NEW EASTERN
LINE ON VOLGA
?S ALLIES' AIM
(Coup Is Expected to Call One
Million Germans From
the West Front
Washington, Aug. 21.—Upward of
1,000,000 troops must be detached
from Germany's armies on the west-
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The New Junior School Plant
for young boys is the finest in this
section of the United States. This
Department accommodates young
boys from six to twelve years of
age, as day and resident pupils.
The Senior Department com
prises six years of scholastic work
and is designed to prepare young
men for entrance to any College
or University.
The School provides:
Small i lasses.
Individual Instruction.
Military Training.
All 4)pcn Air Spuria.
The time required for a pupil
to complete his preparation for
college entrance depends solely
upon his ability, and industry.
For new catalog, Dormitory floor
plans, and additional detailed in
formation. communicate with
ARTHUR !•;, BROWN,
Headmaster.
P. t. Box <ll7. Bell Photic 1.'471-J.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
ern front to meet the menace of a
"new eastern front." If Allied aid
succeeds In effecting a junction
with the Cecho-Slovak forces now
dominating western Siberia and east
ern Russia to the valley of the
Volga.
The expedition of American,
| Japanese and Allied troops formed
I to advance along the Chinese east
j ern railroad from Vladivostok, it was
i disclosed to-day, means more than a
| mere column of relief for the threat
| cned Czech detachments at Irkutsk
I and clearing the north fork of the
1 trans-Siberian Railroad of Red
! Guard und released German and
■ Austrian prisoners in arms.
1 The expedition, over and beyond
its relief phase and the resultant
economic rehabilitation of the sec
! tions of Siberia it traverses has' a
j military aspect which contemplates
I thwarting Germany's penetration of
j Russia by the establishment of a
new eastern front to approximate
the line of the Volga River, with
possibly the territory around Arch
angel and the Kola Peninsula as
| right flank.
Military success, it is admitted
i here, rests upon the co-operation of
| the Czecho-Slovaks and the Cossacks
SPA. MEN'S VALOR
WINS DECORATION
j [Continued from First Page.]
from one of the heroes, Sergeant
' John A. Jasper, of Shamokin.
| Sergeant Jasper, with a machine
I sun battalion, was gassed in the en-
I 1
"The main vertebrae of human
i power and courage is strengthened
, by the player piano."
■ SPANOLER MI'SIC HOUSE.
2112 North Sixth Street. ad\.
j NEVER KNEW ANY
MEDICINE HAD SUCH
MERITS I.IKE TONALI.
Mrs. Benjamin Minnich, 3'iti North
; Eleventh street. Lebanon, Pa., ex
i presses her gratitude in the follow-
I ing statement concerning the hene-
I tits she obtained from .Tonall.
, "I suffered from nervousm v flue
I to my physical condition.
"I was tortured front los of
i sleep, due to restlessness it n'ght—|
| could not sleep and was in misery, i
"Tonall was recommended. I
! bought a bottle, as i believed it
would benefit me. I fel sure it
; lould do me no harm, as it was made
)fi ont familiar roots, herbs and
barks, and I had read Prof. Beck's
! analysis, and this looked good to me.
"Tonall has helped me in every
\ way—sleep good now, and I am glad
| to recommend it as a medicine for
similar ailments."
This statement was given May 20,
' 1918.
Tonall is sold here at Gorgus'
Drug Store, Harrisburg, and at 'he
Hershey Drug Store. Harrisburg,
and Martz Drug Store. Steelton.
I gagenicnt which won hip- uis iau. "Is.
' Our division has been decorated
I for valor in action, and each man
i nas received a plaited cord which
j encircles the left shoulder," he wri'es
10 his mother, Mrs. Ernesta Jasper.
"We have well earned that cord.
"It was dusk in the evening and
I about time for our plutoon to 'stand
lie.' We were located at an old mill
; jtisl a few hundred yards from the,
I Gcmian gun emplacements. Tliey
i had put a heavy barrage over us, ai d
; used the same amount of artillery
011 a quarter kilometer that they
usually used otj a two-kilometer
■ front, so eager were they to drive
us out of our position. They concen
: truted on that particular point and
i continued the fiercest kind of bar-
Jnigfe tor fifty minutes.
"Our lieutenant was eager to
ascertain whether or not the Boclte
was following up his barrage with an
Infantry attack and called for avolun
tfeti to go out to our observation post
and learn whether the sentries were
safe and whether the Huns were
advancing. Ninety per cent, of the
privates were willing to go—they're
ihe kind of fellows that won our
division its honors. But it is the duty
of a sergeant to ascertain the safety
ot his contries, and I was already
on my way before any other selec
ttion could be made.
Reaches Sentries in Hold Dttsh
"The tire wa ssoniething terrific,
and while I was a bit flushed with
excitement over the bursting of
shells and whir of machine gun tire.
I managed to reach the sentries and
found them all dug in and covered
up, awtiHng the advance of the
Huns.
"bur counter-barrage had been
I laid down, and I managed to get all
|my outposts back, to our lines. I
j thought nothing of the occurrence,
j for it was in line with my duties.
But that night, when our captain
came along our lines to make in
iquities as to the safety and welfare
!of the boys, the lieutenant told him
jol my dash to the outposts in the
[ barrage."
j Lieutenant Colonel W. W. Ketzer,
| of Milton, met his death while in ac-
I tion with the One Hundred and
I Tenth Infantry. News of his trans-
I fer front the One Hundred and Ninth
j reached his home shortly before
1 word came that he had been killed
lin action. He was superintendent of
I schools at Milton when he went to
Camp Hancock, and was re-elected
while he waf in eantn. He was a
g-aduau of Bucknell University and
war foimtdly superintendent of
| schoo's of Northumberland county.
I Private Walter N. Weldner, of
! Pottstov.'ii, was wounded by shrapnel
while fighting in the ranks of the
headquarters, company. One Hundred
end Eleven.'" Infantry. When Lieu
tenant FoflVnberger, of Pittsburgh,
offered to assist the young man,
Weldner vvavoo him away.
"It's too late." he said. "I'm too
far gone. Look after the other
men."
I Weldner died within si few min-
I utes.
Slories of 1 tilth's Gallantry
11 Stories of gallantry in the One
h hundred anti Tenth Infantry, for
i r.ierly the Tenth, of Western Penn
j sylvan in including some Harrisburg
! ers, and the Third, of Philadelphia,
| continue to gtand out in accounts of
| the pursuit of the Germans from the
i .Warns to the Vesle.
"If you felt us jubilant over our
!recent success as 1 do. you would
I jump up and down and chase over
J town as if you were wild," wrote Pri
j vate Harrison Null, of headquarters
! company of the One Hundred and
, Tenth, to his home at Greensburg.
;"I have reason to feel wonderful.
| N'otice how the One Hundred and
| Tenth knocked them in the head?
| Leave il to the good old Yanks!"
lllitis Thought P. S. >lcn Britons
"The Germans thought they were
! attacking the British," wrote Private
■ Frank Zaeovic, of Company D,
J I'niontown, in describing the German
! rout at the Ourcq.
"When we went over the top with
j a yell, they threw down their guns
i and cried like babies, running back
I into their own tire or jumping into
| the river. They acted as though
I crazy, getting down on their knees
; and begging that their lives be
(spared. Many of the prisoners we
! captured declared that on account of
j the helmets and color of our suits,
they believed they were opposed by
i the British when they first attacked."
Another Keystone division regi
i ment, the One Hundred and Twelfth,
l is bearing a share of casualties.
This regiment is made up of the
i Sixteenth, of Oil City, and part of
I the Eighth, Pennsylvania.
Corporal Lawrence Burlew. for-
I nierli with Company M, of the
' Eighth, writes to his parents at Lew-
I istown Junction, that his unit had
i eight days of fighting. He is in a hos
pital recovering from wounds.
Glory For XoncombutantH, Too
Ambulance drivers and motor dis
; patch riders anions the Pennsylvania
j boys are sharins with their com
i rades-ln-arms the glory of victory.
Word has been received *at his
home at South Allentown of the
wounding of Claude H. Westwood,
an ambulance driver. Wilbur S.
] Bloom, a motor dispatch rider with
I the headquarters company of the
One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry,
wounded July 3. has been told by
surgeons in a base hospital in Paris
that he will never be able to take
up active military duty again, ac
! cording to a letter to his home at
Dewistown.
"This is my only regret," he writes,
j "as it gives me no chance to get
i back at the Hun. I was returning
; from delivering important dispatches
lon the front lines when they got me."
j During the lighting on the Marne,
| Charles Hamilton, of New Castle, a
I motor dispatch bearer, was attacked
i three times by Hun aviators.
"Conditions over the territory
i through which the Americans ad
; vanced were frightful," he writes,
i "In many places the Huns did not
: have time to bury their dead. Much
i of their ammunition was abandoned.
■ We started to collect souvenirs, but
| got such a load of junk that we
, abandoned the effort."
In the last letter that John
Slovic, of Hazleton, member of Com
pany D, Ninth Infantry, wrote home
; before he was reported by the War
j Dephrtment as missing in action on
j the French front, he said:
"I'm in the war zone, whicli some- i
j body has called hell. It's fierce over
i here. I think some of those cold
| footed guys ought to have been in
France a long time ago. But what
I can a n;an do when our country is in
j art honorable war? Some one has
i got to tight it out and bring this
world to un everlasting peace. Our
; country is still happy, but here it
! wit be a long time before the people
I are over their mourning."
U. S. GOVERNMENT
IS ENCOURAGING
[Continued from First I'uge.]
I and materials for war purposes with
. out depletion of our own resources.
"It is impossible to lay down a
hard-and-fast rule as to what every
' patriotic citizen should do in order
| to live up to his duty in this con
nection. Things that are necessary for
the life and health of the people
must, of course, be procured.
"So It is with the building of
homes. It is obvious that it Is un
necessary for me to elaborate the
BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
CAPTAIN BRETZ
I IS TRANSFERRED
i Former Commander of Com
| pany D Now Is With
the Engineers
Captain John T. Bretz, who left
Harrisburg as commander of Com
pany D, Eighth Regiment, Pennsyl
vania National Guard, has been
transferred to Company A, Sixty-fifth
Engineers, and is now stationed at
Bordeaux, France, according to word
received by his wife, Mrs. John T.
Bretz, No. 2 Argyle.
Captain Bretz was transferred to
the Railroad Division of the En
gineers, July 23, and since that time
his duties at Bordeaux have been the
same as those of a trainmaster and J
road foreman of engines on a rail- ]
road here. He is billeted in a house
of his own at Bordeaux and has writ
ten that he is very much pleased
with his position.
Captain Lretz enlisted in Company
D. Eighth Regiment. March 13, 1900.
In May, 1901, he was promoted to
corporal, two years later, in July, to
sergeant, and April 27, 1908, he was
elected to a second lieutenancy.
April 18, 1911, he was elected first
lieutenant, and five years later he
was elected captain of the company.
In a recent letter to his wife. Cap
tain Bretz describes the park of the
Garden of Plants, and declared that
many parts of Bordeaux are both in
teresting and beautiful.
He gives an unusually interesting
account of the military appearance
of the city, with its countless hun
dreds of soldiers of every national
ity coming and going through the
(city streets and parks.
I "Large crowds are usually inter
esting," he wrote, "but this one was
especially so. First of all there were
officers and soldiers there from many
countries and some in very attrac
tive uniforms. Many French officers
wear caps and breeches of scarlet.
Besides the French uniforms there
.were British, Italians, Algerians,
Chinamen. Belgians and the Ameri
cans. There were sailors, too, from
most every country in tne world, ex
cept Germany, and tneir unforms
added to the scene."
His description of the wounded
Soldiers is also good. Three fellows
passed walking side by side, all of
them minus both legs. They had
been furnished artificial limbs and
each of them used two canes. Oh. it
is quite common to see an armless
or legless soldier pass, many of them
with their wives and c hildren cling
ing to them."
point that building operations ab
sorb the very materials and the very
class of lubor and the very kind of
money that the government requires
most urgently at this time.
"Where it is a question of building
a new home simply because it would
afford greater comfort, the opera
tion should not he undertaken.
Where it is a question of need —be it
I on account of sanitary conditions or
! because, without such new construc
tion. other operations essential at
this time for the welfare of the
country would suffer—there is no
doubt that the work should be un
j dertaken. This applies equally to
construction work in cities and towns
and in farming districts.
"Everybody should weigh con
scientiously in his own mind wheth
er or not it is his own comfort and
convenience or the national welfare
I that moves him in his purpose. If
that is done honestly I do not think
■ there will be any doubt as to the
proper course to be pursued in each
ease."
Ready to Build
Senator Calder. speaking recently
on war-time housing developments,
said:
"I am firmly convinced that with
the slightest encouragement on the
part of the government* the great
building industry of the country can
proceed. Within a few days I have
received letters from representatives
of the brick-making industry on the
Hudson River advising me that they
had in their brickyards over 300,-
000,000 bricks ready to be used, and
that there was no place to use them.
I have letters from cement manu
facturers. from lumbermen and from
numerous builders, stating that the
attitude ,of the government here in
discouraging building operations has
completely paralyzed their business
throughout the couhtry. They tell me
that both men and material are
available
"So, Mr. President, I have brought
this matter to the attention of the
Senate, first, in compliance with the
letter of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and then to justify my state
ment on the floor of the Senate
when the Housing bill was under
consideration. I hope that as a re
sult of what has occurred the coun
try will understand that it is not the
purpose of the Treasury Department
or of the War Industries Board or of
the Federal Reserve Board to dis
courage building operations where
they are necessary.
So far from discouraging building
operations, the government is itself
engaged in them on a very large
scale, hundreds of millions of dollars
being spent in communities like that
of Krie, Sharon. Philadelphia, Car
ney's Point, Hog Island, Chester, the
White Horse pike between Philadel
phia and Atlantic City and at many
other points the country over.
The government's course with the
application of a community for help
in solving its housing is to ask that
all information be laid before it and
it is all the better if it is accompan
ied by the survey of an acknowledg
ed authority.
Then ,if the need for the remodel
ing of unsuitable houses or the erec
tion of new houses is deemed neces
sary government aid is not difficult
to procure.
ICE CREAM SOCIAL
I.cmoync, Pa., Aug. 21. —The La
dles' Aid Society of the Church of
Christ will hold an ice cream social
in the church Saturday afternoon
and evening.
■HHHaWTH IVIIMaHIMI 1 '
SAVING WHEAT
is only om
good point
for
PESTLMS
(MADE Or CORN)
SHADRINSK FALLS]
TO CZECH FORCES;!
SOVIET MURDERED]
Populace of Important Rail
way Junction Kill 80l- i
sheviki Officials
Amsterdam, Aug. 21.—Shadrinsk, j
tin important railway junction be- j
tween Keterinburg and Kurun to
east of the Urul Mountains has fallen
into the hands of Czecho-Slovaks, j
according to a dispathc from Petro- j
grad to the Rheinlsche West fuel Ische
Zeitung, of Essen.
The local Soviet officiols were
murdered by the populace after the !
capture of the town.
It is officially reported from Vo-j
lodga, says the correspondent at
Moscow of the Rheinische Westfael-1
ische Zeitung, th,at the entente al
lied troops in the" Archangel section j
of northern Russia have withdrawn!
outside the range of the Eolhseviki'
artillery.
Soviet troops are reported to have |
blown up the Baikal tunnel of the ]
Transsiberia railway.
Fortna Still Leads in
Thrift Stamp Campaign
R. K. Kortnn continues to hold first [
place in the Donaldson War Savings 1
Stamp sales contest for Harrisburg
letter carriers by over a $2,000 mar- '
gin. Until August 17. he had sold
$1 5,1 20.02 worth of "Baby Bonds" and j
Thrift Stamps. J. A. Gelger is follow
ing close, being only $lOO back of
Hoi linger.
The records until August 17. inclu
sive. are : R. K. Fortna. $15,129; G. |
A. Bollinger, $12,120; J. A. Geiger, |
$12,998; C. W. Bless. $11,039; E. R.
Gault, $10,833; T. .1. Carpenter. $9,216; I
G. JJ. Ebersole, $7,591; C. E. Rea. $7,- j
252; C. A. Fortna, $6,936; G. R. Pritch
ard. $6,153; W. W. Hum, $5,706; W. R.
Manley, $5,671: it. H. Weaver, $5,434;
H. C. Bordan, $5,380: H. C. Young. $5,- I
245: .1. A. Snyder. $5,147; G. L. Ehler, i
$4,969: R. G. Wiestling. $4,935; K. W. |
I Walton. $4,430; W. B. Berry, $4,369;
G. P. Satchell. $3,859; G. W. Warden,!
$3,494; W. H. Bond, Jr.. $3,720; A. W.
Wagner. $3,257; W. Naylor, $3,252;,
H. C. Brady. $3,230; J. A. Baas, $3,211:1
A. B. Stover, $3,086; J. G. Laverty,
$3,019: D. P.'Dougherty. $2,956: J. A.
Kurtz. $2,675; W. K. Swiler. $2,571; I
P. M. Been, $2,395; J. E. Beatty, $2.-
349; C. B. Stouffer. $2,260; C. B. Ruff
ington. $2,177; W. S. Hackman. $1,556;
J. A. Christman, R. D. 2, $680; A. N.
ririeh, R. D. 3. $471; G. 1,. T. Hoen-I
schilldt, $309: J. G. Popel, $274; W. J. I
Stoner, R. D. r, $106; L T. Herman. >
R. D. 1, $75; F. F. Bruker, R. D. 4.!
$5B; .1. B. Bates, $34: W. G. Bowers,,
S2S; W. I). Byers, $l9; H. G. Dyblie, i
$l6: Frank Rohrer, $4; H. W. Dunlap, i
$3.
FOREIGN LETTER LIST
The following foreign letters re- ;
mained at the Post Office, at Haris-1
burg. Pa., for the week ending Au- I
gust 17, 1918:
Miss Ida Burns, Mrs. Naomi Burg- |
ner.
Persons should invariably have their'
mail matter addressed to their street |
and number, thereby insuring prompt |
delivery by the carriers.
FRANK C. SITES, j
Postmaster. |
Railroad Man Tells of
War in U. S. and France,
in Letter to the Trainman
Boyd S. Fowler, well-known Penn
sylvania railroad conductor of this
city, is the author of an interesting
article on " 'Over There' and 'Over
Here'" in n. current issue of thej
Railroad Trainman, the official pub
lication of ihe Brotherhood of Rail-j
'way Trainmen.
Mr. Fowler, a member of Harris- j
burg lodge. No. 383, Brotherhood of)
Railway Trainmen, is also a much'
sought after lecturer. At present lie '
is booked for twenty-one lectures in j
five states within the next several
JSmmtanZ
BKI.L llUtl—2BsH UKITKD HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1018, FOUNDED IS7I
A farmer was short of help so he approached the |~a > A 101 i
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Tom, who wasn't over anxious about working, answer-
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"No, sir, I'll be durned if I'll work for that," said Tom. jj I . /~w 1 ,i\ i"1 II IV
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• months.
His article in the Trainman fol
l lows:
I "How surprising it is, when wo,
j stop to think, with what readiness;
we learn to use a new phruse, or ac-* !
; cept a new definition. Only a short
time ugo if one had said in conver
: sation pertaining to nothing in pur-j
| ticular, T have a son "over thfcre," '
] the immediate and surprised re-'
: sponse would have been 'Over
■ where?' 'Over there' might have]
I meant the other side of the stfeet, or |
! China, or Japan. Lutely this phrase
! has coma out of the shadow of the!
j vague and indefinite. "Over there' is
as distinctly located now as Is the
i United States. I"t is the center of.l
' tho world to us. and u place to which |
our thoughts are turning, over which
hearts are breaking, ami lor which
prayers of mothers, wives and sweet
hearts, like incense, is ever ascend-;
ing, 'Over there' is where the his-,
tory of the world is in the making, 1
■ and the destinies of mankind are be-,
ling worked and fought out. While.
; there are many who cannot go 'Over
I there,' thero are many who do not
j want to go. They are possessed of ai
| great fear, and are tilled with terror!
| at the thought that they might be!
I compelled to go. It is with more!
pity than cersure that we read of thej
j unmanly excuses and flimsy subter
fuges behiiul which some so-called!
"men" (?) are trying to hide from!
! this duty towurd country pnd thej
| world, and wo sometimes blush with !
! shame for our kind, when we see
j the mad rush for exemption, and;
i note the joy and satisfaction of many j
J who accept- any verdict of physical, I
mental or moral ailment which willj
! disqualify them for service. And on!
■ the other hand, there are many men!
i in this country who want to go andl
j cannot. Men whose bread is bitter-;
ness, and whose water is grief, be-j
| cause physical infirmities prevent, or!
they hqve passed the age limit that
la hard and last (yet none too dla-1
criminating) rule lias set as the;
j 'dead-line' of soldierly efficiency, not
I conscious of any diminution of pow
er or faculties, undlmmed eyes lior
(natural forces lessened. To-day as
j fit as they ever were, more fit by ex- 1
j perience and training than many a
j younger man, yet barred from 'Over!
I There' just by reason of these'few,
superfluous years, and they are 'dead!
j sore' about it, too.
"If the recruiting offices were open'
! to men of middle life the demand
i for troop ships to France would
j greatly exceed the supply, and ere;
I long battalions of fathers and grand-j
(fathers would soon be facing 'thej
| Beast' with the grim determination;
to more than make good for their'
j lack of youth. But, it is no use. We
j of the noon or afternoon of life are
I comrades of the sunset trail. The
j calendar is against us. The page re- i
| cording the births in the old family;
, Bible is our condemnation. There
j won't be any 'Over there' for us, ex-:
'•cept in our dreams, though our souls,
j grow sick with longing and our
• hearts ache with the desire to strike;
; good and hard blows for God, llagl
land country. Our place and part is]
] over here—not 'Over there.' Age doesj
! not exempt any of us from service.'
j The part is more than the place. It'i
j we attempt nothing on this side-bc-J
j cause we arc not allowed to do any-j
I thing on the other side of the sea.'
| we are slackers just as truly as are'
those who escape service by fraudu-1
I lent exemption claims. We are fight-'
| ing here in America to-day, as well(
! as in France or Flanders, and we all
! must get into the lines; even if wej
(never hit the trenches. We need
(more 'over there' spirit behind our
i government, and less irresponsible. I
[ hare-brained and half-baked, criti-'
! cisrn. We all know mistakes' nave'
; been made, are being made and will'
' be made, some of them costly andl
terrible, and that as freemen it is our
right to think for ourselves and to j
(speak our thoughts with a certain!
j amount of freedom. But, my broth
ers, does it help matters for every!
| one of us to set up our judgment j
! as to the conduct of this way, and
loudly pssert it whenever we can get,
a 'switchbox' or 'stove committee' au-i
dience? Isn't it just possible that
the authorities are doing as well asj
jwe could? Doesn't it seem reason
able to suppose that some things arc!
AUGUST 21, 1918.
known in Washington, D. C., that! i
| Harrisburg, Pa., knows nothing; •
j about, and that Lloyd George in Lon- j :
, don may possess certain facts that i
i George Lloyd in Sibletown, Ga„ haai i
! never even dreamed? In the trench
es "over there' si'.ence is a law. In :
the lines 'over here' we can stand
for lots of eloquent silence and none .
|ofus be hurt by it. This is especially !
true concerning the 'whispering be-j
hind the hand" propaganda which is!
weakening our national morale and!
j undermining our patriotism this I
i repetition of rumors, reports and j
suspicions which come from no one,
knows where, fostered by no one|
knows who, and which invariably,
prove false and baseless, and unable
; to stand alone upon investigation, yet I
| held up by these so-called patriotic |
repetitions by men who claim to |
! want to go 'over there' to do their bit!
against the Huns; who, if not ex-j
; ceedingly careful, will do a bit for j
i them 'over here' by spreading their'
j propaganda of lies, suspicion, and;
distrust. Between the soldier whoj
turns his weapons upon his com-|
fades, and the man at home who|
makes his tongue a weapon against'
j the government's prosecution of the!
! war, there is no choice, he is a trai-j
| tor.
"'Over there' trenches have to be]
j dug as well as manned by troops, and ;
the 'digging in' is neither pleasant!
| nor attractive. Romance of soldier!
j life starts to fade when you place uj
j pick and shovel in his hands and set|
him to the task of the common la-'
borer. Yet it is part of the game'
! and must be played according tol
rules. Not to do so would be in
! subordination. The true 'over there' :
| spirit is nowhere more clearly, con
! vincingly or forcibly demonstrated
, than the 'digging in' spirit 'over
; here.' There are inconveniences, re
i strictions and deprivations which are
I unavoidable. There are Liberty Loan,
Red Cross and camp welfare .cam-
I pnigns to put through, and we find
I this war is a costly business our]
; ITncle Sam lias engaged in, and We i
as a family will find out before it is!
finished. But the man who objects j
! had better use the soft pedal when I
he voiees his longing to go to Prance
j to fight for his country, because if|
the rear line of war gets his angora|
he would be useless at the front.
[Digging into our pockethook with a,
i good grace 'over here' is precisely;
! the same brand of loyalty as digging,
in the .trenches 'over there,' and ifi
we won't do the one our our talk!
about doing the other, or wanting
ij to do it, is nothing but hot air. The]
•challenge of the gambler, 'Pui up I
i
Itching Eczema
; Drove Him Crazy]
, 1
j 1\ R. K. Machinist Tried Remedy!
After Remedy in Vain
Search for Relief
"If there ever was a wonderful I
I remedy it is Tunlac," says George
;j C. Smith, of 1947 North street, Har
jrisburg, Pa.
j "1 had a sort of eczema all over
i my face and body and it itched so
] that it almost drove me crazy and 1
j couldn't find anything that gave me
: the slightest relief.
"Doctors told me that it was
! caused by the oils from the ma
j chinery, as I was working as a ma
| ehinist in the P. R. R. shops, so I
I quit my job and got another, on a
I street car, but the itching didn't get
, any better and I was almost insane
j I'roii. the torture.
' "Then one day I decided I'd take
| a crack at Tanlac.
"Well, sir, believe me, it did the
i work. The second dose brought re
! lief, and it was only'a matter of
! days until my skin was all healed
] up, the itching stopped and the ec
i zema gone entirely."
Taniac, the famous reconstruc
tive tonic, is now being introduced
I here at Gorgas' Drug Stoi e.
or shut up,'.though it lacks elegance,
was never more pertinent than now.
It is not ihs place or the thing so
much as Jbe spirit that counts. So.
my brothers, remember 'over there'
begins right where each of us are,
nnd 'over here' runs pn until it be
comes 'over there,' and the two Pre
one.
"BOYD S. FOWLER,
"Lodge No. 383."
TELLS HOW TO
GET BACK OLD
TIME AMBITION
Discoverer instructs drugc
gists everywhere not to
take a cent of anyone's
money unless Bio-feren
doubles energy, vigor
and nerve force in two
weeks.
7 A DAY FOR 7 DAYS
Any man or woman who finds that
they are going bacKWard, are not as
strong as they used to be, have lost
confidence in their ability to accom
plish things, are nervous and run
down should lake two Bio-feren tab
lets after each meal and one at bed
time.
Seven a day for seven days.
Then take one after each meal un
! til the supply Is exhausted.
Then If your nervousness Is not
I gone, if you do not feel twice +a
strong and energetic as before, if
' vour sluggish disposition has not been
| thanged to a vigorous active one, takp
: back the empty package and youY
money will be returned without com
mcnt.
No matter what excesses, worry
l overwork —too much tobacco or alco
; ho i—have weakened your body and
1 wrecked your nerves, any druggist
| an ywhere is authorized to refund your
money on request if Bio-feren, the
mighty upbuilder of blood, muscle and
•brain does not do Just what la claim-
I e<l N>tc to Physicians! There is no
1 secret about the formula of Bio-feren,
lit is printed on every package. Here
lit is: Lecithin; Calcium Glycero-phos
i phate; Iron Peptonate; Manganese
| peptonate; Ext. Nux Vomica; Powd.
• Gentian; Phenolphthalein; Olcaresin
j Capsicum; Kola.
i •
Keeps Teeth Clean
and Gums Healthy
Specially indicated
for treatment of
] Soft, Spongy and Bleeding
| Gums. — ll
: All Druggists and Tailet Counters.
i _
EXCEPT HEALTH
ALL DRUGGISTS- LARC.t PACKAGI. $ ITJ
/■ \
FOR
m i isJk id ok CORNS
mm bunions
CALLUSES
Immediate Relief —25 cents
GORGAS DRUG STORES
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