The Hershey Press 1919-04-03

              A small but highly appreciative audience
greeted the speakers at the joint lecture of
the Rev. P. H. Witman, Army Chaplain,
and Captain C. K. Morse,, who spoke on
behalf of the Armenian Relief Society, in
the Central Theatre Tuesday evening.
Rev. Witman, who served with the gov-ernment
on overseas duty for nearly ten
months, spoke more on the social and in-dustrial
situation in France, describing the
methods used in the education of the French
people. He said that although France
maintains a free school system, it is not
nearly as well developed as that of the United
States in any respect. Parocial schools are
very numerous in all parts of the country
and the children of the more wealthy people
are under the direction of tutors and gov-ernesses.
In telling of the people of France,
Rev. Witman stated that there is no middle
class of people as is the case-in this countcy;
the people as a whole,#^ing'eKl^^ricJarbr
poor. /J?'' . ¦
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Rev^\ykmW?went on to tell something
of ti^wbhderfuTvineyards
of
France, work
j|$^fwhi
ch
gives occupation to a great per-centage
of the country people. In describ-ing
these vineyards, he expressed the hope
that the time would soon come when this
immense amount of rich soil would be used
for the growing of foods instead of being
devoted to the raising of grapes.
In closing his address Rev. Witman spoke
in high terms of the cordial manner in which
the American boys had been received by all
classes of people, the homes being thrown
open to them at all times, a fact fully ap-preciated
by the boys.
Captain Morse in his address spoke on
the other side of the situation as developed
by the war and cited the unf ortunate condi-tion
in which the people of Armenia and
Serbia are placed through the atrocities of
the Germans and their ally, the Turks. He
declared that there were 400,000 Armenians
whom the Turks wanted to destroy. Large
numbers of these people including women
and children were locked in the churches
which were then saturated with gasoline and
the torch applied. Others were tied to-gether
in groups of thirty and forty and
thrown in the Euphrates River, and still
others were turned into the desert to perish
for lack of food and water. Those who in
some manner or other escaped the horrible
wrath of the Turks and Huns are to-day in
dire distress, suffering from disease and
hunger and are forced to wander from place
to place without sufficient clothing. These
people he declared, are the ones whom the
American people' will have to provide.
Righteous indignation grew in the heart
of the speaker with the retelling of the out-rages
which he personally witnessed, and as
he told of the finding of five Canadian soldiers
nailed to a barn, his feelings nearly over-came
him and he was forced to stop for a
second. Upon the discovery of this atrocity,
which is only one of many, he said that the
entire detachment of soldiers, numbering
nearly 1000, took a solemn vow never to
take another German prisoner alive..
Captain Morse concluded his address
with a plea that the Armenian people be
given immediate succor after which Mr.
Charles Burtnett, chairman of the Dauphin
County Society for the relief of the starving
Armenians, gave a short talk in which he
explained the manner in which this money
would be raised.
According to the plans, the project will
be handled through the various churches,
the officers of which will receive instructions
within the next few days at which time
Hershey's quota 'will be announced and ar-rangements
made for the raising of the
necessary money.
The meeting closed with the singing of the
Star Spangled Banner by the audience.
War Lectures
Enjoyed by
Small- Crowd
MOTHER'S CLUB
The regular meeting of the Mother s Club
will be held Tuesday evening, April 8, in
the auditorium of the Hershey School. An
interesting program will be rendered and
everyone is urged to be present as matters
of great importance will be discussed.
Olivets Add
Two More
Games
Following their defeat at the hands of the
Elizabethtowners two weeks ago, the Her-shey
Oliyets came back with a vengeance
and administered a decisive thumping to the
Lizzies last Friday evening, defeating them
to the tune of 36-17. The following night
they defeated the Hummelstowh Big Five
45-39 on the latters floor.
The Olivets started off in a whirl-wind
manner in the game against the Elizabeth-town
boys and quickly acquired a com-fortable,
lead which they refused to sur-render
at any period.
The visitors appeared early and in the
preliminary practice were full of pep and
vim, buoyed up with the knowledge that
they had one victory to their credit. Their
elation was short-lived however as the Olivets
added point after point in the first few min-utes
of play. At the end
^
f/rthe first haUrf
tile LkzieaT^ere^EnSffin^^ra^
sCjOjey^TJjie second half the OlivetsI had
things" pretty much their own way. Zim-merman
led in the scoring for the locals
with five field goals to his credit and Elliot
succeeded in caging three. Stover made a
creditable showing with 14 foul goals of 19
attempted'. Yoder played the best game
for the visitors.
The game with Hummelstown Saturday
night was not as easy and the Olivets were
forced to extend themselves to the limit.
Perfect team work however brought the
results and one more victory was added to*
the list of the locals. At the close of the
first half, the Olivets were leading their op-ponents
by six points, the same number as
separated them at the close of the contest.
AU told, the Olivets secured 21 field goals
and the Hummelstown boys managed to
cage but 15. Of these, Clark came across
with nine. Stover tallied four times from
the foul line from eight chances. For the
Hummelstown team, O. Bordner and E. Zim-merman
starred.
The attraction to-morrow evening will be
the strong Lebanon Valley College team
which has made a great showing this season,
having but two defeats against them. Ar-rangements
are being made to accomodate
a large crowd.
NEW CLUB ORGANIZED AT
Y. W. C. A.
At a meeting of a number of the girls of
Hershey held last Wednesday evening in
the reading room of the Y. W. G* A., a new
organization was formed, to be known as
the "Victory Club." Its aim will be to
promote social activities of the town and
participate in all civic and industrial events.
The following officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing year: President, Miss
Miriam Gundaker; Vice President, Miss
Florence Landgraph; Treasurer, Miss Verna
Harvey; Secretary, Miss Verna Stuckey.
The Club will hold social affairs from time
to time, the first of which will be given this
evening, April 8. Arrangements are being
made for the presentation of a play some
time in May.
The roster of the club is as follows: Miss
Mae Snyder, Miss Maude Klugh, Miss Vera
Harvey, Miss Minnie Dressier, Miss Mary
Steckbeck, Mrs. Harvey, Miss Ruth Shultz,
Miss Carrie Smith, Miss Ethel Bixler, Miss
Kilmore, Miss Heinrich, Miss Miriam Gun-daker,
Miss Verna Stuckey and Miss Florence
Landgraph. New members will be admitted
from time to time.
HEW TRAIN SCHEDULE
Better train accomodations have been
secured by the people of Hershey through
the announcement last week by the Reading
Railroad Company that the daily trains
running east at 8:16 a. m. and 4 :48 p. m.
and those running west at 7:00 a. m. and
1:23 p. m. will be flagged and stopped at
the request of the passenger. Heretofore
these trains did not stop at this point.
Under this schedule, every train, running
both east and west, stops in Hershey to
take on passengers. The one running east
at 4:48 p. m. carries a Club car, Dining car
and Pullman and is one of the best in point
of service on any road in the country.
Clean Speech
Essential in a
Clean Town
Some time ago a judge in one of the
eastern courts in a case where the defendent
was brought to trial on the charge of using
uncouth and profane language on the city
streets, in pronouneng sentence, fined the
defendent sixty-six and two-third cents for
every foul word uttered. He asserted that
the law upheld him in his verdict, and the
case was never disputed.
Were that same judge to convene court
in this section and arraign all offenders in
the past few months on the same charge, it
is quite likely that the county treasurer
would be forced to work overtime to count
up the receipts. Numerous complaints have
been heard lately of the conduct of a few
certain boys in this town who, congregating
on the_ various corners, give vent to their
spleen in outbursts of foul language, exceed-
"Tiagly~jObnoxious to all, decent-living persons.
To the^fcredit of tha-iawn it has been noticed
tnatvUi^ear^B^^'c^. ti^^nderjwali
hot a TBersney iboy, bufcmis^c*te«wlo11iad
been attracted to the' toTO' by*the great
reputation of the place, in the expectation of
landing "something easy." .
Regardless however, whether it was one
of these "drifters " or whether it was a local
boy or group of boys, the fact remains that
such acts and habits are in vogue despite
the efforts of all decent people to offset it.
Such a state of affairs .can not prevail in
Hershey for any length of time, regardless
of who the perpetrator may be An organ-ized
effort by the authorities to break it up
will be instigated and the ones found guilty
thereof will have to suffer the penalty. As
a matter of civic pride, every individual man
and boy should make strenuous efforts to
abolish the habit. Hershey has enjoyed the
enviable reputation of being a model city
ever since its founding and the people wiD
not stand by and see that reputation abused
by a select few who evidently consider it
big" to pollute their mouth with such
language.
RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY
At a meeting of the Home Department of
the Church of the Brethren, action was taken
on the death of Mrs. D. M. Stoudt, who had
long been a member of the Department, and
the following resolutions were adopted :
Whereas _ it has pleased our Heavenly
Father in his all wise providence to call from
our midst to his glory above our dearly be-loved
sister, Lizzie Stoudt. And whereas,
her departure has left <a loving family, and
a vacancy in the church roll, and Home De-partment.
a Therefore, be it resolved:
First; That we humbly submit to the will
of our Heavenly Father, believing that He
does all things well.
Second, That we extend our sympathy,
love and respect to the family that has been
bereft of wife and mother.
Third, That copies of these resolutions be
sent to the family, to the Hershey Press for
publication, and that they be spread on the
Home Department minutes. .
Signed, Home Department
Verna Blouch, Supt.
Mary Basehore, Sec
MEETING OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Hershey Volunteer Fire- Department held
Tuesday evening it was decided to hold an
old time "smoker" in conjunction with the
next regular meeting. Thomas Black is in
charge of the arrangements and already
plans are being made for the occasion.
A few minutes before the time of the meet-ing,
the company responded to a call of fire
in Swatara Station., Their efforts, were not
needed however as the conflagration was
very slight and was extinguished before
they arrived there.
PRIVATE SALE
Mr. P. N. Kasson will dispose of a num-ber
of pieces of household . furniture at
private sale at his home, 243 East .Main
Street, Hummelstown.
More and more the tourists are adopting
the slogan, "See America First,", and more,
and more, the J average person is falling in
line. With the realization of the wonderful
things to be seen in this country.it is certain-ly
a waste of tune and money to visit other
lands. !
For the people in this section of tie coun-try
it is not necessary to travel very far to
see one of the 'greatest buildings of its kind
in the world, j That is the Round Barn of
the Hershey Company, situated at the west-ern
end of the Park. In the opinion of
construction experts and well known farming
authorities, itisthemost efficient , sanitary and
up-to-date structure of its kind to be found
anywhere.
The diameter of the building is 104 feetl
In the center 'are four large pens or stalls
accommodating 25 head of cattle. Sur-rounding
these pens are 32 small pens in
©»e!jk of which! are kept two calves. The
construction pi these pens provides: for an
indiviauSL drinking cuo ior mrh"jn feyThr
oottuheecr ppeennssr (&arer'?^.!m^™jo?vo^iaTe3jef)itg W itJftBaE§Bi2gasaiiulltta2rra>
watermg trbu^^^ji^umfi^^pteflthu!
giving pure fnpsh?waterfatf all*timesT^: '§j ;
The entire interior is "of ironrand conctete,
the stalls bemg made' of iron posts,-'about
seven inches apart. TheT building is^sup-ported
by a number of concrete posts. \Tbe
troughs which surround the pens are also
of solid concrete. The pens themselves art
laid with cork bricks, making themr con-siderably
easier for the cattle.
Carriers, moving on iron runways, convej
the food directly to the various pens fron
the storehouse arid the debris and litter is
removed from the building on the ' same
principal and dumped on the ground ' 120
feet away, thus making it sanitary in' everj?
way. ' . '
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Connected with the barn is a heating
plant where the miikJed to the calves/is
heated. . ^T ¦.'¦''.-;|'-|i
In order to provide" for the accomodation
of the great number of people who are certain
to visit this attractive place, benches have
been placed in a desirable part. of the'buildj-ing
from which "point of vantage it will be
possible to obtain a splendid view of this
place. ;.': ' ••" ':[
The work on the building which is nearly
completed, hak been under the supervision of
James K. Putt who has hid a wide expeif
ience in work of this nature.
Roorid Bairn
Best off Mnd
in Counter
G. A. CAHILL ADRESSES STORE
I ASSOCIATION
Mr. G. A. Cahill, manager of. the Harrii-burg
Shoe Manufacturing Company,' de-livered
an interesting address at the regular,
monthly meeting of the Hershey Store As-sociation
Tuesday evening.
Mr. Cahill used as his subject , the "tior^isr-
("shun") in Jie English language, calhnij
attention to the meanings of .the various
words, such as Ambition, Concentration,
etc., and then compared them with words
such as Deception, Procrastination, . anld
others, dwelling on; the significance of their
meanings. - : .-F
This same address, Mr. Cahill gave at the
convention of shoe manufacturer s¦. held ;m
Indianapolis recently and his words have
been quoted [all over the country. '- -
From start to finish Mr. CaMM held the
close attention of the audience and those
who heard hW are of the opinion that. it
would be of great benefit to every employee
to hear him and it is likely that an. invitation
will be extended him to address an audience
in the Central Theatre in the hear future. I
The regular monthly meeting of the S. S
Games Memorial Men's Bible Class of Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church of Hershey, Pa.,
will be held Friday evening, April 4th, 1919,
at 7:30 p. ip. v
It is hoped that every member will en-deavor
to be present as propositions of a
very important; nature will be submitted :6
the meeting!for consideration.
The members of: the Church Council are
also especially invited to attend this meeting.
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TRINITY BIBLE CLASS MEETING