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DIRECTS BRITISH SHIPPING
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any title in the gift of any king. He Is a democrat, a practical mun, a citizen
f the whole decent world and well informed regarding it. "The hope of
the allied world is America's success," he says, "just as the failure of America
Is the whole hope of the Germanic world. Britain is working at her maxi
mum, without ceasing. The nation pulls together with a full and powerful
e-0rdlnatlon which would have been impossible before the threat of the
tgreat peril brought us, rich and poor and high and low alike, into a real
brotherhood.
"But, work as she may, Britain cannot perform the task alone. Remem
ber that. She cannot
"In America's shipyards lies her greatest opportunity to be of service
to the allies."
JOINS THE AMERICAN ACES
Several months ago a party of
young men in Amsterdnm, N. Y., bade
good-by to a comrade who was start
ing for a Southern aviation camp pre
paratory to service with the American
Flying corps In France.
"I'll try to give a good account of
myself, fellows. So long I" the young
man shouted as he swung aboard the
train. After months of waiting, comes
the word that he has made good, for
jress dispatches state that Lieut H.
Clay Ferguson, an Amsterdam aviator,
liad bagged five German planes. In
lis latest encounter with a German
3otha Lieutenant Ferguson's machine
was riddled with bullets from a ma
chine gun, one of which lodged in his
leg. ' He eluded his opponent however,
jinrt landed. cafelv within his own lines.
Meantime he had won recognition as
an American "ace ". . ,
seven years old. He Is the son X1 Mr.
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A Amsterdam. He was graduated from the Amsterdam high school In 1010.
"During hs school days Ferguson' was one of the stars in athletics. In 1914
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.. "'' Ferguson was employed in New York when the-United States entered
the war,, and Immediately 'enlisted in the aviation service. At the Southern
training camp he displayed more than ordinary proficiency.
OUR WASTER SHIPBUILDER
tions that would have downed a less optimistic man, and I believe It is an
Important factor in his success." One of the men high in the United States
Steel corporation offered a brief verdict on the power of the new director
general's personality.
"Schwab," he said, "Is one of the few men with the power to make other
men do their best work. He can make anybody do anything I"
LIGHTHOUSE ANGEL DECORATED
Miss "Winifred Holt known as the
"Llf hthouse Angel," leader In the work
carried on by the committee for men
blinded in battle, has been decorated
by France with a gold medal in recog
nition of her services in behalf of
blinded French soldiers.
More than four thousand wholly
or partly blinded soldiers have. been
saved from despair by the merciful
work of Miss Holt and her assistants.
The "Phcre do France," as the
building Is called In which her commit
tee operates la Paris, has really been
a lighthouse for all the men who have
entered It for treatment
. , , After starting the , work abroad
Miss Holt passed the winter cf 1916
and the first o'.ght or nine months of
1917 in lecturing among her friends in
New York city and near by on the work
of teaching the sightless heroes to use
their "ten eyes," or fingers. Many have
learned typewriting and stenography,
mnnlf fnrnl n rr nnil rtt hpl avta anet ertlanmw .nd tn t .1 A-
develop unused talents for bread-winning occupations. Miss Holt'i ftrteMll
la America are glad that the angel of mercy has been rewarded.
The man who has upon his shoul
ders in these days the vast problem of
the management of British shipping,
that of Its steady Increase In the tre
mendous race which Britain's ship
yards are runnng with the German U
boats, the co-ordination of It with
the shipping and shipbuilding of the
other allies, Its proper use and all the
other mighty details In the great' puz
zles of Its management, Sir Josei
Maclny, Is a thin Scotchman, wiry, en
ergetic, a little past his middle age,
enough like an American to pass for
one on a New York street, an intense
patriot, famous for his clear-headed
common sense and lack of all flubdub
bery. lie Is one of the plain people of
the British empire who by reason of
their great achievements have been
honored by their king and government
with baronetcies, but he values busi
ness efficiency and earnestness above
A r . . 1 ti 1 1
"If there Is-a mnn In the country
who can fill th6 position of director
general , of the Emergency Fleet corpo
ration, it Is Charles M. Schwab. Above
any other man In America he has the
faculty of enlisting the enthusiastic
loyalty of his associates. It is the
quality not only of his mind, but of his
remarknbly attractive personality. He
brings the best out of every man who
works with or for him. I have seen
his influence at work for yenrs, and I
know. He 'gets along' with everyone."
This is the opinion of William B.
Dickson, second vice president and
treasurer of the Midvale Steel and
Ordnance corporation, who has known
Mr. Schwab practically all his life. He
continued :
"There Is one other conspicuous
characteristic that is worth mention
ing, and that is his persistent cheer
fulness under adverse conditions. That
has taken him through many situa
New Successes in
Of course we nil aspire to' looking
straight and slim and smart, like the
ladles In the fnshlon pictures nnd the
best way to go about achieving our
ambitions Is to study those pictures,
and ourselves, with care and the aid
of a comprehensive mirror. We may
accomplish sllmnoss and we may not,
but we can be sure of straightness and
smartness, and these ought to satisfy
anybody. Above all things we long to
look smart In street clothes, for smart
ness Is their flavor without It they
are flat failures.
Keen designers who have our aspira
tions and difficulties In mind, bring to
us such examples of their genius ns
the new suit, with its s'trnlght, one
piece back In a very short cont, that
Is shown here. ' Or, If a one-piece
frock and a top cont Is our heart's de
sire, they present such Irreproochable
top-conts as thnt shown beside the suit.
There Is nothing stnrtlingly novel
about them, but there are several In
teresting details In their construction.
No one needs to be told that they are
smart looking and distinctly In the
mode. - ,
The top coat of velours Is at Its best
In quiet, rich, colors. It has a plain
A Glimpse of
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In this group of three hats there are
three classes represented by fine ex
amples of their kinds. There Is a
graceful, soft model for street wear,
In white and blnck ; a dressy, pictur
esque affair In transparent blnck, and
a bit of subdued gayety In a high
pink, bonnetlike shnpe made of crepe
georgette. This is reserved millinery
following In the wake of the modes at
a modest distance from extremes. But
each hat Is a gem that will bear com
parison with any others of Its kind
and interesting because of Its Individ
ual style.
In street hats there are not so many
soft models, fashion having swung to
ward the trim, sprightly, spirited
styles. But there Is so much class In
this bit of headwear that It can af
ford to be different from the majority.
It Is of wlite yedda braid faced with
black satin and has a collar of narrow,
black satin ribbon, finished with a
small bow at the back. Under the bow
the soft crown Is tacked to the brim
and at the front a pair of small, black
wings are convincingly chic. The hat
speaks French and if It were not for
the war we would be sure to credit
Paris with It
The pretty black hat, with braid
crown and brim of machine, Is a type
that every - woman admires and all
women, young or otherwise, can wear.
It has a tie of narrow satin ribbon
about the base of the crown finished
with a Uttle cravat bow at the front
Large, black velvet dollies are flat
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Suits and Topcoats
body with eight pin tucks neross the
back, In place of a belt and n skirt a
trifle longer than the regulation, gath
ered on to the body at the normal
waistline. It has moderately large
patch pockets and the designer hap
pened to think to set the two large but
tons that adorn them, at the bottom
Instead of the top. This, .with the
panel In the back that lengthens the
figure, are the clever touches that
make one turn round to look twice at
a noteworthy coat. It Is finished with
a wide shawl collar.
The suit begins with nn approved
plain skirt and ends with a short,
stralght-hnnglng coat lengthened Into
points at the hips. This Is one Inter
pretation of the new capo back clearly
emphasized by long ornaments depend
ing from the points. A wide girdle Is
simulated by the shaped piece of cloth,
bound with silk braid, that follows
the line of the curve at the bottom of
the cont. . It Is caught up at tlie mid
dle of the back with a buckle nnd three
small buttons. A wide shawl collar,
overlnld with n removable collar of
white, - georgette crepe,, finishes the
coat. Tricotlne, or nny other of ' the
softer serviceable suitings will devel
op well in this model.
Fine Millinery
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tened out about the top of the crown
and the point of each petal caught to
the hat with a Jet beud. Every sum
mer brings Its transparent blnck hats,
the coolest looking nnd most becom
ing of summer's millinery gifts to
women.
The remaining hat Is of light, orchld
plnk crepe georgette with a brim thnt
suggests the poke bonnet, split
ut the back and laced with silk
braid. It has a collar of wide, pink
satin ribbon ornamented with sun
bursts of needlework In which embroi
dery silk and silver tinsel thread are
used.
Straight and Draped Skirt.
There Is a strong struggle going on
between the straight nnd the draped
skirt. Both nre leading fashions and
neither one Is new, but the ultra-smart
woman Insists that the draped skirt Is
better rhnn the straight one, and she
Is upheld by many of the dressmakers.
On the other hand, there are hundreds
of women -who say that the draped
skirt hos been so featured In cheap
materials In low-priced gowns that it
Is exceedingly commonplace. The
struggle makes skirts Interesting and
Incidentally adds to the confusldn of
the season, which has turned out to bfl
an arena Into which hundreds ef fash
Ions have been Indiscriminately thrown)
UNLIKE OLD TIMES
Town Meetings Not Just as They
Used to Be.
Possibly It Is an Improvement, but
Reminiscent Citizen Seemed to
Speak With a Certain Tinge
of Regret'
"How did town meeting go this
year?" Inquired Capt. Dudley Patter
shall, just home from a voyage end
coming to headquarters for informa
tion of what had happened of Inter
est while he hud been uwuy.
"W-a-a-a-a-1, Cap'n," began Grlndle
the storekeeper, "th' annual meeting
of the legal voters o' this town, to meet
an' act upon certain articles to-wlt
namely, ain't nothln' what it used to
be. Times Is changed wonderfully,
'specially since the war broke out
"Town meet'n' nowudays Is gettln
to be as decorlous as th' Bible class
which meets in th' small vestry di
rectly after preachln' services, to
which all adults are invited.
"They ain't no winders broke, nor
no Btove tipped over, nor the mod'rator
don't have to suspend consideration of
article 21 while he goes down on th
floor an' impresses some clt-zen as to
proper parl'mentary procedure by bang
in' him over th' head with a caulkln'
mallet, used In more peaceful mo
ments as a gavel."
"Yes, I see It done," put in Captain
Pattershull with a chuckle. "It used
to take an able man to do the Jiod
ratln'." "They was times," continued Grln
dle, "when u woman couldn't go by on
'tother side of the street from the
town hull without stlckln' both fingers
In her eurs, but this year there wus a
row of 'em llnln th' gallery uu' ull llfl
tenln', an' lookln' on an' knlttln'.
We've got a woman on the school bourd
thluk o' thutl
"Th" buttle of Umpteddlddy wan't
nothln' to some of th' vl'lent collisions
between the Boshkelovls from the up
per end o' th' valley an' the clammers
from down on th' capt but they nln't
nothln' like that now. Th' hatchlt la
burled in a carefully marked spot
"An' what do you think, cap'n, they
opened up th' nieetln' with prayer, an'
a slick pruyer It wus, at, that Elder
Bates o' the linptls' church, he prayed
fer 'Plrut' Pollard, th' mod'rator that
be might preside over th' dellb-ratlona
with wisdom un' Judgment. It ain't on
record that ol' Pollard wus ever
prayeV for before not thnt wuy. ,Th'
elder prayed for 'most everybody an'
everything un' then for who or what
he might have left 6ut."
"Well, wasn't It a better town meet
ing thun the old-fnshloned kind?" in
quired Cap'n Puttershall.
"W-o-a-a-a-I, I ' s'pose it was, In
speakln' o' results an' good blzness
proceedln's; but there seemed t' be
somethln' lackln' this war has upset
many old an' time-honored lnstltoo
tlons, somehow." Boston Globe.
Two Brave Marines.
On the first duy of February, 1018,
there was an explosion in a seaplune
hangar on an aviation field near Wash
ington. The explosion started a fire
which set ablaze the clothing of a
chief petty officer of the navy. The
death of the petty officer nnd the de
struction of the costly hangar were im
minent Privates William II. Lawton
and Itaymond J. Burnnp, United States
marines from the Washington navy
yard, were on duty neurby. Arming
themselves with fire extinguishers,
they dushed to the rescue. The life of
the petty officer was saved and the de
struction of the hangar prevented. Sec
retary Daniels wrote a personal letter
to each of the murines, commending
him for his Coolness and presence of
mind in the face of sudden danger.
Private Lawton enlisted In the ma
rine corps on August 4, 1014, nt Nor
folk, Va. Private Burnup Joined the
soldiers of the sea ut Phllndclphia on
July 21, 1017.
Telephones In Canada.
A most remarkable Increase Is evi
denced in the use of the telephone In
Canada during the past five years, ac
cording to a report recently luld upon
the table of the house of commons.
The number of telephones In use
throughout the Dominion In 1012 was
370,884, while in 1017 the number had
grown to 604,136. The number of tele
phone companies operating In 1012 was
683, and five years later there were
1,650 companies In operation. A total
of 880,572 miles of wire was In use
during the year 1012. In 1017 the wire
mileage was 1,708,202. The capitalize
tlon of telephone companies also shows
a great Increase In the five-year period.
In 1012 It was $42,278,851, wliile In
June, 1017, It was $79,121,702. The
revenue during the same period had
grown approximately $8,000,000. The
number of persons for each telephone
In the Dominion In 1012, was 10.3 and
In 1917, 13.4,
Cautious Galveston.
Many persons remember the destruc
tion of Galveston by a West Indlun
hurricane which blew so hnrd It forced
the sen up Into the streets of the city
and thousands of lives were lost. .As
a protection against a similar disaster,
the city built a great sea wall. This
year it has begun nenrly two miles
more of sea wall which will take near
ly two years to complete and which
will cost $2,000,00. After the great
storm of 1000, the 'citizens raised the
site of the city 17 feet by pumping
millions of tons of sand from the gulf.
Galveston has taxed Itself for all these
colossal Improvements. Exchange.
HARD TO TRANSLATE BIBLE
Considerable Amount of Ingenuity Re- .
quired to Make Words Fit Sav
age Knowledge.
How much do you supopse an Es
kimo knows about an olive? Or a
Hottentot about cherubim? Or a can
nibal about the Holy Ghost?
That's why the men and women who
translate the Bible into pagan lan
guages have to use n greater amount
of Ingenuity and Imagination than
anything else, observes a writer in the
World Outlook.
It must have ben a very pleasant
person who finally suggested to the
mingled relief nnd amusement of the
tired workers, thnt "the lamb of God"
might Just as well be translated "the
little seal of God," In the Eskimo Bible.
Eskimo children have the same ten
derness toward the funny little things
with their mournful eyes nnd soft fur
thnt other children have toward baby
sheep.
The Eskimo Bible was one of the
most difllcult to translate, nnd has Just
been finished after 250 years of work.
Of course, to a half frozen, fur-clad
people, living In lgloos or Is it har
poons? nnd surrounded by polnr bears
and walruses, It Is next to impossible
to translate the story of the bright
colored, sun-drenched holy land. The
lungunge of n northern people is nec
essarily lacking In dozens of words
nnd phrases, and, too often, even
Idens.
But Bible translating Is like Greek
grammar there's uu exception to
every rule. The Zulus live In a coun
try ns warm nnd tropical ns the holy
land on the pleasnntest of days, but
tho Zulu Bible has offered about as
many difficulties as nny respectable
tusk has a right to offer:
In the first place, the earliest trans
lation was made by more than thirty
people working Independently. Despite
Its inaccuracy and inconsistency It
was extremely popular among the na
tives; It even shnped Zulu thought so
completely that every paragraph of
tho Zulu newspaper teems with Bible
vocabulary. But It wus Inaccurate.
Many of the mistakes were, of course,
extremely amusing. The translators
found to their surprise that lnstend of
crossing the Red sen nnd the Jordan
dry shod, the children of Israel went
over thirsty. And a literal transla
tion of the promise thnt enemies should
melt away before them, was discovered
to mean In Zulu Idiom th' ' their en
emies should be as hapny as men full
of beer.
In 1001 a new translation was be
gun. There wns still many difficul
ties. How were the translators, for
Instance, to dcscrl.be as In Isaiah 3,
18-24, the entire wardrobe of a Jewess
nt the height of tlie notion's civiliza
tion to the Zulu debutante wbo in the
heaviest winter season wears HJtle
more than a string of scarlet beads?
On the Channel Patrol.
"The weather rourd about here has
been too dumnuble for words lately,
and life nn a patrol boat has been no
etneh. ' Came down' harbor' yesterday
In a regular bllzzurd; could barely see
fifty yards ahead ot times, about three
Inches of snow nil over the ship freez
ing like the devil. There's nn Infernnl
no'westernly ' wind blowing, nnd this
packet rolls about like a sick-headache.
It's no Joke monkeying about in
a tiny craft of this slzfe, hunting 'tin
fishes.' In daylight it's bnd enough,
but nt night It's extrerm-ly dangerous,
as one can't see the seas and one's
liable to half swnmp one's self In turn
ing. And ns far as any comfort below
goes, there Isn't any. Everything Is
damp nnd cold, nnd the steward loses
the greater pnrt of your food In bring
ing It to you, and what you flnnlly re
ceive Is a cold unpalatable mess. Tet
by Heovenl It's somctMng to be out
here having a chance to bag a bally
German swine." Atlantic Magazine.
Learn Something Every Day.
In their antipathy to England nnd to
everything English, or supposedly Eng
lish, the Germnns hnve apparently un
dertaken to ellmlnnto from the spoken
nnd written Teutonic lungunge of the
dny all words of known or suspected
English origin. There comes nt first
hand this episode reported by Prof. F.
Sefton Delmer, who wns Instructor of
English in the University of Berlin
when the war broke out nnd who, from
that time until May 23 of this year was
either a civil or an Interned prisoner.
Wishing to mnke hlra uncomfortable
at a police station one dny a portler
f rail, who knew his nationality, rebuked
her departing companion for using the
word adieu. "Ach was," she called
after her, "adieu sagt man nlcht mehr.
Das 1st Engllsch."
Kit Rations for Officers.
Those Germun demigods, the officers
of the army, are now on clothing ra
tions like ordlnnry mortals. They will
henceforth only be able to secure new
uniforms on clothing cards. The new
regulation prescribes Just how exten
sive a wardrobe an officer may have,
and he will not be permitted to array
himself In excess of Its limitations.
The only special concession to officers
is that they are not required, as civil-'
inns are, to declare how much cloth
ing they already possess.
Light Work.
"Mrs. Griddles promised a tramp a
good breakfast If he would cut a littla
wood."
"Welir
"So the fellow consumed eight or ten
biscuits, ham and eggs, some potatoes
and two cupfuls of coffee."
"And then did he cut a little wood?"
"Yes. He whittled himself a tooth
Dick and said, 'Good morning."'