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THE GROIBLS BOX
iiouatuoiUg iws*; menUets are
auMicteu lo grumuuutf may »eil
.luUi' l lily ilieliioUo SUfcgcfcted U)'
Joel Ciiauuler Harris, ireaiOr oi
" Lndt Kemus,"' to 1114 dauguters:
•» grumble bos." ami
gruiuoles must place a ccpptr iu
iU<: box.'' It proved most euettive
in promotiug happiness iu tue Har
ns xauuly.
There are unodubtedly many £ami
lies that caa th> helped Ly Uncle
Kemus' •"grumble os,' Tlieie must
cc but little real «.\>mfort in any
household where there is unreason*
aDle grumoliAg. 'Ihe cur© should
i»- o' a grade character, iticonsid
era:la complaint^ by th<» he-ids uf
lamilies should cost 50 cents. Kid*
est aous and daughters 25 cents tuid
youngest docked 2 cents to 5 cents
in their pocket money. Under pen*
altirs ilk© these there would be
tnwight before fault-findng talk.
Who would criticize the bread
and coffee in the morning, the time
when, tempers are least under cou*
tro' if each stricture cost 50 cents.
The grumole box could be depend
•*' upon to euro sister's sarcasm,
brother's ill-timed witticisms aud
make clamors and scowls xery ex
pensive. The grumble box could
be depended upon also to promote
domestic amenities and provide,
whiie its usefulness lasted, capital
for War Savings Stamp investaieut&
for the good of the whole family.—
Boston Post.
K1U GAL TABLE FOR AMERKMSV
It Will not be bo haul, for the
victory we doubted ia d-^rk d<ays
has i>t;eu won. With, the next bar
vest tbe demand upon, our bounty
will decliue. No cargo will be lost
in transit now. The *'i'l °0
covered with relief ships sailing
from ail Darts °f the world. What
Americana are asked to do indiv
idually is to get along with enough,
to nourish them, conscientiously to
keen a frugal table, to suomit
cheerfully to the regulations of the
Food Administration; in other
words, to forego the superfluous thai
millions of fellow human beings
shall have bread, if no more, to sus*
tain life.
One of the last efforts of those
In the United States ^'ho found it
difficult t-. reconcile themselves to
thj» President's going to Europe at
thi-» time was based upon a law
found in Section 1796 of the nation
al Revised Statutes, reading, "AH of.
fires attached to the seat of gov
ernment shall be exercised in the
District of Columbia and aot else*
w here, except as otherwise expressly
provided' for by law." The all
sufficient answer to this, of course,
that the office of President of the
United States i« not attached to the
government. It has been exercised
In m-iny other plncs, nr.' i' 'an be
exercised anywhere. Abraham Lin
coln took it abotat with him a
grea» deal during tho Civil War.
Nobody can sign <tny document in
tha United' States B0 President While
he ia away. Hq cannot delegate hia
authority. The Vle-President «an
not act ag Presidernt. There is no
provision in the Constitution for a
President of the Uflited States ad
interim. Papers silgned by Woodrow
Wilson as President, in France or j
In any other country, will be as
Talid> as if signed within the juris
diction of the United states. In
the case of heads of departments,
however, acting officials for the the
different places may be named In
th« absence of Chiefs. Mr. Polk,
tor Instance, is to bg Secretary of
St*te ad interim whiel Mr. Lansing
Is absent. How, then, atout the
next in succession to Mr. Wilson?
His status does not change at all.
Mr. Marshall will still be Vlce-Presi
desct.—Christian Science Monitor.
"Office windo"w" of the Daily
■Chronicle of London was once told
* nleasing littla anecdote by Dame
Agues Weston, the friend of sial
ors, concerning jam tarts. Some
lady helper at a Bailors' rest had
been mistaken enough to hand; the
sailros tratcg while they ,were
having a meaL Mis* Weston advis
ed tnat some better method should
be adopted. The tracts were then
olacej4n a pile oo the buffet coun
ter, with a card inscribed "Please
take oue." A sailor with a sense
of fun transferred the card to a
disa of jam tarts, and, as the rush
•o the buffet began, the servers were
amazed to see sailor after sailor
lift a tart and walk away, wihile
the tracts remained in an undimin
ished pile. ' A jj
•otiil seeking to establish who or !
what wag most important in winning
the war, aa »naoiynious editorial
writer bag made an interesting and
plausibly case for King Edwaid VII
of England. Th« argument, there
fore, looks before the event and
resta on th$ power exerted during
hig lifetime by that nionaj-oh in
creating the> friendly feeling between
Great Britain and other countries
that prepared, the way for a genuine
8n<i effective alliance against the
design^ and armed force of Ger
many. And for just these activi*
ties it is said that King Edward's
undesirable cousin admitted being
afraid of him.—Christian Science
'Monitor.
Having helped to win the war by
honest N>U in his own little back
y*rd patch, it may- easily happen
thai many a war gardener will turn
l»is war gardem into a peace gar"
deu, and keep right on raising his
own iruck, rising, suj>erior to any
ueace-time temptations to indolence.
PiPe it ever so lively, the tim® of
peace will still afford opportunity
for a man to s^ve money by culti
vating a garden.
We thought the population of
Germany was greater tb^n this; or
ha3 the total fatal casualties been
withheld?
"According: to the British Board
ol Agriculture the number of hogs
in Germany now numbers about 5,*
uOO.OOO as compared with 2","
OoO.OOO before the war."
XiEST WE POKuET
By Kill StinRCr
a v. •
E«et not the carping spirit
Oj mistaken years ^
Put any tinge of slackness
Id the terror of vour ckeery
When Britain's name is mentioned.
For, by her glorious teeds.
She shows the kind of ftptrit,
That the Anglo-Saxon breeds.
The flower of her manSrod
Sleep® beneath fair France s sod.
Where bravely they fell fighting
Tn defense of home and God;—
Let Columbia's Sons remember
That, through blood and Mother's
tears.
Great Britain held' her trendhes
Uncomplainingly r«v yeart.
Blood calls to Wood across the
seas—
The ancient spirit lives,
And, to our mighty aaswer,
An added meaning gives—
The olden night h"s vanished',
Dawns now the golden day,
The noble flood of British bloodf
Has washed all scars away.
—Pcrtland Telegram.
MAN Y PERISHED IX HUN
PRISONS FROM JnOGtECT
London, Deo. 18.—Beach White,
writing for the Times from Coiogne,
sajf that prisoners now on their
way <o England tell him that deaths
in one German prison "camp aver
aged seventy-five a day, as the re*
suit of starvation and medical ne
glect Twenty-eight Frenchmen di&d
on the morning before evacuatiort,
YANKS OCCOT
HUN GIBflALTAR
Coblenz, Jan. 2. — The German
fortress of Eh.eutneltsteia, some
time called the Gibraltar of the
Rhine, 011 the opp.site Lank of Uie
river from Coblenz, was occupied
by American troops Friday. The
commautier of the Ame;ican forc
es is Col. Robert Boycrs, a W«st
Point graduate of 1903. .
'llie fortress, which is situated on
a rocky promontory 400 feu above
the rivar aud occupies more than
100 acres, will ac oinmodate thous
ands of men. It will be used* for the
present as the resiment&l headquart
ers of the First Pioneer infantry
am! two battalions of pioneeis.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITl EI)
And so in the strife of tlie tattle
ox life
It's easy to fight when you're win
ning;
It's easy to slave, and starve and
be brave,
When 'he tlAwu of success ig be
g Inning.
But the niau who can mod des-pair
and defeat
With a cheer, there's the n'a" °*
God'g choosing;
The nian who can fight to Hen en's
own height
Ig fhe man who can fight when he's
losing. —Robt. Service.
Portland, Or.,— ("lo the Editor of
The Telegram.) — Your edl.o.ial,
" Let's Not Be Braggarts," was good.
I' ,>eems to me out of place to claim
♦ha- the "Yanks did it" after what
the allies h&ve suffered these l"8t
four years and over, Great Britain
witj her million dead aud France
the same .
In contrast to the hnggadacio
tUV has been manifest here recently
let me quote the following, taken
from an article written by Mujor
General Maurice .formerly chief of
staff of the British army. After
reviewing the military situation, he
said; "I wonder how many peo
ple thgre are in England today who
realize that our armies accomplished
one ot th© greatest feats of this
war, or any other. "When in the
darkness of th© night they attacked
on a 20-mile front °nd broke thru
'he lost defenses of the Hindenburg
system, it was a flttiug climax to a
fortnight of bitter fightiug thiough
tha» labyrinth of fortifications."
Moie than «•. fortnight later an
.honorable member asked in the
house of commons whether it was
really true that the British troops
were the first through the Hinden
Durg system.
Hq finished by saying: "Truly, we
art a iiueer people. Any other na
tion would have been weary of sing
iug the praises of such generalship
and valor.-'
It might be well for us to remem
Der that the first props knocked
frcm under the triple alliance waa
when Bulgaria went out, fol
lowed by Turkey and Auhtria Hun
gary. The first trio America hadn't
declared war upon, and only one
American regiment was opposed to
the Austrian^ when they sued for
pac.
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Yovk World*: "This fact must never
l>e forgotten, that when the final
victory over Prussianism is won the
triumph will be more due to the in"
tervention of British sea power
than to any; other single factor. It
is th > fashion of certain Americans
tr% belittle the achievements of the
British in this war, forgetting that
if it hadn't been for Great Britain
the war would long ago have been
over and Prussianism would hftve
the world at its mercy."
Let's give the Yanks th© credit
that is due them nut let us not de
tract from the allies, who have gone
through hell for over four years,
the credit that is d"ue them.
Phil's Gibbs, British war cor
respondent in The Telegram paid
hig respects to the British Tommy
I by saying: "Poor old Tommy, you
have had a rough time, and you hat
ed It, but. by the living Gcd. you
have been patient and long-suffer
ing and full of grim and silent
courage, not swanking a^out the
things that you have done, net car
ing i jot for glory, not getting mucl
dash, but now you have done youi
joo and done it well.'"
Let's try to follow the British
Tommy's example.
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Anchorage, — Dogs are the cnly
I kind of livestock that ootherg the
[government railroad ly trespassing
[ on the right-of-way. They have
become such a nuisance that an of
j ficial circular has been issued by
j William Gerig, engineer in charge
01' the Anchorage division, warning
heir owners of the danger risked
by animals making use of the road*
Ded, and' igving notice that in the
event that any of them should be
run over by trains the federal trans
porta"on system could not be held
responsible.
Drivers of dog team* travel a
lon<» the roadbed: of the government
railroad at every opportunity. It
is a fine trail, Bmooth and lightning
fast, for the daily operation or
trains packs the snow tight and
hard between the rails. At trestles,
over whi,h. dogs pulling pleds can
not travel very well, there are im
provised shoo-tly roads that detour
the spauwayB.
There have oeeu several narrow
escape* from serious accidents by
dog sled outfits on the railroad!
right-of-way. This condition is
oelieved to be unique in the history
of railroading. Cowb, horses and
sheep, which ofttimes worry operat
ing officials and claim departments
o' transportation systems in the
states, neve- occasion conoem to
the irovernment railroa.<i Alaska.
Dogs seldom, if ever, would? en
croach on the Northland's line if
they were not driven there. Mr.
Gerlg's official circular on the
subject fololws:
"Drivers of dog teams are warn
ed to keep their outfits off the
traces and right-of-way of the
government railroad. On the Sew
ard-Andiorage line, south of An
chorage, and on the main line, norll
o' Anchorage, the space between the
rai'l3 is used by dog teams, greatly
to the do-nger of the outfits and
their drivers. IV>r any accidents
to ihtm the government railroad
can not be held responsible."
UN BANDIT
GEIS SENTENCE
Denver, Colo., Jan. 2.—Eva Lewis
memBer of the bandit gang which
terrorized the Colorado Springs
and Denver districts in September,
was sentenced to serve from five
to seven years in the state peniteu"
tiary. The sentence is the minimun
for one convicted cf roDbery *'ith
a gun. Miss L>ewis was convicted
on i charge of robing Miss Mildred
Gates of Dallas, Tex., and W. D,
Otter of Chicago, having aided two
other members of the gang in hold'
ing up Ml$3 Gates and, Otter u«*i
Its Denver Country club.
YOU1SEX GETS RELEASE
FROM PRISON ON PAROLE
Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 3. — Henr>
Youtsey, who hag been serving- a
life sentence on a charge of com
plicity in the murder in 1900 oi
ioruier Gov. William Geebel, of Ken
tueky, lias been paroeld by the
board of firison control, according ti
an annuncement made by Herbert
Carr, member of the oard.
Youtsey left the penitentiary im
mediately after th9 parole wa;
granted.
After Gov. GoSbei was murdered
6s a result of - a bitter politick
contest, Youtsey, CaBSressman C&l
el> Powers and several other per'
6ons were arrested,
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