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powerless. Millions of our people
are now toiling on the farms, In the
factories, and In the shipyards to
to be sent across the Atlantic. This
is the great work that must be car
ried on by the army that stays at
home-the army of the workers.
The work that one man does here
at home may seem to him very small,
too small to be measured on the bat
tie front, but 1t Is only through the
toll of individual workers, each do
ing his part, that the big job can be
done. Take the building of cargo
ships. for example. In shipyard
the individual workers output Is less
than ton of shipping In a fort
night. but $4,000 men In big yard
will turn out in a year million tons,
or great fleet of 125 S,0OO-ton ships.
So 1t is with savings. Each one of
us must save in order to produce the
great savings the nation must have.
The purchase of 25-cent govern
ment thrift stamp seems very small
thing when we read that the war Is
CostinB US Sou,OOU,uOU OT @fU,OOD,OOU IL
day. But every thrift stamp will pay
for driving six rivets in n ship, and
two United States War Savings GER
tiflcates carrying 40 SIS stamps (now
costing $166.40) will build ton Of
shipping.
On all sides are countless evidences
that men. women and children are
eager to serve the country and the
world in this hour of supreme peril.
And our people are serving n0bly,
but there Is still much to be done,
which 1t is easily within the power
of most Of us to help to do. The
campaign for the conservation of
food has met with considerable de-
gree Of success. but we are not yet
appreciative of what 1t means to deny
ourselves sharply In order that those
on the fighting line and those who
have suffered indescribably while we
have been safe and comfortable shall
hnve enough to meet their needs.
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CAMPING PLACE OF NATION
That Seems to Be the Manifest Des-
tiny Of the Sequoia National
Park

Analysis shows that the very large
increase in visitors to the Sequola
National park last summer amount
Ing to nearly GO per cent over the rec.
ord attendance of the summer before,
a fact which strongly emphasizes
what has been called the manifest
destiny of the Greater Sequoia us
the future summer camping place of
the nation.
The report of the director of the
national park service says:
at was most pleasing sight to
stand in the midst of the Giant For
est during the summer and gaze upon
the attractively situated and taste
fully decorated Camps nestled each
at the base of an enormous sequoia.
1t was peaceful scene and beauti-
full one There was nothing to do in
the forest but rest, breathe the health
restoring air, drink the clear, cold
water, and contemplate the dignity
and beauty of the biggest and Oldest
living things Fishermen came and
went, and the hikers and horseback
riders took the trails and returned
from the higher attitudes of the park,
but the peacefulness and quietude of
the forest was never disturbed.
Camping in the Giant Forest is all
that anybody has written about 1t and
more. 1t Is glorious experience.
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1.-THE enormous Increase in travel
to the park early in the summer dis
closed the fact that it would only be
matter of u year or two before all
available camping space would be
taken long before the height of the
season; also that the streams of the
park. unless carefully stocked each
year, would be fished out before the
summer would be half gone. Anttc-
pating the inevitable need of more
camping grounds, the Giant Forest
bond has been continued from, VOL
verton to the Marble Fork river,
where n splendid opportunity for the
development of u fine big camp area
exists. There are no sequoia trees
here. but there is fine forest Of
pines and frs, and the ground is COW
cred with clean white gravel that
will make camping especially satis-
factory. This new camp area will be
near the best fishing waters that are
at all times accessible. and an effort
will be made to keep these waters
well stocked with trout"
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WORKERS RUSHED TO JOBS
United States Employment Service
Makes Record When Called Upon
to Secure Laborers.

The war department recently asked
the District of Columbia office of the
United States employment service TO
supply Immediately 300 laborers for
cantonment work at Camp Humphrey,
Belvoir. Va.
The district office found no surplus
of the kind Of workers needed in or
near Washington, so 1t wired the EN-
ployment service offices in other cities
within several hundred miles to see
If any of these cities had surpluses.
One city, more than 200 miles dis
tant. replied that 1t had, and through
that office and the Washington office
the men were recruited, rushed to Bel
voir on special cars via Washington
and put to work, all within 24 hours.
This is but one of many instances of
the prompt and intelligent manner In
which the United States employment
service is supplying labor for the gov
ernment departments and private en-
ployers with war contracts.
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HI. Reclamation Emphatic.

Another yarn from the mercury
lighted editorial rooms of Park Row.
1t was six in the morning. The city
editor was there. A reporter came in.
He took of his coat, walked over and
picked up a chair and beat 1t to frag-
ments against post. This chair
finished, he picked up another and
went through the same process.
Finally the gasping editor called
out: "Here. what are you doing2"
"Tm resigning. you gray-haired
idiot" was the reply, land I am re-
signing In a way that will make you
remember me until your dying day.
And after you are dead want a piece
of the rope"
Then he marched out and the city
editor got him later in the day by
telephone and offered to double his
salary, but he wouldn't come back.
He has Joined his colors. He will
make a fighter, no doubt.-New York
Sun.
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in volume for a number of years.
The Crimenn war interrupted Eng
lish trade with Russia. but when the
conflict was over the British traders
returned to Odessa. 1t was ut this Pc
riod that they were forced to divide the
trade with Germany. for German
shippers had seized the opportunity to
gain n foothold in the port.
The war offers Just now nn odd par
allel of that war of trade waged 60
years ago. 1t may be of significance
to recall that the ultimate result of
the Anglo German contest for Russia's
Odessa trade was that the Jews gain
ed absolute control of the exporting
business of the city.
Bloody Revolution In 1905.
In 1905 Odessa was the scene of q
violent revolution. The Russian navy
mutinied and trained the big guns Of
the warship In the harbor on the city.
The disorders were quelled by the
cars military forces, but not before
there was bloodshed and suffering
which centered the worlds attention
on the city.
Odessa before the war was proud
of Its beautiful parks and boulevards.
The refuge of many French mobiles in
the time of the French revolution, the
streets are evidence of the fact, for
they bear names reminiscent of roy
atty of France. The main thorough
fare, however, Is the Street of the
TRANSPORTATION, which begins at the
magnificent cathedral and ends at the
gate of the consecrated ground of the
Orthodox Greek cemetery.
The population is largely Tartar, on
which has been grated Slav, Teuton.
Morse. Finnish and Lettish stock, but
ut the beginning of the war 1t was
said to be still Tartar in the main. Cat
acombs extending under the rich city
and its beautiful suburbs through va
rious periods of Odessa's career have
housed the miserably poor, and at
times the underground inhabitants
have numbered rs many as $4,000.
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DESSA, the Russian seaport.
captured by the Germans not
long ago, has been widely
known as an important center
of shipping and commerce. but Its
interest does not lie so much In It's
great docked harbor, Its fine churches
and public buildings, Its factories or
Its size-it had half million people
at the beginning of the war-as In
the fact that century and quarter
ago there was none of these In exist
ence.
New York, Boston, Baltimore and
Philadelphia are cities almost ancient
in comparison with Odessa. Odessa Is
n sort of Chicago or Kansas City of
EuroDe-a' "new town." In the Ian
guage of the West. Just as there were
Indian trading posts where Chicago
and Kansas City had their beginnings.
NO there was a wretched little Turkish
village on the future site Of Odessa in
the time of Catherine the Great of
Russia. Russia saw the possibilities
of Il port on the Black sea and reached
out and took 1t, with little or no pro-
test. for Hdjl Bey, as the Turkish vii
lage was called, was not worth quarrel
Ing about. Catherine founded Odessa
by rescript in 1794 and the "booming"
of the new city began.
Grain Built the City.
The Russian pioneers" built their
town on the plateau which forms ter
race from 100 TO $50 feet above the
water front. Today great staircase,
which is one of the wonders of Odessa,
leads up in broken flights from the
harbor to the city proper. Located at
the northwest angle of the Black sea,
midway between the estunries of the
great Dnieper and Dniester rivers,
Odessa was the natural commercial
outlet for the vast stretches of grain
producing valleys beyond and its
growth was like that of the Western
trade centers in America. The Eng
llsh ships found their way there to load
their holds with grain, and exporting.
as the years went by, grew steadily
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edly cases OF sihuhpoN -,
this insect In cheap lodging house''
perhaps more frequently than by any
other means. And were IL not loi
the frequent vaccinations ordered oy
health authorities epidemics of TINS
disease would probably not be rare.
Consumption germs have been tounu
in bedbug blood also the germs OF
other diseases.
This insect may live for weeks with
out food. During the winter 1t VIII
become comatose and will weather the
winter like any other hibernating crea-
ture. 1t will continue Its existence
will demonstrate its will-to-live'
against the hardest kind of luck, from
season to season, in lumber camps.
summer houses, empty apartments and
the like.
Fieas Spread Bubonie Plague.
The chief iniquity Of the flea lies In
Its transmission of the germ of the
bubonic plague. The roach has also
been proved an Infection conveyer.
We must mention also Rocky Noun
tain fever which has for several years
occurred during the spring months In
Montana and the neighboring states.
The germ of this disease is transmitted
from cattle to man by the tick. which
insect is the responsible agent also for
Texas or cattle fever.
have tried to present here the es-
sential facts about the insect trans
mission of disease. My article would.
however. appear to be like the play
of Hamlet with Hamlet left out; for
1 have written nothing about how to
deal with such insect infection spread
ers. Space has not permitted this;
nor is 1t necessary. For every cid
zen's health department, town, city, or
state, will on application. supply full
printed directions. Or such directions
will be sent, without charge, by the
United States public health service
of Washington, D. G., or of the United
States bureau of agriculture. Wash
ington, D. G.
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John Mitchell, Former President
of United Mine Workers,
in Ringing Talk.
NATIONS CALL INCLUDES ALL
Every One Must Do His or Her Part
to Back Up the Men on tho
Battle Front-Four Things
Vital to Victory.
BY JOHN MITCHELL,
Chairman Of the New York State
Industrial Commission.

Industrial Commission.
Mr.. Mitchell was formerly president of
the United Mine Workers and led the
strike OF 1907 He was appointed by Pres
tdent Roosevelt a member of the anthra-
cite coal strike commission. and later was
made chairman of the New York state In
dustrial commission. He Is now serving
as food commissioner OF New York.
1t is wonderful opportunity for
service In defense of human rights
now presented to the wage earners of
America. We hear 1t said that food
will win the war, that ships will win
the war, that men and munitions will
win the war. Men, munitions, food,
and ships are all absolutely vital to
vlctory-but we can reduce 1t all to
one thing when we say that work
will win the war.
To put the strength of our great ma
tion on the battle front in France,
to back up the men who have been
called to the colOrs and who are now
giving their lives that democracy
may not perish from the earth. we
here at home must work as We have
never worked before.
With our hands and our brains, by
toll and sacrifice, we must produce
the ships and destroyers and air.
planes. the guns and ammunition.
food. fuel and clothing. all the In
finite variety of war necessities,
without which our armies will be
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1t carries thence from sources of con-
tamination and of the refuse which
it transfers from rotting vegetables.
meat and fish. Twenty-Five per cent of
files breed In manure heaps.
Besides the diseases mentioned files
have been brought to the bar on in
dictments for having spread cholera.
lockjaw, trachoma (granular lids).
anthrax (the stable fly is here guilty..
and something like a dozen more
germ diseases. The ordinary fly may
swallow the eggs Of tapeworms and
other intestinal parasites, and then
distribute those eggs where they may
do hurt to humankind.
Before considering other insects 1
had better state more clearly just how
these pests perform their part in dis
ease dissemination. The germs may
stick to the bodies of the insects. Or
the germs may be eaten by the insects
and deposited upon human food and
drink with their excreta. Or the In
sects may eject. the germs from their
mouths upon the skins Of uncleansy
people who do not bathe regularly.
Or the insects may die after eating
the germs; and the bodies of the for
mer may fall into the food; or the
dead insect bodies may dry up. crum-
Bile. be spread In dust and be either
inhaled or Injected by human beings.
Or the insects (such as the mosquito)
may inject into the host with their
sting diseased blood which they have
previously sucked from previous
sufferer (such as malaria patien).
Mosquito Fever.
Doctors prefer to speak of malaria
as mosquito fever, for. as everyone
now knows. 1t is the species of mos
quito called Anopheles. which Is sole
ly responsible for the propagation of
this disease.
Anopheles breeds in still water, in
moist sand or moss. in pools by the
sides of open streams, in permanent
accumulations of water of every sort
irrigation bitches, stagnant water
where there is green scum. in beds of
old canals, In old horse troughs and
the like. When the blood of ma.
laria sufferer Is sucked into the stom-
ach by anopheles the malaria parasite
in that blood undergoes development
and the products of this process enter
the mosquitoes salivary glands and are
elected into the system of the next
person stung. II this latter unfor-
tunate has not yet had malaria he
thus contracts the disease unless his
natural antigerm forces are able to
destroy the parasite before 1t can do
any mischief In his body.
Naturally then, the prevention OF
malaria depends on the destruction OF
all breeding places within the radius
of mile. The way to do this Is to
drain or fill in with earth, or to cover
the surface of any water with thin
fllm of kerosene. Houses must be
screened. Anophefes bites only after
sundown; and only the Lady An
opheles does the mischief. Here. as
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GENERAL LABOR NOTES

For the month of March this year
the paid-up members of the United
Mine Workers were 459,52S. This is
the largest membership in the history
of that organization.
Entry into Canada of the weekly
Industrial Worker and the Lumber
Jack Bulletin, both published by the
I. w. w. at Seattle. is prohibited.
Sixty-five hundred and thirteen
women are holding down 81 different
classes of Jobs on the Pennsylvania
railroad lines east of Pittsburgh.
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The Enthusiast.

There Is the man whose eye newt
ably eNaggerates, whose ear inevitably
hears what is not, whose Imagination
inevitably helps out his five senses. He
is the hero worshiper. the enthusiast,
the romantic. He is the sort OF fellow
who. if Ire We're a bacteriologist, would
report the bacillus typhosus to be as
large as II horse, as lovely as n gazelle
and intelligent as Aristotle.-H. l..
Mencken In the New York Mall.
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Stand Your Ground.

Remember. each one must bear his
or her own burden. Not soul is free.
We should keep this truth constantly
before us, and then honestly try to
do our best. Furthermore we should
cultivate the habit of smiling. 1t will
help us when all the world seems
awry. A good-natured face is always
welcome sight, for 1t makes us for
get our own wearisome affairs. In
deed, the woman who learns to laugh
can master any problem that confronts
her.-Exchange.
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As II Was on Earth.

Not long ago an old lady friend died.
Mary Agnes, who lived In the same
building, had for some reason been
chased from the steps by the old lady.
and SO she got the impression that the
old lady was always chasing little chill
dren. So one day after the woman died
Mary asked another woman in the
building If she thought that the old
lady was an angel now. II hope so,"
was the reply. Then little Mary said.
swell. l bet she is chasing all the little
angels around up there"
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True Meaning Of "soomerano."

Boomerang has benten al records OF
words turned inside out. The term
does not convey the idea of retribu-
ton, as the boomerang returns not at
the thrower's peril. but to his further
use. No Australian would make that
blunder. Colonel Miles, the allied ex-
'peditionary forces chief chaplain dur
Ing the war, used the term right when
he declared: We are your boomerang,
flung out by you to conquer conti-
nent and now returning to your feet
for another throw.
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tubercle bacillus. This plate to begin
with was perfect blank = tabula
vasa, MS the ancient Romans used to
call their tablet before writing on 1t.
But there soon developed on this gela-
tin plate letters about as ominous as
those which the Prophet Daniel point
ed out to Belshazzar at his royal feast.
Here Is the way of 1t:
The laboratory doctor had put on
that plate fly that had got his feet
stuck in the spittle of n consumptive !;
and he had then covered the whole
with glass jar so that the fly could
not get away. This Insect. thus heavy
footed, then promenaded all over the
plate. Twenty-four hours later col
onies of the consumption germs, made
up of uncountable millions of those
tubercle bacilli, developed on its
tracks.
You may think I exaggerate when
compare this fact of the gelatin
plate with the Prophet Daniel and the
writing on the wall, says a writer in
the Detroit Free Press. Well, be that
as 1t may. ask you only to reflect
how consumption has up to this time
been carrying off every third or fourth
of us between adolescence and matur-
ity; that In all the wars of the nine
teenth century Uncluding those of Ma
poleon), 100000 succumbed. while
100000 succumbed to consump-
tion. the captain of the men of
death; that the advanced consumptive
day by day coughs and spits out sever
al thousand millions of the tubercle
bacilli; that consumption, besides be-
ing a disease, is the most dreadful
economic and social degeneracy in
civilization; that this great White
Plague exists largely by reason of hui
man supineness and neglect Of the sim
plest precepts of hygiene and sanlta-
ton. The Babylonian king did not
heed the warning which lay In the
writing on the wall. By needing the
lesson that lies in that little gelatin
plate we shall be very far on the way,
we and our fellow men and women, of
banishing the tuberculosis which 1t
represents from human experience and
from off the face of the earth.
OF course, flies are not the only
agency in the spread of tuberculosis ;
for they are active but few months
of the year. whilst that disease is con-
tracted all the year round.
Files Swell Infant Death Rate.
1t is certain also that files help
greatly to swell the infant death rate,
which Is greatest In the fly season.
There are few. more congenial culture
media for germs than milk, especially
amid the uncleanliness which obtains
in the houses of very many poor peo-
ple especially In the tenements. This
fluid easily becomes contaminated by
flies and with the noxious matter that
Is continually clinging to their hairy
feet, their spongy bodies and thelr
fluffy wings. Tuberculosis is thus Ger
tainly contracted by children, as are
the various forms of dysentery, prac
ticnlly all Of which are germ ailments
Breast fed infants seldom have such
diarrheas, whilst bottle fed babies
have them nll too frequently. Typhoid
fever is so often transmitted by flies
that doctors speak of this insect as
the typhoid fly. 1t pollutes food and
drink. especially your milk. butter ant
sugar by means of the material which
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HERE Is n photograph
shown at Health Exhi-
billions which many
people ut first sight
take for n picture Of
the crusts on the sur
face of the moon. or of
the canals on the planet
Mars. What 1t really
shows is a circular
plate containing a gela-
tin culture of the con-
sumption germ = the
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ble for the spread OF sew
eral grave diseases. Some
lice which had been biting
typhoid patients were firss
Immersed in n solution Oh
mercury bichloride; then
they were put in sterile
water. Next they were
ground in Il sterile morta,
and the resultant material
was inoculated into AM,
mails and were developed
on culture media. BY TINS
means typhoid germs were
demonstrated in those lice.
We have all read no"
dreadful an executionef
was the typhus fever IN
the earlier months of TINS
present war, In Serbia anu
In the Balkans generally
If is the louse which Is me
chief disseminator OF the
typhus germ. .
The bedbug has from
time immemorial been OBJ
noxious enough by just be
ing a bedbug. But he Is
now proven to be much
more than this. Undoubt-
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Insects That w.
lGzonMeyDiseas@: 8:
* - -9S]
F Common Fly Is the Chief Offender,
But There Are Many Others That
Are Also Serious Menace to Health

elsewhere in the cos
mos, is the female OF
the species IN o r .
dreadful than the
male.
Spreads Typhus.
The insect which IN
highbrow literature IS
termed Pedlculus ves-
tlmentorum. but which
in plain Language Is
the louise, is responsi-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-02
PARIS THEATERS IN WAR

Paris, March 29.-Despite the
greatest war in the history OF the
world. some OF the Paris theaters took
in more money at the box office In
1917 than in 1913, the year before the
war began. Others about held their
own while some showed a decrease.
The receipts of the odeon for 19ls
tctalled S71,557 francs; for 1917 thev
reached 1,153,254 francs. The Ambigu,
which had received 622,OO6 francs in
1918, reached 675,971 francs last
year. The Antoine figures for 1913
were 1,O12,944 francs; for 1917 1907
749 francs.
On the other hand the Opera Conf
cues receipts fell from 294S,S3z
francs in 1918 to 2,5O3,744 for 1917;
and many others suffered similarly
The Commedie Franchise was sec
ond with 1,711,997 francs and the
Chatelet finished third with / total
of 1,543,576 francs. Receipts of the
Antoine, Odeon, Palais-Royal, Opera,
Forte, st. Martin, Varieties, Sarah
Rernhardt and Bymnase were in the
order named. 1t must be said in favor
of the opera, however, that it has been
running under handicap as it had
fewer starts than the others, averag-
ing only three to four performances
per week.
One reason advanced for this pros,
rerity is that the prices for seats
we're greatly increased in 1917. Be-
sides the floating population of Paris
has greatly increased.
Growers in the Lawtey section are
shipping strawberries in large guam
titles, carloads going forward to thu
northern markets almost every day.