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Me si ml weekly journal Mil.;, r.i, ga.. 5 north forsyth st. Bntered at the Atlanta Postotfice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. S subscription price months ■Bix months | rhiee months 35 c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on 1 Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the I shortest routes for early delivery. I It contains news from all over the world. [ brought b> special leased wires into our office. It has r staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY. Circulation Man ager. The onlv traveling representatives we have are B F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle, Charles I H. Woodliff. J. M. Patten. W H Reinhardt,. IM. H Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We 1 will be responsible only for money paid to I the above named traveling representatives ■ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ■n* tebrt for »<Wr»*«iox paper »h<>w» the time •■tmcrip iw expiree. B» renewinr at leaat two week. ■fcS the date oa thia label. yo» reralar aereiee paper ehanc*. B* «”re to men-, oa your ..id at »MM n.w If .'n ar- -e. pl,a»e ■ r.. .be MM*-* er.-e-‘. r.« ♦- l-r 5 wit!- Is<A r.'.in ■■^■emtt-ar...... uM b* I T I- r< >- r " r •» orders and aotieea for thia Department to W EEKI k JOI RNAI- Atlaata. Ga ;.m£*- The Journal’s Service Flag honor of the seventy-three Atlanta Jour ■men who have entered the service of their .. . The two white stars are in memory ■MTptain Meredith Gray and Captain lames Jr, Journal men, who gave their Mses for our countiy in France. r Routing the Tick. On the new map that is issued annually by the United Statde department of agricul ture showing the different sections of the knjntry infested with the cattle tick, a sub- increase is to I - noted in the tick area in the state of Georgia. Several which heretofore have been under Mrantine because of the presence of ticks ■nd the lac of control over thL menace to ■e stock industry, are _aown to have freed ■emselves from the ban. The progress during the past yea. is considerably |MLer than ever before in the history of the in Georgia, and the agencies that in forwayjing the move- reason to be elateu over the re- Mt of the past twelve months’ work. Mas is the case with every movement which Mcessttates the jolting of the public out c* ■ mental rut, the tick eradication campaign Mj'-had a hard row to hoe in Georgia. And ■t a|one in .eorgia. out in every other cat- Ele-raising state. There hav been some (difficult problems to solve and many more .remain to be tackled before the cattle rais nng Industry in this state shall have been ■laced on a sound basis. It is never easy to Lan curate a new method of doing things. Rpecially if the new way involves financial and a degree of both mental and 1 labor. beneti. tai re>u!>s of ti< k eradiation fpo plainly demonstrated to be o argument. Any system that will the market price of a given product Mftifl) to 200 per cent is a good one to S|i|jSk -juJ the experience of hundreds of me.i who have been converted to the class of stock raisers is sufficient of the soundness of the p<*li. Bie just as Mississippi, Louisiana and Ala- Lma have already learned it, and as public Mining becomes more and more crystallized. Me ticli eradication campaign will meet Mth evlr decreasing opposition. The 1920 will show the major portion of ..eed from the federal quarantine. M His Source of Power. few years ago Dr. Woodrow Wilson. Me American college piofessor, spent a sum ■ei vacation on a bicycle ride through Eng- Knd's quiet countryside; bls arrival unpro ■aimed, his departure unmarked by any Vemony; a casual traveler going his way n modest obscurity. Today he returns as the guest of the King. His coming is acclaimed by the greatest throng that was ever assembled in the city >f London on. He is taken to the Palace and installed in the hospitality ( of the royal household. He consults with the men who hold the reins of the British Empire. His public utterance shapes the ,pllcy of England and the world, k Where else in history can be found a Record of any triumph comparable to his? ■gtat ether man has ever controlled in any Rch measure the destiny of Nations? Whence Lime his power? Why his influence? ■Napoleon* i glory was the glory of the Cae„a;’s glory was the glory of the |Mfd. Alexander s glory was the glory of ■ sword. They were fighters. They con- tren b” the use of force They built Mer r ■ of arms. They held THE EDITOR IS CHIRKED UP! Editing a newspaper is a peculiar job. Just as it happens with the farmer, the housewife, the store clerk and the plowboy, the editor occasionally finds himself low in spirits; the world is dark, and the dav is dull. * ♦ ♦ ♦ The other day we heard a voice singing in the office next door to our own, in The Journal building. We grumbled and fretted, and presently went into the office next door to put a stop to the nuisance. The Voung lady who conducts those picture puzzles in The Journal was sitting there absorbed in a huge pile of mail. There must have been a thou sand letters on her desk, and there were hundreds more, tied i.i neat bun dles, on the chair beside her. It was the only chair in the room, the one on which these letters rested, so we had to stand. ‘•Whv all this burst of song?” we demanded. “Oh,’ I just read a letter that chirked me up so much,” she said, with a pretty fine kind of a smile. “Don’t you want to read it?” So we grudgingly took it—remember, we were pretty crusty that morning— and here is what Mrs. Abbie Armour, of Lula, Ga. (Route No. 1), had written in sending in a solution to a picture puzzle: • Dear Editor: lam a reader' of The Semi-Weekly Journal. My husband and I couldn’t keep house long without it and we enjoy every page of it. But I like the editorial page and Mrs. Lizzie Thomas’ letters best. My little girl likes Aunt Julia’s Letter Box so much and my husband says The Semi-Weekly Journal prints more news than all the other papers we take, all put together, and we take half a dozen of them. So, you see. The Journal is enjoyed in my home. My neighbors all take The Journal, there seems to be so much readin g in it that you never find anywhere else.” » ♦ ♦ The young lady who is Puzzle Editor hummed a little .bit, and we took Mrs. Armour’s letter and brought it back into our own room—to read it again. • And then the sun came out —after a week of wretched rainy weather— and life seemed mighty good again. The editor hopes that every reader will write him a letter with the idea of helping him to make The Semi-Weekly Journal better and better every issue. We like to get letters from the folks -who read our paper. And we are never too busy to read those letters and we are never too “high-and-mighty” to consider your advice. THE EDITOR. They lived by the sword and ruled by the sword and died by the sword or its conse quences. But here stands one, incomparably greater, incomparably more powerful, than all of these, who is "too proud to fight”—unless he can fight for the vindication of an ideal. Here stands one who scorns the sword, un less it be drawn in defense of the weak. Here stands one who repudiates c< : -"st, unless it be conquest of stolen soil. Here stands one who levies no indemnity, unless it be one to repay theft and restore devasta tion. Here stands one who refuses to pro te "any selfish interest whatsoever,” either for himself or for any c the? Neither men nor Nations fear him, except as Nations or as men they be evildoers. Neither men nor Nations seek his favor, foi in his hand he holds no gift except the gift of intervention on the side of justice. Yet he wields an ini . e beside which Jr.;t of other statesmen and other command . ers is dwarfed in comparison. Never before ■ tins one man so shaped the policy of Nations. "Their eyes wet with tears,” in the words <>f the Marquis de Chambrun, the peoples of the Allied Nations look to him for a new kind of treaty, a new kind of peace, a new and enduring kind of security that v ill en able them to work out in practical achieve ment their aspirations of liberty and just e. Their dream of power forever shattered, burying them beneath its debris like the broken pillars of the temple, their old order gone and their future darkened by the menacing clouds of Bolshevism, the beaten peoples of the Central Empires look to him with an almost pathetic and child-like faith in his spirit of forbearance. They seem to say: "We Lave sinned against humanity; we have no ground on which to ask the con sideration of those we have wronged; yet we look to you to give us the opportunity of winning back the world's respect and faith; in your hands we place our interests.” Whence came this power of Woodrow Wilson? Out of the hearts and consciences of men, whose feeling he divines and expresses in language so simple and clear that all under stand. As he says himself, in his Guild Hall ad dress, “there is a great tide running tn the hearts of men.” ’ In that tide is the source of his power. A POEM FOR TODAY VICTORY ! BY GERTRUDE SMITH I see the armies of the world united in one holy band, A crown of light upon each head, Christ's scepter in each hand. 1 see the spectral armies flee, greed, avarice and hate, I see all nations joined as one—one world, one love, one purpose great I see the King of Heaven descend to rule on earth in wisdom’s might, I see the armies of the world united f<y the reign of right. Those whom we now call enemies, I see as friends in clearest light, 1 see new battlefields aglow and songs of jcy ring through the night. I see all lands as one in bonds the centuries shall not break, I see the armies of the world in God's free groves communion make. I see the death of kings and caste, one Shep herd and one fold I see, I see nor word, nor form, nor thought on which God’s armies disagree Locked in one law the prophets saw His sub ject every heart shall yield. His word the power. His word the lance, His Love the unconquerable shield — On. ever on, to Victory, across the Lord's great battlefield! (The author of this poem wro/lher proph ecy, still to be in part fulflllsfl, sbon after the United States entered the world She went into the life beyojrf on Thßtnksgiv ing day a 1917.) JF \ r (Copyright, I I THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKIA’ JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 191 R. BEST CARTOON OF THE WEEK " —s DAWN (By Cassell in New York World.) INJUN FOOD By John k -j- j >.ii! E.ste malo!” * , 11 was the first time an Indian had volunteered conversation , with me beyond the inevitable “Como esla usted,” as he pusses you along the road. 1 had seen the old chap before, mistaking for stupidity his stolid look. Now' his wrinkled i face was eloquent with concern. , In iny hand I bore a choice collection of poisonous mushrooms, culled for a practical demonstration to those of my neighbors who are feasting the innocent species so abund ant in the moist crevices of rocky hollows. The steam-bed, beneath the shade of the wil lows, where the wee water snakes abide, has a remarkably variegated crop. And, as al ways, the innocent looking, pale amanita lilts a deceptive head among them. , I smiled and nodded a thanks io his warn ing. But he was not to be satisfied until he felt assured that 1 understood the venomous properties of my bouquet. Finding me im pervious to his best and most voluble Span ish, he resorted to "sign talk.” In a most expressive dumb show* he explained to me that they would turn me fairly inside out, give me a terrible pain, and finally lay me low. There could be no possible doubt of his meaning. But the sight of this aged and ragged aborigne leaning across his arm was so ab surdly reminiscent of the small boy of danc ing-school days attempting a ceremonious bow with a shady notion as to the location of his heart that 1 laughed aloud, though 1 acknowledged my conviction by tossing my toadstools away. A relieved cackle echoed my outburst; he patted me consolingly on the back, and offer ed to assist me in a more profitable harvest. 1 accepted before he had time to think of anything else he might have had to do, curious to see Low far his knowledge went. It was thorough and accurate. In the course of half an hour he had filled my pock ets with an assortment wider than my own knowledge afforded, and 1 found that he had an almost uncanny sense of where tfiey would be found. No Indian need go hungry during the rains at any rate. There should be a mushroom book especially adapted to the Pacific slope, as the intensity of color makes identification by the present rules a trifle precarious. And by all means the In dian should edit it. Under my respect for his attainments my mentor expanded visibly. For once a white man was treating him as a superior; his manner became increasingly Spanish, his gestures condescending and gracious. He branched off into botany. Here, also, he trod the edge of the peril ous with confident step. He highly recom mended the bulbs of a wild hyacinth which 1 could not trust myself to differentiate from the Death C mass, though the ones he dug for me developed a delicious flavor after a prolonged baking. I was willin. enough to partake of what berries still lingered on the bough until he offered me the black and wrinkled drupe of a deadly nightshade, which he, however, ate confidently. 1 notic ed, too, at this point that his palate was more tolerant of bitter tastes than mine. Another nightshade, he told me, would make me dance —he Illustrated with the clumsy, fiat.ooted motion of an amiable bear, clowning about as though delighted at my amusement. Altogether a delightfully genial instructor, this whom I had taken for a sullen soul. My general impressiou at the end of sev eral hours was that nothing edible is be neath the notice of his people, from sun flower seeds to woolly thistle sprouts. But the crowning discovery was a tiny wild po tato, whose delicate blossoms, veined with purple on the under sides of the translucent leaves, resemble our Spring Beauty Noth ing could be more delicious than its tiny bulb, almost ruitlike in its sweetness. What he called it I could not even pronounce—he got the laugh back on me over my attempts :—much less spell, but the setters call it j wild cocanut. A FABLE BY AESOP THE CHILD AND THE BROOK An old man who saw a child stand for a .'ong as time. And as you wend your way boy, why do you gaze so long on this brook?” “Sir,” said the child, "I stay here to wait till the stream has run off, for then I shall pass with dry feet.” “Nay,” quoth the old man. “you might stay out your life, and yet not do that, for this brook will run on as long time. And as you wend your way through life, you will find this out. If you go with the stream, you will get to the sea; but if you do not go with the stream, you will have to wade.” I NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY An officer on board a warship was drilling his men. "I want every man to lie on his back, put his legs in the air and move them as if he were riding a bicycle.” he said. "Now com mence.” After a few minutes one man stopped. "Why have you stopped?” asked the of ficer. "If you please, sir,” answered Smith, "I am coasting. The secretary of the navy has commend ed Shelden P. Reams, pharmacist’s mate, for the most efficient service rendered in the treatment of influenza, at the marine barracks, Norfolk, Va., during the recent epidemic. Commanding officer reports that Reaths was greatly instrumental in preventing spread of the disease in the command; that he was ready at all times day or night to take care of the sick. Reams enrolled June 4, 1917. His mother, Bettie Reams, lives in Richmond, Va., R. F. D. No. 5. THE COMING FAMINE By Dr. Frank Crane Dark days, we are assured by the thunder ing editorials in the newspapers and also by ' the gentlemen who hang around the livery stable and exchange confidences over fast van ishing ncuttles of beer at Hinky Dink’s bar (editorial writers will notice that I put them first at least), are upon us. The country is to go bone dry on June 30, 1919, in accord ance with the provisions of the law which the president signed the other Thursday. New York, we are dismally warned, will lose $8,000,000 a year in liquor licenses, bar tenders and bouncers will be out of jobs and their children will be turned into the streets crying for bread and sealskin coats. Still there are compensations. There usually are in every calamity. There were even in war. For ftistanoe. savings accounts will fat'en Children who now have to leave school to earn money to keep their parents pickled will be able to resume their studies. The great business of reconstruction after the war is before us, and this will be helped by a little less of the business of destruction ’ Business concerns are clamoring for room, and when the 7,000 corner saloons in New York get out it will make space for more stores to sell groceries and furniture. This will help real estate, as the presence of a saloon always depresses rent. As our schools are overcrowded it has been suggested that some of these saloons be used as schoolrooms. There is a universal cry for labor. Immi gration h..s practically stopped, and several million men are in the army, so there will be no trouble for the legion of brewers, waiters bartenders. ,jeer-truck drivers and other per sons now employed in injecting alcohol into the human race to find something to do. We need the wood now used in bars, whisky barrels and beer kegs to make baby carriages, coffins and baseball bats. The $8,000,000 lost in license money will be easily made up by the amount saved in the prosecution of cases caused by drink. Questionable dance halls and saloon ba k rooms will cease to take their toll of woman hood. There will be more grain with which to make cakes and pies for little Johnny when there is less used to keep little Johnny's father stewed. Glassware, crockery and the like now used in saloons will easily be absorbed by hotels, restaurants and homes. Besides all this there will be a marke I improvement in the moral tone of th? com munity. if you will pardon my mentioning it. (Copyright. 1918. by Frank Crane.) YOUR FUTURE By H. Addington Bruce HAVE you given any thought to your future? More especially, have you given any thought to the vitally im portant truth that, whatever your future is to be. you yourself are shaping it now? The future never just happens. Under stand that well. It is always a product of the past, of the DEEDS of the past. You want, of course, to have a bright, prosperous, happy, healthy future. Are you building such a future TODAY? Take stock of your habits, your thinking habits, your working habits, your living habits. If they are good, your future will be good, barring accident or unavoidable dis ease. If they are not good, your future will be bad unless you speedily correct them. Every day you go to work. Do you put your whole heart into your work? Or do you try to get through the day with as little work as possible? Every day you have a certain amount of leisure. Do you regard it merely as time to be killed? Or as time to be used for self- . improvement? ; The money you receive for your dally work, what do you do with that? Does some of it go into the bank? Or does all of it go into other people’s pockets, for necessaries and for pleasures? Bethink yourself of your pleasures. They have an important, an all-important, bear ing on your future. Are they constructive pleasures or de structive ones? You know very well what I mean. If destructive, don’t fool yourself into thinking that you can dodge their in evitable consequences. It may be “fun” now to go dissipating night after night. But it won’t seem so much "fun” when looked back at from a future . of financial or physical or mental wreckage. And this is tha kind of future that such “fun” always brings. Then, too, consider ; our present attitude toward your fellowmen. As you now are treating them, the future is pretty sure to treat you If you are con sistently honest, kind, considerate, generous, unselfish in your dealings with others, your chances for a happy future amount almost to certainty. The reverse holds true if you are habit ually dishonest, churlish, inconsiderate, nig gardly and selfish. These are traits that will poison men against you, and leave you lonely and miserable in the years to come. “Whatsoever a man sov-eth, that shall he also reap,” is no mere figure of speech. Neither is the oriental proverb: "He who has no care for the future, will soon have sorrow for the present.” Mend your todays, if they need mending, and be quick about it. ' r hus an) thus only you win for yourself a splendid .omorrow. (Copyright, 1918, by the Associated News papers) THE FREEDOM OF THE AIR '■ WHAT P S R H O A G 1 - R L A ° LCRArT By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON. D. C„ Dec. 27.—Now that the war is over, shall the right to navigate the air in this country he thrown open to all persons on equal terms, or shall the government retain the control over manufacture and flying of airplanes and balloons which it now has? This is a question which congress will un doubtedly be called upon to answer, and the importance of which seems scarcely to be realized by the public. There are several. angles to the problem presented -by the future of flying. One of them is the military angle. The freedom of the seas and the ownershij of the earth are up for discussion, but that freedom of the air is also an important factor in the future of the world does not seem so generally real ized. Aircraft have been considered hereto fore chiefly as accessories to armies and navies. But aircraft are no longer merely scouts and couriers; they are powerful agents of destruction. It "seems certain that their use will be a matter for regulation by the proposed league of nations, as well as the use of armies and navies. The other angle is the industrial angle. There will undoubtedly be keen competition between the nations in the development of airplanes for peacetime purposes. How can this development best be stimulated and pro tected in the United States? Although these questions have not had much publicity, it is know’n that they are being carefully considered by the general staff, by airplane authorities of the army, navy and marine corps, and by some far sighted congressmen and senators. All plans are necessarily vague as yet. At present the army, the navy and the marine corps has each its own air service. That these should be combined into one organiza tion, possibly under the direction of a new portfolio in the cabinet, has often been sug gested, and the advantages of such an ar rangement seem to be generally agreed upon. But how large this air service should be, and what the scope of its activities and duties should be in time of peace, are matters upon which a great variety of opinion can be heard. Probably action taken at the peace table with regard to the use of air forces will have a great influence. But regardless of this, there seem to be two distinct schools of thought as to the pa t that the government should play in the development of aeronautics. The most conservative of these holds that the gov ernment should exploit the airplane solely as an adjunct to whatever military and naval establishment it may maintain in the future. On the other hand the most radically con structive idea put forward is that the whole development of flying should be under gov ernment control and direction, including the mapping of the air, the scientific study of the atmosphere, and the establishment of routes and landing fields. In point of size, a personnel for the air service of only 5,000 has been recommended by the high authorities, while a force of 45,- 000 is about the largest that has been au thoritatively suggested. T n a modern air service there are about twenty to tw'enty five men to each plane. Os course, the moot end most delicate question of government control or ownership versus free private, initiative, which is also involved in the problem of the railroads and the telephone and telegraph lines, enters also to some extent in to thio question of the fu ture of the air. For several reasons, how-ever. ‘it does not enter to the same extent. For military reasons, the government must neces sarily have a considerable degree of control over flying, and for a considerable period at least the nractical uses of airplanes will be chiefly for this, and for other porposes which are recognized functions of government. Leaving out this question of principle, the In the four Liberty Loan campaigns about 30,000,000 subscriptions for bonds were re ceived. Many of these investors subscribed more than once, bift it is probable their num ber exceeds 20,000,000, which is more than half the number of persons engaged in gain ful occupations. Millions have also bought Thrift Stamps amounting to about $1,000,- 000,000. Savings banks also report gains in deposits since America entered the war. This indicates a general development of thrifty habits which ..ave not hitherto characterized the American people. Those vho have bought Liberty Bonds should hold them and Luy more in the open market. They should take advantage of the existing depreciation of the best securities in the w’orld to pick up bargains. These bonds are intrinsically worth a hundred cents on the dollar and will be worth more than par if business ever becomes seriously depressed. In the dull times tha' followed the panic in 1893 good 3 1-2 per cent railroad bonds sold above par because investors were overcautious ami preferred safety to income returns. This has happened so often in the apst that it may be regarded as a fixed law of finance. There Is no reason for expecting a period of depres sion, but the best insurance against it is to buy these government securities, which will increase in market value if It does come. Those who buy more bonds help to protect their investment. Many persons oversub scribed and are taking a loss. As soon as this class of liquadation run- its course the mar- OLD CAIRO Cairo has tw r o distinct sides to its char acter. The one caters to the comfort-de manding traveler, and is seen in the Cairo of terraced hotels with views of the Nile, and feather duster palm trees. The other is the. old Cairo of the natives, kept in the back ground like the homely daughter of an other wise handsome family, but eagerly displayed if only the visitor deign to evince the slight est interest in its unworthy existence. In this Arab settlement the colorful life of old Egypt is undiluted by concessions to the fastidious tastes of the foreign shekel dispenser. The streets are narrow lanes hedged with the shops and stalls of venders. It is not quiet in this indolent quarter of the awakening east. The voices of children LAUGH AND GROW FAT Senator Lodge was talking about an out rageous profiteer. “The man is not typical,” he said. "If he were typical f hen I’d despair. I’d grow as pessimistic as the middle-aged woman. “A salesman was selling a bedroom clock to a girl. " ‘I recommend this clock with its illumi nating attachment to switch on, he said. It’s a »rery good thing to tell what time your husband comes home, you know.’ " ‘But I haven’t got a husband,’ said the girl. ’* ’Oh, you will have some day,’ said the salesman. “ ‘Yes. but not that kind of a husband,’ said the girl. “Then it was that the middle-aged woman stepped forward. “ ‘My dear child, tUlky’re all that kind, she said. ‘Young man, I’ll take that clock.’ ” THE VALUE OF THRIFT AT HOME AND ABROAD advocates of extensive government control over flying bring forward a number of prao tical reasons why such control is desirable. For one thing, the government has at pres ent control of practically all patents used in the manufacture of planes. It is well known that before the war there was some litigation over airplane patents in this country, and that none of the manufacturers had the use of all of them. But when the war broke out the government readily obtained the use of all , patents then existing, and it has control of all improvements patented during the war. Only airplanes manufactured on government contract, therefore, may embody all the dis coveries and improvements. The advantages, from a practical and scientific viewpoint, of having the government act as a clearing house for discoveries and inventions, instead of leaving private concerns to fight over them, seem obvious. Again, the government owns thousands of planes, has thousands of trained flyers and mechanics now in its employ, and owns mil lions of engines and parts. To let this great plant, equipment and personnel go to pieces will be an immense waste of the people’s money. A third reason advanced for government control is that a large industrial development and tactical use of the airplane must be pre ceded by a great scientific development—not so much in the airplane itself as in knowledge . of the air. Air currents must be studied and charted, a practical means must be worked.„ J out for observing the vrlnd at all elevations. When the weather bureau is able to furnish daily reports on weathei condition at the ele vation of five thousand, ten thousand and fif teen thousand feet, juat as it now sends out daily bulletins for the weatkgr at the sur face of the earth, flying will be about as safe as automobiling—possibly ntore so. Such a system of ’ igh-altitude weather reports is perfectly feasible, according to the jjxperts; but it would require much scientific r.\arch. conducted on a national scale. Such would be essentially a government task. the same way, the charting of air routes establishment of landing fields must be ried out in accordance with a national plan V to have muct value. For the government to carry on these re searches and experiments both in the making of aircraft and in the study of the air would be an immense burden upon the taxpayer, it may be objected, for which he would receive no return. In refutaticn of this argument, it is stated that there are a number of practi cal, money-saving way., in which the govern ment coull make use of its airplanes and its knowledge in peace times, and these ways would mu»tiply with the development of the industry. Carrying mails is of course the most ob vious of these uses. But professional forest ers say that there is also an Immense field for the use of aircraft in the protection of national und other forests. This year mil lions of dollars’ worth o* property were' de stroyed by forest fires in the northwest, and the same thing has happened several times within a decade, while the loss from smaller forest fires reaches an alarming total. Yet this loss is preventable. The difficulty of patrol ling great, areas of wild forest land and of reaching fires with men and tools after they are discovered is at the root of the trouble. Airplanes could patrol to pe.fectlon areas which are now' observed with great difficulty from towers and mo mt ... t js, -”d large planes and the small dirigibles used now by the navy department could bring men to the scene of trouble in a fraction of the time now consumed. Airplanes could also be used by the coast geodetic survey in its work of charting the coastal waters of Atlaska, according to perts of that bureau. And in the far nortn ’ and in the tropics, airplanes could be used for mapping and explorations. ket will be stablized. T he federal govern ment has air ly bought in several hundred million dollar.-, of these Liberty Bonds at bar gain prices and will probably continue to re duce the national debt in this way. Par for these bonds will come automatically at ma turity and they will probably sell for more in the interval. For the small investor/ it means a safe income and a certain profit in the long run. The habit of thrift acquired by millions of Americans who never before invested a dollar will make a market for these bonds and other high-class securities. Some complain of the accumulation of w-ealth in the hands of the few. It is better for the country to have some one accumulate capital than for none to have a surplus for investment new enterprises; but the rem edy for the alleged evils of concentration of wealth is the accumulation and investment of money by everyone who earns a living. That is true and scientific distribution - >f wealth. France was rich before the war and will grow richer than ever within a few years, but she has few multi-millionaires. The secret of her financial stability lies in the thrift of the whole people. When the masses save and invest there is always less concentration and better distribution of wealth. America will also prosper as the people work and save. The man who saves works for himself, capi tal being "frozen labor,” as some economists call it. A sound investment represents ex pended effort, jus. as wh.n a carpenter builds a house for himself witL his own hands. — New York Commercial. squabbling, begging, laughing, blend with the less pleasant drone of the venders wearily en gaged in traffic. The visitor may escape after one look at the dirt, flies and confusion. But if he man ages to rise above the sordidness of native life, he will realize that he is catching a glimpse of Egypt as it really is today—not a series of spots of interest for the tourist, but a place where the rightful inhabitants buy as well as sell and are unhurried by the demands of the foreigner. The street scenes with their vivid colors veiled in a layer of dust are like nothing so much as a stage setting for an eastern play. There is the same dinginess and taw’dry ma terial, at close range; and there is the same glamour, and an added mystery, at a slight distance. A HERO EVERY DAY The navy department has commended Alexander S. Boone, chief gunner’s mate. U S. navy, attached to the U. S. S. Flusser, tot his prompt and gallant action in unhesitat ingly jumping overboard and rescuing two men who h been thrown overboard from the U. S. S. Dometheus when the Jacob’s ladder gave away on the evening of Septem ber 25, 1918. Had it not been for the promptness and decision of Boone, the men would undoubtedly have been drowned, as they were rapidly becoming exhausted. Boone enlisted July 17, 1915. His sister, Miss Ethel D. Boone, lives at Charlotte, North Carolina. ■ The secretary of the navy has the < r.-w of the I’ S S Sterett for i ’y in < onnectMMM| r - •>..», ... . ... . ~,] ** ** ■ r M • -.. ii. waters. ’WsK