Belletonte, Pa., September 1, 1916.
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America Need Not Fear Invasion,
Says Marconi.
No notable scientific discoveries or
inventions are growing out of the
great war is the opinion of William
Marconi, the wireless inventor.
“The big lesson in Europe has been
one of organization,” he told an Asso-
ciated Press correspondent. “I doubt
if any one before this war ever re-
alized the meaning and value of rail-
road transportation on a large scale,
as it is practiced in the United States.
Europe, too, has learned how to do
big industrial jobs overnight, to as-
semble raw materials and turn out
needed factory products.”
“Let me say,” said Mr. Marconi,
“that one of the personal inconven-
iences of this war is that I cannot
continue my visits to the United
States. I began my visits in 1899,
when your people so warmly wel-
comed and helped me. Since then I
have been exactly forty times, which
is perhaps a record.”
Incidentally, the inventor referred
to the position of the United States.
“I don’t think the United States ever
should fear any fatal, disastrous inva-
sion,” he said. “Her seas protect her
too well. She is too mighty a country
in population ard force to be ever
conquered. I doubt if, with reason-
able precaution, even her coasts could
be injured or landed upon. The ex-
perience of this war has shown how
easy it is to protect a coast by sub-
marines, even when the invader is a
near neighbor. It is a rule that will
work both ways. The United States
would have vast difficulties in landing
forces on foreign territory, say that
of Europe. Ncither England nor Ger-
many have been able to get at each
other, though relatively close.”
Rivers of Gasoline.
We will consume, in this country, this
year almost 2,000,000,000 gallons of gas-
oline; which is the equivalent of a
stream six feet wide and one foot deep
flowing at the rate of one mile an hour.
Five ygars ago gasoline retailed at 35
cents in England and from 40 to 75 cents
on the Continent, and there are those
who even predict 40-cent gasoline here
some day. Recent improvements in re-
fining have considerably increased the
percentage of gasoline extracted, and in-
ventors are confident of perfecting car-
buretors which will use kerosene; but
for the present we are confronted with a
decrease in the gasoline content of the
older oil wells, and an insufficient capac-
ity in the refining plants. Our exports,
however, of gasoline in 1915 were con-
siderably less than in 1914, although
more crude oil was sent abroad. There
is also a strong probability that, with the
reconstruction and resumption of busi-
ness abroad at the close of the war, con-
sumption there will be much greater
than now. Horses will be scarce and
time will be everything, and the motor
car and truck will receive a great im-
petus. Just how long the present oil
wells will continue to produce, or when
and where new oil fields will be discov-
ered, no one can say with certainty. Be-
fore that day arrives, however, it is fair
to expect that chemists will have found
some substitute, or inventors of making
one gallon do the work of more.—H. H.
Windsor, in the September “Mechanics
Magazine.”
DO YOU KNOW THAT
One million two hundred thousand
Americans die each year, it is esti-
mated ?
Heart disease, pneumonia and tu-
berculosis cause more than 30 per
cent. of deaths?
Sickness lowers earning capacity ?
The U. S. Public Health Service is
the nation’s first line of defense
against disease?
Disease is the nation’s greatest
burden ?
Sunlight and sanitation, not silks
and satins, make better babies?
Low wages favor high disease
rates? 3
A female fly lays an average of 120
eggs at a time?
Believe in national preparedness
and then
Fail to keep yourself physically fit?
Wash your face carefully and then
Use a common roller towel ?
Go to the drug store to buy a tooth
brush and then :
Handle the entire stock to see if the
bristles are right ?
Swat the fly and then
Maintain a pile of garbage in the
back yard?
Immigrant Among Flowers.
The forget-me-not is a delightful im-
migrant belonging to that numerous flow-
er family which includes the Virginia
cowslip, hound’s tongue and comfrey.
As far back as we are able to trace the
flower history it held an honored place
in the flower garden, and when America
was settled it was brought along to cheer
the colonist’s austere life and to remind
him of the old roof-tree across the. bil-
lowy sea.
Have you ever noticed the little golden
circle around the center of the flower?
That little circle is put there by the flow-
er as a honey guide to tell the bee just
where to insert her tongue to get the
richest draft of nectar and at the same
time to touch both anther and stigma
and thus fertilize the plant.
There are manv legends concerning
the forget-me-n-t. Tennyson once
wrote that it grows for happy lovers.
Another writer tells us that once upon a
time a young lover trying to gather a
bunch of these lovely blossoms for his
sweetheart, slipped into the water and as
he was sinking tossed tne flowers to her
and asked her to keep them and not for-
get him. r
Prepared.
“I saw a perfect love of a library table
at Grumble’s this afternoon.”
“But, my dear, we don’t need a library
table.” iy
“I know, love, but there’s no telling
when we will need one, since Uncle
George gave little Georgie that tool chest
for his birthday.”—N. Y. World.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. |
DAILY THOUGHT |
Find your niche and fill it. If it be ever so |
little, if it is only to be hewer of wood and !
drawer of water, do something in this great
battle for God and truth—Spurgeon.
They say, these mysterious fates
that rule the shape and form of fem-
inine beauty, that the flare is to
go and that long, straight folds are to
grace our statuesque figures and ren- !
der them as classic as possible. Good |
news for the “daughter of the gods,”
but what of the five-foot four that
weighs 170? Ah, well I suppose we
will all follow suit and turn out in
whatever the tyrant fashion decrees,
and the funny part of it is we will all
look fairly well in whatever it is—a
merciful dispensation of Providence!
It certainly looks as if the coming
season was to be a “blue lookout,” for
all the dresses and suits, and even
negligees, are being shown in that
almost universally becoming color. To
be sure, we can have virtually an infi-
nite variety in the blues (either ma-
terial or spiritual,) but the most pop-
ular seems to be a kind of cross be-
tween navy and midnight.
It is extraordinary what a differ-
ence attention to the small details
makes in a costume. The most ex-
pensive and gorgeous dress worn
without care being given to the com-
pleteness of the whole is not one-half
so smart or in such good taste # a
quite simple home-made gown in
which every last thing has been con-
sidered.
For this reason one of the most
profitable expenses for the woman
whose dress allewance is limited is
one or possibly two good hats of black
or white and a set of trimmings which
can be easily and quickly changed, so
as to match whatever frock she is
wearing. Stockings, shoes, buckles
and other ornaments should be kept
in sets, so that down to the tiniest
detail her costume may be in exact
harmony. In this way she will al-
ways look well dressed and com-
plete, while another woman who does
not take the same care will look like
a crazy patchwork in comparison,
though she may spend six times as
much on her clothes.
When one is nervous or tired, a
sponge bath in water, either hot or
cold, will often prove stimulating and
refreshing. Elderly people and those
whose circulation is feeble should
avoid the cold plunge so delightful to
the young, because it robs them of
vitality. But those in advanced years,
as well as boys and girls, are better
for the daily bath from head to foot.
A bathtub and a copicus amount of
water is not a prerequisite if all that
one has to ‘lepend on are a basin znd
pitcher.
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Sachets are now given as bridge
prizes, so that the hostess who pos-
sesses more of the virtue of hospital-
ity than money may entertain correct-
ly if only she has a large number of
fresh looking silk pieces at hand.
Such little bags are of all sizes, as
they are used to drop among the
handkerchiefs, the neckwear, the
gloves and the lingerie. They are
mounted over litile, fine white linen
sacks which hold the powder, and
their ends may be fringed and tied to-
gether or sherred into a sort of rose
effect. Sachets are especially accept-
able these days, when only vague sug-
gestions of perfume are permissible.
“Women are so queer about clothes,
too; they either follow every freak of
fashion blindly, irrespective of their
age and shape, or grumble at its
absurdities, whereas there was never
a fashion yet that could not be adapt-
ed to suit the individual.
“The present day short full skirts,
for instance, are piquant on a slim
girl in her teens or early twenties,
but except for country wear no wom-
an over 30 looks dignified with an
undue expanse of ankle showing.
“Veils, again, either add to or de-
tract from a woman’s looks immense-
ly; the short veil scarcely reaching to
the tip of the nose is charming where
the mouth and chin are either youth-
ful or perfectly moulded—but the
contour of the lower purt of the face
is the very first to go, so that a veil
long enough to be folded under the
chin is more becoming to most
women.
“The girl with a fat face should
avoid chokingly high collars, though
they make a fascinating frame for
the girl with an oval or thin face.
White silk gloves in wrist length
are again in strong demand.
White satin sport suits are a high-
class novelty in this ine. Separate
skirts of white satin to be worn with
silk sweaters in high cclors are also a
novelty.
Indications are that pleated skirts
Yi show marked revival in fall mod-
els.
Present demand in waists contin-
ues to hold big in Georgette and foul-
ards. Hand-embroidery and hand-
beading are much liked as waist trim-
mings.
Jabot waists in white and color
continue ir favor. Waist retailers
anticipate good demand on lace
waists as a September novelty.
A present craze for blue serge in
dresses is following that of dark blue
taffeta dresses.
This is the. way to make plain
boiled starch: Allow two tablespoon-
fuls of starch to a gallon of water.
Wet the starch with cold water until
it is of the consistency of cream.
Then: pour over it the water which is
bubbling. Stir constantly until
smooth and boil for five minutes. Add
an inch of candle—to a gallon—or a
tablespoonful of lard to give a very
smooth starch.
This is the foundation for all
starching, excepting that done with
uncooked starch.
If a very stiff starch is desired a ta-
blespoonful of gum arabic water to a
quart of starch gives good results.
To prepare gum arabic water, pour
two cupfuls of boiling water over a
quarter of a pound of gum arabic.
When the gum is dissolved strain the
solution into a bottle, cork and keep
on hand for use in the laundry.
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LATEST PHOTOGRAPH :
OF PRESIDENT WILSON
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IT CAN'T BE DONE!
There is no cause for Democrats and Progressives—lovers of
peace and opponents of the horrors and crimes of war—to feel other
than the greatest confidence in the re-election of President Wilson.
Friends of his Republican opponent have been making vocifer-
ous endeavor to impress the voters of the country with a fictional
strength for Mr. Hughes’ candidacy.
President Wilson has the Democrats of the country enthusias-
tically behind him.
He has the friends of preparedness and peace.
He has every Progressive who really holds policies above preju-
dice and deeds above vague promises.
He has the women voters of the states where suffrage is an ac-
complished fact, who hold their country first in their esteem and who
are able to see more in the support President Wilson has already
given suffrage, than in the opportunist espousal of their cause by a
candidate who before never has shown by his acts even the most ern
descending sympathy.
There are but a meagre few states where Mr. Hughes” cham.
pions can give him more than a doubtful chance of securing electoral
votes. :
No issue has been joined by the speeches of the Republican cane
didate which is of sufficient worth to merit serious consideration.
Behind Mr. Wilson there is a long record of deeds done and
legislation enacted which puts him far up abreast of the times and
popular demands.
For President Wilson to be defeated there must develop such a
reaction from present sentiment as would be startling indeed.
He has the record of achievement.
He has the shibboleth of peace.
He has the accomplishment of preparedness.
He has a Congress which has stood nobly behind his policies and
has written laws that the great masses of voters will surely indorse.
He has been direct, diligent, assertive and dominant.
No public man ever cherished loftier ideals or did more to win
to them the public approval.
Beat him?
IT CAN'T BE DONE!
Beat him, and restore to power in the Government the old order,
the Republican reactionaries, the guardians and agents of privilege
and prerogative? +
Beat him, and blot from the statute books laws
century of progress?
NO, INDEED!
Beat him, with the harvests ripening into such wealth as the
country never knew before?
Beat him, with the Government’s credit the talk of the world?
Beat him, with labor employed, wages good and happiness the
outward semblance of nation-wide contentment ?
Beat him, with the vaults of the banks of the country bulging
and legislation already enacted which is the guarantee of low in-
terest rates? ,
Beat him, with his neutrality achievements, which have made us
the one nation secure from the criminal effusion of the red blood
of the sons and fathers of the land?
Beat him, when the law is highly respected, when the national
honor is respected, when the flag has been made the signal at once
of preparedness and peace, and our people home-loving, God-fearing
and ready for the higher achievements in the future than were ever
chronicled in the past?
IT CAN'T BE DONE!
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WILSGN'S SERilcE To
AMERICKS FARMERS
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Remarkable Record Set Forth
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in Letter by the President
on Signing Bill.
NEW LAWS; NEW OUTLOOK
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i Farm Loan Act, Federal Reserve Bank,
Provisions for Warehouse and Mar-
keting Facilities Are Part of Pro-
| gram Executed by Democrats.
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No administration has ever done so
| much to advance the agriculture in-
| terests of the United States as that of
President Wilson. The record is set
{ forth chiefly and effectively in a let-
{ter written bg the President to Con-
i gressman A. F. Lever, Chairman of
| the Committee on Agriculture of the
House of Representatives, as tollows:
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Washington.
August 11, 1918.
My dear Mr. Lever:
It has given me much satisfaction
‘to approve today the bill making ap-
propriations for the Department of
Agriculture for the fiscal year ending
because the bill not only makes very
generous provision for the improve-
ment of farm production in the na-
tinn and for investigations and demon-
seeations in the field of the marketing
of farm crops and of the organization
of rural life, but also contains three
well conceived measures designed to
improve market practices and the stor-
[age and financing of staple crops. As
{ the passage of this bill marks the
| practical completion of an important
i part of the program for the better-
| ment of rural life which was mapped |
out at the beginning of the administra- '
tion, [ feel that I cannot let the oc-
casion pass without conveying to you
and your associates in both houses
my appreciation of the service ren-
Jered to the nation in strengthening
| its great agricultural foundations.
administrative, is a remarkable one.
be set forth.
1. Appreciation of the importance
propriations for its support.
to foster production by every promising
means, and careful thought has been
3. Greatly increased provision has
sion Act, for conveying agricultural
information to farmers and for induc-
ing them to apply it.
cant and far reaching measures for
the education of adults ever adopted
by any government. It provides for
co-operation between the States and
This is'a
highly important and significant prin-
ciple. When the Act is in full opera-
tion there will be expended annually
under its terms, from Federal ané
State sources alone, a total of over $8,-
600.900, in the direct education of the
farmer; and this amount is being ané
will be increasingly supplemented by
contributions from local sources. I*
will permit the placing in each of the
2,850 rural counties of the nation twc
farm demonstrators and specialists
who will assist the demonstrators ic
the more difficult problems confront:
ing them.
4, Systematic provision for the first
time has been made for the solutior
of problems in that important half of
agriculture which concerns distribu-
tion—marketing, rural finance, an¢
rural organization. ;
8. Provision was made promptly
for the creation of an Office of Mar-
kets and Rural Organization and the
appropriations for this Office, includ-
ing those for enforcing new laws de-
signed to promote better marketing,
have been increased to $1,200,000. The
more difficult problems of marketing
are being investigated and plans are
in operation for furnishing assistance
to producers of perishables through a
market news service. ‘A ‘similar ser-
vice for live stock interests will be
inaugurated during the year.
6. The problems of securing the
uniform grading of staple crops, of
regulating dealings and trafficin them,
of developing a better system of ware-
houses, and of providing more avail-
able collateral for farm loans has been
successfully dealt with.
7. Under the Cotton Futures Act
standards for cotton have been estab-
lished, the operations of the futures
exchanges have been put under super-
vision, and the sale of cotton has been
placed on a firmer basis.
8. ‘The United States Grain Stand-
ards Act will secure uniformity in the
grading of grain, enable the farmer
to obtain fairer prices for his product,
and afford him an incentive to raise
better grades of grain.
9. The United States Warehouse
Act will enable the Department of
Agriculture to license bonded ware-
houses in the various states. It will
lead to the development of better stor-
nge facilities for staple crops and will
make possible the issuance of reliable
warehouse receipts which will be wide-
ly and easily negotiable.
10. Of no less importance for agri-
culture and for the national develop-
Junie 30, 1917, and for other purposes, |
The record, legislative as well as |
[t speaks for itself and needs only toc |
of agriculture has been shown througk |
greatly and intelligently increased ap- |
2. Particular pains have been taken °
given especially to the matter of in-
creasing the meat supply of the nation. |
been made, through the enactment of |
the Co-operative Agricultural Exten. |
This piece of !
legislation is one of the most signifi-
ES
ment is the Federal Aid Road Aet.
This measure will conduce to the es-
tablishment of more effective highway
machinery in each state, strongly in-
fluence the development of good road
building along right lines, stimulate
larger production and better market-
ing, promote a fuller and more attrace
tive rural life, add greatly to the cone
venience and economic welfare of all
the people and strengthen the national
foundations. The Act embodies sound
principles of roaa legislation and will
safeguard the expenditure of the funds
arising under the Act not only, but
will also result in the more efficient
use of the large additional sums made
available by States and 1ocalities,
11. The Federal Reserve Act bene
fits the farmer, as it does all the other
people of the nation, by guaranteeing
better banking, safeguarding the cred-
it structure of the country, and pre-
venting panics. It takes particular
note of the special needs of the farmer
by making larger provision for loans
through national banks on farm mort-
gages and by giving farm paper a ma-
turity period of six months.
12. It was essential, however, that
banking machinery be devised which
would reach intimately into the rural
districts, that it should operate on
| terms suited to the farmer's needs,
| and should be under sympathetic man-
| agement. The need was for machinery
| which would introduce business meth-
| ods into farm finance, bring order out
| of chaos, reduce the cost of handling
| farm loans, place upon the market
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mortgages which would be a safe in-
vestment for private funds, attract in-
to agricultural operations a fair share
| of the capital of the nation, and lead
| to a reduction of interest. These needs
| and these ideals have been met by
| the enactment of the Federal Farm
Loan Act.
I am glad to have had an opportunity
| to take part in the execution of this
: large program, which, I believe, will
‘result in making agriculture more pro-
fitable and country life more confront-
| able, and attractive, and, therefore, in-
' sure the retention in rural districts of
an efficient and contented population,
Faithfully yours, .
i WOODROW WILSON.
; Hon. A. F. Lever, Chairman,
Committee on Agriculture,
House of Representatives.
WILSON A PROGRESSIVE
BEFORE PARTY WAS BORN
Eighteen months before the
birth of the Progressive Party,
Woodrow Wilson, then Gover-
nor of New Jersey, gave this
definition of a Progressive and
so classified himself in an ad-
dress before the Kansas Society
of New York, January 29, 1911:
“By ‘Radical’ | understand
one who goes too far, by
‘Conservative’ one who does
not go far enough; by ‘Re-
actionary’ one who won't
: go at all. 1 suppose | must
be a Progressive, which |
take to be one who insists
on recognizing new facts,
adjusting policies to facts
and circumstances as they
arise.” :
Under Democratic influences
during the six-year period since
standpatism was overthrown in
the House of Representatives in
1910, ninety per cent of the pro-
gram of reform advocated by
the Progressive Party has been
enacted into law. “Invisible
government,” which is now mak-
ing desperate efforts to “come
back,” has been driven from
power under President Wilson's
administration and will have no
place in Washington so long as
he is in the White House.
MEXICO IS COMING BACK.
Saved From Conquest, It Is Working
Out Its Own Destiny.
Encouraging news continues to
come from Mexico, and the tirades
of President Wilsons critics grow
tamer all the while. Mexico has seen
much misfortune, has borne many
trials, has experienced many tragedies,
but there is a buoyancy to the present
situation that gives cheer to friends
of that long-suffering republic.
Americans, coming from that coun
try, bring optimistic assurances. They
declare that there is much better gov-
ernment there than for many years,
that Carranza money is increasing in
value, that business is picking up and
that law is being respected.
The New York Evening Sun, a Re-
publican newspaper, which ususlly
criticises everything President Wil-
son does, is compelled to recognize the
facts, telegraphed from San Antonio,
Texas, by William G. Shepherd, war
correspondent of the United Press,
who has been one of the keenest ob-
servers of conditions both in Europe
and Mexico. Mr. Shepherd, back from
a long service abroad, was sent re-
cently to the Mexican border. After
a careful survey he reported conclu-
sions which the Sun displays under
the heading: “Mexico Coming Back;
Business Grows Brisk—Confidence in
Carranza Increases and Things Look
Up.” In part Mr. Shepherd says:
Mexico is coming back. It’s not
a dead rubber nation; it's got a
bounce in it. A summary of the
news from the heart otf Mexice.
athered in the last three weeks
along the border from Americans
incoming from Mexico, shows be-
yond doubt ‘that conditions ave
improving, confidence in Carranza
fs growing, the situation is gain-
ing buoyancy, Carranza money is
"gaining in value and business is
picking up.