The Hershey Press 1925-01-15

              TRone Xamper" Makes
18 Miles On Two Cakes
Of Hershey' s Chocolate
(Jack Taylor, the noted cross-country
walker, known as "The Scholar-Gypsy"
and "The Lone Camper ", enroute to
Southern California, accompanied by his
dog ""Jiggs", spent several days in Hershey
last week. He has made several trips
across the continent and has covered
something over 8000 miles. Mr. Taylor,
upon request, has contributed an article,
which we. have the pleasure of publishing,
as follows:]
A RHYME FOR THE FOOT
PATH WAY
Here's a song for the Open Road,
A rhyme for the Foot Path Way—
Who so care-free or serene
As "The Walker", night or day.
Up with the first bird-note.
And afoot before early dawn,
Making a camp by high-noon—
And so the day gets on.
At mid-day's heat and glare,
By a cool and sparkling stream,
On a road-side level blue grass lawn
Comes rest 'neath leafy screen.
A measure of corn or a barley loaf ,
With a Hershey bar for a change—
The "Saunterer 's" needs are few indeed,
Nor cares for a wider range.
Through the long hours of afternoon—
(This "Outer " has been afoot since dawn)
Has earned the right to do as he likes —
Read, rest, or write—as the mood comes
on.
With favorite volume of prose or verse:
Thoreau, Shelly, Keats, or Cower—
Only "The Wayfarer" can truly know,
The sure inner delight of this quiet hour.
When fades away the light of day,
And stars came into sight,
In woodcraft way is quickly built
A "Friendship Fire" for night.
UP FROM TEXAS, DOWN TO
FLORIDA, ACROSS TO SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
The writer has been walking and camp-ing
for ten years. Starting out in life,
fifty-seven years ago as a third—assistant
Printer's-devil, on a daily paper, with
several years experience at the case in
west, mid-west and eastern papers, fol-lowed
by a round of engagements in job-printing
plants in Canadian and American
business centers—until ill-health called for
a change from inside occupation to nearly
thirty years commercial touristing out
of New York City when a recent health-breakdown
occurred nearly ten years ago,
calling for a life entirely in the open.
At seventy-one years "young", after ten
years walking and camping, with careful
attention to diet, the result is 100 per cent,
good health, higher mental and spiritual
levels, and even sight improved.
Ae there are no wager or bet-conditions
attached to what "The Lone Camper" is
doing, the forward movement is limited to
from three to ten miles a day—allowing for
an easy advance, leaving plenty of time for
getting acquainted with trees, wild-flowers
and birds. There is more happening of
the worth-while in this slow way of seeing
the country than there ever was in a 1000
or more miles of rapid going by fast train ,
steamer or auto traveling. _ .
The outfit carried is not very elaborate
or expensive—the transportation depart-ment
consists of a common-garden variety
bicycle, from which chain , pedals and seat
have been removed—leaving no tempta-tion
to ride. A long narrow "deck" lias
been built across the top, and a third
wheel added for balancing the load . The
weight carried "is from 175 to 260 lbs.—
kitchen, pantry, linen-chest, clothes-chest,
library, sleeping-bag, tent , flags, poles—
also an attic, cellar and one pup-dog. The
pup-dog rides up in the attic , when the
roads are good. The cellar takes the
over-flow from the kitchen and pantry.
Yes, we have no hooch in the cellar! On a
level road the outfit goes forward easily,
with guidance of one hand on the left
handle-bar. Going up a hill or over a bad
bit or road-bed, is another story entirely,
with pushing—and then some. But bad
or rough highway stretches are not fre-quent,
every up-hill has a down, and the
right way for hill-climbing is to keep
everlastingly thinking how easy it is going
to be after "going over the top." And the
slower you go the more you see. Why
hurry? There is no brass-band or recep-tion
committee waiting at any place, or at
any particular time.
The first day 's bit of travel , when hitting
the trail for the North out of Texas, the
weight carried was about 35 lbs., and 21/
*
miles was that day 's forward movement.
While now it is from 3 to 10 miles a day,
once in a while there is a speedingup^-once,
going into Rochester, N. Y., 40 miles was
made inside of 24 hours. Again, out in
Chicago, with a light outfit—2 army blank-ets,
strapped about a pole, carried over
the shoulders, with not a very heavy knap-sack,
52 miles was covered in 26 hours.
But, these two hikes were dead failures,
according to this Scribe's way of thinking
—too many nice camping-places were
missed ; and some day, if the writer lives,
both walks will be covered again, with a
camp every three miles.
Two things have contributed to Jack
Taylor's 100 per cent, good health—plenty
of fresh air—(he has come to think that
fresh air is meat, drink and good medicine)
and to being very careful about what he
does not eat—no meat for ten years—no
coffee, pie, cake or pudding—no rich foods
of any kind.
While in Canada, on a 400 to 600 mile
walk (including detours and side-trips)
from Toronto, Ontario to Montreal,
Quebec, 18 miles,was made on two bars of
Hershey Chocolates—just to see what
could be drtne on a restricted diet—with
nothing in the way of a bad after effect.
Often , af ter much hill-climbing, a sur-passing
stimulus would come from nibbling
a bar or so of chocolate.
The writer has in view, some time in the
future, a walking and camping trip from
"Hell Gate", New York City, to "Golden
Gate", San Francisco, to be made, if
possible on a diet of corn-meal, raw eggs
and chocolate bars. Three good-sized
pans of corn-meal, well cooked and
sugared, one or two raw eggs to a meal,
and three chocolate bars a day- The idea
will be to get the health-sharps in Washing-ton
, D. C, interested enough to let one or
two medical men go along in a car, to keep
official tab on "The Lone Camper ", and
have the "Powers that Be" in Washington
broad-cast results of the experiment.
All the ills flesh is heir to comes from
over-eating. What the average individual
eats is two-thirds more than he should.
Eat sparingly, go hungry occasionally,
almost starve once in awhile—do without
the so-called good things of life at the table
—and better things will come—good
health. Is there anything more precious
than good health—higher mental and
spiritual levels, and everything else going
into the make-up of 100 per cent, good
health.
Shenk Urges Farmers To Trade-
Mark Crops and Specialize
Crop specialization and standardization ,
more businesslike methods of operation
and better rura l homes are needed if Dau-phin
County farming is to keep pace with
modern agricultural and commercial pro-gress.
Such was the message brought to several
hundred farmers gathered in Harnsbuig
last week for.the seventh annual meeting
of the Dauphin County Agricultural In-tension
Association.
There must he a smaller variety of
products if the modern fanner is to he
successful. H. R, Burtner , comity agent ,
and A. B. Shenk , retiring president of the
association, told the farmers.
The agriculturists also heard an address
by Marshall Dean and a stirring speech
by Merle Thorpe, business publication
edit or.
Thorpe urged the farmers to r efute
attacks made upon the integrity of Ameri-ca's
business leaders.
Discuss Year's Pinna
The farm bur eau gathering confined
itself for the most part to discussion of
plans for the coming twelve months and
to bring up methods for general bett er-ment
of th e farm.
Shenk , Burtner and Dean, in addr esses
before the farmers, asserted that agricul-turi
sts must give the same careful atten-tion
to and planning for their work as the
business mail does to his.
"In only that, way can the business of
farmin g be put on a sound basis, " Shenk
asserted.
Thorpe also urged upon farmers the
necessity for adopt ion of business methods.
, It was Shenk who brought up the prob-lem
of homos mid his points were discussed
at length by I'rof. John R. Bracken , heiul
of the department of landscape architec-ture
at State College. The speakers said
that better homes will hclp keep sons and
(lau ghters on the farm. •
Professor Bracken outlined the results
of his Investi gations throughout the Stale
regarding the |x>ssibilltics of making farms
and small-home grounds moi i; attractiv e
and mote practica l , and showed lantern
slides Indicating "the principle* to be fob
lowed in planning and plantinK home unci
public grounds. _ .
Forming In Bu»lnc«»
"A farm is a business with a home
attached to it ," Prof essor llnickcn staled ,
"and it must be efficient , well arran ged
well equipped and satisfying or livable , II
those who reside there are. to secure IJui
most from life, " ,
Declaring that the small homes are often
more attractive than ivmiwlniw. ho staled
that th e (wo Ideas of use nnd beauty arc
not Incompatible and Hint attention must
he given both to efficiency and attractive-ncss
to realize the most out of hum homes,
On the subject of crop iilnndiirdl/.atloii
the HpwiUiTH asserted that 11 would be. well
for the farms to become known through Hie
mile ota certain product. Such specializa-tion
and atanilunlixntion will brin g wicccss,
Shenk also urged more advertising, nnd
adoption of n farm name to be used at a
trade mark , and the production of articles
of food that will increase the value of this
mark. Burtner urged fewer and better
cows, more attention to good breeds, and
development of dairying.
A cow testing association also was sug-gested
as were also the production of cheap-er
legume hay, promotion of farm orchard
management demonstrations, and the
study of fertilization of corn , potatoes,
wheat , and oats as part of the l!)2.r> pro-gram.
Installing Septic Tanks
In response to numerous requests for
comprehensive information on sanitary
means for sewage disposa l in rural sections,
John R. Ilaswell , agricultural engineering
specialist of State College, presented an
i llustrated lecture on the Installation and
use of septic tanks. 1'ointing out that
many wells are being polluted by sewage,
Be stated that a satisfactory water supply
must be kepi pure by a complete sewage
disposal system.
A simple, sept ic lank system furnishes
this sanatary means of disposing of
sewage," h»! said , and the easiest method s
of using community septic tank (onus,
moderate costs for materials , open joint
t ile for disposing of the diluent , and non-use
of chemicals all were illustrated.
Omcora Elected
K. B. Suavely, of Ilummelslown , R, 1) .
1 , was elected president. Other olliceis
elected are : It. .1. Walton , of Hummcls-lown
, vi ce-president ; Howard Spccce, of
ltauphm, wvreUuy, iiiwl Nullum lliuthoiu ,
of I lummelslown , tr easurer.
A. B. Shenk , \v\\o was president V>f the
association fur seven years, was for ced to
give up that position because of the d<i-inwidH
of his o/Iici! of county mercantile
a ppraiser.
Famous Texas lowboy
At Hershe y Central
Theatre on Saturda y
On Saturday evening, Jan 17t h , Hershey
Central Theatre niunngcineiit will put on
an engagement extraordinary, us an addi-tional
at trai l lou , by present ing Cleve
I.j iUu e. the rclebiiilrd and world-renowned
Texas Cowboy, who, will give an exhibit Ion
of his prowess as a fancy roper. LnRue Is
oi te of I he greatest exponent n In Hinging t he
rope , and is a close runner-up of Will
Rogers,
I,nHue Is accompanied by four Texas
ponies, and on Saturday will do a number,
of his stunts in the open , owing to t he,
inahilK y of doin g so oi) the Coat nil Theal re
st age.
As an additional attra ction the famous
"Hound Up" will l «i shown,
I .it K tut , the "Round U p" mid "Strungeis
of the Night ", will be shown without , any
additional raise In prices. Better coma
early In order to obtain a tent,
Women Who Give To
Be on Local Screen
"Women Who Give," Reginald Barker 's
latest Metro production, which comes to
the Hershey Central Theatre on Thursday
evening, Jan. 15th, at 7.30 o'clock, is
heralded as the season's most thrilling
story that deals with seafaring men and
their wives and sweethearts who patiently
wait the return of their loved ones who go
down to the sea in ships. It is an adapta-tion
of that famous classic, "Cape Cod
Folks," by Sarah P. McLean Greene and
has been directed with all the noted skill
of Mr. Barker, who engaged a most im-pressive
cast to enact the leading roles.
The two prominent feminine characters
in the photodrama are played by Barbara
Bedford and Renee Adoree, two particular
favorites of the motion picture fans of this
town. Robert Frazer enacts the leading
male role, that of a young captain of the
fishing fleet , and this popular young actor
has never been seen to better advantage.
Then there is Frank Keenan, who needs no
introduction to the theatre-going public,
and Joseph Dowling, who made such a dis-tinctive
hit in the title role of "The Miracle
Man." Others who round out the superb
cast include Margaret Seddon, Joan Stand-ing,
Victor Potel, Eddie Phillips and Wil-liam
Eugene.
"Women Who Give" has numberless
exciting and thrilling scenes among which
might be mentioned a desparate battle
with a huge sword-fish in which the players
nearly lost their lives, the most realistic
shipwreck scene ever filmed and the firing
of the cottage by the lighthouse keeper.
This last episode pictures the desperation
of the keeper when the big light fails and
he realizes that a ship with his son aboard
will go on the rocks if not properly guided
by the light. He sets fire to his own home
as a substitute for the broken down beacon
that for years has guided the fishing fleet
safely into port.
Great Prize Fight In
"Winner Take AH"
If you want to see a virile, volcanic,
dynamic drama of western manhood and
eastern temptations, Buck Jones is there in
"Winner Take All ," at the Hershey Centra l
Theatre on Tuesday evening, Jan. 20th.
This newest Wil liam Fox attraction
starring the popular cowboy is all action ;
prize-fights , plungers, senders, parties,
and fast roadsters; the last word in luxury
blended with the grim realism of the prize-rin
g.
This critic won 't give away the craclccr-jack
of a story from the trained typewriter
of the w. k. Saturday livening Post writer ,
Larry Evans. But it gives Buck Jones
the greatest scope of his career for display-ing
old and new talents.
Buck Jones superbly his old western
stuff that 's gained him millions of admiring
fans, and a t (he same time he flashes a
brand new line , as a "busi ed" cowboy who
battles his way to heavyweight champion-ship
honors; then is beaten by the fast pace
of the Big Cily; loses the girl he thinks he
madly loves to a millionaire ; then makes a
grea t comeback in the greatest of all screen
lights with a sensational surprise knockout
finish that knocks the cowboy pug through
the ropes of Love's ar ena into the arms of
the real Girl , and ends his ring career for
ever and happily after.
lively Peggy Shaw, equally so of (ace
and form , Is the lily in the mire of metro-politan
night life , and among other notable
screen favorites in the cast are Edward
1 learn , l.il yan Tashman, William Norton
llnil cy and Hen Deeley.
"Scaramouche
Next Thursda y
The lates t Rex Ingram production for
Metro , "Scaramouche," a picluiization of
Rafa el Salmtlni's novel of Hint name, will
come to the Hershey Central Theatre on
Thursday evening, Jan. 22d . The cast is
headed by Alice i'en y, Lewis Stone and
Ramon Novnrro.
"Scaramouche," according to advance
ie|H)i'ls from th e larger cities , where it has
been played as a two dollar at tract km, is
one of the greatest pictures in screen his-t
ory.
The story is laid In the time of the
Fren ch Revolution and deals wHIi the
adventur es of u voting noble who takes the
Hid e of Hie people. Willis Goldbeck made
the screen adaptation nnd Hie photography
was by John 1' . Sell/..
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Gloria Swanson in "Manhandl ed" "Her
Love Story " and "Wages of Virtue. "
Thomas Melghan In "The Alaskan "
jnnd "Tongues of Flume,"
Rudolph Valentino In "The Sainted
Devil."
/imo Grey 's "The Wanderer of tho
Wast eland" and "The Border Legion ";
Hlw > "Northof :«>, "
Don 't, forget to «eo "Tim Hunchback of
Notre Damo."
Watch for date*.
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Hershe y Industrial
League Opens
The Hershey Industrial Basketball
League opened with a bang on Friday eve-ning
with two good games of basketball.
In the opener the Wrapping department
and the Planing Mill fought through forty
minutes of hard work, and although out-played
in the second half the "Wrappers"
early lead was too much to overcome and
they were leading at the final whistle by a
27 to 23 score.
The second game, although more one-sides
was also a thriller in which the De-partment
Store emerged the victors over
the Construction Department by the score
of 22 to 12.
Wrapping Planing Mill
Fenner F Long
Edwards F Ruch
Anderson C Gerlock
Robertson G Houser
Purcell G. Brehm
Field goals—Strine, 1; Gerlock, 9;
Houser, 1; Anderson, 3; Robertson, 3;
Purcell, 5. Fouls—Wrapping, 5; Planing
Mill, 1.
Store Construction
Tinney F Leib
Edris F Reese
Hess C Auchenbach
P. Zentmeyer G Unger
R. Zentmeyer G Sattazahn
Field goals—Leib, 1; Reese, 1; Auchen-bach,
1; Unger, 2; Edris, 2; Hess, 2 ; P.
Zentmeyer, 6. Fouls—Store, 2; Construc-tion.
2.
Hershe y Wins and
Loses at Linglestown
On Friday evening the Hershey High
School boys' and girls' basketball teams,
journeyed to Linglestown where they met
the Linglestown High School teams. In
the opener the girls lost to the Linglestown
girls after a hard struggle, the final score
being 17 to 14. The Hershey boys how-ever
proved their superiority over their
opixj nents by trouncing them by the one-sided
score of 42 to 19. Both games were
noted for their roughness.
Girls
Hershey Linglestown
Gilman F Sherk
Pass F Lingle
Leithiser C Miller
Frehn S. C Enders
Ceiling G Felty
Hummer G Zimmerman
Substitutions—Gilman for Geiling; Ceil-ing
for Gilman. Field goals—Pass, 1;
Frehn, 2; Geiling, 4; Sherk, 3; Lingle, 4,
Fouls—Sherk, 2; Lingle.
Boys
Hershey Linglestown
Tinney F Lingle
Purcell F Helper
Sponagle C I.enker
Aungst G Kreiser
Simmons . , G Felty
Substitu tions—Holstcin for Tinney;
Warner for Simmons; Simmons for Warner;
McKinne for Warner. Field goals—
Tinney, 7; Purcell , K ; Holstcin; Aungst , 3;
Lingle; Kepler , 5. Fouls- Purcell; Spon-agle
, 3; Lingle; Kepler; Kreiser , 3; Felty, 2,
Beside The Soaking Sea
'Merry Mary, merr y Mary, Mary Mario,
Merr y, merry Mary, will you, Mar y,
marry me?
Merry, merr y Mary, if you will not
marry me.
Then I will li ghtly, fling me In the sea,
Merry Mary, merr y Mary, Mary Marie,
Then would you fling me, flin g me in the
sea ?
Merry,, merr y Mary, if you will not
man y me,
Then I will lightly, toss me in the sen."
Hair y Harrv; hairy Harry, Harry ilairlei
I shall not fling you, llln g you in the sea,
Hairy,' hair y Harry, If 1 llmg you in the
sea,
You 'd get as wet as wet as wet as wet can
be."
-¦•Dorman J. Grace,
A "500" card party was held on Monday
evening, Jan. 12th , In the Old Store build-ing,
under the auspices of the I-ndles'
Auxiliary of I Iershey Post , No. 3H(i, Ameri-can
Ixgion. A very enjoyable evening
was s|>ent at this ixipulnr pastime, alxm t
sixt y people from Hershey, Palmyra and
Hummelstown attendin g. Tho prize
winners were as follows; George Schroll.
3080; Paul G, Shall*, 3670; Winfleld
Zimmerman, 3(i.')0; Mrs, Warren Alberts ,
341K); Mrs, J. Hershey, 3310; Paul Zent-meyer,
31fi(); John I) . Bordner, 21)80; Mrs.
Robert. Sattazahn. 590.
PUBLIC SALE SATURDAY
On Saturday afternoon, Jan, 17th , n
public sale will he held at EHhleman 'ti
Garage at which time, automobiles, tires,
apples, army blankets and other army
goods and numerous other articles will be
ornate. ,
CARD PARTY PRIZE WINNER S
Mid-Winter Institute
To Be Held In
Hershe y Feb. 1
The Executive Committee of District
No. 5, Dauphin County Sabbath School
Association, met Friday evening, Jan. 9th,
with the District treasurer , Milton Base-hore.
In absence of the president. Rev. A. G.
Nye, presided. H. E. Jones sent in his
resignation as president of the District,
which was accepted with regret. Irvin H.
Slesser was elected to fill the unexpired
term.
Arrangements are being made to hold a
Mid-Winter Institute in the First United
Brethren Church, Hershey, Sunday after-noon,
Feb. 1. I. H. Slesser, P. R. Gingrich
and Rev. A. G. Nye, constitute a commit-tee
to make definite arrangements. Pro-grams
will be printed and sent to all the
Sunday Schools in the District, urging
every one to send a large delegation.
All the officers are eager to have District
No. 5 in the lead in getting the contribu-tions
from all the schools into the County
Treasurer, and are working hard at it.
Those present were: Rev. A. G. Nye,
Andrew Henry, Ivan L. Mease, Paul R.
Gingrich, Samuel Yingst and Milton Base-hore.
Travelers Win Another
On Wednesday, Jan. 7th, the Hershey
Travelers completely outclassed the St.
Peter 's C. C, of Steelton , winning by the
score of 55 to 22. The Traveler 's demon-strated
their superiority in the first half ,
by shutting out Steelton without a field
goal. Fasnacht and Gerlock were the
high scorers for the Travelers, while Sim-onic
did the best work for Steelton . During
the intermission between the first and
second halves, Kid Firestone, of Union
Deposit , outpointed our own "Benny"
Reigle, of Hershey. "Benny" has gone
into intensive training for his next bout
and has cut out the "John Hay 's" (till
next pay-day,) and promises to reverse the
decision when they meet again.
Hershey Steelton
Purcell F Simonic
Gerlock F Cunjack
Leib C Gorup
Fouche G Matan
Belser G Dragovan
Substitutions—Fasnacht for Leib; Leib
for Fouche; Swartz for Purcell; Meistola
for Matan ; Dermes for Gorup. Field
goals—Purcell, 4; Gerlock, 8; Fasnacht, 8;
Leib; Swartz ; Simonic, 4; Matan, 2; Dra-govan.
Foul goals—Travelers, 11 out of
19; St. Peter 's, 8 out of 19. Ref eree—
Purcell. Scorer—Dissinger.
Industrial School News
The Hershey Industrial Little Five
added two more victories to their credit by
defeating the Junior Cedar Rapids basket-ball
team on Wednesday evening by the
score of 42 to 12and on Saturday afternoon
by the score of 18 to 16. In the first game
the Little Five completely outclassed the
Cedar Rapids team mostly by the superior
goal shooting of R. Fredericks, who had
seven field goals to his credit , but the
second game was closely fought due to the
fact that the Little l'ive were unaccus-tomed
to the Men's Club floor.
H. I. S. Little Five Cedar Rapids
Fredericks F Purcell
Stump I'" Robertson
Tovey C Zimmerman
Snyder C. Morgan
Hess G Curry
Goals—Fred ericks , 7; Stump, (i; Tovey,
3; Snyder , 2; Purcell , 6.
Skiing Popular
On Friday night a cross country hike on
skiis was taken by a party of six young
men of Hershey. The parly consisted of
"Chet" Swartz, Bill Spangler , Landis
Carman , William Miller , Skin " Schaelfcr
and Alex Magrlni , starting at the Men's
Club and hiked to Put t's Hill , and aft er
taking advanta ge of the hills and slides in
the vicinity returned to Hershey about one
a. m., having had the best winter s|X)itlng
time of th eir lives. '"Skiing has coasting
skinned a mile"' was the expression heard
from time t o time during the hike. Willi
a continuation of Hit: winter weather pre-dicted
, It will not lie necessary to go to St.
Moritz for skiin g wheii we have it right
here in Hershey,
The regular monthly meeting of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of I Iershey PostrNo. 3H(i,
American Legion, will Ihi held on Friday
evening at 8 o'clock, in tho Legion rooms.
All members and all other eligible to mem-bershipa
re requestedt o attend.
LADIES' AUXILIARY MEETING
Rev. Jas. B. Mediae m not only Inter-ested
in the spiritual , hut in Hie physica l
welfare, of those who live on this old world
of ours, and as a consequence has taken the
agency (o sell Whole Grain Wheat.
Whole Grain Wheat is intended by
nature to sustain and maintain the normal
human body in a normal state, Whole
Grain Wheat puts back Into the blood
stream the elements, 1(> in number , in
balance combination , of which th e blood
has become depleted.
« Rev. McClure will lie glad to sell you
either one carton or a case of this life-giving
food.
REV. McCLURE DIRECTS THE
WINNING WAY
Author of "Food Of J iiGoJ ^
CitesHershe ^ Arfriion g
Example Of Spotlessness
(Continued from last week)
Back of the Gold Coast lies the land of
the Ashantis, one of the fiercest , cruelest,
and hardest-fighting of all the races of
Africa. More than once have the British
arid the Ashantis engaged in . bitter war-fare.
The culmination of all 'this fighting
came in our own times when, in 1900, a
British force, including the governor of the
Gold Coast colony and his wife,, were
besieged in their fort in the capital , Coo-massie,
for nearly three months. Their
brave resistance in the face of overwhelm-ing
numbers makes one of the highlights of
British colonial history. At last, when
food and ammunition ran low, they cut
their way through to friendly tribes near
the coast, escaping almost miraculously,
and a little later a British column forced
its way through, just in the nick of time,
to the relief of the small garrison that had
been left behind.
It is these same hard-fighting Ashantis
and their brother 's tribes who, practically
alone, have built up the cocoa industry of
the Gold Coast. For the business of cocoa
growing is here almost wholly a peasant-proprietor
business, in which each family,
or in some cases the tribal unit, sets out
and owns its own little cocoa farm, and
harvests arid brings to market its own
beans. Cocoa, as one of the British gover-nors
has said, has been one of the greatest
of civilizing agents. Little cultivation is
required, once the bush.isxleaned away and
the trees set out, and the chief labor in-volved
is in gathering and fermenting the
beans and bringing them in to market.
There are no large estates and very little
management by Europeans. Thus there
are no dividends to be paid on invest-ments,
and no overhead. It is this peasant-proprietor
foundation for the industry
which has made it so enormously effective
in its invasion of the world's markets, as it
can cut the cost of production down to a
point estimated sometimes as low as one
cent per pound, and seldom higher than
five cents.
The one big difficulty in the way of
cocoa marketing in the Gold Coast has
been a lack of transportation facdities.
For this is the region of the deadly tse-tse
fly and the sleeping sickness, and draft
animals cannot survive. Most of the
colony's enormous output of beans in the
past has come to market on the heads of
natives. The cocoa districts lie well back
from the coast and are reached by two
lines of railways. To the stations on these
railways and to other market centers long
lines of natives stream in, men, women, and
children alike carrying heavy "header "
loads without apparent distress. In her
very readable little book on cocoa and
chocolate, Miss E. A. Browne, has given a
vivid picture of these cocoa carriers:
"It is early morning. The sun has only
just risen, but we are up and dressed and
sitting on the veranda of the bungalow
that has been our happy home for the past
few days. Eagerly we watch the road
that skirts the garden.
"Presently, round a bend in the road
comes a figure carrying a white bag on his
head. He is followed by another and
another, each balancing a head load that
looks as if it might be a bundle of linen.
We snatch up our sun helmets and hurry
out. The spectacle for which we have
been waiting has begun—the farmers and
their families are bringing in their cocoa
for sale.
"By the time we reach the road, crowds
of carriers are in sight. On they come, in
an endless but broken procession of groups,
twenty, thirty, fifty or more men, women,
and children to the group. Everyone is
heading a load of something to market, and
most of the loads consist of sixty pounds of
cocoa beans in a white, or blue and white,
cotton wrapper. Some of the very small
youngsters have loads which look bigger
than themselves. At intervals a man ap-pearson
tbescene, rolling along an enormous
barrel ; these barrels contain five hundred-weight
or half a ton of cocoa beans, ac-cording
to whether they are of the
puncheon or butt size.
"The prevailing style of dress is a more
or less scanty attire , but the whole effect of
the costumes in this great march to market
is very picturesque. 1 Iere comes a man in
a blue and white "toga " cloth , which is
draped to leave black legs, arms, and righ t
shoulder bare abd free ; he is heading cocoa
beans in a whi te cotton bag. Follows a
youth hare to the waist and up to the
knees, but clad about the loins with an
indigo and cinnamon-hued cloth of Orien-tal
design , worn short-petticoa t fashion;
his hcadload of cocoa beans is in a blue and
white wrap|Jer. Close behind conies a
striking study in black and white; a woman
whose black skin shines like elx>ny against
her dull black draperies is balancing a
white cotton load on her wolly head .
Striding with stately gait alongside this
woman is a tiny youngster , who helps him-self
along with a pilgrim 's staff ; he is wear-ingaraggedai
ghtshirt and a scarlet and gold
smoking cap, and by the help of a blue and
white head-pad he balances a huge brass
bowl piled up with plantains, llis near
neighboring childish companions in the
procession include a little girl dressed in a
string of beads, who is beading a load of
cocoa to market , and a small hoy in bath-ing
drawers, who is almost lost to view
under the bundle of wood slacked up on
his head ."
In the last few years there has been a
big development of road construction for
the use of motor trucks , on which the
t se-tse (ly may bite in vain , and the. colony
now has more than .'1000 miles of such high-wa
ys. The use of motor trucks has largely
done away with the old method of rolling
cocoa to market in big casks, but "h ead-ing"
is still necessary to bring the loads
from the small (anus fo the motor road or
railroad The iiew harbor being built at
Takonuli will still further improve the
facilities for getting the cocoa beans out.
It will have two break-waters which will
permit ocean-going vessels to come within
21)0 or MX) yards of the wharves, thus
avoiding the long haul in surf-boats
between shore and vcitsel durin g which the
carefull y dried licaim are often t horoughly
dren ched. The new harbor Is expected to
be read y In l!)2f».
Our own piiiticulur interest in the Gold
Coast Is shown , by the fact, that in 11)23
more than n third of our cocoa came from
there. Out of 414 million |x>unds which
we Imported the Cold Coast supplied us
with IK', million pounds, about 37 per
cent. Driw.il, Ecuador , Venezuela , and
th e islands of Hie West Indies send us
most of the remainder of our requirements.
American acquaintance with chocolate
goes back to colonial times. Until 17(15
the beans were ground by hand. In that
year an Irish immigrant named John
1 human, who had learned chocolate milk-in
g In England , undertook to build up a
business In grinding the beans commercial-ly.
He net up a mill In connection.with a
saw-mill, run by watei|xiwer, In the town
of Dorchester , Mass. The business thus
started prospered sufficiently to keep
going, and It finally grew into what is now
the Walter Baker Co,, one of whose big
mills now occupies the site of the original
plant on the Neponset River.
By the time the new country had
launched itself as a .separate nation we wer.e importing cocoa in goodly amounts,
our trade starting off in 1790 with a figure
of 896,000 pounds. For a while it grew
rapidly, and in 1800 we were buying 6,-
250,000 pounds. Then for some reason it
dropped down and for eighty years re-mained
almost stationary, not even re-flecting
the growth in population of the
country. In 1879 imports were only
5,800,000 pounds of raw cocoa (although
there was also an importation in that year
of 50,000 pounds of prepared chocolate), a
figure less than at the beginning of the
century.
Then came the soda fountain. For
many years it had been making its way
slowly, but not until the decade of the
eighties did it intrench itself firmly in the
hearts of Young America. On the wave
of its prosperity chocolate rode high, and
the two have been natural allies ever since.
It was in this period too that the makers of
confectionery were seeing their trade leap
f orward in one big advance after another,
and they also called loudly for chocolate
and more chocolate. By 1890 the cocoa
imports had trebled amounting to 19,000,-
000 pounds of raw and 600,000 pounds of
prepared. Another decade saw a stride
forward to 43,000,000 pounds, and since
the beginning of the century the trade has
broken all bounds.
By far the largest part of this tide of
cocoa goes to satisfy the insistent demand
of the American sweet tooth. Census
figures just issued show that in 1923 our
cocoa factories turned out products valued
at $95,000,000, of which cocoa, the bev-erage
powder, accounted for only $9,000,-
000 and cocoa butter $5,000,000. Nearly
all the rest, or more than $79,000,000,
went into the market in the form of "choc-olate
in cakes." This is a growth from
two years ago. As compared with 1921
returns the total value of chocolate
products last year showed a gain of $14,-
000,000 or 17 per cent., while that of
chocolate in cakes increased by more than
$18,000,000, or 30 per cent., and cocoa and
other products showed a corresponding
drop. What proportion of the cake
•chocolate goes into syrups and flavors and
what into candies the returns do not show.
In the two years mentioned the candy out-put
of the country increased 16 per cent,
in value, and the production of ice cream
and water ices gained 21 per cent.
There seems to be something about
chocolate manufacture that makes for
special cleanliness and special attention to
the welfare of employees. England's
three big companies take great pride in
their spotless factories and their well
worked out systems for caring for their
laborers, and Swiss companies are reported
to give particular attention to these phases
of manufacture. But the United States
has the most striking example of both in
the unique town of Hershey, Pa., which is
built around the business of the Hershey
Chocolate Co. Besides the very modern
factory buildings there are dining rooms,
living quarters, amusements, a fine park,
and other provisions for the well being of
the employees. Around the town 75
model farms supply much of the milk used
in making chocolate sweets, all equipped
with the latest electrical labor-saving and
sanitary devices. The town is one of the
show places of eastern Pennsylvania, and
the company claims a steady flow of visi-tors
to the number of more than a million
a year.
Nine-tenths of the chocolate made in this
country comes from a small area in the
east, includin g the four states of Pennsyl-vania,
New York, New Jersey, and Massa-chusetts.
California has about half the
remainder and the other half is scattered
among half a dozen other states. Choco-late
manufacture is thus one of the most
highly centralized of American industries.
Historically the story of chocolate coin-cides
exactly, so far as its relations with
the white race are concerned, with that of
the new world. Columbus is said to have
taken cocoa beans back with him on his
first voyage. Before that it was a recog-nized
and highly valued food of the Indians
particularly the Aztecs of Mexico, who
made from it a thick unsweetened drink.
The name "chocolate" is said to come from
the ancien t Mexican word "Jail", meaning
water, and "choco", supposed to represent
the sound made by preparers of chocolate
when they beat or churned it to a froth in
their stone vessels.
For a hundred years or more Spain
succeeded in keeping chocolate to herself ,
but it made its way eventuall y into France
and England and was becoming known in
the latter country in the time of Cromwell.
As coffee and tea became more and more
the drink of the masses the wealthy turned
to chocolate as the fasnionable drink.
There was good reason (or its exclusive-ness,
for it cost as much as $5 a pound.
I' or a long while chocolate was looked
on with suspicion by the extra cautious,
and was charged not only with inflaming
th e [Missions but also with causing sterility.
There was also a good deal of controversy
among the church people as to whether or
not the drinking of chocolate could he con-sidered
as breaking a fast . It was general-ly
concluded that it did not. Cocoa his-torians
are fond of digging up curious
passages regarding t hese beliefs. Typical
is the following quotation from so eminent
a journal as the Spectator (April 29, 1712),
as given In a quaint collection of such ref-erences
by an anonymous author "Histori-cus":
"I shall also advise my feminine readers
to be In u particular, manner careful how
they meddle with romances, Chocolates,
novels, aqd (he Hke itifla mcrtt, which I
look uixm as very 'dangerous to bo made
use of during this great carnival (the
month of May)."
In ot her quarters the virtues of chocolate
were fully appreciated. Its highest praise
came when It reached the attention of the
great naturalist. Linnaeus, who christened
it "Theobroma", or "food of the goda, "
Many of us moderns will agree that It ia a
li lting inline .
LEBANON VALLEY FISH AND GAME
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION MEET
The regular monthly meeting of the
Ix'banon Valley Fish and Came Protective
Association will be held on Friday evening
at. H o'clock, in the Market I louse. Var-ious
mutters of im|x>rlimt business will be
taken u p at this meeting and it ia requested
that all members nnd h xirtsmen in general
of lleroliuy and vicinity will make It a
point to bo present. Don 't forget tho date,
Friday, Jan. Kith.
MOVES TO HERSHEY
W. 15. Tobias, the accommodating man-ager
in charge of the Shoe department of
the Hershey I>epartmcnt Store, has moved
his family from Lebanon and ia now located
in hla new home on West Chocolate Aveaua
"Stran gers oflfeT
Night" at Central
Theatre Saturda y
Those who go to the theatre to see stars
and those who attend to see a great story,
will find both at the Hershey Central
Theatre on Saturday evening, Jan. 17th,
when Fred Niblo's "Strangers of the
Night " will be shown.
All-star casts are sometimes discovered
to be no-star casts but Fred Niblo as-sembled
a group of players who were in-dividually
farnqus.'when he began produc-tion
of "Strangers of the Night" for Louis
B. Mayer and Metro.
For the role of "Captain Applejack,"
made famous in Walter Hackett's stage
play from which "Strangers of the Night"
was adapted, he selected Matt Moore.
Miss Enid Bennett, remembered as Maid
Marion in "Robin Hood," appears in the
role of a demure little British girl, while
Barbara La Marr is the spectacularly
beautiful Russian adventuress. Robert
McKim is again a screen villain, while
such favorites as Otto Hoffman, Emily
Fitzroy, Thomas Ricketts and Mathilde
Brundage are exceptionally well cast.
"Strangers of the Night" is a mystery
romance of adventure and love, told
graphically against background of rare
beauty. It opens in a mansion on the
Cornish coast of England and leads from a
drawing room to a pirate cruise and back
before the unexpected climax is reached.
"Strangers of the Night" is Fred Niblo's
second independent production for Louis
B. Mayer and Metro, following "The
Famous Mrs. Fair," "The Three Muske-teers,"
"Blood and Sand" and "The Mark
of Zorro."
Holylnnity Lutheran
Church Makes
Forward Strides
The annual congregational meeting of
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church was held on
Wednesday evening, Jan. 7th, in the
church, at which time the work of the past
year was reviewed and plans made for the
work of the fcoming year. This is the
fifteenth year in the history of this congre-gation
and much credit is due to those who
have labored so faithfully in the promo-tion
of this congregation to its present
status. Plans are being made to appro-priately
observe this event in' August.
The pastor in making his report of two
month's work in the parish, presented some
concrete facts of the work accomplished
since assuming the duties as pastor of this
congregation, also presented some reco-mendations
which were adopted. The
report of the departments of the Sunday
School as well as the other auxiliary orga-nizations
showed a development in the
work and fine balances in the treasuries.
The report of the treasurer showed a nice
balance in each fund.
The election resulted in the following:
Trustee for 3 years, D. S. Graeff ; deacons
for 3 years, Ansel E. King and A. T. Heil-man;
trustee for 1 year, J. E. Snyder, Esq.;
financial secretary, Ansel E. King.
The Bible School attendance is showing
a marked increase and the other organiza-tions
reported good attendance at their
meetings. With the fine co-operative
spirit of the members this congregation
hopes for greater things in its work for the
extension of His Kingdom in the world and
of being a blessing to this community.
Basehall TeanTFor
Coining Season Will
Be a Strong One
An enthusiastic baseball meeting was
held at the Men's Club on Friday eve-ning,
with a large number of candidates
and fans present. The team this year, as
last year, will be conducted along the same
lines, and all members of the team will be
local men.
Baseball' is a community proposition.
Every little village and hamlet in the
Unibn boasts of a representative nine,, of.
which the community is justly proud.
The team of 1923 was a winning one, but
the local support was lacking. This year
a new plan is going to be put into effect. A
season ticket will be sold, and those who
have the interests of the team at heart, but
who don 't have the time to attend all of the
games, will be asked to buy them, and thus
replenish the Club's treasury.
A number of social activities will be
conducted during the coming months. On
Friday evening, Jan. 23rd, a dance will be
held at the Hershey Men's Club. There
will be good music and "eats." Tickets,
50 cents.