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WHAT IS LIBERTY?
Do you think that you inherit liberty merely by be
ing born. that it comes to you without effort just as you
lniicnt eye-sight and your other natural possessions
If so, you are making a great mistake.
Liberty is something that cannot be had for
nothing. That is why it was said in the old days:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty.'*
In these days
LIBERTY BONDS ARE THE PRICE
OF LIBERTY
If you prefer American liberty to military au
tocracy, then you must do your share to see that it is
not overcome and trodden under foot by the enemy.
If you cannot fight the enemy with gun and sword you can
fic-ht them with your money by buying LIBERT Y B NDS so that
America's brave soldiers will never lack anything that they need
to he > them to win the war and preserve Liberty.
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Every LIBERTY BOND you buy is a blow struck in the
cause oi LkOtrty.
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TRICKSTERS DUPE
ENGLISH RAILROADS
Show-Your-Ticket System Fails
to Balk Crafty Brighton
Travelers.
British railroad officials have had so
many cases of passengers beating their
way since the railroads were taken
over by the government that the rail
road executive instituted a rule that
every passenger, whether commuter or
otherwise, should produce his ticket on
all occasions when passing the barrk*.
This action presented a great deal of
legal business and stopped practically
all fare jumping. Persons failing to
produce their tickets had to pay wheth
er they were the owners of a ticket or
not, and the courts have maintained
the action of the railroads even when
the ticket had been produced in court.
This system has up to the last few
weeks worked satisfactorily, but the
exodus of the foreign element from
London to Brighton to avoid air-raid
dangers has uncovered a system by
which it could be beaten.
The London and Brighton railroad
has a system by which it issues plat
form tickets to passengers wishing to
see their friends off by train at a
charge of two cents, and these charges
being applicable to both the London
and Brighton stations, the refugees
from London have been working a
scheme of buying a platform ticket,
getting into the train and having a
friend meet them on the platform of
the station of their destination with a
platform ticket bought at that end of
the line.
In this way they have been traveling
50 miles by train for a total expendi
ture of four cents for platform tick
ets, while the single fare works out at
$1.50.
To cope with this evasion of fare the
railroad company has now instituted a
ticket collection at a station en route
and the local court funds have been
increased by an enormous sum in fines,
penalties averaging $lO being inflicted
in all cases coming before the court.
KNIT IN WORKHOUSE
Many Men Sent There Are Forced to
Labor.
Fourscore men are sitting in a long
white-plastered room, working as
many of them never expected to work.
On their broad striped black-and-white
knees each man holds some unaccus
tomed instruments. They are in the
Stark county workhouse at Canton, O.
Among the men in stripes are chick
en thieves, wife deserters, habitual
drunks, carriers of concealed weapons,
assaulters and batterers of their fel
low men (and women), and many other
sorts of criminals. All, of theis
are busy.
"Say, bo," inquires Shifty Sam
Smith, as he handles one of his bone
needles as though he were harpooning
a fish, " 'ow in the 'ell do y'u purl?"
"Arsk me sumptin' easy, like crack
in' a crib, or friskin' a rube or some
other light work," replies Alabama
i Gus. "Wot I want to know is, does
the Constitution of these here United
States say a man can be sentenced to
embroidery work if he only puts a man
to sleep and cops his roll?"
"Their time might just as well be
spent in knitting for the government
as in any other way," Superintendent
Boyer said. "They cannot fight for
j their country, but they can knit."
GIRL STEALS LONG RIDE
Travels All the Way From Birming
ham, Ala., to Chicago.
Ethelyn McCord, nineteen years of
age, "Countess of the Road," has ar
rived in Chicago from Birmingham,
Ala., in an express car. She said she
had worked as a newspaper reporter
on Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., pa
pers and was looking for newspaper
work in Chicago.
Miss McCord managed to keep her
presence unknown until 42 miles out,
when she simply "had to laugh" at a
funny story one of the messengers re
lated. When she told them how.far
she had "got away with it" they took
her to the dining car for refreshments.
She said she had been very thirsty,
but not especially hungry and had
.slept little because the floor was too
hard.
SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON
Denver Man Finds Use for Common
Wild Flower.
A wild flower, grown in practically
all sections of the country, will be the
means of supplying munitions manu
facturers with sufficient "guncotton"
to keep Uncle Sam and his allies well
equipped with fighting materials, ac
| cording to Charles Goard, a Denver in
ventor, and Beau Brummels need have
no fear of a shortage in raw material
for the making of men's clothing.
Goard says he has discovered that
the wild flower known to youths all
over the land as "cat-tails" has a bulb
containing nearly a pint of silklike
floss that can be substituted for gun
cotton in the manufacture of ammu
nition, thus allowing the entire cotton
crop to be used in the manufacture
of clothing.
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She Has 187 Descendants.
Mrs. M. A. West, eighty-six years
old, of Salt Lake City, became
great-grandmother to her one-hundred
and eighty-seventh descendant, when
her grandson. A. Denny. . T r„ V r: e
the father of a bouncing u-Uy Th
baby and mother are repoi.cJ
well.
JOYOUS LIFE LED
ON BRITISH FLEET
More Smiles There Than Among
Any Similar Group.
NO PLACE FOR PESSIMIST
Healthy, Happy, Wholesome Men Have
Homes on Big Battle Fighter*—
Theater Ship Goes From Vessel to
Vessel and Home Talent of Visited
Ship Is Given Opportunity to Enters
tain Their Fellows.
The British navy is DO place for a
pessimist. There are probably more
smiles to be seen on the faces of the
men who make their homes on British
war vessels than are to be found
among any similar group of men in the
world. This is especially true of the
Grand Fleet, where the continual rou
tine of the last three years might have
been expected to develop some degree
j of depression, but wluch, on the con
trary. has brought together a great
community of healthy, happy, whole
some men.
It was the privilege of the New York
Sun's correspondent to live for several
days aboard his majesty's battle crais
er and to enter into the life and
spirit of the men aboard this great
fighting machine. Most of those who
make their home in the wardroom had
been stationed aboard the ship for two
years, some of them for u much long
er period, and in the whole lot there
was not one case of the "blues," not
one "wet blanket." From the bridge
to the stokehold there was nothing but
• contentment and v lllingness to serve
uncomplainingly without the slightest
trace of bitterness or regret over sacri
fices made for the cause.
Fleet Makes Thrilling Sight.
There is nothing particularly thrill
ing about going aboard a battle cruiser
in the darkness of early evening, but
to awaken in a comfortably furnished
cabin, formerly the quarters of an ad
miral, and to look th ough the porthole
upon long lines of enormous gray ships
riding at anchor upon a harbor glisten
ing in the sunlight sufficient to give
the thrill of a lifetime.
Something in the atmosphere of the
northern country where the Grand
Fleet has its home gives health with
every breath. On the surrounding
shores of the harbor the Vikings of old
spent their winters and assimilated
the strength that made them the ter
ror of their enemies, and on the same
, shores almost every day may be seen
( the officers and men of the fleet taking
their exercise., Parties of men In run
ning clothes dash from small boats and
play at hare and hounds with the same
vim as they did in the early days of
their youth. Others play golf on a
i course laid out over the peat bogs and
i enjoy It as much as if they were
driving the bail over the finest green-
I sward in the kingdom.
Among the battleships are the usual
comforts of a well-ordered home. The
wardrooms have graphophones and
billiard tables, and a weekly motion
picture show is given on the decks.
Home Talent Gets Opportunity.
There is even a theater ship sop
plied, which goes about from vessel to
vessel. It anchors alongside and the
talent of the visited ships produces a
creditable performance. The theater
ship is called the Gourka, and its
periodic visitations are anticipated fev
erishly by the crew of every shltf i°
the fleet.
Perhaps the happiest lot of any
aboard the ships of the Grand Fleet
are the midshipmen. They have all the
energy and pentup enthusiasm of boys
in preparatory school, and when they
begin to enjoy themselves in their
"gunroom" the racket can be heard in
every nook and cranny of their ship.
They take a stronger i&to their midst
with a straightforwardness that is
touching and they sing their songs in
a manner to bring up memories of col
lege fraternity houses and prep school
dormitories.
The same cheeriness that pervades
the mess halls is to be found in the
captain's quarters, where in bright
comfort the skipper reads his books,
arranges his program of work for the
men and has his being in peaceful se
clusion. There i" soi lething clean and
wholesome and desirable about the life
of the fleet, and records show that few
men who have entered into the work
have ever died of melancholia.
PETAIN SHOWS MODESTY
Autobiography Records Merely Date of
Birth and Death .
Modesty is one of the characteris
tics of General Petain, commander in
chief of the French armies operating
in France. It is reported that after
one of his brilliant successes on the
western froot, which led to his ap
! pointment to supreme active com
mand, he was asked by a military
writer to furnish him with a few au
tobiographic notes. The general cour
teously replied with this laconic mes
sage :
"Petain, General of Division. Born
April 24, 1856. Died ."
Will Multiply Gasoline Output.
Secretary of Interior Lane has au
thorized the construction of a plant to
utilize an invention of Frederick A.
Kormann, a San Francisco chemist,
whereby it is claimed the output of
gasoline by the United States can be
increased twelvefold.