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On Studying French.

NTUDYING French is one of the great
- war industries in Washington. It
divides honors with knitting. An in
nobody really seems to be studying
French, but is merely brushing up"
on it, No doubt many persons at one
time or another learned to repeat some
thing like al fait beau temps" "passez
moi du pain" "avec plaisir'' 'siI
vous plat" Which. of course. consti-
tuted familiarity with the French
language. a rather small and easily ac-
auired language. to be learned some
times in seven lessons or whereabouts.
Current conversation runs something
like this: "Oh. yes, you see, I'm just
brushing up on my French: I find that
l have become little rusty: it is really
amusing how a Language slips away
from one. isn't it?'
The language seems to have merely
slipped away from so many persons
that there must have been a time when
all Americans spoke French. Perhaps
some of these persons who are merely
brushing up their French are like the
pool player who, after dramatically
chalking the cork tip. misses the cue
ball and tears the cloth of the table
and then delivers himself of this:
There was time when played
some pooi-believe me, some pool, Man,
there were no pockets too small or too
far away for me to drop the balls into
as fast as l could shoot 'em. l always
had great gallery when 1 played and
men would walk ten miles on a muddy
day to see me put EN- in. Once Mayed
Il game with De Orc. but | didn't give
him chance to shoot. But | haven't
had a cue in my hand for some time
and am a little out of practice"
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amount invested and drawing interest
is of greater valte to the child than
tied up in bank at home, and the
investment of the money releases the
coins for circulation. In this connec-
tion Mr.. Baker says:
millions and millions of dollars in
those minor coins are now idle in toy
banks, coin savers and other small
receptacles. used chiefly by children in
accommodating savings. The saving of
small coins is thrifty habit. by no
means reprehensible, but q truer meth
cd of accomplishing thrift and at the
same time aiding the United States
government has been provided through
the issuance of war savings certificates
and war savings stamps.
The passage of the war revenue act
has brought tremendously increased
demand for small coins. especially PEN
MES The United States minis are
working twenty-four hours day and
Sundays in an effort to supply the de-
mand. Enough small coins should be
shaken out af the toy banks of the
country to relieve the present strin-
gency of this form of money
Two classes OF agents are estab-
lished-those who may hold not more
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A
SPACES WHICH BE Affirmed

'The first consideration in all invest
ments. of course, is their safety Could
anything be safer than something with
the entire wealth of the United States
behind it? The second consideration is
the return on the investment Is not
$3.50 for the loan of $S24o for five
years attractive enough for any one?
Finally, one always must consider his
ability to convert an investment into
cash on short notice. What more lib
eral arrangement than the one offered
by this plan of return upon ten days
notice OF the investment. plus interest,
could be asked?'
The persons who are investing their
savings in war savings certificates are
TO have their interest sustained
throughout the campaign by receiving
daily or weekly reports from the Treas
ury Department of the progress of OPP
erations.. Here is what Mr. Price. di-
rector of publicity, said in late in
terview:
There is nothing mysterious about
the noerty loan and war savings pub
llcity campaign that we are making.
We adopted in the beginning the policy
OF telling the whole truth at all times.
and we nave stood by It consistently
and VIII continue to do so.
Wnen became director of publicity
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than 81 900 of stamps for certificates at
one time and who must pay cash for
their holdings, and those who may
hold more than $1,000 worth and may
obtain them on assignment by deposit
ing as security liberty bonds or GER
tificates of indebtedness to the amount
of the selling value of the stamps.
Most chain stores. railroad companies
and big associations will fall in the
second class, and small stores and
agents acting independently will be
placed in the first class. All agents
must be authorized by the Secretary
of the Treasury upon application
through post offices, banks or state
and local war savings committees now
being organized.
Banks. bankers and trust companies.
railroad and express companies. de-
partment and other retail stores. the
duly authorized representatives of la
Dor, fraternal and other associations
and other corporations, partnerships
and individuals who periodically oner
their services without expense, either
TO the United States or to purchasers.
saws Secretary McAdoo's announcement.
will be among those whom the Secre-
tary of the Treasury viii in his dist
erection appoint as agents" No cut
price sales will be permitted.
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Proof Positive.

II ORD READING, the English states-
10 man, said on his return from a
western tour:
THE patriotism of your west is mag
nifcent. He who could be dissatisfied
with the west would be as hard to
please as the young bride.
This young bride, as her husband
took her tenderly in his arms one even
ing. burst into tears.
''Jim, you don't love mel she ex-
claimed.
why do you say THAR asked Jim.
Because she wept, you're not jeal-
GUS Mary and Joe have only been
married half as long as We have. and
he's already shot at her twice in his
jealousy and tried to kill himself thrse
times.'"
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the report made public showed that
fact. If they were good the report
showed it. AT no time throughout the
four weeks intensive campaign was
any effort made to mislead the public in
order to speed up sales or otherwise af-
feet the campaign.
AS result OF this attitude toward
publicity I encountered some peculiar
experiences. When the official reports
that the publicity bureau gave out
showed that the sales were poor
many newspapers and persons said
that an attempt was being made to
deceive the public into believing that
the loan was about to fail. When the
reports showed that sales were good
the criticism often was made that the
bureau was too optimistic II required
MANY days to convince the public and
the papers that the publicity bureaus
statements were telling the whole
truth and nothing but the truth. once
that fact was established. however, the
statements were taken at their face
value and every one trusted them.
The attitude of this bureau in the war
savings campaign, and every other
campaign with which I have to do,
Will be the same as it was in the sec
ond liberty loan. If man has worthy
cause, like the financing of the war, he
need not worry about getting publicity
SO long as he does not try to fool the
public or the newspapers"
1t is a fact well to remember that
there are about 100000 of the peo-
ME Of the United States who are
aither of foreign birth or immediate
foreien extraction. 1t has been found
mat the formation of clubs and socie-
ties constitute an attractive medium
for the stimulation of interest in the
nations war loans among this portion
of it's eitizenry.
1t has been recommended by Ray
u. iii for nf t1a in
that the pennies. nickels and dimes
boarded in childrens toy banks be IN :
vested in war thrift stamps. There is
a dual purpose in the suggestion. The
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you 10 save and exchange for a IS war savings
certificate stamp. The thrift stamps bear no
interest: the war savings certificate stamps
earn interest.
Why do l get So war savings certificate
stamp for from S4.l2 TO SAB?
The IS is payable January 1. 1928. II in
cludes the return to you of your money with
the compound Interest that the government will
pay you. The sooner you fill ny and exchange
your thrift card for savings certificate
stamp. the more interest you Will receive.
Why should exchange my full card Of thrift
stamps for war savings certificate stamp!
Because the savings certificate stamp
bears interest and the thrift stamps do not.
What becomes OF the money I pay for q
stamp?
II is n loan to the United States government.
How can my % cents really help:
A loan of only % cents by every person In
the nation will provide the United States gov
eminent with twenty-hy million dollars.
Here is what Frank A.. Vanderlip has
to say in regard to the war savings
certificates as an investment:
Entirely aside from the patriotic
element, the investment feature of the
new war savings plan appeals to me
strongly. How any one, even though
he were not DESTROYS OF aiding his coun :
try-if we might conceive of such a
person at this tfme--could refuse to EN-
brace this unusual opportunity for In
yestment is beyond my comprehension.
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- a INT it terrible the way you
700 IN couldn't buy no sugar now
IN adays, Mawruss?" Abe
Potash said one morning in November
let the people not eat sugar" Nor
ris Perlmutter declared. These are
war times. Abe"
Suppose they are war times. ape
retorted must everybody act IKE
they had diabetes Sugar is just so
much a food as butter and milk and
xefullte Rinderbrust."
Il know it is" Morris agreed. put
most people eat it because it's sweet
and they like it
Then it's your idea that on account
of the war people should eat only them
foods which they don't like" Abe IN
auired.
THAT amt my idea. Abe" Morris
protested: Il got it from reading let
ters to the editors written by Pro Bono
Publicos and other fellers which is tax
ing advantage OF the only opportunity
they VIII ever nave 70 Hs uie III NAN
newspapers outside of the births. mar
riages and deaths. understand.
Them feIIers all insist that until the
war is over. everything in the way of
sweetening should be left out of Amer
Jean life, and some of EN- even so so
far as to claim that we should ought
nd al Tn cir
idea is that until we lick the Germans
the American people should leave OIL
going to the theater. riding IN auto
mobiles, playing goIiuf, base ball and
auction pinochle and reading maya
zines and story books. y'understand.
In fact. they say that the American
people should devote themselves to
their business, but what business the
felIers which is in the show business.
the automobile business and the maya
zine publishing business should devote
CURED to these here FRO Bono Pub
1icos at ALL
II guess them newspaper letter
writers which is trying to beat out
their own funeral notices. must of got
their dope from this here Frank j.
vanderlip." Abe commented. (which
read it somewhere that he comes out
with. brogan that dollar spent for
unnecessary things is an unpatriotic
dollar
Sure / know Morris said but he
left it to the spender's judgment as to
what was necessary and what was I'M
necessary, Abe. which even President
Wilson himself finds it necessary once
in a while to go to a theater in order
to forget the way them Pro Bono Pub
1icos is nagging at him, morning. noon
and night
But the country must got to get very
busy if we expect to win, Mawruss."
Abe said land them Pro Bonos thinks
its up to them to make the people real
lie what serious proposition we've
got on our hands.
That's all right. too" Morris agreed.
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and the whole matter OF spending
money foolishly on theayter tickets
and automobiles would adjust itself
without any assistance from the gov
eminent. understand
We'll. everything else failing, them
automobile dealers and theayter own
crs could get up war bazaar for them
selves" Morris suggested. which I
seen it the other day in the papers
where they run off war bazaar in
New York and raised over seventy
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the theayter owner must got TO pay in
wages to actors. playwriters. ushers
and the Kosher which sells tickets in
the box office" Abe argued.
We'll, how are all them loafers go
Ing to buy liberty bonds if they would
Mt get their money that way Morris
asked. so you see how it is. Abe. The
Teller which saves all his money for the
duration of the war amt such big
Tzaddfk as you would think, because
even if he invests the whole thing in
liberty bonds, which he amt likely to
do. all he gets for his money is lib
erty bonds and at the same time he
amt helping lot of business men and
throw their employees out Of their jobs
Aber you take one of them fellers
which goes once in a while TO the
theayter for the duration of the war,
v.understand. and indirectly he is
handing the government just SO much
money as the tight wad. the only diff
ference being that the government
amt paving him no interest on it, and
he is also helping TO keep the show
business going ana TO pay the wages
of the actors and all them others which
makes living out or the show busi-
ness.
Sure. ! know" Abe said. but how
is the government going to get men for
the ammunition factories if they are
busy making automobiles for JOY rid
ing oder fooling away their time as
actors. 4Iawrussa''
That is up TO the government and
not to the Pro Bono Publicos,' Morris
declared, which if the theayters has
got to be closed, Abe, | would whole
lot sooner have il done by the govern
ment as by bunch OF Pro Bono Pub
licos, which not only never goes to the
theayter anyway. but also gets more
pleasure from seeing their foolishness
printed than you or I would from see
ing the Follies of 1917 to 1850, inclusive
We'll, I'll tell you. Mawruss." Abe
said. admitting that all which you say
is true, understand. / seen a whole
lot of felIers which is working o. ac-
tors during the past few years, Nav
russ, and with the exception of six.
maybe. it would oser do the show BUSH
ness any harm if them fellers was to
become operators on pants, let alone
ammunition. It's the same way with
the automobile business also. II sew
enty-fve per cent of the people which
runs automobiles was compelled to give
them up tomorrow, Mawruss. the thing
they would miss most of all would be
the bills from the repair shop. So that's
the way it goes. Mawruss. II don't
make no difference what Pro Bono
Publico writes to the newspaper, yum
derstand, he couldn't do a hundredth
part as much to make people cut out
going to the theater for the duration
of the war as the Teller in the show
business does when he puts on rot
ten show Also Mr.. Vanderlip has got
a good line of talk about Americans
acting economical. understand. but
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ten-day written notice, receiving the
cost thereof, plus interest at the rate
of about per cent.
A war savings stamp may be pur-
chased amy time during the month OF
December, 1917. and January, 1913. FOR
s4I2 On January, 1919 that certfh-
cate stamp is worth s4.24, on January
!. 1920. il is worth 1876; on January !.
1922 it is worth $3.50. and on January
/. 1923, five years after the investment.
1t is worth the full s. which its face
prociaims.
An addition OF ! cent is added each
month to the cost of each stamp. The
SIS stamp, which may be purchased to-
day and until the last day Of January.
for SAP, win cost s412 If purchased
during the month Of February. IL pur-
chased during the month of March it
will cost s4.14 and so on until the close
of the year 1918, when the SIS stamp
purchased during the month of Decem-
Der costs $4.23.
To make the purchase of the SIS
stamps yet easier the government is
issuing a 25-cent thrift stamp, which
may be purchased at any post office,
bank, trust company or other author
lied agency and preserved by means Of
a government thrift card until the
number of stamps representing 81 is
saved. When sixteen 25-cent thrift
stamps are affixed to the card it may
be taken to any post office, bank. trust
company or other authorized agency.
and on receipt of the additional number
of cents, regulated by the month in
which they are purchased, the exchange
is made for a SIS war savings stamp.
The operation of the thrift card is
made so plain that all may understand
the explanatory legend on the face of
the card, which says:
when sixteen 25-cent United States
government thrift stamps, representing
a total of 81, are affixed herein. and a
cash payment of from IL cents to %
cents is made as provided on page 2
this card should be exchanged for q
war savings certificate stamp for which
you will be paid on January 1. 1923. i've
dollars"
On the back of the thrift card Sc,
of questions and answers further eluci-
date the system of operation. They are
as follows:
What Is the difference between thrift stamI
and a war savings certificate sfampf
The 25-cent thrift stamps are issued to he'll
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but it would be a whole lot more seri-
Gus if the people become Meshugga
way through with the war. Even when
times is prosperous, only a very few of
the Leute takes more amusement than
is necessary for 'em, Abe, and that's
why 1 say that this here Frank ]. Van
derlip knew what he was talking about
unnecessary. For instance, Abe, if a
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he's practically encouraging the people
that they should throw away their
money left and right on automobiles,
compared to some of them automobile
manufacturers which depends upon
their repair departments for their
profits"
Il understand that right now. Abe.
the automobile business is falling off
something terrible" Morris continued,
and The show business also
sure ii is" Abe said, because SO
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Too True.

GERMANY a high sounding name con-
XVI ceals pretty rotten thing, said
Ralph Corson, a New York after-din-
ner speaker, in an attack on painter
manism.
ITS like the case of the chap whose
little boy asked him:
Pop. what does years of discretion
mean2
. Tt means, son. said the father.
that you're tod young. to die and too
old to have ANA fun"
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i decided that the only way to get into
the newspapers and magazines was to
talk frankly to every one regarding our
money raising campaigns 1t struck
me that the liberty loan and war saw
ings campaigns that we were planning
certainly were the peoples business and
they were entitled to know the whole
truth about them at all times.
beginning in the second liberty loan
campaign. | gave out my daily news re-
ports on the progress of the loan just
as they came to me. If sales were bad
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only with the money which is saved,
whereas if them boys had any expert
ence collecting for an orphan asylum
or a hospital. Abe. they would know
that it amt the tight wads which come
across. Yes, Abe, you could take it
from me. the very people which is cut
ting out theayters, automobile rides
and auction pinochle for the duration
of the war would think twice before
they invest the money they save that
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Everywhere True.

rRENCH AMBASSADOR JussERAND
u SAID al dinner:
"A French writer of genius died not
long since in the person of Octave Mir
beau, and nobody paid any attention to
the matter.
.Mirbeau, though i'll many ways the
greatest living French writer, never
got into the Academy.
I'm France. as everywhere else, it's
true that genius Will out-out at the
elbows"
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Pro Bono Publico. on account of the
war. cuts out taking summer yaca-
ton for a couple of hundred dollars.
and in consequence gets a breakdown
from overwork and has to spend $500
for doctor bills, all you've got to do is
TO strike "A balance and you can see
for yourself that he has spent three
hundred unnecessary unpatriotiG, dol
lars"
We'll, doctors has got to have money
to buy liberty bonds with the same like
anybody else. Mawruss." Abe COM
mented.
Il know they have" Morris agreed,
land that's why say the great mis-
take which these here Pro Bonos makes
is that the war is going TO be fought
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soon as the government put taxes on
theayter tickets and automobiles, Nav
russ. the people was bound to figure il
out that it was bad enough they should
got to pay taxes on their assets with
out being soaked ten per cent on their
liabilities also. And If 1 would be a
Pro Bono Publico. which Gott sci
dank, ! couldn't write good enough
English to break into the newspapers.
Mawruss, the argument I would make
is that people should leave off being
suckers for The duration of the war,
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way in anything which don't have in
terest paid by the government
You may be right. Mawruss," Abe
said. but arguments about how to
finance the war is like double-face
twelve-inch photograph records.
There's good deal to be said on both
sides, which it looks like dead open
and shut proposition to me that peo-
pie couldn't buy no liberty bonds with
the money they spend for theayter
tickets"
But the Teller which runs the thea
ter could, and he must also got to pay
the government a tax on the money
which he gets that way" Norris re-
torted.
But how about the money which
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y'understand. and if he would get an
order for one-twelfth dozen pants out
OF all the advertisements which he
would stick in war bazaar programs
from the beginning Of the war up to
the time when running a war bazaar
first offense is going to be the equiva-
lance of not less than from five to ten
years. understand me. it would be big
already"
AT the same time" Morris protested.
IF people is foolish enough to blow
in their money advertising by war
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thousand dollars for some fellers in
the advertising business
Has the advertising business also
been affected by the war;" Abe asked.
THE business OF some advertising
agents has" replied Morris. which. it
seems. that the standard rates for ad-
vertising agents who solicited adver-
tlsements for war bazaar programs
was any sum realized by the bazaar
over and above one-tenth of one per
cent of the net proceeds, which the adj
yertising men agreed should be de-
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BY MONTAGUE GLASS.

a INT it terrible the way you
100 IN couldn't buy no sugar now
IN adays, Mawruss?" ABE