10 Physicians Not Fooled by Efforts of Draft Slackers Who Use Obvious Tricks Detroit, Mich., March 22.—Al though a majority of slackers in Michigan have sought to evade mili tary service by submitting sad stories of physical ailments or helpless de pendents, more than a few classical excuses have been heard by local boards and medical examiners. "I have pricked a good many hot air balloons since the draft law be came effective," said one investiga tor, "and I expect to puncture a good many more. Usually the draft evader who thinks he is clever is pitiably clumsy and often falls into the most simple sort of a trap." The following system caught more than one would be evader: A youth alleging defective hearing was taken into an examining room. "My hearing is pretty bad," he told the medical officer. "That so? Let's see," said the doc tor, loudly. The youth did so. "Put your hand over your right ear," said the doctor, loudly. \ The youth did so. 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A sweet young woman, employed in one of the Detroit draft board of fices, caught several slackers who were clever enough to foil the med ical examiners. One instance, which was reported by a member of the local board, concerned a young man who insisted he was deaf and who evaded the tests and tricks of the examiners. As he left the medical room the smile which- the demure miss flashed at him caused him to forget war and home and country. "Were you accepted?" the young woman asked in a very low tone. "Naw, they turned me down and gee, I wanted to " "Don't worry, my friend, we made a little mistake and you're accepted," said a drawling voice behind the slacker. The youth whirled and faced the medical officer. He blushed and stammered but finally began to grin. "That's number six for me," said the girl in the case. More Cast-off Garments Needed by Red Cross if Belgians Are to Live "On the generosity of America alone depends the safety of Belgian children and mothers. Distress and suffering are so acute in Belgium that mothers have no clothes for their new-born babes. Foodstuffs sell at exorbitant rates. Butter sells at $3 a pound; potatoes, 40 cents a sack, and boots at $lB to S2O a pair. These people have no funds and have very little chance of getting funds. All that they can do is trust in a God beyond the skies, who will send them help from America." This statement was made by Red Cross officials at the headquarters of Harrisburg Chapter, American Red Cross, this morning. They earnest ly plead for more garments and money for the Belgian and French sufferers. If cast-off clothing is not ac hand, contributions of money will be gladly accepted. The offices of the local Chapter, in the basement of the Harrisburg Public Library, will be open for con tributions and donation until to-mor row night. The campaign closes to morrow evening. HOPE FIRE COMPANY ATTENDS ANNUAL BANQUET A testimonial dinner was given last night to the members of the Hope Fire Company, by members of the Mt. Vernon Fire Company, at the Elks clubhouse. The affair was a patriotic one and addresses were made by William P. Tunis, president of the Mt. Vernon Fire Company; A. H. Kreidler, president of the Hope Fir<* Company. An address was also made by Commissioner S. l'\ Hassler. The committee on arrange ments was: William S. Tunis, chair man; Charles H. Hilton, Robert H. Hughes, Charles F. Spicer, Harry D. Hilton and Dewitt Franklin. NATIVE OF CHINA SPEAKS Dr. P. H. Chen, a native of China, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, addressed the boys' so cial at the Central Y. M. C. A. last night, giving many interesting stor ies about Chinese life. About forty five boys were present. Motion pic tures followed the address. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. HAR2USBURG SlMMfr TELEGRAPH BREAD; THE OLD-NEW PROBLEM The International Sunday School Lesson for March 24 Is "Jesus Ministering to the Mul titude" Mark 6:32-56. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS "Food will win the war!" shout the billbdards at us. Even America is slowly waking up to a realization of] the fact that bread is the basic factor j in the world struggle. Nobody ever gets far away from the bread prob lem. In Russia, as one travels about, he notices that all are interspersed with the word "klet," or bread. Breadlines, long queues of cold and weary women, are the ulti mate political factor in other coun tries besides Russia. High and low, spiritual and worldly, ignorant and learned, all quickly subordinate every interest to concern for bread, just as did the crowd who thronged about Jesus by the shores of Lake Galilee. Most interesting of all "bread lines" is that horde of more than 5,000 hungry persons who were lined up and fed on a hillside overlooking the Sea of Galilee by the great Nazarene teacher, 2,000 years ago. Picturesque, impressive, moving, mi raculous —the scene has gripped the Imagination of painter, student and people, even as it laid such strong hold of the minds of all four evan gelists that they have in common only this one of all the miracles of Jesus. No Time For Fears As the soldier is given leave from the trenches and the hurried, har ried, overwrought businessman of to-day seeks a few days of rest at mountain or seaside, so Jesus and His followers planned a quiet "retreat" for themselves. One reason was that the Twelve had just returned from a texing missionary tour of Galilee. Their Leader had said, "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place ar.d rest a while; for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat." The im portance of quiet times in the life of His servants was clearly perceived by Jesus, and these words are still in force. There was another reason why Jesus sought seclusion from the clamorous, uncomprehending rabble. A great sorrow had come upon Him, an event of deep significance to His life and to His ministry. ■ His kins man and herald. John the Baptist, had been decapitated by Herod. What this meant to the sensitive spirit of Mary's Son even a dull imagination can partially comprehend. He had lost His great witnesser and His friend. Because of Him John had died. This great sorrow overshadow ed His spirit, making of slight im portance the fact that He. too, had to llee from the jealous Herod's Jur isdiction. As a wounded deer seeks the dens est wood, so the smitten heart of Jesus sought solitude in His grief. Right here entered another duty, and a higher; for even the Son of God may not cherish His own sorrow above the world's need. True grief is so holy that it dare not be selfish. Ah, the glory of the brave smiles and tireless service to thl> cause of those who have lost dear ones at the front! The multitude pursued Jesus, whoss hand and heart had been proved to be of such helpfulness to men's varied needs. Their motive was ■•lflsh, but their want was real. The miracles had brought to each man a hint of possible succor for his own peculiar needs. The neighbor hood crowd was augmented by the hosts of pilgrims en route to the Passover at Jerusalem, for the fame of the Wonder-worker had spread widely. So eager were the masses to see and hear Him that they ran afcot around the head of the lake, which He was crossing by boat. The Compassionate One That spectacle was irresistible. All thought of His own grief and of the needs of Himself and followers was submerged, in the mind of Jesus, but the sicknesses, griefs and ignorance of this claimant host. So j He taught them and healed them un til eventide. There is a great deal of nebulous bumanitarianism in the world to-day. Some persons would offer it as a sub stitute for Christianity. Let It be re membered that It was In Christ that this spirit was perfectly manifested, and that eyen to-day It is best found among those who bear His name. Where His spirit does ont permeate and dominate, the great works of charity and benevolence will be looked for in vain. Heathenism builds no asylums, hospitals or soup kitchens; neither does agnosticism or Infidelity. . An evangelist was preaching the Gospel in San Francisco'B Barbary Coast. Among his hearers was a well-known Infidel, who challenged the evangelist to meet him in a pub lic debate in some hall. The chal lenge was accepted, but the preacher made a condition. He asked the in fidel to come to the hall on the ap pointed evening and bring with him a drunkard who had been made a sober man by Infidelity; a fallen woman who had become clean through hearing a lecture on Infidel ity, and a gambler who had been de llvet ed from the awful passion by ac cepting infidelity. Then the evan gelist said, "I promise you when the time for the debate comes that I will march into that hall at the head of a small army of former drunkards, harlots and gamblers who heard the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and were saved by the power of God." The infidel, with sneering laughter, Itft the street meeting. A Co-operntlve Charity Where help is, the needy resort, it a soup-kitchen for the hungry, a doctor's office for the sick, a church for the spiritually needy. That is why the miscellaneous multitude, with their varying wants, dogged the footsteps of . Jesus. And, as all humanity Is tethered by u short chain to the elemental needs of na ture, all the assortment of desires that this crowd pressed upon the Bountiful One resolved themselves later into a desire for food. This made the lieutenants of the Master uneasy. They would have sent the mob away, shifting back on each the responsibility for food. They had not the wherewithal In sight to feed them nor had they any.- tliing like the Immense sum of thirty or forty dollars necessary to buy food from the'neighboring villages. The Lord does not believe in these easy evasions of obligation. He puts up to the individual the claims of the many; If obedient to Him, no body could disregard the social prob lems of our time. "Give ye tivem to eat," is the way He turned this big responsibility over to His disciples. Similarly, Americans are callod \ipon to modify their latluns that their Al lies may have food. • Th;i resultant incidents were a cap ital instance of organized charity. First there was the Master's part: He provided 'lie motive, the direction, the thanksgiving ani the spirit or economy, holding the others up to their duties. In the great scheme of present-day co-cperatlve benevolence, Jesus represents the spirit of love and compassion, the sustaining force that makes all else possible. The second party in this organized relief were disciples. They had the practical work to do; tliey were the ways and means committee. All the moving to and fro was theirs. Tiie most efficient member appears to have been that quiet man, An drew, who had a knack of producing the person whom Jesus needed. It was the disciples who arranged tlie "bread line," seating the company In orderly rows on the grass, and who carried out the actual work of dis tribution, and later ,of the collection of the fragments. They were the es sential mediums of the whole char ily. No convention, church or organ ization would "go" if it were made up of speechmakers and preachers, and no humble workers. Then, a vital link in the chain of relief was the small boy. "Only a boy," yet through him 5.000 were fed. His provident mother had put up a lunch of five flat barley cakes, with some fish relish. What a remarkable boy he was —or, rather, what exciting sights he had been seeing—that he had not gobbled up that lunch long before noon. Wouldn't you like to bear the story of this day's events as lie afterwards rehearsed it to his family, his neighbors and, later, to his own children and grandchildren? A Miracle of Multiplication Every year we witness the wonder of a grain of wheat made into many, plus stalks and roots and leaves. We call that and the subsequent pro cesses in mill and kitchen that pro duce the bread we eat, "natural," and such a quick increase as went on In this present instance, when five loaves fed 5,000, a "miracle." In both cases the agent is the same; and shall not God be permitted His own way of working? Because of the extent of the "sign" wrought and the number of persons affected and the multitude of witnesses, this miracle is commonly considered one of the greatest per formed by Christ. Note, however, as commentators have pointed out, it was not a miracle of new creation, but of multiplication. "Jesus in creased, transformed, healed, re stored; He never The work of creation is finished, the work of Providence continues." So outstanding and marvelous an act as this feeding'of 5,000 scarcely needs comment. It still speaks its own messages. It was born of Christ's compassion for men's need; divine power has ever been exerted for human service. Let the man who is tempted to think that the Lork is too high to be concerned for his tem- "Tell Me How To Be Beautiful" Get Rid of All Pimples, Black heads and Skin Eruptions. 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Of the fragments which remained. enough was gathered to fill the wal*( lets of the twelve. The Lord's glv lngs are always to overflowings, but He permits no wasic. Jesus could multiply loaves at will—yet He care fully saved the food left over from the feast. The pinch of to-day is a bitter reminder to many of the waste of yesterday. Thrift Is not a dental of faith, but an (expression of it.
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