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.SCOUTS LEARN LIFE’S FIGHT
Kvery parent who tins been con
demned by his offspring to read out
Jong disquisitions from “The Swiss
Family Robinson” on the simple and
satisfactory pastime of being cast away
Rs entitled to a grim appreciation of
the tale of the lost souls of Cllperton
island. These poor Mexicans did not
find life on a lonely strand us gay and
comfortable as did those marvelous
Swiss, says an editorial In the New
York Tribune.
Set face to face with nature, uuas
sisted by any tools of civilization, they
fulled to make a living, quite us you
and I would probably fail. Most of
them died of scurvy or starvation.
Given paradise, precious few mod
erns could do more than skimp along.
We are highly educated by comparison
with less learned centuries, but not
educated at all in the raw business of
squeezing life out of a reluctant Moth
er Nature. The farmer’s boy would
do better than some on a desert is
land. The plainsman would do best
of all. Most of us would die of starva
tion before we could remember how to
make a fire with sticks or invent a
fishline or plant a last peck of pota
toes so they would grow.
The Boy Scouts are putting some
rudimentary sense back into coming
generations. Perhaps, also, universal
military training may help. All mod-*
ern education is based on the notion
that actual contact with the hard facts
of life has been neglected and is both
interesting and useful. A little prac
tical training in how to wrestle with
the world with hare hands would be
equally good for both hands and souls.
MINERS PRAISE BOY SCOUTS.
Following an address by H. W.
Wester, the new executive at Birming
ham, Ala., of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, the United Mine Workers of Ala
bama passed the following resolution :
“Be it resolved, That the convention
of United Mine Workers union dele
gates do hereby heartily Indorse the
scheme of the Boy Scouts of America
as laid down by the national headquar
ters of the organization, and urge that
our members encourage their boys to
join this movement, which has for its
purpose the making of men and for its
creed the upbuilding of good citizen
ship, good-fellowship and pure democ
racy.”
All of the hundreds of thousands in
terested in the Boy Scouts will be glad
to know that the Mine Workers have
come to realize that there is and can
be no antagonism between the ideals
of organized labor and those of the
Scout movement.
This change of attitude is revealed
in a letter which was sent to the offi
cers and members of the organization
from the headquarters in Indianapolis.
“U. S. BOY SCbUT” SUIT.
The Boy Scouts of America has no
time nor desire to interfere with any
organization which is helping boys.
All the boys in all the boys’ organiza
tions in the country form only a small
percentage of the boys who need di
rection in their activities and charac
ter development, says Scouting. There
is plenty of room for every legitimate
and useful boys’ organization.
Scout officials should help to make
it clear to the public that tlds is not
a row between rival organizations. It
is an attempt to protect boys from be
ing misled and to protect contributors
against the possibility of having funds
intended for the support of the gen
uine Boy Scout movement used for
some other purpose.
The counsel .of the Boy Scouts of
America is former Justice Charles E.
Hughes. The Boy Scouts of America
has a federal charter, and its uniform
is safeguarded by the army reorgani
zation law.
SCOUTS GOOD TO VETERANS.
When the fifty-first annual state
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Itepublic, Department of Wisconsin,
was held in Kenosha, Wis., not a train
entered the city, not a meeting was
held nor an entertainment given with
out Boy Scouts being on hand to ren
der any necessary service.
SCOUT BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS.
The soldiers who are guarding the
bridges and other public utilities
throughout the country would undoubt
edly be glad to receive through Scout
troops magazines whose first readers
have no further use for them.
PRICES ARE FIXED
FOR COAL DEALERS
IMMEDIATE REDUCTION IN PRICE
TO CONSUMER IS EXPECTED
ALL OVER COUNTRY
RETAILERS TOJE WATCHED
Many Alabama Coal Districts Allowed
Increase On Coal At
The Mines
Washington. Government control
over the coal industry was made com
plete by an order of Fuel Administra
tor Garfield limiting the profits of re
tail coal and coke dealers throughout
the country to a basis which is ex
pected to bring about an immediate
reduction in prices to the consumer.
The order, effective now directs that
the retailers shall fix their prices so
as to limit their gross margins over
cost to the average of such gross mar
gins during the year 1915, plus a maxi
mum of 30 per cent of the 1915 mar
gin provided that in no case shall the
average margin of the month of July
this year be exceeded.
Local committees appointed by the
federal fuel administrators in each
state will see to it that the dealers
comply with the order and the dealers
themselves will be called upon to re
turn sworn cost sheets showing the
facts upon which they have based their
prices.
Doctor Garfield selected 1915 as a
normal year because the coal shortage
which resulted in continued rises in
prices did not begin until 1916. The
additional 30 per cent is allowed to
cover the increase in the retailers’
cost of doing business, which has in
creased substantially during the past
two years. Prices already fixed by the
government for coal at the mouth of
the mine are near those charged in
1915, and with the jobbers’ charge now
linyted to 25 cents a ton and the cost
of transportation not materially in
c/eased, the consumer in every com
if.unity should be able to get coal of
Any description at approximately the
price he paid in 1915.
ITALIANS HAVE STARTED
ANOTHER BIG OFFENSIVE
Cadorna’s Forces Drive The Austrians
From High Ground And Capture
Hundreds Of Prisoners
New York.—^The Italians have start
ed another big offensive against the
Austrians on the Isonzo front where,
for a fortnight, virtual quietude had
jirevailed. On the Bainsizza plateau
height positions have been stormed
and taken by General Cadorna’s forces
and hundred of prisoners captured. By
their new successes the Italians have
brought their line almost to the bridge
head of the Chiapovano river near Pod
laca and Madoni, which also gives
them possession of nearly all of the
southeastern portion of the plateau.
The Austrians, realizing the strateg
ic value of the Italian gain, have de
livered extremely heavy counter at
tacks, but to no purpose. Likewise
fruitless have been attempts to dis
lodge the Italians from the southern
slopes of Monte Sail Gabriele.
ANTI-GERMAN PACT
FOR SOUTH AMERICA
Germany Must End The War, Or Else
Suffer South American
Boycott
Buenos Aires. —President Irlgoyen,
in making a renewed effort to bring
about a congress of the South Ameri
can republics to consider international
affairs as they affect this hemisphere,
outlined a program for the American
republics jointly to demand that Ger
many end the war, or else suffer a
solid South American boycott and a
declaration in favor of the entente al
lies. Persons in the confidence of the
president declare that he wishes to
lead the South American republics
against Germany rather than to ap
pear as if he had been pushed into
the conflict by the United States.
Deputy Castellanos, in presenting a
bill to the chamber approving the pro
posal of the president to invite the sis
ter republics to meet at Buenos Aires
and to adopt a joint policy in regard to
the conflict, said that Argentina should
send Luxburg to Germany as a prison
er on board an Argentine warship.
Only Five Lives Lost In The Storm
New Orleans.—That the casualty list
from the West Indian hurricane which
swept the gulf coast sections of east
ern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
and western Florida, would not exceed
five killed, was indicated when wire
less advices received from Pensacola
said there bad been no loss of life
in that vicinity and reports from Hou
ma, La., stated that nine fishermen
who were reported drowned in Sister
lakes had been located, safe with their
vessel undamaged, at a point more
than ten miles from the lake.
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SEE NAPOLEON IN KERENSKY
Many Regard Great Russian Leader,
Now Thirty-Six, as Like
French Hero.
A writer in the.NaMonnl Geographic
Magazine observes that those who, like
Plutarch, seek for parallels in the lives
and characters of men whose genius i
directs the fate of nations, will find
many interesting points of similarity
between the man of destiny of the
Frencli revolution and tlie* man of the
hour in Ilttssia’s day of liberation from
the oppression of autocracy. Napo
leon was in his thirty-sixth year when
lie became first consul of the French
republic; Kerensky, premier of tlie
Ttuslsan cabinet and now exercising
tlie powers of dictator in order to re
store order in tin* empire, is just
thirty-six.
Throughout Ids career Napoleon suf
fered from the incurable Internal mal
ady, supposedly cancer of the stom
ach; Kerensky is also tortured by a
disease (supposedly tuberculosis of the
liver), which prevents ids working at
fever heat more than a few weeks at
a time; then he Is forced by weakness
to recuperate for three or four days in
a sanitarium in the Crimea.
Napoleon’s judgment of men was in
stant and almost infallible; Kerensky
Is reputed to possess tlie* same faculty
to a remarkable degree.
Kerensky is an impassioned orator
Eat More Com!
When you eat com instead of wheat you are saving for the
boys in France.
Com is an admirable cool weather food.
Whether or not you like com bread, com muffins, “Johnny
Cake”, or com pone, you are sure to like
Post T oasties
The newest wrinkle in com foods—crisp, bubbled flakes of
white com—a substantial food dish with an alluring smack—
and costs but a trifle.
Make Post Toasties Your War Cereal
Children Cry For
CASTOR IA
What is CASTORIA
Castorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium,
Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee.
For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the
relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea;
allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the
Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving
healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea —The
Mother’s Friend.
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of forceful, incisive style. His exhor
tations to the soldiers of the new Rus
sia have much in common with the in
spiring appeals of Napoleon to his
soldiers before tlie Battle of the Pyra
mids and elsewhere.
A Fifty-Fifty P. M.
Postmaster Hanks ran the general
store as well as the post office and
one summer morning a lanky youth
slouched in, removed his battered
straw hat and said:
“Mr. Hanks, I un'erstand there’s two
letters here fur me—one wot come a
month ago and one wot come last
week. I’m afoared my folks must lie
sick, or else they wouldn't be wiltin’
so plum often. Let me have them let
ters. will ye. Mr. Hanks?”
The postmaster glared at the youth.
“No, Peleg Anderson, I won't let ye
have them letters till ye settle fur
that lot o' groceries wot’s been owin’
so long!"
The young man took out some
money.
“I kin settle half the account, Mr.
Hanks.”
“Then.” said the postmaster, in a
milder voice, “I kin give ye one o’ yer
letters,” and lie did so. “Squar’ up
in full, Peleg Anderson, an’ ye'll git
yer other letter, but not before.”
Subject for debate: Can a man have
cold feet and a warm heart at the
same time?
DOBBIN HAS A DAY DREAM
Faithful Old Horse Will Have Regular
Thrill When He Casts Off
His Shoes.
When the automobile and the tin
Lizzie shall at last have relegated the
“boss” to the limbo of things obsolete,
will the noble animal degenerate and
hark back to his accustomed type, or
will he simply disappear like tHe dodo?
asks “Zint” in Cartoons magazine.
It hus taken a lot of time and pa
tience to develop Dobbin from the
primitive models such as the liydraeo
therlum, the pacliynolophus and the
eohippus, to make him “whoa,” back
and “gitap” and take his meals out of
a nosebag. In the process of civiliza
tion in* has gradually lost his toes ntid
has had to accommodate His feet to
the horseshoe; Does he still dream
perhaps of the delights of having toes
—of sinking them down into the green
sqush of the tertiary era and feeling
the cool goo trickle up between them!
If so, how glad he will be some day
I to look down and see bis long-forgotten
I toes beginning to sprout once again!
His will lie the thrill of the small boy
| on the first warm day of spring when
lie can cast off his shoes and go bnre
foot.
When the “lioss" discovers for the
first time that lip can again wiggle
j Hiss toes, he will doubtless radiate a
I smile of solid comfort.