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How Much .3
How Mu
00N the Aays before the war will
be forgotten. Those days of
eitement, change, disruption,
will have drifted back to be classed
with the civil war, and, the war will
be .soon forgotten.
Soon also will be forgotten the
Imen that fought in the late war,
bbeyed orders, or volunteered.
They will be classed with THE
1OLDIEBS THAT ARE FORGOT
ITEN, the "ancient history."
But a few, for awhile at least,
will remember how they went away,
and how thousands of them came
back. A few will try to see that
justice is done them, and among
those few, or else they will be for
ever disgraded, should be the -law
makers of the United States, all
those upon whom the people rely to
do justice.
It is not that the people them
selves lack sympathy for wounded
(soldiers, many made permanently in
efficient by -gas, or by wounds. The
Ipeople sympathize, l ut they have
Inot the power to express their sym
pathy.
They can and they SHOULD help
by writing to their lawmakers, and
making them realize what the people
want.
How much would you charge to
allow somebody to cut off your leg,
not scientifially under chloroform,
but in the open field with a jagged
.wound, and leave you lying there I -
How much would the lawmakers
who ignore the soldiers charge to
have their eyes blown out, or their
systems forever poisoned and rid
dled with gas?
Thousands of Americans wounded,
and actually hundreds of thousands
taken from their work, deprived of
work when jobs were plentiful, are
now looking vainly for the chance
that was promised so liberally when
they went away.
The Government is rich.no matter
what may be said by those that hate
to pay taxes. The Government
OULD take care of the soldiers, no
matter what may be said by those
who made profits of millions while
the soldiers went to Europe losing
what little they had.
The hope of the men who did their
duty, and are now cheated because
the country refuses to do ITS duty,
is in the mass of the people includ
ing YOU.
You will not waste time if you
write every ten days to your Con
gressman and your two Senators a
short letter on these lines-change
it, of course, in your own way.
My Dear Sir: I am one of a hundred
millions of people who felt gratitude
toward the soldier that went to the war.
And I am one of at least ninety millions
who believe that the soldiers should be
PAiD for what they did, remembered,
rewarded, taken care of if wounded,
and recompensed for loss of their jobs
in any case.
I am one that is willing, indirectly or
through direct taxation, to bear part of
the cdst of rendering aid to the soldiers.
As one of your constituents I write
to urge justice to the soldiers upon you.
Yours very truly,
(Sign).....--------.. --------
(Address).............
Gibbs, the British war corre
spondent, when the war was over,
wrote a book called "Now It Can
Be Told,'' and in this book told
some useful truths.
Among other things he described
the condition of young soldiers fol
lowing shell shock, that deadens the
mind, sometimes for months, some
times for life.
Because this shell shock was en
dured by so many American soldiers,
this extract from Mr. Gibbs' book
is printed.
Read it and realize how it applies
to American soldiers, to whom so
much was PROMISED and for
whom so little is done when it was
all over and the need for them in
war no longer ex
SHELL SHC~INWHAT?
"Ihes a bors etawed
amir U lnSeISr.W was a em
)r a Leg?
h for a Life?
Gold hospitals ia a stat. of 'coma, dased,
as thouh deaf, .and actually dumb. I
hated to s them, turned my eyes away
from them, and yet wished that they
might be seen by bloody-minded ma and
womeit. who, far behind the line, stAill
spoke of war lightly, as al kind of sport,
or heroic game, which brave boys liked or
ought to like, and said: 'Wa'll fght on to
the lat man rather than accept anything
less tan absolute victory,' and, when vic
tory came, said: 'Wc stopped too soon.
We ought to have gons on for another
three months.' It was for fighting men to
say these things, because they know the
thingp they suffered and risked. That
word 'we' was not to be used by gentle
men in Government offices scared of air
rais, nor by women dancing In scanty
frocks at war-baxaars for the 'poor dear
wounded.' nor even by generals at G. H.
Q., enjoying the thrill of war without its
dirt or danger.
"Seeing these shell-shock cases month
after month during years of fAhting, I. as
an onlooker, hated the people who had not
seen, and were callous of this misery;
the laughing girls in the Strand greeting
the boys on seven' days' leave: the news
paper editors and leader writers whose
srticles on war were always 'cheery;' the
bishops and clergy who praised God as the
Commander-in-Chief of the allied armies,
and had never said a word before the war
to make it less inevitable: the schoolmaster
who gloried in the lengtht-ning 'Roll of
Honor' and said: 'We're doing very wel.'
when more boys died: the pretty woman
faces ogling in the picture-papers as 'well
known war workers;' the munition work
ers who were getting good wages out of
the war; the working women who were
buying gramophones and furs while the
men were in the stinking trenches: the
dreadful, callous, cheerful spirit of Eng
land at war."
Object Lesson
from Louisiana
T HE tiniber crop of the State of
Lou'isiana is worth to those who
harvest it about $193,000,000 a
year. After a tract of land has been
cut over it is not merely worthless
to its owner, but costs him about
twenty-five cents an acre in taxes to
maintain ownership. It is estimated
that at the present rate of cutting
the whole State will be denuded of
timber in twenty years.
In the same State the by-products
of the forests, turpentine, resin, pine
oil, etc., are bringing in now about
$75,000,000 a year. But after the
wasteful American habit the method
of collecting these products is so un
scientific and careless that it kills
each tree to which it is applied in
about three years, and experts esti
mate that in less than twenty years
this industry also will come to an
end for lack of trees on which to
operate.
Curiously enough it is as a result
of lessons learned during the world
war that the conservation of the
pine tree products is being effected.
The method of tapping trees for
resin and turpentine in vogue in this
country kills the tree in about three
years. Our engineers and foresters
who served in France found that the
methods there employed kept the
trees alive for as long as fifty years
without materially decreasing the
annual yield. The influence of the
State is now being employed to
persuade naval stores corporations
to adopt like methods here.
The new constitution of Louisiana,
now in preparation, provides for the
purchase and reforestation of 400,
000 acres of cuit-over lands. It is
estimated by forestry experts that
in twenty years these lands will be
producing enough pulp-wood, fence
posts and fuel wood to pay all in
terest, current and accumulated, on
the bonds, and that in forty years
there will be enough timber matured
to pay for the retirement of the
bonds and leave a substantial sur
plus for further reforestation plans.
Northern States, like Wisconsin
and Michigan, that long ago dissi
pated their heritage of timber, mak
ing no provision for its restoration,
and having nothing to show for it
now save groups of swollen fortunes
and a few millionaire Senators, may
well study the methods of this
Southern commonwealth. It takes
time to grow new forests, but time
is the one asset which all communi
ties share equally.
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LHUMANISMS
Willim Atherton Du
There is a great misconception in the mind
of the public with relation to conceited people.
says Dr. William A. White. Government alienist
and superintendent of St. Slisabeth Asylum, at
Washington.
The flagrantly conceited man is not what he
seems. He is a man with very pronounced short
comings, weaknesses. He known those short
comings, knows that because of them he is at a
disadvantage. His bold front, his pouter pigeon
strutting, is all camouflaging. He is not really
conceited. He believes that other men have the
edge over him. His seeming conceit is a confes
sion of his weakness to those who read the symp
toms understandingly.
Robert Huey sat in one of the sociable chairs
in front of the bank, in Portland, Ind., one sum,
mer day, forty-five years ago. Huge of limb.
mild of nature, loved of all. was Huey.
1)own the street came a stranger, a lithe back
woodsman. supple as a seat.
"I am 1.iberloss Jim." he announced, "from
IAberloss Creek. I have walked thirty miles to
see a man name4 Robert Huey. They say he Is
a better man than I am and I have never seen
one yet. I have got to find him and fight him."
"I am Robert HAey," said that individual, "but
I am no fighter. I never had a fight In my life."
"I can't help that." said Liberloss Jim. T have
got to know, so you have got to fight."
So these two supermen of the backwoods came
to grips there in the village streets and staged
a contest that was as worthy of a fancy price
of admission as any ever put on by Tex Rickard,
or any of their kind. And at the end of it ILim
. berloss Jim said he had enough and that Robert
Huey was the better man,
And a little boy looked on whose name was
John A. M. Adair, and who afterward came to
Congress for ten years from Indiana and often,
in high places, told the story of this fight;
(Copyright. 1981 by Public Ledger Co.)
Anglo-Irish.
The Lost Sheep of the House or Tsrael, the An
glo-Irish, have hitherto represented Ireland to
the world, and as it turns out, have misrepre
sented it. How indeed could the Anglo-Irish
without a religion and never even quite sure of
a country-a race as naturally cosmopolitan as
the Graeco-Roman Jews, and to which the union
opened out its natural destiny in the farflung
British empire-become the interpreter of that
immobile and exclusive tradition? Their ro
mantic treatment of reality was from the first an
offense: for the Anglo-Irish of the nineteenth
century had the genial notion of treating the
whnle matiere d'Triande romantically, Infatuated
mortais! As well might the Graeco-Roman Jews
have had the notion of treating romantically the
Babylonian activity. American and English col
lectors of Anglo-Irish literature should be warn
ed that the bulk of this literature is uncanoni
cal-John Eglinton in the Dial.
Danger Lights.
The State hIghway commission of Wyoming
has under consideration plans for the installa
tion of "baby lighthouses" at railway erossings
and on the approaches to dangerous curves on
the State's entire highway system. These lights
"wink" at the rate of forty-five times a minute
throwing a nine-inch ray, which can be seen
three miles, They are similar to small ocean
lighthoqsea. The light standards are eight feet
high, mounted on cement bases, and each is a
complete unit. Red lights designate railroad
crossings and dangerous curves are announced
by yellow lights.
Historic Vine.
A grapevine which is said to be the largeet in
the world grows in Carpinterie. Cal. Beneth
its spreading branchee 300 cr mere pcrsone can
find protection freom the sun's baet. The first
eeeiem la Seats s eutW uadw Amerleem
saa e h~ al umise s swam=ma
You've Go
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THE
OF
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Mr. B. Baer
BTRAW CIRCU.
About technical time for
you to give tender young
Spring thoughtsr to new al
falfa helmet. May First is
launching day for snappy
young men's,shredded straw
hats.
We've been pampered and
coddled with so many
amendments recently that
we've overlooked fact ,that
genuine Panama season was
almost here. Time to hold
Old Home Week in attic
and dig up new second
hand .hat plus Palm Beach
unitform.
Womnan needs new toque
every time she squints into
crminstet of modern in
ventions. the mirror. She
grebs herself strange bon
net every week. She ain't
hard to please. She is al
ways satisfied with hat she
is thinking about, but ain't
bought yet.
Man flatwheels along on
two hats every year. hears
winter derby until he gets
sunstroke. Wears straw
hat until he gets lost in
blizzard. Generally buyq
hay sunshade that makes
him look like ice cream
cone intith ears. What dif
ference does it make? Rirds
who look worst in hats are
cuckoos who look best in
halos.
Trouble with new timothy
skull awning Is that it
makes youar face suffer by
contrast and war tax. Best
part of straw hat is on in
side, where nobody can ap
preciate it. -Imported gold
en filigree initials, pink lace
lining and leather brake
band. Hat soon start. to
moult. Refreshing June
shower curls it up like mon
key's tail. Commences to
fall apart like petals on
last rose of last Summer.
In July you can tip rim to
lady without disturbing
crown at all.
After you pipe, hat your
neighbor buys, you realize
that lFourteen Points were
n't funniest things in world.
After neighbor westes good
look on kelly you bought,
he goes home end lamrwh. St
your chickens tearing up his
vegetable garden. And he
figures he's got all the best
of it.
That's what makes world
such nice place to live anel
die in. Everybody hands
you laugh. You stake every
body else to laugh. Funny
to lamp gent trying on
new bat. Balances it on
skull like thimble on over
ripe pumpkin, breaks out
into rash of benevolent ex
pression, wiggles ears eard
then does poses plastique
in front of battery of mir
rors.
Only (tag misag free
het stores Is 'asweest em
t aJob!
ALIZE
:.imPORTN ?
KEEPING
S GARDEN
5HIP-5HRPE
ye TOWNE GOSSIP
R.giterd U. a Patent Offi.
By K. C. B.
Somewhere In the West, April 29.
IF YOU like kids. -AND TOBACCO can.
e* . * . . .
AND FOR'some good AND AFTER that.
reason. S
* - - THE TW of ou.
THE LORD best
knows. BRING INthe wood.
YOU'VE NEVER had AND FILLthe lamps.
one.
* * * AND WITH that done.
e* 0 S
FOR YOUR very own.
AND YOU go some- hand.
where.0 S
where. AND YOU wander off.
AND FIND a boy.
* * . THROUGH TWO bfir
THREE YEARS of gates.
age.
age. * TO ANOTHER land.
AND FOR a month.
ON EVERY day. thrug
THIS BOY has come.ANMRADfo.
WITH THE morning .
sun. AEEER*HR
FROM OUT his ed.
AND INTO yours. bak
AND FOR a while.**
HAS JUST laid there. wok
WITH HIS warm AN HNh
young cheek.' *
PRESSED CLOSE to N OL rud
yours. .
AND THEN you've .*
played.ANAT8occ.
THAT A great big HEGStobd
bear.
COME FROM the
hills.BEOEHgos
IS BENEATH the bed.IFYUDdntis
AND YOU have to O OEwhl
throw,.onh
A NEARBY rnhoe. ADH' re
TO DRIVE It away. ASHwvehi
SO TOU can get up. had
AND YOU dress the WE H ri
boy.weto.
AND PIN his bib. WOLN'YUfl
AND EAT with him.JUTAltebt
AND EU fstebe yearas
Ub ITHATW of y.
A Society fo
theA
By BILL
Ask one hundred Washingto
where is the Instructive Visiting I
will be able to answer intelligently
devoted twenty years to health v
quarters are at 1413 G street an(
two supervisors and fifteen grad
wholly for the service of the sick.
ing care free, and if able to pay
to 65 cents for a visit, according t
rendered.
This society, now seeking ri
its work may go on, with Increas
mable value, and can be made i
given the unstinted public support
facilities. No amount of money I
much for its needs.
It is stated that 90 per cent
hospitals. Too often the -woefully
this city are overtaxed, and it is i
hospital accommodations. Then,
good people to whom the hospit
that must be carried, with other al
In many thousands of cases t
tion they should have. Deaths rei
and threaten the healthy.
Knowing the hospital situatic
citizens do, has it ever STRUCK
ing Nurse Society fills a great gap,
it stronger and more useful to a
in need of better facilities for carir
AN INVITATION.
"ELASTIcIT vs. 1nELATIVITr."
The editor of this column is ex
ceptionally proud that the famous
scientist of H and S-Dr. H. BREW
MOONSHEIN-has sprung on an un
suspectii'g world
his new theory of
the "Consanguini
ty of Elasticity."
Dr. Moonshein's
photo again ap
pears in these
columns. At an
early date he
hopes to maue
an appointment to
stand out in the
back yard of ti-e
White House
Grounds and
have his picture
t a k e n alongside
that of the members of the White
House Correspondents' Association,
who will act as his publicity agents
in scattering to the four winds of
the earth his new theory.
Directly opposite to the "Theory of
Relativity" by Dr. EINSTEN, whose
picture was taken with that uf
President HARDING (the latter
frankly admitting that the theory is
too etherial for him). Dr. Moonshein
is superbly confident that his "Con
sanguinity of Elasticity" will become
easily understood by all, and egplain
the presence on earth of KIRKMIL
LER. the writist: Madame DFOULLA.
the noted palmist, and other biris
of profound occult and yTciput
knowledge.
"Consanguinity" is alone a science
sufficient to engage the attention of
one great mind. but for the same
price of admission our Dr. Moon
shein adds "Elasticity." agreeing to
refund the money in the event tha* 1
he can not make both understood to
a gaping public. He's far too proud
to confine the understanding of his
theories tot less than TWELVE peo
ple. and. gives credit to his wife for
having aided him greatly in elastic
ity of household and personal ea
penditures.
The pubide must have a chamn to
express its vees on this projound
scientift discoverlt, and H end 8,
noted for its advancement of sets%
tiftc subjects and its eforts to ex
tend the use of rubber in the hunwo
neck, hereby opes Ils columne to
contributors.
Bill, why couldn't you feather
PLUMES of the G. O. C?
I ~ CHEERUPADIST.
-GINORY" AND "DUTY."
The line. "Go where glory waits
thee." expresses beautifully an
exalted sentiment, but '.portlunt
ties to turn it into actionm are not
open to everyone. "Go where duty
waits thee" is- more homely. buit
may be applied by all during ev
ery waking minute in the year.
FRED VETTESI.
4q DOMESTIC PROBLEM.
Hs asked. "'How much does Ro-me-o?
She answered. "ht depends. you know,
On what fair Juliet.' RHRY
"HTGH BROW" and several
other contribs call sttention to
signs like these in several local
theaters:
'Please MOVE quietly on the
stairway. Remember you are
STILL in the theater."
London maintains a laundry
school where girls are taught the
art of washing clothes. Has any
laundry professor yet told any
body how to prevent buttons be
ing torn off and clothes frayed.
EAMON o S.
While you're in love
And your head in a whirl.
Never skate on than ip.
With another girl.
PHILIP EBERT.
'W. L. No 2" states that none of
the answers were correct as to the
numliber of triangles in the problem
of "W. L." He states that there are
96.
Cop-Hey. don't you know this is
a one-way street?
Abe (in mew car)--Vell. I'm ely
geing one wee. aimdt t
Ock
PRICE.
I people you meet, "What qdl
Nurse Society?" and not th -
, And yet this organization haip'
rork in the District. Its bea4.
I it has a staff of one director, 7
uate nurses. It is maintainal
Those unable to pay gt nury
the charges range from 5 cents
the time spent and the service
:hly deserved financial aid, that
-d staff, if possible, is of inesti
immeasurably more valuable fi
necessary to enlarge its working
sledged the society can be too
of Washington's sick are not in
inadequate hospital facIli0 6f
lot possible for the sick to get
again, there are thousnads of
al charges are a severe burden
4lgations, for long periods.
le sick fail to receive the atten
ult or contagious diseases spread
n in Washington, as nearly all
YOU that the Instructive Visit
and that you can help to make
community long and seriously1
ig for the sick?
T1E Ulan COrT Or LOVENN.
When iret I weeed sweet Allee I.,
My e= were tool v.sr
owent a blew a .et
To keep her love eive. sir.
When I was Iftees years of age
romn echool I weuld esort er.
And when I'd treat. It et me bank
Sometimes about a %uarter.
When *9 the years I'd Ue aar.
Wore creased pants.. nhig clla..
To keep "in good.** cost soegarwhat MMPM
Bay. now and then a dellar.
Last nihgb1 save to her a ring.
's .*u*..me. and I wonder"
If I eoud ever liquidat
The priee of It-two hundred.
cuUvt.
COM PUTITIVIE 51166.
Two hat stores opening from $6
ame steps on a prominent Washing
an street are engaged in strong coraw
,etition. The frst sign read as
'ollows: "Main Entrance to the
Right."
The dealer on the left put up a
ign which deeds am follows: "MAIN
BNTRANCE TO THE LEFT." The
fealer on the right took his sign
lown. and a few days later this bla
ippeared: "O U R M A I N 8MN
rRANCE TO THE RIGIWf."
UNCLE BOB.
A chapple had a lot of dough.
And he lenged to see it so.
And this poor S
He got his wish.
Ie* backed a modern musical show.
CENTRAto NUTMEG.
That Illinois man who wore a
borrowed bullet-proof vest on
his honeymoon is evidently a
disciple of preparedness.
HARVARD.
AWFUL?
her wMS one* a co-ed. Miss Kay.
Who looked Ilike a doll of bMIsqe
she cut eg her looke,
And rolled down her seeks.
Lnd acted meat awfully ris $e.
ADE AUTI.
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