TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JULY 11, 1918.
“HER BOY" A GIH
Supreme Sacrifice for Country
Made Willingly.
Spirit of American Women Manifested
In Statement of One Who Had Been
Called On to Give Up All
She Had.
Tt was In a Red Cross workroom
Somewhere in New York City. The
Limelight woman moved around among
the workers and talked incessantly.
“My boy has gone to France." she
said mournfully. “I can't get recon­
ciled. It doesn’t seem right for a
mother to devote years to the raising
of a boy only to have him snatched
away in the twinkling of un eye. I am
patriotic enough, goodnes knows—I am
willing to give everything, within rea­
son, to my country, but I can’t help
but be thnnkful that we were able to
get our other two boys exempted. I
think all mothers feel that way, don’t
you. Mrs, Smith? It's the ‘mother’ In
us.”
She wiped away some tears and
slowly rolled a bandage.
"It Is easy enough for those who
have no sons to preach these high
ideals," answered Mrs. South in sym- ■
pathy. "I am really not dependent
upon my son, but If I can keep him I
from going by putting In that claim, I
certainly shall do It. I think It is ev­
ery mother’s right to save her son for !
herself if she can. Don’t think I’m not
patriotic. I am working every minute
in some sort of war relief work. In- J
deed I have no use for these unpatri- 1
otic women. What do you think, Miss
Sawyer?”
A frail little woman In a chair by the ’
window looked up from her work with
glowing eyes.
"My boy Is In France, and I am glad
of It,” she said simply.
"Your boy?" came In voices tn uni- !
son.
“Yes, my boy. My sister died when I
Jack was two weeks old, and I have
hud him ever since. He was such a
dear little fellow, such a dependable
boy as he grew older, and such a com­
fort when he reached his manhood.
. . . He has been to me what
sweetheart, husband and children have
been to you. We were just beginning
to feel that life was easier when our
country entered the war. For three
evenings after the president’s war mes­
sage he sat without talking. I knew
what was on his mind, so the fourth
evening I told him not to think about
It any •more, but just go. He said:
‘But you, auntie, you deserve some
ease now. You have done so much for
me. and you have had such a hard
tight to make both ends meet.’ I said,
‘Nonsense, the light never hurt me.
What If the mothers of Washington
and Grant had wept and walled and
kept them at home? No, my boy. I
W’ant you always to do a man’s part,
no matter where It takes you or where
It leaves you.’ He has gone, and I am
glad that he has. I couldn’t bear to
have some other woman's boy protect­
ing me. If Jack does not come back,
I shall still be glad he went—for I
didn’t loan my boy to my country. I
gave him.”
There was silence In the workroom.
The Limelight woman was staring
straight ahead of her. Mrs. South hesi- i
tated for a moment, then leaned for­
ward and tenderly patted the work-
roughened fingers which stitched so
steadily.
"Thank you,” was all she said.
Ship» Must Have Wireless.
Every ocean steamer that leaves an
American port Is required by law to
have wireless telegraph apparatus and
operators. An act of congress, passed
in 1910, made It unlawful for any
ocean-going steamer carrying passen­
gers to leave or attempt to leave any
port of the United States without be­
ing equipped with an efficient appa­
ratus for radio communication, in good
working order, in charge of a person
skilled In the use of such apparatus,
which apparatus is capable of trans­
mitting and receiving messages over a
distance of at least one hundred miles,
night or day. After the Titanic dis­
aster. tn 1912. this act was amended
by providing that "the radio equipment
must be In charge of two or more per­
sons skilled In the use of such appara­
tus, one or the other of whom shall be
on duty at all times while the vessel Is
being navigated." The provision for
two skilled operators was to cover the ,
possibility of one being overworked.
Always a Way.
Some small girls were skipping rope
on an East side street yesterday after­
noon. The children skipped and twist­
ed In turn, while a little mother, with
a sleeping bHby In her arms, looked on
wistfully. There seemed no place to
lay the baby, and the other little girls
were far too thrilled to think of offer­
ing to relieve her to her charge while
she tried her prowess. Finally she
could stand It no longer. Cnsting
around in desperation she spied one
of the iron barrels provided by the city
for refuse paper, And thereby solved
her problem. Quickly the barrel was
turned on Its side, the papers pulled
toward the top to make a soft bed. and
the baby deposited therein. Gently It
rocked In Its Improvised cradle, sleep­
ing peacefully on.—New York Times.
After the Wedding.
Bridegroom—I haven't seen anything
of that $1,000 check from your father."
Bride—You see. dear, papa heard
that your father had already given us
one and be knew we wouldn’t want
any duplicate gifts, so he’s going to
send us a sliver tray.
.
I
gatun lake is big affair
URGED HIGH TITLE
Reservoir, Built by Americana, Far
Outdoes Anything Else That the
World Has Known.
The government fisheries bureau is
planting Gatun lake with fishes. The
first shipment for the purpose, made
by steamer the other day, consisted of
catfish, sunfish, carp and black bass,
all of “fingerling” sire. The bass were
planted In the Cliagres river, the prin­
cipal tributary of the lake,
A Pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty
constructed a reservoir (known today
as Lake Moeris) which covered 63
square miles. It was an artificial lake,
regarded In Its day as one of the
wonders of the world, and was de­
signed to regulate the flow of the Nile.
In Its way it was the most remark­
able engineering achievement of an­
tiquity. But Gatun lake, on the line
of the Panama canal, beats It, being
about three times as big. Its object
Is similar—namely, to take care of
the flood waters of the Chagres river
and prevent them from doing mis­
chief.
Gatun lake Is the largest artificial
body of water ever known In the
world. It Is. In fact, the most impor­
tant featiwe of the transisthmian
canal, extending two-thlrds of the dis­
tance from the Caribbean sea to the
Pacific ocean.
It occupies a basin that was dry
land before the canal was built; and
because the area covered by It Is very
hilly and topographically irregular,
It stretches In a multiple of arms fur
up Into its marshy shores.
One reason why its shores are
marshy Is that In Its shallows there
develops with astonishing luxuriance
a kind of gruss which sends out run­
ners In all directions. On this account
Its banks are not easily accessible
even to small craft.
As for fishes. It Is hoped that they
will multiply and furnish a worth­
while food supply.
"Hush Hush I” Cruiser.
The Idea that Great Britain Is se­
cretly constructing tremendous cruis­
ers, carrying batteries of 15-tnch guns
and traveling faster than any na­
val ships now float, has become
almost an obsession with the Ger
man press, whose naval experts
recognise that these aid pa present
a problem that cannot be met with
submarines. The new British cruisers
are termed “hush hush” cruisers be­
cause of the supposed secrecy with
which they are being constructed. Cap­
tain von Kuhlwatter, a famous Ger­
man naval authority, believes them to
be 886 feet In length and probably
more effective naval units than any
yet constructed. No doubt the prime
cause of Interest in their building Is
the realization that a complete fleet of
fast cruisers could annihilate n whole
squadron of slow and ponderous Ger­
man dreadnaughts If the German fleet
ever again aspires to the open sea.
In the Jutland and other fights such
a unit of fast and heavily armed ships
might have cut off their retreat. That
England is constructing a number of
large battle cruisers of a new type Is
not denied by the admiralty.
Three Seasons In Year.
The Egyptian year was divided into
three seasons. These were Shalt, the
season of waters, being the time occu­
pied by the rising spread and reces­
sion of the Nile; Plrut, the season of
vegetation; the Shonmu. the seuson of
harvest. These seasons are supposed
to have been arranged by the god Tbot
Eaiii season was divided into four
months and they were known in official
documents by numbers only. Thus we
have the first, second, third and fourth
months of Bbalt, the months of each of
the other seasons being designated In
the same manner. Each month, how­
ever, had a patron god and the people
ordinarily gave to It, In their dally In­
tercourse, the name of its god. These
deity names of the month» were tran­
scribed Into Greek, then Into Arabic
and are now largely used by the Chris­
tian Inhabitants of Egypt in prefer-
•nee to the Mussulman appellations.
Many Would Have Had Washing­
ton Addressed as Monarch.
Interesting Just Now to Recall How
Fond of High-Sounding Appella­
tions Were the Founders of
This Great Republic.
In view of the widespread approval
of the Chamberlain bill, making it pos­
sible for our soldiers to wear medals
conferred by the French, it Is Interest­
ing to be reminded that, although the
Constitution forbade all those in the
service of the United States to accept
titles or decorations from foreign
rulers, a strong party in our first sen­
ate wished to bestow almost royal title
upon government officials.
A serious debate arose over the
manner In which Washington should
be addressed, and on April 23, 1789.
a committee was appointed to consider
the matter. Among the titles urged
were “His Highness, the President of
the United States of America and Pro­
tector of the Rights of the Same,” “His
Elective Highness," etc., and a cano-
i pled throne was to be erected for his
use In the senate. Mmbers of that body
i were to be “Your Highness of the
1 Senate,” the sergeant at arms was to
be rechristened the “Usher of the
Black Rod,” and representatives “Your
Highness of the Lower House.”
j John Adams, we are told In the Jour­
nal of William Maclay, led the so-
' called “Court party," which wished to
borrow the forms of the British mon-
I archy for our infant government. His
' most zealous supporter was Richard
Henry Lee of Virginia. Maclay and
Robert Morris were the first senators
from Pennsylvania.
The matter rested until after the
. formalities of Washington’s lnaugura-
1 tlon were settled. Under the first plan
the clergy could attend only as spec­
tators, but this was finally overruled
on a strong protest from the ministers
of New York. An Interesting sidelight
on the times is given by John Randolph
of Virginia, who as a boy witnessed
the Inauguration of Adams as vice
president.
The controversy over the titles came
to a head on May 1 when the clerk of
the senate began to read the minutes.
“His Most Gracious Speech," he said,
referriug to Washington's Inaugural
address. Blank surprise showed in the
eyes of many of the senators. Jeffer­
son, the great champion of democracy,
was absent In Europe. Maclay rose to
his feet.
i “The words prefixed to the presi­
dent’s speech are the same that are
usually placed before the speech of his
Britannic majesty,” he said. “I know
| they will give offense. I consider them
: Improper. I therefore, move that they
’ be Btruck out and that It stund sim­
ply address or speech, as may be ad­
judged most sultuble,”
i The report of the committee on titles
was rejected May 14 by a vote of 10 to
8, but In a half-hearted wuy. The rec­
ord showed that “for the present" the
| subject would be dropped, but the
wording clearly Indicated that titles
i were favored.
Barrie's Hat.
I am reminded that the silk hat worn
by Sir James M. Barrie at the rehears­
als of his early plays, which I men­
tioned the other day, was in all prob­
ability the one which was acquired In
still earlier years with the Intention of
impressing Frederick Greenwood. The
story of this tall hat was related at
the memorable dinner given to Green­
wood In 1905, with John Morley, then
quite untitled. In the chair. “I bought
my first silk hat, to impress him, the
day I came to London,” said the dis­
tinguished pilgrim from Thrums. "I
never wore It except when I made pe­
riodic advance« on the St. James’s Ga­
zette. I liked to think that It had Its
effect upon him.” The hut would nat­
urally be treasured on grounds other
than those which would suggest thern-
' selves to the ordinary thrifty Scot—It
I had opened out to him a great liter­
ary career, and It might be expected to
Faith.
We had a new experience the other have Its natural beneficent influence on
day when we picked up two boatloads the plays.—Westminster (Eng.) Ga­
of survivor» from the ----- , torpedoed zette.
without warning. I will say they were
Something to Worry About.
pretty glad to see us when we bore
As If we haven't already enough to
down on them. As we neared, they be­
gan to paddle frantically, as though keep our minds busy, with war and the
fearful we should be snatched away high cost of living! And our friends,
from them at the last moment. The the learned astronomers, who study
crew were mostly Arabs and Lascars, l the heavens just as carefully as the
and the first mate, a typical comlc-mag- average fellow does the Innermost re­
azlne Irishman, delivered himself of cesses of his pocketbook day before
the following: “Sure, toward the last, pay, are Intent upon adding to our load
some o’ thlm haythens gits down on of worry burdens. They—some of
their knees and starts calling on Al­ ! them—believe the sun is going to ex­
lah; but I sez, sez I: ’Git up afore I plode. One of them, writing In Popu-
swat ye wld the nx-hnndle, ye benight­ I lar Astronomy, points to the fact that
ed hnythen; sure If this boat gits our sun is of advanced age, and pre­
saved ’t will be the Holy Virgin does dicts its finish as the lending figure
It or none at all. at all! Git up.' sex In any solar system. He finds that our
I."—An American Officer, In the Atlan­ sun has contracted 92,000,000 miles
■ from each side, thus giving its hot cen-
tic.
| ter 186,000.000 miles less of room. So
I you see the sun's center Is rather
To Unify Work.
That the whole of the Gilbert gronp crowded for space. Something like
of Islands in the South sea« should he the three-rooni-npartment couple when
visiting relatives begin their summer
given over to the care of the American
board of commissioner» for foreign vacation drives.—Syracuse Journal.
missions was decided at a meeting of
Diplomacy.
the London missionary board, held
Harold—And why must we always
some little time ago. The American
board had long been anxious for this be kind to the poor?
arrangement, which unifies the work | Doris—Because there may be a sud­
there, and offered to pay $2*,000, with den change, and we don't know how
which sum and the contributions of soon they may become rich.
the Islanders, all expenses of the
Righteous Indignation.
staffing of the Northern Islands can
Mrs. Jones—I wonder what makes
be met for ten years. The group is
under British government, and in 1« baby so wakeful.
Jones (savagely)—Why. It's heredi­
years of vigorous work In the South­
ern Islands, a strong church has been tary, of course. That's what comes of
built up. and many able native pas­ your sitting up nights waiting for me.
tors have been and are being trained.
I
IF
WORLD
MOVED
FASTER
Existing Conditions Would Be Very
Greatly Upset by Increased Rota-
tation, as Shown Here.
Conjecture has often been made as
to what would happen If the earth
were to rotate faster upon Its axis
than it (lues. Of course. If It went 18
times as fast as It does now, bodies
at the equator would weigh nothlug—
a person would jump up into the air
and fall to come down again. A man
might weigh 200 at the poles and
nothing at the equator, while his
weight would vary for Intermediate
points. If he approached the equator
he would get lighter and If he re­
ceded from It he would get heavier.
A man could carry a house on hls
shoulders very near the equator, while
near either pole he could only carry
what one can now. On this account
labor would be very dear near the
poles and very cheap near the equa­
tor. It would certainly be Interesting
to know which section of the earth
would be more populous—whether
everyone would go north for good
wages or go south for cheap work­
men. The railroad problem would be
momentous unless the railroads all
ran east and west, when a uniform
rate would obtain on any particular
east-and-west line.
Journeys to the south would be even
more popular than they are now, for
they would make everyone feel better
and in buoyant spirits; more springy,
too. so that people could walk far­
ther without getting tired, and could
jump over any obstacle that present­
ed Itself without coming down with
too hard a thump.
There is no planet now known that
has such a rapid rotation as 1» pic­
tured here, but there are several
where man would weigh a great deal
less than on earth. On the moon a
man would weigh only fifty or sixty
pounds and could jump as many feet
without suffering serious discomfort.
But this state of affairs obtains over
ths whole planet, because it is due
to absence of gravltatlve force and
not to centrifugal, as would ba the
case on the rapidly rotating eerth.
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Rooks In Noisy Conclave.
The ways of rooks in France,
somewhere in the army zone, puzzle
a correspondent who writes that their
behavior at the advent of mild weath­
er was peculiar. They congregated in
Immense numbers on a few trees near
hie billet; the trees were literally
black with them; every twig and
branch was crowded with a screaming
mob of birds, that wheeled up and
down in great excitement. Sometimes
they settled on the fields, but not to
feed. The writer surmises that, hav­
ing on a fine day resolved to visit their
old nests, as is their habit they found
that the woodcutters—busy In France
as they are In England, had destroyed
their nesting sites. The hurly-burly
In the trees was probably then due
to the rooks ail giving their advice si­
multaneously as to what ought to be
done In such untoward circumstances.
Malaria In England.
Malaria was ones common In cer­
tain parts of England, but as a result
of drainage and the uss of quinine. It
was completely stamped out. notwith­
standing the fact that anophellne mos­
quitos« remain In the country. The
parasitic cycle was broken, and the
Insect was no longer Infected. Now
comes the report of a recrudescence
of Indigenous malaria In England. Ac­
cording to a circular issued by the lo­
cal government board, many men have
contracted the disease while fighting
on the eastern war fronts, and have
brought It home with them ; thus they
serve as foci of Infection for the civil­
ian population. Measures are being
taken to deal with the carrier mos­
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Air-Raid Signs.
Londoners can tell by looking nt the
night sky whether to expect Gotha
raids or whether to go comfortably to
bed. If the moon shines and the night
Is clear he studies the clouds. Should
they be at some height racing from the
east tt Is safe to assume that the
Gotha» will not come, for they cannot
make progress against a west wind,
which holds them back from the Brit­
ish shore. If, however, the clouds are
flying from the west the Londoner pre­
pares for a lively evening.
The Main Point.
"When I looked at the poor man you
sent out to work In the garden for
hls breakfast I saw be was very
much hurt. Hls face was working.”
“It was?
doing F
But what wars hls bands
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