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Ramiey/N CHAPTER* X. w< ?12? bu Ramsey kept very few things from to Fred Mitchell, and usually his confl- ho deuces were immediate upon the occasion of them; but allowed several tin weeks to elapse before sketching for m< his roommate the outlines of this ad- gu venture. fig "One tiling that was kind o' funny gu about it, Fred," lie said, "I didn't tin know what to call her." an Mr. Mitchell, stretched, upon the fat window seat in their "study," and look- to ing out over the town street below sir and the campus beyond the street, had ag already thought It tactful to umbush nu Ids profound amusement by turning tin upon his side, so that his face was fh< toward the window and away from his gel companion. "What did you want to wn call her?" he Inquired in a serious lef voice. "Names?" ' wc "No. You know what I mean. I ' mean I had to. keep calling her 'you'; th< and that gets kind of freaky when ' ? you're tntkln' to anybody a good while ' like tlulf. WJien she'd be lookin' away / ' from me, for instance, or down at the ' river, or somewhere, and I'd want to wa start sayin' something to her, you Bu know, w'hy, I wouldn't know how to sh< get started exactly, without callin' her ' something. A person doesn't want to do' be always startin' off with 'See here,' ' or things like that." pos "I don't see why you let It trouble you," said Fred. "From how you've always talked about her, you had a perfectly handy way to start off with anvthitiL' von wanted to sav to her." * "What with?" "Why didn't you just say, 'Oh, you Toucher's l'et!' That would?" 'Get out! What I mean is. she , called me 'Ramsey' without any both- > er; Ft seems funny I got stumped every time I started to say 'Dora.' Some waj' I couldn't lund it, and it certainly would 'a' sounded crazy to call her 'Miss Yocum' after slttin' in the same y room with her every day from the Aid1 baby class clear on up through the end TO of high school. That would 'a' made i),n nie out an idiot!" vj ' "What did you call her?" Fred asked. I "Just nothin' at all. I started to call \ her something or other a hundred > times, I guess, and then I'd balk. I'd \ ft get all ready, and kind of make a sort j * of a sound, and then I'd have to quit." "She may have thought you had a cold," said Fred, still keeping his back /A .turned. | "I expect maybe she did?though I don't know; niyst the time she didn't .Seem to notice me much, kind of." "She didn't?" ? ' "No. She was too upset, I guess, by what she was thinkin' about." ,u,("But if it hadn't been for that," FYed suggested, "you mean she'd have certainly paid more attention to who aft' ... ? i,.-. i....j,?. i.,.,. >?> ti 111 whs SllllIIU i'll mc iiciiv 11 iiiui net i "(let out! You know how it was. nnc Everybody fciose few days thought we hoc were goin" to have war, and she was tliii just sure of it. and it upset her. Of tliii course most people were a lot more Do upset by what those Dutchmen did to wn the Lusitnnia than by the idea of war; " and she seemed to feel as broken up as the anybody could lie about the Lusitnnia. " but what got her the worst was the nil notion of her country wantln' to fight, " she said. She really was upset, too, wo F*red; there wusn't no puttln' on wa about it. I guess that ole girl cer- Sin talnly must have a good deal of feel- ant ing, because, doggoned, after we'd slu been sittin* there a while if she didn't wa have to get out her handkerchief! She bee kept her face turned away from me? on. Just the same as you're doin' now to she keep from laughin'?but honestly, she | the cried like somebody at u funerul. I ne^ felt like the darndest fool!" as "I'm not laughing," said Fred, but fre he did not prove It by turning so that tni Ads face could be seen. "Whut did she fro ,*n yV" pie "Oh. she didn't say such an awful brt Jot. She suid one kind o' funny thing be though: she said she was sorry she sor couldn't quite control herseJf, but if K0' auybody had to see her cry she minded sel It less because it was uu old school- asl mute. What struck me so kind o' to funny about that Is?why, it looks as 1 If she never knew the way I always hated her so." to "Yes," said Fred. "It wasn't flattering!" Won sir It Isn't, kind of." Rain- *UI Bey agreed, mushigly. "It certainly Isn't when you look ut It that way." tru "What did you say when she suid that?" Fred asked. _ "Nothin'. 1 started to. hut I sort of hulked again. Well, we kept on sitting " there, and nfterwhlle she began to ? talk again ami got kind of excited If about how no war could do anything or anybody any good, and all war was pri wicked, no matter what it was about, and nothin' could be good that was founded on fear and hute, and every war that ever was fought was always ' founded on fear and hate. She said If the (Jermans wanted to tight us we ought to go to meet them and tell them we wouldn't light." TIK "What did you say?" Kr< "Nothin". 1 kind o' started to?but "a what's the use? She's got that in her head. Resides, how are you goin' to argue about a thing with a person s,<l that's crying about it? I tell you, Fred. 'HI I guess we got to admit, after ail. that ?de girl eertalnly must have a lot of s,r heart about her. anyway. There may 1,1,1 not he mueli fun to her?though .of uie course I wouldn't know hardly any ('111 way to tell about that?hut there couldn't he hardly any doubt she's got g lot of feeling. WeJI, ami then she 0Vl tillioUand ^b9 Illustrations by/ , t.by Doubleday, Page & Company. ?nt on and said old men made wars, t didn't fight; they left the'fighting the hoys, aud the suffering to the ys' mothers." "Yes!" Fred exclaimed, and upon at lie turned, free of mirth for the unent. "That's 1 lie woman of It, I ess. Send the old men to do the htlng! For the matter of that. I ess niv father'd about a thousand ues rather go lilniself than see me (1 my brothers go; but Father's so t be can't stoop! You got to be able stoop to dig a trench, I guess! Well, ppose we sent our . old men up ainst those Dutchmen; the Dutch>n would Just kill the old men, and ?n come after the boys anyway, and ? boys wouldn't be ready, and they'd t killed, too; and then there aildn't be anybody but the Dutchmen t, and that'd be one fine world, 'uldn't It!" Yes," said Ramsey. "Course I Might of that." 'Did you tell her?" No." 'What did you say?" 'Nothin'. I cou'.dn't get started nnyy. but. besides, what was the use? t she didn't want the old men to go; didn't want anybody to go." 'What did she want the country to ?" Fred asked, impatiently. 'Just what It has been doin', I sup>e. Just let things sinnner down, No. I Started To, but?Shut Up!" I poke along, ami let tliem do what y like to us." I guess so!" said Fred. "Then, erwhile, when they got some free e on their hands, they'll come over 1 make it really interesting for us, a use they know we won't do anyag hut talk. Yes, I guess the way ngs are settling down ought to suit rn. There isn't goin* to be any r." She was pretty sure there was, ugh," Itumsey said, thoughtfully. Oh. of course she was then. We thought so those few days." No. She said she thought It prob'ly uldn't come right away, but now it s almost sure to come sometime. * ?I1 *n!U ? Slim our ivirgimua miu an iin- iait\ 1 so much feeling and everything wed her that the war thought that s always In people somewhere had n stirred up so It would go on and She said she knew from the way ? felt herself about the Lusltanla it a feeling like that In her would ;er be absolutely wiped out as long she lived. But she said her other ling about the horrlhleness of war ight her to keep the first feeling m breaking out, but with other peoIt wouldn't; njid even if war didn't nk out right then, It would always ready to. all over the country, and netlme It would, though she wp.s n' lo do her share to fight It, herf. as long as she could stand. She ced me wouldn't 1 be one of the ones help her." iie paused, and after a moment ed asked, "Well? What did you say that?" 'Nothin'. I started to. but?" Again Fred thought It tactful to 7) and look out the window, while ? agitation of his shoulders beiyed him, 'Go on and luugli! Well, so we HRRORS MADE ocess Is a Somewhat Complicated One and Calls for a High Degree of Skill. Mirrors are made from plate glnss. ie proper Ingredients are mixed tether and melted in large pots. The dten mass is then poured out on jut iron tables and a heavy roller ttens out the glass to the desired Ickness. The sheets are then anuled, which consists of heating them iwly in various chambers kept at Tereiit temperatures. This is for ? purpose of relieving unnatural uin in the formed glass, which ikes it extremely brittle, so that a re touch is sometimes sullicient to use the plate to break. After the iss lias been cut to the proper size i sheets are polished hy ruhhing t*r the surface pads or small disks ste.yed there quite h while. hut befiw* we left she got kind of more like everyday, you know, the way people do. II was half-past nine when we walked back to town, and I was coiniuencin' to feel kind ol' hungry, so I asked her if she wasn't, and she sort of laughed and seemed to be ashamed of it, as i! it was a disgrace or something, but she said she guessed she was; So 1 left her by that hedge of lilacs neur the observatory and went on over to the 'Terla and the fruit store, and got some stuffed eggs and olives and halfa-dozen peanut butter sandwiches and a box o' strawberries?kind of girlfood, you know?and went on back there, and we nte the stuff up. So then she snhl she was afraid she'd taken me away from my dinner and made ine a lot of troulde, and so on, and she was sorry, and she told me good-night?" "What did you say then?" "Noth? Oh, shut up! So then she skipped out to her Dorm, and I came on home." "When did you see her next, Ramsey?" "I haven't seen her next," said Ramsey. "I haven't Seen her at all?not to speak to. I saw her on Main street twice since then, hut both times she was with some other girls, and they were across the street, and I couldn't tell if she was lookin* at me?I kind of thought not? I thought it n^ght look sort o* nutty to how to her if she wasn't, so I didn't." "And you didn't tell her you wouldn't he one of the ones to help her with her pacifism and anti-war stuff and all that?" "No. I started to. but? Shut up!" Fred sat up, giggling. "So she tliipks you will help her. You didn't say anything at all, and she must think that means she converted you. Why didn't you speak up?" "Well, I wouldn't argue with her." said Ramsey. Then, after a silence, he seemed to he In need of sympathetic comprehension. "It was kind o' funny though, wasn't It?" he said, appealingiy. "What was?" "The whole business." "What 'whole bus'?" \ "Oh, get out! Her stoppln' me, and me goin' pokln' along with her, and her?well, her crying and everything, and me being around with her while she felt so upset, I mean. It seems? well, it does seem all kind o' funny to me." "Why does It?" Fred Inquired, preserving his gravity. "Why should it seem funny to you?" "I don't mean funny like something's funny you laugh at," Ramsey explained laboriously. "I mean funny like something that's out of the way, and you wonder how it ever happened to happen. I mean it seems funny I'd ever be slttin' there on a bench with that ole girl I never spoke to In my life or had anything to do with, and talkln* about the United States goin' to war. What we were talkln' about, why, that seems just as funny as the rest of It. j Look In' back to our class picnic, f'r ; Instance, second year of high school, that day I jumped in the creek after? Well, you know, it was when I started ma kin' a fool of myself over a girl. Thank goodness, I get that out o' my | system; it makes me Just sick to look back on those days and think of the fool tilings I did. and all I thought about that girl. Why. she? Well, I've got old enough to see now she was Just about as ordinary a girl as there ever was. and If I saw her now I wouldn't even think she was pretty; I'd prob'ly think she was sort of loudlookln*. Well, what's passed Is past, and It Isn't either here nor there. 1 What I started to say was this: that the way it begins to look to me. It ! looks as if nobody can tell in this life j a darn thing about what's goin' to hap! pen, and the things that do happen are ' the very ones you'd swear were the last that could. I mean?you look hack to that day of the picnic?my! but I wns a rube then?well, I mean you look back to that day. and what do you suppose I'd have thought then If somebody'd told me the time would ever come when I'd be 'way off here at college sittin' on a bench with Dora Yocum?with Dora Yocum, in the first place?and her crying' and both of us talking about the United States goin' to war with Germany! Don't It seem pretty funny to you, Fred, too?" "Hut as near as I can make out," Fred said, "that Isn't what huppened." "Why Isn't it?" "You say 'and both of us talking' and so on. As near as I can make out, you didn't say anything at all." "Well, I didn't?much," Ramsey admitted, and returned to his point with almost pathetic persistence. "Hut doesn't it seem kind o' funny to you, Fred?" "Well, I don't know." "It does to me." Ramsey insisted. "It certainly does to me." "Yes," sulci Fred cruelly. "I've noticed you said so, but It don't look any funnier than you do when you say It." Suddenly he sent forth a startling shout. "Wow! You're us red as a blushing beet!" "I am not!" "Y'are:' shouted Fred. "Wow! The ole woman-hater's get the flushes. Oh. look ut the pretty posy!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) OF PLATE GLASS until the finished product Is about half the thickness of the original. The glass Is then ready to be used for show windows, or can be made into mirrors. The back of the sheet of plate glass [ is "silvered." In the early processes | tbfs did not mean what the word indicates, fur no silver was used, but a | mixture of tin and mercury. The high I cost of mercury and the danger of mercurial poisoning brought about its replacement icy silver, which Is used in the form of lunar caustic. While \ silver is an expensive metal, the j amount required to coat even a large ! mirror is so small that the cost is of i no moment. According to tradition. Emperor Maxlmus of Koine wuu eight feet six j inches tall. I DOY SCOUTS (Conducted by Nation*! Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) SCOUTS ON JOB AT DISASTER Hoy scouts rendered conspicuous service In connection with the Knickerbocker theater disuster In Washington, being not only among the first of the original rescuers but being continuously In service so long us there was anything to do. Scoutmaster K. R. Hall of Troop 05 happened to he close at hand when the disuster occurred and set to work at, once, using big knt*vledge of first aid to excellent purpose. Scoutmaster King of Troop 4 was returning from a troon nieetinir when he learned of the tragedy ar.d mobilized his boys as I promptly as possible for service. Other scoutmasters were notified and by Sunday morning as many as 350 scouts , were on the Job, helping the police save lives, running errands, distributing food/ guiding persons to the temporary morgue, etc. Particular praise Is due to Assistant Scoutmasters Hutchinson and Yllek of Troop 74, who with 20 hoys, hiked from I*etworth through the snow, arriving on the scene in half an hour. Special mention is also made of work done by Troop 73, under Scoutmaster Bobbin; Troop 51, under Scoutmaster Taylor. Troops 1 and 43 also did fine work. That the work of the scouts was appreciated by the authorities is evidenced by the following letter from General Handholtz of the War department : "The reports indicate that the volunteer service rendered by the boy scouts during the recent Knickerbocker theater disaster is worthy of the highest praise. "The assistance given the officers and soldiers working at the scene of the catastrophe is greatly appreciated, and 1 wish to extend to you the grateful thanks of my entire command for your efficient uud courageous assistance." GOVERNORS BECOME SCOUTS Last fall on the steps of the capitol ut Albany, Governor Miller becuiue officially an honorary tenderfoot scout and subscribed to the scout oath and law. During anniversary week a large number of gubernatorial heads followed his exumple and are now regulur scouts. The list of scout governors Includes Cox of Massachusetts, McRae of Arkansas, Blaine of Wisconsin, Parker of Louisiana, Stephens of California, Campbell of Arizona, (together with entire state legislature), McCray of Indiana, Neff of Texas, McKelvie of Nebraska, Sansouei of lthode Island, Kendall of Iowa, Kilby of Alabama, Hardee of Florida, Mabey of Utah, Morgan of West Virginia, Dixon of Montana, Davis of Idaho, Olcott of Oregon, Allen of Kansas, Groesbeck of Michigan, Taylor of Tennesseb, Nostos of North Dakota, Morrison of North Carolina, Preus <>f Minnesota, and acting Governor Cooley of Colorado. Among other adults taking the scout oath were many mayors, several secretaries of state and in Trenton, N. J., 100 Kiwanians. FOUR TROOPS FOR STATE Superintendent Derrick of the State School for Boys at Jatnesburg, N. J., recently visited the national council headquarters in order to register four new troops of boy scouts (128 boys), which have been organized in the school. Mr. Derrick is strong In his faith that .scouting win revolutionize the lives of these wayward hoys, and declares It has already worked wonders In the institution. The scouts go on hikes, 'pon honor, and so far no advantage lias been taken of the privilege. This past holiday season was the first for many years, according to Superintendent Derrick, In which no attempt has been inude by boys to escape from the institution. He lays this fuct largely to scouting. SCOUTS AT COASTING PLACES Always on the lookout for opportunities to lie of service, scouts in many cities have acted as volunteer guards at coasting places. In Bradford, Pa., a code system was used? a white Hug meaning "all clear" and a red Hag, "coasters coming." In Easton, Pa., where similar service was performed a well-meaning bystander offered to relieve one of the scout I patrolmen and give him a chance I for a coast or two himself. The by stander reported l^ter as follows: "He looked quite through us us much as to say 'Not on your life. I'm responsible for this Job under orders of the mayor.' We saw his point and admired It and him." SCOUT STICKS TO POST Raymond Rennett. an Eagle scout of Troop 0, Pittsfleld, Mass.. discovering a broken trolley wire, voluntarily stood guard over the same for an hour and a half, warning approaching automobiles of danger. This was in the evening of a January night when the mercury stood at 10 below. In spite of Intense physical discomfort, which resulted in the freezing of one ear. the scout stood at his post without letup until lie was relieved by a lineman able to look after the dangerous wire. DETROIT SCOUTS HONORED Clayton Coulter of Troop 47, Dayj ton, Ohio, who was recently awarded a medal by the National Court of Honor for ids courage and cliiclency in saving a woman from drowning, is the sixth Detroit boy to get a life saving honor medal. SCOUTS TO BECOME FORESTERS A plan is being perfected whereby I hoy scouts will act as rangers lu Cook county (III.) forest preserve. I I XjflG AMERICAN OLE90N* (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American l.eirlin Nova Service.t GUIDES BIG HOSPITAL PLAN William Pierce, Minnesota Legion Commander, Keeps Vow Made While Caring for Wounded. A silent vow made four years ago by a soldier at a French debarkation point soon be ^ I ^1.illInvm J'_ \? iiAmerican Lesion first district, (lid ^4l ^ not have the npportunity of risking his life In his country's defense. He wns stationed at a French port, and It was Ills duty to meet and receive the Ited Cross trains from the front, bearing the maimed bodies of American soldiers. The sufferings of those bleeding, crippled men left an Indelible mark on Ills mind. He v^wed that he would never forget them and that he would never cease to labor for their welfare. An American Legion memorial hospital, whose doors will be perpetually open to any ex-service man from any part of the nation. Is now under way, with William J. IMerce guiding the project. The $T>00,000 needed to erect two JOO-bed wards and to establish a Mayo clinic will he raised largely by the showing of patriotic motion pictures throughout Mlnnestoa, under the auspices of Legion posts. IS STRONG FOR LEGION MEN Mayor of Youngstown, O., May Call on the Ex-Soldjers to Clean Up Town. George L. Oles, the eccentric mayor of Youngstown, O., who was elected Inst fnll on proh- , ^ n successful can- ^ dldate, Is meeting f?vt with more sue- i .. J% cess In governing | some predicted. Beneath his odd ideas and his sen- r&r / =; satlonal manuer /ijT^ ^ : J of presenting W/$jM them to the pub- ^ lie, Mayor Oles seems to possess the fundamental American Ideals that make for good government. He Is making a rather thorough Job of the business of cleaning up Youngstown. "If I have to I'm going to call on the American Legion to turn out and hack up the police force," he said. "We'll get this cleansing job done, and done right." Oles places a great deal of confidence in the ex-soldiers. He employs them in the departments of the city government and says that their work is satisfactory. "The boys seem to have lost that* restless feeling and are, If anything, more noxious to perform | their full duty than men who never served," lie asserts. PICTURES OF THE WORLD WAR j Fifty Photographers on Job, but Views of Hardest Fighting Do Not Tell the Story. During: the Civil war photography was a new art. Only one man was on the Job?Brady. If Brady happened to be around when a battle was fought the battle would be photographed? otherwise not. But photography during the recent war was no such hitand-miss proposition. H/ny the World war was caught on negatives Is told j in an article In a recent number of the American I.egion Weekly. The very first ship that went over carrying General Pershing also curried a movie man. And from that time not , a single Important engagement went "unsnnpped." When our army was at | the height of Its operation It had 50 j photographers. And for every photographer in the field we had three men in the laboratory ready to push our negatives through. Although the photographs extant af- I ford a remarkable history, one of the disappointments has been that even the best of the battle pictures do not show the real danger because most of the hard fighting was done at dawn befere the light was good enough, j During the whole war there was never a motion picture made of hand-to-hand ; fighting by the American troops. The j Italian army posed gome pictures, but j this wns never allowed Dy Amern.au generals. Feed the Needy Day and Night. On day and night shifts. Legionnaires hand out one thousand "coffees and doughnuts" to jobless ex-soldiers, from ; St. Mnrks-in-the-Bowery, New York city. Cold, hungry, and forlorn, the men line up to wait their turn for the hot drink and the good old "fried-cake." Women of the Legion Auxiliary have charge of the relief work during the day. Bonus to Hospital Fund. Captain Kddie Itickenhacker. an ace whom America has not forgotten, received a bonus check for $lSo from the state of Ohio. The ace immediately mailed it to a hospital fund for wounded soldiers, and tls- American Legion is busy signing up others to follow his i example. Ask $15,000,000 for Hospital. Sixteen million tPllurs have been asked from the federal government by the American Legion, for construction of hospitals In New York stuta I ' Washingto ' "Farm Bloc Has Ju 1X7ASIIINGTON.?"The farm bloc ** has just begun to tight." That Is the message of Senutor Capper of Kansas, new leader of the agricultural bloc In the United States senate, who inherited leadership when Senator Kenyon resigned to go on the federal bench. "The legislation In which the bloc has been most active to date." Capper i explains in discussing his plans for the j | future of this bipartisan agricultural group, "has been ill the main emerj gency measures. "We are now facing, however, the task of getting into law , mutters that must form a great, conI struotive, national agricultural policy. "Of first Importance to agriculture j are lower freight rates. We cannot I get back anywhere near to normal i until tlioua rutoc orn 1 nworo/l A Itlwiiurh ! It Is doubtful that there Is a great deal 1 i that congress can do In this line, the mutter of rates being in the hands 1 of the Interstate commerce comrnls! slon, there are two or three things ; which would help. Among these aret ' First: Repeal the guarantee clause of j the Esch-Cununlngs act. Second: RePeace Hath Victori (T7ICT0RIES of peace and public ! * service are to be entered on the ! records of marines alongside the en-* I tries for service in war and equal [ credit Is to be given for each, according tn n new nnlirv niitlinprl iri n rp cent order of Mnjor General John A. Lejeune, commandant of the murine corps. The order relates to the members of the murine corps who took part In the perilous work of rescuing the j Imprisoned and Injured at the Knickerbocker theater disaster and directs that u commendatory notation similar to the marking of credit given for ; participating in buttle be entered In J the service-record book of every ma! Golden Shears for ^TEWSPAPER correspondents at the | ' capital the other day presented ! to Secretary of State Hughes a pair I of gold desk sheurs In token of their appreciation for his "kindly assistance i to them in their work" since assuming oflice. Why shears? Because. Atropos, the most interesting goddess of the Three Fates, Is the supremely Intelligent lady with the shears whc is supposed to deal Justly with the fate, not only of Individuals but of nations, j The gift was presented by Matthew F. Tighe, who has been "covering" the State department for more than forty years. "The inscription on the present speaks of its motive as gruti-1 tilde,' hut we now amend it by adding , Uo u7irH? 'norannnl pstppin. retrard and I affection,'" said Mr. Tighe. "We uli hope you will live for many yeurs and will make the use of this golden gift that Alexunder made of his sword in cutting the Gordiun knots of international diplomacy." "Nothing is more difficult," Mr. Hughes said, "than to maintain the proper contact on the part of a public Naturalization and /^5laoT| C' '' A NEW naturalization and reglstratlon bill giving Independent citizenship to women und redeeming Republican pledges for better economic 1 guidance of alien residents has been ' introduced in the house by Repre- 1 sentative Albert Johnson of Washing- 1 ton, chairman of the immigration com- ' mittee. It reorganizes the naturalization bu- 1 reau \of the Department of Labor, ' changes Its title to "bureau of citizenship," extends its scope and places i it on an efficient and economical basis, i thu (Tnv<jmmpnt are dras- i JDUCJillCO VI ?.* ?. tlcully excluded from citizenship, and ' 1 Millions at Camp Grc UNUSUAL features In an act recently passed by congress are attracting attention In army circles. Through a more or less obscure provision, 588 acres of land included In Camp Grant, Hockford, 111., are returned to their owners. Statements have been mnde that although the land in question could have been purchased through condemnation for from $150,000 to $200,000, the orlg- i Inul owners have now come Into p? v ' session of peculiarly valuable properties upon which the government has r Installed pumping stations, power I plants and other utilities, said to be 1 worth $2,000,000. In addition, owners are In a position to sue the govern- c inent to remove the utilities If this Is v desired. In fuct, one of the owners ( has already begun an action Involving c $100,000, it Is alleged. t Of the tracts at Catiip Grant to be 1 turned back to their owners, John A. t Johnson owns 232.87 acres; Sara J. c Baldwin, 162.94, and Charles A. Sam- p uelson, 193.09. A few days after the p aouse passed the bill last year Secre- s _____ * ? nSid^hts st Begun to Fight" j^ I've just &e6m S W% TO FIGHT?' store to state railway commissioners power to correct abuses and dis- ^ criminations in local rates. Third: Enact the bill, already passed by the senate, revising the valuation powers of the I. C. C., reducing by about three KIM tlin nr/ionnt runAtrn i im I VJllllJl- ** tion of the railways. "Next to the matter of transportn- * tion is the question of agricultural p credits. We are Just now getting ^ shaped up a new credit bill. "Next come the problems of marketing. Today tlie United States has the costliest and most ineillcient system of marketing of any country In the world." * es as Well as War rlne who participated In the work of rescue. According to General Lejeune this policy is based on a theory which has seldom been considered In connection with the military service, namely, that fhe marine corps exists not only to serve the nation In war, but to constitute a reserve of educated, trained, technicaj men ready to come to the aid of the country in ^ any manner In which their services may be needed In emergencies of peace. An apt Illustration of the manner in which the corps' new policy has put all marines "on their toes" to serve the nation whenever needed, Is ^ fhrnished in the happenings of the collapse of the Knickerbocker theater The roof of the Ill-fated build Ing fell shortly after 8 o'clock on the evening of January 28. Within a quarter of an hour more than 200 marines with trucks containing jacks, acetylene torches and other devices were bucking their way through the heavy snow to the scene of the accl- * dent two miles away. Their work on arrival Is too well known all over the country to need retelling. Secretary Hughes officer, particularly in the great departments, with public opinion. "You. as citizens, understand the Importance of that, especially in connection with the work of the State de- jjm partment. "A public officer has always got to remind himself, and he ought to say every morning as he approaches his task: *1 am a servant, and it is my business to see what I can do for the American people. I am not a boss, and * my little authority or great authority that I huppen to have for a day is not a personul perquisite.'" . * Registration Bill 4 the measure requires each resident alien to register annually at some time between August and November, ex- 11 penses of registration to be paid from an annual fee of $5. Moneys collected are to be set aside as a "citizenship Instruction fund" under control of the secretary of labor for proportionate allocation of public S schools, to pay salaries of public school | teachers In citizenship classes organ- J lzed for the purpose of teaching loy- * alty, citizenship responsibilities, and the English language. The bill would eliminate all appearance of witnesses at naturalization . M bearings, thereby saving annually the W useless and unnecessary cash outlay a of ?7,250,000 by applicants and the economlc costs of more than $5,750,000 which now Is imposed annually on more than 350,000 citizens, employers, and employees. The meusure provides Independent naturalization of married women and ? retention of American citizenship by resident American women who marry foreigners. i int Junked by Act i 4 -* ? I ar.v of War Weeks wrote to Chairman Cahn of the military affairs cowmitee: "No one of the three tracts listed an be given up without interfering vith the proper administration of ?amp Grant and injuring the interests if the United Stntes. The Johnson rnct includes all the important huili^ ngs and heating plants connected with he station hospital, a large number of , iflicers' quarters, and several lrnlortant warehouses tilled with iroperty, in addition to other less eaentlal camp features." / ^ I