Denar Mean,
Bellefonte, Pa., January 11, 1918.
BATTLE YMN OF THE RE-
PUBLIC.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com-
ing of the Lord:
He is tramping out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning
His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
of
I have seen him in the watchfires of a
hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in
evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the
dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
the
I have read a fiery gospel,
nished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with
you my grace shall deal;
Let the hero, born of woman,
serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.”
writ in bur-
crush the
He has sounded forth the
shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts. of men be-
fore His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to
Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
trumpet that
answer Him!
In the beauty of the lillies Christ
born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
figures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die
to make men free
While God is marching on.
—Julia Ward Howe.
was
that trans-
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THE WAR’S GREATEST SPEECH.
“Lafayette, We Are Here.”
“Lafayette, we are here!”
By all France, this Simple, unaffect-
ed utterance of General Pershing at
the tomb of Lafayette is acclaimed
the great inspired oration of the war.
How it came to win instant place
with the famed sayings of history—
how it stirred and strengthened a na-
tion’s faltering soul were told with
vivid force by a hero of the Marne—
Lieutenant Paul Perigord, of the
French Army—at the Speakers’ Bu-
reau meeting in Lincoln Hall of the
Union League last month.
_ A slender figure was the Lieutenant
in his steel blue uniform of the line,
so colorfully reminiscent of Marne
battle-smoke. And just as battle-
smoke cloaks the flash and thunder of
the guns, so, too, his tunic of battle-
smoke blue enveloped fire and force—
the fire of ardent patriotism and the
force of dramatic oratory. An audi-
ence swaying from tears to laughter
and back again to tears testified to
the emotional appeal of Lieutenant
Perigord’s recital.
His putting aside the robes of
priesthood to rejoin the colors, his
desperate wounds, his five decorations
for valor on the field of honor, his
presence as the “living voice of the
fighting man from the front,” all
were themes of a masterly introduc-
tion by Chairman Pepper. It was an
introduction that prepared the big au-
dience for thrills. And the thrills
were forthcoming. Lieutenant Peri-
gord’s remarks were made all the
more effective by the savor of native
French that clung to his words.
Here is the story he told—the man-
ner of the telling cannot be reproduc-
“I am the smallest man on this plat-
form tonight, and I have just been
very bold. I have requested your
Secretary of the Treasury to wait a
few minutes so I could tell him what
I have on my heart, and this is what
I have on my heart:
“I have wished, while the Secretary
was speaking, that his voice could car-
ry so far that every one of my boys
—every one of the boys of the infant-
ry, with whom I have lived for three
long years, in mud and blood—might
hear his words. And then I have
wished that the boys of the British
army might have heard him. Could
your words have carried so far, Mr.
Secretary, five million ‘boys fighting
for our liberty would be trying to
shake your hand for these sentiments.
“This war has meant loss of blood
and money and sacrifice to us boys.
We are the boys who are going over
the top, who live in mud and dirt, un-
der gas, steam, and fire. These are
the men who should hear you say that
self-sacrifice is going to win this war.
Ah, yes! tonight the boys of France,
England, and Italy are thankful to
you, sir, for I know they shall hear
of these words. For there will be less
blood shed and there will be victory
for us all because of those words.
“If I have ever wished for elo-:
quence, my friends, I have wished for
it now. I am not a speaker, I am on-
ly a poor soldier, and a very tired sol-
dier at that. But whatever I have I
give willingly, and I shall only speak
to you out of the fullness of my heart,
not looking for eloquence of human
wisdom. And, of course, the first
thing I must do is to repeat for you
what France has proclaimed to be the
best speech of the war. After hear-
ing your Secretary, tonight, I believe
I should say the two best speeches of
the war.
“When General Pershing came to
France’ and visited the tomb of
Lafayette; when he arrived there the
French people and the French officers
expected a great oration.
“But the striking figure of your
General—your typical great soldier—
bent low as if to greet the silent spir-
it that lay beneath the stone and he
whispered, ‘Lafayette, we are here.’
My friends, do you know what that
meant to France? Do you under-
stand why we salute that speech?
“I come from the Middle West and,
before leaving again for the Middle
West, I want to say that some one has
expressed the fear that the West is
not perhaps quite awakened. My
friends, there are two lines of defense,
the first and the second. The first
line of defense on the Eastern front
has collapsed; the Western has not—
be sure of that. I have my boys
there, and I am going to them short-
ly, and that company has not lost one
foot of ground since the battle of the
Marne, when they retreated on orders.
; to hold.
And I know they are not going to
lose one foot of ground.
“What is the second line of de-
fense? I know now that the West-
ern front here in this country is going
I have seen a most wonder-
ful thing. I have seen the soul of
these States—Minnesota, Indiana, Illi-
nois, and Missouri,—and there is there
a wonderful miracle taking place. A
new soul is being born, and the West-
ern front of the second line of defense
is going to hold. I know it is going
to make up largely for the collapse:
of the Eastern front of the first line.
“Well, my friends, I will detain you !
but a very short time because I know
you want to go home. But make this
little sacrifice: Just you imagine you
are in the trenches and you have got
to stay for a while. I know you will
expect a little story of me. I have
very few stories, because a soldier
does not know very much about the
war. But there is one I am going to
tell you.
NEW USE FOR PESTS.
“You know we cannot keep very
clean in the trenches, and when we go
back to rest we are seldom alone. We
bring a lot of company that comes to
us unexpectedly in the trenches. At
the beginning of the war the officials
were alarmed at that state of things,
and they decided to take the boys who
had them and send them for a few
days to a ‘de lousing’ hospital. !
“When that first group of boys:
came back they had a most interest- !
ing report. They were well taken!
care of, and had slept in beds. This!
is the utmost luxury for a soldier. I
have not slept in a bed more than fif-
ty times during the last three years.
So they came back with wonderful
stories about the treatment they had
received, and all the boys wanted to
go.
“But those who did not have them
could not go, and would say to the
ones that did have them, ‘Have you
got any?’ (Laughter). And if they
said ‘yes, the next question would be,
‘Can you give me a couple?’ (Laugh-
ter).
“Of course you would think it was
easy to find a couple, but it is not.
And so the boy who was fortunate to
have a couple would say, ‘I am not
giving them away, I am selling them.’
(Laughter). So you see, you never
thought that a Frenchman could make
business out of such a product.
(Laughter.)
“] am bringing you the warmest
greetings of the French army, that
body of valorous officers and men who
have fought and bled for three long
years from a thousand wounds, and
who have lost three million boys.
Their children are looking longingly
to this Republic without uttering a
word of complaint. But they have
felt a great fear that this sacrifice
might be in vain.
“But, behold! one beautiful morn-
ing a new flag came out of the trench-
es, its colors well known. It was red,
white, and blue, with stars within its
fold. And the voices of a downtrod-
den people along the Atlantic, the
North Sea, and the Mediterranean
arose in tones of happiness. Those
voices came from France, England,
Italy, Australia, and every corner of
the world where liberty-loving people,
speaking love and greeting to you,
the American people. And it is the
echo of that voice that I bring you
tonight, my friends. i
FAITH IN THE FLAG.
“When I left New York in the early
part of August, 1914, one of my old
teachers of the University of Colum-
bia gave me a small American flag.
He said, ‘Take it, my friend, thous-
ands will follow you soon.’ He was
one of those men who had a clear vis-
ion of the future. He knew that was |
to be no ordinary war between two |
races or nations, but a mighty con-
flict between two different interpreta-
tions of national dignity and interna-
tional justice. But the flag he had
promised did not come soon, and when
the officers of the allied armies in-
quired, ‘Well, what of the United
States?’ I always answered, ‘Be pa-
tient, they are coming.’ For I had
studied and labored amongst them,
and I knew the day they would see
light they would be with us. And I
was not disappointed.
“The little flag that was given me
I kept with me. I treasured it loving-
ly, and I brought it through all the
great battles of this war. And I as-
sure you, my friends, I never lost con-
fidence in the glorious Stars and
Stripes and the principles it repre-
sented.
“But I am bringing you more than
the war greetings of the French ar-
my; I am bringing to the American
people the warmest embrace of the
whole French nation. Do you know
how much France loves the United
States? France looks upon this na-
tion as her spiritual child. You know
her history. France always rushes to
the aid of the nation for the cause of
freedom. She is always ready to shed
her blood for Christianity and civili-
zation. So when the most terrific
conflict the world has ever seen was
bozo, she proceeded to carry out that
plan. :
“She sprung forth and rushed into
the frontiers and isolated cities and
exposed the breasts of her children
to the sabers of tyrants, endeavoring
to stop the criminal practices of war.
But, my friends, France had been
dreaming dreams, even as you have
been dreaming them, and she was un-
duly prepared for this mighty con-
flict. And this living wall crumbled
down under thousands of thousands
of machine guns and monster engines
of destruction. And you sat aghast
and wondered, ‘Was Prussia to de-
stroy the liberties of mankind?’ But
no! It seems that God heard the
prayer of all the liberty-loving na-
tions, and then took place the most
wonderful miracle of all ages.
JOFFRE'S GREAT MESSAGE.
“Broken in heart and spirit, we
heard that wonderful message from
our great General, Marshall Joffre:
‘My boys, my boys, the retreat is over
now. It is victory or death!” And
indeed it was death—death for
many, for thousands. The rivers of
France were red with the blood of
her children. But, my friends, a vic-
tory for France was a victory for you
all, a victory for the whole world. It
was the dawn of the day the sun of
which will never set.
“You will never know, my friends
—you cannot know—what France has
| : |
endured in its three long years of war. | Your boys will be loved over there.
: While England and Russia were pre-
paring for war news came of the vio-
lation of Belgium, her northern ci-
ties destroyed, her treasures ruined,
women ravished, young children tak-
en into slavery, her whole civil pop-
. ulation led into bondage and made to
work against their will, children and
‘mothers murdered, and fathers fight-
‘ing with their boys dying on the same
| battlefield. We have that same thing
in the French army.
HER ALL FOR FRANCE.
“] will never forget, my friends,
‘the day our regiment was stopping
‘at a small village and our colonel
| asked us to give a parade for the ben-
| efit of the citizens. It was my privi-
|lege to carry the flag on that day. |
| Suddenly a woman came and knelt at
{my feet, raised the corner of the flag
{ lovingly to her lips and kissed it, and
{ buried her face within its folds. The
i colonel came and said, ‘What is it,
mother?’ She handed him a letter.
| That letter contained notice of the
i death of her fourth son and the last
i child. She was a widow. And then she
! said, ‘I have given all to France, her
{flag is my only love. How proud I
lam of my flag!
“That is the spirit which is going to
'win the war, my friends. You have
heard a good deal about the mud, fire,
soil and blood in which the soldiers |
live, and I know they are bad enough. |
But you have not heard enough about
the agony—mental and physical ago-
ny—endured by the women of France. |
The women in France have not only |
worked in the trenches, but have fill-
ed the factories. When they get home
at night, they sit down and write,
‘My child, my beloved one, be strong, |
{be brave.’ And do you know what it
| means to say to a man on the battle-
| field, ‘Be strong, be brave?’ I hope
you will never know. Do you know,
my friends, what it is that has helped
France most in this mighty strugle?
You might think it was victory, glo-
rious as it is. But no!
“Here I must pay tribute to Eng-
land. England has not always been
{our friend. We fought many a fight
with England, but it was always a
chivalrous fight. England was our
gentle enemy. Well, my friends, sure-
ly a Frenchman would be the last
man in the world to forget Ireland.
But today I must say England stands
a four-square defender of liberty for
all nations.
we love them, we love them! We
have always looked upon them as
! brothers of France—of the good Cel- |
i tic family, our family.
“I have seen them in the field and I
know they are brave. They go into
battle with their whole heart and soul.
Once we have fought and gained lib-
erty, there will be liberty left for Ire-
land. And, my friends, liberty with
| honor is the only kind of liberty wor-
{thy of the Irish nation.
“It is not the fidelity of England,
nor the devotion of Italy. What is it
then? Why, my friends, it has been
all through this war this sympathy
of these United States. For long be-
fore you came into this war officially
teers into the Foreign Legion, and
died the death of heroes. And France
can never forget! I assure you, my
friends, they made their presence felt
in the skies of Europe.
LOVE FOR RED CROSS.
“Others came and attended to and
took care of our sick and wounded.
More than that, when the women of
America heard there were orphans
and widows in France they not only
gave them money but they gave their
heart’s love to these orphans. What
shall I say of the American Red
Cross? For wherever there was a
wounded or sick soldier, wherever
there was a home in distress, or any
sorrow, there could be found the
American Red Cross. But beautiful
as these things have been, there is
another thing that has kept France
alive, and what is that?
“One morning a mighty voice was
heard coming from across the seas,
and that voice, as it passed over the
waves, took some of the grandeur and
solemnity of the ocean itself. It was
reciting the most sublime words ever
framed by mortal tongue—the mes-
sage that you would endeavor to make
this world safe for democracy. The
voice was the voice of a man whose
patience and forbearance the world has
never before seen equalled, and that
man was your illustrious President,
Mr. Woodrow Wilson. Of course, it
would be out of place for me to make
a political speech, but you people of
this great Republic are entitled to
know the esteem and respect with
which President Wilson is held by the
Allies. Wherever in France his name
is spoken, it is pronounced with rev-
erence.
“And I know some of you have said
that, after all, the President has only
read aright the heart and mind of the
American people. All honor to him!
Not only has he read it aright, but he
has read it beautifully. It is an hon-
or to the American people for having
inspired a message so beautiful. We
have had it read in every one of our
pubtic schools, and preached in every
pulpit, and given over to our army,
and we are endeavoring to spread the
good seed across the line. Greater
than the independence of one nation
is the independence of all nations of
the world.
A MESSAGE T0 FRANCE.
“I wish I could talk to you longer,
my friends, for an audience like this
is an inspiration and a great tempta-
tion, but I know I would be taking
advantage of your kindness. I will be
here only a little while; then I will
return to France. When I do return,
I will take your message with me.
“I shall close my little talk as I be-
gun it, with an expression of love and
gratitude of the French nation. You
have not only one capital in this coun-
try, Washington, but you have anoth-
er in Paris. If you were to go to
France, you would see theré more
American flags in the city of Paris
than you have ever seen in any Amer-
ican city. The other day one of the
little girls of Philadelphia sent an
American flag to France. Paris
claimed it and taking it lovingly, put
it on the dome of the City Hall high-
er than any flag of the Allies,—high-
er than the French flag itself,—and
said, ‘Look here! the great battle for
democracy is about to be won!’
“As for the boys you are sending
over there, don’t worry about them.
for it—instinctively.
As to the Irish people, |
as a nation your boys came as volun-
{ When the first boys in khaki came,
ithe attention given them by the
| French mothers made their boys jeal-
!ous. The boys in France have never
been so well received in our capital
| cities as have the boys you are send-
ing over. Some will stay.
‘will not be too many of them. Re-
! member, the number will depend up-
lon your loyalty and support, but it
{ will not be many. Let me say to the
| fathers and mothers of your boys
I hope it
{that the French mothers, with empty
hearts, will take the place of their
' mothers.”
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! Russia Sets the Pace in Giving Wom-
| en the Vote.
| Suffrage is universal in Russia,”
| explains Charles Edward Russell,
|iences in Hearst’s Magazine.
{ “I mention this fact once more in
ithe hope (probably vain) that I may
| gain some attention for it.
‘know why the world has elected to
| dwell forever on Russian anarchy that
| never existed and calmly ignore the
Russian progress that has been so
| great and so veritable.
| the wormy old structure of imperial-
{ism fell over there was but one
thought in the mind of everybody,
and that was universal adult suffrage.
Nobody opposed it; everybody was
troglodyte in all Russia had not a
the place for women, about the de-
grading influence of the ballot, or the
terrors of the ignorant vote.
“Compare, then, our own exalt-
(fifty years of ceaseless campaigning
| we have won in America full suffrage
| suffrage for women in three or four
After sixty years of argu-
| others.
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Health and Happiness
“Mens sana in corpore sano”
— ee ——
“Public health the foundation on
which reposes the happiness:of the people
and the power of the country. The care
of the public health is the first duty of a
statesman.” —Disraeli.
is
At the beginning of last year it!
was announced that under the head-
“Health and Happiness’ the
“Watchman” would publish a system-
‘back from Russia with the American
: Commission and reporting his exper-
atic series of articles intended to
arouse interest and
ance to every individual.
Happiness is the universal goal of
mankind and while philosophers and
. poets, from time immemorial, have
1 don’t!
The moment !
attempted to tell how it may be at-
tained the advice of Elbert Hubbard,
“If you don’t find HAPPINESS in|
your work, you won't find it,” seems
the simplest and sanest exposition yet |
. offered.
“The delight of work, of do-
ing the work well that one is best fit-
| ted for, is hard to beat” says another
The worst old |
writer and the great Rodin exclaims
“How much happier humanity would
be if work, instead of being a means
of existence, were its end!”
But without health work is impos-
single grow! in him about home as sible: therefore to be happy we must
first learn how to be healthy. This is
a duty not only to ourselves but to
our State and Nation for as Socrates,
'the Wise Man of Ancient Greece, ex-
| ed achievements on these lines. After
pressed it: “No citizen has a right
‘to be an amateur in the matter of
| ment and five years of what was re-
{ally civil war, the English suffragists
i have won too a sight of a part of the |
| justice they demanded. In Russia,
| suffrage for women was achieved in
a moment and without discussion. It
‘was taken as a matter of course. To
ithe Russian mind democracy meant
, democracy; it didn’t mean a fake ar-
{ rangement under which one-half of
{the population was denied any share
lin the government that governed
| them.
| Order Fertilizer Early, Advises Col-
lege Expert.
| The fertilizer problem should be
! given immediate attention by Penn-
| sylvania farmers, advises E. L.
| ment of The Pennsylvania State Col-
| lege.
i There need be no hesitancy in or-
| dering the normal amount of fertil-
{izing materials.
| prices are high they are proportion-
| ately lower than those of farm pro-
iduce. The rate of application of
| plant-food should be increased rath- |
| er than diminished.
. There is an opportunity for great
i saving in the more intelligent pur-
chase of fertilizers. Acid phosphate,
i bonemeal, or rock phosphate can, in
| most cases, be profitably substituted
for the high-priced mixed materials.
Farm manure should be conserved
and applied judiciously in order to
furnish costly nitrogen and potash in
mixed goods.
Acid phosphate can be purchased
for about $20 a ton f. o. b., Baltimore.
It contains nearly twice as much
phosphate as the ordinary mixed fer-
tilizer. At this price we cannot af-
ford, either from the standpoint of
business or patriotism, to keep down
yields for want of this plant-food.
in the near future. Freight is mov-
ling slowly at best. Let us benefit
ourselves as well as aid in reducing
additional freight congestion in the
spring by ordering fertilizers now.
A Troublesome Carpet.
A member of the diplomatic corps
at Washington tells a story of a Per-
sian who came to the United States
{on a special mission.
Among those who entertained him
was a wealthy American, who invit-
ed the Oriental to his country house.
On the morning of the guest's arrival
the American visited him in his apart-
ment, and was astonished to see him
hopping about the floor in the strang-
est way imaginable. The host ven-
tured to ask the reason for this curi-
ous action. The Persian replied:
“You see, this carpet is green, with
pink roses here and there. Green is
a sacred color with us, so I am oblig-
ed to hop from rose to rose. It is
good exercise, but rather fatiguing.”
—Youth’s Companion.
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sat at the instructor’s desk copying
recipes from cards. She wrote busi-
ly for some time and then approach-
ed a fellow student and asked won-
deringly:
“Do we have to have all
things to make fruit punch?”
Her card read:
“Fruit Punch.—2 lbs. powdered su-
gar, 12 lemons, nutmegs, paprika,
tarragon vinegar, 2 heads of lettuce,
raisins, buttermilk.
It appeared that she had copied the
teacher's grocery memorandum for
the next day.—Youth’s Companion.
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Army Captain.
London.—The engagement is an-
nounced of Esther, daughter of Gro-
ver Cleveland, to Captain Bosanquet,
of the Cold Stream Guards. Captain
Bosanquet, a son of Sir Albert Bosan-
quet, has been decorated with the
distinguished service order.
Miss Cleveland came to London in
June of last year after having quali-
fied as a nurse and instructor of the
blind and took up work as a volunteer
at St. Dunstan’s Home for Blinded
Soldiers.
More Trying Position.
Newrich (to prospective butler)—
A hundred dollars a month? Why,
that’s all I pay my bookkeeper.
Butler—But ’e doesn’t ’ave to has-
sociate hevery day with your family
sir.
| Worthen, of the agronomy depart- |
Fertilizer prices will not go down !
fit for duty
2 3 ! physical training.
| for women in nine States and part |p,ofession as a citizen to keep him-
It is a part of his
self in good condition and ready to
serve his State at a moment’s notice.”
In Switzerland it is considered more
or less of a disgrace to be found un-
and the temperate,
healthy, open-air life among the Swiss
induce careful ;
thought on subjects of vital import- |
| “And, to state the proposition more
concretely, the Happiness of Man
| comes not from Without but from
{ Within.
| “Anarcharsis, by some reckoned as
' one of the Seven Wise Men, stated it:
‘A man's felicity consists, not in the
| outward and visible favors and bless-
| ings of Fortune, but in the inward
and unseen perfections and riches of
| the mind.’
! “That is the Great Truth, perhaps
the Greatest of Truths.
| “That is what Buddha discovered
when he sat under the Bo Tree and
i received the Illumination. Not the
! Sating of Desire, but the Rising to
i purer and higher desires, is the ans-
{wer to the Soul’s Riddle.
“That is the gist of what today we
I call New Thought.
| “That is the dynamic that underlies
i the Christian Science movement.
{| “That is the essence of Christianity,
| as expressed by its founder: ‘Except
| ye be converted, ye cannot see the
| Kingdom.” ”’
“Circus Feats” on Fighting Lines,
Every day at the front all manner
of what in peace time would be re-
garded as “circus tricks” are perform-
i ed as necessary measures of safety in
! the presence of hostile machines. With
a view of illustrating their bearing
‘upon aerial fighting methods, and
alike upon the conquest of the air, I
may now describe in detail the chief
| variations from ordinary straightway
' flying, says Charles L. Freeston in
‘January Scribner. Let us first take
| the feat, well known on every flying
| exhibition ground, of ‘looping the
loop.” A Hun pilot, we will suppose,
has succeeded, owing to a misty at-
{ mosphere, in dropping behind an Al-
| lied machine, and the pilot of the lat-
| ter hears at close quarters the un-
| welcome “tack-tack-tack” of a ma-
| chine gun. If he is not “winged”
{ there are many things he may do, but
i we will suppose that he “loops the
loop,” and meanwhile the oncoming
. machine passes beneath him. The po-
i sition of affairs is thereby reversed;
{ the Allied machine is now “sitting on
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physique, not the least of the assets
of this little country and one that has
doubtless gone far to make an effec-
powerful military neighbors.
A healthy State requires a healthy
citizenry and to aid in securing phys-
ical well-being and the public health
—for public health is merely individ-
| ual health in the aggregate—this se-
ries was undertaken and will be con-
tinued through the coming year. The
articles thus far published may be
grouped as follows:
GROUP 1
Eugenics.
land Moffet.
GROUP 11
Diseases—Their Cause and Preven-
tion.
As a fitting preface to this subject,
the advice given to one of his patients
by Dr. Charles K. Mills, Professor of
Neurology at the University of Penn-
sylvania, was quoted, “Never go to the
point of fatigue for if you do you are
breaking down and not building up
tissue.”
Nov. 24, 1916—Take as Much Care of
Your Body as You Do of Your
Furnace and Youll Ward off
Disease and Eliminate Opera-
tions. — Maxwell Lauterman,
M. D.
Feb. 2, 1917—The Necessity for
Cleanliness.
Feb. 9, 1917—How to Prevent Colds
in the Head from Becoming
Dangerous Diseases.
Feb. 16, 1917—Hygiene of the Mouth
How to Help Prevent Decay of
the Teeth.
Feb. 23, 1917—Bad Teeth and Their
Effect on the Laboring Man's
Efficiency.
March 2, 1917—Five Cases of Tuber-
culosis and Their Probable Or-
igin.
March 9, 1917—Cancer.
March 16, 1917—Notes from the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
April 6 and 13, 1917—Diphtheria: Its
Cause and Prevention.
April 20, 1917—Care of Diphtheria in
the Home.
Aug. 10, 1917—Sunstroke
mer Complaint.
Oct. 12, 1917—The Danger of Poison-
ing from Vegetables Canned
by the Cold-Pack Method.
GROUP III
Scientific Nutrition.
May 18, 1917—Balanced Rations.
July 27 and Aug. 3, 1917— How to
Regulate Your Weight.
Aug. 3, 1917—Eat Wisely.
Sept. 21, 1917—Family Balanced Ra-
tion.
and Sum-
GROUP IV
The Relation of Bacteria to Milk.
Aug. 17, 1917—Bacterial Content of
Milks Supplied to Bellefonte.
24, 1917—How the Number of
Bacteria in Milk is Determin-
ed. What are Bacteria?
31 and Sept. 7, 1917—Environ-
mental Influences Upon Bac-
teria.
28, 1917—Sources of Bacteria
in Milk.
Oct. 5, 1917—Influence of Tempera-
ture Upon the Growth of Bac-
teria in Milk.
Oct. 26, 1917—Effect of Bacteria Up-
on Milk
Nov. 9, 1917.—Relation of Disease
Bacteria to Milk. :
Nov. 23, 1917—Preservation of Milk
and the Significance of the
Bacterial Count.
Dec. 7, 1917—Pasteurization of Milk.
ON THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS.
«The Secret of Happiness is not in
Satisfying your Wants, but in chang-
ing them,” writes Dr. Frank Crane in
Hearst’s Magazine. :
“Satiety is the Great Delusion.
Getting what we want does not bring
happiness. The real Joy of the Spir-
it of Man is in Development, in Iris-
ing ever to higher planes. The Soul
is not to be filled, as a bucket, it is to
be unfolded, as a bud. The only Sat-
isfaction of Life is more Life.
Aug.
Aug.
Sept.
la vital shot. It may be, on the other
{ hand, that the Allied pilot has engag-
'ed a Hun in a direct attack, and each
| tive insurance against attack by her may have an observer with a swivel
i gun. Either pilot may elect to loop
{in order to pass under the enemy ma-
chine, and thus provide a fair mark
| for his observer from below.
| A variant on the original loop is
| the sideway loop. In order to get out
i of the line of fire as speedily as possi-
i ble, in case of being attacked una-
wares, the pilot swings aside and
{loops with a rolling motion instead of
in a vertical circle. This is a very
useful expedient for the pilot of a
| single-seater, who has only his wits
{and skill to depend upon, whether for
| : oi
Although fertilizer | How to Have Better Children.—Cleve- | attack or defense.
| The tail slide is frequently employ-
led for the same purpose—that of
' causing the enemy to overshoot the
‘mark and so effect a reversal of the
| positions. The pilot elevates his ma-
| chine just as if he were beginning a
| loop, but instead of turning over and
| completing the circle, he allows the
| machine to “stall” itself when at a
| steep forward angle. To be exact, it
{ does not actually slide backward on
| its tail; as soon as it is “stalled” the
! machine is allowed to fall by the head
‘and the pilot dives. The enemy has
‘ meanwhile passed overhead.
, There is yet another remarkable
| feat which has been evolved as a re-
| sult of war-time experience, namely,
| the “spinning dive,” and nothing per-
{haps could illustrate more forcibly
the extent to which the skilled pilot
has assumed the mastery of the air.
Circumstances may render it desira-
ble for a machine to drop as directly
as possible either to avoid an attack
or in order to reach a particular point
below. An ordinary glide would car-
ry it a long way past the objective,
while even a plain nose dive would
involve a certain amount of drift dur-
ing the descent, as very few pilots
care to dive in a strictly vertical line.
The pilot, therefore, imparts a rotary
action to the machine, and falls ver-
tically in consequence. No absolute-
ly uniform method of putting a ma-
chine into a spin is practiced, but
after discussing the subject with
many fighting pilots I may state that
the commonest method is as follows:
The pilot first pulls his “joystick”
right back, and then, by operating the
elevator at its steepest angle, soon
“stalls” the machine, i. e., deprives it
of its flying speed. It then automat-
ically settles down by the head, but,
instead of letting it merely “nose
dive,” the pilot still keeps his eleva-
tor up and at the same time operates
the ailerons of the opposite wing.
Some pilots would use the rudder be-
fore diving, and others would not use
the ailerons at all while stalling the
machine. In any case, the elevator
becomes a rudder when the machine
is vertical. It therefore sets up a
spin, and falls in a series of gyrations
that to the unitiated would appear to
represent the ultimate limit of ‘“un-
controllability.” As a matter of fact,
however, the pilot has only to put his
control in the neutral position for the
machine to right itself, provided he
has room enough. . :
The amount of fall that is obliga-
tory before the machine will automat-
ically recover from its spin depends
upor. the weight and design of the
particular aeroplane concerned. It
may be a question of 3,000 feet or as
little as 100 feet on the most suitable
type; the lighter the machine the
quicker will be the recovery. Only a
very badly designed machine would
fail to right itself.
No Room for Choice.
First Little Girl.—Your papa and
mamma are not real parents. They
adopted you.
nd Little Girl.—Well, that
makes it all the more satisfactory.
My parents picked me out and yours
had to take you just as you came.—
Exchange.
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Playing it on Father.
She—Papa says he will pay half
the cost of furnishing a house for us.
He—But how about the other half?
She—Don’t be a goose! Of course
we'll pick out a lot of nice things, get
papa’s check for half of the bill, and
then go back and select things only
half as expensive.