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STRENGTHEN SOME BRANCHES
OF OUR POOR DEFEN8E8.
FALSE STATEMENTS BY REDS
By EDWARD B. CLARK
Washington. Congress is to b*
asked to do something for the army,
Secretary Weeks already has made the
request that something be done, but
the something which he has asked
hardly can be looked upon as having
In It the germ of a militaristic desire.
The army and the navy today
shot to pieces. This apparently la as
a good many people would have
but if Secretary Weeks has sensed
the situation right it is not as the
majority of the American people would
have it
So far as the army is concerned,
there are not enough men In It today
to do police duty, let alone to act as
a proper defense for the United States
In case of an offensive warfare against
its wellbeing. The secretary has
asked that the present limit of 125,000
men shall be raised to 150,000 men
“at the earliest possible date.”
Congress will not sanction the re
quest for an additional 25,000 men.
Tbls much can be taken for granted,
All, apparently, that the War depart¬
ment can hope for Is that a few
branches of the army, which today jyre
pitiably weak, shall be so strengthened
that they may approach If they do not
reach the point of the demands of
proper defense for the country.
Some time ago an organization which
to In sympathy with Communism and
which has been doing its best and is
stilt doing its best totally to disarm
the United States, printed and sent
broadcast a statement to the effect
that the machinery of war was costing
the United States more money than
atl the machinery intended to run the
work: »-f peace. Of course the state¬
ment was believed not true, but a good many
people It as some people seem
to believe anything that they read.
Week# Tells of Military Costs. it
Secretary Weeks has felt neces¬
sary to Issue what he calls a brief
economical analysis of our national
defense. He says among other things
that military preparations cost us only
one-eighteenth of what we spend for
luxuries, amusements and mild vices.
The secretary adefs that our defense
isares have not kept pace with our
increased prosperity and responsibility
as a nation.
Army officers and enlisted men feel
today that they have been placed on
a defensive basis, not on a basis of
proper defense against an alien enemy,
bat on a basis of the necessity of de¬
fending themselves against charges of
being engaged In an ignoble profes¬
sion. Men willing to .fight in defense
* of American institutions for^those who
do not want to fight are today In a
sense going about with their heads
down.
'Another who has been writing from
Washington has had the courage to
tell a few things about the attempts
which today are being made to render
the United tSates entirely defenseless.
The present writer lias written some¬
thing on this subject himself, thereby
reaping a harvest oit abuse as a mili¬
tarist. The total disarmament foil;
have a big vocabulary of abuse. There
Is no gdbd outside of their own head¬
quarters. ■4
? One organization recently has en¬
larged its field of activities. It now
Is not content with efforts to prevent
war In the future, but apparently Is
determined that If war shall come the
United States shall not have a rifle
®r a doughboy to meet It.
if “Slacker’* Vote” Is Being Signed.
Women of the country are being
, asked to sign what decent folk call a
“slacker’s vote." Women who sign It
pledge themselves to abstain from acts
of mercy to the wounded In case their
country shall become Involved In war.
One trouble Is that nobody can
arouse any sentiment against this sort
of yellowism. The Inspiration for It,
and one hates to use the word Inspira¬
tion In this connection, is the heart
desire to Communize the United States.
Communism recently has given nn ex¬
hibition or two of what It can do tn
the way of pressing Its campaign.
There have been some bomb throw-'
togs in the United States lately.
Congress is trying to get into ses¬
sion. There are to the two houses of
congress a good many men who will¬
ingly struction would vote for the complete de¬
of the American army and
navy. Nine-tenths of them were pro
German during the war and nine
tenths of them are pro-^usslan to¬
day.
Not long ago It was believed that
congress would sanction a loan iff $25,-
800,000 to feed the starving to Ger¬
many. Naturally enough all Ameri¬
cans want "to feed the starving any¬
where, but it now Is said that the at¬
tempt to secure from the American
congress an appropriation for food for
the Gannon foodless did not originate
In any group of real Germans who
knew the situation. Its origin was to
a Communist enmp.
All His Life.
The reporter was interviewing the
town’s most prominent business man,
“How long have you been In busi¬
ness?” h» asked.
“Veil,” said Mr. Ivonovlth, “I vas
born !u 1880."
JVftlQI oii/rn rue I lit PD(|P0 UnUrO
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Alberta Spent Half-Million Dol¬
lars to Protect $82,000,000.
T
Government'* Campaign Againat the
Graeehoppere Net* Big Return
*>r the Farmers.
The Province of Alberta spent more
than half a million dollars in 1922 In
| the destruction farmed of grasshoppers, but
saved to the of the province
approximately 129,000,000 worth __ of ..
• crop, according to returns received by
the Dominion Department of Agricul
tore from municipal' secretaries and
others. Of the total cost of $512,258, the
| tnunicipulities and local improvement
districts are charged with $257,040.
the provincial government bearing the
balance.
The success of the campaign forms
an outstanding example of the result
0 f organized and concentrated govern
, uent( municipal and community effort,
Not only government officials, but mu
nlclpal authorities, farmers and even
the citizens of the towns and some of
the cities In the infested area, played
their part to winning victory over a
pest that threatened to wipe out the
crop vegetation and rob the fanners
of the fruits of their labors,
Grasshopper Infestation to Alberta
became serious some years ago, but
aside from government efforts to edu
cate the farmers In the matter of ap
plying poison bait, and to provide ma¬
terial at certain centers, there was no
reat or united effort to combat the
pest. It was at the beglning of 1922
that the minister of agriculture and
Ills officials realized that a combined
effort on the part of all concerned was
needed If the crops of a large portion
of the province were to be saved from
devastation. * Alberta by this time had
■begun to feel the effects of lack of ac¬
tion in Montana, where Infestation
was enormous, and from which large
flights Into Alberta had taken place.
In order to coinbat this pest every
possible medium of education was util¬
ized., Meetings were held, pamphlets
were issued and the newspapers gave
generously of their space. Scouts were
appointed to see that infested areas
were poisoned, and the government
supplied the bait mixers and paid the
men who ran them, the cost being
charged against the district. The bait
used was a mixture of bran, sawdust,
salt, molasses and arsenic, lt waa
found to be most effective when ap¬
plied between the hours of 8:30 and 10
in the morning, before the bait had
dried out under the sun, and during
the hours when the hoppers were feed
lng.
Where, bait was left in bulk and
Pasy of access by live stock, or where
it was carelessly scattered so that
tfibre was any quantity in one spot,
there was loss^of live stock, With
careful handling and scattering of
bait according to directions, there can
be no danger to stock, experts say.
Hie Misinformation.
They were dining at a fashionable
restaurant, the Customers’ Man and
the Gossip.
“See that man oyer there?” said the
latter.
“Yes.”
Well, he is James HI Smith, from
Peoria, HI.
i. Indeed!"
Yes. He's Just made $200,000 In
the market.”
"Well, dear boy," said the Custom¬
ers 11 Man, “you’re wrong four ways. »*
“Indeed?”
“Yes—his name is Howard R.
Jones." 0
“Yes?”
he is from Springfield, Mass. »*
And
Yes?
“And the mount was not $200,000. *>
No?”
It was $20,00(1.”
“Yes?”
“And he lost It.”—Boston Globe.
The American Outclassed.
The American truth teller was in
form. Talking of ants," he said,
“we’ve got ’em as big as crabs out
West'. I’ve seen ’em fight with long
horns, which they use as lances, charg-.
ing each other like shvages.”
They don’t compare with the ants
I saw In the Far East,” said an Inof¬
fensive individual nearby., The na
lives have trained them as beasts of
burden. One of ’em could trail a ton
load for fillies with *>ase. They worked
■■viH Un giv. but occasionally they turned
on their attendants and killed them.”
But this was drawing the long bow a
little too far.
u I say, old chnp.” sold a shocked
voice from the corner, “what sort of
nrits were they?”
“Eleph-ants," replied the Inoffensive
indlvldual.-rLondon Tlt-Blts.
Old Mirror Frames Made New.
When mirror frames become
scratched or tarnished they may be
made attractive again by gluing to the
old frame ribbon or silk that har¬
monizes with the color scheme of the
room. Brocaded metallic ribbon and
shirred silk are especially effective.
Suspended from the wall wlth«a length
of ribbon ending In tassels, this rib
bon-covered frame will add an artistic
touch to any room.
Remarkable.
Speaking of childish wisdom, we
have this contribution from Sierra
Madre: “I was trying to mend Vera's
ouch-battered dolly while my bnby
oddled about the yard. After .wtteh
up m® awhile, Vera exclaimed:
Goodness, aunty, how long you’ve
,ad that baby, and he hasn't even lost
an arm yet.’”—Los Angeles Times.
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS AND SUN
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Write, fiayp-America Hay Laarn Cea.
«on From Eurbpa Which.Will Make
•Her Greatest Nation.
“Europe, ns a whole, Is nn experi¬
ment to force,” writes Lincoln Steffens
In an article In which he surveys Eu¬
rope as * vast laboratory to which ex¬
periments have been made in* every
form of~eortal and economical govern¬
ment; bolshevik, socialist, anarchist. Worn
lal)or and world government,
these experiments, according to Mr.
Steffens, America may learn a lesson^
which will make her the greatest na¬
tion that has ever existed. <|ontinuij)g
his article, Mr. Steffens says; “The war
was an explosion of force. It blew
up the whole laboratory, and a Chemist
would have inferred that the mixture
he had made was explosive. Ha- would
not have Mamed some poor maimed
workman; he wouldn’t even have said
that glycerin was ‘bad’ and that nitro¬
gen was ‘good.’ Not to chemistry. But
to politics, he did. The professors ev¬
erywhere were patriotic. They did not
ask what caused the war. ‘Who?’ was
the question they asked and answered.
And so we baye the same men who
‘made the war* making the peace, and
consistently trying to carry out In their
treaties ‘the just purpose of the war,’
and suppressing all new ideas, 'begin
laboring conscientiously and hard to
set up the very same combination of
social, economic and political elements
which, having exploded before, Is apt
to explode again, as It does.
“All these European experiments are
working with theories of force, and It
is humanly dramatic and scientifically
Interesting that the opposite theory,
the Christian doctrine of nonresistance,
should be taken up for trial by Asia.
The Indians are resisting British rule
without force, by slow, patient disobe¬
dience and co-operative self-reliance.
The British empire has arrested, tried
and convicted Gandhi, their leader, just
as the Roman empire did Jesus; but
Christianity was not suppressed, .and
the Gandhi movement moves on, an ex¬
periment on one of our theories, that
there is some moral way to free man
from men’s laws without learning and
heeding God’s laws.
“Behind Asia in the process of evo¬
lution, Europe is ahead peoples of us and Af¬
rica, bu|; we backward are on
the way; we are traveling along the
same old road, and so, some day, we
shall be where Egyjp t, Greece, Home
and poor old Europe are now, If we
don’t watch out.”—Century Magazine.
Strength of Plywood.
Plywood is wood of any variety that
has been cut by a machine into thin
layers and glued together in such a
way that the grain of one- layer runs
at an angle to the grain of two adja¬
cent layers. The strength of a ply¬
wood panel, in two*planes greatly ex¬
ceeds that of steel. With some wood,
by combining cuts, it is even possible
to get greater resistance to stress ip
all three planes than steel affords,
although It is rarely necessary to go
so far. .
Ordinary wood- used for airplane
construction is not required to with¬
stand severe stresses in more than two
planes. What plywood means to air->
plane construction is well illustrated
in the ease, of the Haviland machine.
Before that method of using wood was
invented the best airplane wing
weighed 7.95 ounces and was capable
of sustaining a load of only 91
pounds. Since then the plywood rib
used on the Haviland weighs 5.12
.ounces and will carry a load of 274
pounds.
“Pressed Wood” as Fuel.
It is said that in California “pressed
wood” is a fuel that has become more
or less popular. Fuel for domestic
purposes has always commanded high
prices in southern California, and con¬
sequently some one perceived the op¬
portunity. to win wealth from waste by
utilizing a part of the great quantities
of shavings and sawdust that is annu¬
ally thrown away or at best used to
poor advantage in sawmills, planing
mills and similar establishments. So
this ingenious person invented a ma¬
chine for pressing shavings and saw¬
dust into molds. A string through the
center of the mold helps hold the
material together, and the heavy pres¬
sure to which it is subjected is all that
is necessary to accomplish the rest.
Correction.
The man was before the court on;
the charge of being drunk and disor¬
derly The on policeman the previous who evening. had arrested
him had given evidence and the magis¬
trate asked the prisoner it he had any
question* to ask the witness.
“Yes,” said the man. “If you are
so certain of the details of the case
why don’t you call your fellow police¬
men to corroborate yo»?” ' ,
“There’s only one constable in the
village,” replied the witness.
“But I saw two myself last night”
said the indignant visitor.
“That is Just the charge against
you," retorted the policeman, with a
smite.
He May Have Been Extra Weary.
You may like to know," said the
landlord when he was making out his
mu, “that General Lafayette once
slept In the bed you . occupied last
night. *»
Did he?" the motoring tourist re¬
plied. “He muat have been some
i sleeper.”
j j
J sure, He's Daft, All Right.
Nell—Vaughn said If I didn’t marry
; him he’d lose his mind,
I • Jenny—And yesterday he> proposed
j to Eleanor.
Nell—Weil, now, that just show*
he’s lost his mind, if
UICKERIS HAD ODD CLOTHES
^Author Always Overdressed and Had
Appearance of a Gambler—Charles
Lamb Always Wore Black.
“He had a double gold chain outside
bis waistcoat, and such breastpins that
I thought he looked like one of our
river gamblers.” Such is the descrip¬
tion of Cbarlfes Dickens, given by Pren¬
tice In an account of his four of the
United States. A tendency for over¬
dressing was always one of Dickens’
characteristics.
A photograph of Dickens, taken In
1852, shows him In a frock coat with a
broad velvet collar, a waistcoat made
of some furry stuff, and trousers of a
huge check. Percy Fitzgerald says
the French painter’s remark, that
Dickens was “more like one of the old
Dutch admirals we see In the picture
galleries than a man of letters,” con¬
veys an admirably true Idea to his
friends.
“The first time I saw Archbishop
Whately,” said the provost of Oriel
college, Oxford, “he wore a pea-green
coat, while waistcoat, stone-colored
shirt, flesh-colored stockings. Bishop
Heber was dressed to a parsley and
butter coat Doctor Arnold to a light
blue coat with metal buttons and a
buff waistcoat
Charles Lamb always dressed to
black. “1 take It,” he said, “to be the
proper costume of an author." When
this was once objected to at a wedding,
be pleaded the raven’s apology to the
fable that “he had no other.” His
clothes were entirely black, and he
wore long black gaiters up to the
knees.
Southey wore clogs; be had a fawn,
colored all-around coat and a cap with
a knob to it. He never put on a swal¬
low-tailed coat. Like Southey, Porson,
the great Greek scholar, had an utter
contempt foF appearances. When Haz
litt met him in the library of the Lon¬
don institute, he^va? dressed in an
old rusty black coat, with cobwebs
hanging to the skirt, and with a large
patch of coarse brown paper covering
the whole length of his nose.—London
Tit-Bits.
WHITJIER WAS IN LOVE'ONCE
Writer'* Romance With Elizabeth
Lloyd Hi* Only Sweetheart, Told
in a Little Volume.
Whittier never married. His. heart
never yearned in verse for a Highland
Mary or a Maid- of Athens, and so far
as his work, and- tbe superficial aspects
‘of his life were concerned, he seemed
to be so remote from the divine—or
human—passion a* Joan of Arc or
Savonarola.
And yet Is 1C now known the poet
who walked his days In hmety bache¬
lorhood had had 1 a romance, bad loved
and lost, had really in his own life
enacted, to a measure, the world-old
theme which found such haunting ex¬
pression in his own “Ma-ud' Muller.” The
story Is told to a little volume, “Whit¬
tier’s Unknown Romance,” to which
his letters to Elizabeth Lloyd, Whit¬
tier’s only “sweetheart,” are repro¬
duced. The lack of Elizabeth's letters
to him, however, leaves the story in¬
complete. They were destroyed, for
some reason, not hard to surmise, by
the lady’s request.
Few allusions tn Whittier’s poems
are traceable to her, though the com¬
panion of' his “Monadnock,” whose
sweet Influence he acknowledged, is
said to have been his Elizabeth, and to
his own letters he attributed much of
his inspiration on various themes to
conversations he had with her.—De¬
troit News.
Her Tyrannical Superior.
They had a woman traffic officer to
an eastern city and sh* was a good
one, too. She wore white gloves,
knickerbockers, a jaunty cap and di¬
rected traffic with all the- nonchalance
of an expert The other day, how- *
ever, she turned ini her equipment and
returned; to skirts. A friend wanted
to know what the trouble was.
tt I don't care to- discuss it,” the ag¬
grieved one declared.
"Aw, go ahead and tell me, dearie,”
said the other. *
“Well, the chief refused a reason¬
able request and: I quit.”
it Something In the line of duty?”
the other woman wanted to know.
“jl so consider It. I merely wanted
an hour off to get my hair washed.”
Sheep Buried to Snow Three Weeks.
A correspondent recalls an incident
which happened some years ago on
the moors between Huddersfield and
Oldham, England. A heavy fall of
had drifted up and many of the
sheep which had been grazing on the
snow were burled. For three weeks
the snohr held fast, and drift after
drift was searched by shepherds for
the missing sheep.
At the end of the third week three
sheep were discovered buried beneath
a drift In one of the doughs. They
were to a very emaciated state, and
had apparently lived by eating the
wool off each other’s back, for all
three were as bare as newly Shorn
sheep. One died soon after, but the
other two completely recovered from
their enforced starvation.
Put Hit Foot in It.
Hub (with magazine)—Here is an
interesting article on dress. The
writer describes the clothes women
will wear twenty years from now.
Wife—That doesn’t Interest me a
particle.
Hub—Why not?
Wife—Because, unless something
wonderful happens I shall still be
wearing this same old blue serge suit
I’ve had ever since we were married.
—Boston Transcript.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1924.
Japanese Story-Tellers.
Public story-tellers still earn a good
livelihood in Japan. In the large
cities and towns hundreds of them ply
their trade, provided with a sffiall
table, a fan and a paper wrapper*to
Illustrate and emphasize the points
of their tales. * ,
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Resolved that we will strive to give our
friends and customers better service than ever
if possible, and bigger and better values.
We wish to thank each and every one of our
Customers, who have made it possible for us to
increase our business, from year to year, and as
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Coal Wait* In Uncovered Pipes.
It Is estimated that a ton of eoal
a year Is wasted by each uninsulated
hot-water tank in use in American
homes. Greater economy Is possible ■
if nil hot-water and hot-air pipes he
Insulated, preventing about four-fifths flH s
of this loss.