6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4 NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Fot idea 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THft TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. lAlefrtph DtJJillng, Federal Square ■, " • ' E. J. STACKPOLE President r.i Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Itanager - ore. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board ' J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Fenn sylvaifia^Associa- AvenUe Building, Western office' Story, Brooks & l Chicago, 111! B ' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls i burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a Cffertweek; by mail. $3.00 a , year In advance. SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1919 , Fame is the scentless sunflower, t With gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, i J With sweets in every fold. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. FLAG DAY HATS OFF! Along tfcr street . there comes a blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, a flash of, cofor beneath the sky: t , Hats off! The flag Ys passing by! AND that's the way Americans greet the flag to-day—the first Flag Day since Chateau-Thier ry, the Marne, the Argonne, Saint Mihiel and Sedan. Hats off to the flag! Not only because it is a glorious flag, and a victorious flag; not,, only for the deeds of daring that- have been per formed in Its name; not even for the men who have died that it might 1 wave, but for what It stands. Hats oft to the flag! The flag that Is the symbol the world around of— "Equal justice, right and law, , , Stately hpnftr, and. reverend awe; Sign of a Nation great and strong r • To ward; liffrrpeople from foreign wrong; Pride and glory and honor, —all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off to the fag! More than ever the flag of democracy, of equal opportunity, of mercy and justice; the only flag in the world that has • never headed a selfish fight, nor phampioned an unjust cause. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums: And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The flag is passing by! GIVE THEM A RIDE notary Club, the Kiwanis I Club and the Knights of Colum bus have done theTr part fully and generously in providing enter tainment for the wounded soldiers I at the Carlisle hospital, but not all of us have been so thoughtful. 'lt. • should not be forgotten that these , men were wounded in our service, • that they placed themselves between i us and the Hun and took the bullets | that otherwise would have been t aimed at us. We g>we them a lot \ and we can pay only in kindness to • them In their distress. I We might take counsel from the generosity of John Lindner, leading i citizen of Carlisle, who has thrown J open his country estate as a sunv mer resort for Carlisle convalescents, i Mr. Lindner has set a splendid ex ; ample. Not all of us have country places, but many of us have auto mobiles and Carlisle is only twenty t minutes from Harrisburg, if the fetate Police aren't watching. You who have cars, arrange to give these men a ride. They need the recrea tion and you need to forget your own selfish pleasures for a half day at least. "HOME, SWEET HOME!" BUILDING operations in Harris burg are increasing by leaps aiTd bounds In all sections of < the city. There is no longer need to discuss the absolute necessity of more dwellings to house the people and to provide homes for many who ' are now living elsewhere and are de sirous of casting their lot among us, An important conference was held at the Harrisburg Club a day or tjyo ago under the auspices of the hous ing committee of the Chamber of i Commerce. This committee has ' I>een investigating the local condi > tions and is primed with concrete . facts which furnish the most elo quent argument in support of the constructive housing campaign which has been under way for sev eral weeks. It was developed at this confer ence that- as against building per mits for dwelling houses and apart tncnts last year amounting to $46,- $5O, there have been issued thus far in 1919 a grand total of $729,800, more than half of this amount be ing represented in permits issued during the present month. . Haymaker, representing the housing activities of the Unttod SATURDAY EVENING, States Department of Labor and Industry, and who is the author of a bill providing for the creation of home loan banks, was the chief speaker at the conference. His theory of enormously increased credits, based upon thh utilization of building and loan mortgages as security for loans, was outlined in such a way a? to arouse general interest in the proposition. )There are now in the United States more than a million less homes than would have been the case had the average building rec ord been maintained during the last few years. But a marked change has occurred in the last two weeks, the building permits issued last month having been the third largest in the history of the country. Mr. Haymaker confidently predicted an enormous building boom, which has already started all over the country. Ho dwelt upon the importance of the home life in the development of a contented people and pointed out haw unsatisfactory were the conditions which follow the univer sal renting proposition, either in dwellings or apartments. He re called that in tho old days the con cluding music for the average danc ing party was "Home, Sweet Home." which indicated the innermost thoughts of the dancers. Now the final selection is "Till We Meet Again" and this is an unmistakable sign of the changed house conditions. One of the significant and encottr | aging features of the conference was the attitude of the bankers present, all of whom stated emphatically that Hie banking institutions of Har risburg were as one in their policy of liberal consideration of loans for persons desiring to build their own homes. There was general agree ment that the ordinary banking rules were stretched to the limit to accommodate such persons and that the moral risk was a big element in every such transaction. These conferences are bound to aid in the education of the people oi> the housing question and in bringing together the banking and building and loan interests in the most practical way. It is conceded that some definite plan must be adopV.d in the furtherance of a gnont building program, but the bankers made it clear that they were the guardians of the deposits of the people and that nothing should be done to weaken faith in the banking institutions, which had already adopted a liberal attitude in the ma'tter of the building and buy ing of homes. Mr. McFarland and his associates in the Chamber of Commerce com mittee are deserving the apprecia tion of the entire community. They are making distinct headway. A FEW QUESTIONS PERPLEXED merchants, who have been losing hair and sleep in an effort to properly inter pret the "luxury" tax law, will re joice in the news from Washington that the Republicans in Congress have turned "thumbs down" on the unpopular statute and will wipe it off the books before the month is out. Xever was there such a demon stration of taxatiop gone wild as this act displays. Solomon in all his wisdom would have been stumped by its vagaries, for it has no answer. Even those eminent Democratic statesmen who framed it now admit they do not know what it means. "When is a girl a girl?" "When is a boy a boy?" "When is a girl a miss?" "Is a corset undercloth ing?" These and a hundred other questions of the "brain-storm" variety have been asked of the Fcd- I eral tax authorities by puzzled mer chants and the experts, after a few incoherent gurglings signifying in tense agitation, have sunk into deep cogitation of the problems involved, from which they arouse occasionally long enough for a little nourishment and a wink of sleep, but never for a period sufficient for an intelli gent reply. Democratic leadership at Wash ington reached the height of its ab surdity when it framed this bill, which provides, among other Hems, taxation on certain grades of under clothing for "boys" and "girls," but fails to define the age when a male child reaches the stage of "boyhood" or when a female infant arrives at the period of girlhood. The law is silent as the grave on the subject, and the merchants admit "you can search them" for an answer. Also they ask when does a boy become a man, and when does a girl become a miss? Likewise is a corset under wear? If it is, it is taxable; if not it goes free. You can imagine how the purchaser wooild decide this last named item, but how about the dealpr who must answer to the rev enue officers for his interpretations? After you have pondered these weighty problems, consider for a moment the processes of reasoning which regluate the imbibing of soft drinks and the eating of ice cream. A lemon soda from the faucet is taxable at the rate of one cent for every ten cents' worth. A lemon soda in a bottle is not taxable at all. But if you ask the clerk to dilute your lemon soda, or other soft drink from a bottle with a little carbonated water from his faucet, straightaway it becomes a taxable soft drink. Tea, coffee, beef tea, clam broth, clam bisque, tomato bisque, tomato bouillon are not soft drinks in the minds of the legisla tors. Does this mean that these old friends have been tracked down as serpents lurking among the inno cent sodas and are marked for suc cessive executions by constitutional amendment? These are but a few of the Fed eral tax law vagaries. tfney run right down the list from tariff to in come, getting worse as they go. Is it any wonder the Republicans have decided that their first duty lies in revision of the tax statutes? fotitic* £*. By the Ex-Committeeman It is not probable that the pro ceedings against members of the House of Representatives who ab sented themselves without leave on Wednesday and broke a quorum and who fulled to appear in answer to telegrams from the Speaker, will be heard of again. More than a quor um of members appeared for the meeting yesterday and more mem bers are in Harrisburg for the week end than at any time during the session, although sixteen joined with a committee of the Senate to-day in attending the funeral of Senator James M. Campbell at Mercer. The office of the Speaker is still receiving telegrams from members explaining absence and Speaker Robert S. Spangler says that he looks for a complete House on Mon day night when it is planned to take up the Dawson revenue bills which are companion measures to the Walker hills in the Senate. The efforts to get members back to Harrisburg to attend the Friday session cost the State considerable money for telegrams and other mes sages, although no sergeants-at-arms were detailed to go to distant points. —During the afternoon half a dozen members from distant points reached Harrisburg very much sur prised and rather indignant that the session was over. They reported to the sergeant-at-arms until he went home and after that sought the of fices of the Speaker and clerks. At ' least two men turned around and went right home again. —The fact that only two of the Allegheny county delegation came in was the occasion of much surprise. It was said that several of the Alle gheny men had gone to the seashore for a week-end party. —Appearance of the liquor lobby caused much amusement. The liquor lobbyists who had been so active around the legislative halls showed up with the members just as though they had been sent for, very keenly interested in what might be going on and whether it was not all a scheme of the "drys" to put some thing over. Various other lobbyists were all on the job, too. —Ninety-three bills passed by the Legislature have been recalled from the Governor for purpose of amend ment, making a record of almost twice the number recalled last ses sion and three times that of the ses sion of 1915. Some of the bills re called for changes were twice placed on the Governor's desk. A number of these recalled bills are on the tables of the presiding officers of the two houses waiting for amend ments to be prepared and some will probably stay there. —The Governor has signed 216 general acts and 37 appropriation bills, the latest having been the $350,000 emergency bill for meeting State pay rolls until the general ap propriation bill is signed. Thirty one bills have been vetoed. —The Legislature will enter upon its final fortnight on Monday and it Is expected that both houses will sit until Thursday with a possibility of a Friday session if necessary. The House will receive the final reports from its appropriation bills during i the coming week and commence to act on Senate appropriation meas ures. By the end of the week any House bills not acted upon by the lower branch will stand a poor chance of getting through as the final week the House will devote it self to Senate measures. —Final conferences in regard to the compensation law amendments will be held on Monday and it is expected that there will be action by the House on the State Salary Board, Department of Conservation and 'other appropriation bills. The schedule of increased sal aries for the judges of the State, announced this week is tagged to go through the Legislature and receive the approval of the Gover nor. The increases will add SSDB,SOO annually to the budget for judges, which for this year was $1,306,000. These increases were divided among the various classes of judges as fol lows; Supreme Court, $7,500; Super ior Court, $7,000; Philadelphia Com mon Pleas and Orphans' Courts, $20,000; Allegheny Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts, $17,000; Com mon Pleas and Orphans' Court judges outside of Philadelphia and Allegheny* counties, $129,000; Munic ipal Court, of Philadelphia, $18,000; County Court of Allegheny, $lO,OOO. The associate judges in the judicial districts containing more than one county are not included in the in crease. Pennsylvania now has seven Supreme, seven Superior, 106 Com mon Pleas, 17 Orphans', nine Munic ipal and five County Court judges, or a total of 151. —Governor Sproul announced just before leaving for Pittsburgh to attend the University of Pitts burgh commencement, that he had signed the McCaig bill appropriating $350,000 to meet the pay rolls and expenses of the State government in the period which may elapse be fore the general appropriation bill is signed. appropriation year ends with May and as the general bill is not yet completed, It was necessary to provide an emergency fund to pay State governmental at taches. Similar action had to be taken in 1917. The people connected with the State government are paid semi-monthly. —The Wilkes-Barre Record hasi this to say on the suffrage amend ment: "The Pennsylvania Legisla ture ratified the prohibition amend ment because it had already been ratified by a sufficient number of the States to make it effective. The wom an suffrage amendment has not vet been ratified by a single State. The suggestion that Pennsylvania shou'd be the first State to send in an af firmative resolution will not fall upon willing ears. There is reason to believe that the Legislature would defeat the amendment If it could, so it will not be anxious to vote until it is known what the other States are going to do about it." Destroyed the. Unbelievers I will, therefore, put you in re membrance that the Lord, having saved the people out of the Isnd of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. —Jude, 5. A Prohibition Query [From the Rochester Post-Exprers.] But won't Secretary Daniels ob ject to his dry navy taking over any foreign port? HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MENTAL HAZARD >: ByBRIGGS ; The Industrial Titan of America A Great Story of Pennsylvania's Wonderful Resources, by John Oliver La Gorce Reprinted From National Geographic Mngmlnr With Special Permission (Continued) I The State authorities admit that; the elementary educational system ! is not the best in the Union, and! that there are many things that need i to. be done to bring its schools up ] to the highest standard; but the| Governor and the Legislature are addressing themselves to the prob-j lem and propose to solve it. Adequate pay for school teachers j is one of the first items in the pro gram. One can scarcely realize that| there are in such a progressive State I more than eleven thousand teachers | receiving salaries of less than $5OO a year—a sum that even an un skilled laborer would turn up his nose at to-day. , Thse teachers are pursuing la calling second In dignity and in use fulness to none. They are influential factors in the intellectual develop ment of the future citizens of the State, and cannot but he handicap ped in their work by the less-than living wage they have been receiving. Pennsylvania is joining the ranks of those States which realize what a debt American civilization owes to the faithful, overworked, and under paid school teacher, and which un derstand that no investment can be made that will yield greater returns than the voting of living salaries I for instructors. In the realm of higher education,! no State is better equipped nor has more vigorous institutions. The University of Pennsylvania has anj enrollment of some 5.000 students, most of them from the State, but with a minority drawn from all ofi the other States, and from some fifty foreign countries. It has 30,000 liv- | ing alumni. The University of Pitts burgh possesses a department of industrial research and is one of the' country's foremost engineering in stitutions. The Pennsylvania State College was once called "The Far mer's High School." Now it is a modern institution, with schools of agriculture, engineering, liberal arts, and natural science. Lehigh University and Swarth more both have famous engineering schools. Then there are Bucknell, Dickinson, Lafayette, Bryn Mawr, Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Jefferson, and many other in stitutions which have given many brilliant • men and women to the Nation. The Carnegie Technical School of Pittsburgh, with its elab orate engineering_ laboratories; the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, with its fine course in the textile art, and Oirard College, where an orphan boy is "mothered" and in due course sent out into the world with a college education in his head, a kit of tools on his back, and a "grub stake" in his pocket, are types of special schools of which there are a number in the State. Two Groat Industries There is no part of the story of Pennland that is more striking or of greater significance than that relat ing to its industries. Modern civili zation is based primarily on coal and Iron. They enter into every truss and brace, every door-post and cor nice—indeed, into every element of foundation and superstructure of ♦he edifice of human progress—for man has been able to rise from his primitive situation only as he has I utilized them. In the year that George Washing ton laid down the cares of life, the world was using per capita less than a bushel of coal and less than three pounds of iron, per annum. In the year before the Hun undertook his ill-fated program of making the whole earth his own, the average human being that inhabits the earth, whether South Sea cannibal or American business man. could claim four-fifths of a ton of roal and near ly ninety pounds of iron as his share of the world's output. The story of Pennsylvania without an account of her share in these two great industries would be like Hamlet with the central figure for gotten. However, both have been so ably described In previous num bers of The Geographic (see "Steel —lndustry's Greatest As c et" and "Coal —Ally of American Industry." in the August, 1917,, and November, 1918, numbers of The National Geographic Magazine), that they are merely referred to, not described, here. Another Industry in which Penn sylvania was a pioneer is the manu facture of Portland cement. With the age of concrete upon us, with buildings. bridges, lighthouses, tele graph poles, railroad ties, even ships, fashioned from artificial stone, that i industry is proving one of inesti-l mable value to the people. Millions, of trees have been* spared because j of concrete, and thousands of acres! of fine forest have been saved from ' the ravages of the saw-mills because! structures which formerly were • built entirely of wood can to-day I be erected without it. { The Story of Cement It is only a little more than halfj a century since all America's Port land cement came from across the seas—and comparatively little of it was imported for building purposes. This did not suit the ambitions of! certain progressive Pennsylvanians | in the Lehigh Valley, who decided to] build their own kilns, and soon be gan to produce a cement that equalled the best that could be im ported from abroad. They found cement rock through out a broad area in eastern Penn sylvania, of which the Lehigh dis trict—above Allentown—is the cen-j ter. To make Portland cement— which, by the way, derived its name I from the fact that it resembles the] English Portland limestone in color | —alumina, silica, and calcium must i be combined and prepared in a way; I that the finished product will "set" j 'according to specifications. Clay, 1 I quartz and lime in this district are) the sources of these ingredients, al-j I though blast furnace slag and other' materials are used in some localities.] .In the valley of the Lehigli river [from Siegfried to Easton are great beds of rocks, some strata pure lime stone and others clayey or argilla i ceous limestone. These two kinds of rock are mixed ! in proper proportions and ground to .impalpable powder. Huge crushing machines munch hungrily their diet I of stone, day In and day out, pass ing their grist on down to giant grinders having maws filled with steel flails that fly around at high speed, propelled by a central shaft; and when they digest their quota of cement rock that substance looks like flour that has turned dark gray. While the rock crushers and grinders are busy*—whole batteries of ithem • —the coal crushers and grinders are at work also, preparing coal dust as finely ground and Im palpable as the rock dust. The Rotary Cement Kiln .Here another proceSs begins, In which long rows of rotary kilns play an important role. Imagine a hol low pipe, lined with fire-brick, big enough for a horse to Walk through, about 150 feet long, mounted on pivots and rotated by cog gears af ter the fashion of a great shaft. Into one end pours a constant stream of rock dust. Into the other, driven madly forward by compressed air, goes a like stream of coal dust, hissing and burning, as from an in ferno. In the middle of the big kiln they meet. The observer is supplied with a pair of colored glasses; the operator opens a tiny door and bids you look in. Glowing with a whiteness that rivals the electric nrc, you see the materials apparently in the process of turning from solid to liquid: but, just at the point of incipient fusion, droplets or of a dark gray color, ranging from the size of a small pea to that of a large hazel nut, are formed. These nodules are carried out on an endless bucket belt, glowing like embers on a hearthstone, to the cool ing towers. Here they arc cooled under forced draftu of cold ail'.. Then they go to meet another set of grinders,Ato endure the beatings of another series of mechanical flails. Literally they are beaten to dust— and that dust is the Portland ce ment of commerce, to which the world's del* cannot be estimated with any yardstick at my command, bust Without Waste The finished product is carried to large storage bins and then barreled or bagged. In some plants-the packing ma chinery is far from the least inter esting part of the equipment. Lead ing from the bin is a large hopper with an automatic weighing ma chine. The barrel, with the head in place, but having a two or three inch hole in the center, is put in position, a big funnel connecting the head-bung with the hopper. Through this the cement flows until both the barrel and the funnel are full. The barrel is then lifted away by a machine and set on a mechanism that may be depended on to pack the cement tight. Overhead is a shaft made on the principle of that I which drives the pistons of an auto t mobile engine. As it turns around, j I it lifts the barrel several inches, and | I then lets it drop, repeating the pro j cess about as rapidly as one can i (jount. When this shaking process !is finished all of the cement has ] been driven out of the funnel anil : into the "barrel, which is now packed ' as tightly as if it were solid rock. I A piece of wood is nailed over the j hole, and the steel-hooped barrel, [weighing nearly four hundred •pounds, is ready to be transported.-' With three separate operations of converting hard solids of consider able size iiito dust, at the rate of ! thousands of barrels a day, one ' would naturally think of a cement | plant as the dustiest place in all the world. Yet in many modern Port land cement plants there is not as much free dust floating arofind as one finds In the average old-fash ioned country grist-mill. Indeed, there are some plants so free from dust that one might go through ' i them in a dress suit and come out I without serious need of a whislc- I broom or a clothes brush. ; | The shearing strength of concrete ! | made from Portland cement is ris 'ling to such unexpected heights that ; S the experts suggest that the day may ' ; not be far distant when architectural ' | specifications will permit the same •: lightness of construction that is ac 'lcepted with steel. A world shortage -1 of steel might be compensated by "•an abundance of artificial stone as •! hard as any adamant made in the ' I laboratory of nature. (To Be Continued) He That Alone Would Re [John Andrew in New York Times.] i He that alone would be, let him; arise and come From out the quiet, stagnant j country-side. And find a dwelling in a city where] the thousands dwell, And there abide. The hermit, weary of mankind's ignoble strife. Flies to the forest, or in dark retreat Secludes himself. O, fool! There is one secret place— The city street. And there be some who take the' convent cell, and hope Thuß to avoid earth's pleasures and false joys, While grim seclusion, bound with brass, awaits the seeker, 'midst A city's noise. , The prairie dweller, lone, may see the change From green to dreary white, nor ever hear His neighbor's voice, but birds and beasts give him companionship Amidst the drear. Tti the city you can live and walk among The crowds as through a drifting, misty zone— Can hear strange voices, see the un known faces of mankind, And be alone. Or in your chamber note strange foot-steps pass your door That evermore go past—with for titude Can mark the cheery laugh, the scrap of talk that puts bounds To your solitude. ] You that alone would be, arise to day and cortie From cave and cell, from prison and prairie wide, # And hide yourselves forevermore among the multitude. And there abide. John Barleycorn's Troubles [From the Philadelphia Record.] The position of John Rarleycorn at this moment reminds us of the story of the colored man who want led his boss to "please lemme off nex' i We'n'sday two weeks kase I wants Ito go mah uncle's funeral." Oh, no, [ his uncle wasn't dead yet, but he ] was "done gwine be hung on next | Tuesday two weeks." Old John I Barleycorn strenuously objects to I being burled on July 1, and his i friends and mourners are assembling in Washington and threaten to fill these last few weeks of June with their pleas and lamentations. In cidentally they will make the days bothersome for the new Congress, and no man can yet say what the outcome will be. JUNE 14, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit j \ ! Number Five - I NOVEMBER 11 last," said t 1 Colonel J. B. Kemper, of the Army Recruiting Office, 325 Market street, Harrisburg, "the thing the Germans started at Ypres in April, 1915, the use of poison gas, was beginning to react with a ven geance. They first used chlorine, which was released from several thousand steel jars when the wind was favorable and drifted over our lines in the form of a yellow cloud. Chlorine didn't have a very long vogue however, it wasn't bnd enough and besides it was so plainly seen. They then developed phosgene, a colorless gas, but even that didn't work very well in clouds, so they started loading it in shells and shoot ing it over. At first the shell had just enough explosive in it to crack it and let-the* gas rush out;- bnt everyone soon got wise to the faint 'pop' made by an exploding gas shell. They then filled the shell about half full of gas and the other half was high explosive. Then was when the trouble hegjm. You couldn't tell a gas shell from any other until you breathed in the gas. and then it was frequently too late to make any dif ference. The final German develop ment was mustard gas. It is a heavy liquid which does not vaporize until the sun gets on it. but in woods, underbrush and in cloudy weather, it may stay on the ground, on the I leaves and bark of trees and brushes for weeks, and anyone touching ! these infested places will he badly burned. ' "Many and many a man has sat down in a shell holo and spent the next few weeks en his face in hod while the mustard pas burns healed up. Others have kneeled to shoot or perhaps to dress a man's wounds and have had their flesh burned off their knees. During: the wild straw berry and raspberry seasons a num ber of men died from eating berries which had been saturated with mus tard pas. Rut don't worry! We never let tire Roche put. anything over on us for lene. When the armistice was signed Oermany was producing 210 tons of mustard gas every week, but France was producing 385 tons, and Kngland 155 tons. TTncle Sam can't, let anybody else beat him. so ho was producing 840 tons per week or four times Hie German production. Down near Raltimore was a small plant, bu'lt by a Harr'shuc"" contractor, that was loading 250.000 shells with gas every day: mustard, phosgene, tear gas, sneezing gas and some w'th that American mystery, Lewisctte, said to be seventy-two, times more powerful than mustard. And we were only getting started in the pro duction of gas." Yankee and Cockney Among the amusing anecdotes re counted lan Hay's "Last Million" Is one showing how much the Yan kee recruits had to- learn under tho officers of the Rrttish and French armies even after their preliminary training at home. A young Ameri can officer wittily describes to a Red Cross nurse the emphasis placed upon the proper method of saluting: "There was an English sergeant well the hoys used to come running a hundred yards to see him snlute an officer. T tell yeu it tickled them to death at first. Next thing they were all trying to Ido it, too." Here the American gaye a very creditable reproduction of the epileptic salute of the British Guardsman. "Like that," he said. "I'm not surprised they ran," com mented the nurse. "Still," continued the officer appreciatively, "that scr ! geant wus a bird. At the start we regarded him as a vaudeville act. He talked just like a stage Englishman, for one thing * * * I shall never forget the first morning we held an Officers' Instruction Class. There were about forty of us. Old Man Duckett, that was his name. Sergeant Inspector Duckett— marched us around and put us through our paces. We men,nt to show him something—we were a chesty bunch in those days— ROT WO gavte him what we Imagined was a first-class AVest Point show. (Not that any of us had been at West | Point.) When we had done enough, he lined us up and said: 'Well, gen tlemen, I have run over your points, and before dismissin' the parade, I should like to say that I only wish the President cf the ITnited States was here to see you. If he dtd catch sight of you, 1 know that his first wordq would be, "Thank Gawd from the bottom of my heart, we've got a navy!" ' " il/ Ebptttng