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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY. JOURNAL f —— ATLANTA, GA., 5 NOXTH TOBSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter or the Second Class. JAMES B. GKAT, President and Editor. SUBSCBJPTIO3I PKICE. Twelve months .Six months Three months ’ C The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tues day and Friday, and is mailed by ths shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from .JI over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a stall of distinguished contributors, with strong depart ments of speeial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at evejy postvrtjee. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kimbrough. Charles H Wood lift and L. J. Farris. We wiU be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. MOTICL TO BUBSCBIBEM. 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Party lines were obliterated; the ordinary divisions of liberal and conservative melted away; potty politics slunk to Its kennel; patriotism be came practical; and with virtually one accord the Representatives granted the President the special authority he has asked, and so critically needs, to protect the nation’s imperiled interests. It is grat ifying to note that every member of the Georgia delegation in the House voted aye. In the earlier stages of the discussion, a num ber of Congressmen were rather dubious, concern ing the necessity or wisdom of a Food Contro 1 law. But as fact after fact came to light they realized the gravity of the conditions which speculators and monopolists have forced upon the country and Vie disaster which is Inevitable unless relief end protection are vouchsafed. Os this number e was Representative Gillett, Republican, of Massa-, chusetts. He said that when he first read the bill he was staggered by Its provisions. a ’ “I belong to that school.” he continued. “which believes in the law of supply and de mand. but it now is obvious that the law of supply and demand will not meet this situa tion. The demand is far greater than the supply and the demand, will continue. Hoard ers can demand any price they please. There is a new situation in which my old beliefs do not apply.” The case of Mr. Gillett is that of scores who In ordinary times would not dream of centering in the Government the powers which they now grant willingly because a crisis involving the nation’s security and the people’s subsistence demands IL In the teeth of this emergency, mere theories be come meaningless and insistence upon - particular privileges at the risk of the common country be comes treasonable. The almost unanimous vote by which the bill passed the House is a cheering omen of its suc cess in the Senate. It is important, however, that the same forces of public opinion which fought for this legislation in the House continue fight ing for it tn the Senate. This is a matter in which we dare not take any chance, and in which any dplay is dangerous. The clutch of the food gamblers is at the country’s throat. During the past five months, according to con servative estimates, speculators have robbed the American people of two hundred and fifty million dollars In the price of flour, and of vast sums in other staples. Flour has been selling at fourteen dollars a barrel on the average and at fifteen dol-j lars in many places, when the highest prices paid the farmer for his wheat and the most liberal al lowance for the cost of milling, transportation and rightful profits warrant a price of only nine dol lars a barrel.. Who gets that enormous excess? The farmer doesn’t get a penny of it; the honest manufacturers and merchants do not get a penny of it. The only persons who share in that blood money, wrung from human hardship and suffering, are the bloated, greedy speculators and monopolists who would sell the Kaiser their nation’s very birthright. It Is to end this unjust and perilous state of affairs that the Food Control bill is designed; and the sooner the measure is in operation, the better for the people’s practical interests and for their supreme interests in the war. To Protect the Loyal Many Against the Treasonable Few. Regarding the continued advance in prices, the Manufacturers Record observes that while con diuors of supply and demand are responsible in a large measure, it is nevertheless true that some persons and interests are taking advantage of the situation to put prices far beyond what they ought to be. Then follows this sound and pa triotic, bit of reasoning: / ‘ln this time of war. instead of a scram ble being made by people to enlarge their profits, the effort of the country should be to maintain business activity with a minimum of profit as compared with the volume of trade. This is not a time for gouging, not a time when a man should expect to make more than normal profits. . . There never was a time in the world’s history when unselfish devotion to the welfare of the republic was more need ed than at present, and when men should for get themselves in seeking to advance the na tion’s welfare and the saving of civilization.” That is good sense as well as good senti ment; and it is the attitude, we believe, of the great majority of the country’s business concerns as well as of the rank and file of the people. It is only here and there that one finds the money gThttons who would rob the public and imperil the nation’s very existence in order to brim their own flesh pots. That such persons exist how ever, and are scheming to advance prices to still more extortionate lengths next winter, is not to be denied. The problem and duty of the hour is to stop their atrocious scheme before it goes any further. And that is the object of the Food Con trol bill pending in Congress. In his recent statement to the Senate Mr. Her bert’ Hoover, whom the President has selected for the post of food administrator, said that in re peated conferences he had held with farmers' or ganizations, millers, packers and merchants he had found “the sense of national service predom inant;’’ but, he added, “even the majority would be powerless to eliminate bad practices unless a law to govern the situation were in existence.’’ Once enacted and fairly in effect, the Food Con trol law will operate without friction as far as legitimate, patriotic business interests are con cerned. Indeed, it will help those interests by protecting them, along with the consumers, against monopolists and speculators. Merely as a stabilizer of prices and a preventive against vio lent fluctuations, a system of food control by the Government would be of great value to business. The Administration will depend on enlightened and loyal public sentiment in effecting economies in the use of food, and will administer the greater part of the entire system on a basis of voluntary co-operation. Just what’ is meant by "voluntary co-operation,” Mr. Hoover explained in answering Senator Reed’s question, how he would handle a thousand bushels of wheat bought in North Dakota and shipped to Chicago? The substance of his reply was this: “The first matter would be transportation, the rates of which are fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, consequently there was no problem there. A proper milling cost would be fixfld by the millers themselves by > agreement with the Government, voluntary on their part and sufficiently remunerative to be satisfactory without extortion. The same agreement as to profit would be made with the Association of Wholesalers. It was not in tended, however, to fix the price at which the retailers should sell, but the Government would publish at certain distributing centers the standard of prices showing what the flour cost at retail, and public pressure would do the rest.” / These plans for voluntary co-operation will work out satisfactorily provided there is a law to forcer the unpatriotic minority into line. But' it would be unfair and altogether profitless to attempt to bring the majority up to certain standards of prices and methods of dealing if food pirates and brigands were left unrestrained. There must be definite measures carrying definite penalties to reach monopolists who hoard foodstuffs and to reach all the criminals who gamble with those necessaries on which the lives of millions of people an’d the security of the nation itself depend. This is due the consumer whose very subsistance is involved; it is due the producer, whose interests so often are at the mercy of speculators; it is due the honest merchant, who wants to make only a legitimate profit but who is powerless when the gamblers are in control; and it is due the great cause for which our country is fighting and on which our national destiny is staked. The basic purpose and basic necessity of Food Control legis lation is to protect the loyal many against the treasonable few. On that issue, there can be but one truly American course to pursue. Siefansson’s Arctic Adventures. The return to Greenland of the MacMillan ex pedition, which sailed from New York in July, 1914, for adventures in the Far North, gives,renewed in terest to the whereabouts of VilhjaJmar Stefansson, who heads the only party of explorers now in the Arctic seas. It was four years ago on June the seventeenth that Stefansson embarked, at Victo ria. B. C., upon a voyage that has been singularly hazardous and picturesque. Os his original forty three companions and followers, fourteen are known to have perished from exposure or disease, and several others have been lost in the vast ice wastes. In its earlier stages the expedition di vided into northern and southern parties, Stefans son going north on the steam whaler Karluk to seek new land beyond the mouth of the Mac kenzie river. The other party, headed by Dr. Ru dolph M. Anderson, proceeded toward the Coro nation Gulf country east of the Mackenzie delta to make scientific surveys, with particular reference to geology and biology, and also to study the blue eyed Eskimos of that region. Stefansson's ship became ice-clutched in the autumn of 1913. With four of the crew he went ashore to hunt caribou for winter meat. A few weeks later the Karluk was forced westward and finally, in January, 1914, was destroyed by ice near Wrangell Island, north of Siberia. The sur vivors were rescued some months later by a ves sel sent to Wrangell Island for that purpose. In the meantime Stefansson and his associates, mov ing eastward along tjje shore of the Arctic, came upon the Anderson party, which had gone into winter headquarters west of the mouth yf the Mac kenzie. Dr. Anderson reported,. upon his return from the Arctic last year, that Stefansson intend ed passing the winter of 1916-17 at Winter Har bor, Melville Island, and then, as soon as the ice should break, "to head eastward (in a motor ves sel which he had purchased after the loss of the Karluk) in an effort to accomplish the northeast passage and end his adventures with an ascent of the St. Lawrence River to Montreal.’’ Writing to Rear Admiral Peary from Banks Island on Jan uary 11, 1916, Stefansson said: “Should you not hear from us by Novem ber, 1917, it is to be presumed that some thing beyond our control has delayed us. I am of the opinion that in the spring of 1918 a ship, or ships, should be sent north from the Atlantic to look for us if we’ have not been heard from then.” The southern party of the Stefansson expedi tion brought back a large and valuable collection of birds, animals and photographs, and made im portant surveys on the Arctic mainland coast of Canada, from Cape Perry to Pathurst Inlet. In Bathurst Inlet one hundred and fifty islands were mapped, where formerly only three were indi cated. Researches on Victoria Island led to high ly interesting discoveries concerning Eskimo mi grations, customs and language. Stefansson him self is expected to bring back additional knowl edge of much importance. Tidings of his where abouts will be eagerly awaited, and if by next au tumn nothing is heard from him a relief ship will be sent forward in the following spring. j4s to Freight Rate Increases. In the midst of the ’effort to obtain national legislation to protect the country against extor tionate prices, the railroads rise to ask for a fif teen per cent increase in their freight rates, on both interstate and Intrastate transportation. We are now concerned particularly with the petition of the railroads of Georgia, asking a flat increase of fifteen, per cent on all rail shipping between points within this State. The case is set for argument before the State Railroad Commission on July 17, and by virtue of its far-reaching importance to the people’s interests it merits their earnest atten tion. There could be only one ground on which to justify so great an increase in freight rates at this juncture, and that would be the ground of na tional necessity. Whatever is needful to the na tion’s security and effectiveness for the war is war ranted, regardless of the cost. If a five hundred per cent rate advance were necessary to enable the railroads to serve the Government and the people efficiently in these crucial times, then a five hun dred per cent advance should be granted. But on the same broad ground of national interest, a rate advance of one per cent or of one-hundredth of one per cent would be a wrong, and a very serious wrong, against the Government and the.people of the. United States unless it were needed unmistak ably and imperatively. Transportation is one of the necessities of life, as much so as food or clothing. To raise the cost of transportation is to raise the cost of living. An increase of fifteen per cent in the interstate and intrastate freight rates on grain and meat and fuel and machinery and hundreds of other basic commodities would mean a material demand upon the already straitened income of the average fam ily. While we are appealing to Congress for pro tection against the monopolists and speculators who arbitrarily put up the price of food it will be well to scrutinize the petition .of the railroads who are seeking to put up the price of transportation. Are they trying to add hundreds of millions of dollars to thb cost of freight, and hence to the cost of living., because national service demands it, or simply because they want the money? This is largely a question of fact, to be deter mined by a careful investigation, of railroad earn ings and expenses; and none but competent judges with the entire record before them could presume to speak on this point with finality of opinion. There are certain broad aspects of the situation, however, that will not fall to impress any fair minded observer. Consider, for example, the fact that while the railroads are asking for rate in creases which, according to the estimate of somq shippers, would amount to approximately a billion dollars a year, their present earnings, and their ac cumulated surplus earnings are the greatest lu their history. The detailed figures are presented in the news columns of today’s (Journal and we commend them to the attention of everyone who is interested in this important matter, either per sonally or as a citizen jealous of his country’s well being. Suffice it at this point to note that the rail roads operating in Georgia earned in the year 1916 net incomes which represented increases ranging from fifty to eighty per cent over the pre ceding year, and that their net earnings for the first five months of 1917 are considerably larger than for the same period of 1916, which marked a pinnacle of prosperity. It is in the light of these figures that we should view the railroads’ statement that their increased operating expenses demand an increase in transportation charges to safeguard their ef ficiency and credit. Undoubtedly their operating expenses have increased In the last few years. What line of industry or business has not seen its operating expenses mounting? For institutions as for individuals, the cost of .living has kited. But whereas the earnings of most individuals and of many institutions have stood still or advanced but slightly, the net earnings of the railroads have gone forward beyond precedent. Unless, then, their increased expenses are incredibly great, they are pursuing a policy of selfish gain instead of generous patriotism in seeking to extract from the pockets of an already burdened people an addi tional sum of a billion dollars a year. 'This is no time for selfish gain at the expense of the common good; certainly it is no time for greed on the part of interests already fat with prosperity. If the railroads cannot subsist and cannot meet the nation’s needs on their present income, to gether with their accumulated surplus, then they should be allowed a fate increase. But before ac cepting that marvelous theory, the Railroad Com mission. we take it, will require confirmations "strong as proofs of Holy Writ.” QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES. "I want you,” said the fair society leader, “to give me a plain opinion as to my latest photograph." “Madame," - said the gallant cavalier, bowing, “to speak irf plain terms of that portrait would be impos sible.” A young man not particularly entertaining was mo nopolizing the attention of a prety debutante with a lot of uninteresting conversation. “Now, my brother,” he remarked in the course of a dissertation on his family, “Is just the opposite of me in every respect. Do you know my brother?” “No,” the debutante replied, demurely, “but I should like to.” • • • Pestered by the ever-advancing cost of living, and determined to exercise a protective vigilance in the future even in small matters, the customer picked up a knife from the counter and handed it to the butcher with a friendly smile. “I don’t really want It,” he said, "but if you will cut It off I will take it along with the rest." “Cut what off?” demanded the butcher in blank surprise. “Your hand,” was the gentle reply. “You weighed it with the sausages, and I like to get what I pay for.” PRICES IN EUROPE Statistics compilea by a European neutral show that since the beginning of the war prices in gen eral have risen on the following basis: England, 34 per cent; France, 5 to 55 per cent; Germany, 76 per cent. This rise in Germany cuts the pur chasing power of a giv'en amount of money almost in half. The rise in prices in each instance has been in spite of government regulation, which in some cases is very stringent. Editorial Echoes. Sooner or later the time must come when the University of Georgia will be open to women. The vote of the trustees Saturday afternoon on the question of their admission stood eight for admitting them and twelve to keep them barred out, a vote which shows that even among the trustees themselves sentiment is strong in favor of making the university eo-educational. What ever difficulties are in the way of extending the facilities of the institution to women must be removed, and will be removed some day. Georgia owes a great deal to her women of the past, is incurring a new debt to the women of the present every day and is bound to owe much of her future greatness to the women of her future, and she should remove obstacles in the way of their better preparation for her service whenever she can.—Sa vannah Morning News. SAVING SUMMER FOODS. lll.—Preserving Meat and Fish. By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12. —There is another way in which, you can work patriotically this summer for next win ter's food supply besides preserving fruits and vegetables. You can salt some fish, and. can as much meat and soup as your storing space will hold. • • • It sometimes happens that a man goes fishing and is lucky. Not often, but occasionally. He may catch more fish than the family can eat at one meal, and, as a rule, the surplus goes into the garbage can—unless there is a fish-eating neighbor on hand. The government does not ad vocate stinginess with the neighbors, but it does advocate stinginess with the garbage can- It is your duty to the nation to salt your extra fish. • A • Now picture the American housewife going marketing. She buys a roast of beef, groaning inwardly as she notes the price. The butcher then inquires if she desires the bones that he has carefully removed from the roast in dressing it. She frowns, registering heavy thinking for a sec ond, and then decides she doesn’t. She never did like soup in hot weather! And so, she pays for three-quarters of a pound of roast which she does not get. This is the sort of thing which has earned for us our reputation for extravagance, and it' is the sort of thing which the government is trying to overcome. Every woman is admon ished to can or to make into soup any spare pieces ‘of meat that cannot be used in the day’s menu. ♦ • ♦ Canned roast beef for example, is a very con venient food to have on the pantry self in winter. The same method is used in canning meats as in canning fruits and vegetables, only in the case of beef it must be blanched for a half hour instead of a few minutes. It should then be cut’ into small pieces; the gristle, bone and excessive fat removed, and then packed into jars. Gravy from the roasting pan is the best liquid in which to pack it, but pot liquid—concentrated to one-half its volume—may also be used. After the jars are filled they should be sterilized for four hours in a home-made canning outfit or for one and a half hours in a steam-pressure kettle generating fif teen pounds of pressure. ♦ • • When the sterilization process is completed, remove the jars, invert to cool and test the joint, and wrap them in paper to prevent, bleaching. • * • What applies to amat’eur fishing also applies to amateur hunting- If a man succeeds in killing more wild ducks than his family can eat, his wife should can them. The canning should be done as soon as possible after the fowl is killed, however. The first step is to draw the bird, wash it care fully and put it aside, to cool. Then cut it into convenient sections, place in a wire basket or a cheesecloth bag and boil until the meat begins to fall away from the bones. Remove the meat from the bones and place it in the glass jars, cov ering it with a not liquid, after it has heen con centrated one-half; add a level teaspoonful of salt to each quart of meat, and partially seal the jars. Sterilize for three and a half hours in a home made outfit and one hour in a steam-pressure cooker generating fifteen pounds of pressure. Fol low the same in regard to inverting the jars and wrapping them in paper. This last procedure should never be omitted in canning any kind of product. For a family that likes soup with its dinner, the home-made product constitutes a saving. If the lady who bought the roast at the beginning of this article had t’aken the bones and made soup stock out of them, adding a couple of pota toes and carrots, and had canned that soup stock, she might have had soup for four or five meals the following winter. But you do not have t'o buy a roast in order to get soup materials. You can buy beef hocks, joints and bones containing mar row at a low price. Inasmuch as the cansing process requires a good deal of time, .it is better to buy large quantities at one purchase. Ten pounds, for instance, is a good amount to buy. The first step is to strip off the fat and meat and crack bones with a hat'chet or cleaver. The broken bones should be put in a thin cloth sack fcnd placed in a large kettle containing two gallons of water, where they should be allowed to simmer— not’ boil —for six or seven hours- This should make about two gallons of stock. Sterilize forty THE VOCATIONALLY SAFE. BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE. YOUNG man, you who have just ended your school days and must now choose some vocation, by what principles do you intend to be guided in making your choice? Are you chiefly intent on engaging in work that is likely to give you "social standing?” Is your v Inclination swayed in favor of this or that calling by the fact that it offers "big money” as an ulti mate reward? Or do you merely desire to find a "short hour” occupation? These are considerations which have been de cisive in influencing the vocation choice of many young men. . I hope they will not be decisive in your case. For the fact is that, however attractive any vocation may seem from these points of view, it will be the wrong vocation for you to choose unless you are naturally fitted for it. This should be the supreme consideration In your mind. It is because so few young men let it be the supreme consideration that the world 19 full of old men who have to confess themselves failures. Every vocation calls for special qualities in those who choose it. Lacking these qualities they cannot make much headway. They will be fortunate if they earn a thin living. If in salaried positions they will be for tunate to hold their places. Having chosen fool ishly, they will forever be vocationally unsafe un less they make a second and a wiser choice. "But,” you may pretest, “I am young, strong, ambitious, earnest, faithful, free from bad habits. Should not all this be enough to qualify me for success in any vocation?” It will certainly help you to do well in any voca tion. Yet, for real success, you must be so con stituted that you can meet the special demands the chosen vocation imposes. How, then, should one proceed when vocation choosing? Let us suppose that law as a vocation appeals to you, just as it appeals to thousands of young men planning a career. Don’t make their mistake of deciding without due reflection to be a lawyer. Go talk with an already successful lawyer as to the characteristics essential for success in the prac tice of law. Then sit down and calmly and can didly ask yourself if you possess the characteristics he emphasizes. It may be that you are short only in charac teristics which you can develop by careful self training. In that case, you need not hesitate as to your choice. But be entirely honest with yourself. As a help read carefully some one of the mod ern practical books on vocation choosing—some book like H. W. Merton's "How to Choose the Right Vocation.” You will find in such a book suggestions that should be of great benefit to you. Study yourself physically as well as mentally and morally. Some vocations make demands of a physical sort that may be beyond your powers. To be on the safe side, have a talk with your family doctor. In fine, make vocation choosing what it ought to be —a subjeet for the most serious thought. Don't jump eagerly for the first job that pre sents itself. But neither let such things as finan cial returns, social prestige, or ease of labor govern your choice. Seek carefully to choose from among all voca- minutes, and pack according to the same direc tions. • * • If to this soup stock you add vegetables, it makes a delicious vegetable soup. A recipe for vegetable soup, compiled by the department of agriculture, and used extensively in the canning clubs throughout' the rural districts of the country, calls for a quarter of a pound of lima beans, one pound of rice, a half pound of pearl barley, a zjund of carrots, one pound of onions, one medium sized potato, one red pepper, one-half pound of flour, four ounces of salt and five gallons of soup stock. First soak the lima beans and rise for twelve hours. Cook the barley for two hours. 1 he rest of the vegetables should be blanched in boiling water and then dipped in cold water. Then mix all the materials together and fill the jars. •Make a smooth paste of one-half pound of wheat flour and stir in the soup stock, boil for three minutes and add the salt. Pour this over the vege tables and partially seal the jars. Sterilize for ninety minutes in a home-made outfit. If you use a smaller quantity of soup stock cut down the amount of vegetables accordingly. • • * In addition to preserving food by drying and canning, there is the salting process which is usual ly satisfactory only with fish and a few meats. Fresh fish are in the market all the year round at a much lower price than good cuts of meat, so that the salting of fish is probably not an im portant measure of economy unless you catch the fish jourself or happen to live in a coast town where fish may be bought for a very low nrice direct from the fishermen. In a small resort town along the Maryland coast last summer, for ex ample, fish could be bought for a few cents as they were brought in by professional fishermen. The same fish when packed in ice and shipped to Balti more and V ashington brought eighteen or twenty cents,a pound. If you can buy fish at a low price and salt it for the following winter, the saving is considerable. • • • In salting fish a great deal of care should be taken in the preliminary preparation. If a fish is large, has soft fins, small scales and thin skin it should be scaled but not skinned. Next, remove the head and viscera. Also remove as much of the backbone as possible and the tail. Then, if the fish is too large to go into the container, cut it to. the proper length. • • • In regard to slender fish, such as mackerel, whiting and large herring, the directions given by the United States bureau of fisheries are as fol lows: "Split down the back to one side of the backbone for the entire length, leaving the belly walls uncut. The backbone need not be removed. Smaller fish of the same character need not be split, but should be carefully eviscerated. Coarse scaled, thick-skinned, spiny-finned fishes like black bass and perch, should be skinned, and unless large and thick meat'ed, need not be split.” a a a After thoroughly preparing the fish, washing them in water containing a little salt and being careful to remove the blood near the backbone, they are ready for curing. A tight keg or barrel is better for this than anj’ other kind of a con tainer. Under no circumstances use a tin con tainer- Place a thick layer of coarse salt on the bottom of the barrel, on the top of which spread a layer of fish one deep. Sprinkle this layer well with salt, and then add another*layer of fish, and so on until the barrel is filled or until your supply of fish is exhausted. A strong brine will form from the salt and moisture of the fish, in which they should be left for a week or ten days. • • • They are then washed, repacked in a freshly made brine strong enough to float a fresh egg. After a week, this second brine should be drawn off and the barrel filled with a "saturated brine.” This means a brine in which a few grains of salt' will be seen on the bottom after a long period of stirring. When the fish are packed in this third brine and the barrel thoroughly tested for leak age. they are ready to be stored in the cellar or some very cool place. • • • The success of the salting process depends upon the freshness of the fish used; the careful salting and mixing of the brine, and the efficiency of the barrel, which should be tight and hold, enough brine to keep the fish covered. WE’VE GOT HIS NUMBER. BY DR. FRANK CRANE. THERE’S no use of Mr. Hohenzollern carrying on any further, really. He has only a few months to run. His date is set. We’ve got his number. That’s why. A friend of mine who is strong on prophecy has been rummaging around in the oracles and has found out just who William K. Hohenzollern is, and why. Also when he is going to get his. There are few things you cannot prove by the Scriptures, if you set yourself to it. When I was a boy the Millerites had the time of the end of the world all figured out. On the day fixed they settled up their worldly affairs and adjourned to a hill where they could have front seats when the Day of Judgment opened up. They were thus at a great advantage over the unbelievers who went on with their chores as per usual. The* affair did not come off according to sched ule, but that was no fault of theirs. They had used the wrong time-table. There is a sect that predicted the end of the world in 1914, and I knew’ a man who sold his farm in Illinois and w’ent out to Colorado to be ready for the grand smash-up. These believers came pretty close to making a good guess, too. If it wasn’t the Pay of Judgment that hit us in 1914 it was a little to<f much like it for comfort. But to return to Mr. H. My friend writes me and says that if we will read the lourth, fifth, and eighteenth verses of the thirteenth chapter of Rev elation we will find out just where William the Terrible is going to get off. These verses run as follows (in case you do not have your Bible handy): , Fourth —And they -worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast; and thev worshipped the beast, saying: Who is like unto the beast? W’ho is able to make war with him? Fisth —And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. Eighteenth—Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man and his number is six hundred threescore and six. Now, when this wa started William was fifty years and six months old. That is, 666 months! • Figures cannot lie. You cannot escape the conclusion that the original and only genuine 666 is Mr. Hohenzollern. because he is so feelingly and fitly described in verses four and five. He is going to last for forty-two months. There is therefore no need of speculating as to when the war will end. It began in August. 1914, and it will close in just forty-two months from that time —that is. in February, 1918. for it plainly says in verse five that power was given to the beast to continue forty and two months. (Copyright. 1917, by Frank Crane.) tions the one for which you actually are best fitted by nature and education. This is the one sure way to make yourself vocationally safe In the years to come. (Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers.)
