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GERALDINE FARRAR As The Immortal Maid of Orleans, in JOAN THE WOMAN' it 12,000 Feet Exquisite Photography, Full of Thills, Heart Interest and Patriotism LIBERTY THEATRE, ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHTS August 31st, September 1st One Show Each Night 10 Reels-Admission: 25c. and 50c, Logo Seats 75c.--10 Reels CRUELTY m LUST: WEAPONS OF HUNS Conquered Peoples Shamefully Treated for Advantage of the German State. Prussian Officers Callously Tell How Starvation and Abuse Are Made to Serve Their Purpose Cap tive Women Made Siaves. This I have seen. I could not believe it unless I had seen It through and through. For sev eral weeks I lived with It; I went all about It and back of it; inside and out of it was shown to me until finally I came to realize that the incredi ble was true. It is monstrous, It Is unthinkable, but It exists. It Is the Prussian system. F. C. Walcott. No more graphic description of the ravages of the German soldiery upon the civilian population of Invaded countries has been Riven than Is con tained In the brief and simple state ments of F. C. Walcott, now connected with the United States food adminis tration, who was assistant to Mr. Hoover while America was feeding Belgium, Poland and northern France. In one of these statements Mr. Wal cott says: Even now I find It hard to describe In comprehensible terms the mind of official Germany, which dominates and shapes all German thought and action. Tet It la as hard, as dear-cut, as real as any material thing. I saw It In Poland, I saw the same thing in Ilel gtam, I heard of It in Serbia and Itou luauia. For weeks It was always be fore me, always the same. Officer talked freely, frankly, directly. All the staff officers have the same view. Let me try to teil It, as General von Krie8 told me, In Poland, In the midst of a dying nation. Germany Is des tined to rule tin. world, or at least a great part of It. The German people ara ao much human material for build ing the German state, other people do not count. All I for the glory and might of the German gate. The Hyj nor tomeri of human beings ara to be conserved tn Pittsburgh! oniy ir ii muxes ror tne stai s ad vancement, their lives are to be sacri ficed if It Is to the state's advantage. The state la all, the people are noth ing. Conquered people signify little In the German account. Life, liberty, happiness, human sentiment, family ties, grace and generous Impulse, these have no place beside the one concern, the greatness of the German state. Starvation rnifst enite no pity; sym pathy must not be allowed. If It ham pers flip muln design of promoting Germany's ends. "Starvation is hr In Helglum, General von Hissing told me exactly the same thing. "If the relief of Itclglum breaks down we can force the Industrial population In to Germany through starvation and colonize other Hclijluns In Mesopo tamia where wo hpvo planned lnrge irrigation works; Germans will then overrun Helglum. Then when the war Is over and freedom Is given back to Belgium, It will be a German Helglum that is restored. Belgium will he a German province and we have Ant wer which Is what we are after." That Is not all. Bemovlng the men, that the land may be vacant for Ger man occupation, that German stock may replace Belgians, Poles, Serbians, Armenians, and now Houmnnlans, Ger many does more. Women left caplive are ensluved. Germany makes all manner of lust Its Instrumentality. The other day a friend of mine told me of a man Just returned from north ern France. "I cannot tell you the de tails," he said, "man to man, I don't want to repeat what I heard." Some of the things he did tell -shocking matllntlOfl and moral murder, lie told of women, by the score, In occupied territory of northern France, prisoned in underground dungeons, tethered for I he use of their bodies b.v ufflt ers and men. If this Is not a piece of the Prussian system, it la the logical product of dis regard of ihc rights of others. RETURN TO WAGER OF BATTLE Germany bus limited the amount that prisoners 'nay apt ml to flfi a uirk for Officers and 112X0 for private. GOOD-BY TO THE CRUTCHES Artificial Limbs So Cleverly Devised That Legless Men Have No Diffi culty In Walking. von Krles. "Candidly, we would like to see It relieved; we fear our soldiers may be unfavorably affected by the things thut they see. But since It Is here, starvation must serve our pur pose. So we set It to work for Ger many. i!y starvation wo can accom plish In two or three years in Baal Poland more than we have In West Poland, Which Is Fast Prussia, In the last hundred years. With that In view, we propose to turn tills force to our advantage. "This country is meant for Ger many," continued the keeper of starv ing Poland. "It Is a rleh alluvial country which Germany has needed for seine generations. We propose to remove the able-bodied working Poles from this country, ll leaves II open for the Inflow of German working peo ple as in: i as we can spare thero. They will occupy II and work It." 'I hen with u cunning smile, "Can't you see iu., it works out! By and by w shall givti back freedom to Poland, Winn thai happens Po and will appear automatically as German province." There need lie no legless soldiers to hobble pitifully along the streets after this war. An American army surgeon has devised a new type of artificial leg which can be manufactured by Pncle Sam for shout KM and which will almost perfectly reproduce the ac tion of a natural leg. even If the sol dier has only s stump left, ll means good-hy to crutches, declares the New York Fventng Post. This remarkable triumph of Ameri can Inventlfe genius was described st the New York Academy of Medicine by MaJ. P. B. Magnuson. medical re scrve corps, n member of the surgeon general's staff. The artificial leg described by the surgeon Is the Invention of MaJ. Pit- vld Silver, another medical reserve of- a practicing physician "This artificial leg Is of a type far ahead of anything that has been devel oped abroad as s result of the war." Major Magnuson said. "It Is a better substitute for s natural leg than the government has ever been able to ob tain heretofore for I1m each, and if can he made for a quarter of that price. In this one thing alone Doctor Silver has earned his salarv as major." The Invention has been successfully used by a man with both logs ampu tated. Crutches are unnecessary, The foot has a Jointed hasten anil a rub , her luce which reproduces i lie natural said General I movements with astonishing success Warfsre of the Future Likely to Be Restricted to Comparatively Few Combatants. A ilav, not far removed, may come when the embattled hosts of rival na tions will give place to a wage of battle to decide the conlllct. The bat tle will then be confined to the com batants alone without violent Interfer ence with the peaceful pursuits of nnncomhntnnts or destruction of their property. First, however, we must evolve great engines of destruction, so per fect thai ll few skilled heroes will di rect each one of them. These war ma chines will be so cosily that only a few great powers will have the re sources to construct and maintain them. Wise legislation and skillful systems of taxation will be necessary to organize the whole people for their npport, A chosen few. picked from the whole nation, will man them, men in the full vigor of their strength, physically perfect to omluro the terri ble strain, and powerful "of brain to meet and rarmounl every Intricacy of mechanics and every difficulty of strategy, Aleve all. these hero supermen must be of such unswerving character that they will, day In and day out, Without surcease, devote their unflag ging zeal to the great task of defend ing the civilization for which Ihey con tend, i he evolution nun the increas ing economic burden of maintenance of this machinery win make war the luxury of the most powerful states and will cause the area of war con stantly to recede. Small nations will no longer be able to maintain military establishments, and eventually the mll- Mi.its nf men wlei flow I. utile llliori the field of honor will have been replaced by a contest among a few men In con trol of stupendous machinery.--Kllery C Stowell In the Century stagnate. 8rlf Education. Some of the best educated men nev er went to college. One of the most eminent geologists never went lo school, Many college and university graduates think they hae acquired the sum of human knowledge and rest OH their oars for the rest of their lives, white others win, inferior advantages pass them In the pursuit of know ledge. One of the best Informed men In the country, who became prominent In business and diplomacy, left school "ben Sixteen years of age to enter the services of n lirm of Knst India merchants In the id days of sailing vessels. e made many voyages round the Cape of Good Hope and devoted his lime on shipboard to sludy. He read every word in one of the encyclo pedias Of that day and learned seven or eight languages. In Ibis way he be came the best posted man whom the federal government could find In the lulled States for special diplomatic work. Whenever n subject arose In conversation with which he was unfa miliar he looked It up In some bonk Of reference and he said lie never for got what he reinl about a matter thai Interested him at (he rings, n,-. was a perfect system of self education. New York Commercial, I Bsyonet Work Brings In Body Armor. Civil war veterans who tell stories of bsyonet thrusts stopped b.v prayer- books In their pockets will be Interest ed In the discovery of s protection for our soldiers to wear In France which will turn a bayonet's point, says the Huston Post. The shields were Invent ed by Kverelt Puiihar of Lynn, a pa triotic citizen, who has turned his In vention over to the war department without making an attempt to patent It. Incidentally this opens s new field for volunteer woman workers, who can sew the cloth parts for the thin steel plates which are flexible and fit the body. J3L Chloroforming to Some Old Ssylngs. The Arctic explorer Stefansson who ought to know has knocked l he foun dation out of several old saings which had come to lie regarded as solid facts. Among other things he says authori tatively that frost bites cannot he remedied b.v rubbing snow on them; that there Is no harm In eating snow when you are thirsty; that P.sklmo houses are well ventilated and are not generally Ill-smelling. There's a year 'round season for Mapleine. Hot weather desserts, icings, war breads nnd puddings, or the hea vier food of winter, all are improved ini mennely ly adding jllSt H few dfOps of Mnplrine, which be en u He of its vegetable origin, blendd perfect ly with every kind of food. Every season of the year is just right for Crescent Mapleine Major Magnuson asserted that It would be hard to guess Unit a man was wear lug the support after he was practiced In Us use. Artificial hands and wrists were also described. BUCKHECHT ARMY SHOE A BtAu v?LH wk, r GUN METAL M r "" . Kfm -S- INWAM TAN FjOH Wp- CALF IS pi frJmf . yl - K9 ssPli; -'J3 V ' 'Vt BBBBBsVsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsiS Little Fat Makes Them Swell. A strange new disease has broken out In Germany, according to articles In Herman medical weeklies, summar ized In the Journal of the American Medical Association. The physicians J call it war edema. It manifests Itself j b.v a swelling of the lower extremities, laM often of the upper, Ihc face, and I the serous cavities. Unless permanent relief Is obtained It may last for mouilis. Apparently all the German writers attribute II In Ihc poor dlel that now prevails; excess of ca rhohyilrntcs and deficiency of fais. together with large quantities of water, as the food Is taken mostly In the form of soup. The cure Is rest In had nnd Hie ad (lltlnn of at least K) grains of fat lo l In- (lallv ration. The standard Army Shoe made from top-grade materials by top-notih woik mrn under expert supervision. All the snore reason why you .should inist on the BUCKNKHT Army Shoe and accept no othrr. Worn by thousands of men in all walks of life- office Men Attorney I'l'Vm. I..IH Hikers Farmer Orchard iat Motormen Conductor I boil . look tor the name Buckhpcht stamped on the -solo of every Shoe. Al your clnler't or if ho i not upp!i-l order direct from tit nrnnufin lur.r., Buckingham & llriht, Han Francure $;.50 $nr.50 6 to a D.I.. In MUmnmm Everybody likes to have his wages raised, nnd everybody feels n little thrill of pride when lie Is told he Is going to be paid more for his work. I ild you ever figure It otif thai you were being paid wages when you go to school, and can have them raised every month If you want to? Sure. You study, and that's work. You get paid for your work In knowledge. Sup pose this month you bring home a re port card which shows you have been only fair in arithmetic. That's not bad. Hut you wnnt your wages raised. So you work a little harder and next month the report Is good Instead of fair. You've had a salary Increase. Thai's the only way to look at It. From the American Hoy. DOI.I.AUH l Inn ( How Finns Keep Warm. In many ways the I'lnns an- a very queer people, as Is Illustrated by the Christian Herald. It Is during the terribly cold months that the I'lnns revel In the mighty ovi ns that fill one comer of erery kitchen and often loom up large and vastly Impressive In the other rooms of a Finn home as well. The tops of these monster stoves are perfectly Hat, and Mops lead up on one side. When the weather becomes bitterly cold and bleak, the entire family will take ipillls and pillow-' and, mounting to the top of the big neater, spread down their bedding and sleep very comfortably ami contentedly on the hard, hot bricks until morning. There are optimists. Alt are dreamers. And then- . tenr clairvoyants whose rosy look like the phantoms of , bolic tranos. Home of us believe that i war food prices will go hack t they were In 1 It 1 0 and earlh I say that the farmer gets to profit now but they do not that until lately he never got There Is only one class country in which most of u. Is entirely unpaid. A farnm and children constitute the i his working staff, but they an I the payroll a condition axil no other trade between II oceans. Vet ;i farmer Is as much a isf as an electrician. I fe m mui Ii scientific training as Mis employees must be skilled men, and they must be paid workmen's wages. If when the war Is over. v Unit the prices of farm product a tendency to stay where tb WS will all know that the An a farmer Is coining into his owi "The Stars and Stripes I'o will ring In tin- Kulser's ears The Service Garag We have a reputation for SERVICE to automobiles Repairs are made by mechanic who know their liuineH. They are made promptly and efficiently and yonr repair last eveiy screw ami nut in its place and properly adjusted. GASOLINE AND OILS! The beat grade of oil always oa hand and you are aiaured honest measure without adulteration. CARS STORED AND CARED FOR Well Equipped Vulcanizing Department Universal Garage Co. 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