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Will the women register? Just watch them.
The early senatorial bird also flutters into
frost.
Chorus of hopeful consumers: "They laugh best
iho laUftti fasti"
The coming spectacle of the bread loaf taking
en belated fatness, will be worth a moderate
charge for admission.
Old-time patriotism blooms in war as in peace.
No exemption claims hive yet been filed by pos
sible selective for elective jobs.
Herbert Hoover is said to be going after meat
next. He had better hurry, . for that former
staple is rapidly going out of sight
A fairly accurate measure of the power of the
I. W. W. may be had by comparing the output
of bluff with the paucity of performance.
Whole-hearted support of the government,
open and above board, constitutes one simple
means of avoiding suspicion of disloyalty.
Still, the so-called patriots of Texas offer no
objection to colored men so long as they remain
local "hewers of wood and drawers of water'
Nebraska has made; several notable eontribq
tions to New Mexican society, but none greater
than the soldier boys at or going to Deming.
Due regard for. rightfulness, no doubt, re
strains Bethmann-Holtweg from chortling, as he
views the troubles of his successor: "For the ovt
of Mike!"
. The fate of fire-ravaged Salonik! differs little
from: that of the shell-driven cities of France.
Both methods are equally efficient in producing
historic ruins. .
Secretary Lansing just bets another hundred
million that Russia is all right. Any little sport
ing proposition like this serves to cheer us up
these gloomy war days. ' ' ,
King Corn is on the home stretch now, and
the race between the monarch and Jack Frost
for the next few days will be watched with in
tense concern by a hungry world.
With the sheriff and the chief of police both
pursuing them, auto drivers are likely to be con
vinced that the rule and regulations laid' down in
.conformity to law are really to be observed. It
eosts much less in time and money to observe
the rule on the road than it does to go to the
police station and explain.
Trade authorities who feci the country's pulse
regularly note a distinct improvement in condi
tions directly due to government control. An
abatement of rush orders produced a more whole
some tone in steel, fuel and food markets. The
admission is an early tribute to the stabilizing
power of government regulation.
The I. W. W. simmered down mighty soon
when Uncle Sam called the bluff of its windy
leaders. Economic conditions are not ideal, and
the workingman has much to complain of, but
his remedy does not lie along the road that leads
to treason, and that is where Bill Haywood and
his kind are leading their followers.
"How do you justify"charging $6 a ton for coal
that cost less than $2 to produce?" The assistant
attorney general of Missouri shot the question
at William B. Scott, a local coal magnate. Wil
liam came back: "Because we can get it. You are
a lawyer and you wouldn't do a piece of work for
$5 if you could get $10 for it, would you?" Where
upon the attorney saith not and shifted the quiz.
Putting Up Movie Prices.
Now comes the real test of our endurance.
Magnates who control the destiny of the moving
picture industry are feeling about to determine
whether they can levy an additional tax to the
toll of nickels taken at the gate. In flat terms it
is proposed to increase the price of admission
from 10 cents to 15 cents, a raise of 50 per cent.
This has not been fully determined upon, because
other factors than the desire to make the in
crease must be considered. First is the ability
o the people Bo pay. Other agencies for col
lection of nickels and pennies have already been
in the field and prospects for gleaning by the
movies are not particular. Furthermore, the pro
posed raise in admission prices would seem like
an imposition when viewed by light of arguments
made by promoters before committees of con
stress when pleading to be exempted from special
war tax. At that time the magnates stated that
they were the great providers of amusement and
entertainment to the multitude, and therefore
should not be subject to an imposition that might
interfere with the poor man's show. This argu
ment works both ways, and finally It may be ac
cepted that when it comes down to competition
between the baker and the moving picture man
is to who will get the nickel, the baker will win.
If the big men of the industry really are animated
ibout the motives they professed before the tax
levying committees of congress, they will find
another way to meet their emergency and not
undertake to increase the cost of movies to the
public.
The Importance of Army Morale.
"The Lord fights with the battalions," was
Napoleon's aphorism, which in other words means
that in the conflict of arms numbers and equip
ment count most, and the side with the most men
and the biggest guns, "other things being equal,'
will win out. Among the "other things," how
ever, not to be overlooked nor undervalued, is
that indefinite and indetermined attribute called
"morale," which is the fighting spirit of tRe men
that in many critical battles has overcome num
bers and superiority of arms and given victory
to the side which to the casual observers seemed
weakest.
The importance of army morale is dwelt on
in a most convincing way in the message sent
by Major General Wood to the class of gradu
ates from the Plattsburg training camp of which
he is credited with being the father. "The self
respect of the soldier," said General Wood, "is
vital to his success. Destroy this and you have
a man with a poor spirit and consequently a poor
soldier and an army which will never go through
to the end. The most cordial and friendly rela
tions between officers and men can exist without
any loss of official status, or control on the part
Of the officer. In developing the armies of the
republic this must always be borne in mind. They
must strive to build up that feeling of confidence
and interdependence between officers and men
which must be present if the army is to have the
real spirit which will carry it on to victory and
final success."
If there is one thing in which we have every
reason to believe the American soldiers will ex
cel, it is in the. morale in the true fighting spirit
which has been exhibited heretofore whenever
test was had. That is why the presence of Ameri
can troops in Europe must mean more to our al
lies than the mere number of men sent over. That
is why Germany made certain of ultimate defeat
when it took on the United States as an addi
tional antagonist.
When Women Oo to War.
Plans for the registration of women for service
in connection with the war are but giving official
recognition to what the world has known from
the beginning. Woman's part in war has always
been of such importance that it is doubtful if any
great campaign ever was carried on without her
assistance. Since civilization came to soften ways
of living, the woman has not been called upon to
do some of things she was put at under sav
agery, but she has found new occupations whose
pursuit is quite as essential. Such tasks as nurs
ing the wounded, caring for the helpless, and
ministering in many ways to the wreckage of war
come to her as a matter of course, as do the
homelier but unavoidable duties of keeping things
moving while the man goes forth to battle. What
is now proposed is that these duties be co-or
dinated as far as possible, and that the efforts of
woman be systematized and mide more effective
by reason of orderly direction. That the women
of America will respond to the effort of the gov
ernment may be accepted as foregone conclusion,
and that they will lag at any time may be put
aside as out of the question. While woman may
work at home, her heart will ever be at the front
with husband, son, father or sweetheart, and she
will not be a slacker.
Canada's Part in the War.
War conditions in Canada are shifting isome-
what, a natural result of developments in other
countries engaged on the same side. One of the
most significant moves lately made will follow
the announcement by the Dominion government
that plants taken over early in the war for the
manufacture of munitions are to be turned back
to their owners. It is conclusive evidence that
the situation of the Allies is such that the Ca
nadian contribution of munitions is no longer
needed for success and the factories that have
been turning Out shells and the like may here
after be devoted to their pre-war uses or to such
other activities as are required. This course will
in a considerable rneasure relieve a situation that
had become quite severe in its pressure on our
northern ' neighbors. Canada has strained itself
to the utmost in response to the demand made
for defense of the British empire. It has lately
followed the example of the' United States by
adopting the conscription law, even in the face
of insurrection in the eastern and maritime prov
inces. Its national revenue has been repaired by
the adoption of an income tax measure. Both of
these moves were extremely repugnant to the
Canadians as they were to the Americans, but
the exigencies of the war required that steps be
taken, and the Canadians resolutely moved for
ward just as they have in other ways to fairly
meet their plain duty. The part that Canada has
played so far in the great world war is one of
utmost importance as a fine example of devotion
as is afforded anywhere in history.
Sunday's Work Under Acid' Test. t
Disappointment is written large on the score
board of visible results which were expected from
the three months' revival conducted by Rev. Wil
liam Sunday in New York City last spring. Twice
a day for eighty odd days the noted revivalist held
forth to multitudes In a tabernacle holding
20,000 people. Nothing like it was ever beheld
In the big city. It was the climax of Sunday's
battles against the hosts of sin in the stronghold
of sinners. Measured by numbers attending,. by
sustained interest and trail hitters, the revival
constitutes the record of the century. Ninety
eight thousand persons "hit the trail"--accepted
the pledge "to lead a new and better life." What
were the actual material results?
Rev. Dr. John S. Allen, pastor of the Fort
Washington Presbyterian church, is the first to
complete the "follow-up" plan by which trail-hitters
who sign cards are brought into the fold.
Writing in the New York Times of the outcome
of his acid test, Dr. Allen sounds the note of dis
appointment with which Omaha churchmen are
familiar. Dr. Allen explains that while the trail
hitters numbered 98,000, only 65,943 signed cards
giving address and church preference. Of this
number the Fort Washington church, located
nearest the tabernacle, received 273 cards, every
one of them investigated, by the pastor. He
found 174 tof the card signers were church mem
bers and regular attendants, twenty could not be
found at the addresses given, 12 per cent of the
cards carried fictitious addresses, eleven were
former church members who had backslided after
leaving home, and, the remaining twelve non
church members. Three of this number gave
definite promise of joining the church. These
constitute the sum total of "converts."
"In my entire work," Dr. Allen writes, "I did
not come across a single case of a person leading,
or who had been leading, a vicious life. If Billy
Sunday succeeded in reaching and awakening to
a new life 'any of the booze fighters," gamblers
or other bad characters that he so often ex
horted, they signed no cards that passed through
my han
Square Pegs for Square Holes
By Frederic J . Haskin
Washington, August 23. Someone has said
that this war is a war of card indexes. If so
we need not fear for the results. The United
States Public Service Reserve, in its Washington
office, is proving that the United States leads the
world in the science of card indexing.
The reserve is preparing to card-index every
patriotic man and woman in the union. Presi
dent Wilson has said that this is a war, not of
armies, but of whole nations; and also that our
own nation would volunteer for service en masse.
The Public Service Reserve, wliich functions
under the auspices of the Department of Labor,
is the agency which will take care of a nation of
volunteers.
The Public Service Reserve asks every man
to come forward and say that he is ready to serve
the government, wherever he 'can be of most use
in the war emergency. In reply to this offer of
service, the reserve gives him a certificate of
membership, a bronze button to wear in his coat,
and the consciousness of having done his duty.
Be'fore very long it may give him a new job,
which may or may not be more pleasant and
remunerative than the one he has today, but
which will certainly be one where he can serve
the national interest to better advantage.
Before its work is done the Public Service
Reserve hopes to list millions of men who have
volunteered to work where they can do the most
good. Yet its system is such that if the gov
ernment calls for a single chemist or a single
mechanic, the reserve will be able to turn to its
index and pick out, not a thousand possible can
didates, nor a hundred men who might fill the
bill, but one single man who is the man for the
place and is ready to take it. Speed, efficiency,
the elimination of waste effort, the reduction of
industrial loss to a minimum these ire the things
that win wars, and they depend not' upon heroism
or patriotism, but upon scientific System. The
system adopted for indexing industrial volunteers
is the really vital point of the Public Service
Reserve Idea, and it is an intricate and interesting
thing. ,
The officials of the reserve say that they have
completed the experimental period of their work,
in which thev nave listed and indexed some
12,000 or 15,000 industrial volunteers from various
sources, most of them skilled technical men.
Now they are ready to begin work on a national
scale. The task will be taken up state by state.
Pennsylvania has been selected for the first state
campaign, and from the results of the work there
the system will be further perfected to apply to
every state in the union.
So far the men who have offered their services
have only been divided into some 600 classes and
sub-classes according to their training and occu
pations. The number of classes will be greatly
increased as the work goes forward. Mr. I. W,
Litchfield, who is the indexing expert of the re
serve, can take any man's volunteering blank
and refer it at a glance to its proper class and sub
class in the 600, or you can ask him for any kind
of a man you choose, from a drill-press feeder
to a veterinary surgeon, and he can turn to the
proper division of the 600 divisions in the card
index and give you the names of the men listed
under that head. More than that, he can tell
you how good each man is for the particular
job you have in mind, where he is working and
what he is doing, whether he is willing to work
in Europe or not, what his disabilities are, if
any, where his father was born, and a mass of
other information bearing on the subject. The
indexing system is such that the best man for a
particular job can usually be picked out almost
literally at a glance.
Each man who volunteers for industrial serv
iceand by volunteering is meant an offer to
serve either with or without pay; a man with
a wife and seven children can volunteer as well
as anyone else is listed on three separate cards
and indexed three times, at least. First he is
indexed on a whits card, in the class to which
his present work belongs. Second, he is in
dexed on a blue card, showing what work he has
done in the past. And third, he is indexed on
a red card, which shows the emergency work
for which his training has fitted him in case of
need. , Each card contains all the information
that is contained on both the other cards, so no
matter from which angle his case is approached
present, past or emergency occupation all the
facts are gathered together, in highly technical
and abbreviated form;, on a single square of paper.
For example, one volunteer is a chief clerk
in the division of accounts in a railroad. His
white card lists him with the bookkeepers. His
blue card lists him with clerical railway workers.
His red card shows that in case of emergency de
mand he is capable of doing the work of a statis
tical expert. There is not much war demand for
bookkeepers or railway clerical workers, but there
is a Strong government demand for statisticians.
In classifying the men .for emergency duty, the
expert must not only know what a given man is
capable of doing, but also what sort of men are
most likely to be needed.
Besides the bare classification, the index cards
contain much other information about the volun
teers in abbreviated form. For example, each man
is given a rating first class, second class, third
class or fourth class. The cards of men rated
first class have their upper corners clipped, so
that a finger run through the index turns up the
best men automatically. The rating is based on
various things age, experience, training, educa
tion, standing, disabilities, and so forth. The ap
plication blank of the, reserve asks scores of ques
tions, and the volunteers are encouraged to at
tach written statements as full as they care to
make them of their experience and success in any
positions they may have held. The application
blank is the result of much expert pondering, and
next to a personal interview it gives the best
possible idea of each man's possibilities.
Both in the questions asked of the volunteers
and In the indexing system the whole effort of
the men who designed the system was toward
the utmost possible exactitude. "We are not
satisfied to know that a man is a munition work
er," said one of the officers. "We want to know
whether his experience was with bombs, cart
ridges, commercial explosives, fuses, grenades,
shells, or torpedoes. We want the information
to be as specific as it possibly can, because when
we get a call for a man, it is not for a munition
worker, but for some very particular kind of a
munition worker." This is a war of specialists.
The Public Service Reserve is designed to be
a clearing house for industrial patriots, trained
and untrained. It should not be regarded pri
marily as an agency for securing employment.
The Department of Labor maintains a national
employment agency, the function of which is to
secure work for men and women who have no
work, and to get better jobs for those who are
not satisfied with the jobs they have already got.
The Public Service Reserve, on the other hand,
is designed to find places for men p:id women
where they will be of greater service to the na
tion. It will make no effort to offer you a bet
ter job, but if the nation needs you it will offer
you a job where you can better help the cause.
I TODAY
People and Events
Cook county, Illinois, pledges itself to keep on
the payroll every employe who joins any branch
of the national service, and hold the job fori the
return. i "
George Washington, very white and very Eng
lish by descent, is one of the draft recruits ac
cepted for service at Winsted, Conn.. ..George
hopes to lend fresh laurels to the name.
"The Girl Who Rejected Slackers Three," gets
her picture in the New York papers and vocal
bouquets galore. She hails from Bellport and
is good to look upon, even though her real name
escapes publicity.
Living without work in Maryland hereafter
promises to entail annoyance and notoriety. A
state law effective August 15, requires idlers to
get next to a job or show why. In obstinate cases
the state pspvides the job
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Proverb for the Day.
Least said soonest mended.
One Year Ago Today In Ae War.
British gained on Mouquet farm on
Somme front. -
Rome reported the repulse of Aus
trian attacks in the Alps.
British aircraft dropped about five
tons of bombs on points behind the
German lines.
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
At a rousing: meeting of the Irish
National league in St. Phllomena hall
addressees were given by Hon. John
Fitzgerald, Hon. A. J. Sawyer. Mayor
Broatch, Hon. Patrick Egan; J. B.
Doole sang "Father O'Flynn," Miss
Dewth rendered "Steer My Bark for
Erin's Isle," James Murphy, assisted
by a quartet, sang "God Save Ireland."
The Garfield Republican club of the
Sixth ward was organized with the fol
lowing officers: O. C. Ludlow, presi
dent: W. A, Grant, vice president; J.
M. Page, recording secretary; C. A.
Gelattel, William Marrow. Miles D.
Houck, P. O. Hawes and D. T. Red
man, executive committee.
At the old-fashioned picnic given at
Pries lake by the old members of the
Burns club the following competitors
won prizes: Emily Wigman, Mabel
Cheney, Maggie Meldrum, Robbie Mor
rison, Hannah AVllson, John Muir,
Peter Brown and W. M. Fleming, sr.
The Misses Vineyard and Stelle of
St Joe are the guests of the Misses
Hoagland.
Annie Kennedy was surprised by
the following young friends at her
home on South Thirteenth: Mlefces
Clara McCann, Nora and Stella Mc
Auliffe, Lizzie Mahoney, Hanna Croft,
Julia Kelly, Maggie and Annie Bren
nan, Ellen and Teresa McArdle, Mabel
Oarvey, May Galwan, Katie Garvey,
Katie O'Keefe, Lizzie McDonald, Mag
gie Kane, Agnes Meany, Charles Gar
vey, Allen McCann. Rhodie Kennedy
and Robert McAuliffe.
Fred L. Bridgeman and Miss Emma
J. Bennett were married by the Rev.
W. E. Copeland.
This Day In History.
1765 Mansion of the lieutenant
governor in Boston destroyed in a riot
caused by dissatisfaction over the
tamp act.
1808 General Benjamin G. Hum
phreys, noted confederate commander
and flrst governor of Mississippi after
the war, born In Claiborne county.
Miss. Died December 20, 1883.
1842 Treaty of peace between
Great Britain and China, by which a
number of Chinese ports were opened
to British trade.
1861 The Hatteras expedition
sailed from Fortress Monroe.
' 1862 John B. Floyd, secretary of
war In Buchanan's cabinet, died near
Abingdon, Va. Born at Blacksburg,
Va., June 1, 1807.
1867 General Edward B. S. Canby
appointed to succeed General Sickles
In command of the Second Military
district, comprising North and South
Carolina.
1S7S First kindergarten In Amer
ica established at St. Louis.
1914 Togoland surrendered to
Great Britain.
1915 Germans captured Russian
fortress of Ollta.
The Day We Celebrate.
Byron G. Burbank Is Just 87. He
was born at Northfteld, Minn., and
taught school at Byron, III, before he
came to Omaha to practice law.
E. W. Gunther, banker and mer
chant, was born August 26. 1853, in
Cologne, Germany, coming to this
country in 1869.
William P. (Billy) Byrne was born
right here in Omaha August 26, 1869.
He la well known as manager of the
Orpheum theater.
Lieutenant General John C. Bates,
United States army, retired, former
chief of staff of the army, born in St.
Charles county, Missouri, seventy-five
years ago today. ,
Colonel Chauncey P. Baker, chief as
sistant to General Kernan, chief of the
embarkation service, born in Ohio,
fifty-seven years ago today.
Edward Tuck, New York banker,
founder of the Tuck School of Admin
istration and Finance, born at Exeter,
N. H., seventy-flvJ years ago today.
Most Rev. James J. Keane, Catholic
archbishop of Dubuque, born at Jollet,
111., sixty years ago today.
Joseph T. Robinson, United States
senator from Arkansas, born at
Lonoke, Ark., forty-five years ago, to
day. Major Robert R. Moton, principal of
the Tuskegee institute, born in Vir
ginia fifty years ago today.
Storyett of the Day.
A German merchant in London had
Insured his house for 1400. The house
burned down and the insurance com
pany's representative came to him and
said :
"Your house was old and dilapidat
ed; it was not worth 400. We will
give you 300 or build you a bigger
and better house."
The merchant was very angry: he
wanted the 400. However, he even
tually thought it wise to take the 300.
Whereupon the insurance man, with
the pertinacity of his kind, suggested
that, having settled that little matter
satisfactorily, the. merchant might do
further business with them. Was his
life Insured? Yes it vos. Was his
wife's? No. Would he insure it? No.
Why not?
"I vil tell you why not," he replied.
"I Insure my wife for 400. Ven she
dies you come to me to say: 'Your
vlfe was old and dilapidated, she vos
not vorth 400. Ve vill give you 300
or a bigger and' better vlfe.' " Lon
don Notes.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
The word "Jewry" comes to as through
the Norman-French and is of frequent oc
currence In old English.
The book of the Bible called Levitlcui Is
ao called because it relate principally to
the Levites and priests. '
' In fine sandy soil 7 per cent of stable
manure added will cause it to retain double
the former quantity of water.
The old fashioned aquarium Is (Ivlng way
to pretty shaped tanks, sometimes illumi
nated with electric lights which change their
color automatically. v
Jordan, the one river of the Holy Land, n
has a course of little more than 200 miles
from the roots of Anti-Lebanon to the head
of the Dead Sea.- Not a single city ever
crowned the banks of this river.
The name of almond sugtests only the
Bat of that name, but we have flowering al
monds, that do not bear edible nuts but
make grand display of blossoms in early
spring. '
The first crossing of the Andes made by
aeronauts was accomplished by two men
from Argentina, Their balloon started front
Santiago, Chile, and four hours later landed
near Mendoia, Argentina.
Tha prophet Jeremiah was confined In tha
pillory (Jeremiah nix., 36), which appear
tc have been a common mode of punishment
in his time. Ancient Hebrew prisots con
tained a special chamber for the pillory.
This was termed "the honsa of tha pillory."
(II Chronicle xrk, 10).
AROUND THE CITIES.
One factory in tit. Louis consumes 100,
O00.OU0 feet of lumber a year.
St. Louis views with mute pride the open
face candor of a local coal magnate. Fear
lessly and unabashed he proclaims his motto
to be : "Grt all yon can,"
Topeka has launched an anti-poll tax league
to fight a law passed by the last legislature.
Lawyers assured the lesgue that the law is
iiicppi' tutional and were emp'oyed to lead
the fight for conservation of the where
with. Wheatless bread meet with little objec
tion in Boston hotels and restaurants. Man
Hirers report few patron ask for white bread,
that rye, graham or corn bread are accepted
in its place without question. Other New
England towns are adopting the Boston plan.
The Chicago end of the State Council of
Defense has taken steps to head off fraudu
lent solicitors of war funds. A new state
law imposes severe penalties for crooks of
this class and requires solicitors for legiti
mate funds to secure and show licenses from
the state war board.
Buffalo is pretty well buffaloed by pick
pockets. Signs warning people against
smooth gentry appear in many public places
and are posted on street cars. At the same
t'me Chicago reports surprising dullness In
that line of industry and can't account for
it. Buffalo offers a tip.
Salt Lake City school authorities plan to
emphasiie the studyof the French language
during the coming school year. Classes in
French will also receive special attention at
the state university, tor the purpose of fit
ting young men and women for army and
Red Cross work in Franc,
St Jo reports gratifying results In water
purity from a contrivance which is forced
through water mains to Stir op tha sedi
ment and remove it Recently the machine
whirled through a mile and a quarter of
main, stirred up the impurities, which
flowed off and increased the flovf of water
53 per cent
It took two years of periodic protests to
jar loose a bunch of political patriots hold
ing down jobs in an auxiliary pumping plant
of the water works of Kansas City, Mo. The
plant was usable only when tha river reached
a twenty-foot stage, which was rarely. Most
of the year the main work was drawing the
pay check. City Engineer Rundberg at last
blew up the political trenches.
SIGNPOSTS OF PROGRESS.
The value of precious stones imporled ii
i 1916 for th first time crossed the JiO,
' 000,000 mark.
' A practical Swis has found an Alp-r
srlacier j rofltaMe. since he has converted ii
i into an ice mine and markets the ice.
The earl is growing in popular favor mo;-,
: rapidly than the diamond, aeonling to thi
foreign trade department of the Nation
' City bank.
1 A self-irriguting flower put lias recentl;
! been Invented, the irrigation being provide
by a wick extending from its saucer to tli
' soil which it contains.
! American ice boxes would find a bette
i market in Brazil if the ventilators under
neath the refrigerators were closed with wir
gauze or netting.
High prices for food articles and cepe
eially neat are common over the whol
world. A Consular report says that one fa
ox recently sold in South Africa for $209
and sheep are held at J 10 each.
A California inventor has patented a state
ment or billhead form which can be folJe
and sealed so that the address at the to;
is on the outside, thus saving the expensi
of an envelope and the additional labor o:
addressing.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES
"I am looking for an appropriate nami
for my new home."
"You say It la the highest spot In th'
neighborhood?"
"The very highest''
"Call It 'The Ac.' "Boston Transcript.
"When your father and I were marrlet
he wa getting only 115 a week."
"Wa pa trying to dodge being draft4
for military service ?' Detroit Fr
Pres.
"A man cams In th office who attemptec
to take my life."
"Good heavens, John! Wa he an tan
archist?" "No; a solicitor who wanted my bio
graphy for a complimentary write-up.''
Baltimore American.
SIDELIGHTS ON THE BIG WAR.
Mora than 180,000 railway men ar In
the British army.
In the last great drive on the Somme tha
British "tanks" consumed 2,000,000 gallons
of "gas."
The shaft of an aerial torpedo which fell
tn London during a raid bss brought $540
at a raffle.
Based on official figures It I reckoned that
1 5 00 would pay Great Britain' war bill for
about on and one-third second).
The most remarkable case of rapid promo
tion in th British army is that of General
Freyburg, who enlisted as a private in the
very early months of the war. and at 27 Is
now a general of brigade, wearing th Vic
toria Cross.
A single bakery, "somewhere In France,"
turns out 129,000 two-pound loaves of bread
every day for the British soldiers. This Is
only one of many such establishment located
behind the allies' lines on th western front
According to figure compiled by the
Royal Statistical society, tha rise in food
prices sine th beginning of th war i
costing the 7,000,000 inhabitant of Greater
London, not less than (300,000,000 a year.
Under favorable condition of wind and
atmosphere th people living on th south
east coast of England ar able to hear the
sound of firing in Flanders, while, still more
remarkable, the recent terrible; mine explo
sions on the Messine sector, were dis
tinctly heard near Dublin, a distance of 450
miles.
In France wild birds often provide artillery
observers with clue a to the whereabout
of hidden batteries. Birds rise in flocks from
trees in th vicinity of which guns are being
fired, and when there I a lull in th activi
ties of the concealed artillery many of them
return to their former perches. A trained
observer can quickly tall, from th erratic
movements of flocks of birds, th approxi
mate locality of gun batteries hidden from
his vleW.
It is said that by th latest methods of
manufacture a German U-boat can be com
pleted in less than fifteen day. Th part
have been standardized, and ar Stamped out
of the metal at dozen of factories In all
part of Germany, each plant specializing in
on part, which is despatched without delay
to the naval docks. There thousand of ma
chinist ara waiting for it, and two week
from th time the or leave th mine th
U-boat is ready for sea.
HERE AND THERE.
Th Main deer killed last year totaled
12,000.
Only a third of South America' popula
tion is of pur whit blood.
Approximately 20 per cent of each potato
pared by ordinary household methods is lost
in the process.
It appear that smokers are throwing
away annually about 8,000 ton of valuable
material, the ashes of the tobacco they con
sume. Although there is a larger habitable area
in the South America than in North Amer
ica, there ar only halt as many people in
th southern continent
There are over 6,000,000 country girl tn
the United States and Uncle Sam and the
state colleges are helping a lot of them to
make better country homes.
Dogs can easily follow a deer by means
of scent. In each hoof there is a pasty
mass which leaves a slight odor on th
ground. For thi reason hunters usually
take dogs with them.
The resolution for. the adoption of the
Stars and Stripes as the American emblem
was passed by the continental congress June
14, 1777. An American ship, the Columbia,
carried the American flag around the world
in 1787-1790.
In these days when rag carpet has come
back into favor, old stockings of any color
but black, by preference, when cut in strips,
around and around, spirally a on Would peel
an apple, are most desirable material for
serviceable rugs, for either city or country
use, and. If care is taken with the cutting,
each sock or stocking will yield a strip
running from toe to toe, without wasting
more than a few clippings.
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VWAY SHAIU HE DO?
"1 don't sse how some of my friend are
able to have automobiles.'
"It is not so difficult a you think, old
man. The wive help out wonderfully. A
woman will go without an astonishing num
ber of things for the sake of a car."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Bacon I see electricity has been adapted
to forty-eight different purposes about a
household.
Egbert And yet the baby Is . being
spanked In the same old-fashioned way.
Yonkers Statesman.
"What are you reading?"
"A tale of burled treasure.''
"Wasting your time on fiction?''
"No. This is expert advice on how to
plant potatoes.'' Washington Star.
T hav to go to a culture lecture to
night." "Um."
"I don't know what to do at a hlg
brow lecture."
"Play safe. Applaud every time ha pulls
a big word." Louisville Courier-Journal.
THE REGULAR ARMY MAN.
He ain't no gold-lie 'Belvedere,''
To sparkle In the aim.
He don't parade with gay cockade.
And posies in his gun;
He ain't no "pretty soldier boy,"
So lovely, spick and span.
He wears a crust of tan and dust,
The Regular Army man;
The marchin'. parcliln,'
Plpe-clay tarqhln'
Regular Army man.
He ain't at home In Sunday school.
Nor yet at social tea,
And on the day be gets hi pay
He's apt to spend It free;
He ain't no temp'rance advocate,
He likes to fill the can.
He'a kinder rough an,' maybe tough,
The Regular Army man;
The rarln,' tearin,'
Sometimes swear! n
Regular Army man,
No atato'Il call him "noble son,"
He ain't no ladles' pet.
But let a row start anyhow,
They'll send for him, you bet.
He don't cut any Ice at all
In fashion's social plan;
He gits the job to face the mob.
The Regular Army man;
The mlllln,' drillin'
Made tor kUlin
Regular Army man.
They ain't no tears shed over him
When he goes off to war;
He gits no speech nor prayerful "preach" 1
From mayor or governor;
He packs his little knapsack up
An trots off in the van,
To start the fight and start It rlgli!.
The Regular Army man;
The rattlln', battlin'
Colt or gatlln,'
Regular Army man. '
He makes no fuss about the Job,
Ho don't talk big or brave,
He knows he's in to fight and win,
Or help fill up a grave;
He ain't ho "mamma's darlln," but
He doe the best he can.
And, he's the chap that wins the scrap,
The Regular Army man;
The dandy, handy,
Cool and sandy,
Regular Army man.
(A. J. McK., in tha Indianapolis Sentinel.)
Th proper tribute to the deceased la a
handsomely eomparisoned, well conducted
funeral. We arrange a modest or a mora
pretentious service in a manner that
meet with the approbation of thos
whom we serve.
N. P. SWANSON
Funeral Psrlor. (Established 1888)
17U and Cuming St. Tl. Doug. 1060
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