THE A 8 C OF THE
LcAGSSE.OF NATIONS
By DR. FRANK CRANE.
1. What is the League of Nations?
A. A union of the strongest civilized
nations formed at the conclusion of
the great war.
2. What is its object?
A. First, to promote the Peace of
the World by agreeing not to resort to
war. Second, to deal openly with
each other, not by secret. treaties.
Third, to Improve International law.
Fourth, to eo-operate in all matters of
common concern.
3. Does it presume to end war?
A. No more than any government
can end crime. It claims to reduce the
liability of war.
4. What will be done to any nation
that makes war?
A. It will be boycotted and other
wise penalized.
5. How else will probability of
war be lessened?
A. By voluntary, mutual and pro
portionate disarmament; by exchange
ing military information, by providing
for arbitration, by protecting each na
tion's territorial Integrity and by edu
cating public opiuiou to see the folly
of war.
6. What else does the League pro
pose to do for Mankind?
A. (1) Secure fair treatment for
labor,
(2) suppress the White Slave
Traffic, the sale of dangerorj
Drugs, and the traffic in Wi.f
Munitions,
(3) control and prevent Disease,
(4) promote the work of the Ited
Cross, and
(5) establish International Bu
reaus for other Causes that
concern the human race.
7. Who are to be Charter Members
of the League?
A. The United States of America,
Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Em
pire, Canada, Australia, South Africa,
New Zealand, India, China, Cuba,
Czecho-Slovakia, Eueador, France,
Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hedjaz,
Honduras, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Nic
aragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portu
gal, Rumania, Serbia, Siam, Uruguay
and the following states which are in
vited to accede to the covenant: Argen
tine Republic, Chili, Colombia, Den
mark, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay,
Persia, Salvador, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Venezuela.
8. What other nations may Join?
A. Any self-governing State which
will agree to the rules of the League,
provided the League accepts it.
9. What Agencies will the League
have?
A. (1) An Assembly, composed of
representatives of all the
member Nations,
(2) a Council of Nine,
(3) a Secretary-General,
(4) a Mandatary Commission, to
look after colonies, etc.,
(5) a Permanent Commission, for
military questions,
(6) various International Bu
reaus ; such as the Postal
Union, etc.,
(7) Mandataries.
10. What is a Mandatary?
A. Some one nation designated by
the League to attend to the welfare of
"backward peoples residing in colonies
of the Central Empires, or In terri
tories taken from them." This Is to be
a "sacred trust," and In selecting a
mandatary the wishes of the people
of the area in question shall be the
principal consideration.
11. Does the League mean a Super
nation?
A. No. It interferes In no way with
any Nation's Sovereignty, except to
limit Its power to attack other nations.
12. Can any Nation withdraw when
It wishes?
A. Yes. The League is Advisory
and' Co-operative, not coercive.
13. Does the League put Peace above
Justice and National Honor?
A. No. It puts Reason before Vio
lence.
14. Does not the League take away
the Constitutional right of Congress to
declare war?
A. No. The League can advise war;
Congress alone can Declare war.
15. Does It destroy the Monroe Doc
trine?
A. Exactly the contrary. For the
•first time In history the other nations
recognize the Monroe Doctrine; and
extend it to all the world.
16. Does tt not interfere with Treaty
Making Powers of the United States?
A. No. It Is a Treaty. We can make
any Treaty we please.
17. Would we have had the Great
War if we had had this League?
A. No. That War cost the world
over 7,000,000 lives and 200,000,000,000
dollars.
18. Of what Importance is the
League?
A. It Is the greatest deed of man
kind in the history of the world.
19. Has not anyone a right to ob
ject to the League?
A. Yes. This is a free country. Any
one has a right to any opinion he
chooses.
20. Why is the League so bitterly
opposed by a few?
A. Because. unfortunately, any
Treaty or League must be made by the
President, and a President Is chosen
by a political party and many mem
bers of the opposite Party think they
must decry whatever he does.
Advice for Singers.
Sims Ileeves. the famous Englitth
•tenor, is quoted as saying: "A singer
>who does &ot recite or read the
I verses of a song aloud before at
j tempting the music will never become
a great artist." The young singer
should memorise a text, should repeat
; it over and over aloud, testing the
matter of emphasis or stress upon
; eack word to determine just where it
should he and tfhe proper an aunt to
give the best interpretation to the
I thought.
Ordering One's Life.
Take time to Scrutinize your life.
Try to define just why you are "run"
and decide for yourself that If you are
going to -be ruled, as most of us are,
it must be by something or somebody
well worth the arduous sprinting we
are all indulging in. If the goal to
ward which we are being steered is
worth while, only then can we look
back and fee£ that the race has been
well run.
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Making &as From Wood.
Experiments oc wood as part substl
i tute for ooal in gas making have been
carried out in France. The wood used
was sea pine in the form of bitiets cut
from the middle of the trunk. The
charge of the wood was about half the
weight of that of coal, and carboniza
tion occupied half the usual time.
When running one retort with wood to
every two with coal, no appreciable
difference in the colorific power of the
gas was noted. Of the two by-products
—small coke and tar —the former
amounted to 5 to 10 per cent
Their Surprising Way.
"1 was never more disappointed In
anybody in my life than I was in my
cousins up to Kay See," admitted Gabe
Gosnell of Grudge, who was just back
from a visit to the Big Burg. "Why,
with everything on earth going on and
anything you could think of liable to
happen at any moment I'll be switched
If they don't poke off to bed at between
nine and ten o'clock every night of the
| world !" —Kansas City Star.
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To Make Attar of Ros«s.
After -having gathered a quantity of
roses, place them in a jar, then pour
upon them some spring water. Cover
the top with thin muslin to keep out
the dust, and expose the jar to the heat
of the for a few days, until oiiy
particles are observed to be floating
on the surface of the water. Take off
•this oil substance and place It In a bot
tle. This is the perfume known as
"!attar of roses."
Oidttene News Service.
;Tn 1532 James Wtitsnn Webb, of tlw
N«nv York < 'mirier and Enquirer, .es
tablished an express-rider service be
tween New York and Washington
which gave his paper valuable pres
tige. In the following year the Jour
nal »*' Commerce started a rival serv
ice, which enabled it to rrint Wash
ington news in New ,York within 48
hours .)f its occurrence. The most
.notable express-mail service of all
was the "pony express." which carried
message# by relays «f riders across
Mountains and deserts and through
hostile Indian territory from St. Louis
to San Ftiancisco, covering 1,900 mile<
in 10 days.
Cannot Do Without Sleep.
Sle«p is a necessity of life no less
than is food. No man has ever suc
ceeded in keeping awake for more than
a few days continuously. If he is
forced to do so, as in ancient Chinese
tortures, where constant tickling of the
feet made sleep impossible, he falls at
last into a comatose state from which
he never awakes.
Pope's Poetry.
His poetry is not a mountain-tarn
tike that of Wordsworth; It is not In
sympathy with the higher moods of the
mind; yet it continues entertaining in
spite of all changes of mode. It was
B mirror in a drawing-room, but it gave
back a faithful image of society, pow
deied an;] rouged, to be sure, and in
tent on trifles, yet still as human in its
way as the heroes of Homer in theirs
—Lowell.
Fret Board.
A restaurant in Yuma, Ariz., dis
plays a sign that reads: "Free board
every day the sun doesn't shine." At
first sight the offer of free board every
day the sun doesn't shine might seem
a reckless one. but, as a matter of
fact, a day without sunshine it that
desert country is far rarer than black
berries in May. If it rains at all, it is
only for a very short time, leaving
most of the .day for sunshine, so that
the sign would only catch a tender
; foot-
Not Much of a Pusher.
It wps the elevated station at 8:30
on a weekday morning. The advice of
the Irish guard who helps close the
gates of the rear cars was an educa
tion in itself. But he had a competi
tor in a girl who was doing her valiant
test tfo get on. "Push, push," she
urged of a weak little masculine beside
her. in a wish-washy voice he replied
that he was pushing. Back came the
«wtft retort: "You make me tired?
You pus*? like a jellyfish!" —New York
Sua.
Music Not His Strong Point.
The leader of a volunteer orchestra
was greatly annoyed by the 'cellist,
who repeatedly flt a rehearsal was In
error: finally he stood near him, lis
tening. "Why, man." he exclaimed,
"your 'cello is not In tune!" The
player screwed at the pegs, but a few
moments later the discord was re
peated. "Can't you rune your instru
ment?" demanded the conductor Irri
tably. "No-n!" said the stout 'cellist,
"not always." Then his face bright
ened. "But you should see how I can
skin fish!" The skinning of flsh was
his trade, the orchestra his side line.
The Lee Family.
The Lee family of which Gen. Robert
E. Lee, commander of the Confederate
army during the Civil war, was a mem
ber. was of English origin. One of his
ancestors emigrated to Virginia in the
reign of Charles I. and the family was
prominent then, during and after the '
Revolutionary war.—Columbus Dis- j
patch. j
Good Rule for Life.
We are ruined, not by what we
really want, but by what we think we
do; therefore, never go abroad In
search of your wants; for if they be
real wants they will oorae in search of
you. He that buys what he does not
want will soon want what he eunnot
buy.—Col ton. *
Deeds and Words.
Deeds are greater than words.
Deeds have such a life, mute but un
deniable. and grow as living trees and
fruit trees do; they people the vacuity
of time and make it green and worthy.
Why should the oak prove logicaHy
that it ought to grow, and will grow?
Plant it. try it: what gifts of diligent
| judicious assimilation and secretion It
has, of progress and resistance, of
force t<» grow, will then declare them
! selves. —Carlyle.
No Person Has Seen the Sun.
Astronomers aver that no one has
ever seen, the sun. A series of concen
tric shells envelops a nucleus of which
we apparently know nothing except
that It must be almost Infinitely hotter
than the fiercest furnace, and that It
must amount to more than ulne-tenths
of the solar mass. That nucleus Is the
real sun, forever hidden from us. The
outermost of the enveloping shell li
about 5,000 miles thick, and is called
the "chromosphere."
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Few Free From Errors.
Why not try to look over the other
fellow's mistakes? We have been
making them ever since Grandfather
Adam lost his place in the Garden oi
Eden.
Beans.
The common bean Is a native of
South America and was introduced
into Europe during the sixteenth cen
tury. Now it is* represented by over
150 varieties. The biu broad bean is
probably a native of southwest Asia
and northeastern Europe. The broad,
but not thick, lime bean, called > some
"butter bean," Is a pole variety that
comes from South America.
MIGH O.N SCROLL OF Fm
Is Written the ,Naine of Frank Luke,
One of the Best of American
Air Fiohters.
What Lieutenant l.wke. famous
American aviator, would, and often
did. attei: pt was 'lluMrated y his last
light. Starting out alone to attack
time "drach.ns," or observation bal
looi.s he had seen behind tho German
lines in front of Verdun, he was inter
cepted by ten enemy machines, lie
engaged them all, got two of them, and
escaped the others by seeming him
self to be disabled. His "fall" was
from directly over the balloons, and be
fore they could be lowered or protect
ed he shot all three of them in tlames.
But then Luke disappeared, and what
became of him was not known until
after the armistice.
When* the allies entered the village
of Murvaux the rest of the story was
learned from the peasants. T! e Amer
ican had been forced by wounds or the
disablement of his machine to descend,
but he did not land until he bad used
his machine gun to the extent of kill
ing eleven of the many German sol
di*. rs stationed there. Then he alight
ed safely in a nearby field and was
seer, to his machine and start for
a little stream as if to get water. Ger
man s. !i! l ers ran up. and either by
them or by a sh >t from further n way
he was kilied. '.'he German officer in
command kicked the body and ordered
that no one touch it. There it lay till
the next morning, when the villagers
were allowed to take it, uncovered, in
a cart, to their cemetery and bury it
So ended Frank Luke at the age of
20. He had lived much. If not long,
and down in Phoenix, Ariz., where he
was born, they are justly proud of
him. He does not lack appreciation
elsewhere, for Captain lUckenbacker
says: "Had he lived he would have put
me nut of business long ago as Ameri
ca's leading ace. T wouldn't have had
a show against him."
Bruges of Today.
Mrs. B. (>. Tufnell. writing in ref
erence to Bruges, savs: "I think it
may be of interest to you to know that
Bruges is extraordinarily little ehang
ed since the war. We were most agree
ably surprised to find our things left
behind intact and only one case had
been opened. The hotel was still well
run and comfortable, and the food was
good, only the pre-war prices had
changed for the worse! The beautiful
old city looked much the same as be
fore. The carillon is still pealing lr»
the belfry, and few of the public build
ings have suffered. The port has been
greatly altered, and there the signs of
war are very evident, not only In the
huge works started by the enemy, but
in the effectual destruction of them by
our airmen. The shops are open, and
the life of Bruges goes on as it did.
Only the weleome appearance of khakl
clad men or businesslike W. A. A. C.'s
strikes a strange note in the cobbled
spaces of the Grande Place."
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Memorial to Great Naval Deed.
Were it possible for the British peo
ple to forget that greatly daring naval
deed of the war known bv the unin
spiring title of the Zee! vug;: e raid, the
present movement « •* foot to commem
orate it will aSNH-e iui* i* perpetual
fame. Hap; 'y " In'f f ve lra< been
1 taken by the city ' " s"o th?re
Is not the slightest 'eminent of vain
glory; in 'he Idea f a memorial to he
erected on a suitable site within a few
yards of the spot where the blockshlps
Intre] id and I >' ig'hia were success
fully sunk. The actual sinking of
these vessels for the purpose of pre
venting the German submarines using
the canal to Bruges, was rendered pos
: sible only by the gallantry of the at
tack made by the old cruiser Vindic
| tive. which was afterward sunk across
the f irway at Ostend. Standing on
an elevation, the monument will be
visible far out to sea. —Christian Sel
ene • Monitor.
S:.. pense Worse Than Attack.
There are sailors who will tell you
that the actual torpedoing of a vessel
was not very much worse than the sus
pense and the many false alarms—any
of which might have proved to be an
enemy submarine. \ merchant cap
tain was looking out to sea on*» day,
when In the distance he thought he
saw something dark and round. He
watched to see whether It would move.
It did move, and then suddenly It dived.
There was no time to do anything,
since he did not know from what direc
tion the torpedo might come. He wait
ed. To his horror the dark, round ob
ject rose from the waves only 30 yards
nwav from the boat. He said It was
the worst moment In his life until he
realized on further Inspection that the
"periscope" was in actual fact a large
seal with a dirty yellow neck and a
full crop of whiskers.
War and Roller Skates.
It is a far cry from the world war
to a child's roller skates, but accord
ing to the fashion expert of Popular
Mechanics Magazine, roller skates of
the latest approved model x are after
the style of British fighting tanks.
Novelty always being uppermost In the
Juvenile heart It matters not that the
new skates are a bit snowshoellke In
size. The new skates are like all oth
ers except that they are surrounded
by tanklike bodies made of light sheet
metal.
The Source of Most Good Luck.
"IIov; do you happen to have such
good luck with roses?" asked the neigh
bor.
"Don't know," replilnl the amateur
gardener, "unless It is because I hoe
the ground a lot and spray them a
lot, aiid work with them a IqC" STOP!
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ILook, Listen, Learn!!
V PARENTS, bring your own and your neighbors CHILDREN (from the babes in arms ♦♦♦
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to youths of eighieen) to the Y
I BIG INTER - STATE VICTORY FAIR I
❖ INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA. SEPTEMBER, 2, 3, 4 and 5. V
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*;* And Se e The Famous Orientai Clown *«*
I CHO CHEW MOO-TOO ?
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♦> teach the Game of Good Health. (He is a member of the Cho Cho Family, employed by the U. S. Gov- ♦>
srnment.) He has been secured through a fortunale combination of circumstances both peeuliar and ♦>
«$♦ :extraordinary, ali of which makes his appearance extremely flattering to us Indiana Countians. His sai ♦}»
♦J* ary and expenses are defrayed by a few individuais who love children and have their welfare at heart. «$♦
♦> " "To those of you who are "from Missouri" he will "show you" as he has prominent bankers and Gov-
V 'ernment officials, that he can persuade children to do, eagerly, what you cannot do, by either brìbes or
V cross words. He will t>e EVERY DAY at the \Fair. DON'T'all come Thursday. ,
X Ten Thousand Children will be weighed and measured at the CHILD HEALTH TENT. A beauti- y
% fui soisveneir record card will ~be given each one, also a special medal is being made for each normal y
x child ; also tables of weights for ali ages and heights; proper diet charts will be given away. V
| , EVERY THING F*EE! ?
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♦. r (Includìng admission to the Fair Grocmds up to and including twelve years) V
I ■ ALSO LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER Ist *
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By special request of the Labor Organizations
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♦♦♦ Will march in the Grand Parade and be at their Picnic V
|Y One child in -every three is under weight, Is your child Normal or not? The scales teli the tale. 4 «y
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\ Indiana County is as fair and beautiful as any place on the globe. Let us ali aid in making it the ♦♦♦
heaìthiest. - «$♦
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CHILD HEALTH > ORG ANIZ ATI ON of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. ♦♦♦
♦> Hon. J. T. Davis, D. D. Blairsville. Chairman.
% M. M. DAVIS, Indiana. Vice President, VERNON F. TAYLOR, Indiana, Treasurer
♦♦♦. MIS. LOTTIE McHENRY STEWART, Indiana, Secretary, ARTHUR BROWNLEE, Chr. Pub. Com
V Headquarters; Red Cross Chapter House, 6th Street and Wayne Avenue. %
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♦♦♦ This moyement is endorsed by'Dept. of Interior at Washington, D. C., and by Depts. of Education ♦♦♦
;♦♦♦ and Health at Harrisburg. Thirty States now weighing fourteen million school children. Indiana Coun- <|«
«> ty is among the first to organize in*Pennsylvania. Membér Drive Second Week of September. «J»
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