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Evening journal., 1917-05-04
BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL

Stan Special
WASHINGTON, May A. - Marshal
JofTre and the other members OF the
French commission, the dispatches
say. go to Valley Forge
Good work. Valley Forget is a
good place to go to. In all the world
there is no better.
Let us all go to Valley Forge every
American OF us. Let us go there with
Marshal Joffre when he pays his trib-
ute to the great American whose iron
will and lofty inspiration and gener-
Gus heart we're like his own AMI let
us 20 there alone and sit down quiet
~ and think what all this means.
Hero before us are the remains of
the miserable huts in which the first
soldiers OF the republic, hai-lrozeh
and more than half-starYed, hVed out
that terrible winter when thelr cause
seemed lost forever and despair cold
er than the winter, settled down on
most hearts Here is the place where
Washington went to and fro, showing
his calm. unruftied face and his un-
shaken spirit.
The whole future OF the country
whether it should be bond or free
stand still or go forward, hung upon
those days.
If Washington and his little army
had wavered then there would be no
United States now, there would be no
republic. there would never have been
the ideals that have fed and lightened
this nation
They would not have been on this
soil; they would not have been on any
soil
u was for far more than their own
liberty that the revolutionary soldiers
fought IT was for the democratic
principle everywhere.
All hung upon Valley Forge that
winter when the American revolution
came near to utter ruin and collapse.
II it had failed there would have
been no French revolution.
II there had been no French revolu-
ton there would be today no parlia-
mentary free government anywhere
in Europe; the old rule of kings and
mobiles would have been cinched for
centuries upon the worlds brain.
If there had been no breaking up
OF the old political feudalism there
would have been no breaking up OF
the old intellectual feudalism. II we
had remained the slaves Of kings we
should have remained no less the
slaves of other supersttions.
Here on this soil; elsewhere on all
soils. There is not an organized ma
ton in all the world that is not today
the better. the more democratic and
the more advanced because of Valley
Forge
And now the wheel has come full
circle and Valley Forge appears again,
on multiplied in its issues a million
fold
The world is once more at the part-
ing of the ways Which way it shall
take depends upon how much OF sac
rifce the believers in democracy are
willing to make for it and how much
OF the spirit of Valley Forge survives.
For almost three years other REQ
pies that believe in democracy and
have shared in the magnificent ad.
Evening journal., 1917-05-04
MISSING BOYS HAT
FOUND IN SUSOUEHANNA

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
ELKT0N. Md. May 4-The hat of
9-years-old Leroy Barrett was found
floating in the SusQuehanna River at
Perryville. on Monday. and as his
father, Amor Barrett. Of that town.
has not seen the lad since. grave
fears are entertained of his drowning
A touring car running SLOWLY
through Perryyille on Monday. strucl
/ Donald Cole 10-year-old son Of MIR
and Mrs Maurice p. Cole, breaking
his leg
The George Biddle High School will
hold their commencement exercises on
Thursday. May 81
! Costello G.. Washburn and Owen~R
Washburn her husband, have trans
ferred their farm. two and one-hali
miles north OF Elkiou. TO Charles II
/ Bohrendt OF Wilmington. for $4,000.
Miss Ida Cameron has returned
from visit TO her aunt, Mrs. ALFRED
Evening journal., 1917-05-04

Cameron Of the Ninth district.-Amos
Merritt. OF Wilmington. has been the
guest OF kin in Warwick Mrs. Frank
p. Howard. of Chesapeake City. spent
Monday M Wilmington. Mrs. Eliza
beth II. Hurn was a recent guest Of
Mrs. Richard Reese of Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs H. S. Duhammel OF
Earloville have been visiting IN Elk
ton.-Mrs. Clarence G.. Strickland has
returned from visit TO friends In
Baltimore Mrs Samuel NJ Shoe
maker, OF Baltimore. has been visiting
her aunt Mrs Albert Nelson. Miss
Helen b WMworth is spending some
time with hor brother. George A. Wit
worth. OF Bristol Pa H. Edwin Vim.
singer. formerly OF Elkton. was re.
Gently elected a director of the Far
mers' Trust Company. OF Newark
Evening journal., 1917-05-04
Let Every American Visit Valley
Forge With Joffre
Its the All Better" Says Russell, All
Democracy There.

vance Of democracy started by the
American revolution have been max
ing sacrifices that democracy shall
not perish from the earth.
IL is our turn now.
The size of the job looms on us big.
ger every day 1t is no holiday excur.
sion we have entered upon We are
going to the testing to show whether
we are worthy Of the men that paid
the price for us. and don't know
anybody that knows this country and
IS doubtful about the result-ever A
1t takes all the money in the land and
"A million lives.
Because underneath our apparent
devotion to business and gain. this
Evening journal., 1917-05-04

is the most idealistic nation on earth
far and away the most
IL is not yet ready to obliterate
Valley Forge
For money is nothing. ease is moth
ing. comfort is nothing and life itself
is nothing compared with just this one
thing that we shall leave the world
further upon the road and not turned
backward
Evening journal., 1917-05-04
MONROE'S SON. 1Ol,
WANTS TO enlist

Staff Special.
ATLANTA. Ca. May Maj James
w. Monroe. only surviving son OF
President Monroe. Is 1O1 years OF age
and says he wants to enlist TO serve
Uncle Sam. He applied at the local
recruiting station here. and, although
not accepted, brought in several young
men as recruits
Maj Monroe is a veteran or the
Mexican and civil wars and gave two
sons TO his country.
Evening journal., 1917-05-04
A DAGGER
IN THE BACK

That's the womans dread when she gets
mp in the morning 10 start the days work
"Oh. how my back aches 80 GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules taken today eases
the backache OF tomorrow-taken every day
ends the bsckache for an time Don't de-
lay. What's the use OF suffering Begin
taking GOLD MEDAL HARLEM OH Cap
eulss today and he relieved tomorrow. Take
three or four every day and he permanent
ly free from wrenching distressing back
pain. But he sure TO get GOLD MEDAL.
Since 1896 GOLD MEDAL Harlem oil has
been the National Remedy Of Holland. the
Government Of the Netherlands having grant
cd special charter authorizing its prepsra-
ton and sale. The housewife OF Holland
would almost as soon he without bread as
she would without her Real Dutch Drops"
A. she quantity calls GOLD MEDAL Haar-
lem Oil Capsules This is the one reason
why Won will find the women and children
Of Holland 50 sturdy and robust.
GOLD MEDAL are the pure original Haar
lem Oil Capsules imported direct from the
laboratories i'm HARLEM Holland. But be
sure to get GOLD MEDAL. Look for the
name on every box. sold by reliable drug
gists in scaled packages at 25c, SOC and
81 90. Money refunded II they do not help
YOU Accept only the GOLD MEDAL. All
others are limitations.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17

- UCCESS OF the 1915 automobile
racing season was established be-
- yond all question Of doubt when
the contest board of the American
Automobile association held its dinner
at the Chicago Automobile club. and
officially awarded the 1916 champion
ship 20 Dario Resta, together with q
beautiful diamond studded platinum
fob. gift from the contest board. the
Bosch trophy. $4,000 Of the B. F. Good
rich company's cash prize and $4,000 Of
the Bosch cash award Aitken and
Ricizen bacher. who finished the season
second and third, received $4,000 and
$1,000 Of the Goodrich cash prize and
$1,000 and $500 OF the Bosch cash prize,
respectively.
This marked the official ending OF
the most successful season that auto
mobile racing has ever had and re-
Elected great credit upon the contest
board OF the A A A Contributing to
this success were speed records that
totally eclipsed the Imagination Of the
drivers themselves. These have been
made possible not entirely through the
construction of the big fast speedways,
hut also TO the advancements in the
mechanical construction Of the racing
cars and the development OF cord tires.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17

"hlcn nave 1olnJiy made high speed
PIszes Total s3OO,OOO.
According to the records Of the 4
A. A, A drivers participated in its
regularly sanctioned speedway events
during 1916. in which no / IS than ten
speedways enabled these Al drivers to
accumulate close TO $500. 900 in prize
money.
At the dinner given to Dario Resta
and Johnny Aitken at Chicago, one Of
the speakers stated that in two years
racing. Dario Resta finished first in
every race his car finished with excep-
ton OF his first race against Ralph
DePalma at Indianapolis. May 81, 1915.
This record has never been eoualed IN
the history of racing
Interest In speedway racing reached
enormous proportions. as judged by the
attendance at each Of the events. and
the drivers maintained a consistent
regularity in appearing in the large
majority.
What Road Racing Has Done.
Il is interesting to note the popular
ity OF the speedways as compared with
road racing during the past few years,
and II must not be forgotten that road
racing was the father OF the speed
way
The motor car made its racing debut
on the road not any further back than
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17
TRUCK SALES

Commercial car deliveries this week
sAe reported as follows
Southern Motor cOmpany-Hemman-
hudson company. one ton Republic. re-
peat order. JuareZ Mercantile company.
Republic dispatch, repeat order: Pec0s
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17

Mining company. two ton Republic;
=. Spence & sons. Carrizozo. Two
ton Republic: D L. Meioy Motor com
pany, Globe. AriZ.. two ton Republic:
John Hutchings. Alamogordo. Repub-
lie dispatch.
Velie Motor Sales cOmpany-Veiie
two ton and Velie three and half ton
trucks 10 Jack Arnold. Silver City, y.
II
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17

Downtown Store Room, For Rent, with
Basement 20XS0. COS Texas St-Adv.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17
NEW MOTOR RACING SEASON To
BE GREATEST IN AUTO HISTORY
Plans Are Outlined By Officials of A. A A Contest
Board; Elgin Road Race May Be Resumed While
There Is Possibility of Daytona Again
Putting Up Straightaways
Prizes Total ssOO.OOO

which have Jointly made high speed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-17
FORD SERVICE HAS NO SUPERB

Every Fod backed by the strongest and efficient oga
the automobile industry Every dealer Ford parts and every age
station with competent Ford mechanic in charge
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
SILK WORM HARD WORKER
Goes Through Immense Number OF
Evolutions In Unwindina Ito
Product From lts Body.

The silk worm is just caterpillar
after all, but special kind Of cater
pillar which develops curiously. It Is
very small when first Matched from the
egg, and grows so rapidly that 1t
changes it's skin, or mouths, four times
in the eight weeks which are required
for attaining full growth, about three
inches in length. Then it stops eating
and looks fora good place in which it
may alter into butterfly. 1t raises
its head and forelegs and climbs up
whatever it comes across. Finding
what seems suitable. usually twig Of
a tree, it attaches itself to the twig
with rough tangled fibre, termed ire
fuse silk" Then it begins to unwind a
long, continuous thread Of silk, NOV
ing it's head from side to side, and
bending it backward over its body so
that the silk is wound all about itself,
forming an oval-shaped cocoon, which
when completed is about the size Of
pigeons egg.
The silk in q single cocoon is some
400 feet or more In length. In doing
its wonderful weaving the silk worm
makes q movement covering 1875 Of
an inch every second. Knowing the
length Of the thread, it follows that
the worm moves its head 100000
times in weaving its cocoon.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
People of United States Should
Not Waste Nut Harvest
By Garrett P. Serviss, Scientist

fast approaching when the forests Will begin to
their nowhere the world these robes
ROYALTY splendid the United States But this
the feeder Of nations scale heretofore
undamt Of there attraction in the autumn woods besides
their beauty foliage which ought command universal interest and
draw everybody reach them their fragrant aises
the of the nut harvest.
you find follow squirrel But the best lesson he
teaches that of of nuts Every nubearng tree
fruit tree The this country alone could 60 far
venting q food famine.
Personally regard butternut the best nut that not
excepting its great COUSIN the walnut Besides the buternut is
native find buternu in the
markets. Go and ask about their utenu and hear
them tell YOU that there be Gin fathers t but
been cut off, OUT venture that buenut
tree was ever cut down. while still the bearing age without loss
matter what put in its place.
1t the with the hkoryanothr native of America One
of the saddest have heard day that the hck
cries are threatened determination by insect But
regardless of enemies hickory has been hamefu neglected.
those supplied successive generations with nourls
ena dessert Of the Kitchen and that
cost the farmer simply and delightful labor of picking the
nuts that the and the cool autumn winds brought down
The consequence neglect Of the nut trees that their product
has become luxury of unng staple food lists
AS squirrel teaches the value of nuts unpoca animal
of Nothing perhaps will faten hog
well and so quickly give market quality Of high value
diet suppose that relatively few that
acorns are excellent and paatabe food for man.
Acorn Hornaday of the most valuable and
whatever being made of it.
The acorn going the United States while being eater
IN bread in Germany"
What more need he said?
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
MECHANICS were LOCALIZED
Titles Spread Upon Official Records,
According to Early Archives Of
Several States.

Nicknames are not likely to get out
of fashion so long as human nature re-
mains what it is. In these days, how
ever, it is not customary to spread
such titles upon official records, as was
formerly the habit, according to the
archives of several Of our states.
In the Dutch records Of 1914 we
have John Petersen, alias Friend
John. In the Newton purchase from
the Indians, dated in 1856, one Of the
boundaries is "by Dutchman's land
called Hans the Boore," and in the
Bushwick patent, dated October IL.
1867, one of the boundaries is "John
the Swede's meadow" In 1896, In the
Kings county records, a man is named
living at Gowanus as 'Tunis the Fish
err"
The common council Of New York
in 1901 ordered fish to be brought into
the dock "over against the city hall
or the house that Long Mary formerly
lived in," and in the same year an Or
der was passed "that Topknot Betty
and her children be provided for as
objects of charity"
The explanation of this custom In
many cases was that the persons in
question either had no family names
or had forgotten them, says a New
York exchange, so that the use Of their
generally accepted nicknames became
necessity.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27

they had kind of foodstuf.
of still later find the mounds various little
implements that evidently used for handling and serving the food
This begins approach conditions the present state of civz
ton that find in the large cenes Of population Thousands OF
people make their sole livelihood preparing food for the table and taking
the dishes and the the food from the small boarding
houses to the hotels
places employed has not had
and known that communicable diseases
rapid and horrible diseases have been passed
another until they have become great
the health, happiness and efficiency Of our people.
The of Pennsylvania fortunately 1915 succeeded in pass
ing law that requires those charge Of restaurants boarding houses
look after the health of their people, The law handles
way holds the proprietor of these places responsible fol-
employing people who have these dangerous diseases that be
through the foodsu itself, through
Dishes forks Knives spoons Cooks and walters cannot under
their occupations without satisfying those they
they from these diseases the law trying
being thus spread The moment this law signed
governor number of walters left their places the Pull
the railroads and from the great railroad restaurants
we'll as from the large and active hotels.
This well known and the and journals endeav
spread that the people might wake what had
what the law proposed protect them from When the
bill asking introduced the general assembly
the great companies that have large restaurants their
appreciated great sanitary and before the
bill law they adopted its good points in the OF
their great eating throughout the United States
This law like laws that bring about great
change public policies has to be sany enforced and the old system
washing Of dishes hotels and restaurants must
suddenly The time fortunately here when the
public has become the people demanding that the
spirit this law be carried out Some hotels advertise on their
ethead paper enforced in their establishments
AS the great cities grow of living change There become
homes and places where people live collectively
for eating Therefore this law becoming
important regard to these cene that they may not
spread dangerous disease through community.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27

to travel from island to island IN their
great seagoing canoes. These are de-
scribed by early explorers ind arc
known to have been large enough to-.
seat 80 or 80 men. The Indians used
them not only for fishing, but for war
and piracy; among the distinctive re-
mains are some that indicate the pres
ence of q few Caribs-these were UNI
doubtedly brought to the islands as
prisoners. +
FliqhtIess Birds Bones Found.
Next to his discovery that a hitherto
unknown tribe once inhabited these is
lands, Mr.. de Booy's most interesting
find was the bones of a flightless bird.
Such a bird belonging to the rail fam
lily and having useless rudimentary
wings inhabits New Zealand at the
present day, but that similar crea-,
ture lived on this hemisphere was q
tremendous surprise to the scientists
Of the Smithsonian institution In
Washington, who identified the bones
sent them by Mr.. de BODY. The bird
is not prehistoric, but undoubtedly
was hunted and eaten by the Indians
three or four hundred years ago.
Another creature which existed upon
the islands in pre- Columbian days and
is now extinct was the is0lobodan, q
large rodent, which also furnished the
islanders with food.
It is we'll known that these three is
lands, which are now covered for the
most part with brush and grass, where
they are not cultivated, once supported
heavy forests. The trees were proba-
bly, burned by the Spaniards in order
to make room for crops.
Mr.. de Booy's discoveries indicate
that the islands not only have been de"
forested, but that the whole character
Of their fauna has been changed by
man. Not only the flightless bird and
the isolobodan have been exterminated.
but he also found bones Of species OF
crow which is now exit net and Is
known to have inhabited only dense
forests. For these animals which have
been destroyed, the European fallow
deer, the partridge and the wild goat
have been substituted. Thus the char
acter of both flora and fauna have
been radically altered by man and 1t
one Of the aborigines could return he
would probably find the islands hard
to recognize.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27

were densely crowded, but as we got
higher this close growth gave place
to more open forest with here and
there a great dead tree standing gaunt
and white in the sunlight against the
dark foliage of the living trees. Final
", up near the rocky crest of the
mountain, young trees are compare
lively scarce, and along the ridges
near the summit there are many
groups of fine stately trees. Here, at
a height of nearly 1000 feet, snow was
still lying at the time of our visit In
April.
Many Killed by Great Drought.
A striking feature of the Touggour
forest is the number of large dead
trees still standing. In fact, large
trees in full vigor. without dead
branches are rare until the summit is
reached. The great drought of 1876
1881 is said to have wrought havoc
with the cedar forests Of Algeria, and
I suppose that these dead trees now
standing are witnesses of that time.
/ There is no doubt that cedar Of the
Atlas and that of Lebanon and Asia
Minor are only varieties Of the same
species, which now linger only in the
mountains Of northwest Africa, Cy-
prus, Palestine and Asia Minor. The
deodar Of the Himalaya is also some
what more distinct variety of the same
species.
The scattered colonies Of the cedars
have given rise to the hypothesis that
the Atlas mountains were once cOnt1n-
uous across the Mediterranean with
the mountains of Cyprus, and that the
cedar, together with certain other
plants, used this land bridge for its
extension from the east to the west.
It is more probable, however, that the
cedar is an ancient species which
once occupied mountainous regions all
around the Mediterranean when the
climate was colder than it is now and
it was able to live below its present
limit of height. It has died out In the
intermediate regions even as it now
seems to be dying out in Palestine.
There seems to be no fear Of any
dminution of the forest near Batna
under present conditions judging from
the profusion Of vigorous young trees
ON the lower. slopes. I did not special
~ look for young seedlings, but found
number of cones lying about from
one of which I have raised q number
of seedlings. The comparative rarity
Of young trees on the higher slopes
where the melting Of the winter SHOWS
must provide sufficient water in the
summer is striking and to me mex
plicable.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
No Dancer.

A party Of engineers were out wire
cutting in "No Mans Land one night.
Things were progressing very favor
ably when one of the sentries sent up
q flare or star shell 50 that he could
spy out the land. Immediately all the
wire cutters, except one, threw
themselves down. 80
Keep still, you idiot" they whis-
pered to the foolhardy one.
1T doesn't matter, you silly chumps,"
came the retort. ITS one OF ours I"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
Good ENOUGH for Her.

Reggie see some fellah has In
vented something to keep shoe laces
tied.
Belle-How silly! A mans good
enough for me.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
Clearly Food Is Essential to Family Health
BY D.. Samuel c. Dixon, u. S. Commissioned Of Health

Wild animals eat their food raw, either while
fresh or after it has become tender with age. This
latter habit is of the weases. They kill quite lib
orally of their prey when the opportunity offers and
then allow it almost to decay before they feed upon
it. Primitive hunted and devoured his food much
like the lower animals.
Later in the history of man he learned to make
fire and cook his food, and it is quite evident from
what find in the Indian mounds that it became the
CUSTOM for instance of the American Indians to have
great clam bakes the Atlantic coast. Sometimes
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
Typical.

Typical.
"What is the meaning Of shower
bouquet for brides"
81 guess it indicates the beginning 4
q reign"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
FRAMED PICTURES
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sembling genuine oil paintings,
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$1.75 PICTURES, 800
"A limited number of hald-col-
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TOPS. Very appropriate for gradu-
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