" OREGOV KTATIWIAN: TrnrKSnAT, F3IRFART 14. 1918
;J5? HEN RULING
': j " i . i i 4.'
Gratitude Is Expressed That
-i 'IT ' f a t - s
UEsraiiiariie i.nirifpn
Are Affected
By W. C. COWGILL,
The fluttering of chicken wing3
" could he heard all over the city yes
terday, when the growers and me"-
cnanis learned, of the newest law
'laid down by the government In tha
' matter of handling liens and pullets.
Telegraphic advices received by
Pood Administrator W. B. Ayer In
Portland from Washington, are In
the way of a modification of the first
orders sent out, in that a hen that
does not earn her board ran be soil
between now and April 30. The rul
ing In full follows:
"Yesterday's alteration of the or
: iglnal order: gives the farmer an J
: Tgower the privilege of killing and
marketing hens and pullets which
are not laying" eggs." It is provided
- only that, they must, before killing
j. any considerable quantity of theso
. fowls, consult the requirements of
the market to be supplied and rov-
i crn ; the supply , according to exist-
Ing demand. It will be, permissible
10 market the fowle supplied by the
growers to Buch places as the public
,marKtis or Portland, it Is said.
- "As the matter now stands: th
, licensed dealers. In 'poultry. Includ
ing ail wno do a gross annual bust
Bess of $10,000 or more, must turn
-to" the raucns rooster and his imma
,ture brother, the cockerel, for tha
.supply of fresh "chicken" they ban
. "I am very glad to know that thi3
chicken, business has been put on a
oetter oasis and It Is. a good thing.
'Any old hen that will not earn her
board, and .keep, like a dairy cow,
snouia De sold to the butchers," said
,vv. jratts.- , , . .
The. whole thine fa In line with nil
the other, conservation orders, and
win no oouot result Jn .cheaper cold
storage eggs this season.
branches of th rnuntrv'a war artlvl-
ties. The flaa - will contain about
thirty stars.' - ' - ,-
The dedicatory address will be de
livered by Rev. Father E. V..O'Jlara
of Portland,' and all persons, regard
less of religious belief, are cordially
invited to W present-? Father Buck,
pastor of St. Joseph's, has set the
hour at l:3o. p. m.. so that the cere
monies- will not interfere with the
union celebration iofi Lincoln's and
Washington's birthdays at the arm
ory, which is set for 2:30.
Father 0Hara is noted as one of
the very able and interesting pulp't
and platform speakers of the1" state
and the local pastor is delighted to
be able to procure his services for
this event, believing that the people
of Salem and. vicinity will be pleased
to bear him. There will be special
patriotic music. j
FARM OR FIGHT
SAYS LECTURER
California Professor Adopts
Canada Slogan in Address
' to Farmers
WALLACE WRITES
FROM FRANCE
liable School Papib
' Observe Labor flay
SCOTTS MILfS, Of.. Ueh. 13
(Special to The Statesman.) Arbor
day, v was observed . Friday . by
oy A.ue pupils which was enjoyed by
.those present.. Cookies and punch
was served After the program..
Miss Pauline Semolke . of Salem
spent the week-end visiting relatives
at Noble. . ;
. Quite a crowd from Scotts Mills
and Noble attended the drama given
at Crooked Finger by the young peo
ple of that , place. . , v t , X
I- . If nlirfni At . '
, ' - uiiuoun vi 1 uruana was a
week-end visitor at the Brougher
home. . .
' ' r, 4)1 .ycyfjy ,1111 UC9
Vanr V Cllvartnn Vn..J.. 1 f
- ness. . '; 1
Dr." and Mrs. G. C. Bellinger and
children and, Mr. and Mrs. Paul V.
T II1UKU b LM V Uvl
linger home Sunday.''
' Bm . To "Mr. and Mrs.. E.
Coulson, at their home. Sundar. Feb
ruary 10. 1918 ' a. rfanhfa
Miss Katherine Gnnnell of Salem
epent the week-end visiting her
mot Her at Crooked Finger.
Mrs. Lewis Russell of Marlon Is
Tisumg ber parents, Mr:" and M
J. A. Taylor. "
wurer crougner was in Sllverton
Miss Bessie Atkins went to Port
land Friday, where ehe will visit her
sister a few days. "
J. Snow of Salem visited at the
Frasure home over Sunday.
u. wrpfl cuzrcn iriu
Dedicate Servict Flag
Next Sunday afternoon at St. Jo
seph's church will be dedicated a
beautiful service flag in honor of the
young, men . of the Salem Catholic
parish who are serving In the several
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Feb. 13.
"Farm or Fight," one of Canada's
slogans, was urged upon the farmers
of California today Tsy Dean Thomas
r . nuni 01 ine university 01 v.
fornia's college of agriculture, in an
Only Way to Bring Peace Is
. To Whip Germany - Into i
' .' It, He Says
Followinet are extracts from two
letters written to hid-liome Tolks by
Lieutenant Paul H. Wallace of Sa
lem, who is with Company L (th
Dallas, company). 162d .infantry.
AmericanY expedftionary force, in
France: .
FRANCE. Jan. fi. 1918. We are
nicely quartered, the captain, one
lieutenant and myself are located in
a French home, where the man
speaks no English. However, he 13
a wonder at conversation in French.
He will come in and make a long
speech to the captain and the captaia
will reply, with quite a lenghty ad
dress in English and both seem sat
isfied.1 although neither has under
stood a word. '
The air is full of rumors as usual,
but we pay 'no attention to them,
depending on our news on the Paris
edition of the New York Herald,
which gives quite a good review of
the day's doings.
Jan. 3, 191 8 We have been here
long enough to get started Into the
routine, our work being more or less
like it was In the states. . I think.
however, with reports of those clear
address to,;, ranchers, assembled to days on the "border," how I would
hear the country's" call for increased
farm, production. Dean Hunt told
his audience how : the farmers of
Canada had 'responded to calls cf
war without Introducing? an appre
ciable amount of foreign labor, and
this despite the heavy drains on the
man power of Canada, by three years
of war.
like to camp again for a week in
that lovely southern ' California cli
mate, where we used; to go to bed
with the tent walls rolled up and li?
and look at the clear, starry sky.
and oh, how soundly we would sleep!
I have an idea that something of the
same is on the way for us here: they
say the winter Is over In March, and
A patriotic rally was arranged here today as 1 walked down town I
today, business and professional men
of the city; laying aside their affairs
and uniting, with the farmers in wel
coming Dean Hunt. The latter, who
has recently returned from Canada,
declared that the United States must
prepare to do all that its neighbor
has none.) (Canada, he sals, lias
maintained one-fourth of her men in
the 'army and in war work, has in
creased her acreage 40 per cent and
her production 4 6. per cent.' and also
has maintained nn Immense army on
her own soil and doubled her food
products. .This, said Dean Hunt, has
been done y sacrifices, and the Unit
ed? States mnst prepare to do the
same. : . i. . .
A portion of the lecture was de
voted to an explanation of the steps
by which j Canada has managed to
thought I could sense quite a trace
of spring in the air just ; a little
softening - such as we get at home.
aboufthe! time" the first "pussy wil
lows' begin, to bloom. I went to
chure today. ' I had noticed a little
chapel where English services were
held (according to a sign over the
door), where I listened to an elo
quent address in French. It was
then that my years of training came
into play and I put on my church
face and sank into a comatose state
until the final i)-ayer. The preacher
was a realy fluent speaker and said
some very complimentary thmss of
the United States aV least I played
it was complimentary, r There were
only a jhandful of, people; present
about a dozen soldiers, Y.. M. C. A.
men of our crowd, a few French
depository, from which we will take
as much as we can; second, as a en
rioelty. on which we will look with
interest; third, as "an opportunity
for service. ' ,'
Our minister says that he is glad
God did not say, "Be thou euccesa
ful unto tleath," but said "Be thou
faithful nnto death." In the eyes of
beaven, faithfulness is success.
Our zninisted says that sin is a
delirium, and that the man who is
rowing wild oats actually does not
realize what he Is doing.
Our minister says there are a
great many people who criticise th
church for vha"r they jhink it is, not
tor what It really.is; they have only
a long-distance acquaintance with
the church, end do not know what it
really is, nor what It is doing. .
Our minister says that if you mul
tiply the height of your love for God
by the breadth of your sympathy for
man you rill find the area of your
soul.
Our minister says some people
loave all the religious duties to
lather and mother, but they wouldn't
leave some other things to them, lie
says. If mother prays for you. and
father pays for you, why don't yo-i
lot them eat for you?" Religion by
proxy will never take anyone
through the gates of beaven.
Our minister says there are 450.
000 -words in the dictionary, so Jie
thinks there are, plenty of them to
express all our thoughts without us
ing profanity.
Our minister says that the root
of all evil is selfishness, and the
cure is love.. r Mary Starck
RUSSIA LONGS
FOR MONARCH
Correspondent Asserts Coun
try Is SickBut Will Re
cover Soon
AWSTKRDAM. Feb 13. The Ber
un lageblatt's correspondent Leon
Aaeil. tQleeraDhiner from th
DARING AVIATOR
HOLDS INFANTRY
FROM ASSAULT
Stirring Story of "Guardian
Angel" at Cambrai Comes
to Light
' '
BRITISH PLANES DIVES
Bombs Dropped Among Ad
vancing Germans and '
Scores vAre Slain
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Jan.
2.r. -(CorresKndence of the Asso
ciated Press.) A stirring story of
how one dainy British aviator, like
a guardian angel, held up for a whole
day repeated enemy attacks upon a
weak and crumbling British' line at
Cambrai in th height of the desper
ate struggle there by using four air
planes one after another as they
were torn and crippled by enemy fire
nas just come to light.
It shows that some of the most
daring and dangerous airplane work
of the past year has been In the new
field of ; attacking enemy infantry
from the air. ,
; The Germans were trying toN-e-eover
a portion of the lost Hinden
burg line, pushing with a great
weight1 of men and eruns at a point
where it was very difficult for the
British to bring up reserves. The
British battalion opposing rne attack
had rone to earth in little 'isolated
groups among the shell holes, grimly
determined to hang on to the end.
The German masses -had already
moved' across No Man's Land into
ine nattered eartnworss that once
The Boys in the
ARMY
Austrian war press headquarters last formed the British firing line. Other
whHrX Bia8 conrernInK Russia's masses were movinr up in support.
v its s-iic? war;
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increase production with lessened Te- youn)? pp and fIve woraen abpve
serves of labor,. - The worklne day
has been lengthened he said: men
have been shifted from non-essential
middle . age; four of these were 1 In
deep mourning; The first mail ramp-
yesterday and made quite a comm
&?UlZtVZZ-g tlon. but It proved to be onlv ? sack
from the cities, soldiers .furloughed
from camps, and women from homes
have all aided in production, with
the result that it has Increased whil
st the same time Canada has sent
f overseas an : Army "proportionate by
population to one of five million men
from the United States.
- The meeting here- todamy was one
of ' the 'l first s of a series at which
Dean" Hnnt will speak, and which
will enable him to : carry , word of
what lie observed in Canada to al
of packages. What the 3r s aU
wanted was letters. There Is a ru
mor current a carload of mail came
In today, and the men can hardly
waiL For -my own - part. I got a
copy of The Statesman, and felt like
being at home again. The old fa
miliar , ads were like . imeeting so
many people whom one passes every
day In the "old town." It sounded
quite naturel to learn that : Mrs.
William Burghardt hsd decorated
the Commercial club rooms: that
NEW TODAY
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
JCOR SALE-YEARLY OHIOSEEU
potatoes, 2c pound. Onions, lic
pound, tn smalt or large quantities.
-Bring your own sacks... Farmers'
Products Co., 160 South High
street, phone 10. j
, r,. . M-wm ' j Mrs. Fish had read some choice bits
oi vaurornia, 4.. land that Mlu fiM withrMmhA
had served the nnnrh. whirh T have
1,VJ lVIJ!l.., tno doubt was loranberty. T nm ieet-
Contentmeht "Is the 'cnrse of the! ting better and better acauafnted
medlocreAif ;i ;-;f fh with the men of Company L. The
The man who -wantsnothinff gets more I know them, the better X like
exactly whaf.e. wants nothing, . them. They are a Tine, manly hunch
w nen ne ceased to covet tno Im- j or Oregon boys, and when I get home
possible and unattainable, he stands j I! fancy I will quite enjoy driving
on me? onn it ox, senility and 'decay, over to Dallas to spend an evening.
His end will be mental and . moral I The talk of peace draes on until I
paralysis.? 1 ,t -j-,-- ' I tire of reading. It seems as if It
Ttoe only preventive of retrorres- i might develoo Into i a rrand talk
sion jb-progression. I rest. For my part I can see onlv
ii is sai a or . Jierscbel, the great two ways to peace firr to whin
astronomer, that -when he was .a Oermany until sh cknowledfrt
iuiuu no area to cry ror the moon. I Jierseir Deaten: mvnnA. a rarman
auu ius Diograpper adds that "wben revolution. -However, neither of
ne oecame a man he eot it- with itnese events seems to me to h nvoiv
i.u uu ana stars tarown in." . A.nd n ine immediate future.
mat was Decause-.be never ceased to
cry for the moon.
. When you are satisfied with vnnr
place the world will be perfectly sat- little use - for the
lsnea 10 jieave jou In that place.
When ; man became -dissatisfied
witn Ws tent he built a house
OUR MINISTER RAYS. "
Our minister says God has very
religion of the
four corners the religion of pom
posity and pride but He has a ereaf
deal of nA for uih niiH. .
When he grew tired of the ox team closet" rm th iLion , 1.1 1
he constructed a railroad. I obedience to Til. iw
When the mails were too slow fori Our minUto eava . . .3 1.
communication he invented the tel- believe that opportunity come, once
1 1 tr- sunn dhj. ai 1 Tiiar - 1 r
i. foMnt Placed on the map knocks at our door eery morning,
Is the discovery of. some Rninmlm titw. tM.t. i.". "6
. 1 . . . - uiuk, uv uciietch iiiai we
WniIa rtd : Ult 'ltoOSfU,1? By to oat aQd opportunity!
Wmian .Pavenport In Forbes Maga- Our minister says there are three
- ui xuuniuK Bi.iiie: rirst. as a
'
. . 1 - A 1
Long before Trotsky's declara
tion of peace, the Russian demob
ilization had begun. On .the Zk-
and already the nearest shell holes
were- heaving and boiling over with
the rests ws heads and., shoulders Of
men about to renew-4 he advance.
;r;HTLrJU.e; IO?i Jhe barrage of the British guns was
n : ,V,T ?eavy.-nut ar close quarters only In
who made the last effort to brpak fanirv T.tt.w
4 V a w , I iUV'lUTT 11 VHI (UQ II
l"e "uroanian rront but was shell holes, hart drown went nrf
'. , ....... ' ' ' x ' ' ! ' " : ' "' ' "
repulsed there and crossed the Aus
man frontier, near Radautz.
Sytin who' is a grizzled veteran.
saia .10 me:, ,'Jiussia is very sick.
lise a , near which has had a hard
whack 00 the head she has lost much
blood,. But she is only stunned and
will soon recover. RuSsia soon will
have another monarch ial govern
menL Believe m that is what Rus
sia is longing for. i
rtAs for enineand Trotzky. I like
them personally. It is very interest
ing to talk with' thera about big
worm pro oiema in-iront of a cozy
straggling. It looked as If the scanty
Kritisb line would be overwhelmed
by sheer, weight of numbers.
" British Plan IMves.
The - fire from fhe - Germans In
creased until the air was aliv with
their bullets. It was the concentrat
ed fire which ? always : precedes the
rush to ' close 'qirarters. The bitted
gray figures' were already, Wginning
to appear above the shell holes, their
loose flapping uniforms and hideous
gas masks giving them the annear-
anee of demons, when suddenly into
fire; but yon cannot do anvthinir V.'" K m?J 01 &lu inere
w4th them in the practical affairs of u"Fif tv feet fm thl
Las dSf iVi' B;aheVikl tenFedte:ndfTk"da,ed SonTth" "ft
has done is the abolition of secret a 1 v C?
anB. ui me BiiarK, n came
skimming back like a swallow charg-
on a new machine, encouraging the
British infantry by his example, and
scattering death and confusion
among their foes.
He was flying his fourth machine
when darkness settled down, .putr
ting an end to the conflict, with the
Hermans securelv eheeVL
WOMEN PROVE
MORE ORIGINAL
Excuses to Avoid Doing Jury
Duly Easily Framed, Says
Commissioner
it is by Ao mere chance the
Ukraine was. the first territory' to
make peace. The Ukraine is most
strongly anti-Bolsheviki and the
movement will" r. soon assume still
more tangible shape
BRITAIN'S FOOD
SUPPLY KEPT UP
Million Additional Acres Are
Put Under Plow; Wheat
" Acreage Big
ONDON, Feb. IS. Andrew T?nnar
Law, chancellor of the exchequer and I
government ! leader in the house of
commons, replying to criticisms of
tbe government with respect to its
nome policy. --said that in 1917 the
ing a swarm of flies, its machine
guns enfilading the advaiXins: foe
and drivf-g him back to his burrows.
A storm of German bullets swent
through (Mie pl&neo. and a. btack
flame-centered burst of enemy shrap
nel smothered the airplane in vapor.
The watching infantry saw splinters
fall from its quiverintr frame and
the silvery fabric of the underwings
was torn in several places by shell
splinters. But the daring pilot fin
ished his course and vanished Into
the smoke clouds, leaving the panic
sincxen enemy clinging to his sheel
holes too shaken and thinned to
press the attack further.
Little by little, however, the Ger
man supports came up, advancing by
short rushes over the open, reinforc
ing their comrades by twos and
threes in spite of British fire. Scores
and scores of their dead littered No
Man's Land, but eraduallv the
strength of the attacking line was
made good, and the shell . hoiea
again began to heave and"' boil, as
TnJi01 8eICdADrDlent(! put mon ros fon the lower cover- 'and
UWO-LcTli
IS'-'THIS;
YptHOUSE?
Only the passers-by! will kiow if you have a placard
your houie, but Thousands will see if you uie a
on
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Ji:HE
Oregon Statesman
215 5. Commercial Phone 23
into, the army' 820,645 additional
men and Dlacetf in mn1nT rnpnr at
home 731,000 men and 804,000 wo
men
Referring to the food ttroduction.
ne tsaia that th cereals oronuced In
. " . r
rngiana in 1317 amounted to 850,
000 tons.-and In addition, the mim
try had produced an extra 3.000,000
ions or potatoes.
England." said the chancellor, was
the only, country iJn thexwar where
tdere bad not been a diminution In
tooa productidn: A million addition
al, acres , were Ageing .put under the
v -niuTi;u m bogiana ana
IOW
400
land. The total stocks of wheat in
Great, Britain at the end of Decern-
oer, is j 7. exceeded those at the end
or ..December. 1916, by 1,000,000-
quarters. ,
In ldi 7 there 'was built in Great
Britain. 1.163,474 tons -j of shipping
" iu.wuo tons were obtained from
anroad -The chancelldr exolained
laid hold of the rims to assist them
over the top.
Bombs Hit Infantry. ;
Then suddenly they were over and
away, little spurts of humanity belch
ed out or tne crater field, coalescing
into a seething blue-erav. rtiKhintr
mass, hopelessly out weiehine tb
handful of British defender Hn
before lhe mas could . gain full mo
mentum, a familiar snoring hum
sounded above the din of battle, and
out of the low-lying haze swept cov
ering airpiane, a new machine but
threw with the same' pilot as be-
tnrt TTIa KaiiiK. .
r000TmorT 1"" SS
.000 more in Scotland and Ire-1 who manoH th fiiC
. r "J "ft laRlilCUM,
and hl3 machine guns swept th.em
out of sight in the shell holes.
A half-hour passed.., and aeaJn ih
enemy attempte to: attack, this time
hesitatingly and with diminishing
spirit. Again the airplane
and the first rattle of his guns sent
iue uerroans into cover untn
,. . . . wiiue unuu . Gown In
Ahat the premier's estimate of ship drive him away, but another Briton
" a" .p i macmne irom the protecting patrol
cause the government had arranged I came down on the Cermsn'. n
to nave a large quantity of tonnage and sent him catwheeflnr behind his
Pullt In America, but when America I own lines. Th .r. mi... n...
fhTRiiMwthe V2r."he Pre?. machines in the offing, btft the
the British would have preferred, to watchful British fighters made the
take the . tonnage herself. But the enemy airmen .by of Sr their
tondage .was there. titude and the daring n.lu l,?L
i . j.uBjr hub w laoDi runner infstfm...
aw said that, in soite of the dlmu- Many times he swept down on the
wrva anu. in spue oi me i uermans mat day. tnimnHn.
SAN FRANCISCO, CaHf, Feb. 12.
Women- show greater originality
than men In the matter of. framing
excuses to avoid dolnsr lurr dutv ac
cording to Jury Commissioner Th6m
as S. Mulvey, who has been' listen
ing to thousands of reasons offered
by men and women why they should
be excused. . . ' . ' s . .
-: A number of women', have done
what . mere man, who . perhaps has
had , more experience with courts,
has not dared to do. They have
sought to avoid Jury duty by the slmi,
pie process of ignoring the sum
mons. Included among these are a
number of women who are officials
of various federation and civic or
ganizations. - These will get a sec
ond summons and if they fail to re
spond, their names will-be put in a
jury box and they will be subject
to call for. service. '
One woman wrote to Mulvey that
she thought she ought to be excused
as her "sixteenth child Is ill and the
eighteenth is. less than six months
old.'' Another sai"i shVd 'Must love
to serve" but her husband "wouldn't
ever consent." - .
Another-fair! voter summoned re
plied on perfumed- stationary
through her secretary, that she Just
couiun t possibly spare .the time.
Commissioner Mulvey says she was
one of the club women, who wrote
him several Weeks ago demanding
mat a per cent of the -1918 i Jury
panei u comppsea or women.
pea-dints," continued M. Clemenceau.
"to suppose that they would haggle
over the six or seven week k work;
that we demand." : a
The number of men wanted Is' un-.
aerstood to be 200,000 and their
work is generally thought to be pre
paring defenses against the expected
great German offensive ' in the
spring. .. . t. . : -. ' .
SOLDIERS ETJJOY
POPULAR MM
- -.
Gminunity Recreation Ser
vice. Recognized Pactor in.
- U California :
fact that , Great Britain had
1,509,000 gross tons for them In I fire. rpnHarin . "2 . "
which fUoM, t, w ta . m ;?tr "t" " ne,r p-
' w viuvcu buu ciLiuiia iiiiiin-iiii l r m. - - m.
T, oauMd ?0st of the raUli- often rocking madly in the air rusts
ties at the aviation earn m ihnni I fmm . ' ,,: r?"1
Fort Worth. performing wileX
Now that Holland has , abolished se7che5 to, hi
we Bve-o clock tea, a social rupture times his aimlnr w. ' IZWZl
with Great Britain might be exnected l dimimit v. T
" - - - a wuib. ii il vurn wi m dm ma . a
m ui a up k w i ii r n rMm
- --www m vs
PEASANTS ARE
FULL OF FAITH
French Trust Their President
5 in all Things, Chamber
Is Told t
: -
hep.. 13. George Cle
menceau tne premier, told a little
story to the chamber the other da v
to i.iiwimie nis own confidence in
the peasants of France. lie had Just
told the .house that., as the com
mander In chief had argent need of
Rome inousanas or men ttf do certain
work Just behind the first lines, he
would have to call out men of the
nasse or iso and 1881, that is men
of 46 and 47 who had Wn mi....:i
from military service to work on the
.-uu. jjiey would lie .needed for
January and February; when their
wor at nome was of Jjss impor
tance. : ... . . .
'!'Bght op ,n the midst of peas
ants." he said. "I know- their devo
tion, courage and 1
vll t Paants in my native
iS?.6 ?uhaT iad ur sins
Killed, a fifth made nri.rna .
h .tlU at thm ,ront- e of them
came to me. with
and said. ' "
weir?10 " oIng to end
!?" ? And h9? I "aid that I was
wouia, ne, said: .'Then I
sure It
will glre everything.
EOS ANGELES. Feb. 5 War
Camp Community Recreation Service-has
become a recognized factor ,
in the lives of many commissioned
w A .il.li.,. j . .......
cmieieu men. on auty in this
part of the state, according to their
own expressions of appreciation.
A recent manifestation nf hl
type of work, has been the popular
ity accorded the "Durout Mr
Merideth Woodward's own hame for
ner ifonywood home, which she
throws ODen to tAe soldiers earn
Sunday. Mrs. Woodward ias organ
ized a grou p of you it g matrons and
mams wno-assist ner each week In
entertaining! all the men Ja khaki
or blue who come seeklnif recrea
tion. Music Is Provided bv vnlnn-
teers; the simplest of refreshments
are at hand for those who want
themf and absence of formality and
presence of cordial cheerfulness are
the chief elements that draw KM res
of men to her home weeklv v ;
The plan has become so popular
that the soldiers have rechristened
the "Dugout.? They call U the
"Young Soldiers' Home."
On a recent Sunday, representa
tives of nine allies .were in the vari
ous groups that spent a portion of
the day at the "Dugout." Members
of the British, TValian. French, Bel
gian and Japanese consulates called,
a Polish recruiting agent dropped in.
commissioned officers of the Russian !
and Serbian armies, and an Ameri
canized ' Chinese, also on . furlough
callers while scores of Americans In
cluding types from New England,
the southland the far west were
mingled with the allied soldiers. . -
The community service has also
done much work here in equipping
the Y. M.rC. A. cnarters atNjearby
forts and cantonments with amTme
menU and musical devices, books
and other needed materials that
could not have been supplied other
wise without much delay.
. A JIOTAL KRIU)IC
A well-known provincial paper In
England makes itself responsible for
the following story: '
' The tramcar waa hoDeleslw over
crowded, . and several nonnla whn
had achieved thv upper deck,' were
transposing all regulations by .
standing,
'Here, you," shouted the conduct
or with emphasis, "you con't stand
on top." -
Well" sad , aim ikmii. . .m.i.
. - . Dill,.
Ing blandly as he neered dnwn th i
steps, "we are standing whether we
19 11 aw ... A ....' . ' .
The girl answered nothlnr. hat
promptly pressed the button. Thn
m m Mm - . a m -
vasr juuiDeu i or warn onrt ha iiterii.
Jst involuntarily took a seat on the
xioor.
"There." said th vt snnonx
in complete good humor, quoting the
'irr m a ramoua nhr "n
think
Christian Science Monitor.
Yon Should 7crry - Let ths
would J,e an Insult to iucJi 1 Chified Adl Tint tcT Yc