OCR Text |
Show 00 Lj IN GOOD HIGHWAYS Why (he Marine Is 1 'At? Demon Mad by Motor Firm In Practical Teat Qjlt Racantly. ;n r lr United Esprit de Corps and Unceasing Training Give Power to the Soldiers of the Sea THIS ts I steel-muscle- d far-awa- swift-movin- g d hard-surfac- at of nr-rtv-'l, Price of Good Roads. f a carpet will protect a floor then a Nanket on a road, If maintained, is onaervatlon. Many an old macadam Jjnd can be Baved If taken In time. Perpetual maintenance Is the price of od roads. , , ,, , Crooked Road Is Dangerous. "Ith modern means of traffic a roked road la a dangerous road, taerefore, every road builder should odenvor to straighten his gutters. . crooked gutters bavo a bad , Be-"- WORTH JCNOWING Tecan shells have been found to con- tain enough protein and fat to mnke ihem useful when ground for st"ck feed. Ice Is said to have been first cut nnd harvested for storage In 1805, from a small lake uenr Cambridge, Mass. The duchess of Marlborough, formerly Conauelo Vanderbilt, haa been a candidate for a seat In the London county council. Stirrups were unknown to the bq-- Seek Its GIANT Wanted Only Peace and to Be Permitted a Fair Market Hohenxol-- I me Creed hae Proved Their Undoing. g dollura-and-jen- Did Not CHOSE TO BE KINDLY u"l cross-countr- States Broad Influence. jx meeting In Chicago th w Vj jtgtca Chamber of Commerce P'(rtj a resolution that th govern llrtL through th president and th Itor general of railroad. b pell- i9 com' U(4 inxing othr ,WnB traffic for heavy highway trunk L, ,n relieving they mn t I the phrase Inad eongeatlon." Not not mere I wry truffle" which call, I) for (railed highway right of way, I it fur hard aurfucc, cement, asphalt Ltrlrk roodhed capable of sustain-Lt- b teal lent truck and dependable ezr lain rt of weather. In Is It fact. la coming IM day such highway are almost yrr-t-icn iimilute neceanlty. In some see- due to railroad fififli of the country, 3 udrqnory to meet the traffic do y highway rfK paved lndlxeiwable.to commerce and lraunlty prosperity. So, ahlle we art building roads let Lbolld them, not for today, but for days to come, say Atlnnta Con Ltutlen. It will be cheaper In the I long ran, and vastly more ntifae FltKNCH, tired from 5 attacks, wore Altering to try from the word 'go.'" Tba rear. The rood were saving, and I time economy, In hard nurture choked with war ninterlul it I roid were clearly demonstrated by with roaring trucks and rushing cu niI tons. Everywhere the refugees were motortruck firm In I Northern yictlnl test completed some time ago hurrying toward safety, carrying with the a consignment of heavy met them their household effects, dragging Uindlse waa moved overland from their cows behind their heavily loaded I Detndt, Mich., to Toledo, O. wiigons and, yet smiling and striving to be brave. The lust great Oermim "Tbe total pay load carried by 1 I drive was on, pounding relentlessly barton tractor truck and two trull hn wae 12 tons, aaya Automobile forward toward Paris. In discussing the trip. The Topic I!ut In contrast to this picture was I bed was distributed as follows : Two another, that of great truck crammed unt an the truck, six tons on a five men, with no trailer and four tons on a three to the front. Men from the hastening La trailer. The trip was made In y were these new warriors of I eight and a half hours over 43 miles new vim and new Ideas and new methrf cement tod asphalt and 12 miles of od of lighting. Men who knew GerOt road. Almost exactly as mack many only ns a thing to he defented. uae was required to travel over the who never had met Fear, who laughed Crt read as over the cement, because at th horrors of the nuns. They were United States marines. But the odds were sgnlnst them, The Germans had started their rush hordes must be haltthe ed. And more than that, hntted by a body of men who must make np for their Inferiority In numbers by a superiority of fighting power. The truck churned on. Children, standing by the roadway, threw flowers to those marines and old womcheered them. White-haireen. rocking atop the refugees carts, called a Messing to them. But would they these bronzed giants from overseas be able to achieve the Impossible! More than one wondered and hesitated to think of the outcome. A night In an open wheat field. Then the great clash ! And out of the great tangle of wars complex machinery came a message that was electrical In Its results. The weary French took on new Hfe. The British, standing only a few months before with their backs to the wall, fretted in Ohio. Improved Highway The In a new anxiety to attack. there was no foundation to the ro td whole great organization of civilizand both the trailer and trucks tion. fighting there on the western ink. Three fourths of a gallon of front, suddenly saw the dawn of a 11 and 22 gallons of gasoline were new day, and the brightness of a new ed on the trip." hope. For those United States maThe real pith of the argument lies rines had done the Impossible. FightIn the fact that almost as much time ing agnlnst odds of nearly ten to one, --end, of the marines had turned back the course, more oil and gns was consumed In and started the rearward of 12 miles enemy traveling condirt road as was required to make rush toward Berlin that still la the 48 miles over e tinuing. he highway. They had proved that they were the And again: Consider the differ- - real supermen. Marines with as mnnv oce In value of the respective types a ten and eleven bullet holes In f road to the abutting property and them still fought forward. Others, to the county and the state containing ordered to the rear, obeyed, only to them. return without waiting to have their wounds dressed. Men mortally woundswept on until the machine-gu- n loads end good road ed nests of the enemy were captured hen died. Still others, felled by the Double Amount of Team Power Re forgot their own wounds that enemy, quired to Haul Wagono Over Un might ak of the wounds of some they Improved Country Highway. eomrnde. or Insist on not being given were comrades To see what happens at the end of aid until later there who must be cared for first. the good road, a public road specialist f the department of Why the Marin Is Fighter. agriculture re And why? Why should this body cently hud observations made In dlffer-n- t ausections of the country. Observers of men and remember, the total States United of the thorized strength Bted many country-boun- d teamsters Is 75,000 be able who drove two loaded wagons, hitched marine corps so only much? Why should to accomplish no behind the other, to the end of the tood road, where they be the real supermen wlUch they left one wagon Germany believed It alone possessed "J the roadside to be returned for Chateuu Thierry and Bcllenu until hiter while all the power of their tenmi Bouresches? Why should was devoted to hauling a single wagon wood heand able to accomplish such deeds they ver the unimproved highway. of heroism thnt the grateful French Fanners bound for market frequentnation ordered the name of P.elleau ly were seen to haul wood and similar to Bols de la Brigade Products to the beginning of the good wood changed answer comes In The Murines? de d, there dumping them and return two things esprit de corps nnd the n8 fur n second load. When this murine training. the two loads were consolidated There's never an Idle second In the nd easily hauled by a single team the life of a mnrlne. Ills training never gaining distance to market over the censes nnd, more than that, there proved road. never Is a time when the belief Is not Im ia 4V . Dmontrtloii vtk - constantly Inculcated In the mind of strange things afterwards but h a mnrlne thnt he must do superhuman raises and lowers himself those ten United State things simply because he Is a mnrlne, times becuuae he's and thnt his own conscience will call marine I him a criminal against himself and Urged to Better Thing. his corps If he doesnt. There's something Inside him, urgThe first thing that a marine appli- ing him on, telling him that he must cant gets when he reaches the east- be better, better, better every hour, ern training rnmp at Paris Island, every minute, every second of his life. S. Cm or the western camp at Mar And when the long hours of drilling Island. Cal is a talk. start, that marine Is not only willing to go the limit hut eager! Hes a And Its a talk tlints a work of art a speech that tells of the history of marine he's simply got to know evthe corps, from the beginning of the erything and bo everything and do continental marines In 1740 to the everything! present day, the great things the maFacing him everywhere ar eigne: rine corps hns done and the great If You Don't Know You Get things It has stood for. A talk that Killed. And the marine knows. II tells of honesty and straightforwardtrains with the naked bayonet II ness and decency and rleanllness. goes out upon the rlfl range, and If Th Creed ef the Marine. he doesn't qualify as an expert a And then, when the time of proba- marksman or a sharpshooter he kicks tion Is over and the enlistment com- himself all the way back to camp, and sits up nights to dream out a way of pleted, the marine learns this: I am a soldier, though not an army making It up In some other way. soldier. I go to sea, yet am not a Exercises, Training. Work. Piny, sailor. I am older than the sold'er They follow one after another In rushof the army or the sailor of the novj ing sequence. Men box because the I fight my country's battles every- movements of boxing are similar to where and anyw here lu the trench s : those of bayonet fighting. They have In France, on ships at sea, or In airpulling up" exercises because that planes above. It's all the same. helps one to get In and out of I raised the first American flag trenches. Swimming and the men on foreign soli, more than a century even march to the swimming hole ago. I carried Old Glory Into action because that develops every muscle In Tripoli, Egypt West Africa, the of the body. FIJI Islands, Sumatra, Hawaii, MexDrill, hour after hour, while serico, China, Uruguay, Paraguay, Alas- geants hark and the man who misses ka, Panama, Formosa, Korea, Nica- a step Is his own worst enemy. Lecragua, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Uaytt, tures, more drill, more work, more and now I'm with General Pershing In play, more training. In seven weeks France. I carry a punch In either the body and the mind of the marine three-wa- y hand. I'm a hnrd-fiateare at the edge of perfection. And fighting nmn. I'm a soldier of the then, while the band plays and the navy, a U. S. marine." cheer, he embarks for That's the beginning. That's the France, via Quantlco, there to work thing that sends the real flush of pride again, play again and drill again. And Into the new marine's heart. And not until the moment of the zero when he walks out upon the training when the signal calls for fighting deground and the physical director mons to rush over the top. Is that narks out an order to seize the training relaxed for a moment After bar and chin ten times", that that Its not a question of training new marine does It I He nmy never but the results of It And Chateau have chinned himself before. Ills Thierry and Belleau wood have told muscles may ache and twitch and do those to the world. heart-to-hea- rt -- "left-behlnd- horl-sonr- al Became Popular at Once t Few Songs of the Sea Secured Pubtlo my hand at one and failed. Morris Favor as Quickly as Life on tell tne It wont answer." "Let me ' see the piece," replied Bussell. Busthe Ocean Wave." sell was so pleased with It that he The best and most popular of all went Into a music store near by, and the songs of the sailor boys Is Epes In tho back room In a few moments Si. gouts "A Life ou the Ocean Wave." ho composed the music to which It Is The words of this Bong were written no v sung. It nt once became a favormuite nnd very shortly the bands were for Henry Bussell, the sic composer. The subject of the song playing It and the sailors were singwas suggested to Sr.rgeut as he was ing it. morning walking one breezy, lu spring on the Battery In New York, Hfd to Sleep in Bed. and looking out on the ships and small Sympathy was offered In London. craft leaving or entering tho harbor. England, the other dny to a man from Having completed ITie soug Sargent the front who would not reuch his went to the office of the Mirror, wrote Yorkshire home till the next morning. the words and showed them to tils Nay, It doesn't worry ine nt all that, I shall friend, George I. Morris. After read- doesnt the Journey," lie said. My dear do well enough In the train. The ing the piece, Morris said: .ng; it will never trouble Is when youve been roughing hoy. this Is not n do for music, lint 1 should like to pubnt the front that you cant settle down lish It In the Mirror." to a bed. Ive slept on cobbles, I've borne duys after the publication. slept In mud, lu a shed, In a ditch, hut met Bussell, who said: when 1 came home for my two blightles Sin gent "Wliere Is that song you promised do you think I could get to sleep? No, I tried I lelt fair smothered' by the beds. me? Surgent's reply was: well-know- n sun-brig- Philadelphia possesses the largest organ In the world, with 232 speak-!.- g stops and 18,140 plpesi In a French factory turbines are niiven by wuter from a reservoir on a mountain COO feet above It. A good substitute for platinum for electrical purposes Is silver, 70 per cent; palladium, 25 per cent, and co-- t ! kit 5 per cent. 2 he latest figures show that there me 4,500 picture houses In the United Kingdom, with an annual attendance i,t 1,075,000,000. Private Francis L Love of Web BRIEF BITS Surnames cannot be traced farther back than the latter part of the tenth century. The five largest counties In Ireland are: Cork, 1,838,031 ncres; Galway, 1,502,302; Mayo, 1,818,130; Donegal, 1,100.208, and Kerry, 1,150,350 acres. Tho orange was originally a d fruit, but not much larger than a cherry, anti It Is said that Its evolution Is due to 12 centuries of cultivation. The srrnv buzzard Is snld to he the pear-shape- (From th Committee ea TubHc Information, Washington, 1. C.) PARKER BUTLER. ELLIS By Every person of middle age, and those who have studied the mutter even slightly of whatever age, cannot but he aware with what extreme reluctance the United States took Its place a a world jKiwer." Our whole instinct has been against becoming anything of the sort We had no desire to meddle In the affair of the world across the Atlantic, We had been orged by the founders of our Halloa to avoid foreign alllnnees entangling" ones were specified, but all foreign alliances are "eiitaugllug," or they ere not alliances und th advice lingered In our mlud. Added to this was the fact thut we were sufficient We had abundant tinto ourselves. lund, nbunduut food, and were able to consume more manufactured articles than we could produce. From the first the Intent of the United States was to live quietly at home, attending to our own affairs, and pursuing happiness In our own way without bothering ouf neighbors. I might ay that the United states, from the beginning, resolved to settle down to a quiet family life. I am not an old man, but I can remember when It was first printed, with something like awe, In our newspapers, that we were growing at such a rate commercially and In population thnt we were actually becoming A world power. It was a new thing, A new thought It wus not unlike hearing thnt Jotinny bad got his first long pants when we had hardly thought of Johnny as anything but a small boy. The United States did not seek to be a world power; It simply grew to be one, as Johnny grows from boyhood to manhood. There was no Intention, bat It was Inevitable. A nation with so many people and such Industrious people, shipping goods to all parts of the world, becume a world power by the mere process of growth. We did not seek the status; It came to us. Desired Only Peace. When we discovered that we were a world power in spite of ourselves we tried to decide bow we would behave In this new state of being. We might build ourself a great army, swagger around and issue ultimatums, combine with other world powers and bully the world. If we chose. No American can ever be made to believe we did this, because we did not We chose to be a kindly giant, A benevolent world power. We wanted nothing but pence, here or elsewhere. We had grown to manhood nnd the world knew we were strong, but we wanted nothing but to be permitted to stay on the old farm, doing an honest day's work each day, attending to our own affairs In our own way. From the world we asked only that we be permitted a fair market In common with other nations, won. He piled Bavaria end th German Mates together, placed Prus-si-s on top of them, and held the llohenxoltern on th top of the whole pile. Ily show of armed strength (in wlileli the war against Austria ami the war against Frunee were pl umed as exhibitions) ho forced Ilohcnuilh-r- n Into world towerf illness. Ismg bo- fore he died ho planned another war against Fra nee ns another exhibition of Germnu strength. A reason for the new war? He liad (he same ressoni that A slave driver hue when he drags an Innocent black before the assembled alaves and beat her until eh faints, llobenzollernlsin must, every so often, show Its power. The world inuat tie kept eowetL Th Difference. Ho you see bow two nations hav reached world power the United States and the Imperial lloheoxollern Germany. ,W grew; Imperial Gew many planned nnd schemed and forged bnvonet. We are a world power because we am great In six - and strength; Germany was a world power benuso she was a theatener of murder. She was a world power heeans she carried at all times a bludgeon. Initcrlnl Prusslun-Hohonzollern-G- ei many was a structure of bayonets; It existed, as Bismarck would brutally admit were he alive today, for th honor and glory of the Hohenzollern, nnd for no other reason. It was to prove that Wilhelm Hohenzollern, king of Prussia, was a world power thnt Gentian was driven Into the war we are now fighting, and not to prove thnt Germany was a world power. Germany hns paid a dear price for llohcnzollemlam of the Wilhelm II variety. The world has pal4 a frightful price. Germany without the Hohenzollern would be a great nation and a true world power. As It Is, she la a bleeding. wounded, hungered tool. Rho Is being used by a Hohenzollern to prove that a flohenzollern king of Prussia can do what he pleases with Prussian slaves and the slaves of Prussia. This Is a Hohenzollern war. It was plnnned hy Hohenzollern to keep the Ilohen-cnllerof Prussia firmly seated on the throne, and for no other eason. ns Well, Where Doee It? W, IL Rocker, manager of the Lincoln hotel, says often he Is regarded as a regular bureau of Information, and like most hotel men Is supposed to be a walking encyclopedia. Seeker's eon William often wishes to know the whys" and "wherefore" of some almost unanswerable an ter, i While putting Billie to bed tbe other night and on leaving the room. I switched out the light, he raid. Billie called me back saying: Daddy, turn on the "lights again.' I obliged then he asked me to turn out th light Then like a bolt oat of a clear sky Billie queried: 'Daddy, where doee the light go when you turn It out?" According to Seeker, the best be could do In the emergency was to my thnt Billie's mother would explain It all in the morning. Indianapolis News. Eugenlee and English 6clenc. Eugenics may be described as the study of agencies that may Improve or Impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally, the declared aim being the betterment of the human race. The science was founded by Sir Francis Gnlton (1822-1011a famous English statistician, anthropologist, and traveler. He distinguished himself by hla remarkable work In anthropometry or measurements of the human body. For and a safe road to market some years he conducted a system of In contrast with the manner In which the United States grew to world anthropometrlcsl records at South Kensington Museum, London, compiled power I put Prussia. I say Trussln from measurements taken from visiInstead of Germany, because Ger- tors to the museum, ne founded the never would many" outside of Prussia of eugenics at University colhave Thought of becoming A world study London. lege, Bawas which power, , Germany," varia and the many small states that Has Floats Like Football Prussia hounded Into the German emOne of the newest types of life prt pire, had no dreams of world power- servers consists of a belt to whlc fulness. Prussia had, Austria had, but the other Germanic states were are attached two or three Inffatabl units shaped like footballs. Foch hs quite satisfied to exist. Instead of Prussia I ought, perhaps, a casing of properly reinforced duel nnd Is lined with a rubber blnddi to soy Hohenzollern, and by that mean the Uohenzollern family that having a valve at one end for Inflntln It. The weighs only nboi practically owned Prussia, as you own one and preserver h e. pounds and wlie flock a of sheep or a farm or a The Uohenzollern family had deflated ran be carried In the poeke a mania, nnd that mania was power Equipped with two bags. It has sufl for Prussia. Prussia must be the clent buoyancy for use In swlutmlui life preserver wl most powerful German state; more while the three-ba- g powerful than Bavaria, than Baden, sustain a person weighing 250 pound more powerful than Austria. This In the water. Popular ' Mechhnh .. waa the fixed Idea In the back of Magazine. Hohenzollern head. It every origDialects in British I ilea. inated, no doubt, with Frederick the Several languages and many, d! Great, who left when he died the dictum, "Every Uohenzollern king of lects ore spoken In the British Prussia should add ut least one bit In Northern Scotland most of tl of territory to rrussla. people speak Gaelic, as they on did lit Ireland, where the Gael The Hohenzollern Dynasty. It Is only fair to the first emperor j language hns been undergoing of Germnny (William I) that If left j revival in recent years. Tbe Well alone he would have been satisfied j hnve a distinct language of their o which Is of Celtic origin. The Vi with the addition of Schleswig-Holstein- , which ha grabbed from Den- nlsh people until far Into the clgt mark. He was then only king of Prus- eenth century s;oke a Celtic langtiaj sia and he hnd done his shure. He very similar to thut spoken by II had added hts bit. There was, how- people of Brittany In France. Near every shire of England lias 1!S peculn ever, Bismarck. Bismarck, even before he came Into dialect. power in Prussia, had plnnned Prussias future. First, Prussia must be Pretty Tall. A private In an Irish regiment and the supreme power In Germania, then Germnny must be the supreme power a life guardsman were "blowing" about in the world. That was his life work ; the standard of height la their reIt was what Prussia pledged him she spective regiments. would, do. And to Bismarck Prussia "Why. sold the life giuirdsnini meant the Hohenzollern dynasty. "oue of our fellows Is so tall that be With malice aforethought, with lies can light his pipe nt 0 tamp posL "Be Jabers," retorted Pot "Flail orand trickery assisting his wonderful with a war statecraft, against Austria gan of D company, Is so tall that th and A war against France as part of beggar has to get down on his knee his plan for making Hohenzollcrntsm ' when he wants to put his hands In hla ' ' A world power, Bismarck labored and trousers pockets. ( , ), one-fourt- pock-etknlf- il : Tit-Bit- s. |