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World as Now Constituted Unsafe Trim Blouses for the Business Girl WME TOWN PENNSYLVANIA
P lace for Undisciplined Democracy BRIEFS
By DR. THOMAS NIXON C | ;
Ba THOMAS NIXON CARVER . ® | eoooervoronrone
. Professor of Rural Economics, Harvard University STIRS Ju Sule :
: Be] Motor truck service between Hazle-
ton, Berwick, Mahanoy City, Mauch
TO DISTRIBUTE GARDEN CROPS | Chunk, Wilkes Barre ana other adja-
cent towns is to be established as a
Disposition of Vacant Lot Produce in | War measure.
Is democracy worth ‘saving? A democracy may
be ‘just as bad as an autocracy, depending on the kind
it is. It may be made up of undisciplined persons, or 08 ; Ak
it may be the kind-of d hicl Cities Will Be Systematized This The Chiman Knitting Mills, operat-
{ ne Kind ot de TAY » werv WSOT - 5, 3 : n a a
. ) mocracy in-which every person Coming Season. Ing hosiery factories in Kaston, West
0es Just as he pleases regardless of anyone else then —p— Easton and Bethlehem, announced an
In every city where the vacant lot | increase of 10 per cent in the wages
gardening movement received atten- | Of 900 employes,
tion the past summer—and the num- A campaign has been started to in-
it is not worth saving,
The worl 4 .
I'he world as It 15 now constituted is an unsafe
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place for undi ciplined democracy. The world has | ber is represented most accurately by | crease to 1000 the membership of the
always been ruled by disciplined people, and of these an atlas of the United States—there | Mauch Chunk Moose lodge, which
there is more than one kind. First, there is the disci- | hes heew ih Puli sway 2 movement tiny. BO us 6% meibes, sky
i p s Ce ras | ng in view the preservation and con- . ac 1 nery is being installed in
Gi ; d pline of the benevolent despot, and a disciplined autoc- | servation and wise distribution of the | Easton's experimental sewage dispos-
racy will always rule over an undisciplined democracy. The other diseci- | abundant crops produced. Demon- | al plant and it is expected that the
strations In drying, canning and pre- | System will be tested out within a
serving of fruits and garden produce | month,
were given all summer from one end Georg=, five-year-old son of Frank
pline comes from within—this is tl
discipline of the true democracy. |
It is a law of the universe that discipline rules and there is no going |
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1gainst the laws of the universe. | of the land to the other, so there seems | Bitner, of Morgan's Hill, was burned
P 1 | 1 g 3 ln to death in a haystack 'e aying
In a football team cach player does not play for himself but for the | little danger of the wastage or loss of 0. Ton» lays Ack 5 > playing
whole team 1 so it wit} Sn + va n | the city land’s abundance. And that | With matches. His little companion,
whole team, and so 1t must be with a nation. The disciplined man sub- is not all. Charles Arthur, escaped with burns on
ordinates the lesser needs of the individual to the larger needs of the | City officials and eivic organizations | the head,
: have actively concerned themselves Wormleyshurg closed its high
Troup, § 8 ¢ isciplined wonle ha ho need: ¥ arivle y a
rroup, and thus a disciplined people has the essential teamwork. Democ- | with plans for next year. Fall plow- | School when S. H. Hetrick quit ta
| ing was provided for. Needed enrich- | take a place in Steelton.
ment of the soil and the securing and John Zuber, nineteen years old, was
proper distribution of fertilizers are | crushed to death b mine cars
being considered. More systematic and | at the Shenandoah Ci )
more thoroughgoing methods for the The Lemoyne sche
direction and handling of the city gar- | Miss Edith Mumma,
ich it can help the gov- dening movement are being worked principal of te hor ;
stament, X£ invested in Vihorty bonds. Lo 5 ancit and will decal i tenn, ofa i inh ‘wi Cross ticks, tairow Trilis and piitines out. In a word, the thought and in- Charles Grensavicz it the Min
vill . nv + IN laberty be IS, 11 18 spent and wi ciren ate, and | 5 1 her : are many REA 8 0 rim I'( ta K y It row bray and piaitings, tent of the city dwellers of the United ers hospital at Fountain ¢ rings from
riven to the Young Men's | Pinte toy the business girl fand near- | sometimes in contrasting colors, and States are for a still more abundant | injuries received under a fall of coal.
. | Iv all the girls of today are fill- (the introduction of fine ginghams inf, vee next season frous the vacant More than 2000 persons witnessed
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racy will win in the present war only if the devotees of that democracy
will so sacrifice that good teamwork is accor
Much has been sai
d recently about spendin:
money freely in order
n and thus make for pr sperity, In this the people
to keep it in cireulatic
shursg,
should .be careful as to whether the money kent in circulation is spent
Nouis,
yn frivolities and nonessentials or in w
will do much good, as will also money that
Christian association and the Red Cross, while money spent for mere | ing their time with some sort of | collars and cuffs are characteristic dee- | | © 50 waste places of the congested | the raising of a sixty-one-star servica
weetime trivialities simply makes for exchanee. { business) to wear with her trim |orations for them. The blouse pic comilanttics . 3 2 flag at St Joseph's 1olic church
| tailored suit. Some of them are so | tured is of georgette with very fine The men and women of American | Danville.
Exchange is a good thing only if it permits specialization of produc-
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ion, aud under these conditions work will be done better. Exchange pt 10 fog We have pA gen Suc A%dn row 2 at each Si of Hi brent: cities, joining hands with the men and From injuries suffered in a fall siz
: 5¢ | their like before, and many of them | Cross tucks set in at the front or col- | ("of American farms, are quiet- | weeks ago, Mrs. Hannah J. Stapleton,
are like the blouses of other Seasons {lar and cuffs of cross-tucited on sandie ly and consistently setting about to | seventy years cld, died at Shamokin
except that they have a touch of “this | set onto a plain blouse are easy for prove that it is not yet possible to | Dam.
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simply for the sake of trading is valueless from an economic standpoint,
vecause nothing is produced.
the home dressmaker to manage, es-| oo... (he civilized world, much less Scranton’s newest financial institu-
pecially fs she may haste these Hiv America, while soil and rain and sun- | tion, the American Bank of Com-
| ishing touches to a blouse and let the shine last.—Mac Lean Libbey in Col- | merce, opened for business with local
| | hem-stitcher do the rest. lier's Weekly. depositors on the first day.
{ Making one garment do the work oF | -— 2 Rev. Max Wiant, pastor of the
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season's style” stamped on them in |
the shaping of the collar or the man- |
agement of their trimming, or in the
construction of the blouse.
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Characteristi Shortcomings of Qur Schools { two is an idea that has found faver Black Satin Stock. North Main Avenue Baptist church
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One of the new collars consists of | LET SHEEP GRAZE IN PARKS Scranton, accepted a call to the First
Brought Out by the Great War { waistcoat blouse. It is the natural | a stock of black satin, unrelieved by rr Baptist church, of Reading.
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| : outcome for blouses in a season whose | any white, to which is attached a big | Good Idea Both From Financial Stand- One hundred and thirty Cumberland
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i By DR. WILLIAM T. FOST = = | ats are nearly all fashioned open at jabot of fine meshed cream-colored point and in Improved Appear county women will form a main com:
} y LY I . FOSTER, Presideat of Reed College, Portland. Cre. | the front where they reveal the blouse. net, cdged with lace. The effect is ance of the Grass. mittee to aid in various ways in push-
~ a | Separate walstcoats to be worn with | decidedly smart, although the absence — ing the third Liberty loan.
ot ’ hs Co : | these open coats made thelr appear. | of any white in the stock might Rot | For many yews Puropean ciiies| The Hazleton Y. M. C. A, began the
I'he war has brought out in sharp relief the characteristic shortcom- | ance, usually in pique or wash satin, { be weil borne by some faces. have turned out flocks of sheep, muni- | enrollment of be ys for war service in
nes of the schools of the United States. Our people, as a whole, are | worn over the blouse. Then came the | —— cipally owned to graze in their parks. | accordance with the proclamation of
. \ . . el | waistcoat-blouse; a waistcoat of white . ite- -B Bags. The ehonn 18 3 a vr rnaicd ile ies sid Govern, Brin.
prone to contentment with mediocrity and avoidance of the discipline ee : Red-White.and-Blue Bag The sheep Is one of the best of lawn | President Wilson and Governor Brum
= : ] ; : | satin combined with a blouse of | The shops are showing some inter- | mowers. It erops closely, yet not too | baugh.
"OM rough xact achevemen 1 tiiese res ‘1s 2 S| goorgzette crepe i ‘hite v . > ine vi . ite ; : v 1% :
i prompt, thorough and exact achievement. In these respects the school georgette ere pe in white or color, the | esting handbags in the red, white and closely, insuring that smooth-shaven The supervisors of Lehigh township
f the United States reflect the people. Our schools, as a rule, do not | tVWe made into one garment. Another i blue colors that can be duplicated at | effect which delights the eye. And | Carbon county, have applied to the
: | waistecoat-blouse is developed in white | \ , » girl who can crochet. | ora-zine nr Rv : oll-trim- 4 migssionor for finavel
nake necessary the prompt and te performance of duty. They do | SI es pe et home by: ithe girl whe ( ero) grazing sheep, as well as well-trim county commissioners for finan ial
t coltivat ill De ib 3 ie 0 : : voile in t 1e effect of a little conte { They are made of silk or mercerized | png lawns, are highly ornamental. aid in placing their yads in better
ot cultivate the hapit of “be Tl ¢ As chalienges to the powers OI | with waistcoat, roll collar and cuffs of | cotton in tight, simple crochet stiteh The city of Denver, keenly aware of | condition.
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ae Majority of the and boys of the 1 nited States the y are absurdly { white pique. | and chow stripes of white with the | the necessity for the utilization of all When Allen Kuhns, of Zionsville
inadequate. The hich-schoel divloma no cuaranty to the employer or | Speaking of roll collars, they d&is- | two patriotic colors. available land in the production of | went away and did not have bi 3
1 1 1 1 1 & : | tinguish the reason and prove univer- | Te ———— foodstuffs, has decided to purchase no | and poultry fed for four days, he was
to the college that the graduate ert required to do his best abt! vw. becoming. Thee : Te z j 0 3 ee 3 23
: sall ecoming. I'hey appear in all | Cretonne as Trimming. fewer than 3,000 sheep to mow its | fined $10 and costs.
anything. In this respect a coll { Indeed, 1t may stand | the materials used for blouses and in| One of the advance notes of spring is | park lawns next year. The agricul After being idle nea 18,
for four years of irresponsible and he ng pursuit of the joys of college | Pidue. They are high af the back and | that * cretonne will be considerably | tural experts Lave decided that where | the plant of the National n
A 1 a to re hi ™ © | usually long in the front. Collar and | used as a trimming for sports suits. | the grass is heavy and well rooted | pany, Pottstown, resumed with a force
sume Wich miogei a 39: RANKL. 0 getting by WILL cu sets of satin, pique or organdie | These cretonnes are striped and flow- | three sheep to the acre can be easily | of sixty men.
I mp of effort | ave sold separately and worn with | ered in such a way that they can be | maintained. They will buy ewes ready A $1500
Thousands of boys in our training camps are experiencing for the | coits or attached to blouses where they | cut away and used in any appliqued | for lambing, geeording to plans, and | ed at Maucl
i ins the 7 i i tT : a full their purpose as a finish and | way desired. Some of the dresses and | will make a handsome profit upon the | evangelistic campaign which wi
- ne 16 1RCCeSSIty of periol S12 LARKS prom ; Xactly 4 : : : ni tort i Yari are | . i nril B
Ee 1e ti ; ( y of | : ghe x M mptly and exa serve to brighten the eoat suit. { suits which originated in Paris are | mutton and wool. there on April 5.
day in and day out. we having the benefits, for the first time, Georgette crepe, voile, organdie, ba- | trimmed with small bits of ribbon or | plore are 150 cities in the United The Easton public library has sent
of a di ie from » escape. All of them know it, and | tiste, linen and shosatin are the ma- | printe 1 material in which the small | gi: t0s with populations in excess of | 1200 books to soldiers in camp and
most of |] eriov it tevials that e the cool and love- | flower ornament is outlined with gold | 50000, and practically every one of | through public school children is col-
3 : Haty im ly blouses of this season. Straight and embroidery thread. the cities has hundreds of acres of | lecting 3000 more.
Ye : park land. These park acreages, the Twelve hundred dog licenses
a covernment believes, could easily | been issued in Lancaster county.
maintain 150,000 sheep each summer, Lancast unty cows h an av.
Al A . \ . erage milk producing value of $25 to
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1 L yal American Onis 380 onth.
Oat MAT iCans monisne to Public Health Too Much Neglected. Blais County Food Administrator
“Keep Your Mouth Shut” in Public
By PAULINE WORTH HAMLIN of the Vigilantes
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and Pacific cities have better devel- | trade off prizes for swatters the
oped municipal health departments | coming season.
than the Northern cities from the Neither late nor absent from Bible
Rockies to the Atlantic. The Central | elass for 1300 consecutive Sundays,
Northern cities stand at the foot of | covering twenty-five years, is the re-
the list. A recent report concludes | cord of George R. Curtis, of Joyport.
T'wice lately I have overheard people talking of things that would
(of) ublic health work in this country | peighard has received flour ortrs
is still in its infancy. All tests applied | from more than 25,000 families, and
showed the health departments in the | pipnety students of the Altoona high
smaller cities to be weaker than those | school are tabulating them.
in the larger cities. Perhaps the most War on the fly has glrerady been
surprising finding is that the Southern | started by the Perkasie b:ard of
delight the ear of a German spy, and yet I could tell from the rest of ?
their conversation that they were loyal Americans. ®
Once on a suburban train | was sitting in front of two women who
vore knittine for the soldiers Thev it: ) p sir R ‘rose OF ony | 3 ¥ . : ra Eg : x 3
were knitting for the soldiers. They talked of their Red Cross, canteen There is an advantage in the choice | mended. They are plain bands wera | that the appropriations granted most Harris] health officers in one
re without doubt true patriots, yet one of of knitting as a work for the soldiers, | for warmth about the abdomen by | health departments in this country night rounded up and vaccinated 200
and war relief work. They w
¢hem said to the other, in a lowered voice, but perfectly audible, “My | because women can carry this work | men who must stand in the trenches, | ype grossly inadequate for the new | persons in a district where a new
: i with them wherever they go. And or are otherwise exposed to the cold, | functions modern science requires | case of smallpox was reported.
nearly all people who knit say the {and they require a knowledge of the | them to perform. It is stated that Climbing over the tank of a loco.
which T could have made use had I been a Spy. | work is fascinating and restful, rath: | plain garter stitch and of purling. | health departments should be allowed | motive in motion, at Summit, Jesse
tiresome. But, if it does be- | They are made of white or gray wool. | 4 “minimum wage” of 50 cents per in- | E. Wertz, nineteen years old, fe!
Sox, sweaters, bands and wristlets may | phabitant per year, as compared with | der the wheels, and with both
at ———, told his mother—"" and the informa-
nephew, who is a captai
tion was something of
Another time on the train I overheard two men talking. They told | er than
y | eome monotonous or “gets on the
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nme news that an ambulance driver had br ught home from France. nerves.” there are other things to do, | well occupy our summertime for knit- | the present average allowance of 22 | eut off he Founriad: yng.
This information, which seemed to them not to be important, struck me | in entirely different lines, that will | ting, so that our army may face next | cents. —Government Bulletin. est American soldier pre-
} winter with a reserve of these com- Sr ———————————————— pa t against the kaiser is
hichl® enlightening—too much so for German ears. And so I say to | refresh the fagged Knitter.
a a Jusiness w 7 vho cann find | forts in store for them.
all loval Ame ns. take unto vourselves Attorney (General Gregory's Business ian ] hb I ; a > ' Stranger Understood.
4 ) S 2 y ime to ace lis 1c { g, PH : Weir
time {0 pcCOmMPANA IA ] 5 The stranger in Cleveland accosted
advice to the Germans, and when cutside your own four walls, “Keep your find the making of scrap books for cone . Bort dly The stranger in Cleverand accosted
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pelieved tc be William Brenner, of
Marietta, who is barely sixteen, and
has been in service a year.
Seven months was requirerd for a
mouths shut.” | valescent soldiers in the hospitals, | inhabitant :
| quick and easy work, and immensely | ZZ nai ; , | post card from a Russian war prison
= mies af is : a “Have you lived in Cleveland long? Phacrioolila Abate
i interesting. These serap books are to | rt ————— | od 1 taazol camp to reach Phoenixville, coming
i7 =) : s 3 | | asked the stranger. 1 1chahovi ho lef her
eo fill ; ictures, cartoons, humor- : from John Schabovik, who left there
i i be filled with n Brann n i Y anv Beauty Hint. “About twenty years,” acknowledged ' I ends tre d ihe Ad
" stories st cards, and any- ; | " 1912 na jou 2 1
| ons camp stories; Post £3 : y Housework, such as sweeping and | (he Clevelander. PE I Nrrtow, Whois
dw McElroy, Mari
good exercise, | “Is the climate here salubrious?”
“Is the climate ‘here—? Say, you
New Lesson of Great War Pointed | thing that is cheering or interesting— |, EERIE SCL TE
{ wer long The pictures must : : fiam Swan, now in the
but never long. The | and a good brisk walk, with head held :
Pr 3 r 5 : W » © 1 ks or magazines that! i . : be: diers' Home, are the last
Out by rorninent Canadian orker be cut from hooks or m inanmes that j high and nose sniffing the fresh air, | can just bet it is. And would you die Is ] : ¢ ich
i hind -. are printed on a good quality of paper. : : kT 5 : a prisonel fv ors in
is : { when you go to do your household er- | mind putting that word down on a L tor the © re
more men w
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By MRS. NELLIE. M'CLURG, Edmonton, Alberta
rands is most wholesome, says a writer | piece of paper for me? 1 can use it.
in Mother's Magazine. At the risk of be- | I've used all the cuss words I know of
ing considered a bore, I want to urge | on this doggoned climate, and that
sounds like a new one. How do you
represent places of interest anywhere
in the world, and, of course, pictures of
pretty girls and little children are sure
to please the soldier no matter what
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again that the easiest way to growing
Veo s & nitivons. of Canad f the United States - 3rifs p Lit? y is is ti :
We are not citizens of Canada. of the United States or of Brifain | A a Ack Soa} { old is to let yourself become a bore. | spell it? Yes, sir; I'll bet this is the Sill ask
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only: we are all citizens of the world, and no part of the world can live | his degree in { That is one of the great dangers—the | most salubrious ciimate this side of—, oo
Sr : 1 i Lin ! aking these serap books for the anger of ar ‘ing Vg “izon. | hell vhere are vy roing 7” X : T
unto itself alone. We are bound together either by the cords of love or In nagm : r § | danger of narrowing one > horia By) hello, whera ure You going? 3% Eleven
- soldiers we are cautioned against | gpe’s subjects of conversation, one’s But the ztyauger had learned zii he ¥
by » chins PE Aant! 'e are not free while any par orld 1s i : ; " . . . £3 v weekly are s
by the chains of death. We are not free w tle any part of the world i | putting in anything that will produce | interest in the larger things of life. | wanted to know.—Cleveland Leader. at DAnv
wound. The world is not safe tor any one of us until it for everv- (NESS, Pictures and stories | It is a mistake to confine your thoughts | rrr rr rs i 2900 3
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one. - gest family re union on holi to the limits of your own town, a big- | Knowing What You Want. Ti oF
a = 5 : Wi ke Thanksgiving and Christmas | :zer mistake to limit them to your own | ee it wi ] k 1 | hay e
I his makes living a v yusiness 1en a woman sces her |. 4 pe kept out. he soldiers en- | jijpusehold, and biggest of all is the ° bs i i ar a 4 A an Eo I oh P
i 1 11 £veinin . > eo “4 + $eukce “ge % or ves ; . : 3 . Lpovye > oun a » 1S . ar | ai t
bov 2o out to kill or to be killed, she loses from her life some of the spiri nost jokes on “rr and young | fault of being interested in people only nie ise lor, 00 dita
a 1 | 1 into believi Hi 9 wit} and funny cartoons of camp i § he carrer wents of the day, & Years Often when she is surest if | condil
of youth; she can no longer be deceived into believing that all is well with | : : ant pa — SVer I . “7° Fshe were left to follow her own path | Cauz t
Er : : 3 . | : If you have never found the newspaper | . : i ; | tkony \
3 OT ne © tie last reserves ol the nation ane YY ave never | Pitti i i Wol '@ mes 3 2 sappointment. | 1591 3
the world. Women are the la ona . ; an the; hav n yor { To return to our knitting, those who . interesting, now, as middle age is | it os ul 2 on Pr apt ont a o I aactor g
vet exerted their Tull influence. Thy have lagged behind the men in their | -an turn out socks have a right to ‘reeping upon you, learn to be inter- | 1's we F.0 Fir IL Sho MAS Iaith MY
h J | enough in those who have her welf i
ou But the women are being awakened, : iohtyv influ- | Ye proud of this cecomplishment, and ested in it. Get from the library a | :
tevezopment. But the women ale being a Yaga, od Ramighiy influ : Ra to the g atitude of the less i go BF yuri y wii h reviews the pol- | at heart, 10 believe what scems ru
ance for good. for kindness, for human saf is being felt in human | = Te De Soo mae: ts “| nar > fy i : ey know
ence for goed, for kindness, io hun # ing felt in human | efficient but will ag people who. can - itics, the history, the scieutific advance | hurd on tis ee of: fee they Sao | 3
affairs. | only knit less difficult articles. Among = of the past month, and read it and talk | t ol Than Sie snows |
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| the lattiy, abdominal bands ere recom- sbout what you read. } Re s Comba ion