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"PREPAREDNESS" OVERTOPS PARTIES Average Congressman Naturally Against It, But Fears to Take Stand. SEN ATOR LODGE GIVES WARNING Compulsory Military Training tor Students Gains Support Industrial Commission Dead Washington, Jan. 30.?Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, made an exceedingly significant | observation in the course of debate the other day, though the statement does not seem to have attracted the attention its seriousness deserves. He was agreeing with the declaration of President Wilson that preparedness is not a party question as between democrats and republicans, and should not be made one. So heartily did the Massachusetts senator approve of this that he predicted the appearance and victory of a preparedness party if both the democratic and republican organizations were to repudiate the policy. It is just this danger in the preparedness issue that frightens the average congressman to the last gasp if he expressed his real feelings. The average congressmsan is for the "pork barrel" principle; that is to say, he is primarily ior geiung appropriations of federal funds to be expended in his own district and is against the appropriation of such funds as a general proposition of his own district does not get any of the money. But if the people of the country are really behind the movement for preparedness, or if they can be thoroughly aroused on the subject between now and the next election day, opposition to the program may mean the loss of the average congressman's seat. And there's the rub! President Wilson knows the temper of the average congressman, and the executive is appealing to the country in his series of speech-making trips to get behind the average congressman and influence him to support the preparedness program. This is the characteristic Wilsonian way. The average congressman gets very little attention from the white house now; the leaders are consulted personally, and at times the president goes himself to see them?a seductive form of flattery; but the president addresses the public rather than the individual legislator. The individual legislator does not like this at all, but it is embarrassing for him to say so except sotto voce. More is being said sotto voce in congressional| circles nowadays than for a longl time past, but the verv ftmt nf the soft-pedaling would indicate that the president still has the best of it. If they do not love him, they fear him. At this time it is unlikely that either of the great parties would come out for compulsory military training. The president is reported to have expressed him-1, self in disfavor of it. and political leaders generally have pro nouneed the opinion that its ad-j vocacy now would sound the | knell of any party's hopes. However, it is quite perceptible that the sentiment against compulsory military training in the United States is by no means so strong today as it was a fewi mo/iths ago. The meaning of the terrible war abroad is taking time to sink into the public mind. . It took time to sink into the pres- j ident's mind, as he himself ad-j mits. The meaning is simply that sufficiency of defensive weapons and of trained men to use| them is the only safety for anv nation in the 20th century, and more particularly so in this country than in any previous one be vauic ?m me increased intensity of specialization in the military art. and because of the approximate annihilation of space by thei progress of invention and discovery. It is being explained here that "compulsory training" doesj not mean compulsory service as the term is understood in most of the European countries. It signifies as proposed in the United States, a certain amount of fundamental military instruction as a part of the curricula of the schools of the nation, public and private, and a certain minimum of actual camp training. A great many people are being con :-5 verted to the reasonableness of <2R( the suggestion that every ablebodied youth in the United States as a simple matter of pub -1 n lie policy and protection, should: be taugh the military rudiments | A as a part of his education, as the | neV Swiss youth are taught, and the; abie Australian youth are taught. It' t,ote may easily be that in a few years thea this sort of compulsory training out will be an institution of our land. U8ed And it is being observed rnoreiter 1 frequently than it was a few Iarg' months back that there is noth- ^orr ing extreme in having a regular tor army of two or three hundred 3f tr men in a country with 95,000,000 n people to protect. the It develops that the industrial man; committee, Frank P. Walsh, mam chairman, which is sending out ,raw mimeograph letters attacking *da the preparedness policy of the administration is not a govern- jndu| ment body. Its chairmanship is 0f a the same as that of the industrial fUrni commission, and its membership parei is largely so; but it gets no mon- dian. ey from the treasury. The indus- ?r:in trial commission expired by lim- ua,e< itation of the act creating it, ~?tt| some months ago. Congress let it die a natural death. Natural- lnsta ly, many of those who have been even receiving the propaganda of the uct. i industrial commission through of lr the mails thought it was the out- beea put of the industrial commission. yean And it was, except that Uncle Sam wasn't paying the bill. He WAS cut off the money, but couldn't stop the fuSS. Amu IN Try This. If ycm will lake a pavement that Is clear, and walk briskly in the center. 8terr you will tlnd that before you have tbe ( gone 50 yards you have unconsciously "N veered very much to one side. To "f?r make this test accurate you must not to cc use any effort to keep in the center, crab If you think of something else and swea endeavor to walk naturally, you will find that you are not able to keep nton going in a straight line. In the same men way a person lost in a wide expanse Thei of level country will describe a com- ber plete circle as he keeps walking on an<l and on. The explanation of this lies nolsi In the propensity of one foot to walk bead faster than the other, or to take a your longer stride than the other, causing ,omi you to veer to one side or the other. tbe ?a ht "R^a-Time." not Rag-time music, "being in no wise 6erious." is the reverse of depressing. E "The African Jingles of the present Tl day create an emotional atmosphere in it of restlessness and excitement which prob is typically American, and which is claw opposed to health only so far as our lengi national restlessness and lack of poise It w tend to make us a people whose na- welltional disease is nervous exhaustion.' Woo Roughly speaking, lively music, doini such as rag-time, is likely to rouse de- Sonii pressed persons from their melan- ably choly; sad and pathetic music will from soothe the excitable and hypernerv- from ous. itsell long Offered a Compromise. p Househusband?Yes, I'll give you geve a good, square meal after you saw wt,jK some wood. mate Tramp' tte My bock's too lame, but, t liirt instead, l could lecture on suffrage ' before youi literary society.?Life. Th The Southern Ocean. yOU According to a note in the Oeograph- that teal Journal, the name "Southern lief ocean" has been recommended by the "sch British admiralty and formally adopt- may ed by the commonwealth of Australia Judg and the i'nion of South Africa to des- whlc ignate the whole oceanic zone encir- syinl cling the globe south of Australia, ful f Africa and South America. The name | that is, of course, not new, but It is not to then be found in l.ippincott's Gazetteer, and i ed. 1 has been used in a merely tentative ; wore way by many geogruphers. As the i gree admiralty mentions the Antarctic con- 1 vlctc tlnent as the southern boundary of self, this body of water, no room is ieft on Arqi the map for an "Antarctic ocean." j Will | Hevc I | How is Your " Yes, y THESE Li-: \i>i:ks here win nro best, x ? ntke\(jthk\kiw nut tt p unci people v HIRERS. reiies fr 0 On th. , t ,, ... great nu Flour . . , 11 t. n. lack for 1 * I olTep ? i ,r Is never ai rea* life to th if SuKiir Canned Good* And > Everytlilnu for the of Peol ' Table. THEIR < \ WhJcl i I Whlcl | Edwards & ? COAL SHINGLI I THE LANCASTER NEWS. FERUAR )WING USE OF ASBESTOS ### ip In Constantly Increasing Do ^ nand and Now Fields for Mln- ^ ______ ing Being Developed ibestos, which Is rock matter, but ^P irtheless almost as soft and pli | as cotton or woolen fabric, is a M H j ntlal life saver. The fireproof ^P K H | ter curtain is made of asbestos. ^p fl I it has many other uses ft is ^ II a I a I In making lumber, roofing, pios- ^P J tnd stucco. Houses that are built ^p sly of asbestos afford their oocu s not only complete protection ^P 1 fire, because it is a "nonconduc pp but assure them also the comfort ^ eedom trotn extreme heat and cold ^ te asbestos-producing Industry of ^ United States Is growing. For y years we have been the greatest ^P ffil Eg ufacturers and users of asbestos. ^p dng our raw material from Can ^F . but we are now getting some ex ^P i nt fiber in our own country. The ^P JS&J t notable feature of the asbestos ^ I stry in 1914 was the development ^P ! * new field in Arizona, which is ishing a grade of fiber that com I s verv favorably with #h? farm I * As the mineral occurs in the ^k d Canyon, it is frequently deslg r-|^ i Grand Canyon asbestos, a!- ! lo ITU ?h the deposit In that remarkable A ral wonder is not yet producing . stos commercially. For electric ^P 5% o I llation the Arizona asbestos is ^k C ? ! better than the Canadian prod- ^ for it contains a lower percentage w on. Asbestos of a low grade has SlOCxV produced in Georgia for many ^ ?.?Newark News. ^P 5 A THOUGHTFUL SUITOR O red Father Mia Daughter Would MEN'S lot Have Home Like She Had ^P Been Used To. ^ Men's $7.50 oung man," inquired hor father w Men's $10.00 ily, "will you give her a home like sale prior me she hus been used to?" ' o," replied the truthful suitor. ^P ,s \ ^ there will be no grumpy father Men's !>lo VV inie home and make everyone mis- Men's $18.5( le by Ills kicking over trifles and ^P irlng at matters in general. There Men's $1.25 bo no mother to scold her from , ?. ()() \ ling to night for wasting time 9 eo cp \ ily because she wants to be neat. ^k Men S $~.o \ e will be no big brother to abuse Men S $.1.50 \ for not doing half of his work. ^P Men's $5.00 j no little brother to make enough ^k price . . e to drive her crazy when her ? I aches. There won't be any ^P iger sister to Insist on reading ^p KU l > ? trashy novel while she does all ( t work. She will not have with me ^P Boys $J1.00 k ime like she has been used to, ^p Boys' $4 and If I can help it."?Boston Journal. Boys' ^7 50 i A Boys' Knee I )inner From a Lobster's Claw. , i? Rath Times had not long ago Men s I)l t ss s window the largest lobster claw coats . . . ably ever seen In these pagte. The Any Ladies' < alone measures 10H Inches In th and some six Inches in width. as brought Into the office by the known diver Scott Tibbetta of lwlch, who found It recently while Good plaids, g some work at Barter's Island. Good Ollting e o( his .iredBihg ppar.tu-, i.rob # Good bleachi the bucket, separated this claw the rest of the lobster. Judging 'J Good bleach) the size of the claw, the lobster Andl'OSCOggil f must have been several feet ^ and a monster. The meat In ^P Bed Tick, 10< claw was of good color and fit [>C(l Tick 2? at and enough for a dinner for nrice ral people. The claw alone ^P ^ ' ' hed three pounds, and he estl- ^P Dress glllght) (d the weight of the lobster at Dress Gingh y pounds?Kennebec Journal ^P 5 Dress serge Lines to Be Remembered. A J)ress serge icsn then are my lust words to nricp He not afraid of life, nelleve ^P , ' . L life is worth living and your be- ^P i 'jl),on ' will help create the fact. The Maid dress g ntlflc" proof that you are right ^P 1' HUCy dress , not be clenr before the day of ^P Wool atld Ct ment for some stage of being a. h that expression may serve to xillze) is reached Hut the faith- SOU! Ighters of this hour or the being6 , then and there will represent ^P Beacon, L i. may then turn to the faint-heart- ^P Hoge Montg1 who here decline to go on, with Mtll's $3.00 Is like those with which Henry IV ^P Men's $3.50 ted the tardy Crillon after a great ^P Men's $4.00 iry had been gained "Hang your- ^ <?o brave Crtllon! We fought at ^ TU*""'* ies. and you were not there."? flP Men S $o.->0 ium James in "The Will to Be- Men s $4.00 i." W Ladies' heav Ladies' $2.23 - ^ Ladies' $2.0C I ladies' |:L5( M ? O i Ladies' $1.5( Appetite' | 3a.e": 1 ou will find people around i ^ne appetites are not of the J ^P i *00111 ten, you will also find some T vho do not buy their gro- T ?? om us. 4 ^P e other hand, you will find a I my of our people who never 4 ^P ? an appetite, whose digestion ! I "Hone impaired, who are enjoying ,, fp >e fullest extent. | f ^ m rou will And a vast number , JP 2.11 2 >le hereabouts who BUY ] \ (IBOTERfGH FROM US. J ??? i class are you In? . Mm i class do you want to be in? Horton ! i AV1, is wood i Not < >m\w Y 1, 1916 =ANNU^ EARANCE AT= 1 1 oliaki ike room for Spri ready arriving we of first class mc sacrifice. i Sl ITS AND PANTS. Cashmere Suits; sale price Men'i *498 49c, 98* Cashmere and Worsted Suits; .. * i $6.98 John B. 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Pull lir Arrow DRY GOODS. worth 7 l-2c; sale price . . 5o worth 7 l-2c; sale price . . 5c Good T ni? worth 7 l-2c; sale price 5c ing, yard wide; sale price 6c ' Good T 11 bleaching; sale price 8 l-2c Good T c value, sale price .... 7 l-2c Men's j >c value, water proof; sale r 17 l-2c ims 10c value; sale price 7 l-2c Men s i am 12 l-2c value; sale price Men's 9 l-2e 75c value; sale price .... 49c Ladies and staples, 50c values; sale Good T 38c <inghanis; sale price . . . . 5c Hoys 1 oods, 25c value; sale price 15c Men's 1 goods 39c value; sale price 23c )tton Blankets at half price. Men's ? Men's 1 1) LEATHER SHOES. Men>s 2 ndicott Johnsoil, Bradford & viQ,,?a ?; ornery Brands. 1 heavy shoes; sale price $2.25 Men's I heavy shoes; sale price $2.98 . , , heavy shoes; sale price $3.39 Men s i Dress shoes; sale price $1.49 25c Ta dress shoes; sale price $2.98 dress shoes; sale price $3.25 *a y shoes; sale price .... $1.25 Peroxic ? heavy shoes; sale price $1.69 ) dress shoes; sale price $1.49 6c Pear ) dress shoes; sale price $1.93 r Q f ) dress shoes; sale price $2.98 ,>c a ) dress shoes ; sale price $1.19 10 ball: Roys' and Children's shoes, at Quit ca I miss this great moi REMEMBER OUR ;sty our foundation ind square dealing c . POLLA :onnected with any other < < ? 1 ^salem olf's! ng goods which offer our entire { jrchandise at a# a HATS. ? 3, Boys' and Children's Hats 25c, a c, $1.50, $1.98. Z Stetson $4.00 Hat; sale price $2.98 a FURNISHINGS. !? n's Union Suits; sale price . . 19c Rib Vests, all sizes; sale price 19c ^ lleece vests, first quality; sale W e 38c leece Underwear, first quality; sale J e 38c fleece Under shirts; first quality; ^ price 19c W Union Suits, first quality; sale X e 39c ^ leece drawers and shirts; sale A e 23c X an Beauty Corsets 50c up A te Men's Dress and Heavy Shirts. ^ Brand Collars. ft a -A MISCELLANEOUS. # owels, worth 10c; sale price .. 5c ? owels, worth 15c; sale price .. 9c ; owels, worth 25c; sale price . . 19c ^ ?ray socks; sale price 5c A gray socks, 10c value; sale price 7c ^ socks, all colors; sale price .. 7c w handkerchiefs 10c value, price 5c x handkerchiefs; sale price . . . . 2c ^ oilet soap, 3 cakes for 10c A 0c Suspenders; sale price . . . . 5c ^ 5c Suspenders; sale price .... 15c ^ >()c Suspenders; sale price .... 23c ft 50c Belts; sale price 33c ^ !5c Belts; sale price 19c ^ 15c Brighton Garters; sale price 19c ^ 50c Neckwear; sale price . . . . 23c ^ 25c Neckwear; sale price . . . . 19c ^ Icum powder; sale price .. .. 15c & leum powder; sale price .. . . 8c 4) .c 8c A 1 Buttons, 2 cards for 5c ^ ;ty pins, 2 dozen for 5c ^ j i Sewing thread 5c A | lico in bundles 19c up ^ ] j ley saving sale. ] MOTTO: ?ur success" * j XOFFj. store in Lancaster. ?