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ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD, ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. 0. To Make the Education of the Public School Children More Practical By MARY KINO SHERMAN, General Federation of Women' Clubl info practical, cation" includes demic teaching by schedule. It must give the pupil facts and training that will be alwavs useful. It must deal with the realities of the environ ment of the individual. It must make clear the homely truths of every. day life. It must concern itself with the nature and working of the phys. ical world around us. It must give full value to the educational, economic nd spiritual worth of nature's methods and processes. And it must be education that results in a tangible, vital force in the consciousness of the individual. , The department is working for open of every state. The purpose is to bring together tne women oi eacn county, to show them their community needs and how they may co-operate through community groups and to point out the ways in which the General Fed nfinn of Wnmon'i China mav be of service. These conferences are de voted to the consideration of the work of the three divisions of the applied education department education, home economics and conservation of natural resources. The beneficial effects of these open county conferences, followed by community group co-operation, cannot be overestimated. This program makes the women see for themselves their own home and community needs and shows them how these may be met It is based upon action-instead of theory and actually functions in the lives of women. It stimulates initiative, inspires and develops leadership and increases the sense of indi Tidual responsibility to the community. It results in the development of better American' citizens. United States' Foreign Trade Policy Should Be Live and Let Live By FRANK A. VANDERLIP, New York Financier The very necessity of her situation will compel Germany to organize her industries on the most efficient possible basis, which means low pro duction costs. It is up to us to meet German efficiency with equal or greater efficiency, not for the purpose of killing off German foreign trade, but simply to maintain our position. Our foreign trade policy should in the ca of both England and Germany, their existence as great nations depends upon their ability to export great quantities of goods. Their ex port trade is vital to them. With us foreign trade is important but not vita). ' There had been developed over a the greatest intricacy and delicacy for the exchange of goods among na tions. The war smashed this machine into bits. It will require time, great intelligence and much patience to put it together again. With No Revolvers, the Holdup Man's Victims Would Have a Chance By JOHN R. THOMPSON, Citizen disarmament! Aside from world disarmament there is noth ing so important to'civilization. This is my opinion and incidentally explains why I have inserted in several newspapers an advertisement reading thus: "I will pay $1,000 to anyone who will give one good reason why the revolver manufacturing industry should be allowed to exist in America and enjoy the facilities of the mails." The revolver always has been and still is a menace to any community. It is merely a weapon for the thug, the holdup man and the murderer. It is impossible to turn to any useful purpose, as one uses the rifle or shotgun. Where would our holdup in Chicago today, be, if he could not get hold of a revolver? He couldn t very well go round packing a shotgun or rifle, and if he carried only a piece of lead pipe or club the victim would at least have a fighting chance. I have long been convinced the revolver should go and the advertise ment is the first of a series to arouse public sentiment against it as the initial step toward a bill in congress banning the making of small firearms. Matrimonial Happiness Wrecked by Helpmeets Who Wouldn't Talk By JUDGE JOSEPH Novelists have devoted carlods of people believe the most unfortunate of tive wife. But they're all wrong. Fifty per cent of the men who come to, my court seeking a divorce have had their chance for matrimonial hap piness wrecked by wives who wouldn't talk. The most dangerous sort of a helpmate is the woman who sulks. I believe the majority of unhappy husbands are tired of their wives because the latter sulk and refuse to talk when they are displeased with something the husband has or has not done. When a man says, "Dear, did you have a good time at the movie, this afternoon?" and the wife answers by tilting her chin in the air and calmly ignoring the fact that her husband has addressed her, there's going to be trouble. ' : - ' .' .- , You see, a man is vain. He thinks every statement he makes should be carefully heeded. When his wife attempts to chastise him by refusing to talk, his pride is hurt. Frequently he tries the same plan.. Then it is not very long until the home is as quiet as a tomb and the air is charged with divorce electricity. "Jaburo Shimada, Japanese oratorThe nations of the world are stag gering under the pressure of the evergrowing burdens of naval and mili tary expenditures, so that the limitation of armaments will meet with an enthusiastic reception from all peoples. A restriction of armaments can be realised if an understanding is arrived at between the United States, Great Britain and Japan. , SenaW Hames E. Watson of Indiana We should make definite ar- rangementsplth our debtors to pay the sum, ftj k we may have definite cipett frorf ' it quarter. rpett frorf ' 4 Applied Education, as a General Federation de partment title, is so new that a definition from our viewpoint is justified and is found in one of the pur poses of the department. -This purpose is, in brief, to make the education of public school children more In this 1921 civilization "practical" cannot be comprehensively defined. Nevertheless, "Applied Edu certain essentials. It must be real education, of practical value as contrasted with aca county conferences in every county be live and let live, recognizing that period of many years a machine of Chicago Restaurant Man man, doing such a thriving business SABATH, Chicago paper and barrels of ink in making husbands is the one who has a talka a fixed amount each year, whatever assurances of just how much we may OUR S Department Devoted to Attractive Magazine Material jiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1 SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ByF.A. ajlllllllllllilllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllilllillllllllllllllllllllliiilllliiililiilllltlllllllllllr. THE QUESTIONER. WHEN Shakespeare wanted to ex press the tragedy Involved in the snuffing out of the life of his most Intellectual character, be did It by thesa words, "The rest U silence." He might have put It In another way, by saying that Hamlet would ask no more Questions. For that was bis most disconcerting habit. Keeping silence before a puzzling world, and a puzzling universe, Is something, that man has never done. The human being who Just asked the reason for the first nightfall and the first appearance of the stars stood on the threshold of all modern scientific Investigation. ' So, If It were necessary to find a definition of man which would differ entiate him from all the rest of crea tures, It would be sufficient to say of him: "He Is the animal that asks questions." Rudyard Kipling In a striking line talked of "the law of the Jungle." The writers of fables have not pulled the long bow In attributing to the beasts the sense of Justice, even If they were making fun of society In doing so. So the Hon stands for the maker of rules, aud the monkey for him who evades them. So law Is not peculiar to the chil dren of Adam. - The animals know political econ omy. "Go to the ant thou sluggard," said King Solomon. This little creature shows what can be done through the organized efforts of thousands of Insects, whose opera tions could be stopped In a moment by the foot of a passing giant In the shape of a mischievous boy. So business organization Is not ex clusively human. It Is Impossible to look at the combs of a beehive without realizing that the creatures who made It know geom etry and architecture. The cells are so constructed as to give the maximum of strength with the minimum of expenditure In the way of material. So the Brooklyn bridge, or the dome of St Peter's, Is not a proof of human superiority. There is a solitary eagle to be seen every day, soaring over a lake In west ern Ontario. Once be had a mate. But she disappeared one winter. Since then the widower has never married. The natives say that It Is the habit of these birds to be perpetually true to their first find only love. So constancy Is not the exclusive virtue of our race. When Christ wanted to express his affection for Jerusalem, he could think of nothing better to say than that he would have gathered Its people about btm, as a hen gathers her chickens un der her wings. This timid bird will face any peril if she thinks that her young are In danger. In the same way the bear of the North woods, which will fly before man under ordinary circumstances, will fight to the death If she thinks her cubs are threatened. So family affection and devotion do not set mankind apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Only the other day a raccoon at the Bronx zoological gardens in New York, was In danger of starving to death be cause the gatekeeper who had tamed uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimimimimimiiiiiiii's I THE GIRL ON THE JOB I How to 9ucceed How to Get E Ahead How to Make Good E By JESSIE ROBERTS fllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllT AN AVERAGE JOB. ARE you going to be content with an average Job, which can be filled by any girl, or do you want a career? It the latter, you must recognize the im porta nee of sound training. Take two girls. oth determine that stenography Is the opening they win seek. One takes the usual course and enters an office at the ordinary salary She can do the average thing, and that Is all. The other girl Isn't satisfied with inch a future. 8he takes Spanish and French, and studies English, both com mercial and cultivated. She studies the requirements of a big position, and works for it She puts In an extra year of work before accepting a posi tion and once at work she continues her studies. She will be one of the few thorough ly equipped women for the position she has In mind. She will get that po sition in time. And she will be mak ing two or three times what her friend la at the end of ten years, and have, moreover, the assurance of a perma nent position and real recognition. Be cause the thoroughly trained person Is rare, and the firm who secures her won't let her go it can help Itself. A girt can specialize In bank work, In technical work, secretarial work or for Mg business. And this Is only In the one line of stenography, There art hundreds of other lines, and, in each the trained and ambitious worker wilt be at a premium. Don't be, con tent with the average Job. (Copyright). ' FEATURE ECTIOq iiiiiiitmmiHiimiiniiiiiiiimimiHe WALKER and petted him had been sent to the hospital. The animal would not take food from a stranger. So fidelity and gratitude are not con fined to the lords of creation. But there Is no reason to believe that the beasts of the Jungle that have their hunting laws, or the ants that lay up their store for winter, or the bees that know practical geome try, or the eagle that mourns his dead Wife forever, or the hen that protects her chickens, or the bear that Is fear less of rifles, or the raccoon that Is faithful to his master, ever asked any questions about the why and where fore of filings. On the other hand, from the dawn of history, we find man worrying over the riddle of the universe. This too In spite of the fact that, even In the beginning of things he felt that be would never be able to solve It So he Invented language to convey his questions to ( his neighbors and alphabets to write them down for his children. He Invented mathematics In order to compute the motions of the stars. By all his questioning he has suc ceeded in pushing back the curtain that hangg around his universe. Yet he knows perfectly well that In spite of all that his Newtons, Darwlns, Eln stelns and Curies may do, what Her bert Spencer called "the unknowable" will always elude him. But as long as he follows the gleam he will be man, as God made him. (Copyright). SCHOOL DAYS 5nci mi DaT ! mm L The wisest pilgrim Is me one who goes Along the highway, hour by hour con tent To take the rain or ahlne the skies have sent; Who counts his riches In each budded rose; Each song the thrush through vernal branchee throws; Each marvel of the sunrise; each dusk blent Of mystery and fragrant sacrament; Each star that In the heaven burns and glows. PALATABLE DI8HES. A HANDFUL of green onions, a cupful of cooked rice, a cupful of thick white sauce, a cold hard-cooked egg and a little cheese may make a very palatable luncheon dish. Cook the tender young onions until well done; drain. Butter a small baking dish and put In the rice, cover with the drained onions, add a sprinkling of grated cheese the white sauce and bake nntll bubbling hot Serve from the dish. The rice should be well sea soned with butter, or with a chicken broth while It is cooking. Banana Cream. Slice three ripe bananas, press through a sieve, add a small box of crushed strawberries, reserving part of the juice; beat together lightly and set on Ice to cool. Serve In glass cups with whipped cream to which has been added the reserved straw berry Juice. Serve very cold. During the hot weather the simple and less expensive desserts appeal to the housewife. Frozen dishes, when prepared at home, are always accept able and cost very little. Lemon Sherbet Take three lemons, two cupfuls of sugar and a quart of rich milk. Mix the sugar and lemon Juice, add a grated rind if desired, then stir In the milk. The mixture will curdle bat when frozen will be smooth and very palatable. Serve In sherbet glasses. Tittle Tnwtii tm. lilt. Wester Newspaper Ualea.) Wook LYRICS OF LIFE By DOUGLAS MALLOCH GEE AND HAW. A FELLAH had a fair of mules That knew no laws and knew no rules But geed for haw and hawed for gee And went contrary gener'ly. The darnedest mules you ever see. If both had geed when It was haw, While that ain't Just exactly law, It would of worked out purty good, If once the thing was understood And they done what you thought they would. But not these two. If old July, When you yelled "gee," to gee would try. Old January, 'totlier one, Observln' what July had done, Would start to hawln' on the run. So gee and haw and haw and gee, But never slmultan'ously, They went through life, and kicked more dirt And done less work and done more hurt Than two hyentes, I assert And I've seen folks Just like them mules, Who wed, but never read the rules. Who didn't know you had to wear The marriage collar fair and square And pull together everywhere. One can't have baw and one have gee: To gee or haw you must agree And then go forward, gee or haw, Accordingly, without no Jaw And that's good sense, and that's good law. (Copyright). THE ROMANCE OF WORDS "BLIGHTY." THE number of slang words and phrases which have slipped Into the language by rea son of the Babel which resulted when men of many nations gath ered In the great melting pot of the allied army Is a long one, but one of the most typical Is "bllghty" the English collo quial equivalent for "home.' Prior to the commencement of the recent great World war the majority of the British army was stationed In India and much of their slang consisted of words and phrases adapted from the language of the na tives. "Belalt" Is a common In dian name for England, and, aa If to add another parent to the ancestral tree of "bllghty," the Inhabitants of Hindustan speak of "home" as "bhllatl." The similarity of the two expres sions naturally impressed the British soldier, and It was not long before be corrupted them Into "bllghty" using It as a noun when he referred to his native soil and as an adjective when be wanted to express something connected with his return. A "bllghty wound," therefore, meant an Injury se rious enough to necessitate be ing sent back home to England. While the word failed to gain great popularity among the American soldiers, it appeared with considerable frequency In stories and reports from the front and will doubtless be used far more widely than before. (Copyright) Potentially Genuine. . "Walter, I ordered chicken soup. What do you call this?" "That's It sir young chicken soup." "Young chicken soup I What do yon mean by thatl", t. "Well, It's the wter w boiled the eggs In, sir." Boston Timiscrlpt QTteQ toi(M IKM (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Lexlon News Servtoe.) LEGION MEN LIKE HIS TYPE State Adjutant of Minnesota Made Numerous Efforts Before Ac cepted for War Service. Horace G. Whltmore began serv ing under Pershing early. He was holding down a pivot In the cadet battalion at the University of Ne braska In' 1895 lr i'h wlien ,the future s'iinui nan e command ant there. Incidental ly Mr. Whltmore and General Per shing formed a friendship on the campus which en dures to the pres ent day and which found expression after the armistice, when the C-ln-C, Inspecting the One Hundred and Fifty first field artillery In Germany, left a crowd of generals, wnlked over to a stubby little first sergeant, thrust out his hand and said: "Whltmore, I am glad to see you." Whltmore was born In Dnyton, O., In 1873; was brought up ori a farm In Nebraska, and graduated from the state university there In 1805. He was a contractor In Minneapolis In 1017, when he presented himself for admission to the first series of of ficers' training camps. He was re jected as being overweight. Back to the farm went Whltmore. In four weeks he took off 20 pounds and asked to be admitted to the second series of training camps, but the sur geon said: "Too fat to fight." An other examiner said: "Too old." Whltmore went from recruiting of fice to recruiting office until he be came a private in Battery B, One Hun dred and Fifty-first field artillery, Forty-second division. He went over seas with the outfit and served with it through the war, participating in every engagement In which the Rain bows took part When discharged lie was Induced to become state adjutant of tne Ameri can Legion for Minnesota. He has done much for the development of the Legion In the Northwest. Mr. Whltmore recently resigned from that position to accept the directorship of a company formed for the manufac ture of an automobile accessory de vice which he invented. WAS BORN UNDER LUCKY STAR Indianapolis .Legion Man Sustained . Twenty-Six Wounds During His 8ervlce In War. Wounded 20 times and glad It wasn't 27, William N. Evnns, Indian apolis, Ind., still believes he was born under a lucky star. He walked Into national head quarters of the American Legion the other day seeking "Just any kind of work that will keep tny mind occupied." H e said he was an overseas veteran. "I'm still a bit weak, "I was wounded." When pressed for'detalls he owned up to 20 wounds In four major of fensives. A Job was made for lilra, clerical work that would "keep his mind occupied" but which would be consistent with 20 wounds. Evans was a private In the Twenty- elphth Infantry, First division, A ma chine gun got him at Cantlgny, a bayonet came next at Solssons; he was struck by shrapnel In the St Mlhlel push and In the Argonne a one-pounder shell hit him a glancing blow on the chin before It exploded. When It went off almost under him 22 pieces of shrapnel peppered his body. He remained on the battlefield 80 hours before he was picked up. "But I'm happy Just the same," Evans says. "This job keeps me from being a loafer and pays Just enough with my government compensation for me to get married. I guess I was born lucky." Benefit Performance. For some time the benign old gen tleman sat watching the novice in his vain attempts to land a fish. Finally the angler was reduced to big last worm and still no catch. "Cheer up, son," said the old gen tleman. "They're biting well for you at any rate." "No, they ain't," retorted the other aggrlevedly. "They're bltln' for their own personal benefit that's what they are." American Legion Weekly. The Latest Alibi. The Boss Well, what excuse this time 7 Grandmother dead again, I suppose? The O. B. No sir I Grandmother wants me to take her to the game and point out all the best-known play ers. American Legion Weekly. Flag for Each Casket The American flag Is henceforth to be draped about the caskets of all ex- service men dying In hospitals In this country, as a result of conferences be tween members of the American Le gion's national legislative committee, the surgeon general of the United States public health service and the director of the bureau of war risk In surance. A Treasury department rul ing has now been obtained whereby the purchase of a flag for this purpose will be permitted as1 a part of the funeral expenses defrayed by the government am LEGION CHAPLAIN SETS PACE Iowa Department Official, Elected ' Sheriff, Wilth Aid of Buddies, Rounds Up Criminals. ' - When veterans of the World war in Des Moines, la., elected Rev. W. H. Robb, chaplain of the Iowa depart ment of the Amer ican Legion, tQ the office Of sheriff of Polk county, they dis regarded party linen for the good of tto community. The Legion chap lain ran far ahead of his op ponent in the face . of a landslide. After he assumed his office, Sheriff Robb set a pace that woke up the county. He seized more illicit liquor and bootleggers in the first 00 days of his terni than his predeces&or ob tained In two years. His 21 deputies were almost all members of the Amer ican Legion. Then he turned his attention to an alleged graft ring composed of Des . Moines police officials. He caused the demotion of the chief of police, his as sistant and the chief of detectives. Chaplain Robb was a theological student at Drake university in Des Moines when war was declared. In some manner he succeeded In obtain ing a commission as a chaplain In the army before he was ordained and went overseas with the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth infantry. He served 18 months In France, was decorated with a D. S. C. for bravery under fire and was Idolized by the doughboys of bis regiment. Upon his return he wrote and pub lished "The Price of Our Heritage," a book depicting the prominent part In the World war taken by men of Iowa. MANY NURSES BEING SOUGHT Three Hundred Graduates Are Needed to Serve In New Hospitals for Veterans. A nation-wide canvass to obtain three hundred graduate nurses to care for sick and wounded veterans of the World war Is being made by Mrs. Mary A. Hlckey, assistant superintendent of nurses, U. S. pub lic health service, and a member Springfield (Mass.) post of the Ameri can Legion. "We are ready to onen ud two new hospitals for our wounded and disabled men at Chelsea, Mass., and Oulfport, Miss., as soon as we can re cruit 300 nurses to take care of the boys," said Mrs. Hlckey. The record of Mrs. Hlckey In the World war Includes service as nurse with both the French and American armies. She was a member of Base Hospital unit No. 87 at Toul and later served as chief nurse at Fort Mo Henry, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Hlckey can be reached at the Polyclinic hospital, 845 West Fiftieth street New York city, and win give full Information upon request Ap plication blanks, however, for this service may be obtained from the chief nurse. Polyclinic hospital, or di rect from the surgeon general, C. 8. public health service, Washington, d. c. I FOLLOWED YANKS BACK HOME Member of London Rifle Brigade Like American Boya and Is Anxious , to Ba Citizen. j Tommy Atkins and the doughboy might have aired different views when London en tertained a por tion of the Ameri can Expeditionary Force, and there are few cases where Tommy fol lowed the Yanks back home. Baden Grlndle of the London Rifle Brigade did, how ever. The Ameri cans were bis bud dies up and down Piccadilly Circus and he swapped yarns and magazines with them in London hospitals. He grew homesick for them last summer and caught the next boat out of Liverpool. Although be will not be eligible for membership In the American Legion until he becomes an-American cttl ren, Grlndle wanted to show the ex service men's organization where he stood. While in hospital he passed away his idle moments In making a large replica of the American Legion emblem on a brass plate. A buddy lent him a Legion button as a model He took the plate to national head qunrters of the Legion recently aa a token of friendship and asked If some one wouldn't have a law passed so he could become a citizen without further ado. Grlndle Is now working In a photo-. graphic stndlo In Indianapolis, Ind., counting the days nntll be can be come a full-fledged bnddy. I Nipped In the Bud. j A buddy stopped drlnklna- Budweleer, Hie buddy said to him: "Bud, why, Hrf The flrat buddy said: "I've a much clearer head And feel certain I'm a bud wiser." Amerloaa Legion Weekly. Will Attend Convention. A delegation of 150 American Legion members will attend the annnal con vention at Kansas City from one Le gion post at Blackwell, Okla. The post Is already making arrangements for special Pullmans to be attached to the American Legion train which will carry delegates from the western part of the state. The train will start at Oklahoma City.; Delegates from the eastern part of the state will travel on a train which will originate at Tulsa, ".'' i (.Ljy..-. J of 1 I 1 lillt ,-at- .(. y ...