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Show 1 u James Austin Wilder, chief rout Of tho ISoy Fcout of Amerleu, tiNik tils first degree lit scouting from !- - If Ueuerul 1 iitf, llie hero of Cumhrul. Later he visited Baden Powell, und he came so enthusiastic for die movement dmt he wrote to his home In Iluwnll that he Intendrtl to Inaugurate It there Just ns soon ns he returned. When he arrived In Hawaii he was met hy a hoy scout troop. As soon ns the Imys In Kuwait heard whut he was going to do they hern iiio so Impudent that they couldn't wait for him. The sen scouts, of whom Mr. Wilder Is now chief. Is a new organization designed to meet a new development III Amerlrnn life. We now have the see-on-d creutext navy and we slmll soon have the greatest merchant marine In the world. Where aro the Americans who will man this fleet? It now costs Vncle ftoin $2,000 to turn n landsmnu Into a Jackie, Put most of the training necessary can he done ashore. Lashing Is a Imy aront specialty. The swinging of lifeboats can he learned at any pier. It doesn't require a cruiser to tench oarsmanship and awlninilng, first nld to the Injured or the fundamentals of discipline. To be a sea smut one must he a thoroughly qualified smut first, and the cattirul sailors of the organisation are clamoring to be admitted to the new degree. That Uncle Hum will need those nuturnl sailors soon Is being more nd more appreciated, and equipment for a full course In sea scouting Is rapidly being lonm-- or derated. Various Government Departments Unite in d Preparina Elaborate JAPANS FOREIGN MINISTER Rufus W. Sprague, Jr Is the man who made the plans and organized the marhlnery for the registration of more than 300.000 German mules, enemy liens, who live within the Jurisdiction of Uncle Snrn. Ry those same rluns bout the'sume number of German women were card Indexed later. Mr. Sprague Is now the head of tho New York port enemy alien bureau. All the alien enemies within this district come under the Jurisdiction of Mr. Sprague. If, after registering, they do not behave, or If they fall to register and are caught. It Is his duty to sco thnt they Join kindred souls la one of the Internment camps. Mr. Sprague was born in Boston lu 1875 and ufter a preparatory course In the Boston Latin school went to Harvard. In 1896 he received his A. B. and four years later was graduated from the Harvard Law school. Then he went to New York ond. began practice In 1900 as Junior counsel for the Uqultable Life Assurance society. Three years of this, and he formed a law partnership with Walter B. Coe. A few years later the present law firm of Russel, Coe & Sprague was . by Ui lnltd Biait-- Whee-lock- Syracuse, Binghamton, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Columbus, Allentown and many othen large places. She has given up her luxurious home for days at a time to go on the road In behalf of the navy. Her attracts e auburn-toppe- d figure has become an Important feature of recruiting rallies. The champion recruiter was not always accompanied by an escort of bluejackets and a band when she went recruiting. She began the work humbly and alone, speaking from the precarious perch afforded by a soap box or an orange crate. Later, as some of these failed her from time to time, she was sufficiently courageous to enter the nearest saloon and there seek UK United States government has combined its traveling displays of public work and Is to exhibit them so as better to Inform the people concerning the work of their government toward winning the war. The combined display Is a war show from beginning to end, for every activity of the government now has a bearing, moisp or less direct, on the one nntlomd aim of preserving opulur rule lor the world. Thus, not only will there be vital Interest In the exhibits of the war and navy departments, but In the displays of the work of the deportment of agriculture In stimulating increased production of food; the activities of the food administration In encouraging the conservation and equitable distribution of this fundamental war munition; the addition of new food sources through the bureuu of fisheries of Ihe department of commerce; the safeguarding of I union life and Indirectly Increasing of coul production through the work of the mine rescue cars of mines, department of Interior; jf the but-entnd the spreading of olliclal news through the ommittee on public Information. , The Joint committee on government exhibits, which ads for the various departments In admfn-Miatln- g the displays and Is lieadedhs chairman by of the department of agriculi. Lnmsoii-Scrllme- r ture. has contracted for the exhibits to be shown simultaneously on five circuits of approximately '13 state fairs and exosltlons from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Organization of five circuits does not mean thnt my one circuit Is being favored or discriminated .gainst In the quantity or quality of displays. The government exhibit material is of such magnl-ud- a that no fair has been able to offer more space linn enn be filled. The unny and nnvy exhibits Imve been made up In five duplicate sets. Iu fact, the only variations of note In the dls-ilaare In those of the department of agriculture, .hlch has planned. In addition to Its exhibits of nueral Interest, displays of particular Importance or specific regions. For Inxtuuce, where wheat wheat will he featured, rrowlng Is nd where cattle fever tick is sucking Mood and 'estroylng meat, special emphasis will be placed a the fight to rid American territory of this pura-Itu tig And re-cru- lts through her patriotic talks. I sr-- tr a of Axrlculiurs.) reg-duth- The United Stutes navy Is to have r jiii i hi ibim i .A The government exhibits have much to detain en the Idly curious, but Informing the people of ovcriinient work und of Important nld which the ubllc can render the government lu the uiitlonul rlsis Is the big aim. All exhibits are educational ml those of purely technical Interest are rurely tsed. Displays are the product of years of lu exposition methods ami every effort Is unde to visualize subjects In such manner that bservers will he informed as well ns entertulncd. To list and describe adequately every item In lie exhibits would require many words. Features elected here and there, however, may serve to rive an bleu of the complete show. The war department display ran hardly fall to more closely In touch with their . lace Americans 'mjs who ore making more uneasy the heads that tar the crowns. There are Browning machine .tins for Infantry use and Lewis machine guns f the aircraft type; mountain cannon that can e pulled to Alpine heights ; figures clothed n uniforms, Including nil aviators flying ogs; rifles of the latest model used over there," nd wooden blocks showing penetration of the old nd new bullets; complete equipment of the heaved doughboy," and a trench periscope through hlch he watches for friskiness on the purt of the Fritzles;" gas masks that he dons when the Hun preads his favorite poison ; the trench helmet that rotects him and the hand grenades he hurls; the hovel with which he digs a trench ami the pump nit takes out the wnter. Then there are models of the various kinds of nuts used by the army, national und regimental .dors In silk, storm and post flags, a portable Held Imlesa outfit, heliograph instruments, lanterns for igltt signaling, day and night rockets and signal Its first pettlcoated junior lieutenant In the person of Mrs. George Alexander Wheeloek, chief yeoman and champion recruiter of the w orld. The s bestowal of this rank Is Mrs. reward for the 17, IKK) young men she lias brought into the service In the past IS mouths through her oratory. She has made recruiting speeches all over New York city, in Buffalo, SS Ex- e. formed. v and Expositions. U'reimr-- HE LISTS ENEMY ALIENS - hibits for State Fairs d With the resignation of Viscount Ichiro Motouo ns minister of foreign affairs, the Downing street of Japan received as his successor a statesman totally different In type from those who hud successfully held that port' folio. Huron Shlmpel Ooto, the present foreign minister of Japan, unlike his predecessors In the foreign ofllce. Is not a diplomat by training. lie bad never occupied any position, important or Insignificant, In the consular or dip lomatlc service. In his school days ho never studied International law or po lltlcal theories. On the contrary, bo was educuted and trained to become a physician. Bn ran Goto was born In 1S57. Graduating from a local medical school,, he was attached to a public hospital of which he eventually be came the director. In 1883 he became assistant director of the bureau ol! sanitation in the department of home affairs. Then he went to Germany, where he won the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Berlin. Returning home In 1892 he was promoted to the directorship of the sanitation bureau. With his appointment In 1897 to the post of civil administrator of Formosa his opportunity for demonstrating his real abilities arrived. In 190(1 he was made a baron and was given a seat In the house of peers. In the same year he resigned his post as civil administrator of Formosa and assumed hta duties as the first president of the then newly organized South Manchuria Railway company. In Manchuria he proved os successful as In Formosa. In the Katsura cabinet, organized In 1908, Goto was minister of communications. a 3 - if any American hasnt learned yet to a sergeant major from a brigadier dls-agui- StfODJTL orDAIRY BAVtEXtf?JXTD0YAGMCMC.TIAl some worn la winter weather by the boys aboard our submarines. Tnmicts, drums, rifles, swords, flags and are some of the other things shown. But It b expected that nowhere will the crowds be thicker thnn around the models of modern battleships, dreiidmiughts, cruisers, destroyers and other voxels Unit will he shown at all the fairs and pen-min- ts The scoe of work of the department of agrl-eultu- re Is so wide and the qunntlty of Its exhibit mutcrial Is so great thnt Its displays vary In different sections of the country, but lu every case they have been selected to clinch some reason why American agricultural production must be Increased, and agulu Increased, and to show some of the numerous ways by which It can be done. These exhibits are not for the farmer alone. They are for hhn first, but food production has become the business mid concern of everybody lu America, and nearly every laxly hns come to know It. More than thnt, the agricultural exhibits are attractive, interesting and Informing enough to hold the attention of even the novice who ennnot tell a solo from n silo. The weather bureau shows how It Is able to forecast storms, frosts and floods to protect agriculture, commerce and navigation, and displays Its dally weather map showing conditions In the Immediate loeality of the exhibition. The bureau of animal Industry shows how to Improve and Increase the country's supplies of meat, milk and poultry, how It guards the health of the public and our soldiers und sailors through its meat Inspection system, and how to drive out the animal diseases thnt nnnuully take a toll of meat worth many millions of dollars. Thnt other great branch of the department of agriculture, the bureau of plant Industry, treuts 1B Arid In the same manner, with special attention to methods of bettering and stimulating plant production and eradicating plnnt diseases: Brand features of forest service work are presented In popular and striking form. Models urge the burning of loeul fuel wood to release coni for cities and war purposes und relieve transportation, contrast proper rjiethods of logging with the wasteful ways, mid show the proper handling of tree windbreaks for Increasing crop und animal production. Other forest service displays show how forest tires are prevented or discovered and fought; how valuable timber cun he saved for war uses; and the need of retaining forests to retard soil erosion on slopes. Distinctive exhibits of the bureau of chemistry Illustrate the enforcement of the food and drugs act, production and preservation of food products, use of tanning materials, production of colors and other chemical industries. Differences between true and Imitation commercial articles are shown and light Is thrown on adulterated or misbranded medicinal preparations, Including headache "remedies." "beauty" preparations, usthmu, consumption nud other alleged cures." Samples of the soils that occur In the United States, Including some loeul to the neighborhood of the particular exhibition, together with n relating to their best use In farming, are among the buieuu of soils displays. The stutes relations service shows Its work, In with the stute agricultural colleges, lu spreading farming Information through county ngeuts, home demonstration agents and boys' and girls' clubs and Illustrates fix at conservation by cunning and drying. The bureau of entomology's exhibits of destructive Insects und wuys of combating them are particularly Interesting at this time of need for more food production and conservation. Likewise, the bureau of biological surveys displays of stuffed animals and birds, representing the control or destruction of the predatory species and the conservation of the desirable kinds, take added slgnlttennce. Demands on the railways, with growing vse of motor routes, stress the importance of the good-road- s construction and maintenance exhibits of the office of public roads and rural and war conditions also lend Interest to the bureau of markets display of safe methods of shtpp'ng gralu, distribution of farm prodmtx grain standards and cotton standards, and various of containers. shipping types Agriculture has been called the most Itdu-tt- y in the world, hut It is believed peaceful that the depot tmont's displays will icniove any question as to t t farming being absolutely essential lu ou effective wur machine. But America must not feed Itself alone. It must sustain millions of the citizens nud Pvtulti men of our valiant allies. The food administration In Its exhibits, drives thnt fact deep. Feature dls lufor-mutio- engl-peerin- gen-ra- l, he can do so from hoards which carry the of officers and the chevrons of enlisted ion, with the wound and service chevrons for officers und men serving In France. The navy display shows more of the tools thnt re making this world an unsafe place for Inter-.itlonburglars, and also some rifles captured mm German soldiers. The navy shows a depth luirge of the kind whose bubbles often mean the id for some submarine pirate; a nuvul mine and nehor. and a big torpedo with Its truck. ITojec-,ie- s of various sizes are accompanied by bombs ' ut airplanes drop. The clothing display Includes DSf'ARTSf&YT' plays are decorative panels contributed by representative American Illustrators to Illustrate twelve points In a recent speech by llerberl Hoover, food administrator. The pnrixvse, scope and accomplishments of tbs food administration, the situation with which It la dealing, and work being done by the home conservation department are showu. The bureau of fisheries of the dtpnrtment of rommerre has displays to urge the utilization of fishery products now used little or imt at all, but thnt are available to help supply the demand for ment. Samples and posters of whale, shark, sablcll-euluchons, burbots, drums tilefish, skates and rays represent some of the dining tuhle strangers shown. The fisheries exhibit also display tunned skins of aquatic nnlmnls ond most people know that leather Is valuable now with a demonstration of pearl button manufacture, one of the Industries that Germany dominated before the war. Urograms of moving pictures treating tnnny wartime tlnmes are shown In connection with tha other exhibits. They screen American soldiers St the lighting front and In enmp; farmers striving for bigger crops In the country; methods of conserving as well as lurremdng the food supply, views of henutiful landscapes In the national parks; reclamation of arid lands, highway con st ruction and other activities, many of them la direct relation to winning the war. At every fair where the combined exhibits ara displayed, the Four Minute Men the volunteer speakers who are fighting disloyal propaganda and' urging unstinted public support for every war movemeut gnther In state conclaves. They s;cuk the regulation font- minutes between the olliclal motion pictures, und nsslst the soldiers und sailors and department repiesentutives In cxptulnir.g disMen have headquarters plays. The ot booths maintained hy the committee on public h, gray-fis- h, - Four-Minut- e information. At n number of the fairs whore trackage facilities can he provided in or near the grounds, one of the mine rescue cars of the bureau of mints, department of the Interior, will ho op n to th public. Full crew 8 of live men will be on duty to explain tho Intricate rescue apparatus. Japan and the Cherry Blossom No flower hns entered Japanese history, literature, art and religious thought longer or more chilly than our sakurii or Japanese cherry. It was only nntiinil, therefore, that foreign visitors to this country began to cull it tho Isud of cherry blossoms and that we Imve choseu snkura as our national flower by common consent. Our ftriu7 has adopted ihe blossom its lrs Insignia as an expression of the national Ideal of always being ready to die for a cause, after the manner of xukura. which fulls tu the height of natural glory and human aduilrutlon without the slightest desire to linger in the sordid world. From Herald of Asia, JUGGLERS OF HEAR1S. . Urabnbly the world's marrying record for iuo was created by thnt notorious bigamist, George Wtlzoff, whose marriages have been estimated at about 800. in the space of a single week he went through nmrriuge ceremonies with ten women. An amazing matrimonial record, too, was that of a certain Jolm Watson. This Juggler of hearts became acquainted with the eight daughters of a brewer. Within a year he had gene Hi rough a form of nmrringe with each of the eight sisters, and hud succeeded In decamping with their suvlngs. THOSE WAR TERMS. One of tho regulars hoarded the car at his accustomed comer after uu absence of about two weeks. He vvns looking peuked" and one of his friends asked : "Where have jou been for a couple of weeks, Bravvji?" Oh, I hud a slight touch of pneumonia," Brown answered. "Touch I" said the first speaker; looks to like you might have had a direct hill" flic-len- CIPHER. - Cliolly They say, you kuow, that whut a wa eats he becomes. MNs Keen Dear me! 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