BIG FIRE SWEEPS ASBURYPARK Score of Hotels and Boarding Houses Destroyed in SBOO,OOO Blaze By Associated Press Asbury Park, N. J., April 6. Four city blocks in the heart of the hotel district fronting on the beach were swept by fire early to-day with the Joss of about SBOO,OOO. More than a score of hotels and boardinghouses ■were levelled. The only building that remained standing this morning in a district bounded by Ocean avenue and the boardwalk on tho east, Grand ave nue on the west and First and Second avenues on the south and north were four dwellings. The fire began at 11 p. m. in the Natatorium, which enclosed a big swimming pool, and quickly spread be yond the centrol of the local fire de partment. It was attributed to defec tive electric wiring. Most of the hotels were closed and no loss of life has been reported. Eight bathers in the Nata torium pool when the Are broke out escaped in their bathing suits. Driven by a strong northeast gale, the flames spread so fast that dyna mite \tfas resorted to and two hotels ■were blown up. Help was summoned from adjoining towns. The residential rind business sections wero spared but hundreds of families fled from their homes. The fire was brought under control about 3:30 a. m. Among the buildings destroyed were the quarters of the Young Women's Christian Association, the Methodist Church and the following hotels: Win throp, Southern, Carleton. Grand Cen tral, Ormonde, Davenport Inn, Surf House, Reglna and Ardsley; also sev eral smaller hotels and boardinghouses and dwellings. A FIHE TREATMENT FOR WRINKLES AND DRY FADED SKIN Women whose skin is wrinkled, sal low. dry, faded, and rough, can easily and quickly change this condition by an easy, inexpensive home treatment. Go to Gorgas, the druggist, or any first-class dealer, purchase a bottle of Usit and rub a little Into the skin for a few moments each night before retiring. This simple treatment is all that is necessary, and tho results are apparent almost at cnce. The skin •which has lacked proper nourishment quickly absorbs the pure nut oils of which Usit is compounded, and they supply Just the food and nourishment required to restore smothness, plump ness and natural color, and drive away the hideous wrinkles which are such a. worry and cause of embarrassment to women who want to look well. To most people the presence of wrinkles on a woman's face mean thafher youth Is past, but thousands of really young women who have wrinkles which come from a poorly nourished pkin, can Just as well look their real age, or younger, if they will take care of their complexions. Usit is not a paste or cream, but a liquid In bottles, so clean and daintily perfumed that it is a pleasure to use It. Get a bottle to-day and see how quickly It Improves the appearance of your rftin. It Is positively guarttVteed not to cause the sllghest hair growth. It Is also a splendid treatment for freckles, blackheads and many forms of eczema.—Adv. Kidneys Cause Hysteria Some folks overwork: some over- j cat; some over drink, and many do , all these things and neglect the excre- i tory organs. Nervousness ensues. Con- j etipation sometimes, but most often j the delicate function of the kidneys | become disordered, followed soon by i congestion. Then headache, neuralgia, | rheumatic pain, backache and lum bago set In. Frequent urination some- : times beyond control. The voided liquid being dark of foetid odor, and its passage followed by burning, smarting spasms of pain, even hys teria being often the result unless the greaest of all kidney medicines, is taken to regulate, allay and neutral ize the Irritation of the organs. GREAT KIDNEY MEDICINE gold by all druggists^— Adv. For the Thin and Bloodless! The thin and bloodless, with pale cheeks, white lips and frail angular physique, of this community have been much interested in the reports of physi cians and others conc&rning the effect iveness of the treatment for increasing the red and white corpuscles of the blood, thus adding color and weight with its accompanying vigor to the depleted system. A gain of from 10 to 30 pounds is not at all unusual where the treatment is regularly used for several months, while the color im proves almost from the beginning. Most good apothecaries supply it in the form of three-grain hypo-nuclane tablets, put up in sealed packets with directions for home use. Its action aids assimilation and absorption of the food eaten very promptly. Says Thick Sluggish Blood Should Be Purified A Greasy, Pimply Skin, "a"~ Foul Odor to Perspiration, Boils and Aches and Pains All Banished by Sulpherb Tablets. Like Grandma's Remedy for Spring. Take these tablets made of sulphur, Cream of tartar,'calcium sulphide and Hxtracts of rare herbs and take regu larly for a month or so, and you can Idrive the poisons out of your system. Culpherb Tablets are wonderful to cvercoma constipation, sluggish liver fcnd kidneys and they quickly start all the eliminative organs working. They 'flash the sewers, as it were, and you V3l feel their fine effects all through spring and summer. Headaches, ca tarrh, neuralgia, pain, con stipation and kindred ailments due to poisons in the blood, all go, the skin clears, pimples and boils are absorbed pnd pass out through the proper waste channels. Every package is guaran teed so yoa can prove it easily. Good for children and adults. All druggists 60c per sealed tube. Get Sulpherb (npt sulphur tablets)* HARiUSBUHO TELEGRXFH APRIL 6, 1917. U. S. TOOK ONLY POSSIBLE COURSE Asqu ith Declares Entente Breathes More Freely at President's Decision . By Associated Press London, April 6*. —Former Premier Asquith has given the following state ment to The Associated Press In con nection with the entry of the United States into the war: "There is not a man among us who does not breathe more freely now that he knows that tlirougli the action of the President and Congress of the United States the whole English speaking race is to fight as comrades side by sido in the most momentous struggle in history. The President's speech will live in the annals of elo quence as a worthy and noble ex position of the grounds and the aims of a great national resolve, i "The people of the United States | have been forced, as the United King- J dom was forced. Into a struggle which in neither case was of our own seek ing. They have realized as we have realized that the choice lay between peace with humiliation and war with honor. There was no middle course, for armed neutrality as the President points out as irresitlble cogency, af fords no secure nor powerful foot hold. Fundamental Issues "The provocation offered in the two cases was different, but in both the challenge was one which rielther na , tion could refuse to take up without the sacrilice of its selfrespect and ] without betrayal of the sacred trust 1 which is imposed upon all free peoples, I to uphold the defense of liberty and I humanity. Never had the fundamen i tal issues which are at stake been stated with more precision or with a greater elevation of thought and lan guage than in the President's ad dress. The present German warfare, he points out Is a war against all na tions and the animating motives of the allies, by whose side he invU.es his fellow countrymen to range them selves, is not vindictiveness but vindi cation —the vindication of those hu man rights which are the common in terest and the natural bond of the whole family of civilized societies. . "To this great purpose the Ameri can people now dedicate their lives and fortunes—as we have already dedicated ours—conscious that they are listening to and obeying one of those supreme calls which come but rarely in history but which when they come, sound in the ears of a com munity of free men with a note of Im perious demand. Longrd For Co-operation "The President urges upon his fel low citizens utmost practical co operation in counsel with the allies and promises every form of effective help that America can provide. We on this side of the Atlantic acknowl edge his appeal and his assurance with profound sympathy and grati tude. We have never presumed to dictate or even to suggest to our kinsmen in the United States what their course should be but we have In our he#rt of hearts longed that the time might come when their strength would be Joined with ourt in a strug gle so consonant to all that Is best in our common instincts and tradi tions." N Mother Wins Over Riches For Her 5-Year Old Boy "New Tori,' April 6.—Fate spun the wheel to-day for a little 5-year-old New York boy and changed him from George Shire, a rich man's son, to George Petconk, a poor immigrant j woman's child. George's foster parents love him as their own son, but because they re spo"t the mother love which led the I II 1 immigrant woman to search for | him for three years, they gave him up. And to-day George is going "home" to an humble hearth far up in the Bronx. He thinks he's Just going for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Shire, who are wealthy and live in a luxuriously appointed apartment near Columbus Circle, feel that "it is better to give him up than to have the millstone of an unwilling family hanging about their necks." ■ Mrs. Helen Petconk, the little wom an who works by the day; and who took George, under a false name and address-to the Sisters of Charity when ' starvation stared her in the face four years ago, is happy. At first the Shires were going to fight for possession of the boy, but when Mrs. Shire saw the look iu the face of the little mother in court, she told her husband they couldn't keep George. So the Shires sent him "home" to-day with all his toys and his hobby horse and his drum. Flag Hater Is Made to Pray Before U. S. Emblem Hays. Kan., April 6. Joseph Schoendallar, a Rush county farmer, was made to get down on his knees in the center of the main street of Hays here to-day and pray forgiveness because he cursed President Wilson and the United States flag. Schoen dallar entered the Frank King butcher shop and inquired why King had flags placed all over the shop. King told hint In good American. Schoendallar answered that he would never go to war, that they would have to kill him in Hays if he got killed and ended with a string of oaths against Wilson and the colors. King's ceply was a mighy left and a vicious right. Pick ing Schoendallar up by the collar he carried him into the street where a crowd was gathering and made him kneel, pray for forgiveness and take it all back. Everyone in Hays is prais ing King. ILIiNF.KK WORRIES KAISER Berne, April 6.—Kaiser William is suffering from a mild form of diabetes and is undergoing treatment at Ilom burg, according to wireless dispatches received here. His physicians wert said to have given Assurances that with a careful regime of treatment they can effect a cure, but worry is said to be retarding the emperor's recovery. FRECKLES Now Is the Time to Get Rid ot Tliesc Ugly Snots There's po longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine—double strength—is guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othine— double strength—from any druggist and apply a little of it night and morning and you should aoon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than an ounce Is needed to com pletely clear the skin and gain a beau tiful clear complexion. Bo sure to uk for the /double strength othine as this Is sold under guarantee of money back If It falls to remove freckles.—Adv. The Volunteer Soldier By Hamlin Garland Of the Vigilantes My father was a volunteer in the Civil War. He left his wife and three children, all under Ave years of age, and went into the army on the pri vate soldier's pay of thirteen dollars per month—greenbacks. He served two stressful years under Grant, Thomas and Logan and when he re turned in '65 he brought back with him a firm belief in tho volunteer regiments and their commanders. He revered Grant and Sherman but depreciated the "West Point marti net." Grant and Sherman wero the exceptions which proved tho rule. They happened to be soldiers as well as West Pointers. The officers of re source, of patriotic devotion, were.the men who went into the war from con viction and not from a desire for a Job. In all my early life, therefore, X was schooled in the belief that the Amer ican system of volunteer service was the most democratic, the most effec tive and the least enslaving of all forms of military obligation. Natur ally I took up and carried forward this prejudice. Many years were nec essary to free my mind of an inherit ed opposition to the professional sol dier, and a hatred of conscriptipon. I am still opposed to tho conscription as It was practiced in 1863, for it was then a matter of chance and not of logic. The names were chosen by & hoodwinked child, a system as fool ish as the volunteer system was un just. Under one. the man of courage and patriotic devotion sprang gallantly to arms and the shirk remained be hind to grow rich In trado and propa gate his kind. Under the other, chance ruled. The volunteer spirit produced an al most invincible warrior, I will admit, but at what cost! It was true that Grant or Sherman could call from the ranks corps of bridge builders, telegraphers, engineers and skilled machinists, but I now see that this was a criminal waste of genius and entirely wrong at base. Military service should be neither a blind thing nor a rash and wasteful thing. Conscription should mean the logical use of the best man In the right place. If all serve In some capac ity, no stigma can attach to any uni form. If all serve according to their powers and with respect to their con dition and age, no one can rightfully complain. The high-spirited volunteer should not be allowed to sacrifice him self and the selflsh slacker should be called to tliecolors. Every man must feel his obligation to serve the gov ernment which protects him and edu cates him. .Service should be universal and then if will be Just and equitable —at least In theory. That some in equalities will remain Is, of course, unavoidable. I am for universal training, uni versal conscription of men and money. The government has the right in time of war to demrfhd of every man that service which he can best render. If we go into this world-shaking war we must all be prepared to lend a hand, either in the trenches or in the fac tories, railway stations and hospitals behind the lines. The whole nation must be organized and ready for ac tion. All past scales of warfare are of no value to us now. Grant's army would be but a detail of the allied command. The transportation and commissary systems of the past are amateur. Ger many has taught us war on the most gigantic scale. Military training with us now must take on something of the universal character, as in Switzerland where the soldier is also a citizen and a freeman. Our volunteer system Is inadequate, out-worn, unjust and cruelly wasteful of the blood of brave youth. It must give placs to the more enlightened plan. HAMLIN GARLAND. Lutheran Churches Replace German With U. S. Flags Smith Center, Kan., April 6.—There are no more loyal people in Smith county than are the Germans, when | facing a crisis between America and Germany. It was reported that a Ger- i man flag was unfurled over a Gerrhan , Lutheran Church, southwest of this I place, a few days ago, and when a correspondent of tho Star visited the parishioners of the locality he found I the Stars and Stripes floating and no j trace of a German flag. The Rev. H. Tuelier, the Rev. J. Schiller and the 1 Rev. T. Schultz of the German Lu theran churches in this county as- j sured the visitor that no German flag j had been hoisted about these proper ties and that the heads of these I churclles, as well as the laymen, stand I loyally to the cause of the United States. Most of these German born residents are naturalized citizens. SCHOOL NOTES TECH Dr. W. O. Peet, of Rochester, X. Y., father of Professor J. C. Peet, address ed the students yesterday morning. He took the subject of Easter as a theme for his remarks, which were well re ceived by the student body. The annual Easter collection was given by the students of the four classes at the close of the chapel exer cises yesterday. Ralph Evans, a Tech graduate, who is pursuing a course In the Wharton School of the University of Pennsyl vania, was a visitor to the school. "Red" is home on his Easter vacation. Whlfe in Tech he was a member of the Tech relay team that won honors at Phila delphia for several years. The Junior-Sophomore contest .for the class basketball supremacy will be played off the fore part of next week. Students of the school made various plans for spending the two-day vaca tion over the Eastertide. While the period is shorter this year than usual, the Tech boys* will make the best of It. Many of the students participated in the shoot this morning, while others went on the hike to Hummelstown to visit the cave. On' the return they went to the Brownstone quarries to study the rock formations. Many favorable comments have been received by the -students of the school on the rendition of the selection, "Lift Up Your Heads." In the rendition of this song the school was trained by Professor A. M. Lindsay. SABBATH SCHOOL CONVENTION • Marysvllle, Pa., April 6.—-Extensive preparations are being made for the forty-ninth annual convention of the Perry County Sabbath School Association in the Newport Reformed Church on Wednesday and Thursday, May 2 and 3. Included in the program is Dr. Pres ton G. Orwig, of Philadelphia, who will represent the Pennsylvania Sfate Sab bath School Association. MOTHER MADE 8 BOYS ENLIST Spokane, Waah., April 6.—A1l three sons of cx-Governor M. E. Hay have enlisted in the National Guard or have signified their intention of doing so at once. "Their mother said they would not be sons of hers if they did not answer the call of their country," the ex-Governor said. MARRIED AT NEW UI.OOUFIEI.D Marysvllle, Pk.. April .—Announce ment hos been Issued of the marriage at New Blomfleld by the Rev. J. W. Weeter, pasto? of tho Lutheran Church of that place, of Harry Sanders and Mrs. Ellen Dorman, both of Marys vllle. Mr. Sanders la supervisor of a Pennsylvania gang of workmen. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders will live In Cameron street. CARE OF THE SMALL FLOCK Washington, D. C., April 6. —For the family which wishes to keep poultry for home consumption rather than for the market, the' so-called general-purpose breeds are better suited than what are known as the egg-laying breeds. Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons are all good varieties for the average person who does not In tend to go Into the poultry business on a considerable scale. These breeds are good layers and they rlso make good table poultry. Furthermore, they wtll hatch their own eggs and brood their own chickens, whereas, the Leghorns and other breeds of tho egg-laying class do not sit, and the use of ex pensive Incubators and brooders 1? necessary in order to perpetuate these flocks. The prime essentials for a small poultry house are fresh air, dryness, sunlight and space enough to keep the birds comfortable. For the gen eral-purpose breeds about four square feet of floor space should be allowed for each bird. The fowls should also have as much outside space as pos sible to run in. If this area is too small the ground quickly becomes foul and in time makes it difficult to rear chickens with good success. In order to avoid foulness It Is advisable to divide the lot and to sow part of it to the qutck-growing grains such as oats, wheat, or rye. The hens are turned on to the growing grain when It is a few inches high. Under this method the yards may be chapged every three or four weeks during the growing -season. A combination that has proved successful, consists of six or seven bushels of equal parts of oats and wheat to the acre, wheat alone being used for ihe last seeding in the fall. For the convenience of those who have only small areas at their disposal, it may be stated that an acre contains 43,569 square feet. To secure a satisfactory number of eggs the fowls should be fed both a dry mash and a scratch ration. The dry mash may consist of equal parts of corn meal, bran, middlings and beef scrap. This should be kept be fore the birds In a hopper all the time. A good scratch ration is made up of equal parts of corn, wheat and oats, fed In a Utter four to five inches deep, twice dally. It Is desirable that the birds shonid eat about as much of this as of the mash. This means feeding about one quart of mixed grain dally to twelve Plymouth Roclt hens or to fourteen Leghorns, and an equal weight of'mash. Usually waste table products will also be available, and these may be made up into a moist mash in place of the dry mash. In this case the table scrap if It con tains much meat, Is substituted for the beef scrap. If it does not contain any considerable portion of meat, it should merely be added to the dry mash already described. Shall We Go It Alone Or Join the Democracy of Europe In Fighting Germany? Shall we send an over-seas army to join the Entente Allies? Is it best for our Navy to co operate in destroying German submarines? Will unlimited financial assistance to the Allies prove most effective? Or, shall we wage war with Germany independently of her other antagonists? On these questions editorial opinion throughout the United States is sharply, tho far from evenly, divided, most of our press seeing in the European war a conflict of principles, a struggle be tween absolutism and democracy, declaring that the United States should cast its lot with the Al lies 011 the firing line of democracy. The '•go-it-alone" side of the argument is concisely stated by the Leavenworth Times: "This is an affair of our own with Germany. To be sure, the fact that Germany is having trouble with us probably will be of material assistance to the Entente Allies, but in their fight with Germany we still are neutral." , The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGESI for this week (the issue dated April 7th) presents the consensus of editorial opinion throughout the country on the s.eps that should be taken in the present situation. All view-points are given. Other timely articles on the war, and other subjects of world-interest, in this number of THE DIGEST are: *' 1 The Russian Jew Escapes From Bondage The Hand of Historic Justice That Snatched 'HP C car From His Throne, Also Snapped the Chains Off Russian Jewry. Loyalty and Treason German "Scraps of Paper" With Us Russia's New Menace President Wilson's Attitude As Seen South America As a German Colony \| Abroad Why We Are Too Fat or Thin Will Austria Break Away? Safety Nets on Structural Work Threatened Power-Famine at Niagara Making Ruins of Ruins The World on Skates Half the People of the United States College Mobilization Belong to the Church "Four Pacifists" li/iany Pictures in Half-tone. Also Reproductions of the Most Striking Cartoons From the Press Perspective the Only Key to Perfect Understanding There is an old proverb to the effect that the on- has summarized for him weekly an impartial review of looker sees most of the game. The player's conception what is being thought, said, and done on all sides of the of it as a whole, that is as removed from his individual great questions 'that are absorbing the interest of the effort or experience, is bound to be blurred and clouded world and he gets the inestimable advantage of perspec by the dust and noise of the struggle. The observer notes tive. THE DIGEST takes no sides, keeps out of the the movements of all the players, grasps the massed com- struggle of politics, social disputes, trade rivalries, and binations, and surveys the ebb and flow of the contest the rest, and records all viewpoints. Begin reading it at with cool understanding. The reader of THE LITER- once if you really wish to understand the great game of ARY DIGEST has the benefit of such observation. He life as it is being played to-day. April 7th Number on Sale To-day—All News Dealers—lo Cents T p* rn pip A T Trr> O nia y obtain copies of "The Literary Digest" JNH.W DIRECT by applying to the Publishers. /S\ T., The TV. . . 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