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i SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1917 THE PITTSSUnG pi: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TAKE PART IN LITERARY CONTEST Schroeder'a for Everytlung Musical V-' --7 r- S7 jy i. -V -iM I I 1 ty-4 A i a urtzmann Supremacy To speak of the Kurtzniann as supreme among all Pianos and Player Pianos is to describe it accurately. In no single point does it confess a rival. Its purity and majesty of tone have won for this famous instrument first place in the estimation of the musical profession and in the hearts of music-loving, home-loving people. And they have lived with it longest, love it best.

Observe the beauty of the Period Models illustrated above any one of them tit to find a place in the most artistically appointed home. Any day you call we will be glad to show these new models in all fancy woods including antique mahogany and to prove by demonstration the supremacy of the Kurtzmann tone. Every Dollar Buys Value New Grand Pianos, world's best makes, $650 up i nr a Extraordinary Bargains Slightly Used Pianos. Guaranteed. Some yon can't teil from new.

5.V) Chickerlng Upright, now I3 Mehlin Upright, now SHOO Steinway Grand, now 3 WO Weber Pianola, now -13 3 Knabe Upright, l3 Krakauer Upright, isj 3W Kurtzmann Upright, 299 Terms: $fi. fS, flO per month. iev urana r-iaiius, rciiituic uidkcs. up New Upri't Pianos, world's best makes, $350 up New Upright Pianos, guaranteed $225 up New Inexpensive Uprights (also 75 up New Guaranteed Player Pianos $375 up New Player Pianos, world's best makes, $500 up New Kurtzmanrr Player Pianos $675 up New Kurtzmann Grand Pianos $700 up Terms Cash or $8, $10, $12 Per Month. y.

180 PUPILS OF 23 HIGH SCHOOLS Get Ready to form I 0 PRESIDENT GALLS Oil t'andnued PRODUCERS Genuine Kurtzmann, McPhail, Packard, Kroeger, Brinkerhoff and the Famous Auto-piano SSld in Pittsburg Only by Pittsburg's Largest Reliable Music House. WHO CONTESTED IK INTER-SCHOLASTIC LITERARY MEETING AT UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG YESTERDAY. ALL REGISTRATION CARD FOR CO-OPERATION 820 to 824 Liberty Pittsburg, Pa. from Pi(r 1. Headquarters for the New Edison, Columbia, Graf onolas and Records BUTLER, PA.

CHARLEROI HOMESTEAD, ol 145 N. Main St. 423 McKean Ave. Eighth and Dixon St. insure them a profit where they are asKed to attempt new crops, and to seenre the consumer ag'ainst extortion by breaKing up corners and attempts at speculation when they occur by fixing temporarily a reasonable price at which middlemen must sell.

'I have asKed Mr. Hoover to undertake this all-important tasR of food administration. He has expressed his willingness to do so on condition that he tua VOmtt mt Mrtk An tm11 MianMws aHisu row W1r rr tnwtj rifr Wkra wan i kantt Ff aat a rfflat. af aj-tiat hwiHi ara yaw What la mr aiaa Bf whaai ailaraf 41 12 222222J222aaBlBBBBBBBiBai Baaa yaa faihar. asaOiar.

arlfa. aayty aiKwaat art yaa Tar wangarf Marrla ar amgla wtr'-1iT Waat aitmarr aarrtaa taaa raa haaT Haak yyara NaWa. ar Da raa rtatai aiu fraa 4nfl aartty Bt a I aftna that I kava aiHil is to receive no payment for his services and that the whole of the force under him, exclusive of clerical assistance, shall be employed so far as possible upon the same volunteer basis. He has expressed his confidence that this difficult matter of food administration can be successfully accomplished through the voluntary co-operation and direction of legitimate distributors of foodstuffs and with the help of the women of the country. TO PROVE DEMOCRACY.

"Although it is absolutely necessary that unquestionable powers shall be. placed in my hands in order to insure the success of this administration of the food supplies of the country, I am confident that the exercise of those powers will be necessary only in the few cases where some small and selfish minority proves unwilling to put the nation's interests above Eersonal advantage and that the whole country will eartily support Mr. Hoover's efforts by supplying the necessary volunteer agencies throughout the country for-the intelligent control of food consumption and securing the co-operation of the most capable leaders of the very interests most directly affected, that the exercise of the powers deputed to him will rest very successfully upon the g'ood will and co-operation of the people themselves, and that the, ordinary economic machinery of the country will be left substantially undisturbed. HERE IS THE CONSCIPTION REGISTRATION CARD THAT MUST BE SIGNED JUNE 5 BY ALL MALE PI TTSBURGERS BETWEEN THE AGES OK 21 AND CO, INCLUSIVE, UNDER THE PRESIDENTS" CALL FOR TROOPS. The finals of the third inter-acholas-ttc contest In Room 107.

Thaw hall, Lnlverslty of Pittsburg, were held last night. The preliminary contests In eight lines were held at the University yesterday forenoon. The tests were in essay, declamation, reading, extemporaneous speaking, Latin, spelling, history and letter writing. A a sliver and a bronze medal were awarded in each contest. The judges were J.

B. Hench, principal of University school; E. E. Eggers librarian of the Xorthside library; Mrs. William Breltwieser.of Bellevue.

Twenty-five high schools entered ISO I-upils in the contest. were Avalon. East Huntingdon, Peabody, Fifth Beaver Falls. Rochester. Xtw Castle.

Dunbar township, Edge-wood, Schenley. Connellsvllle, Homestead. Aspinwn.il. Beallsv'Jle. Knot-ville Union Klttannlng, Clairton.

Mc-Keesport, Munhall. McDonald. Norwln, Bellevue. Ben Avon, Latrobe and Sharpsburg. HOOVER ACCEPTS FEDERAL POSITION Continued from Page 1.

a surplus of most commodities and that our problem is to secure the effective and economic distribution of these supplies; to induce as large an export surplus for the benefit of our allies as we can; to protect our own requirements: to ask the whole community to assist us in building up this surplus by every effort of economy that 'we can devise, and to set up such machinery as will furnish this balance wheel on prices. At best the loaf of our allies will be a privation loaf and every ounce we can add to it is a contribution to her strength and constancy in the war. "I think that It Is recognized by all thiiklng men that the world war and the economic forces which have been set -up have disorganized the ordinary balances and checks on prices. For instance, the price of wheat in normal times Is a factor not only of supply in the United States but all the supplies in every country In the world. Today the supplies of Russia.

Germany, Austria. Bulgaria and Rumania no -longer enter upon estimation of this balance; tle crop failure in South America has eliminate dthose states: the long haul from Australia' has diminished the free How from that quarter, and the supplies in England. France and Italy are in the physical possession of the government and therefore do not enter into the common pool of price balance. TO LOWER PRICES. "The consequence is that a demand for speculation can entirely upset price conditions In the United States to a degree hitherto unknown and it Is necessary for us to devise with the best thought of this country temporary balance wheels by which we can establish stability of price in the great staples, bearing in mind always that we must maintain a price that will stimulate production assuring good return to the producer and at the same time will diminish the cost of living lest we face social readjustments.

strike disturbances w-ith consequent loss of national efficiency. My present view is to divide the food administration in four great branches: "In the first branch we should set up a certain number of separate executive bodies for regulation and administration of certain commodities, and that these should be organized on the normal lines of our commercial institutions, with a board of directors, a president and executive officers who will work out problems involved in those commodities and will Institute such measures as may be necessary to stablize prices and distribution and that these bodies should be constituted of the leaders of the country, producers, distributors, bankers and consumers, alike. "It has been the experience of all European food control that results can best be achieved by acting through or by regulation of the ordinary distribution agencies in the community placing such restrictions which will cause a minimum sacrifice on the part of the legitimate distributor and will eliminate broad national waste, unnecessary hoarding and the sheer speculator in food stuffs. With the good will of the distributing community it Is possible to do this without disruption of the essential commerce of the country. The second branch of administration lies in the of the governors and state administrations through the establishment of state food administrations who will act on behalf of the national executive in the nation's- behalf.

APPEAL TO WOMEN. "Furthermore it devolves upon the state to stop waste in public places. "These powers being asked for are considerable in order "that we may force Into the market every form of foodstuffs over and above such stock as normally and legitimately belongs to -any particular business for its proper conduct and to prevent tnv I withholding, directly or indirectly, of food supplies from -the market. "The third equally important de partment is one of democratic- economy. As 90 per cet of the ultimate food consumption of the country is in the hands of.

women of the country we will shortly pLaee before them a plan of organization including policies to elimination of waste, the reduction of consumption, the substitution of over abundant commodities Sign This Card la m. CTty 8tW) murmilsM rtttwem. a allM. ar ktn wht (tat) a rtltrn ar afcJwT aaaW IS. ar a atatar ar arittai aalar IS, wgr4fy walfiT aaora aa4 tkal aaar an traa.

Rnutin artDaHtf "Without any solicitation on the part of the commission, 75 city registrars have volunteered their services to take this military census. The com missioners. when the order to act comes, will have a board ready In every, district in the city. A letter Mr. Lawrence received yesterday from Representative Guy E.

Campbell announced that the provost marshal general has requested governors in all states where registration commissions exist to use these to take the military census, the work of which is to be done without pay. DESTROYERS SEEK U-BOAT OFF COAST By International Vena Service. San Francisco, May Destroyers have been ordered to search for a strange submarine which has been sighted off San Diego. Announcement was made at headquarters of the Twelfth naval district today, on information received from Lieut. Col.

George T. Patterson, commanding officer of Fort Rosecrans, that such a vessel had been seen. Acting Commander Wood said today that the submersibe could not have been American and that he knew of no foreign submarines operating off the California coast. CHILD RUNAWAY, MOVIE FAN, TELLS WEIRD TALE. Chicago, May 1j.

Nine-vear-old Margaret Brennan is a movie fan. That, the police think, accounts for her vivid imagination. An officer found Margaret strolling aimlessly through the loop district at 3 o'clock in the morning. He took her to Centra station. "It happened Just like things in tho movies." said Margaret.

"I was going to the theater Sunday night when an old man stopped me in the entrance and- said: 'Do you want some Ice cream I told him and he whirled me away in an auto and took me to a house, where he bound me to a chair. I haven't had anything to eat all this time and I'm hungry. The police called Michael Brennan. the child's father. He said she had run away the night before.

PITTS BURG MAN BEHI CINCINNATI, 0., THEATER. Cincinnati. May 10. tt was announced today that' plans for fie Palace theater which will cost and have a seating capacity of n.0". havtf been completed and work on the structure which will be erected on the north side of Sixth stew st of Vine, will be commenced this summer.

Those hack of the enterprise are John P. Harris, Pittsburg theatrical magnate; E. E. Albee. of New York, head of the B.

F. Keith interests: W. H. McKlfatrtck. New York architect, and 1.

Lisbon, who will rest-dent Stores for those wilch we wish to export to our allies, and instruction In the intelligent purchase and use of foodstuffs and to set public opinion against waste and extravagance in public places. "We de not ask that the American people should starve themselves, but that they should eat plenty, wisely and without waste. "It is my present idea to propose a plan to the administrative women which we ask every woman in the household to join as an actual member of the food administration and give us a pledge- that she will, so far as her means and circumstances permit, carry out the instructions which we will give her In detail from -time to time. "We hope to set up such an organisation over and above this vast army of supporters as will give it efficiency and intelligence in action. There is no service inn this war on behalf of our own.

allies in which the women of the country can so well enlist themselves as In this service, and the uc-cess of the food administration will rest largely upon PATRIOTIC DUTY. "The fourth branch of the administration must that of co-operation of our allies, in many impartant questions involving exports from this country and our common import from other countries. Furthermore, we will probably need to undertake the control of the purchasing in this country on her behalf and on behalfJ or sucn neutral snipmems as are permitted by the government in order to eliminate competition and forcing our prices. "I have represented to the President that I am confident that the whole of this service can be carried out by the men and women of this country on a volunteer basis and that I can sec no other means In which the problems can be adequately solved in the United States. If this cannot be done.

I shall certainly and wilUngly surrender the task to some other method of emergency. I hold that democracy can yield to discipline and that we caji solve this food problem for our own people and for our allies in this way, and that to have done so- will have been greater than our immediate objective for we will have demonstrated the Tightness of our faith and our ability to defend ourselves without being Prussianized. "Probably more seriously than anyone else in recognize tlie difficulties and possibility of failure in this work and I appeal to thepatriotism of my countrymen for their support. I have no instinct to be a food dictator. "My ambition is to see 'my people solve their own problems.

Those men and women who cannot serve In the trenches can fhow their patriotism in no other way as fully as in this way, and' I feel that we have a much better right to call upon them to serve in the administration than we have a right to call upon our men men to serve in' the trenches. PLUMBERS' BODY IS DISSOLVED BY COURT Except as a social organization and a body for the discussion of trade conditions the National Association of Master Plumbers of the United States was ordered dissolved in a final de cree handed down in United District court yesteray by Judges Orr and Thomson. The case was prosecuted by United States Dlstrtlct Attorney K. liwry Humes and Lincoln It. Clark.

special assistant to the attorney general. This rinses a casA in which th defendants fcere found guilty of conspiracy to restrain trade several months ago. as defendants to answer charges of conspiracy in the original trial and yesterday's decree, aside- fror.i the national association, affects master plumbers' associations in every state in the Union. The action of the government was brought. under the Anti Trust Act of 1890.

School to Give Operetta. L'liJtr the management of Jliss Km- ma jL Craig, principal of Stv-rreitj school, the children's operetta 'Ruai-! pelastlltskin, will be given by thai Sterrett Club choral at the school auditorium. Larg are- and Reynolds SC. Thursday and Friday evening. TV operetta, will be suns' by school child rea of the Linden, Stsrrstt Ml Park Place schools and the net proceeds ill be given to the Langwood auxiliary, Pittsburg chapter, American Ked Cross.

EXPECTS TO SOLVE GUARD POISON CASE After 12 hours of gruelling exam ination of Carl Miller. Port Perry restauranter and several others. Fire Marshal Thomas Pfarr announced last night that he felt confident that the poisoning of 50 National Guardsmen, which resulted in the death of Lieut. W. F.

Corcoran, would be connected with three mysterious fires he is investigation. Accompanied by Louis C. and Carl A. Kuhn. deputies.

Marshal Pfarr will go to Port Perry again today to continue his questioning of Miller. "I cannot make any direct charges yet" Pfarr said Jast night, "but I am confident that when my Investigation Is completed it will be found that these mysterious fires and the poisoning of Guardsmen are closely related. "Miller was questioned by us for several hours but I cannot make known what he told us or what our plans are regarding him. We expect to continue our work all day Sunday, and anticipate some startling results." Four more Guardsmen were -discharged from the Braddock hospital yesterday and rejoined their command. Those remaining under physicians', care are out of danger, it is MACQUESTON COMING TOMORROW, IT IS SAID W.

D. MacQueston, aged New York businessman and inventor and former associate of Thomas A. Edison, who is under indictment here on a charge of conspiracy In connection with the looting- of the Pittsburg Life, is expected to give himself up here tomorrow and give ball for his appearance at trial, according to District Attorney Jackson. Insurance Commissioner J. D.

O'Neil has been notified that the Pennsylvania officials expect to win their fight for the extradition of C. Birdseye. his soli. Kellog Birdseye. George Montgomery and Joseph C.

Watson. Requisition papers for the last named were issued Friday by Governor Brumbaugh. District Attorney Jackson says he expects to experience some trouble, even If successful, irr bringing Robert K. Moore, president of the Commercial Trust also under indictment, back to Pittsburg. WE BELIEVE HI PROTECTION The United States government is now building hundreds of "War Vessels.

Why? To protect our country. Buying pianos or player pianos on payments, you need CLARK'S customers' protection plan. STORY CLARK pianos have been a standard on the market for over half a century and are praised and endorsed by a great many of the world's greatest musical artists. "We have over ten thousand satisfied customers in Pittsburg district alone. When you buy from STORY Sc CLARK you save the middleman's profit and you buy on easy terms to suit your pocketbook.

STORY CLARK is offering some unusual bargains in pianos and player pianos. If you are interested in buy ing a' player piano, can ana-see a beautiful mahogany player piano that cost orig'nally jUX it Is so slightly used that you can hardly tell it from1 new and will cost you only S-'Viff. if you want a iralTht piano, call and examine a Kreutzer piano in beautiful golden nak case, that is of- fered for only After you have investigated agent; store prices and terms call on STORY: A- CLARK Piano Wood street. Pa- and we are positively sure that you will bef convinced that they are the safest and beat place in Pittsburg to box ar a layer piano. NEW TRICK OF GERMANS REVEALED Ctlned frna Page I.

We could wring out our blankets In he morning. We received good food for the first ten days, but when the commander v3 lurcea 10 ukc me longer rout home the provisions were cut down and we lived on three plates of very thin soup a day for the last eleven days of the voyage. This, however, was the same rations as received by the crew of the U-boat. PLAYED SUB-SEA CANNED MUSIC- We kept the phonograph going- all the time- to hold up' our courage, but we did not care much for the records, because we heard almost without interruption "Die Wacht am Rhein" and "Deutschland, Deutschland' first from one phonograph and then from the other. We played so much of this canned music on our machine It went to pieces, but the commander loaned us his.

We must admit he was pleasant "and kind to us as far as he could be. but those days were almost unbearable and almost drove some of us crazy. We all had terrible headaches, caused by the very bad air, and we were never permitted to get a breath of fresh air, even when on the surface. At last we reached Heligoland, so weak and tired from' our sufferings that our knees wabbled -as -we went ashore. But the fresh arr, some good food and a night's sleep in the beds in the military barracks soon restored us.

On this fortified island we wsro greatly impressed by the tremendous strnfirth of thp nrt ifloatirbna of the largest caliber and other en gines of -destruction are placed in every advantageous place on the rocks and cliffs in such a way as to be used with terrible, effect asainut an attacking enemy. FOODSTUFFS WERE PLENTIFUL. The military barracks are placed In a valley in the center of the island. It had plenty of milk, cows, pigs, goats and all kinds of fowl. Th amount seemed to us to be enormous.

"I never knew there were so many chickens in the world before, declared Ove Darre as he looked at the great number here. The roosters would awake us in the morning, but we did not dare scrutinize things too closely. Every soldier and sailor on the island seemed to be a sentinel appointed to watea us. and thousands of them seemed to be there. know how many buttons wo have on our coats, how many hairs on ourheads and how many nails in our shoe." remarked Ove Darre.

From Heligoland we were sent to Wilhelmshafen in a torpedo boat, whence we went to Bremen, and fron Bremen home here to Copenhagen. We can tell little of Wilhelmshafen, as we stayed there only a couple of hours. DID NOT SUFFER GREAT HARM. The many sailors and soldiers ther seemed to have grim, stern faces, as If cast in iron. We have not suffered any permanent hardship from our voyage in the lifeboat.

Ove Darre has a bad in his head, but it Is small wonder at this, since he left the ship without bis boots and he had only a pair of thin dancing pumps loaned him br an officer on the submarine. In spite of our experience we all expect again to go to sea at the first opportunity. Copyright- 11T. by th Ball Syndicate, laav BELVA L0CKW00D, NOTED PUBLICIST, IS DEAD. XTttV 19 lUtva.

If of the first women to urge woman suffrage, died here today after a lone illness. Mrs. Lock wood was the first woman admitted to practice before the United States supreme court ana the only woman candidate for President. ENLISTMENTS NOW ARE FOR PERIOD OF THE WAR. Washington.

May 19. Starting tods enlistments for the regular army or National Guard fill contain the specific stipulation that they cover only the period of the war. This Is baaed on orders Issued to day. aitDOUga ati recent nuMmtou have be with the tad understand. Inc that tfie service would ft mmmm dudod at tta Md mt thd vmu "The proposed food administration is intended, of course, only to meet a manifest emerg'ency and to continue only while the war lasts.

Since it will be composed for the most part of volunteers, there need be no fear of the possibility of a permanent bureaucracy arising out of it. All control of consumption will disappear when the emerg'ency has passed It is with that object in view that the administration considers it to be of pre-eminent importance that the existing associations of producers and distributors of foodstuffs should be mobilized and made use of on a volunteer basis. This" successful conduct of the projected opd administration by such means will be the finest possible demonstration of the willingness, the ability and the efficiency of democracy, and of its justified reliance upon the freedom of individual initiative. The last thing' that any American could contemplate with equanimity be the introduction of anything resembling Prussian autocracy into the food control of this country. OF VITAL IMPORTANCE.

"It is of vital interest and importance to every man who produces food and to every man who taKes part in its distribution that these policies thus liberally administered should succeed and succeed altogether. It is only in that way that we can prove it to be absolutely unnecessary to resort to the rigorous and drastic measures which have proved to be necessary in some of the European countries." "(The secretary of agriculture has been of the opinion from the outset that special emerg'ency powers for the reg'ulation of distribution and consumption during the war should be vested in the President, and that these powers should not be exercised by the PLAN STIRRING SCENES FOR ARMY ENROLLMENT Rcffinniiie with pulpit announce ments in ail churches on Sunday, June 3, a patriotic program covering three days will aia in xne enruumcin vi Pittsburg youngr men on juhj under the new army conscription law. A systerriatic. effort is to be made to guard against foreign-born residents or others, between the ages of 21 to 30 inclusive, voilating. without deliberate intention, the conscrip tion law.

The penalty ior violation Imprisonment, with no alternative of a fine. Mayor Armstrong, who win nav charge of'the registration in Pittsburg, under the direction of the governor, decided yesterday to call for announcement in churches of all denominations, at all services on Sun day, June tnaKing clear tne auty imposed on all residents within the ages covered by the conscription law. He will request that similar .1 -11 in of i tutions of learning on Jionaay, june 4. regarding the registration on the following day. The tentative plans of the mayor for the program on Monday.

June 4, call for the service of four or five brass bands in different sections of the city. The bands will march over the streets at certain daylight hours and in the evening. Banners will be carried calling attention to registration the next day. MAY USE ARTILLERY. Mai-or Armstrong said that will brobably call on Civil War veterans.

tne boy scouts ana otner muitary and civic organizations to provide demonstrations of some kind on the ht of registration. Another plan he lhas under consideration is to have Jjuns of the first regiment of artillery stationed at five or six eminences in the city to fire salutes at 1 o'clock in the morning, when registration will begin, and in the evening, to usher in the last hours of registration. has been discovered that many persons are not aware of the fact that every resident, whether a citizen or not, within the age limits prescribed oy the conscription law, must register. The sixth question on the registration cards sent by the government to Mayor Armstrong reads as fol-ows: "If not a citizen, "of what coun. try are you a citizen or a subject? Mayors Armstrong received yesterday a message from the governor summoning him to the meeting in Harrlsburg at 3:30 o'clock next Tues day afternoon, when plans will be triad for enrollment throughout the tate.

All county snenrrs aim mayors hi cities having over 30,000 population Ivill attend the meeting. The registration boards for voters -Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Scran-on have also been asked to attend he meetingi department of agriculture, but by an emergency agency. He has also entertained the hope that Herbert C. Hoover, especially because of his familiarity, with international food conditions, might be desig-i nated by the President to discharge these powers dar ing the war. He is greatly pleased that the President has concluded the matter and very much hopes that the necessary powers will be quicllly conferred by the.