The Hershey Press 1917-04-19

              MORE BUILDING
IN THE FACTORY
On Account of These Alterations And
Changes No Visitors Will be Shown '
Through the Plant Until Fur-ther
Notice. Work on the
Warehouse Proceeds
NOTICE
Hershey, Pa., April 14, 1917.
. . On account of alterations and
changes being made in our Factory,
no visitors will be shown through the
Factory under any circumstances,
after today, the 14th inst.
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE CO.,
Win. F. R. Murrie, President.
The above notice which was put into
effect on Saturday explains itself. It
would not be safe to show visitors through
the rooms where the alteration and im-provement
-work is goirig on.
These are the busiest times the plant
has ever known. Every department
is rushed to its full production and the
railroad tracks are crowded with raw
materials—sugar, cocoa beans-^ and ma-chinery.
The work on the new Cocoa
Warehouse is proceeding rapidly and the
room it will supply is much needed.
Recent visitors to the factory included:
Elda Park, Mount Joy; Gordon Piatt,
Harrisburg;MissM. Sheean, Philadelphia;
R. Paul Scott, and wife, Harrisburg;
Joseph Smith, Williamstown; W. F. Fake,
West Fairview; W. D. Rider, Mechanics-burg;
David C. Brunner, Frederick, Md.;
S. M. Miller and wife, Harrisonburg, Va.;
S. S. Robinson, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs.
Walter Knepp, Lewistown; Mrs. J. A.
Cawley, Pittsburgh ; E. A. Kessler, Or-win;
H. W. Lenker, Hope, Kansas;
Samuel Bard, Lancaster; George M.
Lawson, Middle Haddan, Conn.; Susie
M. Lawson, Union, Conn.; Mrs. E. E.
Lawton, Harrisburg; Miss Lawton, Har-risburg;
Miss E. I. Gregg, Relay, Md.;
Wallace Jones, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.; H.
C.—Zeigler, Palmyra; Hazel Kunkle,
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. E. S. Gulick,
Long Branch, N. J.; M. L. Hoover,
Lancaster; Ira L. Meily, Morris, Minn.;
Mrs. C. Harold Wells, Oberlin; Curtis
Brenneman, Glen Rock; Mrs. S. H.
Ulrich, Elizabethtown; Mrs. L. D. Coble,
Mrs. B. Keefer, Elizabethtown; L. Cath-arine
Coble,' Elizabethtown ; Luther Gut-shall,
Shirmansdale, Charles Ross, Pitts-burgh
; B. Ross, Pittsburgh; C. M.
Freeman, Spartansburg, S. C.
William North, Solvay, N. Y.; James
W. Sterling, Lumber City ; Wm. W.
Strausbach, Harrisburg; Robert Goldman,
New York City ; Mrs. C. H. Gardener,
Lebanon ; Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Rhodes,
Lancaster ; George R. Welchans, M. D.,
Elizabethtown ; Samuel Armstrong, Eliza-bethtown;
M. Leroy Wuchter, Lebanon ;
Samuel Fackler, Harrisburg ; R. W.Wood-ruff
, Selinsgrove; Mrs. Mary Robins;
Ada Rodenheiser, Harrisburg ; J. D.
Patterson, Altoona ; Mrs. Margaret Pat-terson,
Altoona; Elise P. Smith , Rox-borough
; Sarah E. Leverich, Brooklyn,
N, Y.; Isabella D. Hampson, Ellicot
City, Md. ; Mabel B. Dunning, Baltimore,
Md.; Edwin J. Baum, Harrisburg;
Harlan B. McWharter , Grenloch, N. J. ;
Clare M. Steelier, Hummelstown; Amos
M, Hoffer , Lebanon,; Henry Wolfe,
Lancaster ; Mrs. Fred Brunner, Rich-mond
Hill , L. I,; Mrs. Anna Yeagcr,
Lebanon ; Miss Mary Patten , Philadelphia;
J. P. Stoner, Lancaster; A. M. Griffith ,
A. A. Griffith, Duncannon ; F. B. Grecna-walt
, Wythcvillc; John H. Parfct , Harris-burg
; Frank V. Seavcrs, Hummelstown.
FIRE COMPANY MEETING
Will Act on Several Important Mat-ters
, May Fir st
The next stated meeting of the Hershey
Volunteer Fire Company which occurs
Tuesday, May 1, will bo one of the most
important. meetings the company has
ever had. At the last stated meeting
amendments to the constitution and by-laws
were proposed and these will
bo acted on at the May meeting. These
amendments will if adopted make changes
in the government of the company.
Further action will also be taken at.
this meeting relative to attending the
celebration at. Palmyra in June.
An invitation has been received from
Annvillo inviting the company to partici-pate)
in the dedication of the new $10,000
lire house, and action will bo taken on
this InviUiLion. Altogether it. will bo a
meeting which every member should
at! end.
VESPER SERVICE
The regular weekly vesper sol'vlcc of
the Young Women's Christian Ahhoc1i\-
tion was held Friday evening conducted
by Miss Ruth Rcinlor. Select readings
by Minn Jennet to Donmoyer and vocal
roIoh by Miss Mnrgnrol , ' Roiglor were
much enjoyed, The attendance was
very encouraging lo the officers find
members,
LITTLE FARMERS
AND THIRTY LOTS
Operations in East Hershey on Land
Whose Use Was Granted Free by
M. S; Hershey. Boys Are In-terested
in Work. Some
Are Done Planting
Home farming will be the fad of the
year in Hershey. More vegetables will
be raised in gardens than ever ' before.
Mr. M. S. Hershey has offered land in
East Hershey to the boys-of the town
and on Monday afternoon the first lots
were apportioned to the applicants.
Rohrer Snavely will have general charge
of this cultivation and will take care of
much of the area not used by the boys.
John F. Snavely, Manager of the Hershey
Men's Club, will help the boys at different
times. On the opening day Harry Haver-stick
was present to lay out the lots and
to give the boys advice. He will be in
call on other days.
The land has been put in shape for use.
Those having lots will supply their own
tools arid seeds. All the crops will go
to them and there is ' every reason to
believe that those who hold on to the
work will realize well from their efforts.
The lots and cultivators are as follows:
1—Charles McHeffey.
2 and 3-Charles Black.
4 and 5—Bruce Murrie.
6 and 7—Malcolm Murrie.
8, 9, 10, 25, and 26—Harvey Leibfried ,
Edgar Leibfried", Charles Leibfried.
ll, 12, 13, and 14—Charles Robbins,
Donald ' Robbins.
15—Ira Gibble.
16—William Leithiser.
17 and 18—Malcolm Kieff er.
19 and 20—Salvador Purcell.
21 and 22—Russell Smith.
23 and 24—Mark Henry.
27 and 28—Joseph Bonfanti.
29—Paul Schlepfer.
30—Robert Bricker.
BABY'S HEALTH NATION'SWEALTH
Mothers Club of Hershey Will Have
Unusual Program
The Hershey Mothers' Club continues
to do good work in a fine way and its
celebration of Baby Day on the 4th of
May promises to be one of the delightful
days in the history of the town and to
bring here many visitors from Hum-melstown,
Palmyra and other points.
The program is being completed under the
direction of the president, Mrs. Ezra F.
Hershey and the committee. There
will be three meetings as follows:
9:30 a. m.-^-Women Only.
2 to 4 p. m.—Open to all.
8 to 10 p. m.—Open to all.
All these meetings will be held in the
Hershey Central Theatre, Admission will
be free but a collection will be taken up
to defray expenses. There will be in-teresting
exhibits all day and the program
will contain attractive speeches and music.
HIGH CLASS ATTRACTIONS
Owing to the great popularity of the
shows produced by the Triangle Film
Company throughout the country the
management of the local theatre has de-cided
to exhibit a few of their best pro-duction
s at the semi-weekly shows, and
has already booked several expensive
productions.
The attractions for Saturday evening
will be "Bullets and Brown Eyes" featur-ing
Bessie Barriscnle who is regarded as
one of the clever actresses in America,
Miss Barriscnle has starred in many
performances including the role of
Lovey Mary in "Mrs. VViggs of the Cab-bage
Patch" and as Launa in "The Bird
of Paradise. "
Movie lovers will bo Riven a rare treat
'next Wednesday evening when Cnrn
Kimball Young will appear in "The
Dark Silence." Miss Young is known and
admired by movie fans, Her acting is
wonderful and her ability as an imperson-ator
is unsurpassed ,
"The Dark Silence" in a powerful love
drama, Many of the scenes were taken
behind the firing lines of the great European
war. Despite its many war scenes it
never impresses one as a war story;
the thread of romance is too strong,
THE ASSEMBLY DANCE
The first Assembly Dance hold last
Thursday evening In fho Press Building
was it success from every point , the
attendance exceeding by far the expecta-tions
of the management. Couples from
nearly every surrounding town us well
as i\ few from Harrisburg and Lebanon
were present. An orchestra from Harrls-burn,
played.
The next largo dance will be held next
Thursday evening with a Lebanon or-chcHlm.
furnishing the mimic, This ev-ening
the regular dancing class will hold
sway with Miss Dorothy Sellers probably
presiding at the piano,
SCHOOL BOARD
TAKES ACTION
Adopts Extra Period for the Pupils
of the Hershey High School And
Elects New Teacher Who Will
Have Charge of Athletics
All in Fine Health
In an effort to makejup_all or-part of
the time which was lost during the past
school year, the Derry Township School
Board by virtue of permission given by
the State Board of Education has made
a ruling to the effect that pupils of all
grades of the High School be compelled
to attend a special session_of school to be
held every Saturday morning.
The students do not take kindly to the
proposition, considering it . something of
an imposition to have this extra period
forced upon them, but when they come to
realize the situation the members of
the Board believe they will fall in line,
uncomplainingly. A ruling of the State
Board of Education requires that a
certain number of days in the year be
devoted to school work and were not this
system adopted it would be necessary to
continue school through the last week of
June instead of closing several weeks
earlier as has been the custom.
Looking at it from the standpoint of
the • present labor situation it is almosj
imperative that the older boys and girls
be released from school work as quickly
as possible. The great shortage in all
lines of work such as home work, farming,
factory and office work will be greatly
aided by these students during the summer
months, consequently the sooner they
complete their scholastic work the better
for the labor situation .
Exceptions will be made in cases where
it is necessary that the student help his
or her people in their means of livelihood.
In some instances the student will not be
required to attend this special session,
At this meeting of the Directors a new
teacher was elected for the coming year,
Steven C. Leininger, who will be placed
in charge of the Manual Training room.
Mr. Leininger is, a graduate of the ftjlillers-ville
Normal School , and also took a
course at Penn State College. At present
he is engaged in teaching Manual Train-ing
at Gettysburg College,
In addition to this Mr. Leininger will
be placed in charge of sill branches of
athletics in the school. He was formerly
the best all-round athletic of his Alma
Mater, Under the direction of an ex-perienced
athlete there is little doubt
that the athletic fame of Hershey High
School will not suffer. Mr. Leininger
with his wife and family expects to move
to Hershey early in the summer,
The school is in fine shape and its
pupils, numbering close to seven hundred
arc in excellent health.
SMALLPOX AT STEELTON
Evan Kulich , an Austrian , is 111 with the
small pox at Stcolton. It is a light at-tack
, but the matter Is giving concern to
the health authorities because of the
thousands employed at Steelton , Including
many negroes, Under Dr. Phillips pro-tective
measures have been taken.
WHOOPING COUGH
In the country around Bast Hanover-dale
there arc twenty or thirty cases of
whooping cough, Efforts lire being made
by the health authorities to prevent its
spread to other sections.
MR. COPE IS NOW
POSTMASTER
He Took Charge of the Hershey Post -
Off ice Tuesday Morning. The
Present Force to Be Retained
Improvements That May
Be Made Very Soon
John H. Cope, Hershey's new post-master,
received his commission in the
late mail of Monday and took charge of
the office Tuesday rhorning.' The force
who have been running the office for
months under the direction of the bonds-men
will be retained as follows:
Assistant Postmaster, Miss Bessie Moy-er.
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• Clerk, C. L. Peiffer. '
Clerk, Miss Viola Boyer.
No immediate changes are contemplated
and the postmaster, states that he will
take his time to get fully acquainted with
the office details and to ascertain the
wishes of the people in regard to any
improvements in the service that may be
considered advisable. The improve-ments
that have been discussed are as
follows:
The consolidation of the Derry Church
Post Office with that of Hershey and
the institution of local free delivery.
The keeping open of the Post Office
until the mail arriving on the 7:25 P. M.
train is distributed. This train has not
been on time more than once or twice
during the past two or three months
and in most instances the mail has been
taken to the Post Ofifice and there remained
undistributed until the following morning.
This meant that Hershey has been with-out
a direct- mail service from the east
from 11:37 A. M. until the following
morning. Of course, much of the eastern
mail goes to Harrisburg and then is sent
back to Hershey, but the direct service
from the east has been just about as
bad as it could be. The train arriving
at 4:22 from the east brings no local mail.
There is also the question of an out-going
mail on Sunday if it can be arranged.
At present no letters mailed after 7:00
P. M. Saturday move from, Hershey
until after 8:00 Monday morning.
The Postmaster thus has large op-portunities
to improve the postal service
of this town.
Mr. Cope is well known to most Her-shey
people although his home is at the
extreme end of the township. He helped
to organize the Sunday School in Derry
Church and for eighteen years lie has had
a large class of ladies. He has been a
member of the church for twenty years
and one of its leading and most popular
members. Last Sunday evening he was
installed as one of the trustees,
Mr. Cope was born east of Palmyra on
January 2(5, 1860, He received his edu-cation
in the public schools of Palmyra.
For seventeen years he worked on a farm,
Then he went into the business of shoe
manu facturing. He was with W. L,
Krcidcr for fourteen years, A, S, Krcider
for seven years and for the past year
and a half ho has been with J. Landls and
Company. His experience in polices
lias been confined to his service as in-spector
and cleric of elections. At present
he is an inspector of elections; Mr.
Cope is a bachelor.
LOCAL CHAPTER
OF RED CROSS
First Meeting Held . Last Monday
And Big Organization Meeting
Will Be Held Next Monday Ev-ening.
Good Speakers
~ Everybody is Invited
Everybody is invited to attend a
great public meeting at the Hershey
Central Theatre next Monday evening at
eight o'clock. It will have able speakers
and an attractive program. The pur-pose
of the meeting will be to complete
the organization of the Hershey Chapter
of the Red Cross. All are invited, men,
women and children.
The largest and best meeting of women
ever held in Hershey was at the Central
Theatre on Monday afternoon to organize
for Red Cross work. Hershey had already
made a record of having sold the largest
number of Red Cross Seals, per capita of
any town in the world and today it holds
the banners for this achievement. So it
was confidently expected that when the
matter of organization of Red Cross
work for the war was reached there
would be a full response.
The meeting was much larger than
was expected. There were nearly 200
present including ladies from Hum-melstown,
Palmyra, and other neighbor-ing
towns. Five men were present but
they remained quietly on the back seats.
The meeting itself was that of the women
and was run by them. Mrs. C. V.
Glynn presided . With her oh the stage
were Mrs. George Mattson of Harrisburg
Chapter and Mrs.. Victor F. Lecoq,
instructress in surgical supplies for the
Red Cross Chapter of Harrisburg. Both
of the visitors were warmly received
and they expressed delight at coming to
Hershey. Mrs. .Lecoq brought with her
samples of the different kinds of work
done by the members of the Red Cross.
Mrs. Glynn made an admirable presiding
officer and introduced Mrs. Mattson in a
speech expressing the appreciation of
the Hershey ladies. "
Mrs. Mattson made a delightful and
convincing speech. She is an orator and
there was never a pause for a word in the
story she told so eloquently. She said
that the Red Cross represents humanity,
that it belongs to no group, no nation,
no faction but to the whole, human race.
She traced its history from the first
meeting in Switzerland in 1859,<>then the
International meeting in 1864. The fam-iliar
flag of the Red Cross , is that of
Switzerland with the colors reversed.
The Swiss flag is a white cross on a red
background. The Red Cross is a red
cross on a white background. The scope
of the. work of the Red Cross includes
surgeons, nurses, good roads, ambulances,
commissary departments and last but
not least the work of practically all the
members in the making of dressings and
garments. The recent notable work of
the Red Cross in this country was in the
Galveston flood and in the Spanish-
American War. Its work in Europe was
a matter of current history. In America
today the members of the Red Cross are
busy preparing dressings and garments
and soldier kits. "I hope," said Mrs.
Mattson, "it will not happen that we
shall need such tilings in America but we
are going to have them on hand if we
should need them." Mrs, Mattson told
of the work that the members in Hershey
might do and the question before them
was that qf organization , whether or
not they should form a Chapter of their
own or an auxiliary to the Harrisburg
Chapter. To form a Hershey Chapter
would necessitate one hundred members.
The question was then discussed under
the leadership of Mrs. Glynn , Mrs.
Magee and others, and Uidics from Pal-myra
and Hummelstown promised co-operation,
It was promptly seen that
the meeting considered that Hershey
could form a chapter and so the matter
of an Auxiliary to the Harrisburg Chap-ter
was dropped, A rising vote showed a
largo number in favor of the proposition
and no it was decided to form the Her-shey
chapter and to proceed at once,
First was the election of two officers,
and the following were elected unani-mously;
Secretary, Mrs, Linn II. Hawbccker,
Treasure r, Mrs. John 15. Snyder,
It. was then decided to postpone the
election of the President and Vice-
President , and t h e Board until
the public meeting which will bo held
next week,
Then those who wish to become mem-bers
were asked to sign tlio roll. Forty
pledges were received and more have
been gathered durin g the week, It
is quite possible that the necessary one
hundred will be in sight when the 'public
meeting is called to order, '
Rod CroHH IncronncH
With a national membership of less
than 27,000, three years ago, the Red
Cross is now making rapid strides to-ward
its goal of u million members.
WAR COST "WILL
HIT EVERYONE
Most Radical Change Will Probably
Be in the Income Tax And the
Lowering of the Exemption
Will Hit Many in Hershey ' .
Sources of Income
America's war finance program calls
for $7,000,000,000. That means $70
for every man, woman and child. It is
the first big ,blow of the war. It means
that whether you go in for the fight or
not you have got to pay your share of the
expense.
How is the money to be raised? The
thing that will hit the community like
Hershey hardest is the probable reduction
in the exemption of the income tax.
Under the present law $3,000 for single
persons and $4,000 for married persons is
the point where the tax begins. Under
that law about a score of persons in Her-shey
have to pay the income tax. The
proposed laws .reducing the exemption
to $1,500 for single and $2,000 for married
persons would double the number in
Hershey and its neighborhood who would
have to pay an income tax. This tax
would be , 2 per cent on their incomes
with the following supertaxes added :
Incomes of $3,000 to $4,000, 1 per cent;
$4,000 to $5,000, 2 per cent; $5,000 to
$10,000, 5 per cent; $10,000 to $20,000,
7 per. cent; $20,000 to $40,000, 8 per
cent; $40,000 to $60,000, 10 per cent ;
$60,000 to $80,000, 12 per cent; $80,000
to $100,000, 15 per cent; $100,000 to
$150,000, 20 per cent; $150,000 to $200,-
000, 25 per cent; $200,000,000 to $1,-
000,000, 33 1-2 per cent; 31,000,000 and
over, 40 per cent.
"This revenue," Mr. McAdoo says,
"would be further increased if the in-come
from state and municipal securi-ties
and state and municipal salaries
were made subject to the income tax."
The total increase from this tax is
expected to be $340,000,000.
If the present excess profits tax of 8
per cent on corporation and partner-ship
profits of more than $5,000 and 8
per cent of invested capital were made
applicable to the calendar year 1916,
the secretary estimates it would yield
$226,000,000. Corporations and partner-ships
would be given until September to
pay the tax.
As to the excess profits tax for 1917,
collectible • in June, 1918, the existing
law allows an exemption of $5,000 and
8 per cent on invested capital, and levies
8 per cent tax on the remainder of the
profits of corporations and " partnerships.
If this tax, allowing the same exemptions
were increased to 10 per cent on profit
in excess of 8 per cent and not over 15
per cent of capital invested, to 15 per-cent
on profits in excess of 15 per cent and
not over 25 per cent of capital invested, to
20 per cent on profits in excess of 25 per
cent, and not over 50 per cent of capi-tal
invested , and to 25 per cent on pro-fits
in excess of 50 per cent of capital
invested , the law, according to the
Secretary, would yield $425,000,000.
Would Tax Railroad Fares
Proposed revenue from passenger trans-portation
receipts is estimated on the
basis of "1 per cent on each 25-cent
fare or fraction thereof within the United
States," but '"no tax on fare not in excess
of 25 cents."
Freight transportation , it is estimated
would yield $100,000,000 at 1 per cent
on each 25 cents or fraction thereof of
each frieght bill.
An increase of $2 per gallon on dis-tilled
spirits, now taxes .$1.10, the Sec-retary
says would raise $73,000,000.
Suggestions as to possible new sources
of taxation through which to raise approx-imately
one-half of the estimated cost
of the first year of the war , or $1,807,250,-
000, were submitted by Secretary Mc-
Adoo this week to the Senate, Finance
and the House Ways and Means Com-mittees.
The other half of the cost is to
be provided by $2,000,000,000 of the bonds
authorized by the War Revenue Bill.
Other sources, the Secretary believes
could be made to yield additional in-come
include: excise on sugar , $02,000,0001
stamp taxes on theatre , baseball and
other amusement tickets, $75,000,0001
distilled spirits , $73,000,000,000; stamp
taxes, miscellaneous, $51,000,000; trans-portation
receipts, passenger, $35,000,000;
fermented liquors, !p30,000,000; smoking
and chewing tobacco, $25,000,000; auto-mobiles,
trucks , motorcycles, $1!),800,000;
soft drinks, $1<) ,200,000; cigarettes, $17,000
000; rectified liquor , $12,(300,000; ciga rs,
$11,()00,(K)() ; excise lax on musical in-struments,
grnphophonctt, etc, $7,000,-
000; wines, etc., $0,7(50,000; all dealers
in cigars, cigarettes, etc., $4,800,000,
The land seen behind the houses in this picture has been divided
into plots which will be a par t of the Piesident 's program of Home
Farming. Mr. Hershey has given the use of the land free. This week
30 lots were assigned to boys. More will be assigned later.
WHERE THE HERSHEY BOYS ARE AT WORK
MAYOR MEALS DEAD
Mayor Meals of Harrisburg died yes-terday
morning at the ago of fifi, Ho
had been ill some time, Ho was well
lmown to many Hershey people,
Men who want good, saf e work at good
wages and with steady employment should
at once address or app ly at the Hers hey
Employment Bureau, Hershey, Pa ,
A HANDSOME STALLION
Delimit', one of the hiinclBomcst stallions
in the state, which has been greatly ad-mired
by visitors to Mershoy, Is for sale,
' Ho woIrIih over KiOO pounds and ia a
black Percheron of aristocratic stock,