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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

The rummage sale for the hospital
was success, and we wish to thank
all those helping us SO generously, es-
pecially Miss Carrie Holmes for the
use Of the store on Main street for
ten days; also for the draying, wood
lights and store, and the many ar
ticles of clothing, etc.
The children's hospital day which
followed was entered into with much
zest by all the pupils. One apple and
one potato only was asked for, but IN
all it amounted to fourteen bushels
which is much appreciated by the
board of managers. We wish to
thank you all for the donation and
the cheerfulness with which it was
given.
Then came the help from the New
Idea club unsolicited, consisting OF
canned fruit, jelly, apples: canned
corn. tomato soup and cabbage.
We certainly appreciate all this
help for we have many patients who
are not able to pay, but that is what
a hospital is for, and we are only too
glad to give our time to keep the
institution up.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

Election of Officers
The annual election of officers of
Belding Grange will take place Satur-
day. December 8. This is an all-day
meeting with dinner at noon. A
business meeting will be held in the
forenoon.
All members are requested to be
present.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR RENT-Furnished room, well
located. Inquire at Banner Office.
-23-tf.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

WANTED-Several carloads of pota-
toes. Highest market price paid.
Phone 391. II. j. Currie. 78-27-tf.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR SALE-A tubular three-way
pump, Custine make, never been
used much, good reasons for SELL
ing. F. G. Mikesell, Shiloh, Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

LOST-New black umbrella in some
Of the local stores. Finder please
leave at Banner. 84-28-l
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR SALE-Evergreen trees suit
able for Christmas trees. Inquire
610 Root St., phone 346r. 86-28-1
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR RENT-9-room house on Ham
brook street with city water, gas
and electric lights. Tom Bracken.
87-2S-tf.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR SALE-Good square piano at
your own price if taken at once. H.
S. Gardner, phone 275-1l-1s. 80-27-2
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR RENT-Eight-room house, all
modern conveniences, corner Bridge
and Center streets. Inquire ZIG
Broas ST., phone 1858. 61-24-tf
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR SALE-Household goods and
child's iron bed. Inquire of Mrs. c.
N. Hoyt, TIT South Bridge St., or
phone BIB. 81-27-tf.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

If WANTED--Good, clean place to
store household goods see G. K.
Wortley. Corner Drug Store.
56-24-tf.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR SALE-Twenty- four weeks
old pigs. C. b. Johnston, r. r.
No. !. 4s-24-u
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

FOR SALE-Farm of so acres with
stock and tools, six miles west of
Belding, sickness reason for selling.
Inquire A. T. Gerardy, Bedding R.
r. No. 2. 71-26-4
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-12-05

WANTED--An experienced married
man to work on farm by the year.
Inquire at Banner Office. 69-26-tf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
King Georges Potato Patch

Most persons think of royalty as a
matter of fuss and feathers. But the
divinity that doth hedge king is for
public consumption; in private he
often cultivates the simple life.
There is nothing surprising in the
announcement that King George of
England spends his afternoons work
ing at potato patch in Windsor
Park. The lamented Pingree of De-
troit, who tried to make the idea
popular years ago, is being every
where justified in these days. George
V has good hereditary example for
his love of the soil. His ancestor
whom the singers of the Declaration
of Independence denounced so fierce
ly, was in truth q kindly soul, and
he was much happier as Farmer
George" than as the protagonist of
personal government with the par
liamentary aid of "the Kings
friends" His intellectual ideas were
those of the country squires of his
day. Shakespeare is sad stuff" he
eonfided to Fanny Burney on mem
orable occasion. "Only one mustn't
say so-what, what?" Perhaps he
might have been spared the unhappy
insanity of his last years If he had
never been burdened with the affairs
of state.
10 D6 On uIc5S pal etdC ali lliG tiilIS
would be a fearful penance to pay
for exalted rank. The only ruler of
our day who seems to enjoy it is the
Kaiser. Even in his own family, we
are told, he assumes the god and
seems to shake the spheres. The de-
posed CZar of Russia, who has an
essentially bourgeois nature. took to
shoveling snow as soon as the strain
of czarship was over. A little pseudo
Car like Ferdinand of Bulgaria
would not take his downfall so con-
tentedly. The late King Edward VII,
though he realized the royal duty
OF not permitting familiarities, was
one of the most genial of men, who
loved to throw aside ceremony. Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy, another
monarch upon whose good nature
none would think of presuming, is
democratic in his views and habits.
Europe, outside of Germany would
hardly endure another Louis XIV.
The simple life may be lived too ex-
clusively, of course; Louis XVI spent
hours in his workshop that had bet
ter have been devoted to meeting the
troubles that were to cost him his
head. There is no such peril in King
Georges cultivation of his potato
patch. He is engaged in the laudable
task of setting a good example to
his subjects. 1t is only another mani
festation of the tact and common
sense which have helped to make
his throne secure.-Philadelp
Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Legitimate Censorship

The substitute censorship provision
proposed to be introduced in the
House, and presumed to have the
approval of the President. discloses
better understanding of what a
censorship may legitimately attempt
to do. 1t gives the President author
ity to prescribe rules for the preven-
ton of military information reach
ing the enemy through publication
That is a purpose every patriotic
American will be ready to serve, and
no objections can be made to the
fullest authority being given the
President to see that 1t is carried
out. But the new provision express
ly recognizes that there is nothing
in that purpose which should re-
strict the right to discuss or COM
ment on the acts or policies of the
government or its representatives
This proper distinction is all that the
opponents of the former censorship
provision have contended for. No
publication that respects itself or
the interests of America would ask
or assert the right to give informa-
ton of the movements of troops or
the disposition of fleets, or print any
other news that could be of value to
the enemy. But the acts of a public
official or the policy of an admins
tration. or legislation in Congress
can never be subjects of censorship
laws in country that claims to
he free. Tho right and the duty to
criticize such acts and policies are
inherent in this democracy, in peace
and In war. 1t augprs more encour-
agingly for the proper conduct of the
war that this has at last been recog-
nized in Washington.-Ka Kansas City
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
The German Record

on the day when German air
planes dropped bombs in Dover, Kill
ing twenty-seven women ana tWen-
ty-three children half q mile from
any military work, the German gov
ernment gave notice of intent to con-
tinue sinking hospital ships lin the
entire barred zone and in the Medi-
terranean''-eXcept at one point, un-
der conditions strange to the law
of nations.
So lengthens the grim score that
will be washed out in blood. Begin
ming with the Belgian "scrap of pa
per-: through lawless murder of
civilians on land and sea and from
the sky; through forced contribu-
tions, and hostages slain without
fault, the old fanes of holy faiths
desecrated, and sculptured orna-
ments of antiquity battered down;
through poison gas in the trenches,
and poisoned wells in Africa and in
France, and devastation of homes
without war excuse, and the selling
of old men, women and girls to drag
into slavery, and the butchery of the
wounded under the Red Cross, the
red recital runs to our day, unmiti-
gated by any sign of returning sanity
or awakened scruple. Reckless of
the future, though the world is at
last rising in armed protest against
her intolerable acts, Germany, as
though mad, still soils and slays.
No peace can be made with mill
tarism that wages war in disregard
of every softening scruple devised by
civilization. No faith can be placed
in the forsworn. The German peo-
pie themselves must be unyoked
from the wolf.-New York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Must Be No Negligence

But / am finding some things to
cheer me. There is, for instance
the knowledge that the scandals of
the Southern camps during the
Spanish War will not be repeated
there we lost ten boys from disease
to every one killed in battle. Think
of 1t! We learned nothing from that
war, but we learned greatly from the
war in Europe. There will be no
cruel and useless waste of life from
disease. On the Mexican border
there was practically no sickness, al
though the natural conditions were
now, and water supplies -.u hA
typhoid, too, has eliminated the dis
ease, both in the European armies
and here. Because it is waste that
we fear.
We are trying to feel, we women,
that no cost is too great, If needful to
preserve our country. But we will
never be reconciled to waste of life
through negligence. And this
promise, now. Let such negligence
occur, and let me know of it, duly
investigated, and / will make the
press of the country ring with it. to
the eternal shame of those who are
responsible.
l have been to war. and I know
this: That men living in fearful
surroundings may be kept healthy by
proper care. This care is what we
demand, those of us who cannot
fight. but who are bearing our own
burdens, nevertheless.
Mary Roberts Rinehart in "The
Altar of Freedom"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Air Cavalry

In the present war cavalry cannot
we'll be used effectively because of
the trench fighting. For the first time
in history cavalry is faced by a
swifter, deadlier, more mobile arm
the aeroplane.
But the aeroplane itself, effec-
tive as it has proved, has been used,
in a sense, with European conserva-
tism. To be sure, the embattled arm
les now have their thousands of air
scouts and air cruisers, but one ven-
lures to believe that were q Napo-
leon or a Lee in charge of the op-
erations he would develop the new
factor as Napoleon developed artil-
lery and as Lee developed cavalry.
The time apparently is coming for
the use of aeroplanes in clouds, in
hosts, in armies.
The extraordinary usefulness of
the air fighter has been conclusiveiy
demonstrated. Is 1t not possible that
the American mind, with it's genius
for discarding the old and developing
the new, will exalt the aerial factor
in war to the degree of it's highest
potentialities and thus decide the
struggle?
In view of the backwardness of
this nation in developing it's air
service and the fine efficiency of the
French in aviation, such a suggestion
may seem absurd. Yet the possi-
hlity exists for further amazing
demonstrations of effectiveness in
air operations, and this possibility is
worthy to receive the careful atten-
ton of American Chicago
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Rhymes From the Nursery
A SONG OF THE BOTTLE

There's a cure for u cry, and a
balm for a sigh,
In a white milky bottle, love it,
oh my!
1t appeases my woes, it scatters
my foes,
When 1 get hold of one, why I
curl up my toes.
And shut my eyes, and hush up my
cries,
And away go sailing-way off past
the skies
Where a country of babies and white
bottles lies!
Let the other small tots, have their
bread-lots and lots,
Or big plates of ice cream or
round apricots,
= 1 never would wish for the likes
of dish,
That had in things to eat like po-
tatoes and fish!
No, l just shut my eyes, rend the air
with my cries, -.
And there's only one thing that my
heart pacifies-
'Tis a white milky bottle my soul
satisfies.
To a bottle sing! Oh, bottle me
bring,
All other food to the winds would
slingl
Let the nipple be black, let the milk
not be slack,
And rest ye assured that my lips
/ will smack!
Then I'll shut up my eyes, and I'll
hush up my cries,
And away I'll go sailing-way off
past the skies.
Where a country of babies and white
bottles lies,
BY Edna Croft Delhi.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Labor Notes
By BRIGGS

Sweden has a compulsory old-age
pension law.
Denmark has government inspec-
ton of bakeries.
Richmond, Va, operates a public
employment bureau.
Oklahoma compensation law al
lows no death benefits.
The British Cabinet has a Minis
try of Labor.
Women are employed as steve
dores in German seaports.
New Mexico compensation law is
effective shortly.
Miners in Japan are paid 20 cents
a day.
+ On July 1 Frisco painters will ask
Sc for an eight-hour day.
An eight-hour day has been grant
ed Canadian Pacific engineers.
President Gompers advocates no
strikes in war time.
Women car conductors may be en-
ployed in New York City.
London (Ont) labor unions de-
mand municipal coal yards.
Canada will use convicts to replace
farm labor.
Frisco upholsterers have secured
an increase in pay.
Blacksmiths at Vancouver, B. c.,
are paid So Il cents an hour.
Omaha (Neb) sheet metal work
ers have q 55-cent-an-hour mini
mum.
Bartenders at Newark, N. j., have
secured 10-hour day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31

TIME prominent part Japanese
torpedo boat destroyers have
taken in submarine activities in
European waters within the past two
weeks indicates that Japan has be-
gun to realize the gravity of the sit
uation which England faces on the
seas. The part Japan has played in
this war has been largely selfish. 1t
has been the Japanese policy to let
George do it." Nominally at war
with Germany, the only part Nippon
had played up to a month ago was
the taking of few minor German
forts in China-of vast importance
to Japan in her conquest of the East
and the sale of large quantities of
munitions to Russia.
1t is remarkable that while troops
by the hundred thousand have been
rushed from India, Australia and
Canada to the aid of the allies, not
more than q few hundred Japanese
soldiers, if any, have found their way
to the European battlefields. No rea-
son has been given for this. No
sooner did the United States declare
war on Germany than representa-
tives of the allies swarmed to Wash
ington, as ready to seek assistance of
men as of money, Apparently no
such requests were made of Japan.
Now, however, there appears to be
a gradual awakening in Japan. A
separate Russian peace would mean
a Russia friendly to Germany and a
successful Germany would mean
frightful revenge upon Japan and the
demolition of the tower of dreams
Japanese have built around their
scheme of dominion in the East. In
short, Japan soon must come into
the war on a scale commensurate
with her state of preparedness or be
ready to take either a minor part in
the triumph of the allies or to wage
a losing war at frightful cost should
German prove victorious. Very dis
tinctly it is now "up to the Japs''
and there are signs that Toxic is not
unaware of the trend of affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, of
Bethlehem, is celebrating his thir-
tieth wear as a bishop.
H. b. Hagy, who is in charge of
the Liberty Loan in Berks county,
says the county can take 100000
-Adjutant General Stewart had to
work yesterday and for the first time
in years he made no Memorial Dny
address.
j. V. Symons, active in steel af-
fairs, has been placed in charge OF
all steel and rolling mills at the
Cambria steel plant at Johnstown.
Judge Alton 3. Parker has been
a figure in the courts in Pittsburgh
this week.
Prof. S. M. Lindsay, former Uni
versity of Pennsylvania professor,
now of Columbia, is making a series
of addresses on what war economy
means.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Fishing For Dreams

We are two fishermen, Sunnie and 1,
Fishing for dreams in the broad
blue sky;
1 for the dream of love that went
Like a singing bird to the armament;
He for the dream of the fairy isles
Where the sun all day on the hilltop
smiles,
And the birds and the flowers and
the hearts of men
Go singing together adown the miles,
And love comes unto its own again.
All, wonders, indeed, come to our
bait,
AS there on the bank with our lines
we wait;
And wonders go by all day o'erhead,
And we try to guess what the red
bird said,
What the gray squirrel thought,
what the chipmunk spied,
And then on the beams of the sun
we ride
over the riddle of pain and care
To the fairy hills of the everywhere,
Counting the buttercups, making a
Sunnie and I, with our dreams to
spare,
The fishermen twain that never fish.
Baltimore Sun,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
THE EBY FOUNTAIN

THP placing of the Eby fountain
i on the plaza at the city pump
ing station is worthy tribute to
the memory of one who was
throughout his life a friend of chill
dren. This memorial erected by Miss
Eby in memory of her brother, ex-
Mayor Maurice C. Eby, is of special
value at this location. 1t is properly
named 1.-THE Children's Fountain"
Let us hope that Commissioner
Dunkle will arrange for the daily
removal of the ashes in the rear of
the fountain so that this beauty spot
may not be disfgured by the waste
of the big engine room of the pump
ing station.
The employees at the station are
lovers of flowers and shrubbery and
1t is to their credit that the planting
is carefully looked after by them.
Doubtless, the Department of Parks
will cooperate with Commissioners
Dunkle in making this plaza the
beauty spot of the river front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
No Change

They had parted long years ago.
Now. in the deepening shadows OF
the twilight, they had met again.
Here is the old stile. Mary" he
said.
AYE, an here be our initials that
you carved. Sandy" she replied.
The ensuing silence was broken
only by the buzzing OF an airplane
overhead. Honeyladen memories
thrilled through the twilight and
flushed their glowing cheeks.
"Ah, Mary" exclaimed Sandy
we're just as beautiful as ye were,
and ] haze never forgotten We, my
bonnie lass"
"And We. Sandy" she cried. while
her blue eyes moistened. ARE just as
big a leer as ever an | believe We
just the same. Minneapolis Tri-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31

say nothing of cuffs of a variety that
are not always too far up when they
are not too far down. we'll not only
forgive and forget. but we'll hail 'em
as sartorial reformers and friends of
masculinity the civilized world over.
Think of it, men! No more the
agony of a jagged collar; no more
the cuff-links that won't match; no
more the shirt-stays that won't stay;
no more the vain search for the elu-
sive collar button.
A bas the stiff cuffs! A bas the
high collar! A bas the hard boiled
Shirt
And, while we are about, bas
also the laundry bill.
The man who plants a garden is a.
patriot; the man who keeps his gar
den well hoed is a hero.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
The Prohter

Harold Mccormick, of Chicago.
who has outfitted the whole Yarrow-
dale crew at his own expense, is a
very rich man and a very generous
man, but he does not like to be
done"
Mr.. Mccormick. on one of his
visits to Florida, neglected to stipu-
late his hotel rate in advance. The
hotel man took advantage of this
oversight, and the bill he presented
was exorbitant.
Mr.. Mccormick, however, paid
without murmur. Then he said. as
he folded the receipt in his wallet:
"By the way, have you got any
two-cent stamps?"
Eyes, sir" said the hotel man.
How many would you like to
have?"
'iEr--." said Mr.. Mccormick.
mildly. how much are they apiece %
Washington Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
A BIAS THE HARD-BoILED SHIRT

TTooRAY for the Haberdashers'
II Association! A grateful public
(male) halls 'em as benefac-
tors of mankind. friends of democ-
racy, liberators Of a half hundred
million throttled throats and as
many embattled manly bosoms.
Reports from Chicago are that the
haberdashers have placed their ban
on the hard boiled shirt, the high
standing stiff collar and starched
cuffs. Starch is needed for food.
Hence, as patriots, we are asked to
wear our starch inside our chests in
stead of on the outside. Taken by
and large this is not a very hefty
order. AS patriotic Americans we
can think of sacrifices that would
be much harder to make. Yea, we
rejoice in conforming absolutely to
this new dictum of the arbiters
whose decree it erstwhile was that
we should go about clad in stiff and
unyielding garments that had they
been inflicted upon horse or dog
would have brought down upon the
perpetrators head the righteous
wrath of the s. p. C. A.
But let by-gones be by-gones. If
the Kaiser were to quit right now
and let Harden run for President
we'd be willing to call 1t all off and
get square with the Germans by let
ting them have the agony Of pop
ular election every four years. So
with the haberdashers. If they let
us alone with our new-found bless
ings, If they permit us to loll about
e dennel shirts and soft collars, to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
Charles M. Schwab SAYS =

Integrity, incidentally. is one of the
mightiest factors in salesmanship. If
YOU have reputation for stating
facts exactly, for never attempting to
gain momentary advantage through
exaggeration, you possess the basis of
Iall successful halesmanship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 81
CAN You AFFORD TIP
II this question:

n SIX yourself this question::
"A Can 1 afford not to buy a
Liberty Bond?"
Then answer it this way:
'If 1 value the privileges have
enjoyed as an American citizen--if
want to make certain that my chill
dren and future generations shall en-
joy the same privileges must do
my share toward stemming the tide
of oppression which threatens our
shores. I must do my part in show
ing President Wilson, our govern
ment in general, our army, our navy
and our allies that every person in
the United States is solidly support
ing them. Therefore, 1 must buy
n Liberty Bond"
Then go into the nearest bank and
ask the man at the window how it
can be done by investing dollar a
week for little less than year.
Just what does Hindenburg mean
by a line?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-31
EDITORIAL CO1r1ENT

That truth is mighty is amply
proved by the fact that it still sur
wives after German statesmen have
stretched it all out of shape.-Kan-
sas City Star.
Berlin says the German line is in
Vlncible. Certainly. Whenever it is
in danger they just move back three
or four miles.-Philadelph North
American.
Hindenburg may have paraphrased
Grants famous line so that it reads:
We'll fight it out on this line if 1
have to take the line with me-
New York Morning Telegraph.
1t is requested of the press that
no speculation or rumor be publish
ed other than those given out by
the War Department.-From a War
Department statement. Secretary
Baker should establish special days
for issuing his speculations and ru-
mors.-Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
Worth noting that the colors on
the Tricolor of France, the Union
Jack, and the Star-Spangled Banner
are the same.-Wall Street Journal.
julius Caesar, son of Minnie Cae-
sar, of Brooklyn, has Joined the
United States marines and will help
overcome the Goths.-Chattanoo
News.