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American Efforts in Great War Are
Lauded by British Official
By SIR FREDERICK E. SMITH. Attorney General
1
We in this country realize the immense contribu
tion America is making to the fighting forces of the
allies and we are glad Americans are here now to see
the spirit of the British and the sacrifices they are pre
pared to make.
Never has that spirit stood higher and never have
the British been more resolute to maintain the struggle,
even for twenty years, in order that democracy might
win and Germany be shattered.
Undue and excessive expectations were entertained
regarding the speed with which the American contri
bution could he got ready. I never had any illusions on this point. Amer
ica was called upon to do in one moment a task a hundred times greater
than any nation in the world's history has been called upon to accomplish.
Never has a nation undertaken such commitments or Hung itself more
thoroughly into its task.
The very fact that we have with us in this war the sons and grand
sons of men who fought in the great struggle between the North and the
South is a source of encouragement and a precious consolation. It is
well that Englishmen and Americans should be brought together. r l hey
should create a wann friendship, as their differences are only superficial.
It is worth at least something that the Anglo-Saxon races, the lega
tees of a precious civilization, should make an,imperishable friendship.
If that is the result, then even the shipwreck of this terrible war will not
have been entirely for nought.
Ill Health Brought to Millions of People
by Lack of Vegetables
By EDWIN F. BOWERS. M. D.,in Ph y «iod Coltur*
It is notorious that in this land of plenty and reckless exploitation
of natural resources there should be—not thousands but millions—who
don't know the taste of a green salad or succulent vegetable, or a ripe
orange or grapefruit from one late summer or autumn to the next. Their
winter-time conception of a vegetable is a boiled potato or a can of
tomatoes.
Hundreds of hotels, thousands of boarding houses and scores of thou
pands of families—ignorant of the fundamental meaning of a ''balanced
ration"—hold that peas or rice or beans are "vegetably" enough to accom
pony a dish of pork or beef.
They ignore—if indeed they ever know—the fact that rice is a carbo
hydrate, a starch product, almost identical with the potato or bread they
already have—and that peas or beans are a sort of vegetable meat hash,
containing 22.85 per cent of protein (a nitrogen product, like meat)
and 52.36 per cent of starch.
'And all the while these millions are suffering from the lack of essen
tial mineral salts—lime, potash, iron and other elements that enter
largely into the composition of bones, teeth, nerves and other cell struc
tures.
As a consequence we Americans have the most rachitic hones, the
joftest, poorest teeth and the most unstable nerves of any civilized people
A perfect set of teeth is hardly to be found in a child, and among adults
they are less frequently met with than are molars among hens.
Vitamines,- too, those unanalyzed and indefinable but tremendously
Important substances that contribute so much to the general physio
logical "tone" of the body, are missing if lettuce, celery, apples and other
uncooked vegetables and fruit are missing from the dietary.
But most of all the "hay"—the bulk, made up of the fiber and cellu
lose of vegetables—is lacking when vegetables and foods, low in actual
food values but rich in water, are lacking. This is the chief reason why
the American is the most constipated biped on earth.
Merely Cutting Down Courses in No
Sense Lessens Food Consumption
By HARRIET CULVER
Returning again and again, as we must, to the subject of conserva
tion, we find that, after all, we are returning rapidly to the norm.
The period of fads seems to he passing and the wheels are slipping,
If not back into the old ruts, at least back where the going is smoother.
There's the matter of the course dinner, for instance. The elimina
tion of superfluous courses seemed the most patriotic thing imaginable
a few months ago and the hostess who dared to serve a one-course dinner
Instead of three or four courses was dubbed at once one of our most
patriotic of women.
But now even the government sees that merely cutting down the
«umber of courses in no sense lessens consumption, but does, as a matter
af fact, really increase the consumption of the very foods we are trying
hardest to conserve.
Our soldiers may have a penchant for hors d'ceuvTes, but the govern
-eat commissariat coontcnaocea ao auch frill», and we présuma that
Sk, eventually become contented with them restarted but substantial
„idling to ape government simplicity, we also cut out hors
' what do we do? Show our patriotism? By no means. Bemake
Sweater demand upon the aubstantiala which the government sorely
leeds g monopoly of in so far as ia possible.
It has been shown that small coarse meals actually increase the eon
omption of meat and wheat by 30 per cent because restricted meals do
readily satirfy and thus extra portions are called for.
T , n s then if we would be up and doing in true copybook style,
- b£* to'the courses 'that dally with lobster and terrapin and duck
*° k , cria fnnAs because by so doing we will be lessening our demand
(âme and sea foods, : muat an( f wm haTe . We will be just as good
»taota'aTwe were before the war and well be steadying market condi
""jteidrt'we all have a weakness for a varied diet anyway, and if.
S ch* comfort to know we can indulge our palates ad lib, as it wers.
NEGRO BOY !S
SAVED BY DREAM
Acts Gn Vision and. Sure Enough,
Dynamite Goes
Off.
_ I
Bristol, Tenu. —Had Benjumin Scott, !
foreman of tin- city stone quarries \
here, heeded the dream of Johnnie
Britos, a fourteen-year-old negro boy
of dwarf proportions, he would have
escaped death in a dynamite explosion.
The negro youth, who assists in
work about the pumping station and
blacksmith simp, said to Scott only
a few minutes before tlie explosion:
"Mistuli Scott, 1'se done tole you
to put de lid on dat dynamite. 1
dreamed las' night dat dis dynamite
am already '«ploded. I'se not goiu to
stay in here any more unless you cov
ers dat box."
Then young Briggs "lit out," leaving
Scott preparing to use the forge and
anvil, with the dynamite still uucov
The Dynamite Exploded.
ered. A few minutes later the dyna
mite exploded, probably due to a fly
ing spark.
Scott's legs were blown off, a negro
laborer was seriously injured and a
third man was hurled through the
doonvay.
Johnnie Briggs says the shadow- of
a bad dream will put him under cover
quicker than that long-range German
gun.
MAD STEER ON A RAMPAGE
Holds Five Men Prisoner in Trees
Until Finally Dispatched
by Rifle Shot.
Paxinos, Pa.—Five men were held
prisoners in trees on the farm of Galen
CInrk, a butcher, when a big steer sud
denly became mad, broke away from
a herd that was being driven to the
slaughter house and viciously attacked
them.
Harvey Lewis, a man of powerful
physique, tried conclusions with the
steer, was tossed high In the air, at
tacked by the animal when he landed
on the ground and suffered a badly
fractured right leg and other Injuries,
necessitating his removal to the State
hospital.
Shotguns were procured by farmers
who went to the rescue of the men in
the trees. Ten charges were fired into
the Infuriated steer, but It was not un
til Claude Lewis, a boy, brought a
high-powered rifle Into service that the
steer was killed. The animal's body
was fairly riddled with shot.
Thirteen Pool Balls
Prove Rather Unlucky
St. Louis.—Thirteen Is an un
lucky number for Edward
Schneider. He was arrested
here by Patrolman Gratiot, who
noticed his pockets bulging out.
Investigation showed they con
tained 13 pool balls.
"I just knew- I was going t#
get into trouble when they were
given to me," Schneider said.
"Thirteen Is an unlucky num
ber."
"BABY" PROVES TO BE RYE
Booze Wrapped Up to Resemble In
fant Coats Man 60-Day Sen
tence.
Greeley, Col—Six quarts of whisky,
Wrapped to resemble a baby, and
clasped fondly to the breast of Mrs.
Jesus Leon, cost her husband a sen
tence of 60 days In Jail.
The solicitous care with which Mrs.
Leon and her husband guarded the
"baby" aroused the suspicions of of
ficers when the pair alighted from a
train arriving from Wyoming. Inves
tigation disclosed a six-quart demi
john containing rare old rye. Mrs.
Leon told the officers her husband had
forced her to the deception.
Leon was sentenced for bootlegging.
Young Bride Disappears.
Chicago.—Strange visions that sud
denly obsessed Mrs. Mary Shields,
nineteen, bride of ten months, in con
nection with her mother's death two
years ago, are believed to be respon
sible for her disappearance. A coun
try-wide search is being made for her.
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fhu Afiut.Fr
WILL C0JT
jOiiLY ? 5 —
Gothamites Still Fail for the Bunk of ''Magic 1
mjKW YORK.—"Oom, the omnipotent," has fallen afoul of the district attor
nev again. The law seems to have an unkind, materialistic lack of syin
»athy toward this particular psychic who in flowing purple robes sat in his
home in West End avenue and coaxed
dollars from the credulous.
"Oom" has before been in the toils.
In appearance he looks like the flap
pocketed, silkshirted, pomaded parlor
cobra of the prewar days. He ts a
devil with the ladies who go in for the
cosmic urge, the assorted purple vi
brations, astral eccentricities, soul
harmonies, luminous personalities, and
the rest of the weird sisterhood of
psychic catch words.
There are many of these spiritual
magicians who are to be prosecuted on crude, impolite material criminal
charges. One in the Bronx collected a tangible flve-dollar bill the other day
from a worried and credulous woman w ho was persuaded that her pun hass
of a "cryptic name" would protect her son, who is an army aviator, from
any harm.
The arrest of the da pp» r "Com" and of several others has shown New
York that it has not progr ssed so very altitudinously above the cultural
level of savage magic. The amulet has less potency than in the days of
Alexander Trallianus. yet there is still a good market for it.
The wonder of the faking psychic is the class of people he attracts.
Many of his patrons are high up in the social world, hard-headed business
men fall and one famous writer was bitten by the psychic bug.
The rendezvous or retreats are in the most select neighborhoods. Doors
nre opened softly, heavy carpets deaden all footfalls and queer Egyptian
odors spoil perfectly good atmosphere. Many of the victims fall into stupors
after going through the weird practices of the various cults. One actress
recently stated at a drug investigation that site became addicted to drugs by
visiting these mystic parlors.
Isaak Walton Coppers Land Big Alcoholic Catch
C HICAGO.—The welkin rung right merrily upon the Isle of Joy, some hun
dred feet or so off the shore of Lake Calumet. It was but one o'clock
of a Sunday afternoon, and already there were many good fishermen and true
absorbing the good cheer and other
YOU'RE PWCHED
r\
things that were to be had, for a price,
Within the fishermen's lodge. James
D. Voruk, mine host, counted his
shekels and grinned.
A muddy sloop grounded on the
sandy shore. Two fishermen stepped
therefrom.
"We're hungry and—thirsty," the
fishermen said.
I "Welcome to our city," said mine
host. "All's well here. Plenty to
drink and not a cop in sight."
Thirty-five minutes after three and 71 men and a few women were
betaking of Mine Host Vorak's hospitality, when up spake the fishermen of
the muddy sloop. 4
"You're pinched," they snid.
"You bet you are," chorused 12 other fishermen, displaying police stars.
Joy departed from the isle. Several fancily dressed young men departed,
also via the lake.
The lake's trusty mud held. The fancily dressed bucks stuck tight till
hauled out by the grinning coppers. Boats were requisitioned and an hour
later 76 men and four women were lodged In the Kensington police station.
One of these was Vorak, who was charged with selling liquor without a
license, operating a public nuisance, and contributing to the delinquency of
children. The others were charged with being Inmates of a public nuisance.
Gallant Old Skipper and His Sixty Young Girls
N EW YORK.—The skipper of a well-known tug was seen hanging around
the Battery at a very late hour the other alght. He strolled up and dowa
and occasionally went over to the Eastern to gargle his throat and have a
confab with Hoboken John. *" +K, '*
THEU-O,
CAP*
______ _____________ As this
particular skipper was seldom see$
about .after hours, the curiosity of tüé
"regulars" at the Battery and South
Ferry was thoroughly aroused.
Bobby Peach, the clam sage of
South street, and the Battery Dolphin
held a conference and 'lowed as how
sumpln' was up, while Joe Mury, the
Battery'9 family policeman, shook his
li^ad and said maybe Captain-was
going to sow some wild oats In his old
nge. So Bill Quigley Just went right
up to Captain-and asked him how about it. Just like that. Can t a man
have a date with some girls without you fish gettin' all bet up about it?"
demanded the skipper.
"Girls !" gasped Bill. "Girls ! Ain't one enough for in old barnacle like
you? How many y'gonna meet, anyhow?"
"Oh, 'bout 60," replied the tugboat captain, complacently.
That was too much for Bill. He went away and told the rest of the bunch
and a close watch was kept on the skipper.
"Guess the pore ol' feller's lost one of his oarlocks or sumpln'," sighed
Bobby Peach, sympathetically.
Then the girls showed up. Sixty of them. And they all cried, ' Hello,
Capl Greetings, skipper!" Then they climbed aboard the old man's tug and
sailed out Into the night.
The explanation Is that they were nil Red Cross nurses (and pretty ones,
too), living on Ellis island while awaiting transportation to Frunce. Some
body had given them a theater party and Captain- was delegated to see
that they got back to the islund, the regular ferry—that most frivolous of
vessels—having broken down.
Riverside Drive Attracts Visitors in New York
N EW YORK.—Riverside drive is the mecea for visitors these beautiful day*.
Its delightful, shady walks are crowded with strangers, both civilians and
men In uniform, who represent every nation In the scrap on the side of the
allies, while the drives stream with
vehicles of all descriptions from the
flivver to the big sightseeing cars, all
come to view the picturesque Hudson
river and get a glimpse of the foreign
warships. This spot is one of New
York's most beautiful avenues and few,
If any, thoroughfares in America sur
pass it In natural beauty and attract
iveness. The charms of the scenery
have been enhanced by the landscape
gardener and the roadway, as It n®w
exists, is a triumph of engineering
ekill. Vast sums have been expended in its construction and maintenance.
Long before the Revolution this portion of Manhattan was occupied by the
euburban residences of wealthy New Yorkers, and the banks of the Hudson
were dotted with country villas and estates. In most cases th«** homes were
60 situated that when the drive was opened they either had to be removed to
make way for the roadbed or were set so far back as to be entirely off the
lane. The plan of this magnificent roadway was conceived by William M.
Tweed when he was in the height of his political powet* but it was not
opened until 1880. The drive first gained a national reputation in 1885 when
General Grant was buried there. In spite ctf its natural beauty and pure
air, Riverside drive has never approached Fifth avenue as a fashionable
residence thoroughfare.
When improvements began it was freely predicted that the Drive would
tfval, if not surpass, Fifth avenue, but this prophecy failed of fulfillment
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cerity Should Con
vince Others.
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end was cured. I
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HOW HE WAS EMPLOYED
Colored Man Explained to General
Clarke Exactly His Portion
With the Railroad.
An all too fast disappearing genera
tion of older railroad executives nre
accustomed when recalling Gen. James
C. Clarke, for many years before hi#
death president of the Illinois Central,
to speak of his stately courtliness, the
wann Southern tinge of his hospitality
and the depth and breadth of his per
sonal charity,which ever kept him In
lean purse. But the general, says the
Wall Street Journal, was also a live
railroader, no respecter of mere cus
tom, and well to the fore in the era
which transferred Chicago from a
Lake Michigan port to the largest in
terior continental city In the world.
General Clarke was found of telling
how In the postbellum days an order
was Issued from the head office of one
Southern system that no more per
sonal valets should he carried on the
pay rolls, and that the name of the
bureau of which it was port should be
painted on the door of each room.
Shortly aft«?r the president, on a
personal Inspection tour, opened the
door of a very small room and con
fronted an ancient negro of eminently
respectable and respectful mien. Said
the president :
"You black rebel, are you still here?"
"I shoa Is," he bowed.
"And what pay roll are you on?"
"I doan't know what pay roll, gln
eral. but I bresh de colonel's coat,
black his shoes, comb his hair and
6ech. He says to me Jes like dis : 'Mu
Jor, he says, *ef dat damned tool old
gineral come roun' hyar axin' whut
yoah air doin' hyar Jes tell 'm,* axing
yoah honah's pardon, Tm in de depart
ment of accident superfluousness.' "
A man who Is supposed to know say»
that marriage without love Is like trip#
without onions.
EveryltmelEat
POST
Toasties
(Maps Of Corn)
Dad says —
tat em up Bob
Youre saving
wheat for
the boys rr
France"