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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.
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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.
The royal water man obtained his
special fee every time his majesty de-
manded a bath—except upon the three
great church festivals. — London
Chronicle.
Saw Another Chance.
“Say, that lot you sold me is three
feet under the water.”
“Is it?”
“Yes, it is, and you know it.”
“Well, it’s a good thing you told me,
1 can let you have a bargain in &
canoe.~Kapsas City Journal,
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