OPENING OF PEARL HARBOR DRYDOCK AT HONOLULU
Decalogue for
Frugality Seen
LATEST Y. W. C. A. UNIFORM
ployer for liquidation. The bill for the !
cost resulting from the Inefficiency of
the average man and housewife In the
spending of money and their failure to
get full value for money received Is j
also handed to the employer for pay
ment either in Increased demands for j
wages or In increased dissatisfaction
MAKE A BUDGET, COMES FIRST and
industrial unrest.
“So many employers are learning
Keep Tab on Expenditures Hava a that, along with plans for stimulating
the Interest of the worker In his Job,
Bank Account, Spend Less 'ffiian
there must go hnnd In hand with It
You Earn, Are Other Com
an education of employees In funda
mandments.
mental economics and in the use and
St. Louis.—Ten commandments for value of money.”
the guidance of a man’s financial life
have been drawn up by n nntlonnl
committee of bankers and others to Learns at 70 Two Can’t
aid In the grent drive of 1920 against
Live Cheaper Than One
the cohorts of high cost of living.
This decalogue for the frugal man
Rosa.—“You can’t heat
to stiffen his morale In a battle to save this Santa
high cost- of living nohow,"
something from the profiteers nnd rent says
Boroquez, seventy
raisers is part of the program for the years John
who on September 6
National Thrift week, to begin Janu married old, Adeline
Young, aged
ary 17 next.
sixty-four, keeper of a boarding
Plans for rallying the armies of house,
on the theory that two
money savers for the 1920 drive by could live
than one.
holding this Thrift week were ap They agreed cheaper
divide the pro
proved by the American Bank ceeds from the to boarding
house.
ers’ association In Its recent conven
Dr. Viviu Belle Appleton In tne
Boroquez asked for his share uniform
tion In this city. The Idea already
she will wear In Labrador,
of
the
profits.
The
thrifty
bride
had the Indorsement of the United
where
sho
will be stationed ns a rep
States League of Building nnd Loan refused and started for the bank resentative of the social morality com
Associations, Nutional Federation of to deposit the coin. Boroquez mittee of tlie Y. W. C. A. nnd of the
Construction Industries, Retail Cred went to the newspapers and had Grenfell Mission nnd will tend sick
it Men’s association. National Associ Inserted n notice that he had left babies and people within a radius of
ation of Life Insurance Underwriters, his bride nnd would not be re 200 miles of her liut. Sho will travel
Natlonnl Credit Men’s association, the sponsible for any debts contract with skis, snow shoes nnd by dog team.
American Life convention, nnd other ed by her.
She says her best medicine Is good ad
national bodies.
vice and wholesome fun.
“Make a Budget," One Commandment.
The ten commandments as recom
mended by Walter W. Head of Omnhn,
vice president of the National bank
section of the American Bankers’ as
sociation, are:
1. Mnke a budget.
2. Keep an Intelligent record of ex
penditures.
3. Have a bank account.
4. Carry life Insurance.
5. Make a will.
Daring Cavalry Leader is Terror
6. Own your home eventually.
Battling Owls Make
7. Pay your bills promptly.
to Bandits on Mexican
8. Invest In War Savings stamps
Kansas Streets Unsafe
Border.
and other government securities.
9. Spend less than you earn.
Republic, Knn.—The streets
10. Share with others. Thrift with
of this town are unsafe for
out benevolence Is a doubtful Messing.
pedestrians after dark on ac
The eight days of the National ANSWERS THREAT WITH SHOT count
of the nightly battles be
Thrift week have been named after
tween
lurge flocks of owls. Re
some points of the financial creed, as Ability for Coping With Banditry Led
maining In the trees during the
follows:
dny, they swarm about like lo
Saturday, January 17—“Bank day” to Speedy Promotion From Ser-
custs nt night and have become
geant to Captain During
or “National Thrift day,” to empha
so numerous and vicious that
Four Years.
size the need for Individual thrift and
they
attack human beings. It Is
the service a bank renders a com-
unsafe
for women nnd children
San Antonio, Tex.—Capt. Leonard
aiunlty.
to
venture
out after dark.
Sunday, January 18—"Thrift Sun J. Mntlnck, commnnder of Company
In several Instances persons
day,” with sermons In nil Amercnn K, Eighth United States cavalry, Is to have
been struck on the head
pulpits on tlie relation of economic day the most feared American that nnd rendered
unconscious. One
life to religious well-being and the Mexican bandits have encountered on
womnn
was
pnlnfully
hurt by a
need of sharing with others.
the Texas border. He is feared more
attack from nn owl which
Monday, January 19—“Nntlonnl In than the Texas rnngers, who for yeurs direct
she had tried to ward off with
surance day,” to stress the need of were tlie only official guardians of the nn
umbrella.
protecting one’s family.
peace In that remote counntry. His
Steps are being taken by the
Tuesday, January 20—"Own Your men arc of the fighting, daring type,
authorities to rid tlie city of Its
Home day,” to show why It Is desira but Captain Matlack’s desire to go It
pests. Such a condition,
ble and how It Is possible to own your alone when handling difficult situa strange
It
Is
said,
was never known here
own home.
tions hns struck terror to the hearts
before, although owls have nl-
Wednesday, January 21—"Make a of Mexican evildoers who are learning
ways been numerous In this sec
Will day,” to urge men to mnke wills. not to commit offenses In country
tion of the state.
Thursday, Jnnuary 22—“Thrift In where he Is known to be stationed.
Industry day,” to advocate factory When Captain Mntlnck went to
thrift nnd co-operation between capi Candalnria, Tex., four years ago, he
tal and labor.
wns a sergeant. He took station with sudden death. It wns not long after
Friday, January 23—"Family Budget hts company nt a small, isolated com a that
Cano attempted a rnld and got
day.”
munity on the banks of the Rio
hundred cattle. Mntlnck took
Saturday, Junuary 24—"Pay Your Grande. They soon found themselves several
up the trail, recovered the cattle, killed
Bills day.”
In a hotbed of bnndltry, which Mat- Cano
and drove the cattle back Into
Supporting this movement In an ad lack determined must be cleared.
Texas.
dress to the bankers In their conven
Matlack Clever and Daring.
In like manner he met and killed n
tion here, Arthur M. East of New
of Jesus Renterlns, the bnn-
York, national director of the Thrift Mntlack found that the lender of the brother
bandit crew In San Antonio was Chico dlt leader who held the aviators, Davis
week movement, said:
In captivity, pending the
"Financial nnd Industrial leaders are Cano, a former captain In the Cnrran- and Peterson,
of ransom money. It was
Interested In the Increased cost of liv zn army. Mntlnck visited San Antonio payment
who outwitted the Mexican
ing because they know that In most alone at different times nnd met Cano, Matlack when
he went nlone to rescuo
cases the bill for the Increased cost Informing him thnt unless he ceased bandits
Peterson and Davis nnd escaped with
Is banded by the worker to the em his lawless practices he would meet haYf
the ransom money. Inviting death
for himself and the aviators.
Drawn by National Committee
for 1920 Drive Against High
Living Costs.
View of ihe 1'eurl harbor drydpck at Uuaolulu a few momenta after Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of Secretary
Daniels, pressed the button that operuted the water controls. The project, which Is the greatest of Its kind. Is now
completed.
Baby Victims of Hun
Horrors in War Zone
Thousands of Little Unfortunates
Still Show Many Traces of
Savage Barbarity
EDUCATION IS IN ARREARS
For a Generation Children Will Con
tinue to Study on a 25 per Cent
Efficiency Basis— Trying
to Equip Schools.
“Billy Goat Is Ornery
Cuss," Says Physician
Santa Ana.—“The billy goat
Is an ornery cuss.” This Is the
verdict of Dr. W. C. Dubois,
after an experience that he
doesn’t care to repeat.
The physician was making a
professional cnll In the suburbs,
and Inadvertently left the door
of his car open. A billy gont
was eating tin cans and Ber
muda grass nearby; the auto
seat looked very Inviting, and
the goat entered, ensconslng
himself comfortably upon the
cushion.
Having completed his cnll, the
doctor tried to "shoo” the ani
mal out, but It refused to be
shooed. A grab at one of Its
hind legs resulted in a brief en
counter which was not disas
trous, but brought the goat’s
horns into play.
All other means falling, Du
bois then possessed himself of a
long pole nnd with one mighty
heave pushed the obstinate
4hlng from out his car. This
done, he had to keep the goat
at the end of the pole until he
could start the car and make
his getaway.
MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS
Captain Matlack
Knows No Fear
New York.—Education In northern
France ceased In the autumn of 1914.
It cannot recommence until Germany
pays the war damages to France, and
France subdivides the Indemnity into
the proportions demanded by each de
partment canton and commune for the
erection and equipment of schools.
As Germany Is only expected to pay
25,000,000 francs immediately and the
rest in twenty years, the most hopeful
outlook for French education is one-
quarter of the prewar force and equip
ment within the next two decades.
In the meantime, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, children who ceased to attend
school In 1914 are five years In arrears,
and for a generation will continue to
study on a 25 per cent efficiency basis.
Tlie Instructor often returns to a
ruined village long before there is any
Mrs. Raymond Robins, president of
school for him to teach. His own home
the National Women’s Trade Union
is a heap of ruins and he has to com
league, Is making preparations for the
mence to dig among the debris to find
of delegates representing
any burled belongings, nnd to erect out to ten miles to the nearest school. reception
women workers of ten foreign coun
of the heap of stones a shelter for This walk In winter, In the fog nnd tries
on their wny to participate In the
himself. The government Is supplying rain nnd mud, ill-elnd and undernour International
Congress of Working
ns fast as possible wooden barracks, ished,
Is a strain upon the frail con Women.
one end of which is sometimes par stitutions
thnt may result In the loss
titioned for the teacher to live in, the young life.
other end for the scholars to congre of The
should bring the best results n
children nt home, sheltered in that
gate.
large sum of money must be raised.
the cellar of a destroyed house where The
Living in Dugouts.
child work is divided Into the
people live together, a calico cur two phases
When the government cannot supply many sometimes
of mental and physicnl aid.
the only wall separat
the barracks, people of the town have tain
Trying to Equip Schools.
ing
family
beds,
are
under
as
unhealthy
salvaged the corrugated Iron dugouts conditions nnd ns exposed ns on the To equip a schoolhouse with suffi
left by the Germans called Nelssen trip to the nearest schoolhouse. If the cient books for the winter’s work $50
huts. These dugouts are like a barrel schoolhouses
equipped, the jour is sufficient. To completely equip the
cut lengthwise nnd bombproof; also ney to school were
a winter’s day would schoolhouse with benches and desks,
these Iron shelters are sweltering hot be worth while, on hut
us it Is, the only mnps, blackboards, stationery, etc.,
In summer nnd bitter cold In winter.
held out to the youth of $500 Is needed.
They were meant to be placed under inducement
isolnted villages is the nfrernoon Besides the schools carried on un
ground. not used ns surface buildings, the
“gouter” or four o’clock lunch pro der government supervision there are
but any shelter in the devastated re vided
by the Hoover commission and now established In some villages kin
gion Is acceptable, nnd this snlvage distributed
by the American commit dergarten work, domestic science work
can replace the school buildings.
and manual training. Any donations
Inside these Improvised schoolhouses tee. Patriotic Though Suffering.
for education will be turned
there is nothing. An enterprising The instructors are government pnld, marked
this fund to bring back to normnl
schoolmaster will find planks In the their salaries varying from 150 to 300 Into
mentality the children who have run
nenr-by trenches, nnd If he can find
a month. The French govern wild and neglected since before the
nails he will knock together a bench frnnes
owns the school buildings and war.
Takes Long Chances.
for his pupils to elt upon. If he can ment
MASONIC MEMORIAL HOSPITAL STARTED
equips
the schools, the taxes in the Compulsory education In France
obtain chalk, he hns Ills class In arith past levied
On one occasion Matlack and his men
on the communes making ceases when the pupil Is fourteen.
metic figure on the rough wnlls in lieu
were surrounded by an overwhelming
this support. When communes Boys and girls of fourteen have no
of a blackboard. If he has sufficient possible
force of Mexicans. Instead of mak
wiped out nnd buildings are non more schooling thnn they hail five
memory he tenches his pupils what he are
ing a stand to fight, as the bandits ex
years
ago.
Children
of
ten
have
not
existent,
taxes
cannot
be
levied,
and
remembers of history and geography. until a readjustment of government yet learned to read and write. Ba
pected, Mntlnck ordered a charge, rode
A survey made In July, 1919, showed finances Is accomplished there Is little bies of five years old think war Is the
down the Mexicans and killed 85 of
that In 65 of the villages under the prospect of ndequnte school facilities natural state of affairs. All the chil
their number. Matlack's men suffered
supervision of the American commit In the war-wrecked area.
one
slight casualty.
dren
are
undernourished.
Not
one
In
tee, 22 improvised schools had been Motoring one afternoon through the the district knows the taste of fresh
Not long after this a cattle ranch
opened, and four were expected to beautiful
near Candalnria wns raided. Matlock
,
Alsne valley, where scarlet milk.
open in October. From the 39 villages popples covered
and
his men pursued and killed the
The
children
here
were,
before
the
the
pock-maked
fields
still without Instructors or school shel and the great war seemed as fnr away war, the finest physical type France
1
Mexicans
nnd recovered the cattle.
ter, the children must wnik from three as the Roman wars, workers of the produced. The climate Is bracing and
! I.nter Mntlnck went back to look for
j more cattle. While he was riding
American committee on devastated there was an abundance of butter,
around the town a shot wns tired from
France heard the faint strains of a milk nnd eggs. The poorest family
nn
adobe house. The bullet went wild.
owned
n
goat,
chickens
and
rabbits;
poor violin and the high-pitched voices
Matlack boldly kicked In the door of
I Twine Trail Leads to
of children singing the “Marseilles.” the wealthier families had many cows.
(he house and killed the Mexican who
Recovery of Cash Box
They stopped the motor and up on a All of this live stock the Germans
j hod fired at him. In virtually every en-
bluff by the roadside sgw a tiny hut took, nnd the children and nursing
| counter with Mexicans Matlack hns
Conneaut, O.—A ball of store to which they climbed nnd found nine mothers were deprived of protein,
taken long chances, but he has always)
twine led to the finding of a children grouped around a hoy of without which there Is no growth.
j gotten his man.
cash register containing $20 twelve playing his home-made instru
which burglnrs stole from a local ment and leading the singing of their
Saw Grizzly Bear.
SERBIA IS FREE OF SMALLPOX
meat market. When the proprie national anthem.
Banff,
Can.—Bert
Thompson stopped
tor was called to the door from
The day’s Instruction was over and with some of the boys for a little while
Typhus Also Stamped Out by Relief
his bed upstairs by a knock he the children were about to scatter, but on his way home from work. It was
Workers, Including Amer
was struck by a brick hurled every day before they parted their pa dark
when
he
climbed
on
to
the
bi
icans.
through a window.
triotism broke forth in song.
cycle and began pedaling hard to get
He was only slightly Injured
These
are
the
children
whose
ter
home
In
time
for
supper.
He
had
a
Belgrade.—For the first time In five
nnd ran out the door to search rible war experiences have left them fleeting glance of a dark object ahead
years Serbln Is today free of smallpox.
for an officer. When he and the nervous nnd frightened and who must Just a second before he struck It and
Only three caws are reported In the
policeman returned the cash reg live for many years to come among was thrown to the pavement. When he
whole kingdom.
ister was gone.
surroundings of desolation and sad sat up, rubbing his head, a big grizzly
The announcement s made by the
The burglars abandoned It In ness.
bear wns looking down at him. Ben
medical staff of the American Red
a gulley several rods away after
said they looked at each other and
The
problem
In
France
Is
not
only
Cross headquarters In Belgrade which
trying in vain to open IL The the low birth rate, bnt the dreadful then both went away from the place
a week ago made the even more grat
twine was carried all the way, Infant mortality. The American com as fast as they could.
Grand Master W. S. Farmer, assisted by officers of the Grand lodge, state ifying announcement that Serbia Is
unraveling from the store, and mittee is doing prenatal work as well
New York, laying the comer stone of the $<100,000 memorial hospital to once more free of typhus, after a i s tr u j
led to finding the cash box.
as child hygiene, bnt to carry this on The thumb Is stronger than all the of
gle of five years.
soldiers and aallors of the great war at the Masonic Uoine, U tea, N. X.
with the thoroughness and extent fingers put together.