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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ( —ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoftice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months•'‘^ c Six months*? c Three months • 2oC The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the short est routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. * Agenl3 wanted at every postoffice.* Liberal commission allowed. Outfit free. rite R. R BRADLEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. Charles H. Wood liff, J. M. Patten. W. H. Reinhardt, M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible only for muney paid to the above named travel ing representatives. ' NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label nsed for addr-raiaz your paper yotr .übseripttoa expire* By renex.ior at tost two weete Be fore the 4ate on this Übel. you innure regular , Ta <rderinc pei*r rbaaged. he sure to mention rour l well a* your r.ew address. If on a ronte. pietire fire the route BU *We r 'eaaEOt enter «ob*criptK»t* to begin with Remittanee* s’jxult’ be sent by postal order or rystored mail Addreca all frder* and notice* for this Depnrlmei t to IBs SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. I‘he Journal’s Service Flag In honor of the seventy-three Atlanta Journal men who have entered the service of their country. The two white stars are in menu..; of Captain Meredith Gray and Captain James S. Moore, Jr., Journal men, who gave their lives for our country in France. Bulgaria s Surrender. Both as a token of German weakness and as a fresh fulcrum for allied strength. Bulgaria s sur render marks a highly significant turn in the war. But to consider it more than this, to regard it as the middle or even the beginning of the last act would be extremely hazardous. Since the launching of the great Entente offen sive in Macedonia the wires between Berlin and Sofia have been burning, we may be sure, with feverish orders and appeals. Germany, perceiving at the outset the perilous chances of the situation, bade Bulgaria hold fapt and promised reinforce ments. to be sent as speedily as other imperative calls would allow. She had every reason to help the Bulgars as promptly as possible and to the limit of her available reserves, for she saw anx iously enough the dangerous conseque ces that would follow the fall of her Balkan accomplice. She saw the closing of her highway to Constanti nople, the re-welding of the iron ring which she broke through in the autumn of 1915, the renewal of the threat of invasion byway of Austria’s back door. And beyond these imminent pefils she saw her towering dream of Mittel-Europa topple and fade like a palace of clouds; saw*her vision ot riches and gorgeous dominion in the east dissolve into thin air. Germany's every interest, both imme diate and ultimate, urged that she do her utmost to prevent Bulgaria s collapse. Why, then, were the needed reinforcements* not duly forthcoming? The obvious answer bears impressive witness to Germany's declining man power. She did not send reinforcements, critically needed though they were, because she dared not spare them from the western front. For the first time, her maneuverable re serves have proved quite unequal to the exigencies of the war—a fact too strikingly significant to call for comment. But we should emphatically reject the tempting and hazardous assumption that since Germany failed to stem disaster in the Balkans she is on the brink Os final defeat in the west. It is more rea sonable and certainly far safer to regard her treat ment of the eastern problem as evidence of deter mination to fight her utmost and to the last trench in the all-decisive western field.* She has done, in her besetting circumstances, the most prudent thing she could do; seeing the inevitable in the Balkans, she left Bulgaria to fate, and fell to preparing with redoubled energy and concentration for the defense of her own borders. She was forced to choose be tween two dangers, both of which loomed darkly enough; but unquestionably she chose the lesser. And as a result she is better buttressed for the titanic struggle along the Rhine than if she had diverted large forces to the east, even though by taking the latter course she had succeeded for a reason in staving off Bulgaria’s collapse. We say this, not to minimize the importance of the allies’ Balkan victory, for it is manifestly one of the major de velopments of the entire war. but to caution against excessive optimism at this critical juncture. The fjght for freedom and humanity will not be won until Germany is beaten into unconditional sur render, and as far as we now can observe, she is certainly far from that point. Her morale is weak ening, but by no means broken. Her situation is extremely grave, but not yet desperate enough to wring from her the cry of the conquered. Her fighting powers are severely tested, but her cunning and treachery are more than ever alert, more than ever resolved to win by some subtle peace maneu ver if success by arms grown utterly hopeless. It is imperative, therefore —more so now than ever— that we beware of German deception and steel our wills to fight on until the Hun is crushed complete ly and forever. Bearing in mind this caution, however, we may well rejoice in Bulgaria's surrender as giving the Allies a powerful upperhand in the East and a reinforced assurance of complete victory if they fight and labor unswervingly for that end. There is ample ground for. the prediction, freely made in London and Paris, that Turkey’s capitulation is now merely a matter of time, and. probably not a great while at that. Isolated from Teuton support, which she can receive only byway of Bulgaria, and staggered by the disastrous defeat of her armies in Palestine, Turkey sees “destiny unshunnable*’ coming darkly upon her. Whatever strategems she may try. her only ultimate recourse, it would seem, is to throw herself upon Allied jus- THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918. I tice, surrendering unconditionally as Bulgaria did. That means, of course, the complete insulation of the Central Powers; and with Germany and Aus tria-Hungary left alone in the criminal alliance, Austria-Hungary will well-nigh certainly follow the toboggan of the Bulgar and the Turk, it is obvious, indeed, that the Bulgarian debacle, together with the developments likely to grow out of it—such for example as the restoration of Serbia and Ru mania—will expose tottering Austria to invasion from the rear. Probably, too, the present turn in the Balkans will put new heart and fire into the anti- Bolshevik and anti-German elements in Russia. It is possible that the Slavic peoples within the Dual Monarchy itself will be kindled to revolt. In i deed, when we come to the possibilities of the situa- I tlon, there is scarcely an end. But as we cherish 1 the principles for which we fight, we dare not let the favorable prospect in the East, which after all is a minor field, abate one jot of our determina tion or effort to crush treacherous and resource ful Germany to unconditional surrender. Perils of a Negotiated Peace. Because the American people do not wish to begin feverish preparation for another world war Immediately upon the conclusion of this one; be cause they do not wish to sit at a bargain table with the treacherous Hun to trade and haggle for the vindication of their cause; because they do not wish to lose or hazard the glorious chance to make the dream of democracy a fact and the dream of enduring peace a reality; because as Americans they cherish their own country’s free dom and honor, and as lovers of justice cherish the rights of mankind, they insist that Prussian ism shall be beaten into unconditional surrender and dealt unsparing justice for its criminal deeds. It is no flame of mere war-anger that has steeled the will of Americans and their Allies against a negotiated peade; it is the settled con viction that a negotiated peace would be simply a Prussian truce, a Hohenzollern trick. Every chap ter in Germany’s war record admonishes us against leaving to negotiation any right that we wish her to respect, or any wrong that we insist upon her redressing. Ought the countries that she has pillaged and tortured have reparation? Ought the property that she has stolen be restor ed? Ought the laws that she has flouted be made binding upon her? If these matters are to be determined aright, they must be determined be fore the Allied bayonet is lifted from the Prus sian outlaw's throat. There is nothing debatable in the major issues of this war, nothing to be conceded or compro mised. There are great corollary problems, it is true, which must be solved at a conference table; such problems, for instance, as those inherent in the establishment of an international league for the maintenance of peace. But fundamental to all these questions is the crushing of that brutal au tocracy with which there can be nq broad comity among nations, no lasting peace among men. Our Future Potash Supply. In discussing the future of America's potash supply Mr. Linn Bradley, the chief engineer of in dustrial interests which are making extensive re searches along this line, says that Georgia affords certain sericites and Cambrian slates that are notably rich in potash,-“some deposits analyzing as high as eight and nine per cent.’’ These stores, if they can be made available, will be of especial value because, as he points out, they are in the heart of the cotton-growing region where the need of potash for fertilizers is most insistent. Some time ago the State Geological Survey reported the occurrence, in the Piedmont plateau, of mica* and feldspar deposits containing from five to fif teen per cent of potash. Every promising source of this mineral is like ly to be exploited in ordef that we never again may be constrained to import it from Germany. England has been markedly successful of late tn recovering potash from blast-furnace gases. She will eventually procure in this manner, Mr. Linn predicts, enough potash to exceed her entire pre war importation from Germany. By the same or similar processes American furnaces will be en abled to convert waste gases into this valuable product. It seems indeed that encouraging ’ progress in * hat field of conservation has already been made. We should see to It, warns the Savannah Press, that Germany does not beat down this new in dustry after the war. That she will do her ut most by hook and crook and cut-throat competl .tion to undermine the enterprise, is foregone. But, as the Press remarks, “If the American peo ple permit themselves again to be caught in the gras- of the German potash barons, they will have only themselves to blame.” The Hun will fish in vain, we believe, for the recovery of his American trade. - ■ ♦ What Shall We Answer? ■'While we Americans, more or less com fortably, are debating how much we can spare for Liberty Bonds, Belgians are looking with dread to h winter of little food, scanty clothing and almost no heat.” These words from a staff correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise Association picture the pathetic difference between a land where the tyrant Hun confiscates, or steals, whatever he wishes, and a land whose Government appeals to its free citizens to lend it money at four and a quarter per cent. The Belgian is allowed half a pound of bread a day; and this, eked out by a few potatoes, constitutes his staff of life. As for clothes: “They are becoming almost impossible to procure. Long ago textiles in the factories and big stores were seized, and then those in the small shops. Individuals were forced to give up part of their clothing, which was sent to Germany; wool in any form was forcibly taken.” Last win ter coal sold' in Brussels at more than fifty dollars a ton, and the use of wood as fuel was prohibited because the Hun army wanted the timber. When the German authorities take a fancy to a Bel gian's bank account (if he is so singularly fortu nate as to have a balance left) they simply seize it. He has no redress. These conditions, be it remembered, have prevailed from the day the brutal invaders came, four years ago; and they are the lesser of his inflictions. All this, the people of Belgium have suffered in liberty's cause. What shaJ we answer, we well fed, warmly clad, unmolested people of the United States, we prosperous people of Georgia and the South, when our Government asks us to lend it money at four and a quarter per cent that our liberty may remain secure? .1 Patriotic Confession. “When I think it all over,” writes a Journal reader, “and realize how urgently my country is vailing to its citizens to help win the war, and when 1 realize how little sacrifice I have made per sonally, I am ashamed.” A noble sort of shame is this, born of honesty and leading up to patriotism that truly counts. “1 have ‘always felt,” our correspondent continues, “that while I am somewhat selfish, still I could be depended upon as a good American citizen, ready to help preserve my country if she should be threat ened. But, alas! here we are in the very midst of the greatest war in the world’s history, and I have not done one-fourth of what I could do at home.” How many thousands, indeed millions, of us, if we search our hearts, must make this same confession! Some there are, though they themselves would be the last to realize it, who have done their sacrifi cial utmost in the humble yet highly important duties left to those not in the fighting ranks. They have taken in each Liberty Loan campaign all the bonds which keen self-denial, sharpened and sus tained by zealous love of country, could possibly buy. They have given as liberally as their means would allow to every Red Cross fund, and have aided every form of war work to the limit of their energy and resources. These are they whom angels could not surpass. But are they not preciously few? At the end of his simple, heart-revealing letter, our correspondent speaks out with mingled humil ity and resolution: “Forgive me, my neighbors and friends; 1 did not realize, I did not understand—l have been a slacker. I have failed to do even what little I could here at home. But from this moment I will be a true American in deeds and not merely in words. I will plan and stint to buy Liberty Bonds to the last limit of my capacity. I will help win the war in every way I can. I will back up the boys ‘over there,’ who fFe giving their all to save me and my home and my country.” Patriotism, like the divinest of virtues, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things, AND NEVER FAILETH. ■ ■ —■ ■ ♦ Lest We Forget. In the midst of rejoicing and pride over Amer ica's part in the war it is well for us to flause now and then to reflect upon the heroisms that glori fied the sombre stage before we entered, upon the burden and the agony borne unflinchingly by the Allies for three tragic years ere we took our cue. We can brim no toast too high for the deeds of our own fighting men; but let us not forget that Verdun came before Chateau Thierry, and Vimy Ridge before St. Mihiel. “We have asked our people,” says Mr. Hoover, “to do on two pounds of sugar a month; t’he peo ple of Britain and France and Italy do on one.” The Entente allies, he goes on to point out, are consuming a weekly average of much less than one pound of meat for each civilian; our average is between two and three pounds. So with virtually all necessaries and comforts; what seems to most Americans a deprivation, would be regarded as bounty if not indulgence in many a household “over there.” Those quietly resolute peoples have felt through four besieging winters what we have scarcely begun to feel—the real grip and pinch of war-time living; and they have felt besides a desolateness, some of them a torture, which we on these untroubled shores can but dimly imagine. Now, he is no American whose heart does not beat a triumphal tattoo at the name of Pershing and pledge a cup nine fathoms deep whenever the fleet is spoken. But let us cherish the while our debt to Joffre and Haig and Foch and Diaz, nor for get who it was that kept the seas for freedom through that long vigil before our own gallant sailors had their wish. There is so much glory for both America and her Allies, glory won and await ing, that *she needs must walk in humility if she would be nobly great. MY RED CROSS SHIRT I’ve made you a Red Cross Shirt today, •Some Mother’s boy “Over There,” I know not whose, nor care, If only it may help you some In the race for lite that is nearly run; That you may live to know, to enjoy The freedom your fight has saved, My boy. I’ve lived with you through the fight today, Heard the hideous hell. Saw your tired shoulders raise In pride before you fell; Heard the low-drawn moan you gave When the warm blood flowed in a crimson wave, (God and the Red Cross left to save) And my heart is full of aches today That I can only sew—and pray While you are giving your life away. There’s a tear for every stitch, my boy, And in every seam—a prayer. God grant they may be answered While you are suffering there. They’ll change each ragged wound to health, Bring you home in all your wealth, A Nation's honored son. I’m sending part of my heart away In the Red Cross Shirt I made today. —HELEN WILLIAM SCANDRETT Adel, Ga. QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES “This is my busy day,” “Time is money,” and various other appropriate mottoes were hunfc about the walls of his office. But the inevitable bore obtruded himself just the same, and as he turned on his revolving chair you might have seen locks of hair shriveling up and dropping out as he rushed toward premature baldness. “How do you do,” said the caller. “I’ve got just a word or two to say to you.” “Delighted, I'm sure, to hear them, but “Oh, it .won’t take long.” “Won’t it? Well, I’ll tell you what. You go out into the next room and sit down at my grapho phone and say it. Whenever you want more cylin ders just ring the bell and don’t be afraid to let yourself loose. Just as soon as I get time I’ll grind out again, and in the mean time we can both be happy.” “The worst winter I remember was when we were besieged,” said the old soldier. “We had only one bite a day for two weeks and that was horse flesh.” “I remember,” said Pat O’Brien, his companion "living for a month on one bite, and that was out of my leg.” “You old cannibal. Do you expect me to be lieve that?” roared the soldier. “It’s true, believe it or not,” said Pat, calmly. “A dog took a bite out of my leg, and the insur ance kept me like a lord for four weeks.” “DON’T GIVE UP THE TRUCK!”—By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. I.—That newest branch of the American service, the Motor Transport Corps, just now offers a splen did opportunity for men with experience in the automobile industry, who want to render service to the government 'and get to France quick. There are to be five thousand officers and two hundred thousand men in the corps when it is fully recruited, about two thousand of the officers are still to be found. Men in deferred classes are given preference, but any man w*ho is properly qualified may apply for a commissica.' He should address his aplication to the Training Branch, Motor Transport Corps, Washington, D. C. If he qualifies, he will be sent to the training camp for officers, which is a part of Camp Joseph E. Johnston at Jacksonville, Fla. ’Another motor transport officers’ school is to be established at Fort Sheridan, and there will be several others for enlisted men. The men w*ho are organizing this new corps strongly emphasize two things—that it is no “slackers’ brigade,” but a service full of danger and hardship, and that no man will be sent to France until he is as proficient in his job as in struction and experience can make him. The best officer material for the Motor Trans port Corps has been found to be men of educa tion, who have been in the automobile business as manufacturers, designers, salesmen, garage man agers and the like. It should be borne in mind that there are two principal divisions of the Motor Transport Corps—a park service and a convoy service. An officer of the park service has charge of repairing and rebuilding cars. Men with an in timate knowledge of motor car mechanism are therefore especially needed for this branch. The convoy service actually uses the cars in getting food and ammunition to the fighting units, and in moving troops, and even artillery, horses and all. In this branch resourcefulness and familiar ity with the operation of cars are the requisites for both officers and men. The corporal who was carrying ammunition to the front when the radia tor of his truck was punctured by a shell, and who mended it with the solder from a tomato can that he found by the roadside, is a good ex ample of the kind of men needed in this branch. It is a business of considerable hazard, as is shown by the fact that w'hen three truck loads of ammunition were started toward the marines, who took Chateau Thierry, only one of them ar rived. The driver of that one had four bullet holes in him. He offered to go back for another load on the ground that he was the only man who knew* the way. He is also one of the kind they are looking for. The Motor Transport Corps has been getting its enlisted men by application to the provost marshal general’s office. Men who have indicated a knowledge of the motor car business on their questionaires are commonly assigned to this branch. But the corps has now obtained permis sion to recruit ten thousand mei/ from the civilian population without regard to their status in the draft. It especially wants skilled repair men and skilled chauffeurs. To have owned and operated some kind of a car for a year or two is not enough. Real professionals of the motor busi ness, and especially mechanics and truck drivers, are what the motor corps wants. Men who want to enlist should apply, the same as those who aspire to commissions, to the Training Branch, Motor Transport Service, Washington, D. C. The “motorization” of the American army is one of the swift miracles which war has worked. FLABBINESS AND NERVES —By H. Addington Bruce YOU are nervous, you tell me. You sleep badly, you are restless, uneasy, depressed, easily discouraged. Yet your doctor says you are organically sound. How are your muscles? .Are they firm and strong or are they flabby and weak? Yes, that may have a great deal to do with your nervousness. Listen to what the specialist, Dr. Robert S. Carroll, has to say on this point: “Scrawny muscles and flat chests are common with the nervous, and are almost constantly found in those who suffer from the ‘blues.’ A poorly de veloped chest means deficiency of oxygen and a con sequent excess of toxin. “Men and women whose flabby muscles have re ceived but a small part of their possible develop ment recruit the ranks of the nervous. Many reach maturity, full-grown and practically muscleless, un conscious caricatures of the human race. . “By forty the average woman is exercising with little but her tongue, and the average man with lit tle but his teeth.” Compare with this an observation by another specialist, Dr. J. J. Walsh. Speaking particularly of the nervousness often found in people who have been athletic in their youth, Dr. Walsh says: “Our muscular system is our principal heat making apparatus. It is easy to understand. “If we have larger heat-making organs than are necessary for the maintenance of the temperature FRENCH PRONUNCIATION By Dr. Frank Crane A reader writes me and asks if I won’t please give the public a little help on the pronunciation of the names of French towns which we see every day in the papers. In response, I make a few notes. French pronunciation is not hard to learn. It is not a hundredth part so difficult as English. Because it is regular. If you will look in the first few pages of almost any French grammar you will find the rules for pro nouncing the letters and combinations ol letters. To these rules the exceptions are very.few and it will take but an hour or so to learn them. The reason why people stumble and stutter over French is because they hawe never learned these rules. They would rather blunder for a lifetime than study one day. For instance, the letters AU and EAU wherever they occur are pronounced like our O in GO, and they never under any circumstances have any other sound, yet I have heard them often pronounced AW or OW. EAU (water) is plain 0, and BEAU (beautiful) is 80. and so on. There is not space here to give all the rules, but you can find them in the grammar. A common mistake is to say that French words are accented on the last syllable. The truth is that French has no accents at all. Every syllable should have equal stress. Os course this seems to accent the last syllable because in English we slur it. We say chicAWgo; if it were a French word it would be enunciated SHE-CA-GO. This makes the whole “tune” of the language different from ours. Besides, French has some sounds we never use, and vice versa; there is not TH nor short i (as in bit) in French, and we have no sound corresponding to the French u. So, in addition to learning the rules it will be well to pay a few visits to some Intelligent French teacher and make the ear familiar with the sounds. And, just for greens, I will add the proper pro nunciation of a few French names prominent re cently in the papers. Albert, Ahl-bair; Soissons, Swah-song; St. Quen tin. Sang-kong-tang (you mustn’t really pronounce any of these g’s); Rheims, Ran(g)ce; Amiens, Ah-me-ang; Chaulnes, Shone; Chipilly, She-pee; Fismes, Feem; Roye, Rwah; Chateau Thierry, Sha to-tee-air-ee (be sure to accent every syllable alike); Noyon, No-yong (long o); Nesle, Nail; Vesle, Vail; Montdidier, Mong-dee-dee-ay; Lens, Longee; Somme. Sum; Ourcq, Oork; Aisne, Ain; Lys, Leece; Nancy, Nahng-see, and so on. All of which looks much more difficult than it really is. Compare it to English, where, for instance, the syllable OUGH has seven different sounds, as in the couplet, Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me through, O'er life’s dark lough my way I will pursue. (Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane.) When we went into the war, the use of trucks and automobiles in the army was a new thing to us, except for a very brief experience of haul ing supplies that way to Mexico. And the other belligerent nations hadn't brought the motor busi ness to anything like the importance it now has on the* western front. When the armies cfime out of their trenches, and ihe present war of maneu vers began- the motor entered upon a new phase of usefti.-fless. Not only could supplies be sent by truck to the swiftly moving fighting units much more surely than by rail, but troops and artillery are now transported by motor. Trucks are being used into which three horses may be loaded, while a field piece and a caisson are hitched on behind as trailers. In this way an artillery unit may be moved from one place to another at the rate of fourteen miles an hour, and then set down to maneuver in the usual way. The motor trucks corps is just as highly or ganized as any <other branch of the service. A truck t company consists of twenty-seven with a repair machine, a baggage truck and a moving kitchen. A corporal and a private are on the driver’s seat of each truck. If the corporal is killed, the private takes his place. The first sergeant travels in the side car of a motorcycle, end the two commissioned officers in cqmmand, usually a first and a second lieutenant, go ahead in a light passenger car. Most of the moving of supplies and ammuni tion is done at night and without lights. That is why the corps is now training its chauffeurs by sending its trucks from factory to seaboard in this country under their own power at night. Despite all precautions, a shell frequently finds a truck. Some trucks stay in the service for years, and others are blown to pieces in a few days. The most strenuous work of the corps comes in case of an enemy advance. It is then the duty of the truckmen to load up the supplies and get them to the rear, so as to save them from capture. When the Germans made their big push in the spring, a heavy .percentage of our trucks were shot to pieces while trying to carry away supplies. But they didn’t leave much for the Germans to pick up at that. I is an open secret that our motor service in the early stages of our participation in the war was not a wonder of efficiency. Lots of men were sent to France on short notice, who claimed to know all about cars, but proved to be unable to shift a gear. Then, too, trucks of all kinds were sent to the front and there was no adequate supply of spare parts for the different makes. When a motor transport officer was asked how he got his spare parts, he answered with mono syllabic frankness: “Steal ’em!” That’s all over now. Before the Motor Trans port Corps was organized, the motor service in France had been brought to a high state of effi ciency. The service was made a separate corps simply because it had become too big and too important to be a branch of anything else. The importance of the motor service abroad is growing daily by reason of the fact that Ger many is almost out of trucks and cars. She hasn't the materials to build them. In this war of maneuver, she is, therefore, dependent more and more upon hastily constructed narrow gauge rail roads. The advantage to the Allies of a first class motor service is self-evident. The vehicles which the Motor Transport Serv ice uses include trucks, passenger cars, motor cycles, ambulances and bicycles. The tanks and caterpillars are in corps of their own. of the body, and if we have no mode of dissipating our heat by muscular energy, as through exercise, then there will be a constant tendency for our tem perature to rise, which must be overcome, at con siderable expense of energy, by the heat-regulating mechanism of the body. . “It is this state of affairs which seems to me to account for the marked tendency to nervous un rest that often characterizes athletes who develop a magnificent muscular system when they are young, and later have no use for it. “They must learn the lesson and keep up the practice of using their muscles sufficiently to dissi pate surplus heat, so as to prevent their energy from being used up in various ways within the body, with a resulting disturbance of many delicate mechanisms.” If, in earlier life, you were athletic, this quota tion may be of special application to you. If you have never been athletic, Dr. Carroll’s observation particularly applies. You do not need to build up a huge muscular system. But you do need normally developed muscles, and you need to keep them in good shape. Muscular flabbiness may well be a principal cause of your nervousness. Systematic exercise may be what you need most of all. Your doctor can best advise you as to this. Talk with him about it. (Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers.) RESERVES AND REVERSES A simple transposition of letters spells both— reserves and reverses. A simple rearrangement of conditions will produce either. These two words, so alphabetically akin, carry the relationship into their meanings. The intactness of your reserves depends upon the extent of your reverses. The seriousness of your reverses is accentuated or minimized by the amount of your reserves. Wherever either figures, both are factors. Each | depends upon the other. They are equalizers. They determine the points of solvency and liquida tion. A defensive warfare is one of reserves and re verses. The allied offensive is designed to continue Ger many’s reverses till her last effective reserves are thrown into the fray. It is at once perceivable that the frequency and weight of allied thrusts determine the speed with which the length and strength of the HUN parries will be diminished. Through all of life’s vicissitudes, the principle of reverses versus reserves stands unchanged. One financier lightly regards a setback which would be another's calamity. One man’s vital forces mag netize his personality while another’s, depleted by excesses, constitute a diluted form of energy that is his Ihst reserve. Though n'o reverses are anticipated through in discretion, negligence or willful disregard of nat ural e laws, it is to our Individual self-interest to amass reserves all along life’s battle front. For those who do, the element of chance has no terrors and the spectre of worry is an unfamiliar vision. OBSERVATIONS The Terrible Turk is proven as much of a fallacy as German efficiency under the pressure of allied arms. ••• • • The spirit of Gideon must consider with amaze ment the battles now going on between British and Turk over the ground where he fought and along the Jordan where with 300 men, picked because they drank on the run, he defeated the Midianites. ••• • * The kaiser is reported ill. A few million peo ple could wish him nothing more devilish than Spanish Flu. • Apparently fearful that the Austrian peace con ference proposal Is to meet with no favoring re sponse, Germany has rushed to the side of her ally with a heartfelt “Ja.” • * • • • Uncle Sam is about to fix war wakes, and every worker w’ill hope for a maximum relatively as high and as easy of attainment as the maximum for food products.
