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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1919)
THE O’NEILL FRONTIER O. H. CRONIN, Publisher. CTNEJLL. NEBRASKA ■■ ■ ■; L*1*. 1 .. Charlotte. widow of TCmperor MaximH lan of Mexico, was 7!» years old till* month, ^he is in good health and live* at the chateau. TV Bouchot, near Ant* werp. which w‘ae unharmed by the Oar mans. She poems to have remained \i ignorance of the happenings of the laid five years and only manifested anxietj when the big guns thundered during the siege of Antwerp. The princess is un aware of the death of her brother. Kins I Leopold of Belgium. The word death is never mentioned in her presence and when one by one her old friends and servant* die. she Is told they have gone or» a "long Journey.” Her tragic indifference makes It impossible to tell whether she under stands. The religious Turk is very much dis couraged. The mosques are not as well patronized as formerly for Mahomet Is blamed for the loss of the war. Turks whose dogs were taken away from them and dumped on an island in the Marmora aea, there to starve with tens of thous ands of other Constantinople mongrels some years ago see in Turkey’s present, plight a just judgment from Blahomet. Those who prophesied at the time that the wholesale massacre of the dogs would bring had luck to Turkey are now wag ging their heads sagely and recalling their prophecies. The military government of Paris ha.-i ordered the commencement of legal pro ceedings against persons whose names at present are not known in connection with alleged attacks on members of the Ger man delegation as they were de parting from Versailles for Weimar recently. The Temps says an Investiga tion has established the affair was greatly exaggerated; that the attitude of the Ger mans brought the first demonstrations by the crowd and that It Is doubtful if stones were thrown at their carriages. "The Tx»ndon docks were literally run ning with port,” says a reporter of a J»ndon paper "Thousands upon thou sands of hogsheads lay all around. They blocked the roads and filled the sheds. Some of the casks were warped and leak ing. The quayside and streets around the sheds ran red with port. Birds, dogs and cats were having the time of their lives." The reporter saw at least a dozen drunk, lying on their sides or their backs besides rivulets of wine. To proclaim the new freedom of the world on the day peace is finally accom plished a new liberty bell, known as Joan of Arc, hat been cast In the Paccard foundry at Annecy, France, and will be bung in the cathedral at Kouen. The bell weighs SO tons and Is considered a tri umph of the bcllmaktng art. Its tone Is "Alexandra Day," which was Inaugu rated in l!d8 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrlittl In England of Queen Moth er Alexandra, was celebrated In ISng More than 5,000 persons visited the grave of Col. Theodore Roosevelt last Sunday. Hundreds brought flowers. Three men in the uniform of navy offi cers, apparently from the republic of Brazil, placed a large wreath of orchids at llie head of the grave There was no card with the flowers and the sailors declined to say who had commissioned them to bring the wreath. Button manufacturers from the middle west have appeared before a committee to urge emergency legislation restoring duties which the Undeiwood tariff bill eliminated u|K>n buttons. As a result of it there has been an incfeaae of 2,800 per pent in Japanese Importations, and the American Industry, which is running on at 40 per cent basis, Is said to be facing desti urtion Girls from the Carson Indian school are helping solve the housework problem In Oakland, Cal. Domestic training Is a iw.i t of the course of the school, and the work helps girls toward their graduation. The secular system of education In the United States was denounced as "pattern ing after the German Idea." and as "ma terialistic," by speaker* at the Catholic educational association In annual conven tion In Kt. hiouls this week. Francesco -N’ettl. the new Italian pre mier, Is most friendly to America, says Gugltelmo Marconi, today In speaking of the new Italian cabinet. It Is known that Senor Nettl wishes to establish dose relations with America to bring about the reconstruction or Italy. The high lax on whisky has Increased the activity of the Irish potheen makers and ttie hunt by excise agents for Illicit stills is constantly maintained. During the pas? year the official report shows that 412 Illicit distilling plants were dis covered In Ireland and only 2 In Scot land. To provide the government with a more effective weapon in its campaign against anarchists, legislation making permanent the win time powers for deportation of undesirable aliens will be pushed through the House this week. says Chair man Johnson of (he immigration com mittee Tlli4 IlPW A 1 trtAIt ta ft cfntu IrnAWti a o ilia Republic of Kriv&n Is a country so des poiled by the Turks, the Red Cross of ficer stated, that it does not possess even *»y seed grain. While the Brlvan re ■snr.ttc is starving. Its neighbor. Georgia, is mriving. The Georgians were not mo lested by the Turks. word of the burning of certain French battlefiags by the Germans has been re Ci 'veil in Purls. Peace conference opin ion is apparently unanlm'us that this is distinct violation of the peace treaty, inasmuch as that document stipulated thut the flags- should lie returned to France by Germany. The amended compulsory school law of North Carolina, which goes into effect on July 1 of this year, require* that every oh I Id between the ages of & and M years must attend arhool for the full term of six month*. If a child Is unable to attend on account of poverty he or ah* may be helped from the public funds. The Rev. W. Webb Pebloe, the aged preabeudary of St. Paul's cathedral, Lon don, crested a sensation last week by ; predicting the speedy end of the world, i fbe great change might come ary night, he said; and predicted that the world's history will come to a cartel union at the •nd of thi* year. (establishment of a branch of the inter ior department in some western state with, several of the department’* bureaus removed there from Washington, is pro posed In a bill introduced by Represen tative Mays, democrat of Utah. ! That William ((’Connor, laborer, '■drowned ' himself by breathing boer in to hi* lungs while t^Jtlng a deep breath After drinking, was the decision of a doctor testifying at a Pimlico inquest, awys a I guidon correspondent. --— Seventeen million yards^of sill; fabric of heavy warp will be placed on sale soon by tpip war department. If was intended tor cartridge packing to be used against Oeitnans, but it may now be made up Into slreaMte and suits for American women. | During her recent visit in London the , queen of Rumania arranged for the puhli cation of a book of fairy tales written by I herself during tile darkest days of the war, to amuse tier ehildren. i To commemorate the exploits of the Sou tb-lfr lean troops on that date, In the j Jklville Wood battle, 1917, the South Af Y rienn government decreed «ui annua! Bfl liuiul holiday on June IS. --- ! GUT KEPT BUSY ‘ Heavy Penalties Laid Down For Offense—Prosperous Young Farmer Spends Much Time In Jail. Lincoln, Net)., July 8.— State agents captured five automobile loud* of booze and made 10 arrest*, according to re ports received from Hartington by Chief Hyers of the state law enforce ment bureau. One thousand, two hun dred quart* of whisky were found by the officers. Chief Hyers received word from Pierce that David Jones was sentenced to 30 days in jail, Robert Blair was fined $200 and costs and John Boldt and E. D. Deits $100 and costs each for tilting the prohibition lid. Since July 1, the bureau reports that 2,000 quarts of liquor have been taken from booze runners. The national drought has put a crimp on the activities of the federal authorl I ties of Nebraska. For nearly two • years a large per cent of the business of the United Stales courts was with booze cases, violations of the Reed amendment, which forbid the trans portation of intoxicating liquor from wet to a "dry” state. After the . cases on hand are disposed of by the courts thore will be po more new busi ness of this kind. Government agents j are now turning their attention to j "moonshiners.” The "still” is expected 1 to replace the bottle. I Prosperous Farmer a Runner. Federal Judge Munger sent Mike F. Moore to jail for six months for es corting 128 pints of whisky from a "wet" to a "dry” state. According to hi* own admission Moore had scent four of the last 12 months In jail for ' violating state and federal laws. When Mike arrived in Lincoln to plead guil j ty, he had just completed a term of 50 days at Norton, Kan., for violating the I Kansas law. He is a prosperous young | farmer, owner of a 320-acre farm near , McCook, Red Willow county. Moore ' is a dear, cut young fellow and looked more like a city man a tiller of the soli. I "You are a good deal of a puzzle," I Judge Munger told him. “You have a fine farm and come from good -people and I don’t understand why you want to specialize in bootlegging. I am glad for your sake that the country has gone dry. You were headed the shortest way to ruin as a citizen." GARBAGE OI8POSAL IS ! OMAHA’S BIG QUESTION Omaha, Neb., July 8.—The garbage question is causing the mayor and city commissioners considerable concern. The city Council committee of the whole today will consider whether Henry Pollack should be paid $45,000 a year for five yearoor collection and disposul of garbage, according to his bid received last week. The city legal department has gone into district court to restrain various restaurant and hotel proprietors {ivm selling their garbage by private con tracts and for their own pecuniary benefits, according to an act of the recent legislature. The .city attorney contend* that this legislative measure is only a "scrap of paper” insofar as Its legality is concerned, and he is ready to test it in the courts. Some of the big hotel and restaurant mcnt assert that their garbage for the period of a year is a valuable by-prod uct of their business and they should have the right to dispose of it as they please. The city legal department takes the position that under the police pow ers of the city no discrimination can be shown toward any class in connec tion with the collection and disposal of garbage. Therefore a legal battle im pends. —♦— GOVERNOR TELLS WHY HE CHOSE JULY 28 Lincoln, Neb., July 8.—In calling a special session of the legislature for July 28. Governor McKelvie has issued the following letter: ”1 have decided to call a special ses sion of the legislature to convene July 28, for the purpose of passing on ques tions which I will Include in the call to dp made later. “1 would have decided upon an earlier date had it not been that a number of the members have suggested this date as being least in conflict with the har vest season. Also. I find that the Ep worth assembly will be in session in Lincoln at that time and that will give the members the opportunity to bring their families for an outing if they care to do so. Many prominent speakers of national reputation will he represented on the program. “1 am inclosing a stamped returned envelope with the request that you ad vise me at once whether It will be pos sible for you to attend the session upon that date." —^— NEBRASKA INDIAN FIGHTER AND PIONEER DEAD Hustings. Neb., July 8.—“Wild Bill'’ Kress, 78. pioneer hunter, trapper and Indian fighter of the plains, is dead at his home here. Kress and Joe Fouts. who died sev eral years ego, were the first white residents of Adams county. Kress al ternated freighting northwest from St. Joseph over the Oregon trail with hunting buffalo. He had many encoun ters with Indians, and as a scout had many narrow escapee. He entered on a homestead in Ad-* ams county In 1870, though he had roamed the plains hereabouts since affd was thus the oldest inhab itant of this section of the country. He still owned his homestead wherf' he died. PIONEER OF CUMING COUNTY IS DEAD West Point, Neb.. July 8.-~Mrs. The odore Thoms, one of the earliest set llers of the county, died on Wednes day at her home in this city. She Buffered a paralytic stroke on Tuesday from which she did not rally. She leaves an aged husband, one son and one daughter. She. together with her husband, wer.e among the first, settlers of the country on the west side\of tie, Wkborn riverjn Cuming county. k HIGHLANDERS TO “ HKJATTLE Conflict of Authority Over 20 Year Certificates—Double Resources of the Order. Aurora. Neb., July 7.—C. H. Hen thorn. secretary of the committee ap pointed at a recent meeting of pioneer certificate holders in the Royal High landers, has received a letter from Chief Secretary F. J. Sharp flatly re fusing to give him certain information regarding these certificates, which were written to mature in 20 years, at the attainment of an age of 50, and which the lodge has recently refused to pay. While Mr. Sharp's refusal was not expected, his admission that the obli gations owed to 7 per sent of the mem bership amount to more than double the entire resources of the order has aroused considerable interest. The local committee is in receipt of many letters from over the state assur ing it of support, among the more prominent lawyers being Judge Harry S. Dungan and J. H. Tibbets, of Hast ings; P. F. Heaton, of Central City, and Judge B. F. Oood, of Lincoln. Judge Dungan has outlined a plan for bring ing action in the federal courts under adverse citizenship by some non-redi dent policy holder, with the question of personal liability raised again*! members of the executive committee if It shall develop that they have failed to make provision for the payment ol thoaa nnlioioc WHEAT CROP DAMAGED BY HOT WEATHER Hastings. Neb., July 7.—Many Ad ams county farmers hold that th« wheat cr<fv will not be as good as an ticipated >1 days ago. Hot weather has prematurely ripened the wheat, causing the kernels to shrivel in many fields. Black rust la reported in the north part of the county. Some have begun to harvest but wheat cutting will not begin in earnest until Monday. Some wheat is lodged, and the average yield will be considerable lower than early con ditions indicated. IOWA AND NEBRASKA LODGES IN COURT Omaha, Neb., July 7.—Alleging that the Ancient Order of United Work men grand lodge of Nebraska is in solvent by more than $600,000, the An cient Order of United Workmen grand lodge of Iowa filed an amended answer in district court in the suit of the Ne braska grand lodge against the Iowa grand lodge to keep the latter from do ing business in Nebraska. The Iowa lodge alleges that the Ne braska lodge is imposing on and de frauding the public and its members and misrepresenting the financial con ditions of its affairs. The trouble dates back to 1909 when the Nebraska lodge withdrew from the Jurisdiction of the supreme lodge of the order. At that time and later many members transferred their mem bership to the Iowa lodges, which still Is affiliated with the supreme lodge. At present there are 12 branches of the Iowa lodge in Omaha and one in Fre mont. FORMER GOVERNOR GOES TO MAKE HOME IN WEST Lincoln, Neb., July 7.—After a long residence In Nebraska in which he served as county attorney for Custer county, district Judge of the Thirteenth district, governor of the state, member of the supreme court and commissioner of the board of control. Silas A. Hol comb has departed for Bellingham, Wash., to reside. THE ORIENT’S TH’ PLACE. Hartford, Conn.—Kipling was alleged to have been quoted at a local ticket window: ‘‘I want a ticket to some place where there aint no ten commandments ‘and a man can raise a thirst." ANGELS AT $5 each. Chicago—"Slightly used angels to day at $6 each.” War loan officials offered for sale scores of plaster ladies who blew blew trumpets along victory way in the peace celebrations. BURLESON JUSTIFIES ATTITUDE ON STRIKE Declares In Answer to Critics « That Kelmen’s Walkout Was Doomed to Failure. Washington, July 3.—Postmaster General Burleson today issued this statement in connection with the ter mination of strike of commercial teleg raphers : "The truth Is, there has been no strike. It failed from the moment it was called because the operators re specting the broad policy of the wire control board regarding the employes and recognizing that strikes are not permissible during the period of gov ernment control refused to respect the order to strike. This attempt at a strike thoroughly justifies the post master general in his attitude assumed at the beginning of governmental con- i trol, that all employes were to be treat ed with absolute Justice and fairness, regardless of whether they did or did not belong to labor organizations, and that no discrimination was to be prnc- , tired against those who belonged to , such organizations and that they would | be fully protected in their rights so to do.” * From his personal experience, a salaried man offers the following first aid to foes of the H. C. L.: ISaeh of my salary checks 1 divide into four parts, as follows: Household expenses. 45 per cent: savings, 35 per cent: personal allowances, 35 per cent; charity, 5 |ier cent. The household expenses cover food, rent, fuel, light, fur niture and any expenditure not personal. Savings Include life insurance premiums. Personal allowances are for the members of my family—wife, child and myself. At present that amount is divided. 11 per eent each for my wife and myself and 5 per cent for fhe child Personal allow ance* are for clothing and all otuer per aonal expenditure* layTeavy hand Nebraska Law Ample to Cope With I. W. W. In the Antici- , pated Harvest Field Scramble. Lincoln, Neb., July 5.—Notice hsui been sent to all sheriffs and other peace officers of the state by Attorney General Davis informing them that the last legislature made provision for tha appointment by the governor of a nec essary number of state agents to as sist in enforcing laws, and that the ex ecutive department ^stands ready to give any assistance in quelling out breaks by I. W. Ws. among the harvest hands that will soon be pouring into the state from Kansas. The legislature also passed a law making it unlawful for any gatherings or acts on the part of men who show a disposition to make trouble for po litical or economic advantage. Reports have reached the state house that some such men have been trying to stir up trouble between the farmers and har vest hands just when they need help most. Prompt action is promised, and farmers are advised to wire the ex ecutive office at the first appearance of trouble makers. A 60-cent an hour rate for harvest hands has been decided on, but it is understood the I. W. Ws. want to compel the payment of more because of the necessities of the wheat rarraers. SOOZE HOUNDsVaVE LESS WORK TO DO. Lincoln, Neb., July 5.—The closing of the saloons and wholesale liquor houses in the states adjoining Nebraska will make the work of the state booze hounds much easier, says A. A. Hyers, In charge of the staff. The number of detectives was reduced the first of the month, and more will be let go within a few weeks. Motor boats are to be taken off the Missouri and several automobiles have been retired. It is known that a great amount of liquor has been cached in adjoining states. t One story that has reached Mr. Hyers is that several farms in the rocky and Hilly part of Missouri close to Nebraska and Iowa have been rented by former saloon keepers and specula tive friends, and upon these they have buried or otherwise hidden large stocks of liquor that they expect to sell later for large sums of money. It is ex pected that some of this hidden liquor will be brought into Nebraska, but the fact that there is no open supply njarket for bootleggers outside the state, as in the past, will mean their retirement from business whenever their present supply runs out or is con fiscated by the officers. The high price this cached liquor will bring will also tend to narrow the number of booze, runners. WHITE MAN T(TpLACE SON TN NEGRO SCHOOL Omaha, Neb., July 6.—Francis Dwyer plans to place his 3-year-old son in a nqgro . institution and raise him as a negro, if the court ruling upon his re quest for marriage annulment, orders him to support him, Thomas A. Walsh, brotherinlaw of Dwyer said. "There is no question but that the marriage will be annulled by the court,” Walsh said. "We have absolute proof that Mrs. Dwyer’s father is a negro. But there are other ways in which a claim for the support of the child might be laid on Dwyer. If any such action is taken and allowed by the courts, Dwyer will see to it that his son never is given the opportunity to break some white girl's heart. He will be placed in an institution for negro children and brought up as negro.” According to Walsh, at the time the baby was born, the regular family physician of the McCarys for 30 years tvas ill. Walsh was asked to recom mend a doctor. He sent his family physician who, informed Dwyer that bis son and wife were of negro blood. gNTI-PROHIBS PLAN COLONY IN MEXICO >ny, composed of anti-prohibitionists, s to be established July 12 on a >00,000-acre tract of land in the state >f Coahuilu, Mexico, opposite the American boundary lino between Kagle Pass and Del Rio, according to D. G. Wilson, of Bloomfield, business agent lor the proposed colony, who was in Jm&ha Tuesday. "The colony will be settled by Amer can farmers, business and professional nen who believe that their personal ■ights concerning the use of liquor lave been invaded by the prohibition aw, and who prefer to live in a coun :ry where they can exercise those •ights," said Mr. Wilson. "We expect thousands of Americans yho desire to pursue happiness in their >wn way within the law to settle in his territory, which is one of the rlch >st in Mexico, offering wonderful op jortunities,” said Mr. Wilson. WANT AIRPLANE STATION IN CITY OF FREMONT Fremont, Neb., July 5.—Commission, w George F. Woiss nas applied to the dock yards company for ground to be ised as an airplane station August 1 tnd thereafter. The government squad on is to land in Fremont August 1, if he present schedule is carried out. Arrangements have been made by the ;ity to turn the old centra) school site >ppostte the city park into a camping ■round for stopover automobilists. The trounds are dose to the buclnees sec K>n and rt is intended to equip them slth bath facilities. ARMY »HAPLAtN TAKES PASTORATE AT FREMONT Fremont, Neb.. July 6.—Rev. James 3. Peterson, who has been army chap lain stationed at Fort Crook, has just u-rlved in Fremont to assume the pas lorate at the Danish Lutheran church. Rev. Mr. Peterson is a graduate of liana college, at Blair. He served Sev an-years at Harlan, la., before enlist ng for service with the army. He ame back from France in February tnd then was stationed at Fort Crook, tte succeeds the liev. Mr. Jensen. Labor Problems, Ancient and Modern. * From the Bache Review. Senator Lodge called attention in his Harvard address to a letter Written on a clay tablet 4,000 years ago in Babylon, by which it ap peared that they hail then a system of profit sharing. He thought that in profit sharing we might have a beneficent solution of the labor problems which confront us today, but he admitted that he would lika to know how the system worked in Babylon, for it might throw some light on what to cherish and what to avoid. It is doubtful whether the system in Babylon, if it was a sucqesv ^ was conducted on the principle of dividing profits, as such, with al| classes of workers. It appears that some of the experiments recently) tried in this country, are demonstrating that the system generally ap-i olied is a failure. The courageous Willys-Overland Company adopting >t the first of this year, and a few weeks ago proceeded to divide upt $120,000 among the workers. Two days later one of the most bitter strikes was inaugurated, and was over only after it had cost the laborers and the company thousands of lost dollars. Intelligent employers are making up their minds to a different method of rewarding labor. It is necessary to divide employes into two classes—the brains department and the muscle department. The first consists of those in charge of men and operators, and profit shar ing with these stimulates to greater application, faithfulness and effi ciency. But the muscle department must be rewarded by liberal bo nuses for extra production; that is, the workers are paid good wages for a day's work with average production, and are offered consider able further sums whenever, and in proportion as, the production of the whole factory is increased beyond the normal output. As this additional oompens&tion is paid, not to individuals, but to the workers as a whole, and then divided up, it places upon their leades the incen tive and the responsibility of weeding out the slackers who will not do their share in achieving extra production, and consequently extra pay. "TOOT SWEET!" When I was back in iny home town, I always used to say: "How nice 'twould be to travel ’round Old Europe far away.” I’ve seen old England .and its aisles; French scenes, I’ve seen a few; In Germany, I've walked enough To realize I’m through. But there is nothing here for you, And nothing here for me; Let Europe settle what they brew, And we ean take to sea. Let's go where we can spend our life, At home so far away; And cast off from this world of strife For our good old U. S. A. . —Bugler L. E. Wilson, Battery A., In The Barrage. Choosing Our Possession. From Collier's. In the new world (after the League of Nations is established) there will no doubt be a school of manners, not limited to reluctant bolshevists. The chief item of instruction should be on the art of possession. False ideas prevail today. A man says "my office,’’ but his clerks say ’’our office.’’ Men and women as sume possession with startling rapidity. An accident in "our car,” or “in our street” acquires a world's significance, be side which the eruption of Stromboli is a small and dismal thing. Just as men take pride In Texas because they live in the largest state, so office boys are haughty if their building has more ele vators than any other in the world. We think the socialists ought to supply us with an analysis of this fury to possess. ‘As a starting point we offer the sugges tion that humanity is all wrong-it is not the man who owns the office: the of fice could much more justly speak of “my man.” In spite of our title deeds and rent receipts we are all men possessed, by property or by an idea or by those we love. The art of living is in choosing our posr“ssions—and our possessors as well. Regular Habits Old It. From the Indianapolis News. A young man, still bronzed from his service in the suti and wind, stepped on the scales in front of a store. He waited until the pointer stopped, then said that he had lost nine pounds since he got out the army. His companion then tried the scales and found that Ids loss was 12 pounds. Gradually those who served in the army and who wrote home about how much they had gained are getting back their pre-war weights. Many soldiers are explaining that their old clothing was too tight when tj>e.y arrived home, but it fits better now. mme have lost even more than they gained. There is an explana tion for all this. When the men went into the service they had to form regular habits. They were forced to get up at a certain time every’ morning, to go through certain exericises every day, to bathe reg ularly, to take long walks and go to bed at a specified hour. If they did not get a certain number of hours’ sleep every night it was not because they were out of bed. The food served them in many cases was more plentiful than they had been having at home. It was good food, well prepared. It had in tt the making of brain and brawn. The regular exer cise, good diet and proper living habits made the soldier gain weight. Now he goes to bed when he gets ready and eats as much or little as he desires. He takes little or no exercise and he loses weight. It will happen to any man, and it is hap pening to thousands of former soldiers. The example should stimulate even those who never had any army training to take up some systematic form of exercise, to keep regular hours and to be more care ful about their diet. Too Many Doctor*. From Commerce and Finance. From Germany and Austria come re ports that of the many thousands of phy sicians turned loose by the armistice com paratively few can make a living These men had ail the work they could handle In war time, especially the surgeons. Now there are few surgical cases, the influenza has subsided, and tbere It> no great call for doctors except In cases' that develop from malnutrition. Few persons appreciate that a surplus of doctors Is almost as bad for a nation as a shortage. The Meal -condition is to have just enough physicians to have every one of them kept busy. The busy doctor is likely to be a much better doctor than the one who has few cases. The larger his practice the more he learns. America has too many doctors. A few years ago tt had more per capita than any other uonntry 10 the world and ap proximately as many as Germany and Great Britain combined. There were 166,000 doctors here some years agio. The number Is somewhat larger now. We could get along , very well with JS.000 less. Foch, Not Pershing. From the San Francisco Chronicle. In the course of his replies to the quer ies concerning the tiring ordered during ; the last few hour* before the signing of lie armistice. General Pershing quote* from the orders of Marshal Foch direct ing that the pressure be maintained along the whole front up to the last mo ment. The complaint that General Per shing sacrificed lives by carrying on to the last moment is thus seen to be with out justification He was cairytng out the policy of the supremo and unified ] comma*! So Many Nice People. From the Milwaukee Journal. Did you ever have the feeling, “I wish S knew as many nice people as So and So?’* Why is it that some persons’ lives Eeem * w always bringing them incontact with whole hearted, friendly people? It is the happy faculty that come persons possess of bringing out the best that is in those they meet. Such persons act on the prin ciple of putting others at their ease, In spiring confidence, being happier and more useful. Often the one who benefit* by this spirit is unconscious of it, feeling only that the time seems pleasanter and. more comfortable. It Is not for praise or gratitude that one does these things. He is happy in knowing thsft he has given comfort. His is the' discernment to see the fine thing that lies hidden from the many and not he blinded by the surface difficulties, the pretext of indifference or ill nature. And (1 never harms the doer if his good will is misunderstood or fails. For his thought is not to win something, but to do a good turn to another who happens for the uoment or the day or all, the years to travel the road of life with him. A Tr»e for a Tree. From th» Boston Globe. America’s natu/al resources have been the salvation of Europe. A list of the products shipped across the Atlantic In recent years woijd be exhaustive. Near th? head of this list would be ’’lumber.’’* Millions of railroad ties have been sentl to France. Today Greece is turning ta the United States for wood. This coun try could furniajt Europe with supplies for many years. Tet the old proverb ought not to be forgotten-; there is an end to ali things. A long look backward would show Europe covered with forests: a long look ahead under present methods would show America devoid of forests. The action presents a problem, not a dilemma. During the few years of this country’s history 300.000,000 acres of forest land have been viped out entirely. This amounts to more than half of our forest land today. Such a scheme as planting a new tre* for each tree cut would do much to solv* this problem. Invention Not Wanted. From the Christian Science Monitor. It is hoped that report is mistaken in saying that somebody in America has invented a mechanism which magnifies the sound of the human voice and would make it possible for a man speaking to be heard for 30 or more miles without the intervention of the telephone. The noise of modern civilization is already annoying enough, and, as one newspaper has commented oa the reported invention, “Let us suppose that some concern ad vertising chewing gum, breakfast foods, or Grand Kaplds furniture, utilizes this device and shouts its wares across a state, what becomes of the sanity of the eonvmonwealth ?” Economy In Matrimony. From the Manila Times. Marriage agencies in Japan are now LmitpH In 91, no nr .a fan m. a»ni, .— made. One peso for an introduction, five fur a hunt for a life partner and 25 more for actually binding two together are tl»e legal prices. This arrangement cuts out all the sorbetas, carriages, flowers, jawelry and other expenses of this coun try, and after all is more economical. Sitting Down. Many a man recently demobilised has a certain queer feeling of resurrection, that he has "become somebody," as the saying is. Home inspection is" so unlike what he has been used to in the service. From being a plain private, regarded with care, suspicion and qualified approv al, he has become handsome, sinewy, distinguished looking, improved by travel. There is no more of that eternal lining up by the hundreds for drill, work, food, mail, leave, amusement, medical atten tion, etc., that endless tiresome lining up! 'One man t» now one man, not a link in a human chain. One’s feet come easllv off the ground and light softly now that the hobnails are banished. Food is taken sitting, and there are various dishes to eat from and all day to do it In. Also, one can sit elsewhere than on the roadside or in the ditch, and sometimes there is • light handy by one’s chair. No civilian can erer imagine what a stand up game war I a Best of all, there Is sleep, sleep unhargssed by the rub of wool on your unwaged frame, sleep on something more sleepfal than the earth, sleep till 7 a. m. if you want it and the top sergeant can go to biases. Mess call la when you are ready Demobilisation hr right, get out of the mob and tap sometrudy on your own account, and confusion to the rascal that tries to start another war. Taking no Chances. From the Chicago News. “You say that neither of your stenogra phers wtjnts a vacation this year? That’s singular.*’ “Not ay all. You see, f recently hired a handsome young secretary, and neither of the girls is willing to go away and leave the held to the other one.’’ Thoughtful Woman. From the I-as Animas (Cal.j News. Lad* in touring car beckons to pedes trian. "Will you kindly do me u small favor, sir?*’ “Certainly, madam.’’ “Then please stand out to the middle of the highway and see bow quickly 1 can stop my oar without hitting you. I’m oil-aid the brake Is out of order.”