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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
TO REBUILD COUNTRY ROADS
Present Rural System Laid Out Hun
dred Years Aao-vast Change In
Traffic Conditions.

The nations rural road system
needs replannlng, Prof. Frank A.
Waugh of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural college, Amherst, Mass, today
told the delegates to the convention
of the American Civic association.
sour present rural road system was
planned yeaEs ago and in some SEQ
tions they were laid out a hundred
years ago." he said. TRAFFIC condi'
lions were vastly different then, the
automobile had not been invented and
a large portion of the crops produced
on each farm were consumed or man
ufactured at home.
up to the present time major i'm
provements have been confined to d.
rect trunk lines connecting large CEN
tiers Of population. Such roads, there
fore, are especially valuable for the
movement of heavy freight and are
now being used extensively BY auto
mobile trucks" y
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
HE NEEDS NO CONDOLENCES
American Soldier Representative Of
Nation in Battle for Defense Of Its
Liberties, Says Writer.

The American soldier is not per-
son to be pitied or to be condoled
with. He is the chosen representa-
tive of the nation in the great battle
for the defense of those liberties for
which his ancestors fought, and
which they secured through centuries
of struggle, says the Christian
Science Monitor.
No one dares to be sorry for
Washington or for Montgomery, or
for the farmers who fell at Lexing-
ton. But there is a strange feeling
of pity for those unknown British
soldiers who fell by Concord bridge
or in the Middlesex woods because
their cause was a lost cause and a
bad one.
And so no one need ever pity any
soldier in the armies of the repub-
lie, even should he leap 'the golden
stile." Principle makes its demands
necessarily on the men and women
of the world, and, if they are wise,
they obey those demands, no matter
where the demand may take them.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22

whether 1t be small or large, to the
national defense. The transportation
Of raw materials and finished products
becomes far more important than ever
before, for transportation charges form
a large part of the cost of many es-
sentials.
Utility must be given more weight
than heretofore in reaching decisions
as to road improvements and mere en-
joyment, ordinarily a legitimate OBJ
ject for some expenditure of public
funds, must be relegated to the back
ground for time. Our roads haYe ac-
quired an Importance as agencies in
NATIONAL preparedness which calls for
a mobilization of our road builders for
the greatest efficiency in the broad
transportation problems of the coun-
try.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
NEAR PERPETUAL MOTION.

A German inventor has perfected
a clock which seems to be the nearest
thing to perpetual motion that has
SO far been devised. The clock gets
its power from a revolving shaft
which is impelled by wheel whose
spokes are capped with hollow glass
balls. Each ball is covered with
cloth and contains little ether. AS
the wheels revolve the lower balls
are dipped in water. The balls that
are out of water are cooled by evapo-
ration from the damp cloth. This
cooling condenses the ether, which
runs down in such a way as to dis
turb the equilibrium of the system
and turn the wheel over.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
Sea stOrehouse OF Treasure.

Perhaps everything that Is lost finds
lts way to the sea. the. great swallOwer
bf valuable things, which certainly has
, capacity equal to hiding from human
sight every movable object on earth.
Among the strangest stories OF the sea
are those relating to treasures fshed
from Its depths. The incident Of fish
being caught. and having In Its stom-
ach a ring. has occurred so frequently
that It has lost its strangeness. The
fish Of the sea are voraclous and not
at all discriminating. so that II is al
most impossible to say what has not
been found In their stomachs. Sharks
have been made to disgorge pipes.
boots. books. money. clothing and hard
ware. and other fish are but little less
yoracious. Vast as It Is. the Sea. In
course Of ages. has received 30 many
wrecks that It's bottom Is 4 storehouse
bf treasure e.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
Why Women Talk.

Men are downtown at their ofices
all day and have chance to talk. The
women have TO stay at home. aud with
the exception of the milkman. the gro
Gerry man. the lceman. the old clothes
man, a few miscellaneous peddlers and
hucksters. and the woman next door.
there Is nobody to talk to. That Is
why wife talks her husbands head
on when he comes home at night.
Husbands, who through long years OF
experience, have grown accustomed to
this merely answer "fmh-hmh" with
out hearing. Sometimes the wife will
catch them unawares and between re-
marks VIII insert request for $40 to
buy a new dress with II the husband.
from force OF habit answers "hmh-
hnh." the 49, % e1e-ss. gets ths
owus-cxrtoons Magaxne
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
ONE WAY TO CUT DOWN HEELS
Reform In Women's Footwear Mus
Come Through Science, Not Leg
islation, u Is Declared.

The attempt to legislate high heels
out Of existence has failed. The
women, or rather the shrewd men
who make a profit by setting wom-
ems fashions, have triumphed. The
state senate killed the proposed
measure, says the Chicago Journal
regarding a bill to limit the height
of heels.
1t deserved killing. If the shotgun
of japan, at the height of the power
of that military regime, could not
keep women from powdering their
faces, it is a fairly safe wager that
the feeble executive powers of the
state of Illinois would prove utterly
unequal to the task of keeping wom~
en- from walking on their toes. The
law, if passed, would have been the
deadest kind Of dead letter.
The way to cut down heels lies
through science, not through legisla-
tive halls. Take moving picture Of
the wabbling, uncertain and most
ungraceful waddle of the woman
wearing three-inch heels and one of
the free, graceful walk of the wom-
an who has discarded such hobbies.
Show these contrasting pictures in
all the movie theaters for a few
weeks, and you will accomplish more
for rational shoe reform than all the
bills the legislature could pass 'twixt
this and doomsday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
DRAG IS FUNDAMENTAL TOOL
Il Is Simplest and Cheapest Of All Inn
pleInents-Not Difficult OF
Operation.

Economy In road building calls for
consideration of tools. consideration of
operation, and comparison OF results.
On all these points the split-log drag
scores a bull's-eye. 1t is the simplest
and cheapest of all road tools. And 1t
Is the cheapest and easiest 20 operate.
And. when assisted by farm imple-
mepts, 1t can be made to do anything
that needs to be done In building the
average earth road; with results that
It Is difficult to obtain with any other
tool. no matter how expensive II may
be.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
NAVEL ORANGE FROM BRAZIL
Great Number Of Trees Now In United
States Can Be Traced Back to
Few Imported by Government.

T All evidence points to the fact
that the navel orange, now so largely
grown in the United States, first
came into existence at Cabulla, a
suburb of Bahia, Brazil, early in the
nineteenth century as a sport from
the Selecta orange. The latter va
riety is still grown extensively near
Bahia, and sometimes shows ten
dency to produce fruit with a we'll
developed navel, such fruit, however,
is not seedless, though the number
of seeds is relatively small. The ma
vel variety has almost entirely sup
planted the parent stock about Ba-
hia, where it has been known for 100
years.
1t was from a plantation near
Bahia, so far as can be determined,
that the budded trees were obtained
through which the navel orange wood
was introduced into the United
States. Several were shipped to the
United States department of agri-
culture. Trees were grown in tine
department greenhouses and others
propagated from them we're dis
tributed to California and Florida.
The variety proved to be unsuited
to the latter state, but in California
it is very productive and highly
valued. Almost the entire planting
of the variety in that state can be
traced directly back to two of the
trees sent there by the department of
agriculture in 1873.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
An wrona

Bobbie was put to bed BY his nursA
about the time It began @ get dark.
He then awakened early n the mout
ing. but was told by his Nurse not sd
talk or he would A aiken his parents
In the next ROOM hwelL thtssil d
funny world fdf little boys,whs SAID.
"You have to 60 to bed when 1t getzl
dark. and they Won't let sod get ID
when II gets lights TTAe
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
condueIvs 10 Happiness.

Good roads are more conducive to
human happiness than good diges-
ton. You can coddle your digestion
with matted milk. but there Il poth'
ing more certain to convert a cows
path into q hard-surfaced highway
than brains, plus money, plus con-
crete. A.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
PROOF TO THE CONTRARY.

1--WE are naturally selfish. Moth
ing interests US like our own BUSH
ness"
ut is plain you have never at-
tended meeting of the front porch
club"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
To Make Cut oIs.a sparkle.

To make cut glass shine and spaf.I
kle, first wash In lukewarm water and
soap, using a toothbrush to brush the
cuts with. Then have some medium
strength bluing water ready and dip
the pieces Of sisss = LIS. wEss dry
on linen towel
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
SAVING TIME.

Mistress-"Ellen, what are you
putin the fypaper outside the
house for?" Green Girl-"Sure,
ma'am, it gets filed up quicker out
side"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
VALUABLE STONE QUARRY.

Costa RIGA now manufactures and
exports Portland cement, a quarry Of
appropriate stone having been re-
equity discovered, /A>o1u
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
The WORLD ON WHEELS.

First Clerk-Well, I mortgaged
my house yesterday.
Second Clerk-What make of car
are Jon going to getS-The Lamb,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
A pEflcIT.

[ M. Newlywed-I've insured my
LIE for five Thousand dollars.
\ Mira Newlywed-oh, Jack, and
tie car I want costs seven.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
Patience Rewarded.

Patient work with the drag when
sysr necessary during the season will
mean more for our roads than viii
trying for bond issues
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
SAVED HIM the TROUBLE.

/ silas---@Got yer north field plOwed
yitf" Reuben-'Yes, a bunch Of
amateur golfers went over it yester'
dsy.v--Lifs.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
WHAT ne DID I'd orr RICH.

~He made his money OUT Of min-
ing Stocks"
Bought wisely, I presumer =.
"No. Sold cleverly." ~ HI
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
TIME TO MOVE.

{ Old Maid-The moonlight makeA
me feel romantic.
| City BOarder-Lefs 60 n the
houee. . -.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
ABANDON FOOD PREJUDICES.
Don't Be Finicky

Be willing to try new foods Certain plentiful and
nourshng foods widely used and enjoyed in one section
are practically unknown in other sections country
Learn to know Al LII the good things; not few only
People to easily get into food ruts-insist on eating
only the food they used to and refuse to give fs
trial Others This undue demand for sta
pes with resulting scarcity high prices when crops are
short At the time other valuable foods may be rea
lively cheap and available striking instance of this is
failure fully valuable of starch
when potatoes are and high Another examples
refusal certain sections to anything but wheat
abreadstuf when valuable cereal widely used else
where as breadstus plentiful and relatively che 10.
Cook Food Properly
Learn how cook all kinds Of staple foods and to serve
them in variety of ways. Simple dishes we'll prepared
are better than expensive foods badly cooked.
Many persons preudced against certain good foods
because, when first tried the foods were improperly
cooked or prepared.
Remove from your vocabulary don't like" or cant
eat" a
Most individual preudices against widely popular foods
either imaginary or baseless.
Try to like every simple food; give it fair trial
THRIFT IN YOUR HOME
MAKE SAVING SPENDING, YOUR STANDARD
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
SHE DIDN'T MEAN II.

| The POy-I have bad head this
morning.
The dirl-Tm so sorry. ] hope
yOsI ba able TO shAtg itE a.,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
Know THIS SUsURsf :

NIdtOF--H0M dOea the lsad lis
/. sut CHS way -. 9.
srburbaaits It amt tSs Land
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
Alleged GOugiDg By
Selling Coal By Rushs

Writing to the Baltimore Evening
sun, Mr.. c. II. Davenport says:
.'The coal famine is on in Balti-
more, but the retailers seem to have
a harvest. They buy coal wholesale
from S9.40 to so a ton and retail the
same from so cents to s1.25 bushel
At GO cents a bushel they realize SIC
so. Granting the coal cost SO a ton,
the profit is $3.50 It is being dis
cuased daily that the United States
Government should take over the
railroads and coal mines; it appears
to me that some agency should be en-
ployed to take over the retailing from
coal sharks.
4 think it would be very wise foI
the wholesale dealers to call Q halt
on the retail dealers by refusing e
sell them coal until they learn how
to retail st q reasonable profit.
Much coal has been sold in Anna
polls by the peck (15c) and bushel
and Is still being sold here in these
small quantities.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
NO FIGHT BETWEEN
P0lEE AND IRWIN
Brooklyn Police Chief Says Magistrate
Is Backing him For Resp-
nOinlment

Chief Of Police Thomas " Irwin, of
the Brooklyn police force denies that
there has been split in the Demo-
cratic party OF Anne Arundel County
as result OF a quarrel between him
self and Magistrate John f. Potee, as
stated in the Capital of December
Is. He said:
There never has been a quarrel be-
tween John e. Potee and myself. We
have always been the best OF friends
and he is not making any fight against
my re-appointment
The trouble between DR. Thomas
b. Horton and myself was one with
which Potee had nothing whatever to
do. Neither Is is true that pre-
iicted when the trouble between DR.
Horton. and myself developed that this
would be my last year on the force. or
that would break up disorder or
break up the Democratic party.
have been an organization Democrat
all my life and my efforts 20 break up
disorder in my territory have been
made with the idea of further the in
terests of my party Before | would
turn in my resignation 10 the County
Commissioners"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
MUSTER HONE GUARD
STATE Service
Annapolis Company Starts Gut With
Roll Of 81 members
EXPECT FULL COMPLEMENT
a. Knox StarliBgs, Temporary Captain,
And Prof. Rippere And Orlando
sRidout, Lieatenants.

Under circumstances that were
thoroughly auspicious, the Annapo-
lis company of the Second Maryland
Infantry, more commonly termed the
Home Guards was formally mus
Tered into the service OF the State
last night
With roster Of So members, and
every prospect that the full compile
ment of company sixty three-will
be secured within a short time, the
mastering in ceremony took place in
the Bladen Street armory. Major John
dep. Douw, on duty in the Office Of Adj
Jutant General Henry NJ Warheld, be-
ing the mastering in officer
A poll Of the members, which was
afterwards taken with the view OF
showing their preference for officers
OF the organization, resulted in the Sc
lection of Mr.. A. Knox Starlings, as
Captain; Prof John b. Rippere, Vice
President of ST. Johns College, as
First Lieutenant. and Orlando Rid
out, OF Annapolis, as Second Lieuten-
ant Mr. Starlings, who is q graduate
Of ST Johns College. had considerable
experience in military tactics while a
student there, and should. therefore,
make a capable commanding officer OF
the company Temporary commits
sions soon wiz be issued from the Ad-
jutant Generals office, and approved
BY the Governor, and it is expected
these commissions will be made
permanent
When the Home Defenders who
viii take the place Of the men Of the
two local units of the old Maryland
National Guard, now OF the new Ma
sional Army, had been assembled,
Judge Robert Moss, of the Anne Arun-
del Circuit Court. who is also Presi-
dent of the Divisional Draft Board
for the Western Shore, delivered an
address. In course of his remarks
Judge Moss referred to the serious
conditions resulting from the war and
said that the situation is one in
which everyone must make some sa-
cridce in one way or another He
eomplimenged the Home Guardsmen
FOR the interest they have shown, their
'promptness in coming forward to Join
The new organization, and explained
The objects and purposes of it. BY.
way of criticism. Judge Moss referred
TO the manner in which the names
have been enrolled on the list. that is,
that some Of them simply bear the
initial of the Christian name. for in
stance, j. Smith or III Brown"
lie said the names should appear in
full. as full name signifies more than
a mere initial, for roll Of names Of
this sort win be matter Of record
for years to come.
With the mastering in ceremony
over. the Home Defenders were enter
tanned at a social session by a num-
ber OF the ladies of the city who have
charge of the soldiers rest room at
TIE armory. Eats and refreshments
were served and there was also
smoker.
While these citizen soldiers have,
been holding drills every Wednesday
night for the last several weeks, what
they are now anxiously awaiting are
their uniforms and equipment. and it
is expected these win be available in
short time.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
ASK APPROPRIATION
FOR ARUNDEL ACADEMY
Delegation Waits On Governor
Harrington Here Today
HEARINGS On HE BUDGET
State Executive Begins Series That
Will Extend Through Friday
Board Officials Here.

Governor Harrington began this
morning a series OF open hearings on
the State budget that viii carry him
through Friday. The plan OF holding
such hearings in advance Of the con-
yening OF the Legislature was hit up
on By the Executive both as time
saver and in olrer that the budget
bill may be put in shape TO be placed
before the Assembly at an early date
IN addition to the officials of the State
Boards here today, a delegation, con-
sisting Of Judge Robert Moss. State
Senator Frank Nj Duvall. and other
prominent citizens Of Anne Arundel
County went before the Governor in
the interest Of the appropriation for
the Anne Arundel Academy at Mil
Iersyille Ten thousand dollars is
wanted for this school For years
the State appropriated $4,000 for it,
but it seems that Legislatures Of re-
cent years have carved the amount
until now it only receives $4,000.
The first hearing before the Cover
nor this morning was that OF Charles
]. Fox and others OF the State Board
Of Labor and Statistics, and then the
officials of the State Board of For
estry went before the Executive. This
afternoon members OF the Advisory
Board OF Parole and the State Board
Of Prison Control are being heard.
The Governor il going into the mat
ter in detail with each OF the delega-
tons. the idea being to getting the
questions Of conduct OF the aifairs-of
the several State boards and the ex-
penditures OF funds appropriated by
The State down TO more systematic
basis If possible, in order that details
may be readily available with the con-
yening Of each succeeding Legisla-
ture
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
goyDcRFUL RECITAL OF
r,rlpsD GERMAN PRISONER
g,.s aal Tell His Story To-
''''- gisb.dzI5 at Mcdowell
Hall

t. at Mcdowell Hall, St
loa5%,f 5ro,f.oe. at7I5. there will he
J''9 ~ cra9ftunity the public TO
g's y Of Private Wren. who
lsal et Camp 3esde. He enlisted
n's : moa,as ego in the Canadisn
So ,s...rt Princess Patricia and then
h rts Fraace. he fought IN
~. ftrg aercest battles and was
n'D5 n5.3 bl was finally captured un-
80 feriIlng circumstances. For
Of lss s.~. ~ bs.ua in German prisons and
. M n. ss..r q Bg crawling through
h'.i'' .,s,aire For many nights and
10. ,s. had hazardous life several
% ~ ssreIy escaping hld ng day
wy. .-,gsI by night he cam 81
~ ..sts IN. English lines and told
,'-1 1~s,yeI5s story. He is a native
" y p,.f,n s1 coming over to thts coun-
!. - - enlisted 81 Camp Meade,
~armgh the courtesy Of Capt
49, a,4 H jar Suckney ne VII tell
=. .,or, tossat at Ti5 ct Mcdowell
FH Tna public s cordially invited
,, attend There vii be nc admission
charged.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
MEN MAY YET ENLIST
Marine csSps WiA>Acceps Registrars
Under Certain Conditions

Reports have been circulated that
after December 10 men Of the draft
age cannot be enlisted in any branch
of the service. and these reports have
caused the United States Marine
Corps considerable annoyance.
whe Marine Corps is still recruiting
men between the ages Of IS and Sc
and p to 81. in the latter case pro-
viding they procure a certificate from
their local draft board to the effect
that their class and order number
are so low that they are not within
the current quota of the local board
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18

within the importation thereof into.
or the expectation thereof from the
United States and all territory sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof for
beverage purposes is hereby pro-
hibited.
Section ?. The Congress and the
several States shall have concurrent
power to enforce this article by az
propriate legislation
Section 8. This article shall be
imperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Con-
stitution by the legislatures of the
several States. as provided in the Con-
stitution, within seven years from the
date OF the submission hereof to the
States by the Congress"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18
TIE UNIVERSITY CLUB
Program Of Subjects For Discussion at
First Formal Meeting.

The frft furmal N citing Of the Uni
versity Cub, recently organized here.
Will BE- held in the Y. n. G A. room
OF Mcdowell dall. St. johns College
on Thursday ever. .ng beginning at 8
O'Clock. a program of subjects for
discussion has been arranged as fol-
lows:
/. The Question Of Churcn Unity
Rev. {. D. johnson.
2. Some Letters from the Front
", L. Squire
8. The Catnedrals Of Spain y.
Martel
4. Humor 10 the Class koom s.
5. Handy.
6. Experience ia Cooperative IN
dustriai Education Nj. A. Eason.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-18

Inportsns Meeting Friday Night in 0ld
Seaate Chamber

There will be an important meeting
Of the Navy League held on Friday
night ii the old Senate Chamber at s
O'Clock.
All members are urged TO be pres
ent. as business Of vital Importance
will be brought up for discussion
Ie Is understood that al this meet
ing delegates viii be chosen to attend
the meeting IN washington at the Bit
mere on December 81. and also one IN
January.
The successor to Col Thompson
I'll so be considered