrer Snavely is under roof; the foundations of the extensive home being built by John E. Snyder are being made, and the plans of the new home of Joseph R. Snavely are in the hands of the archi-tects. John F. Snavely's handsome new home is well advanced. KINDERGARTEN OPENS MONDAY The Hershey Kindergarten will open Monday, October 2, at 8:45 A. M. in the public school under Miss Evelyn Bowman of Rpyersford , Pa., Children four years and over are to be admitted. The admission will be five cents per week. MR. SIGNOR'S ADDRESS At Old Home Week in Quarryville George C, Signer was one of the main speakers. His address was on food production and the Quarryville Sun states that it "was full of interest." BASEBALL HERE ON GOOD BASIS Delightful Banquet ' Shows That There.is the Proper Spirit in-the Town ; and That the Team ' Last Season Did Better Tha n Many Thought Baseball'in Hershey is firmly establish-ed on an amateur -basis". When the experiment was tried this season there were many who scoffed at the. possi-bility cf . a nine with players not paid fory their services. The- results show that while the team composed entirely of Men's Club members—playing -for sport's sake won only seven games out of twenty-two, a fine spirit was developed and a good foundation laid for a very much better record next year. During the past summer the - main obstacle was the absence of teamwork, in spite of which the men fought hard and six of the defeats were bya one-run margin. Tuesday evening a baseball banquet was given by the Men's Club at the Hershey Cafe. It was an enthusiastic gathering of more than thirty young men who believe in-clean sport and are glad to play ball for the fun and the glory of it. Mr. Hershey was there and he enjoyed it thoroughly, saying that the interest in the game had never been so encouraging as at present. John Allen announced that the team had made .104 runs and its opponents 126, showing that nearly every game was a.close battle. Mr. John E. Snyder exhibited a finger-that got in the way of several hot liners when he used to play and said the scores in his day were much larger than they are now. His team used to make more runs in one game than the locals did all season. S. D. Clark congratulated the. players on their gameness. He said that the "breaks" of the game and the poor umpiring had much to turn the tide against the Hershey nine. This was par-ticularly the.case because the team was a new organization and some members were unused to the strain of a close contest. Mr. Clark compared the season's record with that of 1915 and said that although the league team was on a professional basis it did not do any better, and the men did not pull together so well. Dr. Brandau told of the physical and moral benefit . of baseball. Dr. H. G. Mumma told of several years' experience with the game here and explained why a paid team was not advisable. Other speakers were Messrs. Meekihs, Nicholas, Ericson, Brinser arid Manager Bomgardner. Among those present were Paul Zent-meyer, Homer Dressier, Paul Henry, Elmer Swartz, Edward Bomgardner, Monroe Stover, Edward Heagy, Winfield Zimmerman, Fred Clark, Ivan Mease, Alan Fidler, Daniel Ensminger, John Allen, "Pop"Ericson, C. D. Brinser, Nicholas, L. W. Meekins, Capt. Edward Zimmerman, and others, TINEST OPENING - STORE EVER HAD Crowds on Two of the Three Evenings , Music Afternoon and ' Evenings. How the Store is Extend ing the Area of Its Trade. . Staff of Two Hundred The Hershey Store's fall inaugural went far beyond any; opening it ever held. There was a much larger and finer display of goods; there were many more people and the sales broke the record. . " ¦ ¦ ' '.' The opening was on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with an excellent orchestra playing good music afternoons and even-ings. The store was crowded, both Thursday and Saturday and there was a. large attendance on Friday. The total attendance ran into the thousands. The decorations were much admired. They were mainly autumn leaves and fox tail very artistically used and there was also a fine use of red "poppies with electric, light bulbs. The Hershey Store windows with- their plate, glass and mahogany sides and backs are always handsome, but with their special displays for the opening they were remarkably rich and popular. The management received many compliments on their beauty. All the two hundred employes did their best to make the opening a complete success. A deep gratification of the opening this year is the significant extension that is taking place in the business of the Hershey Store. The country around is finding out that the Hershey Store brings the big city. iio Lebanon Valley, that it has quality goods of the first-class- Thus it has happened that within the past week there have been customers from Myerstown,. Lancaster, Harrisburg and practically every town and city within twenty miles of Hershey. The Hershey Store has furnished the furniture for one of the new institutions of Har-risburg in the face of all competition. Its business this month is far beyond any September in its history. In fact all of 1916 thus far has shown a big increase and the store is busier, now than it has ever been. A HIKE TO GRA.NTVILLE Mrs. John E. Snyder, Miss Clara Walmer and Miss Ada Walter of Hum-melstown hiked to Grantville on Mon-day where they took dinner at the Grant-ville hotel. Mr. Snyder returned with the ladies in his automobile later in the day. ' f ' . THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY The Ladies' Aid Society of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Evving Cain on the evening of October 4, at 8 o'clock. HIGH SCHOOL TOMORROW Hershey High School -w.il! open tomor-row and the Grades on Monday. THE HISTORY OF MILK CHOC OLATE Writer Tells of Its Beginnings in Switzerland and 'of Its .Rap id ¦ . Rise. He Says the Most Im-portant Factors in Amer-ica Are Hershey Co. "Without doubt the Hershey Choco-late Company are the most important factors in this country in, the. production of milk chocolate; in fact it is said that Hershey produces about as much as all others combined." . This statement, is made in an article in the International Confectioner en-titled, "Milk Chocolate; History of its Invention and Develbpement," by T. B. McRobert, and he says in his introductory paragraph "the enormous increase in the consumption of . eating chocolate throughout the world within the past twentyf-years has been the introduction of Milk Chocolate."" Mr. McRoberts' article is very interesting and in it are the following statements about the be-ginnings of the milk chocolate business in Switzerland: We can all recall the joys of the old five-cent cake of sweet eating chocolate —it was nearly always coarse, poorly ground and gritty enough to set one's teeth on . edge when bitten into, hardly ever palatable—certainly not to be. cal-led or thought of as a fine "chocolate such as is known to:day. This was before the developement of modern methods of chocolate making—or of chocolate machinery. The average adult seldom thought of buying a piece of this sort of chocolate for eating, though they might do so to make a cup or two of chocolate. The advent of milk chocolate with its-smooth velvety texture as soon as it ¦ became known, at once changed ' this condition and millions of persons who most likely had seldom tasted chocolate became en-thusiastic about it. In New York or in any other large city it is known that business men regularly stop at some stand and purchase a. 5 or 10 cent cake of milk chocolate. I have been told that in the large offices scores of the tenants stop regularly each day at the building candy store and buy a piece of milk or of some other fine eating chocolate, especially almond or other hut bars, these almond bars al-ways .being made with ihilk chocolate. No other sort of chocolate blends so well with the hut flavor of whatever nut is used. In Switzerland hazlenuts are much used for this purpose, both whole and ground into the chocolate, the latter being known as "chocolate a la noisette," noisette being the French name for filberts or hazlenuts, In the latter sort of choco-late, however, very little or no milk is used. Filberts have a very much more pronounced flavor than almonds. The inventor of milk chocolate was without doubt Daniel Peter of Vevey, Switzerland, and for a considerable period he was its only producer, I am quite certain that in 1892, when I spent a number of months in Switzerland , not one of the Swiss chocolate manu-facturers— and I visited them all— made it; in fact, it was looked upon as something that never would amount to much, anyway. Tnc head °* tne big house of Suchard, M. Russ, told me that it was some "idea';' of a little manu-facturer at Vevey and had little sale. At that time most of Peter's productions went to England where a Scotchman named MacKenzie had slowly and at his own expense built up a considerable business upon this new chocolate through small advertisements in a few papers. I am informed that later Mr. Mackenzie received a large sum to relinquish the English agency. 1 visited Peter 's factory and found it to be a very small plant adjoining or a few yards below the great condensed milk and infants ' food plant of Henri Nestle, Mr. Peter could not speak English. There was at Vevey a banker, M, Ctineod , who was, I think , American vicc-counsul there, and this M, Cun-eocl beenmo interested in milk choco-late and suggested to Mr. Peter that a company lie formed , new capital secured and the business pushed with more energy than was heing put into it at that time. To this proposition Mr. Peter consented , although through it control passed out of his hands; doubtless to consent was about the only thing he could do. Now Mr, Cuncocl chanced to be a strong believer in advertising and at once launch-ed out in a strong advertising campaign , not "only at homo and In England , but throughout Europe, To this expenditure Mr, Peter most stronfily objected, de-dining that it would bankrupt and ruin the company; whereupon, Mr, Cuncocl suggested that he buy Mr. Peter's shares and Hint lie would bo retained to manage the factory at a liberal salary. To this proposition Mr. I'otor gladly assented and so nil financial lntercat passed out o( his hands, The success of this ndver- Using campaign was almost Instantaneous; the demand Increased faster than it
Object Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1916-09-28 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 1916-09-28 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1916-09-28 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 19160928 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
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HERSHEY SYSTEM
THE CLEAREST
State Representative Inspects the
•Way Things are Done Here. Her -
shey's Interest in . Coming
Conference Which is to he
Held- in Harris burg;
A representative of the employment
bureau of the State - Department of
Labor and Industry visited Hershey on
Monday and spent several hours in the
Hershey Employment BureaTi. The
State Bureau has been working in co-operation
with the Hershey Bureau and
all organizations like it' and lias been
particularly courteous to the - Hershey
bureau, so the visit was greatly appreci-ated.
The verdict of the State's repre-sentative
was that the Hershey system
was "the clearest." That is to say, it is
the simplest. In fact it is so simple
there seems nothiag very remarkable
about it, for it is essentially a crossing
and a countercheck of the alphabet and
the numerals. But all genuine efficiency is
simplicity applied to- work, and the Her-shey
system, is different in that it does
the trick: with fewer cards.
Within the past two months there has
been a procession o>f efficiency students
and . experts in Hershey, seeking facts
about e-verything from welfare and em-ployment
to housing and landscaping.
They all praise the. simplicity of the
Hershey methods.
Hershey has a deep interest in all
efficiency work and it will be well repre-sented
at the Fourth Annual Welfare
arid Efficiency Conference, in the Capitol
at. Harrisburg, this fall, one of the greatest
symposiums . ever held in this State
dealing with the relation of employer
and employe and the effect of State
legislation on that relation.
This conference, to be held under the
auspices of the Department of Labor
and industry with the co-operation of
the Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania,
will attract to Harrisburg officials of
industrial establishments, large and. small,
throughout the State, leaders of labor
and individual employes, sociological
workers, attorneys, physicians and safety
engineers.
Under the direction of Commissioner
John Price Jackson, a program is being
prepared for the three days' sessions of
the conference, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, November 21, 22, and 23.
National and State officials will partici-pate
with the representatives of labor and
industry in the discussions centering
about recently enacted legislation and
measures proposed for legislative action,
bearing on conditions of labor. The
entire first day of the conference will
virtually be given over to discussions of
the Workmen's Compensation Act. Ev-ery
phase o"fr this new measure, vitally
affectin g every worker and employer in
Pennsylvania , will be analized and the
operation adopted ' by the State for en-forcing
the law will be explained .
Every State law affecting employer and
employe will be dicsussed. Members of
the Workmen's Compensation Board
and the ten compensation referees will
attend the sessions as will also the mem-bers
of the Industrial Board , the staff
of the Department of Labor and Industry,
including the inspectors from the Bureau
of Inspection , the physicians and engineers
of the division of Industrial Hygiene and
Engineering, members of the Bureau of
Mediation and Arbitration, tlie officials
and statisticians of the Bureau of Statis-tics
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