THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1919.
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You should know that
Omaha's American-born citizens
constitute 77 per cent of its entire
population.
What The Bee Stands For:
1. Respect for the law and maintenance of
order.
2. Speedy and certain punishment of crime
through the regular operation of the
courts.
3. Pitiless publicity and condemnation of
inefficiency lawlessness and corrup
tion in office.
4. Frank recognition and commendation
of honest and efficient public service.
5. Inculcation of Americanism as the true.
basis of good citizenship.
His majesty, the Gobbler, will now strut!
Work and suve is the only way by which to
get ahead.
If the miners were as decent as the weather
man, the trouble would soon be over.
Wall street reports indicate the trail is ready
for another crop of suckers, and that never fails.
Up to the hour of going to press npbody
has suggested that "Tom" Marshall be pro
moted. Washington thinks Carranza is trying to
pick a row with the United States. Marvellous
intuition! ' t
The national labor party is going to oppose
a lot of things. In due time we may find out
what it will advocate.
Why not levy an extra tax on the "parlor
coal diggers," equal to the amount they contrib
ute to the support of bolshevism?
Putting, the treaty into politics sounds
rich in view of the fact that the president made
it a party test from the very start. v
Nebraska corn fields still are calling for help.
. Idle coal miners here have a chance to earn as
tnuch above ground as ever they did below.
. 'I - i
New York "reds" renew their defiance of the
government. That is the best thing they do but
some of ,them will be doing it from overseas
very soon.
In connection with the present contumacy
of the coal miners, it is coldly comforting to
reflect that they will feel hunger and cold the
same as the rest of us.
Warren Stone of the railroad engineers
sapiently concludes that the unrest will end
when the high cost of living has been settled.
He has not fixed the date, however. ,
Naval prisoners at Portsmouth have been
detected in making their own "hootch," con
clusive proof that even imprisonment does not
dull the enterprise of the American sailor.
Announcement from Paris that Henry White
is the sole American commissioner on the job
recalls the forgotten fact that the president did
take "republican" with him when he set out
on hi crusade.
According to von Hindenburg, it was a
darned shame that all the world jumped on to
Germany when the kaiser and all his people
we to eager to keep the peace in 1914. So it
was, and Liege, Louvain and the Lusitania are
proof. '
Estimates have been made by the general
staff ai to the length of time, number of men,
etc, necessary to "successfully intervene" in
Mexico, but this does not mean that the gov
ernment will cease writing notes to the
Greasers.
Commercializing Gunman
Is no industry to be left free from the taint
of commercialism? .Time was when a thug
'hired to beat up or shoot a man made a simple
and straightforward job of it. The victim was
duly. "done up," the money was paid, and only
the principal and his agent were parties to the
transaction. But it seems that .thuggery too
has been corrupted by the introduction of
profiteering methods. The thug collects both
from his employer and from his intended vic
tim, and "nooody is hurt.' As the process is
explained by prisoners held as material wit
nesses in connection with the murder of a laun
dry man:
When a guy is hired nowadays to do up a
. guy ,he goes to the guy and tells him all
. about it They make a deal The guy who
was going to be done up decorates his mug
; with court-plaster, puts on a few bandages
and maybe wears one arm in a sling for a
0 few days. Then the strong-arm guy goes
around to the guy that hired him and fetches
him around to see the guy that was "beat
1 up." , That's all there is to it. The strong
arm guy collect, from both ends and no
body's hurt
u Thus have the old standards of crime itself
deteriorated under the debasing influence of
greed. Is there no honor even among crooks?
No doubt the arrangement is better for the ulti
mate consumer in this case, who saves a
broken head or worse. But when "strong-arm
guys" trt thuse false to the traditions of their
trade, trade derived from the mediaeval
bravo, where shall one look for honesty? New
yerk World, !
WHAT IS A CHURCH?
Some very interesting and comprehending
replies are coming in to The Bee from' its read
ers in response to the question, "What is i
Church?" The diversity of views expressed is
an encouraging element of the discussion, for
they disclose the operations of the minds and
indicate the habits of thought of those who
have written. These are valuable, because it is
upon them the conclusion finally must rest
It is clear that the church no longer is
regarded solely as a house for worship. That
function dominates, of course, for the mind of
man has not forsaken the fundamental require
ment of religion, his duty to God; he finds
opportunity in his daily walk for paying ration
al homage to his Creator, and for exemplifying
the teachings of true religion, and so is not so
deeply impressed with the necessity of giving
himself up on the seventh day of the week en
tirely to the things he has sought to put into
practice on the other six. He expects more
from the church than a comfortable pew during
divine services on Sunday.
Ministers of the gospel are interested in
this,' regardless of creed or sect. Not a church
council has come together within the last few
years but has devoted the greater part of its
time to consideration of this one overshadowing
question. It is not that religion is losing its
hold; the evidence is all to. the contrary. The
issue is whether the, church has met the require
ments of the people. Generally, the answe,r is
no; and to get out of the rut, to bring the ele
mental truths of existense to the fore, to restore
the church to its high place as an instrument
of service is the job before its leaders.
That "thinking men are earnestly approach
ing the question is the most hopefut sign. Big
otry and fanaticism will persist, but these
should not always clog the progress of religion,
pure and undented. Creeds and dogmas are not
so important as the central and enduring prin
ciples of morality, and the church that recog
nizes this earliest will be soonest at the goal
now sought.
Better Use of Fuel.
One fact the coal strike is driving home is
that our ways of using fuel are bad. This has
been preached to Americans for many years,
with only little heed being taken thereof. With
in a decade some improvement has been noted,
principally - because of the crusade against
smoking chimneys. When clouds , of black
smoke obscure the sky and pollute the air, the
worst offense is not against the esthetic, nor
even the physical well being. Dense smoke is
an unerring sign of incomplete combustion and
consequent waste. A properly constructed
furnace and a carefully tended fire is the reme
dy for this. ,
In other ways waste is practiced." Many
effective ways of using coal have been discov
ered, but few are put into service. Pulverized
coal gives greater heat and requires less fuel
to produce the same result, yet only here and
there 'throughout the land have plants been
equipped for such service. Early in 1917 ex
periments demonstrated that most of the vola
tile properties of coal could be extracted and
their value saved and a resultant fuel of higher'
effciency be had to sell at a price in advance
of the original cost,, yet no general advantage
has been taken of this discovery.
All through the long summer coal mines
were idle, because the large consumers did not
care to make provision againt winter demands
because of the expense and inconvenience of
storage. Accustomed to purchasing their sup
ply of fuel as needed, these concerns allowed
the winter to come on with only a limited
amount of fuel on hand. The strike has given
them a shock. It will be easy to determine
how far the loss incident to a shutdown will
offset the cost of a fuel storage plant.
These are but a few of the items involved
in our wasteful ways of using coal- Experience
should guarantee improvement. It is not so
much a question of conserving what is stored
in the ground as it is to get the most out of
the coal after it is brought to the surface.
Putting the Treaty Into Politics. .
With the same spirit of perversity that has
marked the course of the democrats from the
very beginning of the treaty discussion, Sena
tor Hitchcock deliberately distorts the state
ment of Senator Lodge with regard to the pos
sibility of the pact becoming a political issue.
Senator Lodge has said it might be made the
issue for 1920, if the president and his adherents
insisted on their attitude with reference to res
ervations. This will afford the only possible
course for getting the matter squarely before
the people of the United States. The president
has insisted, with no reason whatever, that the
people are enormously Jn favor of .his plan.
Wherever the. League of Nations has been an
issue in elections, the voters have decided
against it. Kentucky has elected a congress
man and a governor who stood openly opposed
to the league, while Oklahoma chose a republi
can congressman in a democratic district exact
ly on that issue. This does not support the
assertion continually coming from the White
House clique that the voters want the League
of Nations Mr. Wilson already has made it a
test of party faith. He demanded that senators
support his virws or count themselves false to
the party of which he is head. Nothing could
be more definite than his letter addressed o
the democrats in the senate. Thus the treaty
already is in politics, placed there by the demo
crats themselves, and Senator Lodge innovates
nothing in expressing a willingness to take, the
whole subject matter to the voters in the cam
paign in 192C.
Elusive "Bill" Carlisle.
Something in the career of the impudent
Wyoming train robber challenges thought It
seems incredible that this man could escape
from the penitentiary by the simple subterfuge
he employed, and with only a few hours inter
vening resume his occupation of banditry, rob
bing a guarded train at a time when posses
were supposed to be scouring the land in pur
suit of him. That exploit was brazen enough,
but its effrontery has been emphasized by his
conduct since. He has boldly entered cities,
exposed himself to arrest ent saucy and im
pertinent messages to the, authorities he has
flouted, and generally shown such lofty contempt
for the law and its agents as must astonish
those simple-minded people who have looked
on sheriffs and ohers of the sort as gifted with
the faculties and provided with facilities for
overhauling offenders. sI'Bill"'Carlisle is a liv
ing example of the ineffectiveness of our thief
taking system. He will be in time brought to
book, but for the moment his liberty is a re
proach to the government of at lea. one state.
Protecting Public Interest
From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
When the Kansas court appointed receivers
lor the idle coal mines, it gave representation
equally to the mine owners, the mine workers
and the public. That was an official recognition
of the fact that in all such controversies as are
new going on between workers and operators
of great basic industries, the interests of the
public in the sort of settlement made is at
least equal to the interest of the two contend-
in? parties. As a matter of fact the public in
terest is greater than that of either when coal,
fuel, clothing, transportation, etc., are affected
Hitherto conciliation boards appointed by state
governments or the federal government have
not represented the people in this sense. Their
sole purpose has been to compose the difficulty
between employer and employe in any possible
manner acceptable to both .of the contending
oarties. These agreements have not alwavs been
harmonious with the interests of the consuming
public and -of other industries than the ones
immediately affected.
It does not follow that the best settlement
of a controversy, or rather of conditions which
lead to a controversy, is a new wage scale.
More pay is the natural remedy the worker
sees for an insufficient income., Lower wages is
the natural resort of the employer who finds
his production cost too high. This may be so
because it is more direct, more easily seen and
done, than the making of changes in other con
ditions which would result in the workers get
ting more pay or having less expense or in the
employers being able to cut production cost,
It is in these ways of settling controversies
in some other way than by raising or lower
ine the wages that the public is the most in
terested. Let us take the coal controversy as
an instance. The miners are demanding a high
er daily wage because the present rate does
not afford them sufficient annual income, sucn
increase would raise the price of coal to every
industry and to every home in the United
States. There are possibly 500,000 miners who
would be tavorably artected by such an increase,
but there are 110,000,000 people who would be
unfavorably affected. There are perhaps 100,000
homes to which the increased pay would bring
a needed relief, but there are 200,000,000 homes
which would bear an added burden.
It) his address to the mining convention
Samuel O. Dunn, editor of Railway Age, said
that there has not been a time in the past
four years when the railroads could handle
the coal the mines would produce it the men
were given full time. Here is the chief factor
in a settlement ot the strike which win be
practically ingnored if the interests of the pub
lic are not specially reprcsenicu m me negotia
tions. More production and more cars is what
the interest of the public demands. The Esch
railroad bill has just been passed by the house.
It orovides for boards to settle controversies
on which the companies and the operatives
will be equally represented, but it makes no
like provision for representation of the whole
people, whose interests my be entirely ingnored
and be seriously and uniavoraDiy anectea.
There is a great undercurrent of sentiment
condemning strikes which constitute an assault
upon the public. That is the reason why the steel
strike is a failure and why the injunction against
the miners had such general approval, in spite
of the fact that injunctions are not considered
a desirable method of procedure in themselves.
The growing demand for protection of the
public interest should be satified by providing
for their reDresentation on all boards and at
all conferences where they are to be affected by
the conclusions reached.
Think Ahead
There is a proficient teacher of argument Jn
its various forms who instructs his pupils first
in the art of going over an opponents case,
giving it as liberal a survey as possible, with
a view to eliminating a good deal of it by sim
ply conceding as many points as can be conceded.
Those who are opposed to endangering the
peace treaty by amending it might profitably
apply this treatment to arguments of adherents
of the Shantung amendment.
The Japanese grab in the Shantung fenin-
sula. originally put through by Japanese im
perialists dickering in secret with Chinese dip
lomats and later secretly approved by the en
tenteall this before the United States as
sumed any responsibility for allied diplomacy
is indefensible, bo are all other violations ot
Chinese integrity by Japan and other powers in
the last 25 years. But what is done is done.
In signine the peace treaty the United states
will not be going on record as condoning the
Shantung deal. We shall be accepting as done
something which at the present juncture we
are unable to undo.
What we should interest ourselves with is
the prevention of similar steals in the future.
Boston Globe.
Ofte VELVET
HAMMERS
Bt) sArifmr brooks "Baker
GEORGE BRANDEIS.
Through long and broad experience he's
grown exceeding wise upon the mystic science
of the trade in merchandise. It looks so very
simple when we view it from outside, that as
an easy road to wealth it frequently it tried;
but ot the many ventures which have started
on the trail, a very small and thin per cent nave
lived to tell the tale.
He brings the fruit of human toil to serve
the human need, that he may fill our every
want with promptitude and speed. From many
hands in many lands his ample drafts are made,
to load the patient bearers in the caravans or
trade; and as he fills our swarming wants with
merchandise today, we do not stop to think
about its sources far away. ' . ' .
For his distinguished services in this dis
tinguished line he's reaped a crop of revenue
impressive, fat and fine. - He owns a string of
horses with inspiring pedigrees which few of
us could duplicate with any sort of ease; for
while the equine records show the true and
vital facts, our own involve unwritten and some
unofficial acts.
The Omaha Athletic club he fosters like a
pa, with checks as well as audible approval and
hurrah. His kindred in the woolly wild he loves
to hunt and shoot, for while he suitably admires
the smart and sprightly brute he likes to have
a piece of fur or pair of horns to boast, as well
as wild duck dinners with himself the happy
host.
Next Subject Jerry Howard.
rODAY
The Day We Celebrate.
- Lewis Clark Sholes, president of E. V. Sholes
company, insurance and rentals, born 1878.
bamuel b. Caldwell. Coal Hill Coke comoanv.
born in Omaha, 1875.
Sir George W. Buchanan. British ambassador
to Italy, born in Copenhagen 65 years ago.
Sir Frederick Haultain, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Saskatchewan, born in England. 62
years ago. '
Judge Ben B. Lindsev of Colorado, the father
of the juvenile court system, born at Jackson,
Tenn., 50 years ago. .
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Mr. Wright, newly appointed steward at Fort
Omaha, arrived to enter upon his duties.
The engagement was announced of Miss Anna
S. Plummer to Dr. Duryea, pastor of the First
Congregational church.
Mrs. Mayer was visiting Mrs. Dietz at the
Millard.
Miss Gertude Clark was visiting in Chicago.
Mr. M. J. Briggs, a member of a big creamery
syndicate in Washington, was in the city con
ferring with local capitalists in the matter of
establishing a big creamery in Omaha,' -
If He Doesn't Go to Swampscott.
, Boyd. Wis., Nov. 19. To the- Edi
tor of The Bee: Can It be possible
for the bands, of your city to turn
out to proclaim the return to Oma
ha 'of Senator Hitchcock during the
recess of congress? It dumfounds
the average citizen to be compelled
to realize that the great state of Ne
braska does select for the great of
fice of a United States senator, such
basswood material to represent.lt.
I feel' that that great state already
realizes its mistake and will apolo
gize at the very first opportunity
by the election of a representative
citizen.
JOHN U HUNTLT.
More Inside Irish Stuff.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 21. To the
Editor of The Bee: I appreciated
Mr. M'Chrystal's contribution in The
Bee and feel he should be congratu
lated, not only In possessing such
valuable inside Information concern
ing the machinations of the English
government In regard to Ireland, but
also upon the ease with which he
disposes of that government's pre
tensions. 1
For Instance, the same govern
ment, when It called for a conven
tion in Ireland "to consider and dis
cuss a measure of self-government
for that country," invited, according
to press reports at the time, par
ticipation by representatives of all
creeds, classes and shades of politi
cal opinion, the reason Sinn Felners
were not represented being simply
that they declined to have anything
to do with the convention. However,
Mr. McChrystal puts things in a dif
ferent light. He informs us that
the English government "chose the
members," thus implying that the
Sinn Feiners were not Invited at all.
Again, his information about the
private advice of a leading cabinet
minister to the Ulster Unionists, "to
stand to their guns," sounds correct,
although such advice, given to such
people, seems superfluous. At any
rate, the avowed object of calling the
convention, to Induce representatives
of the various Irish factions to get
together and frame a sort of consti
tution to which all could agree,
failed. Who will deny that the
British government deserves censure
for even broaching such an absurd
project?
The next bit of "Inside stuff con
cerns Lord Grey, whose object in
coming to this country is "to get an
Anglo-American alliance disguised as
a League of Nations put through."
Certainly such a piece of camouflage
would deceive most any one. But
Lord Grey, before sailing, insisted,
no doubt to make sure of his object,
that a new scheme for Irish self
government be brought forward, so
that he could "pretend to Ameri
cans that England was willing to
solve the Irish Question." Does any.
one suppose that England would"
really desire to get rid or wnat is
commonly supposed to be. her most
vnxfttious Droblem? She has only
to place the power of governing the
Irish people, including those who
nroved their loyalty to her in the
late war, Into the hands of a politi
cal party which represents a majori
ty of the Deooie. may De inai
this comparatively new political
nnrtv rose to influence on the crest
of a wave caused by agitation against
conscription, thus being due to wnat
has been called one of England's
blimdejrs, th.e same wave swamping
th old true and tried nationalist
party, which represented an Ireland
more moderate in both views and de
mands. But there is the fact at the
present time, the Sinn Fein party
commands the support of a majority
of the Irish people and England
finds herself stuck upon one of the
14 points. EDWARD HAY.
Worried by Extravagance.
nm.h, K'oh TMnv. 22. To the
Editor of The Bee: The proposed
nt Packard cars bv the
nffiMnia irmbM na wonder where
public extravagance is going to end.
If we had business men msieau ui
politicians running this city, the first
tkini. rhov nrnnlrl rin would be to
dispose of every automobile owned
by the city ana ouy r ora cms iui
the use of the city officials. They
rni ham a. (.Antral craraee under
city control, say In the basement of
the Auditorium or some duibi -venient
place. To discourage private
family use the cars would have
painted on them in large letters.
"City e omana. wnen any uij
official wanted a car all he would
i An nrnnlrl ha to call the ga
rage on the telephone and a car
would be sent up u mm
ri ha AYnected to drive it him
self. If we have any city official
who lacks Intelligence enough to
learn to drive a Ford car he should
be asked to resign. If we have any
city official who Is too proud to ride
in a Ford car ne snouiu oo yemni.i.o
tn use his Own private conveyance
-a MmrM avnansa
The Ford car Is now furnished
i.v, mu trrr una electric liKnis
and they have sedans for winter use.
?. i. viicrVi time for the officials of
Omaha to set an example and by a
sane and economical aaminisiraiion,
hasten the return to normal uraw.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
From 100,000 to, 400,000 pounds of
niir Intestines are exponea irom
China annually for use as sausage
casings.
TVio cereal cropa 01 me uniieu
States were worth over $7,000,000,-
000 to the farmers wno raised mem
in 1918. M ,
rnhlA advices rrom oona, euixana,
dated August 9, state that the na
tional bank rate of dollar exchange
has riseir to Zt leva Duymg ana n
leva selling.
Tha Caribbean coast or uoiomma
Is extremely unhealthy; tropical dis
eases of all sorts are prevalent and
there is much malaria, tropical ane
mia, dysentery, etc. Yellow fever is
constant menace.
SAID TO BE FUNNY.
I understand that you art la tha
movlea." ....
Not enougn 10 noiica.
How'a that?"
whan a street aeena la ahown Fm one
of the pedestrians." Birmingham Age-Herald.
The wav of the tranagressor la hard,"
said the paator, who was visiting the peni
tentiary. ..... a ... '
That s rigni, aareea xne convicx.
'Thev make you go to church every Sun
day in thla place." Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Cholly tried to kiss me. npset the
canoe, fell out, ruined his new suit and
waa nearly drowned. He's In the hospital
now. What should I do?" "I think you
should wo around and give him that kiss."
Kansas City Journal.
Farmer So you're an experienced
milker, hey? Now. which side uv a cow
do you set on when you milk herT"
Applicant for the Job Oh, I ain't a bit
particular it the cow ain't Buffalo Express.
'Is that hoy of yours learning to play
. . ',
'No." said the parent whom nothing
disturbs. "He practices quite some, but
I wouldn't say he was learning any to
apeak of." Washington Star.
Queer thing about religion."
What la lt7"
Tou never can tell what church a man
goea to by the way he acts downtown on
week days." Detroit Free Press.
1 have my opinion of the man who
would let his wlfs fire a furnace, re
marked the energetic citizen.
I have my opinion or me wire wno
would do that," replied the indolent man.
Eh?"
'She's a jewel." Birmingham Age-
Herald
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A Cocoon Hunt.
By Adella Belle Beard.
You do not carry a gun or game
bag on this hunt, nor do you bother
with a camera. All you need is a
pair of keen eyes to find your game
and a box, or paper bag in which to
bring home your specimens. They
must not be crushed or tichtlv
packed, therefore your pocket is not
a good place tor them.
The cocoons should be in the best
of condition at this time of the vear.
You will find them in the woods,
clinging tp branches of shrubs in
marshy places and along the road
side; plastered on board fences and
sometimes in hollow logs. Even on
our city trees you may come across
these little brown bags that hold
the small, sleepy thines which in
early summer will emerge gorgeous
winged creatures.
The Cecropia moth remember
the name which is one of the larg
est and handsomest of all our moths,
uses for blankets onlv the silk spun
from its own body. You may know
flne mnta-UKg
tha
the Cecropia cocoon it is quite large
by its being lashed its whole
length to whatever supports it
often to a twig of a maple or other
large shade tree and by its outer
coat, which looks as if made of dry
brown paper.
The cocoon of the beautiful, pale
green Luna moth, though incased in
two or three leaves, does not fasten
itself, as some others do, to the twig,
but when the leaves loosen and fall
it drops with them to the ground.
It is almost oval in shape, about two
inches long and is usually found un
der large trees like the oak, walnut
and hickory.
The cocoon, wrapped in several
leaves and hanging by a few silken
threads from a twig of the willow
tree, will probably be that of the
splendid Polyphemus moth (you can
remember that name, too), which
has little window-like spots on its
wings, clear and transparent as
glass.
Do not pull the cocoons oft their
twigs. Take twigs and all and put
them in a vase in a safe place where
they will have light and air, then
early in June watch for the moths to
come out. It is a wonderful sight.
Next week: "Cold Weather Birds."
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Paternal Sarcasm.
"Father," said young Jack Grab-
coin, "ever since you made me a
member of the firm you've been
looking troubled about something."
"Maybe I have, son."
"What's the matter, dad?"
"You are not applying yourself to
the business. I'm afraid a customer
will come in some day when I'm
out of the office and you won't even
be able to tell him what we are sell
ing." Birmingham Age-Herald.
Skillfully
DOT PUZZLE.
Making Maps.
BT HERMAN T. LUKENS
Francis W. Parker School.
To learn to use maps you must
make maps. Get a large map of
your home town and redraw it, mak
ing every measurement half the
length it is in the original. This
reduces its size to one-fourth. To
simplify the measuring draw two
straight lines at right angles, one
at the left margin and one along
the bottom. From these two lines
measure out to any point you want
to locate. It will be well to test tlie
accuracy of your Work as you pro
ceed by measuring from point to
point. ,
Get a large map of the United
States. With scissors cut it on the
state boundary lines. It is great
fun to learn to recognize the differ-
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ent states by their shapes and sizes.
Also it helps when you come to re
cite that geography lesson.
Get. some string, some small
wooden stakes, and a map of your
state. In your back yard or a field
stake out your state on a large scale
say an inch or a foot to a mile. Say
the scale of your map is fifty miles
to the inch. Thus if one boundary
line of your state measures four
inches on the map that means that
boundary line is 200 miles long. So
if you adopt the scale of one mile
per inch, when you stake down
your string along that boundary line
it would De iw incnes or 10 ieet o
inches long. You may have some
trouble laying out the curving lines
but if you are careful and frequently
measure between different points al
ready laid out and compare your
measurements with the distances
between the same points On your
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mobilised today.
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beep In aweaty transport holds that never
knew a breeze:
Pitching In the crow's-nest to the heave
nf evRrv awell.
Eyes astraln for perlscopeaj to blast 'em
into hell;
All the white-hot blazing day and all the
star-filled night,
Down the rolling ocean lanes and up Into
the fight
Where the world was riot and the sky
w.r one red ffleanr
Into all and through It all we've pecked
our little aream.
Straining at the packateps on a bellyful
of slum.
Hiking off the kilos with the head gone
queer and numD;
Crammed In crusty dugouts In the thun
dap of the line.
Snatching sleep In bunches from the
cootie on. the solne:
Dp In cobwebbed haymows over cows'
ana nene aoooe,
Lurching In the lorries down the rain'
washed, endless roads:
Through the aching winter months and
back across the foam.
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Noodle says, "I've losf my .
Won't someone help me to find it?"
Draw from one to two and so on to the end.
map you wilKnot go far wrong. -Ask
your teacher where to get a
large blank outline map of the
United .States. Get pictures from
every state of the union, number
them on the back, locate on the map
where they come from, and write
the number at that point. This will
help you to get4n idea ot what the
distant parts of the country look 1
like.
(Next week: "How to Use a Dictionary.")
Jsoys ana uinr newspaper cervice. '
Copyright. 1811, by. J. H.- Millar. - .
Fifty Years Old.
The Roman Catholic diocese of
Springfield, Mass., will celebrate its
semi-centennial next year.
Tankeeland la under foot and France Is
far away ,
Swinging down the eld main street, de
mobilized today.
Stewart M. Emery In the Home Sector.
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