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The Press., 1918-08-22
STORED MUCH FROZEN MEAT
German Authorities, in First Days of War, MObiIized All Resources of
 Refrigerating PIants.

Berlin has 2,2O0 tons of frozen meat in it's municipal cold storage depOts. The supply is replenished from time to time so that it remains at that figure. On their present meat ration of one half pound, the VOssische Zeitung says, the Berliners are assured of meat enough to last all Greater Berlin two or three weeks, even If there should be temporary stOppage of replenish- ments.
 How the cold storage of pork has helped Germany to "stick it'' is ex- plained in an article in the Chemiker Zeitung. Early in the war, realizing the serious effect of the British block. ade on the meat supply, the govern ment directed the refrigerating indus try to mobilize its resources on the largest possible scale. It was ordered to make preparations for dealing with millions instead of thousands of pigs. Cold storage plants were enlarged new ones built, and the system so ex- tended that today there is hardly a local community without its own re- frigerating facilities.
 Every fortress has a freezing plant of its own. In case of siege it will assist materially in the preservation of perishable foods, especially meat, eggs, fish and butter.
 "The German authorities" says the article, "have taken advantage of cold storage to the fullest extent thereby greatly easing the economic conduct of the war"
The Press., 1918-08-22
VELOCITY OF BIG SHELLS
Geometer Uses Problem of How Long Time 10 Required for Stone to
 Fall to Center of Earth.

Studying the velocity of shells and bullets fired in the war led Maurice Sauger, a French gRnmeter. to turn to the old. question of the time 1t would take a stone to fall to the center Of the earth. His conclusion was that it would take about 20 minutes 34 sec Onds.
 Gassenddi, who gave the subject much thought in the last century, made the time 20 minutes even. Mersenne on the other hand contended that six hours would be required.
 Sauger says that es the stone ap- preached the center of the earth 1t would he drawn downward by the core Of the earth and upward by the shell which it had already penetrated The rate at which the density of the earth varies or increases as we penetrate to greater depths is unknown. Sauger'S formula is based upon considera lions of the moment of inertia of the earth, as calculated from the procession of the equinOxes, which agree with Ob- servatiOns on the density of the earth conducted in mine shafts.
 If shaft were driven right through the earth the stone would appear at the AntipOdes after 38 minutes 30 seconds and then return to it's starting point, at which 1t would make its reappear- ance at the end of hour IF minutes.
The Press., 1918-08-22
LIBERTY LOAN AND SAVINGS
 BANKS.

The effect of the Liberty Loans and the War Sayings Stamps on savings banks deposits has been watched with keen interest by economists and finan- cisrs. The experience of England was very encouraging; in the year 1916 the English small depOsitOrs pur- chased billions of dollars of war bonds and at the same time increased their deposits in savings banks over ESQ., 100000.
 The belief is entertained that the result in America has been very simi- lar to that In England, and that de- spite the purchase by the American people of some $1O.OOO. .OOO. 900 of Lib- erty Bonds and OO.OOO.OO0 of War Savings Stamps, & very fair prOpOr- ton of which were purchased by say inKs banks depositOrs. savings banks deposits have increased.
 Full reports have been received from the savings banks in New York State. They show . decrease in de pOsits for the last year of only $S,0OO,- 900, but an increase of 21.262 depoSi- tors. The loss in deposits is insight ficant; the increase n the number of depositOrs very significant. With in- creased cost of living and other war conditions. the decrease fin deposits might we'll be expected; the increase of depositors shows that the saving habit is greatly growing in our coun- try.
The Press., 1918-08-22
LIFTING AUTo OUT OF RUr
Simple centrivanee Proved Effective When Machine Mlred and Serious
 Trouble Seemed Certain.

Every one, at some time or other, has doubtless come upon the unfOr- tunate spectacle of a big autOtruck stuck in a rut-perhaps holding up traffic. The next time you encounter such a catastrophe recall the experi- snce described by Edwin l.. Purkess In Popular Mechanics Magazine, and you will be able to offer valuable sugges- tfons st 6 moment when such suggeS- tiOns count for their full value. NIT. PurkeSs writes:
 "A heavy auto truck became mired In a deep rut on a country road, ana the driver. without assistance and with only the auto jack available. was forced to devise some means of again getting his machine under way. The method employed was so simple and effective that 1t may be of interest to most motorists. Two saplinEs were set across slabs of wood, laid on either side of the truck wheel. Then the tall board chain was rigged between the saplingS just Inside of the wheel. A tOurnIquet Of rope was made with a small stick. and fastened to the free ends of the saplings. The jack was set under the rim of the wheel. and as the latter was lifted the tourniquet and the tailbOard chains were drawn up to bring the saplings close against the wheel. By this means the wheel was gradually lifted out of the rut. and extra slabs placed under 1t SO that the truck was then easily driven to solid ground Slabs were also piled under the axle as precautiOn, in case the wheel should slip hack Into the rut."
The Press., 1918-08-22
WAR FINANCE CORPORATION
 AIDS FARMERS.

In compliance with telegraphed in- structiOns from Secretary McAdOO, the War Finance Corporation has wired Federal reserve banks at Dallas, Kan sas City. and Minneapolis to notify banks and trust companies in their re- spective districts. nOnmembcrs as well as members of the Federal Reserve System, of the willingness of the cor poration to make advances to those financial institutions which had made loans to farmers and cattlemen.
 Droughts in these districts are ere ating a serious condition for the farm CTS and this action is taken to relieve the situation.
 Secretary McAdOo stated that no in- dustry was more vital to the war than raising wheat, corn, live stock, and other food products, and that the banks should make loans on the notes of farmers since they are engaged in an industry not only necessary and contributorys to the winning of the war but 9Stkel to 1t.
The Press., 1918-08-22
NOT SPAIN OF OLD GLoRlES
country's Life Just One Plot After Another, Famed by German Hot
 Air, Declareo Writer.

The Spain of today Is not the Spain of your tradition or your lima aginatiO It is remote from being the cOlorfuI and romantic dOEI:Iin which was once the handspring of great adventure and the inspiration of poet and painter. The glOrieS of Velasquez and Ger vantes have not been revived in our day; writes Isaac F. MarcOssOn in the Saturday Evening Post.
 She presents the spectacle of sad contrast with a departed splendor. Once a treasure house of art and wealth, the haven of mighty armadas, the nerve center of a far-reachIng DOW CT on land and sea, she finds herself rent with disorder and a tool for Ger manic conspiracy.
 She has no twentieth century COrteS to recreate her One-time world vision she lacks q contemporary Castelar, to win the multitude with the magic of his elOquence or to guide her ship of state with steady hand through the perilOus waters of uncertainty. There Is not even an up-tO-date Don QuixOte to tilt at the windmills of discOntent famed by TeutOnic hot air!
 Life with her is still one plot after another. To degree greater than ex- iSted In the Russia that was. she Is like national bomb factory. Spain always has pretender in her midst. Worst of all. the ruling classes-that Is. the classes that rule tOday-are hand in glove with a vast. clOse-knit and effective German Opaganda that, aiming at the root of Hlspanic ec0nO- mic independence. is subtly reaching out to influence the whole world that thinks works, buys and sells in Span Gh
The Press., 1918-08-22
Luminous Paint Useful.

Many ingenious uses have been found of late for luminous paint Watches with dials which glow in the darkness are becoming common, and only the other day an order was given for 1O0,- OOO marching cOmpasses with luminous needles to be carried by soldiers at the front. Immense quantities of lum- .inous cloth are used by the soldiers who go over the top. It is cut into small rectangles about ten inches long ;Rnd fastened to the collars of the uni- forms. The soldiers can thus recOg- ,niZe their own men in an indiscrimi- nate fight in the dark. The luminous paint is also Smeared on the end of sharpened' sticks which, when stuck into the ground. make fairly clear beacon. Luminous tape is also used by the mile for a variety of purposes. In this way the stretcher Bearers mark the paths they are to follow. It has been found that on dark night the luminous paint is visible for only 60 feet. A soldier can dip his hand in the paint and signal by describing letters In the air or by wigwagging, knowing that the enemy cannot see him a hun. Hred feet away.
The Press., 1918-08-22
ANt AUGUST CONCEPTION.

Samuel Taylor COleridge, poet and essayist, writing some 75 years ago. said:
 "The possible destiny of the United States of America as a Nation of . hundred million of free men, stretch ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred and speaking the language of Shakespeare and Milton. is an august conception"
 The United States is now a Nation of hundred million or more, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and reaching out east takes in Hawaii and the PhilippineB,' in the north Alaska, and in the south the Panama Canal. But grander than its physical is its moral greatness. Its fairness and justice, It's courage and power, its maintenance of right and freedom cover the world.
 The destiny the United States iS now fulfilling ia 8 more august con- cOption than even the imagination of the author of Kubla Khan conceived of less than . century ago.
The Press., 1918-08-22
Some OId-Day BattIes,

The great odds in numbers which the British army has had to face on the western front is no rare expert ence in it's annals. Wellington has borne witness to that fact in his re marks that Talavera was the only battle in which he had a numerical superiority, owing to the presence of the Spaniards, who, while showing much personal gallantry, were badly led. At all his other battles he had fewer men than the enemy. At Sala- maca had 10000 men, and the French perhaps 45,OOO. At VittOria had 6O- 900 men against 10000. At Waterloo the proportion was still more against me. had 56,OOO to 58,OOO; Napoleon had near 8OOOO. The whole army in the south of France under my con- mand was considerably larger than the force of SOult at the battle of You lOuse, but in numbers actually en- plOyed in that battle I had less than he." All of which goes to show that strength and success do not neces- sarily lie with mere weight of num- bers. There are other factors vastly more essential.-Christian Science Monitor.
The Press., 1918-08-22
CONTEST OF THE suPERMEN
Warfare of Remote Future Predicted
 to Depend on Battles Conducted by Picked combatants.

A day, now far removed, may come Mhen the embattled hosts of rival na- tions will give place to wager of hat- tie to decide the conflict. The battle will then he confined to the combat ants alone without violent interfer- ence with Vhe peaceful pursuits of non cOmbatants or destruction of their property.
 First, however, we must evolve great engines of destruction, so perfect that few skilled heroes will direct each one of them. Ellery c. SIOwell writes in the Century. These war ma chimes will be so costly that only few great powers will have the resources to construct and maintain them. Wise legislation and Skillful systems of tax alton will he necessary to organize the whole people for their support. A chosen few, picked from the whole na- ton, will man them. men in the fulI vigOr of their strength. physically per feet to endure the terrible strain and powerful of brain to meet and sur. mount every intricacy of mechanics and every difficulty of strategy.
 Above all these hero supermen must be of such unswerVing character that they will, day in and day out. with out Surcease, devote their unfiaggn@ zeal to the great task of defending the civilization for which they contend. This evolution and the increasing eco homie burden of maint enance of this machinery will make war the luxury of the most powerful states and will cause the area of war constantly to re cede. Small nations will no longer be able to maintain military establish ments and eventually the millions Of men now battling upon the field of honor will have been replaced hy q contest among few men in control of stuDendOuS machinery
The Press., 1918-08-22
GooD-BY TO THE CRUTCHES
Artificial Limbs So cIevsrly Devised That IesIess Men Have No Dlfd-
 euEty In Walking.

There need he no legIesS soldiers to hobhle pitifuIly along the streets after this war. An American army surgeon has devised a new type of artificial leK which can he manufactured by Uncle Sam for about $25 and which will almost perfectly reproduce the ac- ton of . natural leg. even if the sol aier has only a stump left. IL means gOOd-hy to crutches, declares the New York Evening Post.
 This remarkable triumph of Ameri- can inventive genius was described at the New York Academy of Medicine by Maj P R. MagnusOn. medical re- aervs corps a member of the surgeon generals StaR.
 The artificial leg described hy the surgeon Is the invention of Maj. Da- vid Silver. another medical reserve of ncer. formerly PractirIng physician In Pittsburgh.
 '-ThIS artificial leg Is of a type far ahead of anything that has been devel- oped abroad aS a result nf the war" Major MagnuSon said. Tt is a better substitute for natural leg than the government has ever been able to Ob- tain heretofore for S1OO each. and 1t can be made for q quarter of that price. Tn this one thing alone Doctor Silver has earned his salary as major"
 The invention has been successfully used by & man with both legs ampu- tated. Crutches are unnecessary. The foot has a jolnted instep and a rub Der base which reprOduces the natural movements with astonishing success, Major Msgnuson asserted that 1t would be hard to guess that a man was wear. ing the support after he was practiced in It's use.
 Artificial hands and wrists were also described.
The Press., 1918-08-22
srakinu AirpIane While Flying.

A braking mechanism for airplanes has recently been introduced, accord ing to the Popular Science Monthly. This consists of two rectangular planes of small area, mounted on shaft that runs along the rear edge of the main plane, and passes through the fuselage. The control is by means of hand wheel and connections, which act in conjunction with a handbrake.
 When an airplane is flying at a. rate of d hundred miles an hour the air pressure is not less than 30 pounds to. the square foot. It will thus be seen that the added resistance of a few extra square feet of canvas has a very great retarding action on the speed of the plane.
The Press., 1918-08-22
MRIka" RavlNad AnaIn.

Folk who commenced to think that the bicycle was passing along the way that the. horse has given up to the au- tOmObile ss a pleasure vehicle have an other guess. The war has given added impulse to wheel manufacture, accord ing to a wheel salesman quoted in the Boston Post, and outside of the thou sands being made for our troops across the water many more wheels are being made for the American public, larger number than in former years.
The Press., 1918-08-22
Fish Bath.

A name to which Is attached 8 wealth of the romance and reputation of traveller and writer is that of Lady Lugard, in the British empire h0nOrs list. She was Miss Flora Shaw in for mer days, and of her travels there are many humorous incidents to tell. Once, for instance on arriving at an up country town in South Africa, the peO- pie wished immediately to do her honor. But Miss Shaw asked that she might first be allowed to have wash. water was brought to her, and then the fish that she was to have for din ner had already been cooked in it
The Press., 1918-08-22
Disousted Motorman.

A young woman accompanied by a little boy. Signaled a State street car ai Schiller street. The conductor gavt the customary two rings and the cul started. At the same moment a man rushed from the sidewalk, waving his arms frantically at the motorman and pointing to something under the rear wheels of the car.
 The motorman turned pale as he clamped down the emergency brake and brought the car to such sudden stop that it knocked the heads of pas sengers together.
 He waited breathless as the man dived under the truck and brought forth triumphantly-nOt the crushed form of Il little child, but the young wOman's hat.
 "Humph!" said the motorman dis gustedly; "tO stop a car just for q hat !'-Chicago American.
The Press., 1918-08-22
Success Is a Habit,

E. w. Howe, the Kansas writer nnd philosopher, says that success Is easier than failure" He Is right. For constructive forces always work smoother than destructive forces.
 Success is habit. It's doing the simple, everyday, useful tasks that look very important, and doing them exceedingly well.
 Nearly always the successful man Is the unnOticed man. the man who hp- gan years before to do the simple things in the best way he knew how and kept 1t up The man who did the right thing-Over and over again.
 The small and unimpOrtant today made into hahit-is sure to he the great and essential tomorrow when dire need. and maybe stress shall call out every reserve and demand every ounce of all that you are.
The Press., 1918-08-22
Scouts' War Gardens.

The food production and garden campaign of the Boy Scouts of Amer lea is we'll under way, says Boys Life. Every scout and, indeed, every troop and every local council, according to reports, is definitely interested In some way.
 This year every scout is asked to be responsible for securing one adult to agree to work with him on the scouts individual garden or on the troop gar den or on the local council garden The adult might be a scouts father, his brother or his sisters best fellow, his uncle or indeed any man who will faithfully stick to the job until the CrOnS are harvested '.
The Press., 1918-08-22
THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO.
Items Of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.
August I8, 1887.


 Thomas Mullins is building house on Center street on lot bought of and adjoining the residence of Joshua Wood
 The walls of the new St. Edwards church are now up to the water table, and indicate the outline and size of the edifice. H. M. Day is builder in charge David Bissett is superin tending the cutting of the stone, and Henry Knapp, A. R. Morse and Martin Hennessey are doing the stone lay ing.
 An important sale of real estate, some time talked of, was cOnsum- mated last Thursday, Chas. Holt be- coming the purchaser of the Chandler and Small cottages and lots on East Main street, buying from w. H. Cooley The Chandler cottage lies between MT. COOleys. residence and Grant avenue. The latter is not yet public street, and MT. Holt has
 
 cures the removal of the street IS 1-2 feet farther east, adding so much land to MT. Holt's purchase. MT. H. will Immediately proceed to remove the cottage and build.
 Born.-Stafford Springs. Sth, a daughter to Albert c. Eaton. StaffOrdville July 23, daughter to Wm. Weeks.
 Wilmington, July 18th. a son to Charles H. Ryder.
 Hydeville, July 23d, a daughter to Joseph Lock.
 Stafford Springs, Aug. 3d, daugh- ter to Michael Hanafin.
 Married. Stafford, July 25th, by Rev. F. l.. Batchelder, William S. Walbridge and LenOra M. Whitney, 10th of Staffordville.
The Press., 1918-08-22
SAVING AND DERIVING.

By ScOnomizing In consumption and with the resultant saving purchasing the Governments war securities the American citizen performs a double duty. The citizen and the Govern. ment can not use the same labor and material; if the citizen uses 1t, the material and the labor can not be used by the Government. If the citizen economies in consumption, so Ruch material and labor and transportation space is left free for Government uses. And when the saving effected iS lent to the Government more money Is thus placed at the disposal of the Governs ment.
The Press., 1918-08-22
Ancient Holland Delicacv.

The hutspOt of Holland is still made after the manner of the one left by the Spaniards who cooked this dish over their campfres the day in October long ago when they were driven by the HOl- flanders over the dykes and out 0t their country. The stew resembles our ''mulligan" of the Northwest and the pepperpot of the West Indies, only the latter has crab meat and dumplings added.
The Press., 1918-08-22

uOWn ana got so
 weak l could hardly
 stand, and had head
 aches every day. I tried everything I
 could think of and was under a phy- sician's s care for two years. A girl friend had used Lydia E.
 Pinkh am's Vege- table Compound and she told me about 1t. From the first day I took itI began to feel better and now I am we'll and able to do most any k in d of work. I have been recom- mendiDp the Com
The Press., 1918-08-22
Natural Sequence.

In one of his essays Aristotle says this: "I have noticed that land that produces beautiful flowers and lus- eious fruits also produces a very ex- cellent, intelligent and ablt class of men and women" Aristotle seemed to look upon this SIS a sort of coincidence, but later in life he discovered that in- stead of being a coincidence it was
The Press., 1918-08-22

pound ever since and give you my per mission to publish this letter. Miss Flo KELLY, 476 So. 14th St., Newark, N
 The reason this famoL. root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinlham's Vegetable Compound, was so successful in Miss kelly's case was because it went to the root of her trouble, restored her to a normal healthy condition and as result her nervousness disappeared.
The Press., 1918-08-22

strength before which nothing can
 stand. Win the war we will. but whom we win 1t depends upon us. "It can't be too soon sfor me" we say Then let's get busy, real busy, and save and loan to our government what we save.
The Press., 1918-08-22
Black Eye for the Nun.


 Seventeen million individual sub seribers were part of the third Liberty 'oan. That means one in every six If the population of the United stateR But there iE no reason why with the nming fourth loan this should not be changed to one in every three persons in the United States and finally that every person in the United States shall own A bond. Fancy the state of Enind of the German war lords if they were made to realize that every one of the one hundred millions of AmeriSans were SO determined to beat them that they had all invested with the one Idea to beat them. Would the war con tinue another year? Most unlikely Most of us ask each other or ourselves When will this war end?" There Is no quicker way to end 1t than to make 1t possible for our government to throw int 1t every resource that we have The moment that the Prussian war lords realize this fact, they will come to thelr senses. And the only way to bring this about is for you and me to uo OuA part anu uo IL Auilys AhlA means to loan every cent we can tG the government; hold nothing back, but give 1t our all. It isn't a question of when can we end the war: 1t Is a Ques- tion of when you or end the war. It is what you and l do. It is the drop of water, multiplied by millions. that makes the deluge. It is what you and do in our small way that, multiplied by the millions, makes for . united
The Press., 1918-08-22
How Mosquitoes Hatch.

We have all heard about the mOSqui tO's habit of laying its eggs on the surface of still water in the form of a raft, which floats about until hatch ing time arrives. But it is only some species that do that. in the CatSkill re- giOn, and elsewhere among the noun tains of the North and Fast, there is a kind of mosquito that deposits its eggs during July in dry hollows in the ground. When the following spring arrives the SHOWS melting from the hills fill the hOIlOws with water, and in May the eggs hatch out.