The Hershey Press 1920-02-19

              The second of the series of entertain-ment
given under the auspices of the
Men's Bible Class of the Derry Presby-terian
Church, will be held Tuesday even-ing,
February 24, in the Hershey Central
Theatre. The attraction will be the
Winters Company, Whistlers and Enter-tainers.
The Winters Company is composed of
Mr. Emerson Winters and his wife, Alice
Stire Winters, and is conceded to be one
of the most entertaining combinations in
the country. Their repertoire includes
musical whistling, talking songs, piano-logues,
humorous and serious readings.
Newspapers throughout the country
have given highly enthusiastic comments
upon the programs given by the Winters
Company. Of Mrs. Winters, the whistler
of the Company, Adrian Newens writes:
"She knows music; she knows how to
produce music and can do it by whistling
as few men and women can. As a concert
attraction she cannot be surpassed . Just
hear her once and you will know that what
I say is true." Her marvelous musical
whistling, in which she reproduces any
of the known bird songs has been uni-versally
commented upon as remarkable.
Mr. Winters has earned a reputation
for giving readings and character sketches
that are true to life and so full of fun
that they entertain all the while.
This series of entertainments is under
the direction of the Redpath Entertain-ment
Course, of Pittsburgh, and has been
given in all the principal cities of the
United States.
Persons not possessing course tickets
may secure single admission tickets at the
Men's Shop of the Hershey Store, or at
the Theatre, Tuesday evening. There
are still a few reserved seats to be secured.
These may be secured at the Men 's Shop
for the additional sum of ten cents, single
admission, or twenty cents for the two
remaining entertainments.
Second of Series
of Entertainmen ts
To Be Given Feb. 24
Following their custom of former years
the management of the Hershey Depart-ment
Store has completed arrangements
to hold the largest sale of the year in com-memoration
of the birthday anniversary
of George Washington. As the anni-versary
this year falls on a Sunday, the
sale will be held Saturday, February 21,
and as in the time of Washington 's boy-hood
, everything will be "chopped down."
This annual sale differs greatly from the
average city store sale. Rather than
being a sale with the chief object in view
of disposing of a lot of stock, it is held
with the purpose of giving the patrons and
friends an opportunity of saving money
and that, in these days of the high cost
of living, means something. In other
words it is the carrying out of the custom
of establishing a benefit for the people.
As added attractions the management
has provided for a first class entertainment
in the afternoon and evening. From 3
o'clock until 5 o'clock in the afternoon
and from 7 until 8:15 in the evening, a
number of musical selections will be given
by the Hershey Male Chorus and by Miss
Florence L. Peterson, of Lancaster.
The people of Hershey and vicinity
need no introduction to the Male Chorus.
Their work at the recent concert placed
them upon a high pedestal in the estima-tion
of those who heard them and it is
certain that they will be welcomed at any
time.
Miss Peterson is one of the leading
soprano soloists of Lancaster. She was
for some time the ' soloist of the First
Presbyterian Church of that city, but
for the past two years she has been singing
in the Synagogue of the Reformed Jews.
She is an accomplished musician and
possesses a fine soprano voice of great
beauty and sweetness. It will be a decided
treat for those fortunate enough to hear
her as she has never failed to please her
most critical audience in concert work.
Souvenirs of a novel and unique nature
will be given to every patron at the
Colonial Booth throughout the day.
George and Martha Washington will be
in charge of the booth and will welcome
all visitors.
In former years this has proved to be
the biggest day of the year and there is
every reason to believe that all past
records will be surpassed this year. In
order to take care of the many friends of
the store, an extra force of salesmen will
be jplaced on the floor thereby insuring
prompt and courteous attention at all
times. The store will open at 7:30 a. m.,
Hershey Store to Observ e Washin gton 's
Birthday with Big Sale: Entertainment to
be Given Afternoon and Evening
Some British newspapers have been
stirred to indignation by receipt from the
United States of a report that prohibit ion
organizations there were going to use
10,000,000 pounds for prohibition propa-ganda
throughout the world , but chiefly
in Great Britain. A few have expressed
resentment at what they characterize
as outside interference with "the right
of the Englishman to drink what he
likes."
"A subscription to dry up the Atlantic
would have as much chance of success ,"
says the Saturday News. "But there
arises the question why, when everybody
is harrassed with postwar problems, we
should allow our peace to be disturbed by
a band of Yankee fanatics with ever so
many millions to scatter. It is a most un-warrantable
intrusion on our domestic
life at a time when we arc in no mood
to be trifled with. "
Referring to disorders that recently
attended a prohibition campaign con-ducted
by an American , the paper adds:
"We really think the Government might
ask the permission of the Washington
Cabinet to repatriate these meddlesome
maniacs, and to forbid at all events for
the next year or two , their landing on
t hese shores. "
1 he Liverpool Post commenting on the
proposed funds , says: "It argues a poor
appreciation of the character of the
British people and of the conditions in
this country that such a madcap scheme
should have been evolved. Such "Pussy-foot
" tactics on I he scale now threatened
that might prove very mischievous.
"Dry " Activities
Stir London
The Hershey Olivets evened up the
series with the York Professional Team by
giving them a bad drubbing Friday even-ing.
The result of the game, which was
played on the local floor , was never in
doubt. The visitors seemed to be com-pletely
baffled by the fast passing and
floor work of the local boys. The final
score was 46-27. The game which the
Olivets dropped to the York team was
played several weeks ago on the York
floor and lost by only four points.
The Hershey boys entered the game
brimful of enthusiasm and determined to
retaliate in a fitting manner for the recent
defeat and although the visitors put up
a hard battle, the rush of the Olivets
could not be checked and the York boys
were forced to witness the score of their
opponents roll up while their own side of
the ledger remained nearly station ary.
At the end of the half the score was 22-11.
Every member of the Olivets assisted
materially in totaling the points, with
Clark, the slippery little forward, in the
lead with seven field goals to his credit.
His work on the floor was a revelation to
the visitors and they found it impossible
to sneak the ball away from him. He
followed up his shots in every instance and
was generally found to be under the
basket at the psychological moment.
Zimmerman raised considerable applause
by caging two beautiful shots from the
center of the floor. Stover, although
tallying but one field goal, held his man
scoreless and in addition tallied eight
times from the free line. Strine and
Elliot both played snappy games and
Strine succeeded in locating the basket
six times.
C. Seashultz played a brilliant game for
the York combination, pulling off a num-ber
of pretty plays.
The following evening the York team
administered a jol t to the aspirations of
the St. Joseph team of Lancaster by
trimming them decisively on the Lancaster
floor .
The attraction tomorrow evening will
be the Williamstown team at whose hands
the Olivets were forced to accept defea t
several weeks ago.
York Five Prove
Easy For Hershey
Teams , Now Even
A special service in honor of the re-turned
soldiers and of Washington 's birth-day
will be held in Holy Trinity Lutheran
church , corner of Cocoa and Granada
Avenues on Sunday evening at 7:30. An
invitation has been extended to the local
post of the American Legion to attend
this service. An invitation is also hereby
extended to all returned soldiers to attend
this service.
A Memorial Diploma has been granted
by the French Government to the nearest
of kin to all American soldiers who gave
their lives in the World War. These
Diplomas are beautiful ly designed and
planned to express the ideals for which
these men gave their lives. They come
as an expression of gratitude and apprecia-tion
by (he French people and are signed
by the French President.
These Diplomat! are to be presented to
the proper persons by the American
Legion on Washington 's Birthda y. It is
possible that this presentation may be
made at the above mentioned service.
KINDERGARTEN TO HOL D ENTER-TAINMENT
The Hershey Free Kindor gni leu will
have a Washington 's birthday celebration
at 10 o'clock Friday morning, February
twentieth in the Kindergarten room on
the second • floor of the Central Theatre
building. Parents and friends are most
cordially invited ,
The Kinder garten will be closed for
the day, Monday February 2.'i
CHURCH TO RAISE FUNDS
Holy Trinity Lutheran ' Church , at ilH
Tenth Anniversary service hold on Sunday
last , announced a campaign to rid the
church of debt . They propose to raise
the mini of .WOO. The preliminary steps
ate now being lakofr and it is expected
to have tho campaign proper bogin on
Sunday March 7, ilnd end on Haul er
Sunday.
Special Services
For Retur ned Soldiers
That the Pennsylvania dog tax law
will be rigidly enforced in Dauphin County
this year was emphasized early this week
In u statement issued by James Fqx , of
the Stale Department of Agriculture.
According to this statement every dog
caught , not wearing a 1920 license , will be
killed at one of the various pounds. In
addition owners of the dogs will be prose-cuted
to the full extent of the law,
It has been estimated (lint there are at
lofist 70,000 dogs in Dauphin County and
of this number not seventy |k.t cent have
been licensed ,
Hershoy officials of Ijj e law wore notified
Monday to lake action in the matter nt
once and accordingly they have already
taken slops towards thai end. There Is
a large number of unlicensed dogs running
loose in this vicinity and in most cases it
has been a mutter of negligence on the
pari of tho owners that tlioy have not
been licensed.
Unlicensed Dogs
To Be Killed
Showing a decided improvement in
their play in the last ten minutes of the
game enabled the Harrisburg Indepen-dents
to overcome (lie lead held through-out
the contest by (he Locust Gap aggre-gation
in the contest staged Saturday
evening in the Chest nut Street auditoriu m.
The final score was '17-42.
This game marked (he (bird appearance
of the Locust Gap team in llarrisburg this
season. Tin; first game was captured
by (he llanisburg tea m while (he second
one resulted in a victory for (he Locust
(..up boys,
The game Saturday evening was a nip
and l uck affair throughout with neither
team folding a big lead at any time. A
lute rally placed the Independents eight
points to the good and despi te the efforts
of the visitors , (hey managed to retain a
safe margin.
One of the features of the contest was
the work of Doyle, tho visiting forward ,
from the foul lino. He attained a perfect ,
average, scoring 'l'l limes from a - corres-ponding
number of attempts. In addi-tion
he had five goals to his credit. Wall-ower
was the high scoror for the Inde-pendents
with six baskets,
Ind ependents Win
Fr om Locust Gap
The T. A. A. Club, one of the most
active organizations connected with the
Hershey Y. W. C. A. has completed final
plans for the organization of a Ladies
Chorus and this organization will be
effected at a meeting to be held this even-ing
at 7:30 o'clock in the Cafeteria of the
Y. W. C. A. Miss Florence Lebzelter ,
who is the leader of a chorus at the
Lancaster Y. W. C. A, will address the
members and tell of (he work carried on
nt that place.
The Chorus will be under the direction
and leadership of Miss Houlah Shutt ,
supervisor of music and drawing in the
Hershey schools. The officials are confi-dent
that a large number will join. A
nominal fee of fift y cents will be charged
(o cover (he cost of music and incidentals.
In addition to the Chorus, a class in
Millinery will He started about February
2J) , under (he direction of Miss Olive
Royer , the milliner of (he Hershey De-partment
Store. This class will meet
every Monday evening and will cover a
period of ten weeks. The charge for this
course will be (wo dollars for (he ten
lessons.
Following (he completion of (he lessons
(he evenings will be devoted to social
purposes.
It is a rule of (he Y. W. C. A. (hat
everyone joining any class must be a
member of the institution '. Therefore ,
(hose wishing to take advantage of these
cIhhhch and who are not ulveudy members
of (lie Y, W. C. A, are urged to join at
once,
ELAINES TO PLAY HUMMELSTOWN
After a lny-off of several weeks the
Hershey IClalnes will gel Into action Tues-day
evening, February 24 , when they
clash with (he HummolHtown Monarchs
on tho local floor. The game will bogin
promptly al K p. in,
Girls Chorus to be
Formed by T. A. A.
Against Chance Cards
Attention of the law authorities has
been called to the numerous forms of
gambling being carried on for the past
few months in and around Hershey and
efforts are to be made to stamp out the
habit.
The form of gambling referred to is
that of punch boards and chance cards,
not a ternble one at its worst but one that
has caused considerable trouble in other
communities and has come under the ban
of the law on numerous occasions.
The chance card and punch board
system prevelent now seems to be the
result of the activities of firms or corpora-tions
with headquarters in distant cities.
An investigation has revealed that a
Chicago house has flooded this section
with their paraphanelia. The system
worked is on the order of the old illegal
mail-order business. The firm sends a
number of cards containing sealed num-bers
to certain parties . These seals are
purchased by the prospective winner of a
grand prize and after all the seals have
been purchased , the one covering the
winning number is removed. One person
wins; the others are all losers.
In the cases investiga t ed , the prizes
seemed to have been mainly, to ilet sets,
ivory sets, silverware , and boxes of cand y.
It is understood that the attention o(
the State Police has been called to this
matter and their action is problematical.
It is likely however that this warning
will do much towards ridding the vicinity
of the trouble.
NOTICE TO TENANTS
In some manner or other (he im-pression
seems to have gone abroad
in Hershey (o the affect that (he
Hershey officials are against the
|X)licy of having their tenants sub-rent
any of their rooms for lodging
or rooming purposes. The report
which originated in some mysterious
manner even implied that the Her-shey
officials would not rent any
houses lo persons who contemplated
sub-renting riwmn,
This impression or understanding
is absolutely without foundation ,
On the contrary the officials are,
greatly in favor of having their
tenants rent out one or more of their
rooms wherever possible and lake
this means of urging the (ononis to
do so,
In Ihis connection it. has boon re-quested
that all persons having nxinis
lo rent communicate with Ihe Iler-slicy
Employmen t Burea u, furnishing
them with Ihe information as to
where and when these rooms may bo
secured,
Before making any deduction for bad
debts on an Income Tax return , the tax-payer
should make sure that he is entitled
to do so, and that the^bad debts are of
such nature that they are clearly de-ductible
items.
Just because the personal Income Tax
form provides spaces in which to claim
an allowance against income for uncol-lectible
debts does not mean^that the tax-payer
may search his memory for a flock
of personal loans and put them down on
his return.
The space in Block A for Bad Debts is
for use only by business and professional
men who are entitled to adjust their
income, and such adjustment can be made
only in cases where certain accounts have
been included in the gross income and
have since, during the taxable year, been
found to be uncollectible.
In other words, only those who report
their gross income on the accrual basis,
that is, include their entire sales or
charges, are entitled to an adjustment to
cover sales or charges that have been
definitely determined to be worthless. A
return on the basis of cash receipts and
disbursements must not show a deduction
for worthless debts; for the taxpayer has
shown as income only the accounts which
have proven to be good .
Arbitrarily 'Writing Down" debts or
bills receivable is not tolerated by Income
Tax. Such anticipated losses, which the
reserve for bad debts constitutes, are
wholly contrary to the spirit of the law.
The irfdividual debt itself , together with
the circumstances in respect to its becom-ing
worthless, will alone be taken into
consideration when determining whether
it is deductible.
One other fact with respect to uncol-lectible
accounts is emphasized by the
Internal Revenue officials. That is that
any bad debt charged off and later re-covered
is taxable income for the year
when recovery is made.
Some other Bad Debts
Bad debts, may arise, not only in a
business or profession but also through
bonds, notes, loans, mortgages and other
items of indebtedness, wherein the assets
of the taxpayer sustain an actual de-termined
loss. In these latter items any
actual losses sustained by an individual
may be claimed as a deduction as I tern 5,
Block 1, of his return.
Holders of bonds which have become
worthless because of dissolution and utter
bankruptcy of the issuing corporation
revealing no assets for distribution to the
bondholders are entitled to deduct the
loss sustained. The amount of such loss
will be determined by the actual cost ; or,
if purchased prior Co March 1, 19K1, the
fair market value on that date.
As lo notes , loans, etc., which a tax-payer
deems uncollectible , (he facts in
each case will determine whether they are
proper deductions.
Pers onal Debts
Not Considered
In Income Tax