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In the Name of Liberty
Save Food, Says Man
Back From Verdun
Washington, Oct. 19.—"1n the
name of Liberty save food," is the
message given to the people of this
country through the National Emer
gency Food Garden Commission to
day by Raymond James Whitney, an
ambulance driver from the Verdun
front who went to an Atlantic port
to sail for France to-day.
"Whitney, whose home Is in Bed- j
ford, Indiana, has just completed a
flying visit home and he stopped in
Washington long enough to call upon
♦he National Emergency Food Gar- i
den Commission to ask that the peo- j
pie be again urged to conserve every
ounce of food. Whitney is in the!
American Field Service and is taking,
back 20 pounds of sugar to Mrs. Van
derbilt, so scarce is the lump arti- j
cle ovfcr there. He won the War'
Cross for work at the front.
"The declaration of war by Presi
dent Wilson." said Whitney, "saved
the world from the Kaiser in my
opinion, for from my observation of
a year and a half in the war's fierc
est fighting there was nothing that
could possibly have put the 'pep" J
Into the battle front as that did. Men
and women kissed us Americans and
wept whenever they met us.
"Food is the tbim: and the con-!
servation department of the Ameri- j
can Forestry Association is doing a I
great work in its campaign for war!
gardens. Keep it up for you will
need it next year too. The Forest
Regiment will do a great work over 1
there for the cleaning up that hos to
be done in that wrecked country
will be a big job.
"At a restaurant to-day I saw a!
waiter dump a half pitcher of creain
and part of a square of butter in a
cup half full of coffee. In Europe
he would be shot for that. The buvs i
at the front will do their part if;
you folks at home will do yours and :
if you could see what I have seen i
you would feel like shooting any one
w-ho wastes food now."
A Nutritious Diet for All Ages.
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Quick Lunch; Home or Officer
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MILLION FIGHTING SONS OF AMERICA SHOULD
HAVE AN EVEN CHANCE FOR LIFE IN THIS WORLD
WAR, AND WOULD BE SURE THAT HE GETS IT
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clothi™ resources. Food, ammunition, everything that makes existence worth while in
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an arim f° on i declared that one of them is YOUR son, YOUR brother,
necessaries rnmc * stomac h- All these YOLR nearest and dearest. Let every one of us
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FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publisher* of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK
HOPES TO ADOPT
OF CHINA TO U. S. SOIL
George Weidman Groff Believes Valuable Growths Can
Be Transplanted With Success Here
George Weidman Groff. for tenj
[years connected with the Canton
Christian College, at Canton, China, !
' will return to his field of labors dur-;
, ing the next month to engage in a
work which, it is confidently ex-1
i pected. will prove of more than pass- j
I !ng concern to the agricultural in
terests of this country.
Mr. Groff, who is director of the
department of agriculture and horti-j
culture in the big college, will, in the
near future, divide his time between
class work and experimentation with
certain varieties of fruits and vegc-,
tables now grown in China and suit
ed to the climatic conditions of the!
United States.
Mr. Groff, who is a State college
man, has been connected with the
Canton college during an extremely,
interesting period of development!
in the Celestial Empire. Mrs. Groff
and their little son are visiting Mrs. |
Groffs parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
W. Brinser, at 310 South Fifteenth;
street.
The college at Canton wa# found-1
ed by a Presbyterian missionary in |
The Discipline of Sports
Help an Army's Discipline
Every soldier must be disciplined,
lie must be trained to o*\*y instant
ly and unhesitatingly the command
of his leader. Discipline is as nec
essary on an athletic teanj. as it is
in an army. So the American boy
who wins a place on his school team
,learns something of discipline. It'
takes some military drill to instill
Into him military but It
does not take nearly so long as it
would in the case of the recruit with
out athletic training. The youth who
has trained himself to jump to the!
right spot and do the right thing, j
quickly, unhesitatingly, when the \
quarter barks a signal, doe 3 not take
long in learning to execute a military!
command.—From the October Amer-1
lean Boy.
AMAZON'S AND LOXGSHORE
WOMEX
One of the picturesque sights of
Petrograd is the women soldiers that
ij IS9B. While most of the founders
, were affiliated with the Presbyterian
board, the college is undenomina
'j tional. All departments are con
ducted, but the study of agricultural
• subjects occupy a.prominent place in
| the curriculum. The object of the
! school of agriculture is to carry to
• | China the best that is here and to
bring to the United States the best!
j that is in China.
i One of the recent activities of the
school has been an effort to trans
plant the papaya tree, a valuable na
tive of the Hawaii Islands, into
> China. Dried papaya Juice,.the pa
pain of commerce, is now considered
, superior to the pepsin secured from
I animals.
The litchi tree, the fruit of which
is much in favor in China, is beina
j planted in Florida and the Philip- j
[ pine Islands, and other, fruits will be j
j introduced into this country shortly. l
I China ls*tlie home of many delicious]
fruits not grown here, some of which j
i would itndoubtedly meet with popu-j
j lar favor. Just now the lima bean;
] and sweet corn are being introduced i
i ir.to many sections of China.
one sees in considerable numbers.
Those 1 have seen seem to be about
twenty-one or twenty-two years old.
Outside of Petrograd we talked with
one girl soldier who had been wound
ed three times and was anxious to
get back to the front. She was
twenty.
William T. Ellis, Charles E. Beury
and I, walking in the Alexander Gar
den last Sunday, saw as trim a little
lady soldier as one could find off the
stage. Clear eyes, pink cheeks, a
rather long nose, fine carriage and
an air of pride in her lot distin
guished the girl as she strode by in
her neat military suit, but with sheer
j lisle stockings and light shoes. If
| the horror of war had ever occurred
to her, she disguised the fact beau
tifully. Not only does one see wom
en soldiers, but many of the well
dressed women one meets wear serv
ice medals.
As a man traveler sees women
bending under the burden of his
baggage In the hotels, or as he pays
his fare to a woman conductor in the
' tram, he looks around at the thou
' sands of loating soldiers, who remind
| him of thousands of others along the
5.000-mile railway to Harbin, and
wonders why man-strength cannot
be used, when it exists in such quan
tities. The soldiers in Petrograd
have one hour of work to every three
days, and the rest of the time they
loaf, talk politics and threaten the
continuance of the government. The
Y. M. C. A. is hoping to give these
idle soldiers something to do and
think about.—Maynard Owen Wil
liams, In The Christian Herald.
bXtttUSBURG TELEGRAM
AIRPLANE BATTLE OVER THE HIGH ALPS
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This remarkable photograph shows an Italian airplane, a Nieuport
Machl, circling: about the high snow covered mountain. Dante de Pasubio,
In chase qt an Austrian airplane, which attempted a raid on the Italian
position on the top of the mountain.
POST OFFICE CONTIN
ENJOYING LIFE AT CAMP
Group From Here is Quartered at Anniston, Ala. and
0 Are Pleased With Camp Life
An Interesting description of Camp
MeClellan, Annlston, Alabama, Is
contained In a recent letter from
the Harrisburg Post Office contingent
of the military training camp, to the
> Telegraph. Camp life is also vividly
i told in the letter, which follows:
"The camp is situated in an ideal
spot, seven miles from Annlston.
Ala., and covers 18.500 acres, It Is
! seven miles long and runs from three
't° s ' x miles wide. There are housed
Jiere at present 35,000 men from
| Maryland, Xew Jersey, Delaware and
j \ lrginia. The men are quartered in
j their tents and have large wooden
mess halls, capable of seating the
full company at one time. They are
all well fed and happy, ln fact are as
cheerful a lot of soldiers as I have
ever seen. The training consists of
the usual manual of arms, hikes,
cross-country runs, trench digging
and machine gun and heavy artillery
practice.
The postofflce that we are work
ing in is located in the highest part
of the camp near Division Headquar
ters and is r rather large building,
in fact covers more floor space than
the building occupied at present at
home. There are twenty-two clerks
who are assisted by fifteen soldiers
in the distribution of outgoing and
incoming mail. The usual daily re
ceipt of mail consists of about twen
ty-five pouches of letters and from
400 to 475 bag 3 of parcel post mail.
| The outgoing mail is also heavy, the
| office handling from 40,000 to 50.000
! letters and cards each day. The
| clerks here are worked in two tricks,
from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. and from
3 p. m. to 12 p. m., with one hour
off for dinner and supper. The clerks
i are housed and fed by the War De
partment under orders of the Post
i master General. The climate of the
locality is about on a par with Penn
sylvania. We had a light frost on
Wednesday night and overcoats were
j the rule, but not the exception. The
j amusements as furnished to the sol-
I diers are also granted us. For con
| veyance to and from Anniston to
camp we use the government trucks.
"IIARRISBURO POST OFFICE
j CONTINGENT."
TIIK INDIAN PKOX IN PKRU
I There is no doubt about the fa-
I vorable sentiment of Peruvians for
' the United States, but even after the^
> opening of the Panama Canal Peru
! is still isolated, and the distance
j from Europe and North America
! does not increase the growth of mil
j tual understanding. The Spanish
i Americans of Peru are a proud and
; sensitive race, handicapped by their
' traditions at times, and not primarily
I inclined to industry. There are ap
proximately four million people in
| Peru, divided as follows: One mil
| lion, two hundred and sixty thousand
• mestizos, a mixed race, formed from
I intermarriages of the Spaniards with
j the Indians: 600,000 whites, 100,000
I negroes, 40,000 Orientals and 2,000,-
000 Indians. The great problem is
! the Indian, who is numerically as
j well as economically the vital factor
lin the country. It is the common
i saying that "Peru lives oft the In
dian." He is the cultivator of the
! *oil in the vast table-lands; he is also
I the mainstay in many a mining sec
! tion; yet in education he is almost
| utterly neglected, save for a few in
j adequate Catholic schools and one
lor two Protestant colonies in the
Andes.
j .When Pizarro came to Peru, there
were nearly eight millions of these
! inhabitants, mostly of the old Inca
j stock, and they were industrious and
i law-abiding, practicing unique agri
cultural arts of their own invention,
j :>nd possessing a fine system of irri
' gation. They were the builders of
I some of the best highways to be
! Lound in all of South America, ln
| the vicinity of Cuzco, especially, the
i traveler of to-day sees some of the
I most Interesting remains of fort
| l osses, temples and agricultural de
; vices to be found anywhere oiT earth.
The Spaniards came not to col
j .inize but to conquer. The Indians
! were driven from their cities, their
i lands laid waste, and the people
converted Into slaves of the white
I man. They were exterminated more
or less ruthlessly when they resisted
the Inroads of the foreigner, and the
| result to-day is & sullen, suspicious
! race, who have forgotten many of
the virtues enforced by their ancient
Inca rulers, and who have degen
i erated by reason of the slavery and
j vices that have come to them ln the
I trail of Spanish civilization.—The
I Christian Herald.
WHAT'S THIS! SNAK
MILLIONS IN WAR /IS
. SAVERS, SAYS
Reptiles Greatest Enemies of Rodents That Destroy
Grain and Carry Disease—They Only Strike in
Self Defense and Few are Poisonous
Washington, Oct. 15.—Snakes arej
a valuable asset and there should be |
a campaign against killing them, j
writes Gayne T. K. Norton in the I
current issue of the American For
estry Magazine. The article goes on ;
to show what the snake does for
food conservation/ byway of killing j
rodents and insects the greatest en-'
eniles to grain that man knows. The \
public has become acquainted with
snakes as never before, writes Mr.!
Norton, because of the thousands!
who have been engaged in the cam- j
raign for war gardens that has been
conducted by the National Kmerg-'
ency Food Garden Commission.
The plea for the snakes is illus-'
trated with pictures of Miss Gladys j
Pit mars, daughter of Raymond It. I
Ditmars, -curator of the New York
Zoological Society, fondling a King!
snake. Allen Samuel Williams found
er of the reptile study society a'nd'
George Von Huehren. of New York j
City, who lias one of the best private
eole'etions of snakes in the world.
The work of the Ditipars Club,!
of Newark, New Jersey, whose mem
bers go snake hunting is recited in l
detail.
"With this summer the millions
of war gardens have given the snake
popular interest—a news angle edi
tors must consider", writes Mr. Nor
ton. "The gardens brought outdoors
many who ordinarllly would not step'
from paving blocks. Tremendously j
Increased tillage has brought people I
and snakes together.
"Unless much educational work is;
done the number of snakes that will j
be killed next year by the well-mean
ing but misinformed gardeners will
be very large. Our snakes, and we
are rich in reptile life, are a national
asset worth many millions of c\ollars. j
Snake killing will never become a j
national issue—conserved as an eco
nomic factor, destroyed as a menace I
—yet the snake, particularly at ibis
time, should be conserved. The re- I
lation it bears to successful crops is
important more important than
even the average farmer realizes.
"Reptiles may not manifest their
friendship toward us, few would wel
come such a condition, yet thev are I
not enemies. They never attack un-!
less in self-defense. Of our lll|
species but 17 are poisonous—two
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I species of Elaps, coral snakes, and
| 15 species of Crotaline snakes, the
| copperhead and moccasin, the dwarf
| and tropicul rattlesnake. On the
other luuul the help they render Is
j valuable. The posts destroyed each
I year, especially the rodents that ln-
Jure crpps and carry communicable
diseases, roll up a largo balance of
; good service In their favor.
"Rodents are destroyers of farm
' products, cause loA by fire through
' gnawing matches and Insulation
i from electric wires and of human
] life, through germ carrying, particu
-1 lnrly the bubonic plague. Before the
, war the United States Department of
! Agriculture placed the bill at $350.-
000,000, one-flfth of which equals the
, loss of grain. With advanced prices
this is Increased.
"They also destroy eggs, young
j poultry, squabs and pigeons, birds
and young rabbits, pigs and lambs.
| A loss to husbandry not estimated
In figures but realized as extensive
| is due to the killing of fruit trees by
i girdling or other Injuries to the baric
i by species of wild rodents. Eminent
i medlciyl authorities agree that many
plagues ran bo accounted for by TO-H
dents. As a destructive agency thiH
rodents have no rival.
"The gross Ignorance regarding
our snakes causes slaughter of all,
things that wear scales and critwl.
Farmers should protect and breed•
the harmless snakes rather than kill
them. Many European countries
have protective legislation."
Soldiers' Strength and
Endurance in Sports'
A good soldier must possess'
strength and endurance! He must'
be able to make long marches, en-j
dure and moot and over-j
ccme an enemy man to man in close]
fighting. American sports requlrej
ond develop these qualities. One can
not fight his way through to the
last minute of the last half on the
gridiron or the basketball court
without endurance. One cannot
break through a line, smash an in
terference or wrest a basketball
from an adversary without strength,
learning to do these things has
brought bodily strength to young
America. —From the October Amer
ican Boy. ■.
2,000 Miners Strike in 1
Pennsylvania Coal Field
Hazle'ton. Pa.. Oct. 19.—Claiming,
that they have received no satisfac-i
tion on adjustment of several griev-|
ances, the two thousand miners at :
the collieries of the Lehigh and|
Wllkes-Barre Coal Company at Au-i
denreid, Green Mountain and Honey]
Brook struck to-day. The chief com-1
plaint is In reference to payment for!
♦"o removal of rock. The output of
the operation is 2.500 tons a day.