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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'
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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
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?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.
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? 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.
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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
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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
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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.'"
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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.
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int Junked by Act
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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." / ^
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