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
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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
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blood, thus adding color and weight
with its accompanying vigor to the
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directions for home use. Its action aids
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eaten very promptly.
Says Thick Sluggish
Blood Should
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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
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