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Show aiiKe CAPITAL P Inside Information as to End of the World WASHINGTON. Knowledge has no fixed notch. It Is on a movable scale that climbs up and reaches around and dives down, like that crane thing that scooped out the Panama canal. We want more knowledge, as a . ships wants a swifter record, the airplane air-plane a greater altitude, as man, generally, gen-erally, demands a higher development llian his forbears ever dreamed of. We will alwuys want to know more and more and more. Self-satisfied attainment at-tainment means rust, and rust means failure. And we know no such word ns fail. But It isn't a good idea to , know more thun our share. For one case, u woman in a car aas providing thrills for the woman U&QfcQ EPIh" AU'WAIUN ' 'fV (VV i Vf GNASrWi' Of BRIMSTONE - iVrrfcJl'Hf "1 co,n to cash ; -ti , next. She had learned through some Inscrutable source unknown to man Certainly not to any newspaper man that the world was coming to an end two weeks from that date. The other-woman other-woman had her doubts. The prophet-lady was so sure of her Bible signs that she was going to cash her bond and take her money out of the bank and pin it inside her dress for safekeeping. The other woman, naturally, inquired as to the sense of taking money into the next world, especially as it was earning interest in the bank. This phase of the situation had its weight. "That's so. There'll be $fl.2o coming to me in January almost enough to pay the taxes on my. lot. I guess I'll let the money be and just cash the bond. No, I won't, either. I read in the paper the other day that they are going to be worth a whole lot more after the war. It's awful hard to hafter die without knowing how the war ends and see the boys come home, but we gotter go all of us. There'll come a rain of fire and after our bodies are burnt to ashes some of us will be saved and the others will be weepin' and wailin' and gnashin' of teeth." "You've got it down pretty fine, haven't you? But, say, Mame, if we-get we-get burnt to ashes what will we do for Jungs to weep and wail with, and teeth to do our gnashing?" Foolish? Of course! But, if you hear a couple of women pattering along like that, isn't it the most natural thing in the world to tab them down,, nlien you can come across nothing better? And if so be the proper study of mankind is man Is there any law against counting in woman? Boy's Sense of Chivalry Wouldn't Let Him "Squeal" HEItE is the story of a war worker. When you see that term "war worker" you usually mean "girl," but not this time. The phrase means just one Washington boy, a young fellow who got himself a job for the summer in one jTHi08W)Ul.O I h, 1 VjHAvE MEAfir h " ffft2 of the newly established wartime bureaus. bu-reaus. He is a bright, ambitious boy, and thought that he might as well be helping Uncle Sam and earning a little lit-tle money at the same time as "playing" "play-ing" all summer long like the thoughtless thought-less butterfly you study about in school. The way the story comes to me, he had not been on the job long until one day a packet of letters was missing. miss-ing. The letters had been intended f.,r n fiHns? case, and now thev were- gone. A man was working on the files while the boy happened to be in the room. After search had been made for the letters, with no results, the boy was called In by the chief and asked if he had seen the letters. He replied that he had not, as he hud not. The next day the boy was dismissed. "If you did not take the letters, son and I know you didn't," his father said to him, "why didn't you tell the chief about the man being in the room?"" "Well, It was like this, dad," the boy replied. "I only wanted to work for the summer, and that man has a steady job. It doesn't moan very much for me to lose the Job, but I guess it would mean a whole lot for him to have lost his. So " And the father Is proud of his son, and you can't blame him. although yoiminy think that the boy made a big mistake In so calmly allowing himseir to be "fired" without protest. Wounded Soldiers Want Help, Not Sympathy DO NOT lavish too much sympathy upon the convalescent soldier back from France, warns Major Baldwin, chief of the educational service, iu a statement state-ment explaining the reconstruction work done at Walter Heed hospital. "A great many persons have unconsciously un-consciously tried to spoil these men by misdirected sympathy," said M.:jor Italdwin. "That Is why there are certain cer-tain restrictions In regard to visitors nt the hospital. "The patient Is not a child, neither Is he a sick man, but a new type of man that has met with a physical disability, dis-ability, with the accompanying mental shocks, lie must be returned to society as a normal member. "The Important problem Is to help fffZ WALTER fe'V HOSPITAL lyt him to develop the proper mental attitude toward his disability, his future outlooli and toward others, or lie permanently becomes fl dependent or ti derelict." The reconsl ruction work at Walter Keed hospital, which has assumed such national Importance, and which Is becoming a demonstration and training school for other hospitals, begun In a small way, with a few Instructors and a limited number of returned soldiers. There are at present under construction four large shop buildings one for lathes and heavy machine work, another for electrical work. Ineludin)! telegraphy and radio; another for woodwork. Including cabinet making and carpentry, and the other for printing, photography and classes in drafting. There Is also a two-story school building near completion, which will be used for academic subjects. More than 700 men are at present pursuing courses In .'10 different lines oT activity. Successful War Waged on Flies and Mosquitoes T1IK cnmpalgii waged here since early In the spring on disease bearing "'1' and mosquitoes by a force of 150 soldiers under l.leut. 1-',. II. Gibson, lor merlv of the denn it incut of agriculture, has been most effective In ridding (lie camp of Insect pests -vhlch formerly for-merly claimed this section ot the com; try as a favorite stamping g oi.-.ul. Figures ;-.lvcn out by M.l. 1 W. l'.icwei-, camp surgeon, show dial from a record catch of I'-'S.OOO tiles In traps which were set in various barracks, mess halls and other buildings build-ings July 'J, the number caught giad rally decreased to one fourth that tig ore on August ,'!0, the season of the year when they are most prevalent. There arc approiimntcly !, "Ot (lies fo ihe quart. The figures show that I? quarts were Caught on July live quarts August I'J, and three and one half quarts August Itll. Nearly every one of the 1011 ot more commissioned olllccrs who were scut nick from the front lo give engineer troops In the Fulled Slates the bcnctlt 1,1 their special training and cvpcrleuce In buttle have been assigned lo regiments at 1 1 uuq In cys by I'.rlg. (Jen. Charles W. Nut.-., camp coiuinandcr. Jut how long Ihi-.e olllccrs will be routined In this country before helm: scut ovcr-cas with new regiments cannot ho iredl 'ti d. but It In likely th.-.v ,lll he retained lor two or three month-: u! least. |