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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-24
Injuries and Insults.

Injuries may be atoned for and for
given; but insults admit OF no compen-
sntion. They degrade the mind in its
own esteem and force it to recover its
level by revenge.-Junius.
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Concrete Railroad lie

Italian steam and street railroads
are experimenting with concrete tie
that rocks slightly affordlng uniform
elasticity and a. more perfect align.
ment Of track than wooden ties.
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Minister a Linnuist.

Four languages were used last year
in the preaching of Rev.. Paul Burgess,
Presbyterian missionary in the Que
zaltenango field of Guatemala, accord
Ing TO the Guatemala News. He spoke
in Spanish, English, German and Cak-
cllquel
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The Soldier
Christian
By REV. ]. H. RALSTON. D. d.
Secretary Of Correspondence Department.
Moody Bible Institute. Chicago

fE%T-No man that warreth entangieth
himself with the affairs OF this life; that
1e may please him who hath chosen him
20 be soldier-II Timothy "a.
This Is not consideration Of tho
Christian as soldier fighting for his
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Proverbs.

Proverbs. It has well been, said
should be sold in pairs. single one
being hrt half a truth.--W. Mathewa
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-24

establishing the industry, where they
said conditions are admirably adapted
to II.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-24
BY WILLoUeHBY LEE.

IE heart Of America at this
Christmas time is yearnlng
toward the hills and val
leys and mud flats of
France, for thousands and
tens Of thousands and, for
all we know, hundreds of
thousands Of our finest boys
are over there with Perish
ing. And by another
Christmas there may be 9
0OO. .OO0 Of them. md two
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Serbia and JugO.SlaYIa.

The composition of the Jugo-Slav
Cabinet is undoubtedly an indication
that the founders and organizers of
the new nation aim at South Slav
confederation and not Mt IN extern
sion of the realm of Serbia over the
Slavic territory of the former Aus.
tro-Hungarian monarchy. The Cabi.
net. In the first place, Is made up OF
representatives Of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes; and In the second
place, NJ. PAsHITcH, who favored the
formation of an enlarged Serbian
kingdom, retires from the Premiership,
and NJ. PRoTcH and DR.. TRUMBITcH,
who opposed Premier PAsHITcH's
plan, become members Of the Cabinet.
This arrangement is apparently
satisfactory to Serbia, which has ac-
cepted it most likely in the belief that
the plans of the Jugo.Slav State will
more readily meet the approval of the
Paris conference. A confederation of
Slav States without giving any one Of
them great preponderance Of power
In the Balkans is practical. Besides
this, the extension Of the rule Of the
Serbs over the Croats and the Slo-
venes would have tendency TO keep
alive the strife that Is centuries old
between the two branches of the Serb
people. The Croats have, moreover,
considered Agram, their capital, as
strong centre OF Serb influence as
Belgrade, and have resented the dom
nation of the Serbian kingdom.
The retirement Of Premier PAsHITcH
would be a severe blow to the South
ern slav interests If It meant his
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withdrawal from all participation
In the upbuIlding of the new nation.
His long service as Serbian Premier
has given him an acquaintance with
Balkan and southern European poll
tics that is especially needed at the
present time. He called the Corfu
conference, where the scheme of a
South Slav union was formulated.
and he has worked continuously for
its Advancement. He will remain, 1t
is stated. as one of the advisers Of
Jugo-Slavia, and In that there is an
assurance Of the same conservatism
that he has always shown in Serbian
affairs.
One of the distinctive gains through
the formation of the new Cabinet is
the possibility Of a thoroughly ma
tlonal representative body at the
Paris conference. Some of the Minis
tiers were participants In the Rome
and London conferences, where the
question of territorial rights between
the Italians and Jugo-Slavs was defl-
nitely decided. The conflicting claims
at that time were not considered IT.
reconcilable, and it is now believed,
despite the apparent clash Of inter
ests, that they may be settled upon
the terms of the original London
compact.
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LIFE AFTER DEATH.
The Authority Of a Surgeon Witness
Assaulted.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Str: Not
everybody will regard with such Sig-
nifcance as THE SUN the announce
ment OF n distinguished physician that
he believes as firmly in his future ex-
istence as he does in his present ex-
istence Nor will many agree with
THE SUN in its opinion that the life
work OF surgeon or physician Ia
miliar with life and death and the
transition from life to death" better
Ats the surgeon than the layman in
discussing the subject of the immor-
tally OF the soul.
BY what process of reasoning this
particular surgeon has thus satisfied
himself we are not told. Is this an
other instance OF a mans BELIEF in inn
mortality before he had proved It 10
his satisfaction. as recorded by a IA
nous Unitarian, who confessed that
he should still hold fast TO his native
faith in the face OF all the arguments
being demolished by some doubter? Per-
haps the surgeon referred to by THE
Sun has by some newly discovered
means, electric, telepathic, microscopic,
or otherwise, succeeded in grasping the
ages sought by many doubters.
Many will ask whence the superior
endowment of n surgeon in discussing
the question OF immortality. Huxley,
as competent to speak as some sur
geons confessed his inability to answer
the question OF a future life either way.
Some Investigators say that all physical
science rests on assumption John
Fiske. believe in Immortality. de
clared the last place in the world to
which lie would so for information
about state OF things in which
thought and feeling can exist in the
absence OF the cerebrum would be the
cerebral physiology. Oliver Wendell
Holmes something of surgeon and
medical man. asked the question, What
happens when a mans brain Is spoiled
and he is killed by blow on the skull?
thus intimating doubt on the question
1t Is possible that the unqualif1edly con-
WINGED surgeon Just introduced agrees
with Oliver Lodge that smashing en-
organ IL not equivalent to killing the
organization.
II is something new 10 suppose that
a surgeon with years OF observation at
the bedside of the dying is thereby the
more qualified 60 determine what lies
beyond the vital spark than one or
more laymen under like %: unlike condl-
lions, whatever their conclusions. In
the words OF another: 'If We want to
understand something about the subject
OF death II Is best to leave the scien-
lists and philosophers and the knowl-
Ipa NJ al IN
to tell US that Is new and little that is
wise, Whatever men may pretend.
death is as easily understood By the
foolish ms the wise, and no one pair OF
eyes can pierce the darkness better than
another" ISAAC MARKENs.
NEW YORK, December %.
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Turkey in Bankruptcy.

Turkey had a public debt of 151,-
656,0O1 Turkish pounds worth $40
each in normal times In April, 1914,
according to the figures compiled for
the Statesman's Year Book. OF this
France held c. per cent. and Ger
many 20 per cent. Since the begin
ming of the war Turkey has received
advances amounting to fT79,OOO, 900
from Germany, repayable not more
than eleven years after the close of
the war. Now Berlin reports that
Turkey contemplates national bank
ruptcy" to free itself from It's finan-
cial burden.
1t is conceivable that the debt held
by Turkeys own subjects might be
repudiated, and Germany Is In no
position to enforce repayment Of the
money owing to her and her people.
But France will not acquiesce in the
population of the debt owed TO her
and her people. The repayment of
this will be insisted upon, and France
is now in a position TO enforce her
demands. The honest payment OF the
debts owed to the Allies and their CO.
belligerents by the conquered Quad
ripple Alliance will be subject for
consideration Mt the Peace. Confer
ence.
Turkeys finances have always been
fearfully and wonderfully managed,
and in 1881 an arrangement with her
creditors was made under the terms
of which Council of Administration
at ConstantinOple received and dis
tributed to the bondbolders the funds
derived from excise duties, from the
Bulgarian, Eastern Rumelian and Cy-
prus tribute, and from the tax on
Persian tobacco. The net revenue
available in 1913-14 for the debt SER
vice was cts ,3S2, 472,. compared with
ETA. 538,605 in 1928. Until 1908
the empire had no budget. Annually
since then budget and finance law
have been voted, but these have been
supplemented by extraordinary budg-
cts Cor special purposes, adjustments
in the financial year, and other finan-
cial devices.
In 1876 Turkey had a deficit OF
Etc, 661, $50; for 1861 the deficit
was fT39,077, $50, and for 19lT-1S
fT27, 430,396. Obviously, there will
be difficulties to overcome in obtain
ing payment from the dismembered
empire, but the solution of such prob
lens as its financial obligations be-
yond its own borders Is a task for
the Peace Conference.
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Better Broadway.

The decision of the Broadway AS
ISOLATION to cure the Ills of our big.
gest street is welcome to every one
who has known its former attractive
ness and watched with dlsmay the de-
terioration Of some of Its most I'm
portant sections. 1t helps little to
say that Broadway has gone to pieces
only IN spots. A chain with a few
rotten links IS not much of a chain
until those links are replaced. The
fact that Broadway below Union
Square Is alive and humming, that
The Greeley and Herald squares sec
tons boom with business and thar
the Boulevard blocks are a pleasant
avenue does not hide the fact that
there are parts of Broadway which
no New Yorker points out with pride
TO the visitor,
Broadway has suffered even from
presumed benefits. The very sub
ways that ought to bring back some
or the lost vitality TO stretches like
those of the ywenties hcye been The
causeI of making the street dirty
sometimes almost impossible, FOL
y lrs. Small wonder that the shop
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ping public took naturally to Fiji,
and Madison avenues, particularly
after the Fifth avenue business men
had won their battle against the inva-
sion of the factories and after the
coming system had put the growth of
Manhattan on n business basis. 1t Is
the lesson of Fifth avenue that the
men OF Broadway must heed. II they
want a clean new Broadway they
will have to fight for It,
1t will help. of course, to obtain an
adequate lighting system and the
paving of the blocks that have been
torn and reform by successive con-
tractors. 1t may be that better sur
face car service Is possible. What Is
even more important to the plan Of
regeneration Is the enlistment of the
sympathies of the property owners
all along Broadway. Too many of
them are like the Fifth avenue own
ers who. until the Save New York
movement was begun. saw no further
ahead than the rent check, not
realizing that they were encouraging
business of IL character which was
not suited to the district and which
would in time cause fatal deteriora-
ton of values.
Broadway was once the show win
dow of America, or at least an I'M
port part of the retail map that in
cluded Twenty-third street and Sixth
avenue. 1t lost its handsome face in
that region through the evils that
later threatened Fifth avenue. The
avenue, now secure against being
spoiled, put OIL the glories Of the
shopping district. But there Is glory
enough to 60 around: that is proved
by the Madison avenue movement.
Broadway below Forty second street
can be itself again. Its future de-
ponds to some extent upon the aid of
State and city officials, but most of
all upon the spirit of the men TO whose
interests the renaissance of the great
street is OF vital Importance.
The sun., 1918-12-24
Governor smith at City Hall.

Governor-elect SMITH told the AL
dermen in bidding goodby to them as
their presiding officer that he would
go TO City Hall to transact official
business whenever occasion requires
during his term at Albany, and he
added that ne believed "it was upon
the theory that the Governor of the
State should sit in the City Hall that
room was set apart for him"
We think Governor. SMITH is right,
and that the Governors Room In City
Hall is not so named merely out of
courtesy 10 the chief executive OF the
State, but because the State itself
provided that beautiful apartment for
the Governors use when he visited
this town. Our impression is that the
State actually contributed to the cost
of building the City Hall, and that
there is in existence statute or a
contract or an agreement under the
terms of which this portion Of the
City Hall is the property OF the State
of New York.
II this Is the case, Governor SMITH
on his visits to the Governors Room
will enter II, not as n welcome guest
of New York city, though he will al
ways be that, but as the representa-
tive and accredited agent of the pro-
prietors, the People OF the State of
New York.
When Mr.. SMITH drops from his
title the suffix select" and enters the
Executive Chamber in the Capitol at
Albany he will have at his disposal
a large and we'll equipped historical
library, and we urge him to look This
matter up and let us know IL our
impression about the Governors
Room In the City Hall is correct.
The sun., 1918-12-24

subjects of the signatory Powers. with
the exception OF contraband Of war,
shall be exempt from capture and
seizure on the sea by the armed vessels
or by the military forces Of any OF the
signatory Powers"
The wisdom of the course adopted by
those who rejected this amendment has
been fully justified by subsequent events
during the war, as when the list OF
coutraband goods was extended to cover
almost everything that gave comfort as
well as aid to the enemy. And nightly
did neutral shippers clamor that their
tra de--was being ruined because they
were no longer able TO transfer TO the
Central Powers materials for which they
tho neutrals--had had practically little
use prior TO the violation of the terri
tories OF Belgium and Luxembourg by the
forces OF the modern AttRa
FRANK ii. VIzETELLI.
NEW York, December 23.
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IDLE LAND IN NEW YORK.
There Are Many Unproductiye Acres
Within Easy Reach Of the City.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. with
regard TO your editorial article rs Not
This EVIL Curable?" you might be sur
prised to know how much idle farming
land there IL within fifty miles OF New
York.
Spending much OF my spare time in
the pursuit OF brook trout and being
limited TO near by waters. I have fire.
quently been amazed in my wanderings
at the disregard of the Governments
request TO cultivate the soil.
have in mind particularly one stream
in Orange county of which l have fire.
quently written for THE SUNS Rod and
Gun Department and for the outdoor
magazines. Not wishing to invite pro-
miscuous anglers, I have invariably re-
ferred to II as the valley OF abandoned
farms.
Here are thousands OF acres OF once
fertile land, acquired gradually during
the last twenty years by a woman OF
wealth, for what purpose no one knows.
She has purchased all the land through
which the stream runs, and where once
were prosperous farms is now but a
waste OF brush grown pasturage and
upland hillsIdes interpreted with neg
lected apple orchards. crumblIng foun-
datlons OF collapsed farmhouses, even
family burying grounds.
All this land could be restored to
agricultural uses. I may say that In
this instance there Is no suspicion OF
profteerlng in land values. nor have
the water rights any value. II is a
case Of Idle boarding pure and simple.
SILENT SAM.
New York, December 2S.
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8 REHABILITATION
DISTRICTS NAMED
Ready to Receive Units Re-
turning From Abroad.

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. - Establish
ment of the following eight major de-
mobilization districts TO which men re-
turning from abroad will be sent as
units for discharge has been completed
by the War Department:
l. New England States and New
York.
:. Delaware, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina
and District OF Columbia
3. Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin
Michigan and Kentucky.
4. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
Alabama. Tennessee and Mississippi.
8. Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa. Ne
braska and Missouri.
6. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Texas.
7. North Dakota, South Dakota
Montana, Wyoming, Idaho. Washing
ton and oregon.
s. California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
Colorado and New Mexico.
The sun., 1918-12-24
Americas Good Finish In the Air

The report made by Major-General
HARBoRD on the work Of the American
Air Service shows that our aid to the
Allies increased with rush In the
last four months Of the war. Yankee
fiiers were early in the game, but
Yankee planes were bit late. 1t
was not until last spring, about the
time the great German offensive be-
gan. that an American flier in the
American service scored a kill, al
though a dozen heroic young Ameri-
cans had distinguished themselves
long before that in the Lafayette Es-
cadrille and other units Of the French
aviation service.
Between that first kill in March and
the first Of July, according to the
figures presented by LAURENCE l..
briggs in his Heroes Of Aviation"
the total number of American victo-
ries was 1877, and this total included
the triumphs Of LUFBERY, THAw. PUT
NAM, BA1LIEs and others who had
flown under the tricolor. Now we
learn from the Hartford report that
the official American score up to Ar
mlstice Day was $40 enemy planes
and So balloons brought down; and
Ii must be assumed that these were
oil victories achieved in the American
service, and since February. Major
General HARTFORD announces that the
destruction or capture OF 491 Of the
S45 planes has been confirmed.
1t is difficult to compare fairly the
American record with the aviation
scores of other nations. Mr.. briggs
tells us that the total victories of the
French aces up to the middle OF the
summer were s47; of the British,
1929. Beside these the record of the
American Expeditionary Forces air
service looks formidable and probably
it will remain respectable even after
the Allies announce their complete
figures for the whole period OF the
war, including the exploits of the
HERS VINO were not aces.
Our air army was made up Of 81
sos men, including the $4,000 in tbs
service of supply. OF these more
than 5000 men had been graduated us
pilots and 1,160 of these were pursuit
pilots-the men who climb the skies
and skip from cloud to cloud. For
pursuit. observation and bombing the
mir service had about 1000 planes
The Hartford report does not specify
the origin of these, using the phrase
received from all sources" We shall
hear later about the exploits Of par
ticular machines; for the present it IS
satisfaction to know that our fliers
made a glorious Garrison finIshJ
The sun., 1918-12-24
Savings Stamp Sales in the BuIrard's Bay
IaIarettO.

From the MGrthas Vineyard Herald.
A very remarkable showing In the pur-
chase OF War Savings Stamps is made in
tho report from the Penikese Island post
once, the leper colony There are twelve
patients on the island and in addition
seventeen people who patronize the post
Office Tho exact figures show that up 10
the middle OF November these twenty nine
patriots HAD purchased s1,T02.76 worth OF
stamps. which is at a rating OF nearly 500
per capita. This Is over three times as
much as the Government has asked for
the per capita OF the country and speaks
volumes for the loyalty and acumen of the
inhabitants OF Penikese
Miss Parker, the postmaster. Is TO ne
congratulated on the interest she takes in
this governmental movement, and before
the end OF the year the figures promise TO
be considerably increased.
The sun., 1918-12-24
AFTER PARIS, WHAT?
May We Not Hope for League Of
the Stellar system?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Just
as flying men take the air, so Mr..
Charles Nevers Holmes and others OF
your 60 respondents are taking the ether
these days Cor nights) for ecstatic up
ward flights to infinity. and many of
us, desperately enamored. try TO steal
celestial rides by hooking on behind.
Let us enjoy these excursions while
we may. for by and by, when the affairs
OF "our exceedingly tiny planet home
nave been put in orde: at peace confer
enoes and enough Texas statesmen are
at liberty for the purpose, the rest OF
the universe may be taken up. AS the
George Washington is not provided
with wings, a comet with n long and
radiant tail might be commandeered
and fitted up with archives. typewrit-
ers. &c. Everything except Repuhli-
cans). and off into space take its way
with a tremendous swish The inter-
stellar wireless systems would naturally
he taken over. Then every night Mr..
Creel would emblazon the heavens with
bulletins reaching from Aldebaren to
the Southern Cross. telling us here
below as much as we ought 10 know
about what was going on up there and
throwing in our eyes. We should hope,
no more cosmic dust than was neces-
sary for our own good.
Thenceforth thee would be no mys-
teries in space for Mr. Holmes 10 worry
about: such things as the Rhythmic
whIrl OF myriad universes" and wi
brant harmonies" would be reduced to
statistics which all of us could undec-
stand. But It would be we'll TO get n
passport before embarking on any more
nightly pIlgrimages. II. \. B.
NEW YoRK December %
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GREGORY ADVISES WILSON
President May Consider Hill' Ten
Days After They Reach Kim

WASHINGTON, Dec. % -- A'tiis'.
General Gregory has given lr"s.a-m
Wilson an opinion that the period a.
ten days which the constitution F.'T'
Inn 20 sign or veto bills or res ''.'!'h'
passed by Congress does not .~s.N
run until the engross"d copy o. '5-'
lation actually IL placed in his 1,H''
All measures sent ~ a." N..
House since the President sailed =.
Europe have been taken 70 Pays ''
State Department messenger, '.'''
ling by the fastest steam.
this way f. was planned % -..'
President two ar three DAYS .H N...
10 act upon legislation and n''t> ~,
White House by cahe or w'F.''7 No
what lie had done. UnIer ~" ~
ney- Generals opinion he III
time for consideration lie TIC
il he were at the White Hua.
SO far the executive oflc'S .''.
been advised that any az ''
measures forwarded TO Paris '''.
signed.
The sun., 1918-12-24
Tho Christmas Mail,

On Christmas Eve no more we dream
OF little clicking hoofs.
And ting-a-ling of tiny bells
Across the snowy roofs.
On Christmas morn no more We wake
And listen with . thrill
To merry music at the door.
The postman's whistle shrili
But when the chimes begin TO ring
We seek a vantage high.
And turn a bright and eager glance
Toward the wintry sky.
A roar and racket in the air.
And mighty wings that ian
The clouds asunder 10 their haste
Announce the Christmas mail.
AIRNA hYIRa.
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BnrlesOnism.
From th Louisville Courier -JouraaI.

no" TM LoWfHId LoWNrJotfHaI,
Not inf?equently we hear from croak-
ers that we have in this country a
menace OF Bolshevism. But the real
menace which we are facing now is not
Bolshevism but Burlesonism.
BY Burlesonism is meant the pater-
nalism, socialism. Prussianism OF Gov
erlnnent ownership and operation OF
various lines of business now finding
many advocates among us. Burleson-
ism is good synonym To- it because
Mr.. Burleson is the member OF the
present Washington Government who
has been most persistent in urging It.
The sun., 1918-12-24
HOW TO HANG THE FLAG.
Conflicting Opinions in a New Jersey
Church.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sr: The
correspondence in your columns about
the use of the Stars and Stripes for
decorative purposes has interested me,
but mas not yet touched on a poin. in
dispute here.
A contends that the flag, hung on a
horizontal line over the pulpit. should be
on the right hand side OF the church.
+ Gays it SHOULD be at>the right OF the
speaker, the service flag, IN this in
stance, occupying the opposite end OF
the line.
Who is correct? c.
MENpHAM, y. j., December 20