The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-08-23

ton to accomplish whatever 1t can be
made to accomplish for Germany. We
propose to force out of Poland into
Germany into our factories, where we
need them the entire industrial popu-
lation Of Poland. A hundred and six
ty-five thousand have already been
sent out; we believe that we can force
out of this country seven hundred and
fifty thousands of these working peo-
pie"
The Germans estimated that approx
imately three and half million Poles
would die of starvation and exposure
and the resulting diseases; and that
figure has almost been realized. 1t is
the most appalling thing that has ever
happened in the history of the world.
This is the time of year when those
who can are taking vacations and
when those who can't are thinking
about those taken before or wishing
for one now. Unfortunately, every
one is not situated so he can have a
vacation. Some are not financially
able to go away; some have no one
in whose management they are will
ing to leave their business; some
whose physical and mental condition
makes vacation almost imperative,
do not so simply because they are
unwilling to lose the time and bear
the cost and others there are who
need it least and who can least af-
ford it, so far as they themselves and
their families are concerned, take 1t
most frequently and most extensively
and least intelligently. When one
thinks it necessary to go a long dis
lance to a fashionable watering place
OF popular summer resort to spend a
few days or weeks he is incapable OF
planning a vacation. What is vaca-
ton, anyhow? What does one seek
in a vacation? Why is a vacation
necessary at all? Who should have
a vacation? These are the questions
which should always be answered in
diligently before the question of place
is even thought of.
We are not so much concerned in
giving the dictionary definition OF va
cation as in giving the practical, COM
nonsense meaning. a vacation is a
change.
It would be a poor vacation for a
farmer to leave his own wheat field
and 90 to another wheat field to spend
week, even though he didn't work
while there. In like manner, it would
be a poor vacation for a tired bust
ness-man or a nervously unstrung
teacher, lawyer, physician or minis
ter, to try to take rest under the
same roof or even in the same commu-
nifty as their usual work. What each
needs is to get away from the monot-
ony of that to which he has become a
victim. One seeks in a vacation rec
reation which is recreation. This he
can best have away from his old en-
vironment. A vacation is necessary
only when ones physical or mental
condition, or both, needs this re-crea-
ton
No rules can be laid down for the
vacatiOnist as to exact details. He
must exercise common sense, and
sometimes seek his physicians adj
vice, and rarely ever follow the die
tates of fashion or even of the latest
fad He neither wants to entertain
nor to be entertained. He needs re-
taxation of every nerve and muscle
and tissue. He ought to be able to do
il without trying to do it, just as he
| loves his wife or sweetheart without
/ trying to love her. His vacation ought
not to be too long, as it should not
/ be too short AS to its cost. it need
not be very great. Most vacations
cost too much. Some cost so much
that it takes months to replenish an
embarrassed or exhausted bank ac-
count. But each must decide the
time, the kind, the cost and the place
of his vacation. And when one has
done this wisely not only will he
enjoy it to the fullest extent; he
will continue to reap benefits from it
long after it has ended.