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The committee provides $184,397,- 000 for increases in the navy, this sum to be expended in the construc tion of torpedoboats, destroyers, ar mor and armament and ammunition. This is in an increase of $10,000,000 over the big appropriations of last year. New batteries for ships are pro vided $48,309,523, against only 52,- 201,000 carried for 1918; funds for ammunition for vessels aggregating $39,259,180, a purpose for which nothing was carried in the 1918 bill, and the ordnance and ordnance stores appropriations total $24,194,- 045, an increase of $16,000,000 over last year. An appropriation of $50,000,000 is carried for reserve ordnance sup plies, an increase of $44,000,000. FROM BASEBALL By H. C. WITWER BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH COLLIER'S WEEKLY On Board S. S. Dear Joe: Where did I leave off? Oh, yeh? Well, I went around to the navy office, which was only five flights up because that's as high as the buildin' was. A guy in uneyform behind a desk looks up at me as friendly as if I was double pneu monia. . "I have come to fight for Uncle Sam!" I pants, all outa breath from them stairs. "The war is in Europe just now," he says. "Anyhow, we have filled our quota and are not taking any more men. Try the marines." The marines was in the next block and only one more flight up in a buildin' that had no use for eleva tors. There is also a guy in uney form there, and he glares at me like I was one of his wife's relations. "I tried to force my way Into the navy." I says, "and they was full up. The manager told me to tell It to the marines, so I come here. When do I leave for France?" "The Marine Corps is recruited to full strength!" growls this guy. "You had better try the army." "They ain't no chance of anybody bein' laid off, is they?" I asks him. His answer was nothin'. By this time I was satisfied that they was a plot on foot to keep me outa Berlin, and I made up my mind I was gonna join the IT. S. Army if I hadda break in with a cold chisel. I fdund the army recruitin' station without much trouble, be cause they was a soldier outside and a big picture of what the doughboys wishes life in the army really was. I nailed the soldier. "Where's the guy that hires the volunteers?" I asks him. He gimme a grin. "Wanna join up, eh?" he says. "Well, that's fine! Army life is the greatest life in the world!" He takes a short wind-up and lets go. "The food is somethin' marvelous," he says. "The livin' is elegant, the clothes is knockouts, the experience is worth money in after years, there is a great chanct to save, and —" "Hey!" I butts in. "What are you —a capper for the army? Lay off that stuff and show me the guy that does the hirin' and firin'. I—" "Every young man should do his bit for his "country," he goes on without battin' an eye. "We gotta HXRRISBURG MB® TELEGRAPH make the world safe for the Demo crats, and then look what Belgium lim went through! We—" 1 grabbed him by the arm. "Lis ten!'.' I says, shuttin' him off. "Will yeu kindly cease that patter of yours and show me where your master is? I wanna get in this brawl in Europe before they play out the schedule!" " —-and last of all, remember the Lusitania!" he says. "You'll find the office four flights up to your left." "Where's the elevator?" I says. "It ain't!" he tells me. "You get achanct to advance yourself mental ly and physically. A willln' young fel ler can rise himself to be an officer if—" I rose up to the fourth floor, three steps at a time. There's a bunch of guys sittin' in a room with a soldier guardin' em, and they look like a gang in a den tist's office waitin' their turns whilst a hysterical soprano has ten teeth pulled. The soldier gimme one look and points to a room past that. I breezed in, and there's the young feller that poses for the male lin gerie ads in the magazines sittin' at a table. He's dressed like the re cruitin' posters. "Slip me a gun, general!" I says. "I wanna get in this quarrel. ' "Sit down," he says. "Take off yer hat!" hisses the sol dier. I did both. "Married?" says the officer. "No, It ain't that," I says. "I wan na go over to Germany as quick as possible because —' "France, you mean?" He smiles. "Is it France?" I says. "Excuse me, I thought we was fightin' Ger many. Well, that's neither here or there. Wherever It is, it don't make no difference to me; gimme a gun and —" "Fill this out first,' he interrupts, handin' me a sheet of paper, "and then we'll see." "I don't even need a uneyform." I says. "Just gimme a gun and a couple handfuls of bullets and —" He waves me off and points to the paper. I give this thing the once over. It didn t want to know nothin' but the history of your life from the nursery to the undertakers. The U. S. is also interested in your parents, and they was a lot of personal questions on it like how long since you laid off the booze and did you ever have diph theria and why. I finally filled it out, and the officer looked over like he wanted to learn it by heart. No doubt I had most of the answers right, for I'm passed into another room that looked enough like a doc tor's office to be one. It was. A little guy in his shirt sleeves or- ders me to take off everything X had on from the Liberty Bond button to the lucky rabbit's foot I'm in the habit of wearin' on a string around my neck. "Wait a minute!" I says. "No doubt I have got into the wrong joint. I got all the insurance a sane maji can carry, and—" "Strip! ' bellers the little guy, which had pinched his voice from a lion somewheres. "You fellers have the idea that you're doin' Uncle Sam a favor by enlistin', eh? I suppose you think we take anybody and everybody. Well, we don't—under stand that! You gotta be pretty lit to get a chance to do your bit in this man's army!" Before this bird got through with me I was satisfied that a guy has not only got to be fit to get in the IT. S. Army; he's got to be lucky! This medico had me right. Like a lot of other guys I really did feel I was doin' the country a favor by enlistin , but when they got through with me, Joe, I was proud they took me! I felt just a little better than these birds that can't get in or won't go in. I forgot all about Mac cannin' me off the team. I commenced to pity the guys that couldn't get a uney form. I throwed out my little old chest at the slight expense of two buttons off my vest. Might'nt be good enough for big league baseball, but I was good enough for Uncle Sam, and that's good enough for me! And when this here doctor slapped me on the back and says I'm healthier than livin' in the mountains, it didn t do me any harm either! The officer outside must of got a wireless that I was Three-Star stuff, because when I come out he also grabbed me by the hand and made me a present of a pleasant smile. He says I must of been brought up on nothin' but horseshoes and four-leaf clovers, because I'm the luckiest fel ler he ever heard tell Qf, outside of Jess Willard. It seems they need twenty guys to fill out a regiment that's goin' to the front right away, and I come along just in time to make up the set. Me and the other nineteen, which could prob'ly have fell over Niagara Falls without get tin' damp on account of bein' so lucky, is to leave for the camp in an hour. While he's tellin me this the phone rings. "Humph!" says the officer. "Some one to speak to you." "I suppose the Kaiser has heard I enlisted," I says, feelin' in a kid din' humor, "and he s callin' up to ask for mercy." He laughed like it was a new one. Well Joe, the guy on the phone was no less than Mac himself. Can you imagine him phonin' me? Hon est, you could of knocked me over with a six-inch shell! "Here!" he says, "I just been talk in' to Higgins, and he says you have crashed off of the water wagon. Don't do nothin' foolish. I might of been a little hasty when I give you your unconditional release, and I think 111 start you against the Reds Thursday if—" "Don't make me laugh!" I cuts in. "You can't start me against no Reds; I'm pitchin' for Uncle Sam now!' "You wanna stop readin' them dime novels!" he sneers. "Quit hand in' the telephone operator a laugh, and come up to the hotel. I wanna talk to you—" "Mac,' I says, "all bets is off. I have not two minutes ago sighed up In the army!" "What?" he howls, "You in the army? Then this here war's nothin' but a frame-up!" "Why, you big stiff!' he yells, "if the Alleys was really tryin', would they of took you?" I hung up on him. I'm writin' this letter on the ship< Joe, and we are allowed to mail 'em, but they won't be delivered till the boat reaches the other side or the oottom, whichever it turns out. Then it's got to go through a set of glooms called censors. They call em that be cause they take all the sense outa everything a guy writes. If you don't get this, lemme know. Yours truly. ED. HARMON, (Formerly the famous southpaw.) FINNS ASK OSCAR TO BE THEIR KING [Continued front First Page.] Bolsheviki, who captured it more than a month ago from the Ukrain ian Rada, which later made peace with the Teutons. Berlin's announce ment of the capture of Kiev was made just as Russia and Germany agreed to peace terms and since then there have been no reports of mili tary activity in that region. In five days Germany i has forced peace terms on three different governments —Russia, Rumania and Finland. The Finnish government apparently sub mitted to the German terms in order to gain military Aid against the rev olutionists, who hold much of south ern Finland along the Finnish gulf. With Finland and Esthonia under German suzerainty, the Gulf of Fin land is taken from Russian control and Great Russia has less than 150 miles of coastline along the gulf. Humiliating Terms Imposed Although the Germans apparently will permit King Ferdinand to con tinue to rule Rumania, the victorious enemy has compelled his victim to agree to humiliating terms. Impor tant wheat, oil and salt concessions are to be given Germany, which is to control the Rumanian railroads for fifteen years and is to have a most favorable trade agreement with Rumania, which loses the Dobrudja and control of the Danube. American Consul at Helsingfors Leaves the Finnish Capital ' By Associated Press Stockholm, Thursday, March 7. The American consul at Helsingfors. Thornwell Haynes, has advised the American legation here that he is leaving the Finnish capital Friday with about twenty American resi dents. Some SOO refugees of different na tionalities. including many Ameri cans. are at Abo and BJorneborg and Minister Morris has asked the Swed ish government to Bend an Ice breaker to brin- them across the Gulf of Bothnia to Getle. A Stockholm resident has received a letter from a friend in Helsing fors, dated February 23, in which it Is said that Instead of a regular ra tion of grain flour and a half ration of potato flour that was to have been issued that week, only fish was dis tributed. The letter, which was sent by courier, expressed the hope that the United States for humanitarian motives would send grain to be kept at Narvik or Hapar&nda and ra tioned out only on condition that the Finns stop fighting a'mong them selves. Tar and Feather an Alleged Pro-German Pittsburgh, Pa., March B.—Strip ped of hia clothing as he stood on a hill near the Hollywood Cemetery at midnight, then given a lecture on the impropriety of prospering in America and at the same time mak ing unpatriotic remarks, John Prys musalla, a building contractor of West Park was treated to a heavy coat of tar and feathers. A quiet crowd of 100 persons whose leaders had lured the con tractor to the scene of the tarring and feathering on the pretense of taking him to inspect a building site, at tended to the job, according to re ports which the police are investi gating. The only evidence left by the crowd was some tar and feathers and parts of a man's suit. The contractor could not be found to-day. It is said he was warned not to exercise too I HEAR THE AMPICO 1 T TNTIL you have heard the Ampico, probably nothing w Hi that we can say will convince you that a perfect re- V production of the pianist's art has at last been achieved. H W Belief waits always upon the evidence of the senses. I ■ When you "have heard the Ampico—b*it not until then— H you will realize that an astonishing thing has been achieved W 7W by the inventor of this device. 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