6 Flying With Shaffer urmu ntoa A DAURAM touirrr SOT TO HU MOTHS* ISzoadrlH* Spad 38, Sec tour Postal, 103, , O. C. It, Sept. 28, 1918. - Dear Mother: Just came back from a three-day trip to Paris, and I sure did enjoy myself, probably because It was such -A change, for you know I have been on the front for some six months the outlook there is not always u cheerful as one might think. And L then one sees so much of the male htssx. tc'i,. in fact, too much, so you I can imagine seeing the French dolls, [ which Paris is noted for, trotting f along the boulevards and parks, was , some welcome sight, even if some ► pe-rons maintain that their idea of f a bath is simply another coat of pow i dr - In Gay I'aree | Besides, I had considerable money F In my Jeans and was aching to spend k It. I could not have gone to a bet r ter place for that purpose, for it sure , does take money to live in Paris, i Everything has a tax "de luxe" pinned onto it, which translated ' means taxes on luxuries. 1 Riding In taxis comes under this [' head, too, which caused me consid ■ arable surprise, for taxis In Paris f Time Brings Happiness > With The Dawn ! Tit r —of Uj Hub lb At mi of a Glc-rkro Future. Scientists say greet stress itoald be laid l Upon the remarkable Influence which the mother'! bappy pre-natal disposition has upon the health and future Of the genera ■ noes to come. There is a splendid preparation women for over half a oentury hare applied be fore the stork's arrival, known aa Mother's Friend. This is a most grateful, penetrating L remedy that at eace aoftnu and soothes 1 the myriad of broad, flat obdoralnal muscles voder the skin of the abdomen. By its reg i ular use during the period the nervea, ten dons sod cords are relaxed and there Is aa absence of nausea, bearing-down pains, strain and general discomfort more often than otherwlso experienced when nature Is vnalded. By the use of Mother's Friend night and morning the muscles rglax with ease when baby comes, the time at the crisis Is shorter and pain and danger Is naturally avoided. Write the Brsdnsld Regulator Company, Dept. K. Lamer Bul!d!:ig, Atlanta, Georgia, for their Motherhood Book, "and obtain a kettle of Mother's Friend from the druggist, by all means," and get Into condition to meet the crisis. DRUGGISTS!! PLEASE NOTE KICK'S VAPQRUB OVERSOLD DUE Til PRESENT EPIDEMIC Demand Last Few Days Has Wiped Out T" Excess Stocks That We Had Estimated Would Last 1 Until Next January. Last Week's Orders Called for \ One and Three Quarter Million Jars —Today's Orders 1 Alone Amount to 932,459 Jars. • I Big Shipments Are En Route £ to Jobbers. Until These Ar f rive There May Be a Tempor ary Shortage. All Deals Post j* poned Buy in Small Lots £ Only. ___ jj- RETAILERS CAN GET IM * MEDIATE SHIPMENTS >;• DIRECT BY PARCEL * POST P. This advertisement Is written on > Monday, O.icober 21. It is directed to the attention of all distributors >• of Vick's Vapoiiub, both wholesale t and retail. In an emergency such *as the present epidemic, our duty ft —and your duty—is to distribute I Vapoßub in tho quickest possible manner to those sections stricken by Influenza. We, therefore, call your careful attention to the following: DANGER OF SHORTAGE IF SUP PLY IS NOT CONSERVED On October Ist we had on hand, •t our factory and in twenty ware l houses scattered over the country, I sufficient Vapoßub to last us, we £ thought, until January 1, allowing , for a 60 per cent. Increase over last i year's sales, and not counting our daily output. This big excess stock had been accumulated during the summer months. ! Then this epidemic of Spanish In fluenza hit us—and in the last ten days this stock has vanished. At first we thought this tremendous de mand would last only a few days, ; but the orders imve run: Wed., Oct. 16—18,504 dozen, i Thur., Oct. 17—25,323 dozen. | Fri,, Oct. 18—39,256 dozen. Sat.,, ®ct. 19—45,833 dozen. Mon., Oct. 21—77,705 dozen. Up to Saturday, October 19th, we have actually shipped for this month $400,284.10, or over two mil lion jars Of Vapoßub. THE PROBLEM NOW IS TO DIS TRIBUTE VAPORUB QUICKLY • Most of this tremendous quantity la still an route to the jobbers, but freight and express are both con gested nowadays, and It may be some time before this supply reaches the Jobbers. In the meantime, there fore, It is necessary that we distrib ute, as widely as possible, the atock that we are manufacturing daily, to gether with that now on tho Jobbers' and retailers' shelves, in or4er that it may get to tbe Influenza districts quickly. Our normal output Is about 4,000 dozen per day. Wo are putting on a night shift, but It will be a little while before that la producing. WHAT WE ASK THE WHOLESALE DRUGGIST TO DO Last Saturday wa notified all of our Jobbera, by special delivery, ag follows: 1st —Deals and quantify ship ments of all kinds are can celled. Fill no quantity or ders of any kind, whether taken by our salesmen or by ; your own. Sell In small lota at olty- . JL VICK CHEMICAL CO., Greensboro, N. C. FRIDAY EVENING, are cheap and a most oommon mode of conveyance. Incidentally, the tax was marked on the taximeter under the word "baggage," and since the only baggage I was carrying was a pair of kid gloves. I sure made a holler at the end of my first ride. Oh, no, I did not come back broke, but I did spend a lot of money In ways that would shock your "thrifty soul," as Dad would say. One of them being the buying of a gold bracelet, with my name, number, residence and a lot of other private history Inscribed thereon. It only cost some $35 so it should be pretty good metal, eh? You see, lam Just as vain—or crazy—as ever, and when you see me in some of these French uniforms you will be quite sure of the vain part. t | .* Gets Xew Spangles While I think of It, I better tell you that being in the "big town" I made use of the opportunity to re pair the damage to my black uni form. You remember, I lost the most'important half of it sometime ago. I now have a new pair of pants and am ready to wear my own mourning again. Putting up at the Y. M. C. A. ho tel, I caused no end of curiosity, be ing all dolled up in blue among a sea of khaki, and the blue being trimmed by the gold badge of the Lafayette Corps, the flying insignia of the French, to Say nothing of my "Croix de Guerre" with its two palms, and the "fouraglre" draped from my shoulder, one could not blame the girls for making eyes at one, or the American soldiers for wondering where and how I acquired all the trimmings. • How to Tell a Yank One American girl declared she knew I was an American before I opened my mouth. Naturally, I was curious to know why as I always am when people say I look like an American, and wanted to know if it was jthe shape of my mouth. This brought a smile and the showing of a perfect set of white teeth from the pretty one, for strange as it may seem, this was one pretty little Miss. How she ever got into Y. M. C. A. work with all that beauty was be yond me, until I found out that she had lived in Franco for six years; besides her mother was in charge at the Y. where I was so joyfully ab sorbing ice cream. You may won der at my surprise at seeing a pretty girl in a Y. canteen, but really, from my observation, I firmly believe they have a beauty censor when it comes to passing on the merits of these workers. But to come back to the reason why I looked like an Ameri can, what do you think that girl said? She knew it by my feet. Not 2nd—Order from us In as small quantities as possible. If you are out we will try to ship a limited amount by parcel post or express, and pay the charges ourselves. 3rd—ln order to make distribu tion still quicker, we will ship direct to your retail custom ers quantities not more than three (3) dozen 30c size at any one shipment. ' Itb—We are now out of the 60c size and will be for the next ten days. WHAT WE ASK THE RETAIL DRUGGIST TO DO Buy in as small quantities as pos sible. If you have any quantity or ders. given the jobber's salesmen or given to our salesmen, don't bother about them—no need to write us— it is absolutely impossible to fill these orders at this time. If the jobbers In your territory are out of Vick's Vapoßub. we will ship you by parcel post, prepaid, quantities not more than three (3) dozen 30c size in any one order. Naturally, we can't open accounts at this time, so your check or money order for this amount accompany order. Don't write us stating to ship through your jobber, as we then have to wait until we write this Job ber and get his O. K. If you wish the goods to come through your Job ber, have him order them for you. SNOWED UNDER WITH CORRE SPONDENCE Our force has already been "shot to pieces"—twenty-four of our men are wearing Uncle Sam's khaki— and this recent rush has simply buried us. All our sales force has been called in to help In the office and factory. We Just "mention this so you won't hold it against us if your wires and letters aren't an swered promptly. SPECIAL BOOKLETS ON SPANISH INFLUENZA "We will send, on request, to any retail druggist 100 or more little booklets, Just issued, on Spanish In fluensa, giving the latest Informa tion about this disease—its history the symptoms—the treatment, and particularly the use of Vick's Vapo- Rub as an external application to supplement the physician's treat ment. NEW WAYS TO USE VAPORUB In addition to the usual method of using Vapoßub—that is. applied over the throat and chest and covered with hot flannel cloths—our cus tomers are writing us dally telling of their success in using Vappßub In other ways, particularly as a pre ventive. They melt a little in a spoon and Inhale the vapors arising, or melt it in a benzoin steam kettle' Where the steam kettle is not avail able. Vapoßub can be used in an ordinary teakettle. Fill the tea kettle half full of boiling water, put in half a teaspoon of-Vapoßub from time to time—keep the kettle Just slowly boiling and inhale the steam arising. According to a bulletin Just issued by the Public Health Service, Dr. Stiles, of this service, recommends that the nose be kept greased as a preventive measure against the In fluenza germs. For this purpose Vapoßub Is excellent. | that they are so abnormally large, heoaueo they are not, but because I was wearing American shoes. Golly! that made me laugh, for It sure showed keen observation on her part, as they were American shoes I was wearing—the only thing I have left from my civilian outfit. Gee Whiz! Hot Bath! One nice thing about the Y. hotel la that it has many well-equipped bathrooms and what is more to the point, hot water all the time. You can bet I soaked myself pretty thor oughly during those three days, for a bathroom and hot water and I had been strangers fob a long time. I made up for lost time though and got very well acquainted again. Also, I stopped shaving myself and left an honest-to-goodness barber do it, who being French, was not much of an improvement, and I had my nails manicured, too, for the first time in my life. Not that they needed it at this late date any more than before. But if you had seen the you would not have blamed me. Golly! she sure was a pippin! With black hair and green eyes too. Quite a combination, you will say, so when she directed a smile my way and wanted to know if I wanted my fin ger nails arranged while waiting my turn for a shave, little Walter gave her the quick once over, decided his hands needed something done to them and that he would learn some more French as well as take an other crack at the bane of his ex istence—bashfulness. Truthful as George Waslilngton I soon discovered, among other things, that with a little help from the other party I could keep a con versation going fairly smooth and •amusing, even in French. .Some half an hour later the barber came around and wanted to kntfw If I was in a hurry for the shave. No I wasn't. Which was the most truth ful thing I ever said in my life —I think it was an hour later when the hair was removed from my face, but I don't think I ever spent so much time more enjoyably or amusingly. Not only did I learn some more French, but gave that bashfulness its dying thrust. Of course, a few blushes may have gotten out of con trol, but they generally do in the presence of beauty, however, I still have hopes, that given a little more time they will obey orders also. Best Way to Sec Paris The next day was Sunday and since I had a date "pour faire une petite promenade," of course it had to rain. Not all the time, you know, but just enough to spoil any contem plated walks down a lover's lane. And since walking was out of the question we hired a taxi, which was not at all bad, even if it was expen sive, for a more comfortable and quick way to see Paris could not bo thought of. To tell the truth, I can't say I recall much scenery, except what was hidden under a "chic" hat and veil. I better stop this garrul ous narrative, however, because your vivid imagination, I fear, has pic tured many things that never hap pened. Chickens Are Scarce Paris seemed quite changed from the last time I was there, not only in being more strict, but in the num ber and variety of "poulets" running around. They are all coming back from the seashore, I guess. And, then, the effect of the many Amer icans was quite surprising also. One can even ask a French waiter now for a glass of water without having him faint. The only way I can ex plain this phenomenon is that he has finally decided that since all -Americans-are crazy, "tis better to 1 hunfor them. You can still give one a shook, though, by asking for milk. Fortunate for_ them, they are spared many phocks, for milk comes under the luxury head and cannot be gotten unless one is sick. Closer to Hun When I arrived at my escadrille, I found it had moved, going up closer to the lines, which, although pleas ing news in a way, had its draw backs also, for I began to wonder whether my clothes and other things had been taken along or left for any wayfaring soldier to take. I was lucky this time, though, for several pilots had kindly packed my junk and brought it along. Even at that, though, I lost several things (I always do every time we move.) This time it was my sewing kit and a lot of chocolate I had loft in a drawer. The loss of the candy was, indeed, a calamity. Bunked With Flute Player The sewing kit did not cause so much sorrow, as, not liking the Job, I seldom have use for it, and, as for ' the thimble, I never could use one of the darn things. It's always been a puzzle to me which finger it 1 should be used on, and, as for darn ing socks, I never had the courage or patience to attempt that. And, would you believe it, I'm bunked up with the flute player. Truly, a war i causes strange bed fellows and I feel that an appropriate nightly prayer would be to ask the Lord to keep him from playing, and, Judging from what he is doing now, it looks as if the prayer was answered, but it must have gone to the wrong place, for he is playing poker. "Ca, e'est bien.'* be cause the only thing in danger of suf fering is his pocketbook. Being a famous escadrille, we got the only barracks on the new "piste." As barracks go they are not "worse," although they will roquire some fixing up to make them comfortable for win , ter. Our first Improvement was put in to-day, when a gas light was put in the dining room. lam now writing by its light, which is certainly an im provement over a candle and is not so hard on one's eyes. Relics of the Boche It's very pretty around here, too, the barracks being on the side of a small hill. In fact, we're right in the center of a beautiful grove, which contains so many things left behind by the Boche that a souvenir hunter would be in Heaven. Among other things, are hundreds of Boche artil lery shells, stacked up outside the barracks. And, what's more, they are all pointed this way. So here's hoping the Fritzies who wander over here nearly every night don't drop any bombs in the neighborhood of that Boche "woodpile," for it sure would make things hot for the flute player and I, and, of course, It would be just my luck to have everything else get plugged, myself included, except that doggoned flute. Barbwire is becom ing more plentiful, too. In fact, if the war does nothing else for the peas ants whose land has been fought over, it will save them the cost of wire and posts for fencing in their land. Golly! there's enough wire scattered around here to fence in a Montana ranch. Found three letters here from you when I came home. They sure were welcome and interesting, and was glad to hear you had read the letter about the attack on the balloon. It made me laugh to see how quickly Dad changes his tune from "get a Boche" to "stop taking such big chances." As Tor fighting the Boche when they start a merry-go-round. It's my duty to go down and attack, even if they do get me. As for that especial trick, it's a very old one for ■the. Boche, being used by one of their crack escadrllles. HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH! KAISER AND BOOZER ON RUN The International Sunday School Lesson For No vember 3 Is "Appetite and Greed" —Genesis 5:27-34 (World's Temperance Sunday) By WILLIAM T. ELLIS War's casualties are not all printed In the newspaper lists There Is John Barleycorn, for In stance; he is as surely doomed as the Kaiser. Into these tremendous days we have telescoped the process of generations, so that greatter social progress 1b being made in a year than formerly was .achieved in a century. Ma#3 keeps a school of intensive training. We are learning to the accompaniment of guns the great lessons of life. That is why even liquor men admit that the busi ness of strong drink will have been wiped out for the United States and Canada, and ultimately for the whole world, by this war. Civilization has steadfastly resolved that there shall be a new and better order for man* kind; and, inevitably, there is ho room in it for the hurtful liquor traffic. This war, our children will clearly see, will have been worth all it cost, terrible and tragic as is the toll at present being taken. Dimly we now envisage the priceless results to our children. Soldiers glimpse the greatness of the future they are buying with their blood. A British soldier's epitaph in France is said to read: "When you go home, tell them of us, and -Say For their Tomorrow, we have given our Today." It is for a world freed from the blight of Prusstanism, militarism, autocracy, greed, cruelty, injustice and intemperance that they have here and overseas §| From all accounts, the most eagerly sought-for ciga- I H PIF ' I rettc amon £ American soldiers abroad" is Fatima. Exact felrf /OTKr sfigures to prove this are not available; but, in view of k WWW r I Fatima's known popularity with both officers and men St w/jßm ■"}■. I still in training on this side of the water, it would seem |l I training camps and army posts, received from our sales- ' \ FORTRESS MONROE, Old Point"Com&rt, Va. I i WEST POINT, Officers' Clubt fa ' "More Fatima* smoked than any other cigarette" Hf t ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Rock Island, 111 I v' "Fatima is second best seller" W CAMP MERRITT, Dumont, N. J., Officers* Clubt fjJ "Fatima is largest-selling cigarette" |I: a CAMP ZACHARY TAYLOR, Louisville, Ky. i nJ Hjl | f "Fatima is most popular high-grade brand" ®|t v ijsj| "Fatima is called here 'the officers' cigarette'" rt died. The world has given of its best in battle to save itself from the worst of woes in peace. Some Blessings of the War There ha-s been a majestic moral sense marching over the earth with in the past five years. When the old order of world peace collapsed the eyes of all far-seeing men and women were opened to the coming of a new era, with nobler ideals and impulses. Each passing month re veals the magnitude of this spir itual, political and economic up heaval. We are headed toward a new heaven and a new earth. Five years ago it seemed as if material might and physical indulg ence held sway among mankind. A passion for power and pleasure ruled men. Wealth, the symbol of au thority and purchasing ability, was the avowed goal of effort. In the cultivation of forms of entertain ment, and in the invention of new sensations, the world was rivaling ancient and degenerate Rome. There seemed ti blunting of the finer edge of spiritual sense. Then fell the war bringing us to ourselves, and causing deepest soul searchings. Facing the issue, all the best that is in us—our inheritance from forefathers who battled for liberty and for God; our innate ideal ism. our sense of responsibility for the world to-morrow —rose up to assert itself. We had strayed, but we had not become lost, With all our faults, we now know, we do stand for righteousness and religion. The supremacy of spiritual values emerged. At present, thank God, all the English-speaking world is at war'for our spiritual Inheritance. This struggle is not localized in France or .the East. Some of its most strategic battles aro now be ing fought in thfe centers of the homelands. Every woman and every man who adheres steadfastly to the standards of the Christian religion, and to the vast integrities of life which the centuries have tested, is a co-worker with the brave boys who fling their lives over the top in France. Together they fight for the pre-eminence of.-what is spir itual over crass and brutal appetite. What would it avail us to break the Hun in Europe and suffer his ideals to conquer us in the homeland? Every Sunday school teacher, every parent, every preacher, every editor, every teacher who in this crisis sees clearly the indispensability of nobil ity and righteousness, may know of a surety that he or she is a fellow wohker with God and the Allied armies for the triumph of our sacred cause. A World Battle •On the lytsis of this familiary Old Testament stopy of the appetite ruled' Esau, who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, we have to day the annual lesson for World's Temperance Sunday. In these days of jubilation over the spectacular victories of the temperance move ment, it is not to be forgotten that for many years the Sunday schools of the world have been laying siege !*,io ttjfe citadel of strong drink. The war nas been the occasion but the cause runs back through long and dark years of tireless temperance teachings and struggling. To-day there comes to my desk a call for an International Conference of Allied and Neutral Countries, to be held in Columbus, Ohio, Novem ber 14-21, to lay for the com plete elimination of the beverage liquor traffic throughout the entire world. That Canada and the United States are to be permanently "dry" now seems assured. But this old earth cannot continue under tho new conditions of solidarity, half wet and half dry. Our allied prob lem contemplates a new and hotter order of lifo for all peoples; and wo r NOVEMBER 1. 1918 know that this cannot be so long as appetite rules mankind; or prin ciples are subordinated to passion. Clearly, the question Is .larger than one of booze or no booze. It Is the ancient Issue of the flesh versus the spirit. Our supreme task, as it lies peculiarly within tne domain of re ligion, is to help the human race to give over the reins of their lives to their higher natures, while they bring into subjection the lower. The shortest, surest way to accomplish this is to persuade the world to ac cept Jesus Christ, who gives to His disciples a new nature. Blumlcrings of Booze Without amplifying the oft-prov ed point of the relationship between the brewer and the German pro gram, It is enough to point out that the booze business has been com mitting the same sort of blunders as the Prussian propaganda. The uncovering of those mistakes has helped tear the veil from the eyes of many blinded Americans. Thus, the discovery that the man who wrote for many years the bitter aqti-Engllsh, anti-Japanese and, in ferentially, the pro-German editor ials of the Hqarst newspapers, had purchased hi? Washington news paper with funds contributed by brewers bearing German names, has startled the country into a realiza tion of the ramifications of the liquor business and of the schemes of the enemy. * Another blunder of the friends of strong drink has been the cry that the workingmen "must have" their dram. Similarly, it was said that an army in France "must have" rum every morning, but to date not a single ounce of rum or other intoxi cant has been issued to General Pershing's army. When I was In London I heard on every, hand that the brewers must be permitted to continue in business, because of "the worklngman." • I took that argument to Arthur Henderson, the labor leader. His jaw set as he said, "All we ask is that they let us put It to the test. So far, since the war, when the la boring men of Britain have had a ! chance to vote on the question lo cally, they have put the public house out of business. It is char acteristically stupid statement of of the brewing busi ness that "the .worklngman" is without Ideals or self-restraint, ar.d that he puts his glass above the flag. The sentiment would be in bet ter taste if the men who made it had themselves been willing to fol low King George in a pledge of "glasses down for the war." Another favorite argument for liquor was borrowed in perverted form from the Apostle Paul; liquor was essential to health. Yet recent ly, when the influenza began it rav age in Pennsylvania and the East generally* the health authorities shut up the saloons with a consequent and immediate falling off of crime in the big cities. Of course, the vltul statistics of the "dry" versus the "wet" states and provinces long ago settled that question to the effect of liquor upon health. And within a year the president of the Amer ican Medical Association, Dr. Arthur Bovun, said in his official address, "In the slow evolution Of civilization many great wrongs became so in trenched that it required centuries of education or revolution to extir pate them. Among these great wrongs, too long tolerated, none has done more injury to mankind than drink. Now the swiftly moving course of events is writing the death warrant of Autocracy and rule by 'divine right,' and science and edu cation should eliminate not only plagues and epidemics, but also the curse of drink from the world." This Tonic- Upbuilder Helps the Lungs Weakened and run-down systems, threatened with serious illness, have found in ECKMAN'S ALTERATIVE an unusual tonic and up-butlder, often helping to restore, health and strength. No alcohol, narcotlo or hablt-formlng drugs. Twenty years' successful use. HOc and 01,50 flatties at all druggists or manufacturer, postpaid. ECKMAN LABORATORY, Philadelphia
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