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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08

speech is kind, his acts are gener-
GUS. Unselfshly he labors for the
good Of his fellowmen. His look
is upward. He keeps sky in his
life. The picture optimism is typi-
cal of him.
The difference between pessi-
nism and optimism is oftentimes
the difference between discomfort
and content, between selfshness
and unselfishness, between unhap-
piness and happiness, between
cowardice and courage, between
defeat and victory.
Looking up is a splendid habit
to cultivate. The word "man"
means the one who looks up. Phys
ically he is built on the lookup
plan. He stands upright. His
eyes are set in his forehead. Head
erect, shoulders back, eyes to the
front are natures 8 commands. They
show man at his best. The man
who carries his head on his chest
and keeps his eyes on the ground
is pretty sure to grow downward;
pretty sure to be pessimist.
How much better it is to train
ourselves to live for good every
where, than it is to live for the
bad.
Looking on is a splendid physical
habit. 1t helps US to keep health
in our veins. Looking up is a
splendid habit. 1t helps us to live
above worries and frettings. Look
ing up is a splendid habit of the
will. It helps to make man a
conqueror. Looking up is a splen-
did habit of the soul. 1t makes a
man believe in the ultimate triumph
of right. l want you young men
to get the upward look. Have a
''sky" in your life's plans, pur-
poses, aims. Have vision with
God in it, with brotherly love in
it, with purity in it, life's ideals in
it. Our Paper.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08
Repair Shop on Trucks

A portable machine shop has
been devised by a firm that builds
four-wheel drive motor trucks.
The use of large numbers of motor
trucks in a war campaign means
that great deal of repair work
must be done close to the front.
The three-ton truck as a shop
solves the problem. Everything
needed for large and small repairs
was mounted upon the body of the
car, including drill press, lathe,
forge and blower, a workbench
and cabinet, electric grinding ma
chinery, welding outfit and about
one thousand tools.
The repair shop, when ready for
the road, is no larger than an or
binary truck with moderate load.
The floor of the body il taken up
with machinery securely bolted in
place, but the side panels that fold
up when the car is travelling are
placed flat when work is to be
done. This allows additional floor
space on three sides, with ample
room for half a dozen men to work
at the same time. A canvas roof
gives protection from the sun or
rain when the shop is halted for
service. When on the road a tar
paulin is sufficient protection for
the machinery.
The operation of the machinery
is electrical, to generate the cur
rent, and several small motors ap-
plying the power. This outfit sup
plies light for night work as we'll,
and can be used for lighting
camp when not required for other
service.
About twenty of these travelling
repair shops were built for the
United States Army, at cost of
approximately $4,000 each, and
their practical value was demon
strated during the Mexican expedi-
tion when they rendered excellent
service. Many of the same type
are in use in Europe where the se-
we're usage of trucks makes fire.
quent repairs necessary. -Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08
Father WOOS for Son

Quantity curious are some of
the customs of the Serbians," says
an exchange in which Chedo Mijato-
vich describes the manner of be-
trothal adopted by his fellow-coun-
trymen.
It is the duty and privilege of
every Serbian father to choose a
wife for his son as soon as the boy
reached his 18th year.
when the father has chosen a
promising girl. he ascertains from
friend whether the parents would
consent to give her to his son. If
he receives an encouraging answer,
he invites relatives or friends to go
with him on the requesting er-
randi
They start out, dressed as we'll
as can be. The father carries a
flat wheat cake and a bunch of
flowers. One of the company
must carry a pistol. for it is Gus.
tomary in Serbia to announce every
joyous event by firing rifles or pis-
tolls. They arrive at the girls
house before supper.
AFTER eating and drinking, in
which the men alone of the two
houses participate, and some pre-
liminary conversation, the father
of the prospective bridegroom
draws from his bag the wheaton
cake, puts the flowers upon it and
places the whole upon the table.
He then takes from his money bag
some gold or silver coins and places
those, too, upon the cake.
Brother, let us not precipitate
the NATTER the girls father will
say, Let me first find out what my
daughter says
He then goes to consult his
wife. This is only for appear
ances. as the matter was practically
settled when the father was en-
couraged to come to beg the girl.
After more or less suspense,
the door opens and male relative
brings the girl in. He leads her
to the father of her prospective
husband before whom she bends
deeply and kisses his right hand.
The ring is brought to the en-
gagged girl on the appointed day by
the relatives of the bridegroom.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08
AUTOMATIC SCALES
Second Article: Continuation of Weighing Devices"
of Ancient and Modern Times
By "Frsdeick'


pivots. Where springs are used a
thermostar regulates, or rather
overcomes, the expansion and con-
traction caused by variations of
temperature. Modern scales are
built, and adjusted as carefully as
skilled mechanics construct a
watch, great pains being taken to
have every moving part exact so as
to reduce friction to the vanishing
point. Beams, knife-edges, check
levers and counter balances are
made extremely accurate in weight
and size, as a small deviation
would be multiplied by the lever
age and cause an incorrect indica-
tion.
The past few years have seen an
automatic feature added to some
automatic scales; the electric light.
By very simple current breaking
device the chart is illuminated
when the scale is in use. The re-
turn to nil automatically breaks
the contact. The electric addition
makes the charts more easily read
and gives a very attractive ap-
pearance.
Rapidity, accuracy and the abili-
ty to proportion weights into
money values are the prominent
advantages of the scales today. By
the system of dividing the space
allowed for the travel of a pound
to be indicated, into cent gradua-
tions corresponding with the prices
per pound desired; such weights as
SO cents worth of coffee at IS cents
a pound, or 20 cents worth of spice
at so cents, or the value of a piece
of meat weighing Z pounds 13
ounces at 18 cents pound are
easily obtained. They are quite
perplexing from a weight stand
point only.
While the retail merchant uses
by far the most automatic scales.
there are many industries and
manufactures in which they are
important accessories. Bakeries,
biscuit and candy factories, cereal
and packing companies, textile
mills, munition plants and hard
ware manufacturers, etc., find ex-
tensive use for them as time and
labor savers. Express companies
use thousands. The United States
postal service few years ago tried
out a hundred machines; today
they are used almost exclusively
from coast to coast. Without au-
tomato machinery the parcel post
could not handle it's immense dis
tribution.
Recently the automatic princi-
Piles have been incorporated into
the building of heavy capacity
scales for use in freight yards and
at wharfs where huge quantities
of iron, coal, grain, building ma
terial, etc., are weighed and re-
corded as the cars pass over the
scales, or are being loaded.
Mans ingenuity will doubtless
add some improvements to the
building of automatic scales in the
future, even though the present
machines seem the height of me-
chanical perfection.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08
TANNING THE TONGUE
Shining With the Tongue and the Misery and
Injustice Caused by It
By b. Halok in Herald Prsbver

story that will roll along its way
without any one person appreciat-
ing the wickedness of his or her
part in its progress.
First somebody told it,
Then the room wouldn't hold it
So the busy tongues rolled it
Till they got it outside.
Then the crowd came across it
And never once lost it,
But tossed it and tossed it,
Till it grew long and wide.
This lie brought forth others,
Dark sisters and brothers,
And fathers and mothers,
A terrible crew.
And headlong they hurried
The people they flurried
And troubled and worried
AS lies always do.
L came across little story lately
that will quote as the personal
application of this brief article. 1t
tells of another direction In which
the tongue may err. But the point
of the story applies to all of the
innumerable ways in which the
tongue may err. The story states
that the latest number of the OK
ford Dictionary contains all the
words in the English language
which begins with Ii. The word
Titivil is thus defined:
Name for devil said to collect
fragment of words dropped, skip
ped, or mumbled in the recitation
OF divine service, and to carry
them to hades, to be registered
against the offender
Titivil will get you if you don't
watch out!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08

One editor became so crazy in the
banner crop movement this year
that he wrote: PLANT every acre, no
matter how small. ."-American Boy.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08

GNNrTlHHE TONGUE can tie a
0tAlIEN knot in moment which
| HgN1NSH the teeth cannot unite in
GNNy lifetime," is an old
adage worth a new telling. The
sermon of James on The Tongue"
should be read frequently by ev-
cry one who wishes to be saved
from future heart-breaking regrets.
The tongue is hard to tame. but
we should try to tame it. l have
read of young girl who wished
to conquer the habit of sharp
speech which she had noticed in
herself. She tried the experiment
of confessing in prayer each night
every unkind remark she had made
during the day. II felt so ashamed
as l repeated such words to God,"
she said years afterward, that all
day long l tried to guard against
having any to confess the next
night. l grew to hate the sin, and
then, of course, stopped it. The
trouble before that had been that l
didn't really hate it, although I
thought I did,
She certainly took good meth
cd. The things we are inclined to
say, let us try telling it to God.
The Psalmist had a good method.
He said, Il said, 1 will take heed
to my ways, that I sin not with my
tongue"
There is very good old story
illustrating this verse that may be
old enough to be new to some. and
is good enough to be told whether
it seems new or not. The story is
said to be by the ancient philoso-
pher, Socrates. He tells of man
named Pambo, who asked learned
man to teach him some Psalm. He
began to read him the thirty-ninth:
Il said, l will take heed to roy
ways, that l sin not with my
tongue" Having heard the first
sentence, Pambo left. saying he
would make this his first lesson.
He did not return, and his teacher,
meeting him and asking when he
would proceed, he replied that he
had not yet mastered his first les
son; and he gave the like answers
to one who asked the same question
forty mine years after. There is
an old fable of man who for
some crime or injustice was cursed
with the power of seeing other hu-
man beings, not in their beauty of
flesh and blood, but as skeletons
gaunt and grisly. Much of the
sorrow of the world comes from
the fact that too many of us have
this miserable faculty, and go
about stripping every worthy
charm and beauty with which men
and women are clothed, trying to
find and expose some ugly trait
or passion underneath.
1t Is an awful gift some people
have-that of seeing skeletons!
Well does some one write:
If words were birds
And swiftly few
From tips of lips
Owned, dear. by you,
Would they, today,
Be hawks and crows,
Or blue, and true, and sweet
Who knows?
Let's play today,
We choose the best;
Birds blue and true,
With dove-like breast.
'Tis queer, my dear,
We never knew
That words like birds
Had wings and few.-
There is another little poem I
cannot forbear to quote. As in the
case of the one just given above I
do not know the author. neither do
l think the poem will ever be q
classic; but if we all knew it by
heart or kept it in mind it might
save many a pain or heartburn.
The title of this little composition
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-11-08

There is another little poem /
cannot forbear to quote. As in the
case of the one just given above l
do not know the author. neither do
/ think the poem will ever be a
classic; but if we all knew it by
heart or kept it in mind it might
save many a pain or heartburn.
The title of this little composition
is: ''How Falsehood Grows. It
shows how someone may start q
Evening star., 1917-09-07
JONADABS TO REVIEW
WORK OF FIFTY YEARS
Half Century Anniversary to Be
Celebrated Here Tues
day Evening.

Work done for temperance during the
last fifty years by the Sons of Jonadat
is to be reviewed by speakers when
members of the organization Tuesday
evening at old Masonic Temple. 9th
and F streets. celebrate the fftieth an
niversary Of tho founding Of their or
der. Representative E. c. Little OF
Kansas is to be one of the principal
speakers.
The Sons Of Jonadab was organized in
Washington by seven men, of whom
James Croggon. who died August 1
1916. was the last survivor. Although
the society had it's inception in the de-
sire of six young men to save a sew
enth companion from the habit of eX-
cessive drinking, it was soon devel-
oped into a fraternal order built upon
the biblical narrative of Jonadab. The
order now contains many thousands OF
members. Pioneer Council of this city
has a record Of having enrolled more
than 5000 members.
Sovereign .lef Charles F. Sudworth
is chairman of the committee of ar
rangements. Other members of the
committee are J. E. Rhodes, James NJ
Maloney, Joseph F. Madden. Charles J
Dexter, w. C. w. Burgess. Travis L.
Farley, Charles La Hayne, ]. ]. Hayre
Joseph E. Cotton. r. Bilsborough
sey, Charles F. Browne. j. E. Hogan
D. Rockwell. 1. B. Maloney. W. e Mon
roe. ]. J. Desmond. Josias Gray. George
johnson. J. Coffee, o. V. Phillips, H
Heitaffer, Charles Rossetter and w
Huston.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
A Generous Nationalism.

1--WE rejoice at the fact that we are
thus solemnly committed to the prin-
ciple of the complete autonomy and in
dependence of nations. Only upon the
basis of this generous nationalism can
anything like a great and worthy in
ternationalism be established We re-
joice, too. that this nation is thus SOL
ennly pledged not only to refrain from
attempting to extend its own dominion
over any ether nation or people. but to
use its great influence to the end that
no nation shall attempt to extend its
polity over any other nation or people
We approve unreservedly the distinc-
ton drawn by the President between
the German people and their govern
ment and we believe that by insisting
that peace cannot be made with the
Hohenzollern dynasty. but only with a
democratized Germany, the President
of the United States has. as BELTS his
great station. rendered noble service to
the cause of international democracy.
I'VE affirm. then. that the aims and
purposes of this nation have been stat
ed with sufficient clearness and def
nfteness to satisfy every honest mind,
and that 1t is our profound conviction
that the purposes for which we are to
serve and sacrifice are the great pur-
poses Of international democracy"
Evening star., 1917-09-07

perpetuating their own domination over
the German people, Is the enactment OF
an immediate peace upon terms favorable
to themselves. Should they succeed In
this, their prestige and political power
will be secure. America itself will be
menaced and this nation and all the rest
of the world will be compelled to remain
armed to the teeth to make ready for
the riext assault by the German military
power.
I'm his note to the revolutionary gov
ernment Of Russia, May 26, 1917. Presi-
dent Wilson justly said that:
1.-The position of America in this
war Is so clearly avowed that no man
can be excused for mistaking 1t. She
seeks no material profit nor aggran-
dizement of any kind. She Is fighting
for no advantage or selfish object OF
her own, but for the liberations OF
peoples everywhere from the aggres-
sions of autocratic force.
I'VE, the men and women of the trade
union and socialist movements OF
America, organized into the American
alliance for labor and democracy, in
submitting this record to our fellow
citizens, assert that in all history no
government has ever stated its aims on
entering Il war or while such a war
was being fought with anything ap-
preaching the definiteness. clarity and
candor revealed by these utterances.
We arrest, moreover, that in all essen
tial particulars, the aims thus set forth
are entirely consistent with the great
ideals of democracy and information
alism for which the American labor
movement has always stood and which
are fundamental to it's being.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
HOME DEFENSE LEAGUE
FOR FALLS CHURCH. VA.
Sixty Men Have Enrolled, With DIR.
George B. Fadeley as
Director.

Organization of a Falls Church Home
Defense League was effected last night
at meeting held in the Virginia town
1t follows the general plan of the Dis
trict of Columbia league, as outlined
by Maj. Raymond Pullman and Odell S
Smith at a meeting held there last
week. but is modified to meet local con-
ditions. About sixty men have enrolled
for membership. and it is expected to
bring this number up to a hundred.
officers We're elected as follows Di-
rector. DR.. George B. Fadeley; deputy
director, julius H. Parmelee; secretary
Horace f. Brown; treasurer. s. H
Stiles; ward captains. o. B. Livingston
Henry B. Noble and c. V. Shreve The
officers and ward captains constitute
an executive committee, which is
charged with working out details OF
the organization plans. One of the first
things to be attempted is the forma-
tion of a company of rifles.
The league. by a vote, placed its serv-
ices at the disposal of the civil authori-
ties, and is to hold itself in readiness
at all times to assist in preserving law
and order. There will be drafted a plan
for quick mobilization in case OF emer-
gency.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
ALIENS ARE EAGER
FOR CITIZENSHIP
Total Of 7Oo Declarations
Filed, 800 Ask Final Papers,
In Eight Months.
RECORD MADE IN DISTRICT

In the eight months of tho present
year 70s declarations of intention to be-
come citizens of this country have been
filed by aliens, and $50 persons have ap-
piled for their final papers in the Dis
trict of Columbia, which, according to
John r. Young, clerk Of the District
Supreme Court, exceeds the figures for
any similar period during the forty-one
years he has been connected with the
court.
About 300 persons have been admitted
to full citizenship during that time,
some of them having filed their applica-
year. Most of those given their citi-
zenship papers came in under the law
which permits an alien to file a declara-
ton of intention, and. after a lapse OF
two years and not more than seven
years, get his final papers from a prop
erly constituted court. Before being
given his final papers he must have his
application posted publicly for ninety
days. must produce two character Wit
nesses before the court and must prove
five years residence in this country.
Special Provisions.
Special provisions are made for mem
bers of the Army, the Navy and the
Marine Corps. however. which are often
confusing to the uninitiated.
"a man who has been honorably dis
charged from the regular Army" said
Mr. Young today. even though he has
only served few days. may make ap-
plication for admission to citizenship,
though he has never made declaration
Of intention. His application must then
be posted ninety days. after which he
can produce two character witnesses in
court and be given his citizenship pa
pers"
IA man who has served In the Navy.
the Marine Corps or the coast guard
before he, can apply for citizenship
without having made declaration or
intention His application does not
have to be posted, as does that OF the
soldier however. and he does not nave
to produce any witnesses
The law does not recognize service
in the National Guard as a special
qualification for citizenship"
Usually an alien taking the oath of
citizenship must renounce allegiance
to ANY foreign prince, potentate, state
or sovereignty" particularly the gov
ernment of which he has formerly been
a citizen or subject. But as the Fill
pinos are already supposed to be loya!
to this country they are not required
ment when taking the oath.
There is just one small section OF
the globe whose natives would not now
be permitted to file declaration OF
intention to become American citizens.
and strangely enough, that is the
Virgin Islands. recently bought from
Denmark by this country. The treaty
of purchase said the citizenship rights
of the inhabitants were to be fixed by
Congress- and until that is done the
matter of their citizenship will be left
in allegiance by the courts.
Evening star., 1917-09-07
Outline Of Principles.

"on January %. 1917, before the
United States entered the war, Presi-
dent Wilson. in an address to the Sen
ate, set forth the principles which
should govern any peace with which
the United States could associate itself
and be true to it's noblest ideals and
traditions. These principles of "a peace
worth guaranteeing are as follows:
Il. Equality of rights as between
nations (Not to be based on old bal
ance of power.)
-. Recognition of the principle that
governments derive their just power
from the consent of the governed.
3. The right of all great peoples to
a direct outlet to the sea, by territorial
readjustments or neutralizations.
~. The freedom of the seas in prac-
tically all circumstances.
"5. The limitations of ornaments on
land and sea.
80. No nation to attempt to extend
it's polity over any other nation or
people.
81. A concert of nations to guaran-
tee peace and the rights of all nations
a world organized for peace, not for
war; no entangling alliances, creating
a competition for power, but a concert
for peace
'Since the United States entered the
war the President has upon three nota-
BILE occasions clearly and explicitly set
forth the American aim, the objects
which must be attained by any peace
to which the United States can agree.
We refer especially to the war message
May &c and the reply to his holiness the
Pope, dated August %, 1917.
War Objects Restated.
THE war objects stated by the Presi-
dent in these historic documents were as
follows:
Il. Recognition of the rights and lib
critics of small nations
''2. Recognition of the principle that
government derives its just power from
the consent of the governed.
"3. ReparationS for wrongs done and
prevent their being committed again.
-. No indemnities except as payment
for manifest wrongs
IS. No people to be forced under SOW
ereignty under which it does not wish to
live.
80. No territory to change hands ex-
cept for the purpose of securing those
who inhabit it a fair chance of life and
liberty.
a. No readjustments of power. except
such as will tend to secure the future
peace of the world and the future welfare
and happiness OF its peoples.
IS. A genuine and practical co-opera-
ton of the free peoples of the world in
some common covenant that will combine
their forces to secure peace and justice
in the dealings of nations with one an
other.
Warns Against German Peace.
in his Russian note, and again, his
address at Washington on the 14th day
of June, President Wilson gave a SOL
emn warning against the sort of peace
desired by the German military power a
peace which would not only defeat the
objects of the United States in entering
the war. but would place this nation in
Sl@ pf
Germany. He pointed out that the mill
tary masters of Germany planned to
throw a broad belt of military power
across the very center of Europe and
beyond the Mediterranean into the heart
of Asia. This purpose has been nearly
fulfilled through the subsection to Ger
man uses of Austria Hungary. Bulgaria
and Turkey and through the conquest of
Serbia and Rumania. The only chance
left to the masters of Germany of retain
ing the advantages thus gained, and of