Can’t Teach Old
Dog N ew Tricks
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Britisher Wear American Coat
Shirt? No, Sir-ee, It Simply
Can’t Be Done.
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the advantages o f American shirts.
but very reluctantly.
One o f the
group whom the Americans thought
convinced blurted out. “ Well, you see,
those coat shirts wear out quicker In
the laundry.” What can you do with
FIRMLY AGAINST OUR STYLE “ “ kl»J
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Pett Ridge,
Englishman Wants to Slip Garment on
Over His Head, and He Wants
the Collar Button to Touch
His Neck, Too.
AVIATO R S EA S IC K IN T H E AIR
Tokyo.—Lieutenant Ferrarln, one of
the two Italian airmen who flew from
Rome to Tokyo, encountered such
rough air conditions while crossing
Korea that he became seasick.
“ In my entire flying experience," he
said, "I had never before encountered
such conditions. The machine pitched
like a small boat In a heavy swell, and
for the first time In my life I knew
what It was to be seasick.
“ The most exciting part of my trip
occurred In Asia Minor," he added,
“about 100 miles from Aleppo, where
I was subjected to heavy machine gun
fire by the Arub rebels.”
the English writer
■ and novelist, said the Americans
would better change the subject. So
he asked what was the difference be
tween tlie English speech and the
American. Somebody said the Ameri
can speech was a bit louder. “ Yes, you
have hit It,” he said. “ Only you stress
the unessential word. Your ‘the’ and
‘to,’ etc.”
Wife Nagged on Trolley;
Another Englishman said: “ We will
Conductor Gets Divorce
settle It this way. Your shirts a r e !
better and speech worse. But In most
Accusing his wife of annoying
things we break about even. But do i
him
while he went about his du
you know what John Hay said when he
ties as a street car conductor,
returned from the embassy here?” All j
William L. Stockfleth obtained a
asked for Hay’s speech. Here it Is:
divorce from Alice V. Stockfleth
“I never saw a street fight In Eng
In Superior Judge Morgan’s
land ; I never heard a story that
court
In San Francisco. Stock
couldn't be repeated In the company
fleth said his wife would board
of ladies; I never heard a real cuss
his car and berate him for an
word used.”
swering questions of passengers.
"Where did Hay live?” one English
More than that, she never paid
man asked.
any
fare when she started out
“ No,” said another. “You are both
on a nagging expedition.
right; we break even on those things
too.”
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London.— “ You can’t teach an old
dog new tricks" is true when It comes
to the question of how an Englishman
puts on his shirts. Just u few minutes
ago the writer went into a haberdash
ery shop in the Strand.
“ Do you want your shirts cut Eng
lish fashion or American?" asked the
litter.
“ Why, what’s the difference?” he
was asked.
“ You see, an Englishman won’t have
a coat shirt; he wants to slip it on
over his head,” said the shlrtmaker.
The fitter then told of several Inci
dents about his countrymen who came
Into this particular shop. The other
day one customer was thoroughly an
gry. He had been sold a dozen Ameri
can coat shirts.
“ I can’t get Into them,” he said.
“ All right, we will sew them up,”
said the shirt fitter.
Another Englishman had bought
some American shirts and came back
with them in a very bad temper.
“ What do you mean by selling me
shirts without a collar buttonhole in
the back?” was his objection. “ Why,
I had to cut a hole through with a
penknife."
The polite salesman tried to show
his customer the benefit of the Ameri
can shirts; how fine It was not to have
the collar button touch the neck. But
lie would have none of those kind of
shirts.
“ Why,” said he, “ I can’t reach the
back of my neck to put the button
In.”
“ You dont have to,” said the fitter
“put it in before you put your shirt
on."
That made the Britisher angry.
“ I won’t do it,” he said. “ I always
put my collar buttons In after my shirt
Is on my back. And I won’ t have you
tell me how to do It.”
Bars Hangers on Shirts.
Though unconvinced on that pc
the salesman tried to tell the English
man how fine It was to wear a coat
shirt; that it didn’t ruffle up one’s
At an amusement park In England war tanks are being used to give the
hair when put on. “ No, you can’t sell patrons of the place thrilling rides.
me those shirts. I comb my hair af
ter I put my shirt on. Besides,” said
this customer, “ I don’t want hangers
on my shirts.”
The writer told shopkeepers that
coat shirts had not had a long history
In America. “ Well, you see,” said he,
“ an Englishman learns how to put on
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a shirt when a little boy, and he won’t
change.”
This particular shop has a customer Most Powerful Airplane Engine £ ^
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who has bought the same color shirts
The new engine, In spite o f Its great
Ever Built in United States
for forty years, and he Insisted on
power, Is no frenk. It Is Intended for
Made in Detroit.
that color all during the war. Another
steady, long-time service, cither for
customer for sixty years, now dead,
heavy duty or for great speed, and Is
always bought one color of neckties—
designed for American quantity pro
red.
duction methods.
Races a “ Function.”
Made for General Use.
One London paper has a paragraph
While the men who are handling the
nbout Walter Hagen taking off his
Capable of Driving Machine at 200 new engine expect that It will push a
sweater just as he was about to make
Miles an Hour, Says Designer,
plane at least 200 miles an hour, the
a drive. It simply Isn’t done here.
One of Liberty Motor Cre
engine was not designed for this pur
Bather serious criticism greeted the
pose alone, and Is capable of wide and
ators— Is Fireproof.
first appearance of the American ten
general use. It weighs only 1.04
nis players because they dressed so
Detroit.—A new 500-600 horsepower pounds per horsepower.
sloppily. An Englishman has his
The lessons which Colonel Vincent
trousers pressed for tennis just as he airplane engine, the most powerful
has them pressed for dinner, and he ever built in this country and the most learned during the war In his study of
usually wears a beautiful blue coat powerful In the world except for a few the actual performance of the Liberty
racing freaks, has been completed here. motor, as well as of the best makes
with brass buttons when he plays.
The writer asked an English friend It Is expected to develop speeds far from both allied and enemy countries,
why he always wore a silk hat and greater than anything yet achieved. are embodied In this design, and as a
cutaway to the races. “ Well, you see, In addition It Is fireproof, and It can be result there are several notable ad
it’s a function and I must,” he re started “ cold” after a long dive, thus vance».
Most Important Is that the motor Is
ending two o f the greatest dangers
plied.
fireproof for all civil purposes. This
All these differences were discussed that aviators have had to face.
This announcement was authorized has been attained by putting the car
by a group last night. The Americans
rather convinced the Englishmen of by Col. Jesse G. Vincent, designer of buretor below and outside of the crank
case, with all vents outside the cow
ling so that there Is no possibility of
conflagration from a back fire. This
arrangement also has the advantages
that It gives gravity feed, thereby
eliminating the weight of extra piping
and o f the feed pump, and that It
makes the carburetor much more ac
cessible.
Exhaust Valves Changed.
Another change has been In provid
ing two Inlet and two exhaust valves
for each cylinder, Instead of one. The
result has been a bigger and steadier
flow of gas to the cylinders, and a
very high mean effective pressure even
at great speed. A doable finger valve
lift Is used, and this permits changes
In the cam-shaft and rocker-arm me
chanism which make this engine much
superior to any predecessor In the
troublesome matter of leukage from
the cam-shaft housing.
A third change Is In the use of a
single duplex carburetor. Instead of
the usual two carburetors. The diffi
culty of synchronizing the throttle and
altitude controls o f two carburetors
has always been a bugbear to aviators,
but It had been felt that two or more
were necessary to give the requisite
flow of gas. It has been found In the
tests, however, that this single duplex
gives splendid economy and other de
tails which. In the opinion o f Colonel
The latest development In war ertft Is that of a mother ship for mine Vincent, fully Justify the design He
layers that la also a battleship. It carries 12 small mine layers on specially- predicts that It will promptly become
constructed steel beds. Huge cranea which lift the mlae layers bodily out of j a universal practice with airplane en-
the water ere on both sides o f the vessel
glneers.
War Machine an Amusement Device
Is Greatest Plane
Motor in W orld
INTENDED FOR GENERAL USE
New Type of War Craft Developed
Celebrate Return to German Rule
Italian Flyer Encounters Rough Air
Conditions on Trip to
Tokyo.
A general holiday was declared In Eiensbourg, Slesvlg, when the German authorities again took over control of
the city following the plebiscite In which the people of Eiensbourg voted to remuln with Germany. This photograph
shows the flower-bedecked German troops entering the city.
SCARS OF W A R
IMPROVE SOIL
Effect of Deep Plowing Produced
Upon Shell-Torn France,
Says American.
VEGETATION
IS LUXURIANT
Vigorous Crops Are Growing as a Re
sult of French Patience and In
dustry— Stick to Antiquated
Tools and Methods.
New York.—The thought of deep
sears left upon the land in France
und Belgium by the trenches of the
allies and their foes has been one of
the gloomiest of post-war reflections.
To those who have feared that per
manent harm to the agriculture of the
war-torn areus would result, the
special report made to the American
Committee for Devastated France
reeeutly by Hal B. Fullerton, agricul
tural director of the Long Island rail
road, will come as a relief. For In It
Mr. Fullerton declures that the
trenches und shelllioles have accom
plished the one thing dearest to the
farmer’s heart—deep plowing.
"If a farmer here In America,” said
Mr. Fullerton to reporters recently,
“ manages to plow to a depth of four
Inches he thinks he has done exceed
ingly well. For the most part, he gets
down two Inches. The best ever done
in this country Is nine. Now what
has happened in France? Trenches
eight to ten feet deep, shelllioles and
mined areas from fifty to n hundred
feet In depth and often 200 feet square
have brought to the surface, without
disturbing It, the deep soil, containing
vuluutie minerals of which the top
soil, used for generations, has been
depleted. Added to these minerals Is
the organic mutter furnished by the
fertilization of deud beasts. Thus the
upheaval wrought by the trenches ac
tually represents the type of cultiva
tion advanced by pructlcal agricul
tural experts In America and England.
“ I remember one former battlefield
where the trenches hnd been filled In
nnd wheat planted. . The lines of
trenches— French on one slope and
German on the other—could he clearly
distinguished because the wheat grow
ing over them was higher than the
rest and had a rich green color that
showed It to be the best In the field.
It was a plain example o f deep plow
ing.”
Luxuriant Vegetation in Shell Holes.
Among Mr. Fullerton's ninny photo-
grnphs was one showing a huge shell
hole, perhaps a hundred feet deep, all
over the bottom of which luxuriant
vegetation, Including clover, corn
flower nnd alfalfa, was growing. An
other
snapshot
showed
unfilled
trenches, with discarded nmmiinltton
belts and rifles strewn around, the
whole place covered with grass, ferns
and shrubbery.
Another theory that Mr. Fullerton
has exploded Is that of the great harm
done to the soil by chlorine gas set
free In military operations. On the
contrary, he declared, If It has any
effect at all It Is a beneficial one, for
the chlorine will attract to Itself sodi
um and potassium as chemical bases,
the result being some o f the very salts
that are used In the making of fer
tilizer.
Mr. Fullerton was full of enthusiasm
over the French genius for farming.
While amused by some of the nntl-
quuted tools and methods the peasants
employed, such as hoes with eighteen-
inch handles, forcing the user to bend
his back at right angles ns ho works,
nnd obsolete scythe sharpeners, he
failed to find that conservatism nnd
distrust of new things with which the
Frenchman Is so generally credited.
He told of Introducing to some of them
the wheeled hoe, or automatic seeder,
a device that inny be used for all sort»
o f work, from harrowing to weed
cutting.
“ I took It out to a field," he said,
“ where some of the’ French were work
ing, nnd started In with It. None of
them came up to look—they are too
canny for that—but I could see them
watching every motion out of
the
corner of their eyes. A few days later
one old man decided to try It, nnd
soon he was getting so much more
done In a dny than the rest that he
was the talk of the town.”
“ The problem of restoring French
soli,” according to Mr. Fullerton’s of
ficial report, the result of three
months In the Alsne department at
the request o f the American commit
tee for devastated France, “ is one of
engineering. With the needed tractors
and Implements It can easily be
brought hack to Its original fertility.
Among none of the furmers did I find
the slightest pessimism about their
land. I noticed also that both men
and women had unusual mechanical
ability. They are hard workers, ns
well. It Is a common sight to see
men who have worked In factories
laboring In their kitchen gardens until
9 or 10 o’clock at night, making the
most of the long twilights.
His Only Salvation.
"The French countryman is a strong
Individualist. It Is with great diffi
culty that he Is persuaded to co-oper
ate In n community enterprise. The
present conditions, however, ninke this
his only snlvatlon. With the lack of
man-power nnd machinery It Is essen
tial that the furmers form themselves
Into agricultural syndicates.
The
American committee and the French
government are both fostering this
World’s Champion Tennis Team
The crack American players, W I I I imid T. Ttlden, second (light), and Wil
liam Johnson In action at Wimbledon, England. They won the Davis cup and
lawn tennis championship of thj world through their victory over the French
players at Wimbledon.
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It Cost $6,403,343,481
(to Run U. S. for Year
Washington. — The
govern
ment’s ordinary expenditures
for the fiscal year, ending June
30, amounted to $0,403,343,481,
according to a preliminary state
ment Issued by the treasury.
Payments on the public debt
amounted
to
$17,038,030,723,
making the grand total for the
period covered $23,441,3S3.2t>4.
The war department led In the
ordinary expenditures, disburs
ing $1,010,587,380, with $1,030,-
072,157 charged to federal con
trol of railroads next. The navy
ranked second among depart
ments, expending $730,021,450
nnd the slipping board third
with $530,505,04R
Ordinary expenditures were
heaviest In July, 1010, when
$070,273,570 wns spent, nnd
lightest In February, when they
totaled $295,457,433.
system, and the former’s work, with
the loaning of tractors, has met with
u grent deal of success.
“ The Inhabitants of the devastated
regions ure In urgent need of shelter,
and next to that variety o f food, eggs,
milk, etc., nnd domestic farm animals.
For the tilling of the soli, they need
most a good supply of hand or small
motor-driven cultivators and seed-
drills, to he hnndled on a community
basis and directed by practical agri
culturists in the various localities. Ths
use o f the tractors, which has already
proved of great value, should be con
tinued.”
Mr. Fullerton went to France Inst
April nccompnnled by his daughter.
He confined Ills tour to the Alsne dis
trict, living In the town of Bleran-
court, where the pair occupied a house
used ns division headquarters by the
Germnns. Mr. Fullerton’s main work
wns to establish a model demonstra
tion farm, Introduce American tools
nnd Investigate conditions.
The character of the French soil,
weather conditions and articles of
food In the Alsne area Mr. Fullerton
has discussed at length In a separata
report submitted to President Peters of
the Long Islnnd railroad, for which
road, by the way, he conducts a dem
onstration farm at Medford, L. I.
Fine Grain Country.
"This northeastern section," the re
port reads, “ Is u superb grain coun
try. Wheat, rye and oats are very vig
orous, stalks and heads large and well-
filled; apples and pears are fa ir; on
ly one variety of grapes, but vigor
ous; lettuce, sugar beets, asparagus,
Swiss chard, pens, broad beans and
carrots all fine; string beuns, onion
and cabbage all fair; no corn grown
at a ll; grass, such ns red top, meadow
grass and fescues, very vigorous, In
cluding red, white and crimson, or
Swiss clover. Therefore cattle do
well and much cheese Is made. The
farms run mainly from three to fifteen
acres, cultivated often and with pains
taking care. Intensive work Is the
rule.
“ The country Is much like Ohio,
long, gentle rolls and many small
streams which the French call rivers.
The soil Is o f the clay loam type, very
tenacious when wet nnd hnvlng many
small lumps when rendy for planting.
Much lime, mostly In fossil shell form,
with henvy applications of thoroughly
rotted munure, tells the story.
"The rainfall was only about twenty
Inelics but extremely well distributed,
with brief, gentle showers at Intervals.
Dewfall nnd mist were continuous;
there were no gullies or washouts on
hillsides on account of the presence of
heavy rains.
“ Bread Is made mostly of nixed
dark
flour.
Radishes,
constantly
munched In the field and at home,
cheese, salads o f many wild plants,
chard nnd sugar beet tops are the
main food. Chicory c o f f e e once a day,
with light, sour, red wine, diluted
one-half In water. The people In the
devested nrea are patient, cheerful
nnd persistent, slow moving hut con
stantly. plodding.”
Parla to London Flights Grow.
Paris, France.—The Matin calls at
tention to the recent Increase In aerial
navigation, saying that there were 372
flights between Paris and London dur
ing Juna.