: his mother. Deora atc. aa i 1 i Bellefonte, Pa., April 4, 1919. | LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE | Matter of Saving Part of One's Earn- ings Is Really Nothing but Dis. play of Strength of Character. To earn money is easy; to save money is easy, too, if you know the secret. To know what you want and what you don’t want, that is the secret. Don’t argue with yourself when you see a thing, “Can I afford it?” To do this is a sure sign that you can’t. Have the strength of character to say, “1 can do without it.” Don’t try to save money by invest- ing all your spare cash. Keep a ve- serve in the bank. A banking account is a reference. It gives you a better standing in business and out of it aud leads to other good things. Don’t argue with yourself as to whether you can afford to speculate. You can't, if you have to put that question to yourself. Invest instead. if you feel that you must put your money to some use. Investment means income; speculation means profit—or loss—often the latter. But don’t put all your eggs in one basket. In other words, don’t keep on making investments in the same com- pany, the same locality, or the same | industry. ! Statesmen Robbed Russia. The congress of ‘Berlin, consisting of | Germany, Austria, France, England. Italy, Russia and Turkey, lasted only one month—from June 13 to July 13. 1878. Russia did not have “a look-in,” but was treated in the most arbitrary manner by Bismarck and Beaconsfield. The peace of San Stefano, although formally concluded between the victo- rious Russians and the conquered . Turks, was torn up and Russia was practically robbed of all her success— | given only Bessarabia, taken from | Roumania, and the rocky citadel of | Kars in Asia Minor. Nations that had | not participated in the humbling of | ‘Turkey were liberally treated. Bul- | garia, north of the Balkans; Serbia, | Montenegro, Roumania were declared independent. Not a single “reform” promised by the sublime porte was carried into effect. i “Phe congress of Berlin was nothing but a personal triumph for Beacons- field and Bismarck and has been the direct cause of at least five subse- quent wars. Out of the Mouths of Babes. The trouble was caused by father’s, chickens and his habit of calling them’ “chicks” for short. At least Bobby thinks it was. He and mother were on: the car when one of mother’s friends entered. She wore a new hat which was adorned with a beautiful green feather. Bobby was eyeing the feath- er when he heard mother say to the woman, “You're so chic, you know.” So he drew his own inferences and acted accordingly when the cross next- door neighbor, resplendent in ilew yellow furs, came to call. He looked at the furs on the woman and then at Then “Now, you can call her a cat, moth- er,” he informed her. Cure for Malignant Measles. Doctors Dumas and Brissaud of Paris report the case of a man in the last stage of malignant measles, with death in coma threatening. A trans- fusion of blood from a mar who had recovered a week before from uncom- plicated measles was resorted to. Two hundred mils of the donor’s blood were received in 20 mils containing one gram of sodium citrate, and about 100 mils of the mixture were ad- ministered. Within a few hours there occurred not only a temporary fall in temperature but a complete transfor- mation of the patient’s general condi- : tion. A relapse occurred and another injection of blood was given. An un- expecied recovery followed. Good Opinion of Himself. At the station the other day a naval officer on leave was met by his wife | and small son. After greeting his wife the father lifted up the boy and | kissed him several times and said, “Oh, you don’t know how glad papa is to see you!" The boy answered, “You'll be gladder when you get ac- quainted with me.” When Did Civili War End? Ask anybody the date of the Civil war's end. The answer will invariably | be: “April, 1865.” But, in a literal | sense, that answer is all wrong. The supreme court declared that the | Civil war came to an end “at the pe- riod designated in the proclamation of the president of the United States.” That proclamation was dated April 2, 1866. Thus the Civil war came to a formal conclusion on that date, not in April of 1865. “Up, to and before that date” (April 2, 1866), says Secretary of State Bay- ard’s decision, “the insurrection in those (the confederate) states was held to exist. After that date it was held to be at an end.” seroma, Some Proposal! Edith—So Mr. Bronson proposed to you. Did you accept him? Ethel—Mercy, no! He's too awful- ly matter of fact. Why, he proposed by asking me if I felt favorably dis- posed toward a unification of inter- ests.—Boston Transcript. —-Subseribe for the “Watchman.” ‘Secreiary Baker Explains War! , cellation of those contracts, | a knife and cut off all the manufactur- i organize themselves on a peac¢: hasis. ! which, as the first step, we cut ! this vast mass of contracts in an ef- i fort to find out how far the military | necessities of the country would per- ! mit them to be reduced and how rapid- © the War Departinent © termined by some central bureau here in Wash- ! contract. i tion or modification of the contract, justment, composed of three eminent PLANS TO KEEP WORKERS BUSY Contract Adjusiments. | (Plans for an adjustment of the in- dustrial situation which will complete the shift from war-time to peace-time requirements with the least possible | inconvenience to manufacturers or |! wage-earners are here discussed by | Secretary of War Baker. Mr, Baker’s explanations are most reassuring and | indicate why there need be no hesi- | tancy on the part of employer or em- | ploye in giving the utmost support to | the Victory Loan. Here is the outlook ! from Mr, Baker's viewpoint.) | | By NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War. When the armistice was signed on the 11th of November there were out- © standing some seven billions of dollars i of contracts in the War Deparanent. | The signing of the armistice made it, of course, obvious that a very large part of the war material thus under contract would not be needed, and the first question which the war depart- ment had to face was that of the can- It was clear that if we simply took ing facilities that were engas:d in work for the War Department, s .arply on the 11th day of November, we would close factories in every state and city of the Union, which would throw thousands of workmen out of amployment; and, therefere, hat it was imperative that a reasonable time he provided for those industries to re- | by off overtime employment so as to reduce production without producing disor- ganization. The next step was to view Therefore, a plan was devised ly they might be reduced. We have so far suspended opera: ; tion upon contracts which would have | cost five billion eight hundred and ; twenty-nine millions of dollars to com- | plete: so that in the matter of saving. | has suspended | operations under contracts or has de- to cancel contracts which, in net effect, covered production to | the extent of $5,800.000,000 of war | materials. : That does not mean, of course, that that entire sum will be saved. It is | involved in something over 19,000 sep- | arate contracts, and of those contracts | we have already settled 4600, effecting : a saving to the Government on the | 1600 already settled of $151,000,000, : -hile paying to the contractors, who | still had some equity in the matter | of new facHities created or materials | in process of manufacture, the sum of ' €29.,000,000. ! The hope of the War Department ! is that, without disorganizing industry, | without turning workers into the street, without congesting the labor market, and thereby disorganizing the industrial situation, we will be able to save a very large part of this total of nearly $6,000,000,000 involved in contracts for the production of war materials. Obviously, with 19,000 contracts to readjust or cancel, either in whole or in part, it would have taken more than a lifetime, if we had undertaken ington to review each contract separ- ately and make a special determina- tion about it. So, instead of that, district boards have been established all through the country in the various bureaus of the War Department dealing with war sup- plies, so that a’ manufacturer in any city, whether of ordnance or quarter- master material does not have to come to Washington for adjustment of his He goes to the local dis- trict board. If he and the district board can agree upon the terms of the cancella- that agreement is“written in the form of a recommendation and sent down to Washington for the Board of (Claims, and is here passed upon by the Board of Claims of the bureau or di- vision of Ordnance, Quartermaster, Signal Corps, or whatever it may be. Now, if they cannoi agree there is an- other agency set up in Washington, known as the Board of Contract Ad- men. So the contractor does not have to take the judgment of the local dis- trict board, but he can lay his matters before a disinterested tribuna! here in Washington. Of course, he does not have to accept the decision of the Board of Contract Adjustment, If he prefers he can go to the Court of Claims and start litigation which is, however, always unfortunate, because of the legnth of time it takes; but that remedy is not closed to him. We have had this thought ip mind from the beginning. that the most im- portant thing the War Department could do, so far as industry and com- merce are concerned, is to bring about a speedy adjustment of these claims, in order that the people of this country who are engaged in industry and com- merce may know exactly what they can exnect in the way of payment from no Covernment, just ) much they caw s2ly upon in openin: : their new business or reorganized ..siness, and te speedily set about doing it, i ern breeze, i only it lies there contentedly gasping | i In the soft, warm air, but in that in: GERMAN HELMETS AS LOAN PRIZES These Full Dress Headpieces Were Intended For the Adornment of the Hun Army That Captured Paris, But They Got There by Freight. Bighty-five thousand German Coblenz, are to be the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign. helmets, awarded as prizes by captured by Allied Federal district in in troops committees In the picture shown above, taken on the Treasury steps in Wash- ington, may be seen a number of the cases in which they arrived from Germany. helmets just unpacked from the Frank R. Wilson, director of Loan publicity, created a panic in the helmet market by buying the en- tire 85000 allotment from the War Department for $1. It cost the Ger- man government more than that amount to manufacture each one of the helmets. These helmets “were a special supply held in reserve for a triumphal entry into.Parls. FCwentually they arrived there by freight, THIS CAT EXPERT ANGLER English Writer Telis of Feline That Catches Fine Trout Without Bait or L_ine. Cats have a passion for fish and will hover about a woom plaintively mewing long after the piscine sub- stance has gone and only the smell is left; but it is not generally known that they are expert anglers, says a writer in the Family Journal (Lon- don). A Hampshire sportsman whose garden ordered om a well-stocked stream ited that his cat takes more trout out of it than he does. All fish love to bask in the sun and, taking advantage of this on fine summer days, Mr. Tom lies in ambush, con- | cealed in the reedy grass bordering | some bright pebbly shallow. He needs | | neither rod nor line ; unlimited pa- | ; tience is his whole stock in trade. Not | | a move does he make, his quivering tail merely rustling the slender bents | as if stirred with the gentlest south- | Presently there is a; splash and a flounder, and a fine, fat | trout, bursting with condition, comes flapping wp to the shallow for its morning sun hath. For an ‘instaut | stant the four-footed angler has made his spring and fastened his claws firmly in the fish's shimmering back. ———— ee WHY AVERAGE MAN WORKS Labor May Be Its Own Reward, but the Home Is Thing That Inspires Him, The 8:10 Sausalito boat was disgora- ing its crowd of Marin county com- muters in the morning. Said one commuter to another, according to the San Francisco Bulletin: “I've timed this crowd getting off the boats. It takes more thhn twice as long to get them off at the ferry, when they are on their way to work, as it does to, land them at Sausalito at night, when then are on their way home.” In spite of sundry wholesome pre- cepts about labor being its own re- ward, the fact is that we do not live to work, but that we wwork to live. The little brown house back in the man- zanita trees, with the porch lights burning, the rush of little feet, the welcoming arms, the good dinner, the books and the pipe—t his is life. These are the things eternal to which the eager shufling feet are hastening. They make and motivate the things temporal toward which move the lag- gard footsteps of the morning. Joy In your work? Of course, but the fact remains that you wouldn't build those skyscrapers and string those railroads around the world and send big ships into far seas if it wasn’t for the “wife and kids.” Mark Twain's Toast to “Babies.” Responding to the toast of “Babies” at the memorial Chicago banquet in honor of General Grant in 1879, Mark Twain concluded with a sentence that set the gathering in an uproar. In his inimitable drawling woice he said: “In his cradle, somewhere under the flag, the future illustrious commander- in-chief of the American armies is so little burdened with his approaching grandeurs and respomsibilities as to be giving his whole strategic mind, at this moment, to trying to find some way to get his own big toe into his mouth, an achievement which (mean- ing no disrespect) the illustrious guest of this evening also turned his atten- tion to some fifty-six years ago. And if the child is but the father of the man there are mighty few who will doubt that he succeeded!” At that conclusion the audience broke into cheers and roars of laugh- ter in which even the reserved Grant Joined, U. S. A GOOD FINANCIER Other Nations’ Cash Helps to Pay Liberty Loan Interest. Uncle Sam has done some clever financing in this war. Almost one- half of the interest due to patriotic Americans subscribing to the Liberty Loans, including the Victory Lean, will be paid by interest which Uncle Sam, as a result of judicious credits, will collect from foreign governments. With the Victory Loan included the United States will face annual inter- est payments of about $1,100,000,000. This money goes into the pockets of American investors. But something like $500,000,000 of it will be offset by the interest payments which the big European powers must make to Uncle Sam. reat Britain is debtor to the United States in the sum of $4,175961,000. She pays about $205,000,000 a year interest on her loans. France has loans totaling $2,436,427,000 and her interest payments to Uncle Sam are nbout $121,000,000 a year. Italy with loans of $1,310,000,000 pays us about $65,000,000 a year in interest. The smaller powers also swell the total. All of these loans were negotiated, of course, on the hest of security and they are doing a big share in lighten- Ing the taxation out of which the in- terest on Uncle San’s own borrowings must be paid. GERMANY OWES SOME BILL Victory Liberty Loan a Trifle By Comparison. “Germany debtor to the Allied Pow- ers: To one defeat (delivered Novem- her 11, 1918) ,........ $120,000,000,000. “Please remit.” One hundred and twenty billions. That's the way the bill reads. People who think victory comes high at six billions—the estimate of the Vic- tory Liberty Loan—will do well to study the above bill. It is the just indemnity which the Peace Conference (Committee on Raparations has decid- ed Germany ought to pay. And a large part of it is to be col- lected immediately. France alone in- sists upon an immediate payment of $5,000,000,000 on account. The other nations which suffered from Germany’s method of war making will also pre- sent sight drafts for collection. Pay- ment of the total sum is to be made in 25 to 35 years. Paying off this staggering debt is a job that makes the flotation of a six billion loan seem trifling. The German people will not have the opportunity to pay it through the easy means of popular loans. This is a method of financing war debts reserved for the victors. And the Allied indemnity is not based on a theory of loot. It is an honest c;aim for damages suffered. King John’s Bath. As to the washing habits of royalty in former times, there is one thing, at least, to be remembered to King John’s credit. His accounts show that that constantly traveling king nearly always had a bath at his resting places during his journeys. His “water man” could generally reckon upon getting the bath fee of fivepence. For to our early king, as to the modern sojourners in most ho- tels, a bath was officially accounted as an extra, to be paid for as such. 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